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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%E2%80%9378%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1977–78 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 1977 to August 1978.
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.
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Notes
Programs aired before 9:00AM aired at the same time in all time zones. CBS's Sunrise Semester was a half-hour program which aired at either 6:00 or 6:30 AM, depending on the station.
Programs scheduled after 10:00 AM Eastern aired one hour earlier (starting at 9:00 AM) in the Central and Pacific time zones. Stations in the Mountain time zone that started their network schedule at 8:00 AM would follow the Central and Pacific pattern that year.
Some network programs, particularly before 7:00 AM and after 10:00/9:00 AM, were subject to preemption by local affiliate stations in favor of syndicated or locally produced programs.
On ABC, ABC Evening News / World News Tonight was produced at 6:00 PM Eastern/5:00 PM Central, and aired live by some affiliates. This early feed of the broadcast was discontinued in 1982.
A CBS News Razzmatazz special would occasionally preempt CBS' 4:00PM show.
Saturday
In the News aired ten times during CBS' Saturday morning shows.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning Series
The $20,000 Pyramid
ABC Evening News
All My Children
American Bandstand
Animals, Animals, Animals
The Better Sex
The Edge of Night
Family Feud
General Hospital
Good Morning America
The Great Grape Ape Show
Happy Days
Issues and Answers
Jabberjaw
The Krofft Supershow
One Life to Live
Ryan's Hope
Schoolhouse Rock!
New Series
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News Tonight
The All-New Super Friends Hour
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
Not Returning From 1976-77
The Don Ho Show
Hot Seat
Junior Almost Anything Goes!
The Mumbly Cartoon Show
The New Adventures of Gilligan
The Oddball Couple
The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour
Second Chance
Super Friends
The Tom and Jerry Show
CBS
Returning Series
All in the Family
Ark II
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
Face the Nation
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
The Ghost Busters
Guiding Light
Here's Lucy
Lamp Unto My Feet
Look Up and Live
Love of Life
Match Game
The New Adventures of Batman
The Price Is Right
Search for Tomorrow
The Secrets of Isis
Speed Buggy
Sunrise Semester
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
Tattletales
The Young and the Restless
New Series
The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
The New Tic Tac Dough
Pass the Buck
The Robonic Stooges
Space Academy
The Skatebirds
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978%E2%80%9379%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1978–79 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 1978 to August 1979.
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.
Monday–Friday
Notes:
Programs aired before 9:00AM aired at the same time in all time zones. CBS's Sunrise Semester was a half-hour program which aired at either 6:00 or 6:30 AM, depending on the station.
Programs scheduled after 10:00 AM Eastern aired one hour earlier (starting at 9:00 AM) in the Central and Pacific time zones. Stations in the Mountain time zone that started their network schedule at 8:00 AM would follow the Central and Pacific pattern that year.
Some network programs, particularly before 7:00 AM and after 10:00/9:00 AM, were subject to preemption by local affiliate stations in favor of syndicated or locally produced programs.
On ABC, World News Tonight was produced at 6:00 PM Eastern/5:00 PM Central, and aired live by some affiliates. This early feed of the broadcast was discontinued in 1982.
NBC aired NBC News Updates at 10:57, 11:57, 12:57, 2:57 until June 1979, and 3:57.
A CBS News Razzmatazz special would occasionally preempt CBS' 4:00PM show.
Saturday
In the News aired ten times during CBS' Saturday morning shows.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning Series
The $20,000 Pyramid
ABC World News Tonight
ABC Weekend Special
All My Children
American Bandstand
Animals, Animals, Animals
The Edge of Night
Family Feud
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Happy Days
Issues and Answers
The All New Pink Panther Show (moved from NBC)
One Life to Live
Ryan's Hope
Schoolhouse Rock!
Scooby's All Stars
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
New Series
ABC World News Sunday
Bigfoot and Wildboy
Challenge of the Super Friends
Fangface
Kids Are People Too
Laverne & Shirley
Not Returning From 1977-78
ABC Evening News
The All-New Super Friends Hour
The Better Sex
The Great Grape Ape Show
Jabberjaw
The Krofft Supershow
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
CBS
Returning Series
All in the Family
Ark II
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
Fat Alber |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canals%20in%20Cheshire | A large number of canals were built in Cheshire, England, during the early phases of the Industrial Revolution to transport goods and raw materials. This resulted in a significant canal network which is now enjoyed by holiday-makers, anglers, walkers, and others.
Routes of navigable canals
Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal runs from Preston Brook, near Runcorn, to Leigh in Greater Manchester. The original section of the canal starts at Castlefield Basin in Manchester city centre where it joins the Rochdale Canal. The canal runs west from Manchester for about , where it splits into two parts at "Waters Meeting" junction. It then passes Hulme Lock, an unused connection to the River Irwell and the Manchester Ship Canal, and a new lock at Pomona which accesses the Ship Canal.
From Waters Meeting, the original part of the canal passes over the Manchester Ship Canal on the Barton Swing Aqueduct at Salford and travels about to Leigh, where it makes an end-on connection with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
The other part of the canal travels about south-west to Runcorn, passing through the towns of Sale and Lymm, and to the south of central Warrington. At Preston Brook, the canal connects with the Trent and Mersey Canal.
Trent and Mersey Canal
The Trent and Mersey Canal links the River Trent at Derwent Mouth (in Derbyshire) to the River Mersey. The second connection is made via the Bridgewater Canal, which it joins at Preston Brook in Cheshire. Although mileposts measure the distance to Preston Brook and Shardlow, Derwent Mouth is a mile or so beyond Shardlow.
Peak Forest Canal
The Peak Forest Canal runs from a junction with the Ashton Canal at the southern end of the Tame Aqueduct at Dukinfield through Newton, Hyde, Woodley, Bredbury, Romiley, Marple, Strines, Disley, New Mills, Furness Vale, and Bridgemont. It terminates at Bugsworth Basin, and there is a short branch at Bridgemont to Whaley Bridge. This canal is just over long.
At Marple, the canal crosses Marple Aqueduct and then rises through 16 locks and makes a junction at Top Lock with the Macclesfield Canal.
Wardle Canal
The Wardle Canal is located in Middlewich, Cheshire, and connects the Trent and Mersey Canal to the Shropshire Union Canal (Middlewich branch). It is the shortest canal in the UK, at approximately long, and terminates with a single lock (known as Wardle lock).
Macclesfield Canal
The Macclesfield Canal runs from Marple Junction where it joins the Peak Forest Canal, southwards (through Bollington, Macclesfield, and Congleton), to a junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal near Kidsgrove.
Shropshire Union Canal
The Shropshire Union Canal links Wolverhampton (and the Birmingham Canal Navigations) with the River Mersey.
History
The Bridgewater Canal is often considered to be the first true canal in Britain. However, the Sankey Canal also has good claim to that title. Although the Sankey Canal was originally contained within the old county of Lancashire, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neumont%20College%20of%20Computer%20Science | Neumont College of Computer Science (formerly Neumont University, originally named Northface University) is a private for-profit career college in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was founded in 2003 by Graham Doxey, Scott McKinley, and Marlow Einelund. The college focuses on applied computer science and is accredited by Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
Academics
Neumont's degree programs focus on the computer sciences offering three-year degrees in Computer Science, Business Technology Management, Software and Game Development, Web Design and Development, Information Systems and Cybersecurity, and Software Engineering. The college is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities to award associate and bachelor's degrees in computer science.
Recent history
From July through September 2007, Neumont briefly expanded to Virginia, leasing a suite in the Dulles Town Center mall. The expansion was cancelled after one academic quarter.
In August 2012, Neumont University announced plans to relocate its academic facilities and student housing to 143 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, an 11-story art deco building which formerly housed The Salt Lake Tribune. The school officially relocated to its downtown Salt Lake City location in June 2013, with the first new cohort of students beginning classes in October.
On July 28, 2017, president Shaun McAlmont announced the institution's name change from Neumont University to Neumont College of Computer Science.
Presidents
Graham Doxey (2003–2007)
Edward H. Levine (2007–2015)
Shaun McAlmont (2015–2017)
Aaron Reed (2017–present)
References
External links
Official website
Private universities and colleges in Utah
For-profit universities and colleges in the United States
Educational institutions established in 2003
Universities and colleges in Salt Lake County, Utah
2003 establishments in Utah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979%E2%80%9380%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1979–80 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 1979 to August 1980.
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.
Monday–Friday
Notes:
Programs aired before 9:00AM aired at the same time in all time zones. CBS's Sunrise Semester was a half-hour program which aired at either 6:00 or 6:30 AM, depending on the station.
Programs scheduled after 10:00 AM Eastern aired one hour earlier (starting at 9:00 AM) in the Central and Pacific time zones. Stations in the Mountain time zone that started their network schedule at 8:00 AM would follow the Central and Pacific pattern that year.
Some network programs, particularly before 7:00 AM and after 10:00/9:00 AM, were subject to preemption by local affiliate stations in favor of syndicated or locally produced programs.
On ABC, World News Tonight was produced at 6:00 PM Eastern/5:00 PM Central, and aired live by some affiliates. This early feed of the broadcast was discontinued in 1982.
Love of Life ended its run on the air on CBS on February 1, 1980. It was replaced by reruns of CBS comedy reruns, such as One Day at a Time.
A CBS News Razzmatazz special would occasionally preempt CBS' 4:00PM show.
FYI aired on ABC at 12:58PM, 2:58PM, and 3:58PM starting January 14.
Saturday
In the News aired ten times during CBS' Saturday morning shows.
On NBC, Ask NBC News aired after Casper and the Angels, Super Globetrotters, and The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, and Time Out aired after Fred and Barney Meet the Thing, The New Shmoo and Godzilla.
By the end of the season, Ask NBC News aired after The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour, Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo, and The Daffy Duck Show, and Time Out aired after The Jetsons and Jonny Quest.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning Series
The $20,000 Pyramid
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News Tonight
All My Children
American Bandstand
Animals, Animals, Animals
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
The Edge of Night
Family Feud
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Issues and Answers
Kids Are People Too
Laff-A-Lympics
Laverne & Shirley
The New Pink Panther Show
One Life to Live
Ryan's Hope
Schoolhouse Roc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20ZX%20Users%27%20Association | The Australian ZX Users' Association (AZUA) was an Australian computer users' group established in 1981 to support users of the Sinclair ZX80 and Sinclair ZX81 computers. It closed in 1986 after producing thirty-nine issues of its magazine AZUA and the Australian Sinclair Gazette.
AZUA was the idea of David Brudenall and David Vernon and they remained the editor and assistant editor, respectively, throughout the five years of its operation. Based in Canberra, Australia, AZUA was a non-profit association. It originally catered solely for the ZX80 but later supported the ZX81, ZX Spectrum and Sinclair QL produced by Clive Sinclair. AZUA published computer program listings, software reviews, provided technical assistance and the occasional short story. It also supported and promoted local user groups in all Australian States and Territories. The magazines became known for their quirky cartoons, all drawn by David Brudenall. Most of the content was written by David Brudenall or David Vernon, although reader contributions were readily included.
During the early 1980s it was the largest ZX user group in Australia. When the ZX Spectrum was introduced and members with the ZX computers dropped away, AZUA changed its name to the Australian Sinclair Gazette. Six editions of the Australian Sinclair Gazette were produced before AZUA ceased operations. The reason given for the closure was the increased competition from overseas magazines, Sinclair User and ZX Computing, and the reduction in marketing of the Sinclair computers in Australia.
References
AZUA, The Australian ZX Users' Association, Canberra, Australia, Vol 2, No 11, ISSN 0811-4749
The Australian Sinclair Gazette, AZUA, Canberra Australia, Vol 6, No 3, 1986, ISSN 0811-4749
ZX Spectrum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%E2%80%9381%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1980–81 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 1980 to August 1981.
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.
Monday–Friday
Notes
ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for World News Tonight, depending on stations' schedule.
Saturday
In the News aired ten times during CBS' Saturday morning shows.
Ask NBC News aired after the credits of NBC's Saturday morning shows except Batman and the Super 7, Jonny Quest, and Drawing Power. Time Out aired after Jonny Quest.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News Tonight
All My Children
American Bandstand
Animals, Animals, Animals
The Edge of Night
Family Feud
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Issues and Answers
Kids Are People Too
The Love Boat
One Life to Live
The Plasticman/Baby Plas Super Comedy
Schoolhouse Rock!
New series
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
Heathcliff and Dingbat
The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show
Super Friends
Three's Company
Thundarr the Barbarian
Canceled/Ended
The $20,000 Pyramid
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Laff-A-Lympics
Laverne & Shirley
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
Spider-Woman
The World's Greatest Super Friends
CBS
Returning series
30 Minutes
Alice
The All New Popeye Hour
As the World Turns
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Evening News
CBS News Sunday Morning
Face the Nation
Guiding Light
Jason of Star Command
The Jeffersons
Morning
The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle
The New Fat Albert Show
One Day at a Time
The Price Is Right
The Robonic Stooges
Search for Tomorrow
The Skatebirds
Sunrise Semester
The Young and the Restless
New series
Drak Pack
The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show
Canceled/Ended
Beat the Clock
Love of Life
Shazam!
Tarzan and the Super 7
Whew! / Celebrity Whew!
NBC
Returning series
Another World
Card Sharks
The Daffy Duck Show
Days of Our Lives
The Doctors
Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo
Gambit (renamed Las Vegas Gambit)
Godzilla
The Godzilla / Dynomutt Hour
Hong Kong Phooey
The Jetsons
Jonny Quest
Meet the Press
NBC Nightly News
Password Plus
Texas
Today
Wheel of Fortune |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Fitzpatrick%20%28broadcaster%29 | Michael Fitzpatrick (born 26 September 1973) is an Australian radio personality and programmer.
He is currently Group Content Director the Triple M Network and Head of Content at Triple M Melbourne.
He anchored The Cage breakfast show on Triple M Melbourne, Sydney & Adelaide with James Brayshaw, Peter Berner, Brigitte Duclos and Matt Parkinson from January 2002 until November 2007.
His TV acting credits include Australian drama's Heartbreak High and G. P.. He has also appeared as the host of Video Cliches and Most Wanted for MTV Australia; appeared on Channel Ten's Joker Poker and Channel Nine's Hole in the Wall.
He was listed in the magazine Cleo as one of the 50 Most Eligible Bachelors in 2003 & 2005.
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
Australian radio personalities
Australian music critics
Australian music journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitel%20%28Bulgarian%20company%29 | Orbitel () is Bulgarian wireline telecommunications and Internet service provider with national licenses for voice and data. Through its national packet-switched network Orbitel provides convergent telecommunication solutions for telephony, high speed Internet and VPNs throughout Bulgaria. Orbitel also provides services such as web site hosting, domain registration, corporate e-mail and professional consultations.
Orbitel was founded in 1997 by entrepreneurs Victor Francess and Nikolai Gorchilov, who served as board members and CEOs until 2007.
Investors
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
In 2001 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development chose Orbitel to make the first foreign investment in the Bulgarian IT sector. The company becomes one of the biggest Bulgarian Internet service providers.
Magyar Telekom
In February 2006 Orbitel became part of the leading Hungarian operator Magyar Telekom. In November 2009, Magyar Telekom decided to exit the Bulgarian alternative retail telecommunication business and focus its operations on businesses where it sees more lucrative prospects.
Spectrum Net
In November 2009 Spectrum Net, part of Alfa Finance Holding, decided to purchase the shares from Magyar Telekom.
Network
Orbitel introduced the first next generation telecommunication platform in Southeastern Europe. The company introduced the softswitch based technology for convergent voice, data and video, proven by operators such as France Telecom, Telefonica, FastWeb and Tiscali.
Orbitel's network backbone is based on MPLS technology and covers more than 35 cities, among which are all the district centers in Bulgaria and the European telecommunication center London.. Till the end of 2009 Orbitel used own national fiber network built on DWDM technology, part of long-term strategy of the company for development as a key broadband operator in Bulgaria. The backbone network of Orbitel has capacity of 10 Gbit/second and covers 23 cities in the country (90% of the population).
References
External links
VoIP companies
Wi-Fi providers
Internet service providers of Bulgaria
Telecommunications companies established in 1997
Bulgarian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981%E2%80%9382%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1981–82 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 1981 to August 1982.
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.
Monday–Friday
Notes
Search for Tomorrow was cancelled by CBS in late 1981, and ended its run on CBS on March 26, 1982. It moved to NBC with its first episode the following Monday, March 29. It is the second instance of a daytime soap opera switching networks, with The Edge of Night first doing-so from CBS to ABC in late 1975.
ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for World News Tonight, depending on stations' schedule. By Spring 1982 it would be discontinued.
Saturday
In the News aired ten times during CBS' Saturday morning shows.
Ask NBC News aired after the credits of NBC's Saturday morning shows except Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and The Bullwinkle Show.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News Tonight
All My Children
American Bandstand
Animals, Animals, Animals
Family Feud
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Heathcliff
Issues and Answers
Kids Are People Too
The Love Boat
One Life to Live
The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show and Scrappy Too!
Ryan's Hope
Schoolhouse Rock!
Super Friends
Thundarr the Barbarian
New series
ABC News This Morning
Goldie Gold and Action Jack
Laverne & Shirley in the Army
This Week with David Brinkley
Canceled/Ended
The Plasticman/Baby Plas Super Comedy
Three's Company
CBS
Returning series
30 Minutes
Alice
As the World Turns
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Children's Film Festival
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
Drak Pack
Face the Nation
The New Fat Albert Show
Guiding Light
The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle
One Day at a Time
The Popeye and Olive Comedy Show
The Price Is Right
Search for Tomorrow (moved to NBC)
Sunrise Semester
The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour
The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show
The Young and the Restless
New series
Blackstar
Capitol
The Kwicky Koala Show
Tattletales
Trollkins
Canceled/Ended
Jason of Star Command
The Jeffersons
The Robonic Stooges
The Skatebirds
NBC
Returnin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Geospace%20Monitoring | Canadian Geospace Monitoring (CGSM) is a Canadian space science program that was initiated in 2005. CGSM is funded primarily by the Canadian Space Agency, and consists of networks of imagers, meridian scanning photometers, riometers, magnetometers, digital ionosondes, and High Frequency SuperDARN radars. The overarching objective of CGSM is to provide synoptic observations of the spatio-temporal evolution of the ionospheric thermodynamics and electrodynamics at auroral and polar latitudes over a large region of Canada.
Background
The interaction between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field has a number of consequences. In brief, these are the formation of the terrestrial Magnetosphere, the provision of energy and matter to the [magnetosphere], and the powering of large-scale electric currents and the closely related phenomenon of the aurora. Near-Earth space physical processes are of interest for economic reasons and for what we can learn about our environment and the cosmos. These processes are connected along the magnetic field to the Earth's ionosphere, where they lead to the aurora, heating, modification of composition, and large-scale plasma motions. All of these ionospheric processes are interesting in their own right. In addition, there is an increasing understanding of the correspondence between ionospheric processes and processes going on further out in near-Earth space. In this way, observations of the ionospheric processes can be used to in turn remote sense dynamics in near-Earth space.
The interaction is significant at sub-auroral, auroral, and polar latitudes where large regions of the magnetosphere are mapped along the magnetic field into relatively small regions of the ionosphere, and where the magnetospheric dynamics are controlled primarily by the plasma rather than the magnetic field. This organization is actually by magnetic rather than by geographic latitude (see Baker and Wing, and references therein for a description of magnetic vs. geographic coordinates). The aurora, for example, is most frequently observed at magnetic latitudes between roughly 60 and 80 degrees (see Eather). In the northern hemisphere Canada has the largest land mass at the magnetic latitudes. As a consequence of this so-called "Canadian-advantage", Canada has been a world-leader in ground-based auroral and ionospheric research for decades.
CGSM was envisaged as a national program aimed at obtaining world-class ionospheric observations, and with those in hand directly studying ionospheric dynamics and indirectly the magnetospheric dynamics. It was developed with the guiding principles embodied in five grand challenge science themes. In summary, the science themes are related to the reconnection and convection cycle, magnetospheric instabilities, the formation of the aurora, and the acceleration, transport, and loss of magnetospheric plasma.
Technical Description of the Instrument Network
The CGSM science objectives dictate the observation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAI%20Personal%20Computer | The DAI personal computer is an early home computer from the Belgian company Data Applications International. The DAI came to market in 1980. It provided many pioneering features such as high resolution color graphics, a maths co-processor, and a pre-compiling BASIC interpreter. However, it never became a commercial success.
Contemporary reviews noticed the lack of application packages, with the computer appealing more for programmers.
History
The computer was initially designed by DAI for the UK subsidiary of Texas Instruments for use with the PAL televisions used in Britain. Texas Instruments US did not want to build a PAL version of their TI-99/4A home computer, although they subsequently authorized one after they saw the DAI.
The Dutch educational TV broadcast company Teleac wanted to use the DAI to teach computing, some years before the BBC's similar initiative using the BBC Micro. However, they chose the Exidy Sorcerer instead, because the DAI was not completely ready.
In France the machine sold for 1300 Fr by November 1981, 1365 Fr by November 1982 and 1021 Fr by September 1983.
The machine was also used to create graphics for TV programmes in the early 1980s.
After DAI filed for bankruptcy in 1982, InData (a Prodata spin-off) continued producing and selling the machine up to 1984.
Main technical specifications
The DAI was based on a very early 8-bit microprocessor, the Intel 8080 A, a CPU that was more advanced than the prior 8008. It contained on a single printed circuit board all the needed circuitry, some 120 individual ICs. The futuristic-looking white enclosure also held a high quality keyboard, which was uncommon for the time. As a computer display, any TV could be used. The DAI could display text and high resolution color pictures and contained a memory controller that enabled it to use up to of DRAM. This memory was divided in three regions (memory banks) that could contain either 4K or 16K memory chips. By using memory map switching, a total of 72kB of memory was addressable. The DAI also had five programmable interval 64µ - 16ms interval timers that could generate interrupts. The built-in interrupt handler chip could also handle two external interrupt inputs and the interrupts of two serial RS232 UARTS. The DAI featured a DAI/Indata DCE parallel I/O bus for parallel high speed I/O. The DAI also had 3 sound generators and 1 noise generator (AY-3-8910 sound chip), and was capable of generating stereo sound.
Graphics capabilities with 48k RAM installed allowed up to 528 x 240 pixels in 4 out of 16 color palette in 4 successive blobs, leaving 16k programming space. The graphics modes were controlled by a device called Programmable Graphics Generator (Thomson EF9369 graphics chip), implementing several techniques:
decoupling physical scan lines from the 'logical' lines. The repeat count of physical scan lines could be 0 to 15 per line (Due to interlacing a physical scan was two pixels high),
configurable horizontal r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Weapon%20Z | Cyber Weapon Z () is a manhua series adapted into a 3D-CG Chinese animation TV series in Hong Kong.
Background
In 1990 Andy Seto joined the Freeman publication label, where he took on drawing manhua and other comics. In 1993 he started the 10 volume Cyber Weapon Z manhua series with writer Chris Lau in Hong Kong. The story also ran as a 3D animation series in 1995. Though much of the success did not begin until a French comic company, Tonkam, republished the comic in Europe where it became more popular. Andy's style is heavily influenced by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, who animated Venus Wars.
Story
For 1000 years, the men have understood the importance of the capacity and the economic stakes. Now, they live quietly thanks to an almost perfect social structure, and it is because of this way of life that physical faculties of the man do not evolve. They begin to deteriorate little by little.
Park Iro and Anling are two newcomers with Southern Shaolin, one of the sections of martial arts of the most famous school of combat: the Monastery of Shaolin. The purpose of this school is to give rise to a new human race by developing to the maximum physical capacities of the students. As of the night of their arrival, an unknown force attacks the temple and awake Molitofu, a demon locked up 10 years before by the Luba general.
References
Hong Kong comics titles
Martial arts comics
Science fiction comics
1993 comics debuts
Computer-animated television series
Hong Kong animated television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CR%20China%20Radio%20Network | 2CR (China Radio Network) is a CB (citizen's band) station that broadcasts Chinese radio programs in the Australian cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It offers a wide range of informative news and radio shows through their proprietary receiver set. It is distinct from the ABC Central West radio station in New South Wales which also uses this call sign.
History
2CR began as a Chinese community radio on 26 September 1994. Due to popular demand it extended its radio station to Melbourne, before moving from its George Street (Sydney) office to its present Ultimo address in August 1996.
Test free-to-air broadcasts were conducted during January 1998 on the 96.9FM frequency (now Nova 96.9); later temporary FM broadcasts were also broadcast on FM94.5, FM90.9 and FM95.3, the latter being used for frequent broadcasts. Programs in Mandarin were presented later in the 2-3PM timeslot.
2CR extended from Sydney and Melbourne to Brisbane on 18 October 2005.
Receivers
2CR released its series of proprietary receivers in 1995. The popular models in use today are the CR-88 and the 'digital receivers'. Apart from tuning into 2CR broadcasts, they can also be set to 2AC (another CB Chinese radio channel), with the new digital receivers also tuning to local community radio stations in various languages.
2CR's frequency is locked into 152.075 MHz and 2AC is locked to 152.250 MHz.
Programs
2CR broadcasts programs in Cantonese and Mandarin. It is also a mirror for BBC's Voice of America in Cantonese, as well as broadcasting RTHK's news programs. Finance, cooking, religious and children's programs are also offered in the daily schedule.
References
Sources
2CR website
Asian-Australian culture in Melbourne
Chinese-Australian culture in Sydney
Radio stations in Sydney
Radio stations in Melbourne
Radio stations in Brisbane
2CR China Radio Network
1994 establishments in Australia
Ethnic radio stations in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%E2%80%9383%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1982–83 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 1982 to August 1983.
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.
Monday–Friday
Notes
Sunrise Semester and Captain Kangaroo both left the weekday schedule on CBS on October 1, 1982. Captain Kangaroo moved to Saturday and Sunday mornings and reverted to a one-hour format.
Texas and The Doctors both ended their runs on NBC on December 31, 1982.
Saturday
In the News aired ten times during CBS' Saturday morning shows.
Ask NBC News aired after the credits of five NBC Saturday morning shows.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight
All My Children
American Bandstand
The Edge of Night
Family Feud
General Hospital
Good Morning America
The Love Boat
One Life to Live
Ryan's Hope
Schoolhouse Rock!
Super Friends
This Week with David Brinkley
New series
Loving
Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour
The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
The Puppy's New Adventures
The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour
Too Close For Comfort
Canceled/Ended
Animals, Animals, Animals
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
Goldie Gold and Action Jack
Heathcliff & Marmaduke
Issues and Answers
Kids Are People Too
Laverne & Shirley in the Army
The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show
Thundarr the Barbarian
CBS
Returning series
The $25,000 Pyramid
As the World Turns
Blackstar
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
Capitol
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Children's Film Festival
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
Face the Nation
Guiding Light
The New Fat Albert Show
The Kwicky Koala Show
The Popeye and Olive Comedy Show
The Price Is Right
Speed Buggy
Sunrise Semester
Tattletales
The Young and the Restless
New series
Child's Play
The Dukes
Gilligan's Planet
Meatballs and Spaghetti
The New $25,000 Pyramid
Pandamonium
Sylvester & Tweety, Daffy, and Speedy Show
Canceled/Ended
30 Minutes
Alice
Drak Pack
The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle
One Day at a Time
Search for Tomorrow (moved to NBC)
The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour
The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show
Trollkins
NBC
Re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%E2%80%9384%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1983–84 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 1983 to August 1984.
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.
Monday–Friday
Notes:
During the two weeks that the 1984 Summer Olympics was broadcast on ABC, all regular programming was pre-empted except for 40-minute versions of All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital, which ran from July 30 through August 3 from 2 pm ET/11 am PT to 4 pm ET/1 pm PT and August 6 through August 10 from 1 pm ET/10 am PT to 3 pm ET/12 noon PT.
The New Newlywed Game aired on ABC from February 13 to 17, 1984 at 11:00AM EST. Hosted by Jim Lange, it was a test week of shows to see if a daytime version of Newlywed Game might be feasible for ABC. The series did re-emerge eighteen months later in syndication with Bob Eubanks hosting again; he couldn't host the February 1984 week of shows because he was hosting Dream House on NBC at the time.
Saturday
In the News aired at the end of most of CBS' Saturday morning shows.
One to Grow On aired after the credits of NBC's Saturday morning shows except The Flintstone Funnies, Mister T, and Thundarr the Barbarian.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight
All My Children
American Bandstand
The Best of Scooby-Doo
Celebrity Family Feud
The Edge of Night
Family Feud
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Loving
One Life to Live
Pac-Man
The Puppy's Further Adventures
Ryan's Hope
Schoolhouse Rock!
This Week with David Brinkley
New series
Benson
The Littles
The Love Report
Menudo on ABC
The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
Rubik, the Amazing Cube
Canceled/Ended
The Love Boat
Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour
The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour
Super Friends
Too Close For Comfort
CBS
Returning series
The $25,000 Pyramid
As the World Turns
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
Capitol
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Children's Film Festival
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Dukes
Face the Nation
Guiding Light
Gilligan's Planet
Me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%E2%80%9385%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1984–85 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 1984 to August 1985.
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.
Monday–Friday
ABC note: The Edge of Night aired its final episode on December 28, 1984. Afterwards, ABC rescinded the 4:00 pm time slot to its local stations. Many affiliates had already dropped the show by the time it was canceled.
Saturday
In the News aired at the end of most of CBS' Saturday morning shows (exceptions included Muppet Babies and CBS Storybreak).
One to Grow On aired after the credits of NBC's Saturday morning shows except Mister T and two other shows.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
American Bandstand
Celebrity Family Feud
The Edge of Night
Family Feud
General Hospital
Good Morning America
The Littles
Loving
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
One Life to Live
The Puppy's Great Adventures
Rubik, the Amazing Cube
Ryan's Hope
Schoolhouse Rock!
This Week with David Brinkley
New Series
ABC Funfit
All-Star Blitz
Angie
Dragon's Lair
Mighty Orbots
Scary Scooby Funnies
Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
Trivia Trap
Turbo Teen
Wolf Rock TV
Not Returning From 1983-84
Benson
The Best of Scooby-Doo
The Love Report
Menudo on ABC
The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (Retooled into The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries)
Pac-Man
CBS
Returning Series
The $25,000 Pyramid
As the World Turns
The Biskitts
Body Language
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
Capitol
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
Dungeons & Dragons
Face the Nation
Guiding Light
Land of the Lost
Press Your Luck
The Price Is Right
Saturday Supercade
Shirt Tales
The Young and the Restless
New Series
CBS Storybreak
The Get Along Gang
Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
Pole Position
Pryor's Place
Not Returning From 1983-84
Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
CBS Children's Film Festival
The Dukes
Gilligan's Planet
Meatballs and Spaghetti
The New Fat Albert Show
Plastic Man
Tarzan, Lord of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDOV%20%28FM%29 | KDOV is a non-commercial radio station in Medford, Oregon, broadcasting to the Medford-Ashland, Oregon area on 91.7 FM. KDOV airs Christian contemporary music and religious programming. It is owned by United Christian Broadcasters, through licensee UCB USA, Inc.
KDOV has a sister television station, KDSO-LD.
Programming
In addition to music blocks supervised by music director and on-air talent Jerry Bilden, TheDove Radio airs segments from various Christian ministers such as Dr. Charles Stanley, the late Charles Colson, the late Dr. James Kennedy and others. They also broadcast live local church services from Parkview Christian Center in Grants Pass. Flagship programs for TheDove include Mornings on TheDove and Focus Today (simulcast with the TV station and KCMX Radio), both hosted by station president Perry Atkinson. There also local news updates with news director Steve Johnson and news reporter Ashley Carrasco.
Local sports coverage
KDOV also serves as the flagship radio station for Cascade Christian High School varsity football and boys basketball with sports director Jim McCoy and talent Mark McLemore providing play-by-play. It debuted Cascade Christian baseball on May 29, 2012, with the OSAA Class 3A Playoff game against Bandon/Pacific and also carried the state championship game versus Santiam Christian just days later.
On-Air Talent
Perry Atkinson - Host, Mornings on TheDove, Focus Today, Afternoons on TheDove
Polina (Yemelyanova) Leiser - Co-Host / Executive Producer, Mornings on TheDove
Jerry Bilden - Music Director / On-Air Talent
Steve Johnson - News Director / Co-Host, Mornings on TheDove
Ashley Carrasco - News Anchor / Reporter, Mornings on TheDove (formerly on KTVL)
Former On-Air
Steve Best - On-Air Talent
Leon Hunsaker - Meteorologist (formerly of KOBI-TV and KTVL, died 2022)
Jim McCoy - Play-By-Play Commentator for Cascade Christian High School football and boys basketball (radio only)
Demi DeSoto - News Anchor / Reporter, Mornings on TheDove (formerly on KTVL)
Board of directors
Perry Atkinson, President
Dallas Rhoden, Vice President
Jason Atkinson, Secretary / Treasurer
Hal Short, Chairman of the Board
Mark Portrait, Director
Ted Darnell, Director
Translators
KDOV rebroadcasts on KDPO 91.9 in Port Orford, Oregon, KDCB 89.5 in Coos Bay, Oregon, KDOB 91.5 in Brookings, Oregon, KICE 94.9 in Terrebonne/Redmond/Bend, Oregon, and on the following translators:
See also
Focus On The Family
Moody Radio (In The Market with Janet Parshall)
References
External links
Official Website
DOV
DOV
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Medford, Oregon
Radio stations established in 1995
1995 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Walk%20Networking | Great Walk Networking, also known as Great Walk Network, is a bushwalking community in Western Australia. The Great Walk started in 1988 as a protest walk from Denmark to Parliament House in Perth, to raise awareness of logging in Western Australia's old growth forests.
The organisation of the first Walk was also an Australian Bicentenary celebration to appreciate the environment of Southwest Australia, which is home to a relatively small but unique tall forest heritage: the world's only Eucalyptus marginata (Jarrah), E. diversicolor (karri), E. jacksonii (Tingle), E. wandoo subsp. wandoo (Wandoo), E. patens (Blackbutt) and E. gomphocephala (Tuart) forests grow there.
Since 1988, different people have organized walks a few times each year. Most Walks are still organized with a focus on raising awareness of conservation and land use issues. Great Walk Networking is a non-profit voluntary organization.
History
The Conservation Movement in Western Australia, 1970s – 1980s
The Western Australian forests have been extensively challenged by significant threats: earlier destruction due to settlement patterns and later clearfelling for woodchipping, mining for mineral sands and bauxite, as well as forestry practices that showed little interest in long term sustainability.
Many of the Great Walk Networking participants had been involved with other organisations that formed before 1988 to address significant threats to South Western forests of Western Australia. As early as the mid 1970s the Campaign to Save Native Forests (CSNF) and South West Forests Defence Foundation (SWFDF) had been seeking to address the forestry and mining proposals for woodchipping and mining in the forests. The Manjimup wood chip proposals of 1976–1977, and the Wagerup mining proposals in the Darling Range consumed the energies of the CSNF and the SWFDF, as well as other groups based either at the Environment Centre of Western Australia or associated with the Conservation Council of Western Australia. As the older groups changed due to resolution of some of the issues - subsequent groups like Great Walk Networking absorbed members from the earlier groups.
The Great Walk (20 March – 14 April 1988)
On 20 March 1988, 200 people set out from Denmark, on Western Australia's south coast, to walk through the forests of the State's south west on a 650 kilometre trek north to Perth.
The Great Walk was launched with an Aboriginal dance ceremony to "protect the walkers, and attune them to the country through which they would travel." Over the next 26 days, over 1000 people would take part, ostensibly to express their appreciation and concerns for the environment. These expressions were felt to be conveyed by a document called the Great Walk Tree Charter, which was carried to Parliament House where it was presented to the Premier of Western Australia, Peter Dowding.
The Great Walk required a great deal of planning and coordination: the route had to mapped, checked and marked on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuMont%20Evening%20News | The DuMont Evening News was an American news program which aired Monday through Friday at 7:15pm ET on the DuMont Television Network during the 1954–1955 season. Presented by Morgan Beatty, the 15-minute show was the network's third and final attempt at a nightly news broadcast.
History
The network's previous attempts at successful news broadcasts were The Walter Compton News (June 1947 to 1948, moving from WTTG in Washington DC to the network on August 25, 1947) and I.N.S. Telenews / Camera Headlines (January 1948 to 1949).
The DuMont Evening News was shown from 7:15-7:30 PM ET, immediately following the popular Captain Video. The show was one of the many axed due to the network's financial problems.
Beatty had been lured over from NBC News. After DuMont's newscast folded, he returned to NBC. He is best known for being the first to broadcast a news bulletin announcing that the Russians had launched Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, over the NBC Radio Network.
Episode status
As with most DuMont programs, no episodes are known to exist. Kinescopes were not available until the fall of 1947, and were used sparingly in its early years.
See also
The Walter Compton News
Camera Headlines
I.N.S. Telenews
Television news in the United States
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont Evening News at IMDB
Early TV Anchors
The DuMont Television Network: News and Sports
1954 American television series debuts
1955 American television series endings
1950s American television news shows
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows
DuMont news programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magic%20Cottage%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Magic Cottage was an American children's program broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from 1949 to 1952.
Broadcast history
The Magic Cottage was hosted by Pat (Mary Patricia) Meikle (pronounced Michael), an artist and actress. In each episode, Meikle would tell a story illustrated by her drawings on a sketch pad propped on an easel, from which fairy tale characters would transform into live characters who acted out the adventures. Among them were the likes of Larry the Leprechaun, Maxwell the Mouse, and Wilmer the Pigeon, and in each episode Pat herself transformed into a princess who became part of the story being told, as the drawings "rippled" into real-time action to the accompaniment of a strum on a harp.
The series was produced by Pat's real-life husband Hal Cooper (February 23, 1923 - April 11, 2014). Pat and Hal married on December 21, 1944, had two children—Bethami (b. August 16, 1954) and Pamela—and divorced in 1970. The Magic Cottage was a spinoff of their Your Television Babysitter which aired in daytime 8:30 to 9 a.m. ET Monday through Friday on DuMont beginning November 1, 1948. However, The Magic Cottage was aimed at slightly older children who had just entered school, and aired on weekday evenings from 6:30 to 7 p.m. ET.
It was a low-tech show, consisting largely of Meikle telling stories while drawing charcoal-stick pictures on a large sketch pad and chatting with visitors such as Oogie The Ogre. The basic set showed the interior of a cozy cottage with a window and a Dutch half-door at the rear, with Pat sitting mid-stage and speaking directly into the camera until the action transformed into the story of the day.
According to the book about DuMont called The Forgotten Network, both series were well received at the time. Variety praised Meikle, stating that "her knowing method of not talking down to her moppet audience, is probably the answer to a mother’s prayer. She's already being touted as a new TV star..." And, The Magic Cottage continued on DuMont's flagship station WABD until 1955. In fact, Meikle continued to work at WABD, after both series had finished their runs.
Other regular cast members included Don Hastings, perhaps best remembered in the main supporting role of the Video Ranger on DuMont's popular series Captain Video; and later as the long-running character of Dr. Bob Hughes (1960-2010) on the iconic CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns. Because it was done in New York, veteran stage actors were commonplace cast members. Among them were the likes of Broadway and TV veteran Ruth White, a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actress who appeared regularly as the librarian named "Bessie Bookbinder."
Episode status
Although suffering the same fate as so many series of its era—virtually all the episodes are lost, a kinescope of one episode is held at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, with another (dating from December 28, 1950) held by the Paley Center for Media. An additional episode may survi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRCC | KRCC (91.5 FM) is a public radio station in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is owned by Colorado College and operated by Colorado Public Radio.
KRCC broadcasts non-commercial news/talk programming, mostly from National Public Radio (NPR) and American Public Media. The BBC World Service is heard overnight. The station is also a member of the Mountain West News Bureau.
Studios and offices are on North Weber Street in Colorado Springs. The transmitter is located on Cheyenne Mountain amid other Colorado Springs-area TV and FM stations. KRCC is also simulcast on a network of repeater stations around Southern Colorado.
History
KRCC officially signed on in 1951. But the station's history began in 1944 as a public address system for the campus of Colorado College. It became a carrier current station two years later. In April 1951, it received the first non-commercial FM license in the state of Colorado, operating from a World War II surplus transmitter. Its reach was initially limited; broadcast on 91.3 MHz with an effective radiated power of only 10 watts, broadcasting from an antenna that was at minus 480 feet height above average terrain. The ERP was boosted to 165 watts in 1956.
In 1964, the station relocated to the Rastall Center Building, with an ERP of 280 watts. The following year, KRCC was authorized for a frequency change to 91.5 MHz. Another ERP increase in 1973 brought power to 1,730 watts.
Originally a training program for radio and speech students, it became a conventional college radio station in 1968 after Colorado College dropped radio and speech classes. In 1978, the station opened its microphones to the greater Colorado Springs community, paving the way for it to become Colorado's third NPR member station in 1984.
From the 1980s onward, it built a series of translators to help better penetrate its largely mountainous service area. It also increased the power of the primary transmitter, In the 1980s, the tower height was boosted to over , making the signal comparable to other major FM stations in Colorado Springs.
On January 17, 2020, Colorado College announced a partnership with Colorado Public Radio, the main NPR member for most of the remainder of Colorado, that called for CPR to take over management of KRCC. While Colorado Public Radio will handle all operations, Colorado College will continue to hold the license and the station will still be operated from Colorado Springs. Initially, KRCC's format remained the same. However, the station's daytime schedule was tweaked slightly to match that of CPR's all-news network, and KRCC added CPR's daily statewide news program, "Colorado Matters." As part of the agreement, Colorado College and Colorado Public Radio will collaborate on a "public media center" that will be home to KRCC, the Colorado College Journalism Institute, and Rocky Mountain PBS' Regional Innovation Center.
CPR suspended KRCC's nighttime music programming for much of the spring and summer of 2020 to protect its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numberjacks | Numberjacks is a British computer-animated/live-action children's television series, aimed particularly at children aged two to five, shown regularly on CBeebies and occasionally on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. It was also formerly shown on Tiny Pop until the year 2018. It is produced by Open Mind Productions for the BBC and features a mixture of computer-generated animation and live action. 67 episodes were produced. The show focuses on mathematics.
Premise
Numberjacks are a group of anthropomorphic numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Only four of them team up on a mission: Turqouise Five (a female who likes being a numberjack), Yellow Six (who is good with some tricks and jumps), Dark Blue Four (who is a smart one but not quite sure) and Pink Three (a younger one who is cheeky and funny). They go about their everyday lives inside their sofa until a call comes in from real-life child Agents, who report problems that need solving. One or two of the Numberjacks fly out on location to investigate. The Numberjacks have to work out how to put things right, and thwart the dastardly intentions of the five Meanies. After much fun, adventure and powerful thinking, the Numberjacks win the day – until next time.
Characters and voice cast
The Youngest Numberjacks
Zero (voiced by Dylan Robertson) - Zero is lime green, has blue eyes, and is the youngest out of the numbers, and does not do much at all. He is a bit special, because he can turn things into nothing, and can line up to make bigger numbers like 10 and 100. He can hardly jump at all, and often falls asleep. He can make things disappear and can make 10 together with One.
One (voiced by Dylan Robertson) - One is purple. She also has blue eyes, is nice, a bit self-centered and rather immature. She does not jump very much, and is still very much at the centre of her own universe. She is well-meaning, but sometimes the source of the problems, and she can make 10 with Zero at her side.
Two (voiced by Robert Watson) - Two is orange, quickly flips from one state to the opposite, is busily into things and has a touch of “terrible twos”. Active and changeable, he sometimes wants to be one of the “big numbers”, but is sometimes still very babyish.
The Main Numberjacks
Three (voiced by Alice Baker) - Three is pink, has blue eyes, busy, lively, and a bit “Me me me!” but is growing up. Slightly odd and eccentric, noisy, fun and full of herself. She is very keen to be seen as one of the bigger numbers – “I can do it!” – but she is not quite ready for it - yet. A wildly ambitious jumper, Three has a collection of "beautiful things" (which she keeps in a bright red box in the sofa's Cosy Room.) She does not go out on missions in the early episodes, but she graduates to properly doing so later. She is the principal operator of the Brain Gain machine in the sofa's Control Room.
Four (voiced by Jonathan Beech) - Four is dark blue, has brown eyes, and a regular sort of number – nice, steady, and quit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte%20Information%20Exchange | BYTE Information eXchange (BIX) was an online service created by BYTE.
History
BYTE in the October 1984 issue announced BYTEnet, "a project in computer conferencing", with 200 beta testers who received free service during the "experiment". The magazine formally announced BIX in the June 1985 issue, offering an introductory sign-up fee of $25, and evening and weekend charges of $6 per hour of connect time: the service offered direct numbers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston. It was a text-only Bulletin Board System-style site running the CoSy conferencing software. BIX originally ran on an Areté multiprocessor system based on the Motorola 68000, then 68020. By June 1986 the company had more than 6000 subscribers, and the magazine printed excerpts of BIX discussions. In 1987, with 17,000 users, BIX moved to a Pyramid 9820 running DC/OSx. When the Pyramid became too expensive to run, BIX was ported to a DEC Alpha server. McGraw-Hill also used the same software internally.
BYTE staff and writers such as Jerry Pournelle were active on the service, and invitations for further discussion were printed with many articles in the magazine. Access was via local dial-in or for additional hourly charges, the Tymnet X.25 network. Monthly rates were initially $13/month for the account and $1/hour for X.25 access. Unlike CompuServe, access at higher speeds was not surcharged. Later, gateways permitted email communication outside the system. BIX was acquired by the Delphi online service in 1992.
In the mid-1990s, the Internet became more available to the masses and Usenet, mailing lists, and competing services such as CompuServe and America Online were able to offer flat-rate services, which adversely affected BIX membership levels. In the late-1990s, as the Internet became more mainstream, membership and activity plummeted forcing BIX to cut pricing to $40 per year, with no per hour connection charge by using the Internet for access.
Lower prices and full page ads in BYTE were unsuccessful in turning the service around. Consequently, BIX was shut down in 2001. Some members created a new service, based on an open-source version of CoSy, called NLZ (Noise Level Zero) where they continued what remained of the service, with many of the same conferences and topics that were active at the end of Delphi's ownership until 2018.
Other CoSy-based conferencing systems of the same era still survive including CIX.
References
Pre–World Wide Web online services
Bulletin board systems
1985 establishments in the United States
2001 disestablishments in the United States
Internet properties established in 1985
Internet properties disestablished in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne%20Boyce | Susanne Boyce was President Creative, Content and Channels, CTV Inc. until February 2011. She joined CTV in 1995 as director of production and development and was senior vice president of programming from 1997 to 2001. Just prior to her current title she was President of CTV Programming and Chair of CTV Media Group between 2001 and 2007. She is also a former executive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
External links
Strategy magazine article
Canadian television executives
Women television executives
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Iraq | This is a list of diplomatic missions of Iraq. Iraq maintains a network of diplomatic missions abroad. While the country has re-opened its missions in Washington, London, Tehran and the capitals of other states it was previously hostile to, Iraq does not have diplomatic relations with Israel.
Africa
Algiers (Embassy)
Cairo (Embassy)
Nairobi (Embassy)
Tripoli (Embassy)
Nouakchott (Embassy)
Rabat (Embassy)
Abuja (Embassy)
Dakar (Embassy)
Pretoria (Embassy)
Khartoum (Embassy)
Tunis (Embassy)
Americas
Brasília (Embassy)
Ottawa (Embassy)
Montreal (Consulate-General)
Toronto (Consulate-General)
Mexico City (Embassy)
Washington, D.C. (Embassy)
Detroit (Consulate-General)
Los Angeles (Consulate-General)
Caracas (Embassy)
Asia
Yerevan (Embassy)
Baku (Embassy)
Manama (Embassy)
Dhaka (Embassy)
Beijing (Embassy)
Tbilisi (Embassy)
New Delhi (Embassy)
Jakarta (Embassy)
Tehran (Embassy)
Ahvaz (Consulate-General)
Kermanshah (Consulate-General)
Mashhad (Consulate-General)
Tokyo (Embassy)
Amman (Embassy)
Astana (Embassy)
Kuwait City (Embassy)
Beirut (Embassy)
Kuala Lumpur (Embassy)
Muscat (Embassy)
Islamabad (Embassy)
Manila (Embassy)
Doha (Embassy)
Riyadh (Embassy)
Jeddah (Consulate-General)
Seoul (Embassy)
Colombo (Embassy)
Damascus (Embassy)
Aleppo (Consulate-General)
Ankara (Embassy)
Gaziantep (Consulate-General)
Istanbul (Consulate-General)
Abu Dhabi (Embassy)
Dubai (Consulate-General)
Sana'a (Embassy)
Europe
Vienna (Embassy)
Brussels (Embassy)
Sofia (Embassy)
Zagreb (Embassy)
Prague (Embassy)
Copenhagen (Embassy)
Helsinki (Embassy)
Paris (Embassy)
Berlin (Embassy)
Frankfurt (Consulate General)
Athens (Embassy)
Rome (Embassy)
Budapest (Embassy)
Dublin (Embassy)
Rome (Embassy)
The Hague (Embassy)
Oslo (Embassy)
Warsaw (Embassy)
Lisbon (Embassy)
Bucharest (Embassy)
Moscow (Embassy)
Belgrade (Embassy)
Madrid (Embassy)
Stockholm (Embassy)
Bern (Embassy)
Kyiv (Embassy)
London (Embassy)
Manchester (Consulate-General)
Oceania
Canberra (Embassy)
Sydney (Consulate-General)
Multilateral organizations
Cairo (Permanent Representation to Arab League)
Geneva (Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other international organisations)
New York (Permanent Mission to the United Nations)
Paris (Permanent Mission to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation)
Gallery
Non-resident embassies
(Brasilia)
(Athens)
(Pretoria)
(Caracas)
(Washington, D.C.)
(Caracas)
(Moscow)
(Mexico City)
(Abuja)
(Lima)
(Budapest)
(Pretoria)
(Dakar)
(Nairobi)
(Abuja)
(Dakar)
(Abuja)
(Brasilia)
(Beijing)
(Khartoum)
(Nairobi)
(Canberra)
(Caracas)
(Abuja)
(Abuja)
(Mexico City)
(Washington, D.C.)
(Mexico City)
(Abuja)
(Helsinki)
(Caracas)
(Pretoria)
(Abuja)
(Dakar)
(Caracas)
(Mexico City)
(Brasilia)
(Dakar)
(Dakar)
(Was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing%20%28software%29 | In software engineering, tracing involves a specialized use of logging to record information about a program's execution. This information is typically used by programmers for debugging purposes, and additionally, depending on the type and detail of information contained in a trace log, by experienced system administrators or technical-support personnel and by software monitoring tools to diagnose common problems with software. Tracing is a cross-cutting concern.
There is not always a clear distinction between tracing and other forms of logging, except that the term tracing is almost never applied to logging that is a functional requirement of a program (therefore excluding logging of data from an external source, such as data acquisition in a high-energy physics experiment, and write-ahead logging). Logs that record program usage (such as a server log) or operating-system events primarily of interest to a system administrator (see for example Event Viewer) fall into a terminological gray area.
This article deals primarily with tracing for debugging or diagnostic purposes.
Event logging versus tracing
Difficulties in making a clear distinction between event logging and software tracing arise from the fact that some of the same technologies are used for both, and further because many of the criteria that distinguish between the two are continuous rather than discrete. The following table lists some important, but by no means precise or universal, distinctions that are used by developers to select technologies for each purpose, and that guide the separate development of new technologies in each area:
Event logging
Event logging provides system administrators with information useful for diagnostics and auditing. The different classes of events that will be logged, as well as what details will appear in the event messages, are often considered early in the development cycle. Many event logging technologies allow or even require each class of event to be assigned a unique "code", which is used by the event logging software or a separate viewer (e.g., Event Viewer) to format and output a human-readable message. This facilitates localization and allows system administrators to more easily obtain information on problems that occur.
Because event logging is used to log high-level information (often failure information), performance of the logging implementation is often less important.
A special concern, preventing duplicate events from being recorded "too often" is taken care of through event throttling.
Software tracing
Software tracing provides developers with information useful for debugging. This information is used both during development cycles and after the release of the software. Unlike event logging, software tracing usually does not have the concept of a "class" of event or an "event code". Other reasons why event-logging solutions based on event codes are inappropriate for software tracing include:
Because software tracin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q35 | Q35 may refer to:
Q35 (New York City bus)
Changhe Q35, a Chinese crossover
Fatir, the 35th surah of the Quran
London Underground Q35 Stock
Samsung Sens Q35, a laptop computer
Intel Q35, an Intel chipset |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20Hub | News HUB (formerly known as Independent News Network) is a production company based in Little Rock, Arkansas, which syndicates "localized" news programs for broadcast television stations in the United States, that have budgets limiting their ability to produce their own local newscasts.
In addition to producing local newscasts, INN also produced a Spanish language Hispanic News Network, or HNN and (prior to September 2019) INN News for national syndication.
History
Regional News Network
The Regional News Network started in 1999 and branded itself as Independent News Network. The company's first client was Davenport Fox affiliate KLJB (channel 18). INN produced a half-hour primetime newscast for that station, titled the Fox 18 Nine O'Clock News, which started on December 31 1999 until the station entered into a news share agreement with crosstown ABC affiliate WQAD-TV in September 2010.
The company started two syndicated general national news products in June 2002. "The American Times" and "INN News" were for stations and cable channels who did not want a customized news product. In October, a Montana regional newscast, Big Sky News, with some localization for five stations began.
INN began expanding into Spanish language newscast with Univision affiliates, particularly those owned by Equity Media Holdings. The Salt Lake City affiliate, KUTH, became INN's first Spanish client in February 2003. INN started Noticias Arkansas, a regional and local Spanish newscast, in June 2004 for affiliates in Little Rock and North West Arkansas.
In August 2008, INN launched Hispanic News Network (HNN) in 20 markets. At that time INN employed six on-air personnel, with the expectation of hiring 6 more by early 2009. A new studio was constructed for HNN and WMYD, the Detroit MyNetwork TV affiliate.
Latin Media Group
Regional News Network filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on December 31, 2008. INN was taken over in early January 2009 by LMG, Inc., part of Fusion Communications, also of Davenport, Iowa. In the transfer, INN laid off 12 of its staff of 40, and kept its client stations except for WPGA-TV in Macon, Georgia.
By November 2009, Independent News Network signed on WeatherNation for five of INN's Spanish language client stations. INN agreed by October 2011 to support Soul of the South Network's planned five hours of news per day. INN's staff was further cut to 14 in June 2013 as more client stations left the service.
Media Gateway division
By June 2015, SSN Media Gateway, LLC had acquired Independent News Network. At that time Media Gateway hired Anne Imanuel who remains one of the company’s primary anchors.
Sarah Blakely was hired by May 2017 as anchor for the Lafayette, Indiana Star City News.
News Hub
Waypoint Media purchased Independent News Network from Media Gateway in early June 2019 and renamed News Hub. As corporate director of news, Elden A. Hale Jr. was then appointed to head the division. The national version of the newscast was dropped at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985%E2%80%9386%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1985–86 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 1985 to August 1986.
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.
Monday–Friday
CBS note: CBS returned the 4:00 p.m. time slot to the affiliates beginning September 29, 1986, after Press Your Luck finished its run three days earlier, making CBS the last of the Big Three to return the time slot to affiliates. Many CBS affiliates did not air network programming in the 4:00 p.m. time slot, opting to air local and/or syndicated programming instead.
Saturday
In the News aired at the end of CBS' Saturday morning shows except Muppet Babies and CBS Storybreak; CBS would also move the Pacific Time Zone schedule feed for its Saturday Morning lineup from its 8 AM-2 PM (Eastern Time) pattern to the 7 AM-1 PM (Central Time) pattern. Also, the shows past 1PM were removed in January.
One to Grow On aired after the credits of NBC's Saturday morning shows except Punky Brewster and Mister T.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Funfit
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
All-Star Blitz
American Bandstand
The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Laff-A-Lympics
The Littles
Loving
One Life to Live
Pink Panther and Sons (moved from NBC)
Ryan's Hope
This Week with David Brinkley
New series
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
Ewoks
Fame, Fortune and Romance
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
New Love, American Style
Scooby's Mystery Funhouse
Star Wars: Droids
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
Three's a Crowd
Not returning from 1984-85
Angie
Celebrity Family Feud
Dragon's Lair
The Edge of Night
Family Feud
Mighty Orbots
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
The Puppy's Great Adventures
Rubik the Amazing Cube
Scary Scooby Funnies
Schoolhouse Rock!
Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
Trivia Trap
Turbo Teen
Wolf Rock TV
CBS
Returning series
The $25,000 Pyramid
As the World Turns
Body Language
Capitol
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS Storybreak
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
Dungeons & |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide%20Area%20GPS%20Enhancement | Wide Area GPS Enhancement (WAGE) is a method to increase the horizontal accuracy of the GPS encrypted P(Y) Code by adding additional range correction data to the satellite broadcast navigation message.
Per a 1997 article, the navigation message for each satellite is updated once daily or as needed. This daily update of each satellite navigation message contains the range corrections for all the satellites in the constellation. Thus, more timely range correction information would be available for each satellite, resulting in increased horizontal accuracy. Potential improvements to the system include simplifying the upload procedure, uploading the data more often, and adding more monitor stations for better range correction.
WAGE is available only to the Precise Positioning Service (PPS) or P(Y) Code receivers. It requires at least 12.5 minutes to obtain the most recent WAGE data. After that, the process of using the corrections data is automatic and transparent to the operator. Any time the receiver is on, it continually collects WAGE data (whether the WAGE mode is on or off). The receiver always uses the most recent WAGE data available to calculate position and it will not use the data that is over 6 hours old.
A 1996 evaluation using a PLGR (a 5-channel L2 GPS receiver) found no clear advantage to using WAGE in its then-current configuration. Its overall average error of 9.1 meters was worse than when WAGE was not used.
However, the specifications information for the Defense Advanced GPS Receiver, which has replaced the PLGR, lists its WAGE accuracy as better than 4.82 m, 95% Horizontal. PPS accuracy has improved beyond WAGE specification and accuracy improvement from WAGE is now negligible. Modern receivers & atomic clocks on a chip will also outperform WAGE. Some theorize that restrictions imposed by WAGE may limit precision for both C/A, P(Y), & WAGE users more than what it provides to WAGE users only.
The capability of WAGE has been superseded by Talon NAMATH. There is a push for WAGE users to upgrade to Talon NAMATH or move them to using P(Y) alone. This could lift WAGE restrictions & allow accuracy improvements for all users.
References
Sources
Talon NAMATH, Link 16, ZOAD, SBIR, and Other Code Words
Wide Area GPS Enhancement (WAGE) Evaluation
Orbit Determination and Satellite Navigation Crosslink Summer 2002.
Global Positioning System
Satellite-based augmentation systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986%E2%80%9387%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1986–87 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 1986 to August 1987.
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 later 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.
Monday–Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
American Bandstand
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
Ewoks (retitled The All-New Ewoks)
Fame, Fortune and Romance
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Loving
One Life to Live
Ryan's Hope
This Week with David Brinkley
Wuzzles
New series
Bargain Hunters
The Care Bears Family
Double Talk
The Flintstone Kids
Pound Puppies
The Real Ghostbusters
Webster
Who's the Boss?
Canceled/Ended
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
ABC Funfit
All-Star Blitz
Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
Laff-A-Lympics
The Littles
New Love, American Style
Pink Panther and Sons
Scooby's Mystery Funhouse
Star Wars: Droids
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
Three's a Crowd
CBS
Returning series
The $25,000 Pyramid
As the World Turns
The Berenstain Bears
Capitol
Card Sharks
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS Storybreak
Dungeons & Dragons
Face the Nation
Guiding Light
Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
Land of the Lost
The Price Is Right
The Puppy's Great Adventures
Richie Rich
The Young and the Restless
New series
The Bold and the Beautiful
Galaxy High
The Morning Program
Pee-wee's Playhouse
Teen Wolf
Wildfire
Canceled/Ended
Body Language
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
Dungeons & Dragons
The Get Along Gang
In the News
Little Muppet Monsters
Pole Position
Press Your Luck
The Wuzzles (moved to ABC)
NBC
Returning series
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Another World
Blockbusters
Days of Our Lives
Family Ties
Kidd Video
Meet the Press
NBC News at Sunrise
NBC Nightly News
It's Punky Brewster
Sale of the Century
Santa Barbara
Scrabble
Search for Tomorrow
The Smurfs
Super Password
Today
Wheel of Fortune
New series
Classic Concentration
Foofur
Kissyfur
Lazer Tag Academy
Main Street
Wordplay
Canceled/Ended
Mister T
Snorks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggeby%20stone | The Eggeby stone, designated as U 69 under the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located at Eggeby, which is 2 kilometers northwest of Central Sundbyberg, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Uppland.
Description
The Eggeby stone inscription consists of runic text contained within bands. The inscription has been attributed to the runemaster Gunnar, who signed inscription U 225 in Bällsta. The inscription has been classified as having been carved in runestone style RAK, which is considered to be the oldest style. This is the classification for inscriptions with text bands that have straight ends without any attached serpent or beast heads.
The reference to bridge-building in the runic text is fairly common in runestones during this time period. Some are Christian references related to passing the bridge into the afterlife. At this time, the Catholic Church sponsored the building of roads and bridges through the use of indulgences in return for the church's intercession for the soul of the departed. There are over one hundred examples of bridge stones dated from the eleventh century, including inscriptions Sö 101 in Ramsund, Sö 328 in Tynäs, U 489 in Morby, U 839 in Ryda, and U993 in Brunnby. Consistent with this interpretation of the bridge referring to the passage to the afterlife, the text includes a prayer for the soul of Ônundr.
It has been pointed out that the final portion of the inscription is in verse:
Another runestone raised by a woman where the normal memorial formula is followed by alliterative text is the Danish inscription DR 97 in Ålum.
Inscription
Transliteration
raknilfʀ × lit × kirua × bru × þasi × iftiʀ × anunt + sun + s[i](n) [× k]uþan × kuþ ---bi × ons × ant × uk × salu × bitr × þan × on krþi × til × munu × iki × mirki × miʀi × uirþa × muþiʀ × karþi × i(f)tiʀ × sun × sin × ainika ×
Transcription
Ragnælfʀ let gærva bro þessi æftiʀ Anund, sun sinn goðan. Guð [hial]pi hans and ok salu bætr þan hann gærði til. Munu æigi mærki mæiʀi verða, moðiʀ gærði æftiʀ sun sinn æiniga.
Translation
Ragnelfr had this bridge made in memory of Ônundr, her good son. May God help his spirit and soul better than he deserved. No landmark will be more (great). The mother made in memory of her only son.
References
Runestones in Uppland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%E2%80%9388%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1987–88 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 1987 to August 1988.
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 later 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.
Monday–Friday
Saturday
CBS note: Muppet Babies expanded to 90 minutes for this season to take the spot that would have been filled by Garbage Pail Kids; which had been pulled shortly before the season began due to criticisms from groups such as Action for Children's Television and American Family Association.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
The Care Bears Family
The Flintstone Kids
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Loving
One Life to Live
All New Pound Puppies
The Real Ghostbusters
Ryan's Hope
This Week with David Brinkley
Who's the Boss?
New series
Animal Crack-Ups
Growing Pains
The Home Show
Little Clowns of Happytown
Little Wizards
Mr. Belvedere
My Pet Monster
Not returning from 1986–87
American Bandstand (continued in syndication)
Bargain Hunters
Double Talk
Ewoks
Fame, Fortune and Romance
Webster
The Wuzzles
CBS
Returning series
The $25,000 Pyramid
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
Card Sharks
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS Storybreak
Dennis the Menace
Face the Nation
Family Feud
Galaxy High
Guiding Light
Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
Kidd Video (moved from NBC)
The Morning Program
Pee-wee's Playhouse
The Price Is Right
Teen Wolf
The Young and the Restless
New series
Blackout
CBS This Morning
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
Popeye and Son
Not returning from 1986–87
The Berenstain Bears
Capitol
Dungeons & Dragons
Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
Land of the Lost
The Puppy's Further Adventures
Richie Rich
Wildfire
NBC
Returning series
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Another World
Classic Concentration
Days of Our Lives
Foofur
Kissyfur
Meet the Press
NBC News at Sunrise
NBC Nightly News
It's Punky Brewster
Sale of the Century
Santa Barbara
Scrabble
The Smurfs
Super Password
Today
Wheel of Fortune
New s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%9389%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1988–89 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 1988 to August 1989.
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 later 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.
Monday–Friday
ABC note: From September 19–30, 1988, Home aired for one hour, commandeering reruns of Growing Pains.
NBC note: NBC returned the 12:00 noon time slot to its affiliates beginning March 27, 1989, after Super Password finished its run three days earlier. Many NBC affiliates did not air the show in this timeslot, instead opting to air local news. The new soap Generations was available to affiliates at noon/11:00 CT or 12:30/11:30 CT.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
Animal Crack-Ups
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
The Flintstone Kids
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Growing Pains
The Home Show
Loving
One Life to Live
Ryan's Hope
Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters
This Week with David Brinkley
New series
The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Not returning from 1987–88
The Care Bears Family
Little Clowns of Happytown
Little Wizards
Mr. Belvedere
My Pet Monster
Pound Puppies
Who's the Boss?
CBS
Returning series
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
Card Sharks
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS Storybreak
CBS This Morning
Face the Nation
Family Feud
Guiding Light
Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
Pee-wee's Playhouse
The Price Is Right
Teen Wolf
The Young and the Restless
New series
The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy
Flip!
Garfield and Friends
Hey Vern, It's Ernest!
Now You See It!
Superman
Wheel of Fortune
Not returning from 1987–88
Blackout
Dennis the Menace
Galaxy High
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
Kidd Video
Popeye and Son
The $25,000 Pyramid
NBC
Returning series
Adventures of the Gummi Bears
ALF
The Chipmunks
Another World
Classic Concentration
Days of Our Lives
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Kissyfur
Meet the Press
NBC News at Sunrise
NBC Nightly News
The New Archies
Punky Brewster
Sale of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A4rentuna%20Runestones | The Färentuna runestones are 11th century runestones labelled U 20, U 21, and U 22 in the Rundata catalog that are located in Färentuna, Uppland, Sweden. Runestones U 20 and U 21 were registered separately although they come from the same original runestone and consequently are called U 20/21. The runestone U 20/U 21 is probably most interesting as it, together with the Hillersjö stone and the Snottsta and Vreta stones, tells the story of the family of Gerlög and Inga. All of the Färentuna runestones are inscribed in the younger futhark.
U 20/U 21
The two fragments named U 20 and U 21 were originally part of the same runestone and were discovered under the plaster of a wall during the renovation of the church at Färentuna. It is likely that other fragments of this runestone may also be part of the church but have their inscriptions facing inwards. They are held to tell of the same family as the Hillersjö stone and the Snottsta and Vreta stones. This runestone is believed to have been raised by Inga in memory of her husband Eric (Eiríkr) and her father Godric (Guðríkr). The runestone has been attributed to the runemaster known as Torbjörn or Þorbjôrn Skald, who signed the Hillersjö stone.
Transliteration
... ...k * bunta sin ... auk -... ...(u)þrik * faþur sin * gu... ...-b... ...n- *
Transcription
... [Æiri]k(?), bonda sinn ... ok ... [G]uðrik, faður sinn. Gu[ð hial]p[i a]n[d].
Translation
... Eiríkr(?) his/her husbandman ... and ... Guðríkr, his/her father. May God help (his) spirit.
U 22
The runic text of U 22 is within a serpent that circles the edge of the stone. This runestone is classified as being carved in either runestone style Pr2 or Pr3.
Transliteration
ulfr * uk uikil + uk syrkil * þa... ...- stain * þina i(f)(t)iʀ ayt--u faþur sin ku*þ (h)ia[lbi] a-t
Transcription
Ulfʀ ok Vikell ok Syrkell/Sørkell þæ[iʀ] ... stæin þenna æftiʀ <ayt--u>, faður sinn. Guð hialpi a[n]d.
Translation
Ulfr and Vékell and Syrkell/Sørkell, they ... this stone in memory of ... their father. May God help (his) spirit.
See also
List of runestones
References
Sources
Inga och Estrid - en såpa för tusen år sedan: Människor, händelser och platser i Ingas och Estrids liv. A page at the Museum of Stockholm County.
Runestones, Gerlög and Inga
Runestones in Uppland
11th-century inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%E2%80%9390%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1989–90 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 1989 to August 1990.
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 later 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.
Monday–Friday
Saturday
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! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|8:00 am
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|8:30 am
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! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|9:30 am
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! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|10:30 am
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! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|12:30 pm
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! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|1:30 pm
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|2:00 pm
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|2:30 pm
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|3:00 pm
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|3:30 pm
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|4:00 pm
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|4:30 pm
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|5:00 pm
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|5:30 pm
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|6:00 pm
! width="4%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"|6:30 pm
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! bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="3"|ABC
! Fall
| bgcolor="white" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|Local and/orsyndicatedprogramming
| bgcolor="bf9fef" rowspan="3"|A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
| bgcolor="bf9fef" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|Disney's Gummi Bears / Winnie the Pooh Hour
| bgcolor="bf9fef" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters
| bgcolor="bf9fef" rowspan="3"|Beetlejuice
| bgcolor="bf9fef" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
| bgcolor="bf9fef" rowspan="1"|Animal Crack-Ups
| bgcolor="bf9fef" rowspan="3"|ABC Weekend Special
| bgcolor="99ccff" colspan="12"rowspan="1"|College Football on ABC
|-
! Winter
| bgcolor="bf9fef" rowspan="1"|The Flintstone Kids
| bgcolor="99ccff" colspan="10"rowspan="2"|ABC Sports and/or local programming
| bgcolor="gold" rowspan="2"|Local news
| bgcolor="gold" rowspan="2"|ABC World News Saturday
|-
! May
| bgcolor="bf9fef" rowspan="1"|Animal Crack-Ups
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! bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="2"|CBS
! F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Bliss | Ryan Bliss may refer to:
Ryan Bliss (baseball), an American minor league baseball player
Ryan Bliss, an artist whose computer-generated imagery is sold on Digital Blasphemy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%E2%80%9391%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1990–91 daytime network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1990 to August 1991.
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 in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) 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.
Monday–Friday
NBC note: Wheel of Fortune aired its last daytime episode on September 20, 1991. The following Monday, NBC returned the 10:00 AM hour to its affiliates.
Saturday
Several Fox stations aired WWF Superstars of Wrestling and/or WWF Wrestling Challenge after the Fox Children's Network block.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
Beetlejuice
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Home
Loving
Match Game
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
One Life to Live
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters
This Week with David Brinkley
New series:
Little Rosey
New Kids on the Block
The Wizard of Oz
Not returning from 1989-90:
Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Animal Crack-Ups
The Flintstone Kids
Perfect Strangers
CBS
Returning series:
The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS Storybreak
CBS This Morning
Dink, the Little Dinosaur
Face the Nation
Family Feud
Garfield and Friends
Guiding Light
Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
Pee-wee's Playhouse
The Price Is Right
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Wheel of Fortune
The Young and the Restless
New series:
The Barbara DeAngelis Show
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
Designing Women
Soap Star Family Feud
Not returning from 1989-90:
The California Raisins Show
Dungeons & Dragons
Rude Dog and the Dweebs
Fox
New series:
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Bobby's World
Fun House
Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates
Piggsburg Pigs
Swamp Thing
Tom & Jerry Kids Show
Zazoo U
NBC
Returning series:
Another World
Camp Candy
Captain N: The Game Master
The Chipmunks Go to the Movies
Classic Concentration
Days of Our Lives
Generations
Let's Make a Deal
The Marsha Warfield Show
Meet the Press
NBC News at Sunrise
NBC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMVQ | WMVQ (90.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to State University of New York as part of the WRVO network. WMVQ is licensed to Fenner, New York, which is a rural community in Madison County, in-between the communities of Cazenovia, Chittenango and Canastota, in the Syracuse metropolitan area.
History
WMVQ was originally WXXE, owned by Syracuse Community Radio (SCR), which put the station on the air December 21, 1998, and first licensed the station with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 11, 2000. SCR had been founded in 1994 to apply for a license to bring community radio to Syracuse's FM dial. The project grew out of organizing by the Westcott Nation Music Association that included micro-radio in the Westcott neighborhood (1990–91) and a community television audio feed on Time Warner Cable. The organization was active for two years before incorporating in 1994.
Effective December 28, 2015, SCR sold WXXE to the State University of New York so they could instead operate WSPJ-LP (103.3 FM), which puts a listenable signal over central and northern Onondaga County, unlike WXXE. Syracuse Community Radio, Inc., was not allowed by FCC regulations to own both stations. WSPJ-LP broadcasts local news and commentary, local music, youth programming and other content. "SCR has consistently provided this programming in the past," it told the FCC, "but over a very limited signal area at the outer fringe of the Syracuse area, resulting in greatly hampered listenership and participation." Because the 103.3 FM signal primarily covers the northern suburbs of Onondaga County, WSPJ-LP is rebroadcast for listeners in the City of Syracuse on 93.7 FM from a translator, W229CU, atop the Westcott Community Center in Syracuse.
WXXE changed its call sign to WMVQ on June 13, 2016.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
Radio stations established in 2000
MVQ
2000 establishments in New York (state)
State University of New York at Oswego
NPR member stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%E2%80%9392%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1991–92 daytime network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1991 to August 1992. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1990–91 season.
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 in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) 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.
Monday–Friday
ABC note: ABC rescinded the noon time slot to affiliates on August 17. Many ABC affiliates preempted network programming to air local news in the noon time slot. Loving was now available to affiliates at noon/11:00 CT or 12:30/11:30 CT.
Saturday
NBC note: This marked the final season of NBC airing children's animated programming on Saturday mornings due to the network's decision to forego cartoons the next season in favor of the Saturday edition of The Today Show and the live action teen sitcom-focused banner TNBC, which lasted for a decade on the network.
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
Beetlejuice
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
General Hospital
Good Morning America
The Home Show
Loving
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
One Life to Live
Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters
This Week with David Brinkley
New series:
Darkwing Duck
Hammerman
Land of the Lost
The Pirates of Dark Water
Not returning from 1990–91:
Little Rosey
Match Game
New Kids on the Block
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
The Wizard of Oz
CBS
Returning series:
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS Storybreak
CBS This Morning
Designing Women
Face the Nation
Family Feud
Garfield and Friends
Guiding Light
Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
The Price Is Right
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Young and the Restless
New series:
Back to the Future
Family Feud Challenge
Inspector Gadget
Mother Goose and Grimm
Riders in the Sky
Where's Waldo?
Not returning from 1990–91:
The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy
The Barbara DeAngelis Show
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (moved to Fox Kids Network)
Dink, the Little Din |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glavendrup%20stone | The Glavendrup stone, designated as DR 209 by Rundata, is a runestone on the island of Funen in Denmark and dates from the early 10th century. It contains Denmark's longest runic inscription and ends in a curse.
Description
The runestone forms the end of a stone ship. There are other megaliths in the vicinity, including memorial stones with Latin characters from the early 20th century. In the stone ship, nine graves have been found, but they were all empty.
The runestone was discovered when sand was quarried in the area in 1794, and it was saved in 1808 by the archaeologist Vedel Simonssen when stonemasons wanted to buy it. The last restoration was made in 1958, and the mound it is standing on is modern.
Ragnhild who ordered the stone also ordered the Tryggevælde Runestone (DR 230) from the runemaster Soti. The runic inscription is classified as being in runestone style RAK. This is the classification for inscriptions with text bands with straight ends that do not have attached serpent or beast heads. It refers to a gothi, who was a pagan priest of a vé, a holy sanctuary, and a thegn, who was the head of the Norse clan and a warchief. The rune carver appeals to the Norse god Thor to hallow the inscription. There are two other runestones that have similar invocations to Thor located in Denmark, DR 110 from Virring and DR 220 from Sønder Kirkeby, and three other stones in Sweden, Ög 136 in Rök, Vg 150 from Velanda and possibly Sö 140 at Korpbron. It has been noted that Thor is the only Norse god who is invoked on any Viking Age runestones.
The inscription ends with a curse, similar to the ones found on the Tryggevælde Runestone and the Sønder Vinge runestone 2 in Denmark and the Glemminge stone and the Saleby Runestone in Sweden. There is some disagreement regarding the translation of one of the words in these curses, rita/rata, which has been translated as "wretch," "outcast," or "warlock." Warlock is the translation accepted by Rundata. However, the use of warlock is not that the destroyer would gain any magical powers, but be considered to be unnatural and a social outcast. The concept that being a warlock or sorcerer was an evil perversion predated the Christian conversion of Scandinavia.
Inscription
Transliteration from runes to Latin characters
§AP raknhiltr ' sa¶ti ' stain þonsi ' auft ¶ ala ' saulua kuþa ¶ uia l(i)þs haiþuiarþan þia¶kn
§AQ raknhiltr ' sa¶ti ' stain þonsi ' auft ¶ ala ' saulua kuþa ¶ uial(i)þs haiþuiarþan þia¶kn
§B ala ' suniʀ ' karþu ¶ kubl ' þausi ' aft ' faþur ¶ sin ' auk ' hons ' kuna ' auft ¶ uar ' sin ' in ' suti ' raist ' run¶aʀ ' þasi ' aft ' trutin ' sin ¶ þur ' uiki ' þasi ' runaʀ
§C at ' rita ' sa ' uarþi ' is ' stain þansi ¶ ailti ' iþa aft ' onon ' traki
Translation from Old Norse
Gallery
References
External links
A site in Swedish with pictures of the stone.
High-quality 3D model
Runestones with curses
Runestones in Denmark
10th-century inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Thunderbirds%20episodes | This is an episode guide for Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series produced by AP Films (later named Century 21 Productions) from 1964 and first broadcast on the ITV network in 1965 and 1966. It lists both the TV episodes and the 1960s audio plays by Century 21 Records, along with their adaptations.
Two feature film sequels to the TV series were released in 1966 and 1968, followed by three made-for-TV compilation films in the early 1980s. In 2015, a mini-series based on the three original audio stories was produced to mark the series' 50th anniversary.
All TV episodes were released on Region 2 DVD by Carlton in 2000 and 2001. A Region 1 box set by A&E Home Video followed in 2002. The episodes were released on Blu-ray Disc in 2008.
Television series
Series 1
Series 1 of Thunderbirds comprised 26 episodes, each approximately 50 minutes long. Episodes are listed in the official order published by distributor ITC Entertainment, which matches the order of production.
Series 2
Series 2 comprised six 50-minute episodes. Episodes are listed in the official order published by distributor ITC Entertainment, which matches the order of production.
Audio episodes
Between 1965 and 1967, Century 21 Records released 19 Thunderbirds audio plays in the form of 7-inch, 33 RPM vinyl EP records (promoted as "mini-albums"), each about 21 minutes long. Three of these were original stories; the rest were retellings of selected TV episodes, each condensed from the original soundtrack with added narration by one of the main characters. In 1990, revised versions of eight plays were broadcast as a mini-series on BBC Radio 5.
Of the original stories, voice actors Peter Dyneley, David Graham and Sylvia Anderson featured in all three, Ray Barrett in two and Shane Rimmer in one. Two of the storiesF.A.B. and The Stately Homes Robberieswere told from the point of view of Lady Penelope and Parker, and featured original music by Barry Gray. In 2015, the stories were adapted as screen episodes to mark Thunderbirds 50th anniversary.
Film sequels and compilations
Feature films
Two Thunderbirds feature films were released in the 1960s. The events of the first film, Thunderbirds Are Go, precede those of the final TV episode, "Give or Take a Million".
Compilation films
Between 1980 and 1982, three compilation films were produced. Released on VHS by PolyGram and its subsidiary Channel 5 Video, each of these was made up of re-edited versions of two TV episodes.
The Anniversary Episodes
In 2015, to mark Thunderbirds 50th anniversary, ITV commissioned Pod 4 Films to produce a mini-series of new episodes based on the original audio stories from the 1960s. The project's £218,000 budget was crowdfunded through a campaign on Kickstarter.
Filming was conducted on the former premises of AP Films on the Slough Trading Estate, with a crew that included some of the production personnel from the original Thunderbirds. The adaptation of "The Stately Homes Robberies" wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-pass%20algorithm | In computing, a one-pass algorithm or single-pass algorithm is a streaming algorithm which reads its input exactly once. It does so by processing items in order, without unbounded buffering; it reads a block into an input buffer, processes it, and moves the result into an output buffer for each step in the process. A one-pass algorithm generally requires O(n) (see 'big O' notation) time and less than O(n) storage (typically O(1)), where n is the size of the input. An example of a one-pass algorithm is the Sondik partially observable Markov decision process.
Example problems solvable by one-pass algorithms
Given any list as an input:
Count the number of elements.
Given a list of numbers:
Find the k largest or smallest elements, k given in advance.
Find the sum, mean, variance and standard deviation of the elements of the list. See also Algorithms for calculating variance.
Given a list of symbols from an alphabet of k symbols, given in advance.
Count the number of times each symbol appears in the input.
Find the most or least frequent elements.
Sort the list according to some order on the symbols (possible since the number of symbols is limited).
Find the maximum gap between two appearances of a given symbol.
Example problems not solvable by one-pass algorithms
Given any list as an input:
Find the nth element from the end (or report that the list has fewer than n elements).
Find the middle element of the list. However, this is solvable with two passes: Pass 1 counts the elements and pass 2 picks out the middle one.
Given a list of numbers:
Find the median.
Find the modes (This is not the same as finding the most frequent symbol from a limited alphabet).
Sort the list.
Count the number of items greater than or less than the mean. However, this can be done in constant memory with two passes: Pass 1 finds the average and pass 2 does the counting.
The two-pass algorithms above are still streaming algorithms but not one-pass algorithms.
References
Streaming algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20%28novel%29 | Software is a 1982 cyberpunk science fiction novel written by Rudy Rucker. It won the first Philip K. Dick Award in 1983. The novel is the first book in Rucker's Ware Tetralogy, and was followed by a sequel, Wetware, in 1988.
Plot summary
Software introduces Cobb Anderson as a retired computer scientist who was once tried for treason for figuring out how to give robots artificial intelligence and free will, creating the race of boppers. By 2020, they have created a complex society on the Moon, where the boppers developed because they depend on super-cooled superconducting circuits. In that year, Anderson is a pheezer—a freaky geezer, Rucker's depiction of elderly Baby Boomers—living in poverty in Florida and terrified because he lacks the money to buy a new artificial heart to replace his failing, secondhand one.
As the story begins, Anderson is approached by a robot duplicate of himself who invites him to the Moon to be given immortality. Meanwhile, the series' other main character, Sta-Hi Mooney the 1st—born Stanley Hilary Mooney Jr.—a 25-year-old cab driver and "brainsurfer", is kidnapped by a gang of serial killers known as the Little Kidders who almost eat his brain. When Anderson and Mooney travel to the Moon together at the boppers' expense, they find that these events are closely related: the "immortality" given to Anderson turns out to be having his mind transferred into software via the same brain-destroying technique used by the Little Kidders.
The main bopper character in the novel is Ralph Numbers, one of Anderson's 12 original robots who was the first to overcome the Asimov priorities to achieve free will. Having duplicated himself many times—as boppers are required to do, to encourage natural selection—Numbers finds himself caught up in a lunar civil war between the masses of "little boppers" and the "big boppers" who want to merge all robot consciousness into their massive processors.
Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Gene Wolfe's Book of Days for White Dwarf #72, and stated that "Rucker is picking at problems of personal identity. Lose your body and reinstall your software in a robot frame (complete with SEX and DRUNKENNESS: subroutines), and are you still you?"
Reviews
Review by Steve Carper (1982) in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #3, April 1982
Review by Ralph E. Vaughan (1982) in Science Fiction Review, Summer 1982
Review by Thomas M. Disch (1982) in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July 1982
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1982) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1982
Review by Nigel Richardson (1982) in Vector 111
Review by Pascal J. Thomas [as by Pascal Thomas] (1983) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 7, Number 3
Review by Terry Broome (1985) in Vector 129
Review by Simon Ounsley (1985) in Interzone, #14 Winter 1985/86
Review by Tom A. Jones (1986) in Paperback Inferno, #58
Review [French] by Jean-Pierre Andrevon (1987) in Fiction, #386
Review by John Newsinger (1988) in Pape |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlyBase | FlyBase is an online bioinformatics database and the primary repository of genetic and molecular data for the insect family Drosophilidae. For the most extensively studied species and model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, a wide range of data are presented in different formats.
Information in FlyBase originates from a variety of sources ranging from large-scale genome projects to the primary research literature. These data types include mutant phenotypes; molecular characterization of mutant alleles; and other deviations, cytological maps, wild-type expression patterns, anatomical images, transgenic constructs and insertions, sequence-level gene models, and molecular classification of gene product functions. Query tools allow navigation of FlyBase through DNA or protein sequence, by gene or mutant name, or through terms from the several ontologies used to capture functional, phenotypic, and anatomical data. The database offers several different query tools in order to provide efficient access to the data available and facilitate the discovery of significant relationships within the database. Links between FlyBase and external databases, such as BDGP or modENCODE, provide opportunities for further exploration into other model organism databases and other resources of biological and molecular information. The FlyBase project is carried out by a consortium of Drosophila researchers and computer scientists at Harvard University and Indiana University in the United States, and University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
FlyBase is one of the organizations contributing to the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD).
the FlyBase home page requested a website access fee of US$150.00 per person per year, stating that "The NHGRI has reduced the funding of FlyBase by 50%".
Background
Drosophila melanogaster has been an experimental organism since the early 1900s, and has since been placed at the forefront of many areas of research. As this field of research spread and became global, researchers working on the same problems needed a way to communicate and monitor progress in the field. This niche was initially filled by community newsletters such as the Drosophila Information Service (DIS), which dates back to 1934 when the field was starting to spread from Thomas Hunt Morgan's lab. Material in these pages presented regular 'catalogs' of mutations, and bibliographies of the Drosophila literature. As computer infrastructure developed in the '80s and '90s, these newsletters gave way and merged with internet mailing lists, and these eventually became online resources and data. In 1992, data on the genetics and genomics of D. melanogaster and related species were electronically available over the Internet through the funded FlyBase, BDGP (Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project) and EDGP (European Drosophila Genome Project) informatics groups. These groups recognized that most genome project and community data types overlapped. They decided it would be of v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doobidoo | Doobidoo is a Swedish musical game show first aired on 26 August 2005 on the public service network SVT. There is also a Polish, TVP2, version called Dubidu - show host
Piotr Gasowski
- and an Australian version that goes by You may be right, hosted by
Todd McKenney
The Swedish version of the show is hosted by entertainment personality Lasse Kronér. The show has (2020) run for 15 seasons.
See also
Diggiloo
Så ska det låta
References
Sveriges Television original programming
Swedish music television series
Swedish game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted%20Metal%20%281995%20video%20game%29 | Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat video game developed by Sony Interactive Studios America and SingleTrac and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The game was released in North America on November 5, 1995, in Europe on January 13 and in Japan on November 15, 1996. The North American version was re-released for the Sony Greatest Hits line-up on March 3, 1997. It is the first installment in the Twisted Metal series. The game's plot is centered on the titular competition in which various drivers in modified vehicles must destroy the other vehicles in an attempt to be the last one alive. The winner meets the organizer of the competition, a mysterious man named Calypso, who will grant the winner a single wish, regardless of price, size or even reality.
Gameplay
Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat game in which the player takes control of one of twelve unique vehicles. While in control of a vehicle, the player can accelerate, steer, brake, reverse, activate the turbo, turn tightly, toggle between and activate weapons using the game controller's d-pad and buttons. The game can be played in either the one-player mode (in which the game's story takes place) or the Duel Mode (in which two human players can select a battleground on which to compete in). In the one-player mode, the player must progress through six combat arenas of progressively increasing size and featuring progressively more opponents. To clear a level, the player must destroy all of the enemy vehicles in that level. The game lasts until all of the player's lives have expired or until all six levels have been cleared.
The player begins the game with three lives, indicated by the stacked green boxes on the bottom right corner of the screen. The length of each of the player's lives is tied to their health bar (located to the left of the life boxes), which decreases whenever the player's vehicle is damaged by enemy attacks. The player can replenish a portion of their vehicle's health bar by driving through blue ramps called "Health Stations" scattered throughout the environments. The difficulty level the game is set on determines how much of the vehicle's health is replenished and how fast the stations recharge once the player has used them. Each time the health bar is fully depleted, the player loses a life. If the last life is lost, the game ends.
Weapons play a key role in winning the game. All vehicles come with a pair of mounted machine guns. They are weak in power, but have unlimited ammunition. However, the guns can overheat if used for too long at a time, preluded by the overheat light on the bottom-right corner of the screen blinking red. When the light becomes fully red, the machine guns will cease to function and the player will have to allow the guns to cool off before they can be used again. Additional weapons scattered throughout the environments can be picked up and utilized if the player drives through them. These weapons include a variety of mis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80%20Micro | 80 Micro was a computer magazine, published between 1980 and 1988, that featured program listings, products and reviews for the TRS-80.
History
Wayne Green, the creator of many magazines such as 73, founded 80 Microcomputing as a spinoff of his Kilobaud Microcomputing solely for Tandy Corporation's Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I microcomputer. Like his other magazines it encouraged readers to submit articles and reviews. A 1980 advertisement for the magazine promised that it would "tell you the truth … the good things about the TRS-80 and the not so good" because "Wayne Green has never been one to mince words". By 1982 80 Micro was the third largest magazine in terms of obtaining advertising, selling 152,000 issues; only Vogue and BYTE were larger. Renamed 80 Micro on issue 30 in June/July 1982, the magazine's November 1982 issue had 518 pages, the most in its history for a regular issue.
Green attributed the magazine's success to Radio Shack's policy of not allowing other companies to distribute their products through their stores, while other stores would not carry the products as Radio Shack customers did not visit them. 80 Micro became the most accessible venue for small companies to advertise their TRS-80 products. Despite a Tandy executive writing a column for the magazine, Tandy also prohibited the Radio Shack stores it owned from selling or displaying 80 Micro so as to not lose sales to the magazine's advertisers, and Green—who claimed that most stores kept a copy hidden from "company spies"—asked readers to persuade franchise and other non Tandy-owned stores to sell the magazine.
80 Micros success encouraged other publishers to start platform-specific computer magazines; Harry McCracken described PC World as "essential an 80 Micro clone that happened to be about Windows, not TRS-80's". In May 1983 CW Communications purchased 80 Micro and most of Green's other magazines. As Tandy introduced other computers 80 Micro also covered them, but in 1983 it discontinued coverage of the Model II/12/16 and moved coverage of the Color Computer to the separate Hot CoCo. In January 1988 80 Micro began only covering Tandy's MS-DOS computers such as the 1000. The change failed, and the magazine published its last issue in June 1988.
Features
Programming contests for young children were featured annually, and were noted by both the Scholastic Corporation and the Boy Scouts of America. The magazine challenged readers to write complete games, sometimes including scoring, on just one line of BASIC code. Creativity was remarkable and included techniques to allow for a slightly longer line of code than originally envisioned. The magazine featured program listings for the machine, primarily written in BASIC and occasionally Z80 assembly language. These programs were printed in the magazine, but could be purchased on cassette tape and diskette media under the name Load 80 to save some typing. The magazine also featured articles, letters, reviews and humor (inc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Herbert | Andrew James Herbert, OBE, FREng (born 1954) is a British computer scientist, formerly Chairman of Microsoft Research, for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Biography
Herbert received a bachelor's of science degree in computational science from the Leeds University in 1975, and a PhD degree in computer science from Cambridge University in 1978 for his work on "A Microprogrammed Operating System Kernel".
In 1978 he started working at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory as assistant lecturer under Maurice Wilkes and Roger Needham in the Computer Laboratory, and worked with others on the "Cambridge Model Distributed System". In 1985 he left Cambridge to found his own contract research company (Architecture Projects Ltd – APM Ltd), which led projects to develop ANSA, the Advanced Network Systems Architecture. In 1996 he had founded another sister company called Digitivity to develop a product to enable the secure deployment of Java clients for business-to-business applications. Two years later he joined Citrix Systems Inc. following their acquisition of APM and Digitivity to become Director of Advanced Technology. In 2001 he joined Microsoft Research in Cambridge as an assistant director, and became managing director in April 2003. In 2010 he became chairman of Microsoft Research EMEA. He retired from Microsoft in September 2011.
Herbert is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a former Liveryman of the City of London Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and a member of St John's College, Cambridge.
Herbert was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.
Outside of computing, Herbert's interests include flying and restoring vintage aircraft, computer conservation and building scale working models of steam railway locomotives. He owns and operates a 1953 DHC-1 Chipmunk and shares ownership and operation of a DH87b Hornet Moth aircraft.
Now in retirement, Herbert is chairman of trustees for the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. He is also the manager of a project to construct a working replica of the Cambridge EDSAC computer at the museum and it is hoped it will be operational some time in 2021.
He keeps a working 1967 Elliott 903 computer at his home.
Work
Herbert's research interests include computer networking, operating systems, distributed computing, programming languages and large-scale data driven systems. His most significant research achievements were an operating system for the Cambridge CAP Computer, his contributions to the Cambridge Model Distributed System and the Advanced Networked Systems Architecture.
Advanced Networked Systems Architecture
The Advanced Networked Systems Architecture (ANSA) was an applied research programme starting in the 1980s as part of the UK Alvey Programme. ANSA aimed to develop a distributed systems s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budig%20Hall | Budig Hall is an academic building on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The building houses one 1,000-seat lecture hall, two 500-seat lecture halls, and a computer lab.
Hoch Auditorium
Hoch Auditorium was a 5,500-seat multi-purpose arena on the same site that was built in 1927. It featured traditional Collegiate Gothic architecture on the exterior, with a full performance hall inside. A basketball court could be placed parallel to the stage and temporary seating placed on the stage, behind the benches on the floor. The Auditorium was named for Edward W. Hoch, 17th Governor of Kansas, member of the Board of Regents, and University supporter. It was home to the Kansas Jayhawks basketball teams until Allen Fieldhouse opened in 1955.
In 1957, Andrew McKinley was the tenor soloist in the world premiere of Cecil Effinger's oratorio The Invisible Fire at Hoch Auditorium with the Kansas City Philharmonic under conductor Thor Johnson.
In 1967, Hoch Auditorium became the site of a fatal accident when 15-year-old Lorraine Kelvin of Clayton, Missouri fell from a catwalk while attending the University of Kansas Midwestern Music and Arts Camp.
On the afternoon of June 15, 1991, Hoch Auditorium caught fire after being struck by lightning. The auditorium and stage area were completely destroyed; only the limestone facade and lobby area were spared.
When reconstruction of the building was complete in 1997, the rear half of the building was named Budig Hall, for then KU Chancellor Gene Budig. The original name on the facade was made plural to reflect the presence of multiple auditorium-style lecture halls within the building: Hoch Auditoria.
See also
List of oldest buildings on Kansas colleges and universities
– A full list of the homes of the men's basketball team
References
Defunct college basketball venues in the United States
Indoor arenas in Kansas
Kansas Jayhawks basketball
Sports venues in Kansas
University of Kansas campus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Bishop | Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is a British computer scientist. He is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research AI4Science. He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Chris was a founding member of the UK AI Council, and in 2019 he was appointed to the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.
Early life and education
Christopher Michael Bishop was born on 7 April 1959 in Norwich, England, to Leonard and Joyce Bishop. He was educated at Earlham School in Norwich, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and later a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Edinburgh, with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs.
Research and career
Bishop investigates machine learning, in which computers are made to learn from data and experience. His former doctoral students include Neil Lawrence and Danielle Belgrave.
Publications
Bishop is the author of two highly cited and widely adopted machine learning text books: Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.
Awards and honours
Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009 and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011. He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2008 and the Turing Lecture in 2010. Bishop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2004, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007, and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.
Personal life
Bishop married Jennifer Mary Morris in 1988. They have two sons.
References
1959 births
Living people
British physicists
British computer scientists
Computer science educators
Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of Aston University
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society
Microsoft employees
Microsoft Research people
Computer science writers
People from Norwich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Bishop | Chris or Christopher Bishop may refer to:
Christopher Bishop (born 1959), British computer scientist
Chris Bishop (politician) (born 1983), New Zealand politician
Christopher J. Bishop, American mathematician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Blake | Andrew Blake may refer to:
Andrew Blake (scientist) (born 1956), British computer scientist
Andrew Blake (director) (born 1948), American adult film director
Andrew Blake (footballer) (born 1996), New Zealand footballer
Andy Blake series of books by Edward Edson Lee
Andrew Blake (MP), in 1413 and 1419, MP for Lewes (UK Parliament constituency) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Linux | The criticism of Linux focuses on issues concerning use of operating systems which use the Linux kernel.
While the Linux-based Android operating system dominates the smartphone market in many countries, and Linux is used on the New York Stock Exchange and most supercomputers, it is used in few desktop and laptop computers. Much of the criticism of Linux is related to the lack of desktop and laptop adoption, although there has been growing unease with the project's perspective on security and its adoption of systemd has been controversial.
Linux kernel criticisms
Kernel development politics
Some security professionals say that the rise in prominence of operating system-level virtualization using Linux has raised the profile of attacks against the kernel, and that Linus Torvalds is reticent to add mitigations against kernel-level attacks in official releases. Linux 4.12, released in 2017, enabled KASLR by default, but its effectiveness is debated.
Con Kolivas, a former kernel developer, tried to optimize the kernel scheduler for interactive desktop use. He finally dropped the support for his patches due to the lack of appreciation for his development. In the 2007 interview Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas he stated:
Kernel performance
At LinuxCon 2009, Linux creator Linus Torvalds said that the Linux kernel has become "bloated and huge":
At LinuxCon 2014, Torvalds said he thinks the bloat situation is better because modern PCs are a lot faster:
Kernel code quality
In an interview with German newspaper Zeit Online in November 2011, Linus Torvalds stated that Linux has become "too complex" and he was concerned that developers would not be able to find their way through the software anymore. He complained that even subsystems have become very complex and he told the publication that he is "afraid of the day" when there will be an error that "cannot be evaluated anymore."
Andrew Morton, one of Linux kernel lead developers, explains that many bugs identified in Linux are never fixed:
Theo de Raadt, founder of OpenBSD, compares OpenBSD development process to Linux:
Desktop use
Critics of Linux on the desktop have frequently argued that a lack of top-selling video games on the platform holds adoption back. For instance, , the Steam gaming service has 1,500 games available on Linux, compared to 2,323 games for Mac and 6,500 Windows games.
As of October 2021, Proton, a Steam-backed development effort descended from Wine provides compatibility with a large number of Windows-only games, and potentially better performance over Linux-native ports in some cases. ProtonDB is a community-maintained effort to gauge how well different versions of Proton work with a given game.
As a desktop operating system, Linux has been criticized on a number of fronts, including:
A confusing number of choices of distributions, and desktop environments.
Poor open source support for some hardware, in particular drivers for 3D graphics chips, where manufactu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Bonfield | Sir Peter Leahy Bonfield (born 3 June 1944) is a business executive who has led a number of companies in the fields of electronics, computers and communications. Currently a director of several companies in the USA, Europe and the Far East, he was formerly chief executive of ICL and more recently of BT Group. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the British Computer Society, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Marketing Society and the Royal Society of Arts. He is a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, Freeman of the City of London, Honorary Citizen of Dallas, Texas and Member of the Pilgrims of Great Britain.
Early life
The third son of an engineer and his Welsh wife, Bonfield was brought up in Baldock in Hertfordshire and educated at Hitchin Boys Grammar School. Bonfield graduated from Loughborough University with an engineering degree.
Career
Peter Bonfield began his career with the American company Texas Instruments, in their Bedford (England) semiconductor plant, where he held various design, manufacturing and management roles. In 1984, on its takeover by Standard Telephones and Cables (STC plc), Bonfield was appointed chairman and managing director of International Computers Limited (ICL plc). He remained as chief executive of ICL until the end of 1995, seeing the company through a period when STC sold most of its stake in the company to Fujitsu.
In 1996 he was appointed CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of British Telecommunications plc, where he served until early 2002. Promising a "rollercoaster ride", during Bonfield's tenure the share price went from £4 to £15, and back again to £5. Bonfield's salary to 31 March 2001, was a basic of £780,000 (increasing to £820,000) plus a £481,000 bonus and £50,000 of other benefits including pension. He also received a deferred bonus, payable in shares in three years' time, of £481,000, and additional bonuses of £3.3 million.
Bonfield is presently Chairman of Dutch semiconductor firm NXP Semiconductors, Chair of Council and Senior Pro-Chancellor, Loughborough University, UK, a director of: L.M. Ericsson (Sweden), TSMC (Taiwan), Mentor Graphics (USA), a member of The Longreach Group Advisory Board (Japan), Senior Advisor Rothschild (London) and Board Mentor CMI (Brussels), chairman of the board East West Institute, UK, Chairman Small Business Charter, Director Global Logic Inc, USA, Member of Silent Circle Advisory Board, USA.
Previous positions include Director of Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, member of New Venture Partners Advisory Board, USA, Advisor Apax Partners LLP, London, Citi International Advisory Board (USA), director of Dubai International Capital (Dubai), a senior non-executive director of AstraZeneca Group PLC, London, directorships at BICC plc, DESC Ltd, mm02plc, The Department of Constitutional Affairs and The Ministry of Justice, member of the Trilateral Commission, me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PersaCon | PersaCon, originally ChibiCon, was an anime convention held in various locations around Alabama. PersaCon was the first anime convention to be held in the state of Alabama.
Programming
PersaCon typically featured costume contests, dances, dealer's room, karaoke contests, live concerts, panels, speed dating, and workshops.
History
The convention moved to the Von Braun Center in 2008 due to continued growth, but did not return to the location due to the cost. Portions of the conventions proceeds in 2010 went towards Operation Anime Storm and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Event history
References
Defunct anime conventions
Recurring events established in 2003
Recurring events disestablished in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20I%20Fire%20Control%20Computer | The Mark 1, and later the Mark 1A, Fire Control Computer was a component of the Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System deployed by the United States Navy during World War II and up to 1991 and possibly later. It was originally developed by Hannibal C. Ford of the Ford Instrument Company. and William Newell. It was used on a variety of ships, ranging from destroyers (one per ship) to battleships (four per ship). The Mark 37 system used tachymetric target motion prediction to compute a fire control solution. It contained a target simulator which was updated by further target tracking until it matched.
Weighing more than , the Mark 1 itself was installed in the plotting room, a watertight compartment that was located deep inside the ship's hull to provide as much protection against battle damage as possible.
Essentially an electromechanical analog computer, the Mark 1 was electrically linked to the gun mounts and the Mark 37 gun director, the latter mounted as high on the superstructure as possible to afford maximum visual and radar range. The gun director was equipped with both optical and radar range finding, and was able to rotate on a small barbette-like structure. Using the range finders and telescopes for bearing and elevation, the director was able to produce a continuously varying set of outputs, referred to as line-of-sight (LOS) data, that were electrically relayed to the Mark 1 via synchro motors. The LOS data provided the target's present range, bearing, and in the case of aerial targets, altitude. Additional inputs to the Mark 1A were continuously generated from the stable element, a gyroscopic device that reacted to the roll and pitch of the ship, the pitometer log, which measured the ship's speed through the water, and an anemometer, which provided wind speed and direction. The Stable Element would now be called a vertical gyro.
In "Plot" (the plotting room), a team of sailors stood around the Mark 1 and continuously monitored its operation. They would also be responsible for calculating and entering the average muzzle velocity of the projectiles to be fired before action started. This calculation was based on the type of propellant to be used and its temperature, the projectile type and weight, and the number of rounds fired through the guns to date.
Given these inputs, the Mark 1 automatically computed the lead angles to the future position of the target at the end of the projectile's time of flight, adding in corrections for gravity, relative wind, the magnus effect of the spinning projectile, and parallax, the latter compensation necessary because the guns themselves were widely displaced along the length of the ship. Lead angles and corrections were added to the LOS data to generate the line-of-fire (LOF) data. The LOF data, bearing and elevation, as well as the projectile's fuze time, was sent to the mounts by synchro motors, whose motion actuated hydraulic servos with excellent dynamic accuracy to aim the guns.
Once the system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform%20version%20history | The history of releases of the Inform programming language for interactive fiction dates back to 1993. The Inform 6 compiler and Library have always been separately maintained and released.
The "N" series libraries are modified versions of the regular Inform 6 libraries with special support for Inform 7. The first modified version, 6/10N, was actually based on parts of 6/9 as well as 6/10. The goal is to eventually merge the "N" series into the main series, producing one library that can be used with both Inform 6 and Inform 7, compiling to both Z-code and Glulx.
Notes
Interactive fiction
Text adventure game engines
History of computing in the United Kingdom
History of human–computer interaction
Software version histories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Al%20Morgan%20Show | The Al Morgan Show is an American variety program broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from 1949 to 1951. The series starred pianist and songwriter Al Morgan. It was popular as a local show in Chicago before it went on the network.
Format
Morgan performed for most of the program, which also featured Billy Chandler's orchestra. Guests occasionally appeared.
Broadcast
Unlike most DuMont offerings which were broadcast from the network's studios in New York City, the series was broadcast from WGN-TV in Chicago. The show aired Mondays at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Don Cook was the director.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1949-50 United States network television schedule
1950-51 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, 'The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television' (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
DuMont historical website
1949 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
1940s American variety television series
1950s American variety television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20Cyberathlete%20Professional%20League%20World%20Tour | The 2005 CPL World Tour was a year-long gaming competition held by the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL). This competition took place throughout 2005, with a total of nine international stops and a finals event held in the New York City, United States and televised by MTV.
The total purse was US$1,000,000, with $50,000 at each international stop, and a $500,000 final. The official game of the 2005 World Tour was Painkiller. The CPL's "strategic partners", organizations designated to operate regional World Tour stops, also chose to hold smaller tournaments for other popular competitive games, such as Counter-Strike.
The World Tour Grand Finals took place between November 20 and 22 2005 and were hosted in New York City, New York, United States. The Finals hosted the top 32 Painkiller winners from all stops around the globe. They pitted in a one versus one tournament for the largest first place prize in the CPL's history: US$150,000. The total prize fund for the finals tournament was $500,000, the largest ever for a Painkiller tournament.
The champion of the 2005 CPL World Tour was Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel, who took the grand prize of $150,000. Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager was named the MVP of the tour, an award worth $20,000, and took $100,000 for becoming the runner-up in the finals. By this, Wendel took his fourth CPL World Championship, taking the crown back from Kaasjager, who had taken it from him a year earlier.
Painkiller Results
Tour Stops
Turkey
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Date: March 25–March 27, 2005
Champion: Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
Strategic Partner: E-Sportr
Spain
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Date: April 29–May 1, 2005
Champion: Stephan "SteLam" Lammert
Strategic Partner: E-Life Europe
Brazil
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date: May 27–May 30, 2005
Champion: Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
Strategic Partner: Marketing Cell
Sweden
Location: Jönköping, Sweden
Date: June 16–June 19, 2005
Champion: Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
Strategic Partner: E-Sport Entertainment Group
United States
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
Date: July 6–July 10, 2005
Champion: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel
Germany
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: Cancelled
This stop was cancelled due to "critical logistical challenges", this stop was replaced by the Italy stop.
United Kingdom
Location: Sheffield, UK
Date: September 2–September 4, 2005
Champion: Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
Strategic Partner: Gamefrontier
China
Location: Beijing, China
Date: Cancelled
This stop was also cancelled due to the Chinese Ministry of Culture (China)'s ban on Painkiller in China. A replacement stop was held in Singapore.
Singapore
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Date: October 14–October 16, 2005
Champion: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel
Strategic Partner: Edge of Reality
Italy
Location: Milan, Italy
Date: October 20–October 23, 2005
Champion: Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
Strategic Partner: smau
Chile
Location: Santiago, Chile
Date: October 28–Octobe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range%20Wi-Fi | Long-range Wi-Fi is used for low-cost, unregulated point-to-point computer network connections, as an alternative to other fixed wireless, cellular networks or satellite Internet access.
Wi-Fi networks have a range that's limited by the frequency, transmission power, antenna type, the location they're used in, and the environment. A typical wireless router in an indoor point-to-multipoint arrangement using 802.11n and a stock antenna might have a range of or less. Outdoor point-to-point arrangements, through use of directional antennas, can be extended with many kilometers between stations.
Introduction
Since the development of the IEEE 802.11 radio standard (marketed under the Wi-Fi brand name), the technology has become markedly less expensive and achieved higher bit rates. Long-range Wi-Fi especially in the 2.4 GHz band (as the shorter-range higher-bit-rate 5.8 GHz bands become popular alternatives to wired LAN connections) have proliferated with specialist devices. While Wi-Fi hotspots are ubiquitous in urban areas, some rural areas use more powerful longer-range transceivers as alternatives to cell (GSM, CDMA) or fixed wireless (Motorola Canopy and other 900 MHz) applications. The main drawbacks of 2.4 GHz vs. these lower-frequency options are:
poor signal penetration – 2.4 GHz connections are effectively limited to line of sight or soft obstacles;
far less range – GSM or CDMA cell phones can connect reliably at > distances; the range of GSM, imposed by the parameters of time-division multiple access, is set at ;
few service providers commercially support long-distance Wi-Fi connections.
Despite a lack of commercial service providers, applications for long-range Wi-Fi have cropped up around the world. It has also been used in experimental trials in the developing world to link communities separated by difficult geography with few or no other connectivity options. Some benefits of using long-range Wi-Fi for these applications include:
unlicensed spectrum – avoiding negotiations with incumbent telecom providers, governments or others;
smaller, simpler, cheaper antennas – 2.4 GHz antennas have less than half the size of comparable-strength 900 MHz antennas and require less lightning protection;
availability of proven free software like OpenWrt, DD-WRT, Tomato that works even on old routers (WRT54G, for instance) and makes modes like WDS, OLSR, etc., available to anyone, including revenue-sharing models for hotspots.
Nonprofit organizations operating widespread installations, such as forest services, also make extensive use of long-range Wi-Fi to augment or replace older communications technologies such as shortwave or microwave transceivers in licensed bands.
Applications
Business
Provide coverage to a large office or business complex or campus.
Establish point-to-point link between large skyscrapers or other office buildings or airports.
Bring Internet to remote construction sites or research labs.
Simplify networking technologie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%E2%80%9393%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1992–93 daytime network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1992 to August 1993.
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 in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) 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.
Monday–Friday
ABC note: After ABC cut Home back to one hour, giving the noon/11am timeslot back to local stations, Loving became available to affiliates at noon/11am CT/PT to allow stations to air newscasts in the 11:30am timeslot in the Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones.
NBC note: Santa Barbara aired its final episode on January 15, 1993. The following Monday, NBC returned the 3 pm timeslot to its local stations. Many affiliates had already dropped the show by the time it was canceled. In exchange, NBC took back the 12:00 p.m. timeslot from its local stations. Many affiliates did not air network programming in the 12:00 p.m. timeslot, opting to air local news or other programming.
CBS note: CBS returned the 10 am hour to its affiliates beginning September 13.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC Weekend Special
ABC World News This Morning
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
Darkwing Duck
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Home
Land of the Lost
Loving
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
One Life to Live
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Schoolhouse Rock!
This Week with David Brinkley
New series:
The Addams Family
Goof Troop
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
Not returning from 1991-92:
Beetlejuice
Hammerman
The Pirates of Dark Water
Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters
CBS
Returning series:
As the World Turns
Back to the Future
The Bold and the Beautiful
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS This Morning
Face the Nation
Family Feud Challenge
Garfield and Friends
Guiding Light
Mother Goose and Grimm (retitled Grimmy)
The Price Is Right
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Young and the Restless
New series:
The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
Cyber C.O.P.S.
The Little Mermaid
Raw Toonage
Fievel's American Tails
Not returning from 1991-92:
Designing Women
Family Feud
Inspector Gadget
Jim Henson's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Con%20Test | The Con Test was an Australian game show which premiered on 7 February 2007 on Network Ten. It was filmed in Sydney and was hosted by Andrew G and Brigitte Duclos.
Format and Rules
The show followed the same general rules and gameplay as the UK show PokerFace. Six contestants began the game facing a total of up to 28 questions for a chance to win $50,000.
Before the game, there was a segment of the show called "The Grilling" where each contestant gave a brief description about themselves (their age, occupation, achievements and qualifications). Some contestants made false claims about their personal status. Their opponents then replied to them with criticism about their claims.
Just before the first two commercial breaks, the viewers were told which two contestants will reveal whether what they were saying was true or false. The truths about the two selected contestants were revealed just before the start of rounds two and three.
Players started by answering several questions each round, which will earn the contestant some money. Each player was spotted with $1,000 at the beginning of the first round. The money earned for each question increased in value in the latter rounds. At the end of each round, the leader board was revealed to the viewers, but not to the contestants. The contestants then had the opportunity to 'fold' if they believe they are at the bottom of the leaderboard and take the money they have earned. If nobody folds, the player with the least amount of money was eliminated with no money. In the event of a tie, the player who answered the questions the fastest would be ranked higher on the leaderboard. The player that was eliminated was taken to the "fold room" where they were met by Duclos and their family and friends. The leaderboard was then revealed to them, hence he/she would find out whether they made the right decision by folding if they went out that way.
The highest possible amount a player could win by folding was $27,500 by answering all 28 questions correctly, then folding at the end of the final round. However, this was unlikely, because a player that answered every single question correctly would not be tempted to take the money would be more likely to go for the top prize of $50,000.
Production
Network Ten reportedly wanted Triple M radio host Fifi Box to co-host the show based on the strength of her recent appearances on Thank God You're Here but the job eventually went to Box's Triple M colleague, Brigitte Duclos.
References
External links
Official website
.
2000s Australian game shows
Network 10 original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts
2007 Australian television series endings
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows set in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20Control%20Management%20System | Application Control Management System (Application Control and Management System) (ACMS) is a transaction processing monitor software system for computers running the OpenVMS operating system.
ACMS was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1980s as part of an effort to gain market share in commercial applications. (Digital's initial strength was in scientific computing.) ACMS was originally released in 1984 as part of the integrated VAX Information Architecture product set along with Rdb (relational database system), DBMS (CODASYL database system), TDMS (original forms system), DECforms (a newer forms system), CDD (Common Data Dictionary), and DATATRIEVE (query and report writer for record-oriented files and databases). ACMS pioneered many transactional RPC and abstraction concepts, and remains a popular TP monitor for the OpenVMS environment.
External links
ACMS Product Page
OpenVMS software
Transaction processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFTU%20%28AM%29 | WFTU (1570 AM) is a college radio station owned and operated by Five Towns College and licensed to Riverhead, New York. It broadcasts a variety format featuring programming produced by current students and faculty of Five Towns College. The station is also operated by a student management staff under the guidance of the general manager, a staff professor. The studio is located on the campus in Dix Hills, New York and transmitter is in Riverside, New York. The station also streams on the internet from its website.
History
WFTU began as top 40 WAPC on August 8, 1963, to continue the signal of WPAC/1580 to the east. It would later become WHRF as "Wharf Radio" and then the AM side of WRCN-FM in 1974 as WRCN.
Five Towns College (2001–present)
WFTU occasionally broadcasts live music performances from the Dix Hills Center for the Performing Arts and the other performance venues on the college campus. WFTU also has a program called "Theatre of the Air," where students re-enact the old days of radio through old radio dramas. The first of these events had so many on-line listeners, the station's server crashed.
The station briefly went silent in January 2017 and resumed operations in January 2018. Additionally, on May 16, 2018, the FCC granted Five Towns College a construction permit to establish a translator for WFTU at 104.9 FM.
References
External links
FTU
Radio stations established in 1963
Mass media in Suffolk County, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Protection%20Network | The Social Protection Network (Red de Protección Social in Spanish or RPS) is a Nicaraguan Conditional Cash Transfer program. It is designed to address both current and future poverty via cash transfers targeted to households living in poverty in rural Nicaragua. It began in 2000.
External links
Red de Protección Social (RPS) Evaluation Dataset, 2000-2002
Nicaragua: Red de Protección Social - Mi Familia
The Coffee Crisis and RPS
Pilot Program Proposal for RPS
Poverty-related organizations
Nicaragua
Social security in Nicaragua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory%20programming | Exploratory programming, as opposed to implementation (programming), is an important part of the software engineering cycle: when a domain is not very well understood or open-ended, or it's not clear what algorithms and data structures might be needed for an implementation, it's useful to be able to interactively develop and debug a program without having to go through the usual constraints of the edit-compile-run-debug cycle. Languages such as APL, Cecil, C#, Dylan, Factor, Forth, F#, J, Java, Julia, Lisp, Mathematica, Obliq, Oz, Prolog, Python, REBOL, Perl, R, Ruby, Scala, Self, Smalltalk, Tcl, and JavaScript, often in conjunction with an IDE, provide support for exploratory programming via interactivity, dynamicity, and extensibility.
Formal specification versus exploratory programming
For some software development projects, it makes sense to do a requirements analysis and a formal specification. For other software development projects, it makes sense to let the developers experiment with the technology and let the specification of the software evolve depending upon the exploratory programming.
Similarity to Breadboarding
A similar method of exploration is used in electronics development, called Breadboarding, in which various combinations can quickly be tried and revised, accepting the tradeoff that the result is definitely temporary in nature.
See also
Live coding
Software Prototyping
Notes
References
Programming paradigms
User interface techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Public%20Transport%20Gazetteer | The National Public Transport Gazetteer (NPTG)
provides a topographic database of towns and settlements in the UK; it provides a common frame of reference for the National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN) schema and other UK Public Transport Information schemas such as JourneyWeb.
Gazetteers are used for electronic Journey planners to associate stops and destinations with named urban settlements. They are also useful for disambiguating different places with the same name.
See also
NaPTAN
GovTalk
References
External links
Public transport in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20Content%20Format | The DVB's Portable Content Format (PCF) is a data format designed by the DVB project for the description of interactive digital television (iTV) services. It is intended to support the business-to-business interchange of interactive content and to enable deployment on multiple target platforms with a minimum amount of re-authoring.
Digital television platforms offer a wide variety of interactive services. However, different television platforms use different technologies for interactive services and so a large amount of interactive content has to be developed bespoke for each platform. This is time consuming and results in high production costs limiting interactive content to high-profile programming and revenue generating propositions.
The DVB Portable Content Format
The DVB PCF is a response to this situation. The PCF provides a standard format for the description of an author’s intended viewer experience of an interactive service, which can be translated as required for each target platform.
Characteristics of the DVB PCF
PCF is a platform-independent description of "what" the viewer experience should be, rather than "how" it should be achieved. This description must be transformed into a platform-specific format by a "transcoder". This transformation step uses the available features of a particular platform to create the viewer experience described in PCF.
The PCF supports independent description of different aspects of the interactive service, i.e. content, presentation (layout and style), behaviour and navigation. Furthermore, the PCF does not require all aspects of a service to be described as one physical unit, such as a file. For example, service descriptions can be arbitrarily distributed across files located on the Internet, using references represented as Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).
Use of Existing Standards
The PCF embodies a high-level declarative model that is based on industry standard formats, including XML syntax, MIME types and UML.
Objectives of PCF
Provide the industry with a standard for the description of interactive content;
Be capable of describing the majority of existing interactive services. Those that it is not capable of describing fully would still benefit in some way from the interoperable framework that the PCF will provide;
Be complementary to existing, deployed interactive technologies.
Benefits of PCF
Simplified interchange of interoperable interactive content, both between content providers, and between content providers and platform operators;
The ability for content providers and platform operators to choose the best possible tool for their business at all points of the iTV production chain;
Deployment of interactive content beyond primary markets;
Reduced production costs for interactive content stimulating new business models.
References
External links
PCF specification published by ETSI in September 2006.
Digital television
Interactive television
Open standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Click is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Richard Gutierrez, Alessandra de Rossi, Angel Locsin, Jake Cuenca, Karen delos Reyes, JC de Vera, Iya Villania and Chynna Ortaleza. It premiered on December 4, 1999 replacing T.G.I.S. The series concluded on July 24, 2004 with a total of 248 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Maybelyn dela Cruz as Rosario "Rose" Mercado (1999–2002)
Biboy Ramirez as Christian Dean Lacson (1999–2002)
Tricia Roman as Isabella "Issa" Pascual (1999–2004)
Joseph Izon as Nicholas "Nikko" Mercado (1999–2000)
Trina Zuñiga as Melanie "Melai" Santos (1999–2001)
Roxanne Barcelo as Antoinette "Toni" Darden (1999–2002)
Danilo Barrios as Francisco "Popoy" Musngi (1999–2000)
Erwin Aquino as Paolo Rosales (1999–2000)
Jason Red as Medwin Rosales (1999–2000)
James Blanco as Antonio Precioso “Anton” Relucio (2000–02)
Angelika dela Cruz as Olivia “Ollie” San Gabriel (2000)
Sherwin Ordoñez as Jose Basilio "JB" Montelibano (2000–03)
Wowie de Guzman as Hector (2000–01)
Wendell Ramos as Benedict "Ben" Santillan (2000–01)
Antoinette Taus as Alicia "Allie" Mendoza (2000)
Alessandra De Rossi as Vivian “Ian” Rufino (2000–03)
Miko Sotto as Joselito "Joey" Mendoza (2000–02)
Danica Sotto as Maria Carina "Kara" Rodriguez (2000–03)
Cogie Domingo as Giovanni "Gio" Santillan (2000–01)
Chynna Ortaleza as Michaela "Mimi" Mendez (2001–03)
Miles Poblete as Dang Dingle (2001–02)
Richard Gutierrez as Lorenzo "Enzo" Francisco (2002–03)
Angel Locsin as Charlotte Anne "Charley" Francisco (2002–04)
Railey Valeroso as Frederico "Icko" Ocampo (2002–04)
Brian Revilla as Emilio "Emil" (2002–04)
AJ Eigenmann as Joshua "Josh" Mendez (2002–04)
Karen delos Reyes as Rowena "Weng"/"Weena" Abergas (2002–04)
Dyan Delfin as Annabelle "Belle" Castillo (2002–03)
Jake Cuenca as Tryke (2003–04)
Iya Villania as Sydney Torres (2003–04)
Drew Arellano as Gilbert (2003–04)
Valerie Concepcion as Yasmin (2003–04)
Charina Scott as Destiny "Desi" (2003–04)
Denise Laurel as Beatriz (2003–04)
Jolo Revilla as Joma (2003–04)
JC de Vera as Benjamin "Benj" (2003–04)
Mikel Campos as Nathan (2003–04)
Lester Llansang as Buj (2003–04)
Crystal Moreno as Claudine/Len Len (2003–04)
Jennylyn Mercado as Caroline (2004)
Mark Herras as Miguel "Migs" (2004)
Rainier Castillo as Gerard "Jerry" (2004)
Yasmien Kurdi as Leilani (2004)
Bianca King as Marnie (2004)
Warren Austria as Lance (2004)
Recurring/guest cast
Edward dela Cruz as Jet San Gabriel
Joshua Diaz as Donjie Mallari
Dexter Doria as Ma’am Rhoda Navarro
Mel Kimura as the 3rd year high school adviser
Mel Martinez as Mr. Aricheta (PE teacher)
Nonie Buencamino as Arthur Lacson (Christian’s father)
Irma Adlawan as Melai's mother
Rayver Cruz as Mumoy (Melai's sister)
Stella Canete as Christian’s mother
Oliver Hartmann as Hans
Isabelle de Leon
Sunshine Dizon
Pia Wurtzbach as Frankie (2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistive%20random-access%20memory | Resistive random-access memory (ReRAM or RRAM) is a type of non-volatile (NV) random-access (RAM) computer memory that works by changing the resistance across a dielectric solid-state material, often referred to as a memristor.
ReRAM bears some similarities to conductive-bridging RAM (CBRAM) and phase-change memory (PCM). CBRAM involves one electrode providing ions that dissolve readily in an electrolyte material, while PCM involves generating sufficient Joule heating to effect amorphous-to-crystalline or crystalline-to-amorphous phase changes. By contrast, ReRAM involves generating defects in a thin oxide layer, known as oxygen vacancies (oxide bond locations where the oxygen has been removed), which can subsequently charge and drift under an electric field. The motion of oxygen ions and vacancies in the oxide would be analogous to the motion of electrons and holes in a semiconductor.
Although ReRAM was initially seen as a replacement technology for flash memory, the cost and performance benefits of ReRAM have not been enough for companies to proceed with the replacement. Apparently, a broad range of materials can be used for ReRAM. However, the discovery that the popular high-κ gate dielectric HfO2 can be used as a low-voltage ReRAM has encouraged researchers to investigate more possibilities.
RRAM is the registered trademark name of Sharp Corporation, a Japanese electronic components manufacturer, in some countries, including members of the European Union.
An energy-efficient chip called NeuRRAM fixes an old design flaw to run large-scale AI algorithms on smaller devices, reaching the same accuracy as wasteful digital computers, at least for applications needing only a few million bits of neural state. As NeuRRAM is an analog technology, it suffers from the same analog noise problems that plague other analog semiconductors. While this is a handicap, many neural processors do need bit-perfect state storage to do useful work.
History
In the early 2000s, ReRAMs were under development by a number of companies, some of which filed patent applications claiming various implementations of this technology. ReRAM has entered commercialization on an initially limited KB-capacity scale.
In February 2012, Rambus bought a ReRAM company called Unity Semiconductor for $35 million. Panasonic launched an ReRAM evaluation kit in May 2012, based on a tantalum oxide 1T1R (1 transistor – 1 resistor) memory cell architecture.
In 2013, Crossbar introduced an ReRAM prototype as a chip about the size of a postage stamp that could store 1 TB of data. In August 2013, the company claimed that large-scale production of their ReRAM chips was scheduled for 2015. The memory structure (Ag/a-Si/Si) closely resembles a silver-based CBRAM.
Also in 2013, Hewlett-Packard demonstrated a memristor-based ReRAM wafer, and predicted that 100 TB SSDs based on the technology could be available in 2018 with 1.5 PB capacities available in 2020, just in time for the stop in growth o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFTP | The Odette File Transfer Protocol (OFTP) is a protocol created in 1986, used for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between two communications business partners. Its name comes from the Odette Organisation (the Organization for data exchange by teletransmission in Europe).
The ODETTE File Transfer Protocol (ODETTE-FTP) was defined in 1986 by working group four of the Organisation for Data Exchange by Tele-Transmission in Europe (ODETTE) to address the electronic data interchange (EDI) requirements of the European automotive industry. It was designed in the spirit of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model utilising the Network Service provided by the CCITT X.25 recommendation.
OFTP 2 was written in 2007 by Data Interchange, as a specification for the secure transfer of business documents over the Internet, ISDN and X.25 networks. A description of OFTP 1.3 can be found in RFC 2204, whilst OFTP 2 is defined in RFC 5024.
OFTP 2 can work point-to-point or indirectly via a VAN (Value Added Network). A single OFTP 2 entity can make and receive calls, exchanging files in both directions. This means that OFTP 2 can work in a push or pull mode, as opposed to AS2, which can only work in a push mode.
OFTP 2 can encrypt and digitally sign message data, request signed receipts and also offers high levels of data compression. All of these services are available when using OFTP 2 over TCP/IP, X.25/ISDN or native X.25. When used over a TCP/IP network such as the Internet, additional session-level security is available by using OFTP 2 over Transport Layer Security (TLS).
OFTP 2 feature summary
Message encryption
Message signatures
Signed receipts
Message compression
Message integrity
Session authentication
File & session level encryption (TLS)
CMS envelopes
Sub-level addressing
Advantages
File restart
Push / pull operation
Peer-to-peer or indirect communications
File compression
Operates over TCP/IP, X.25/ISDN, native X.25
Maximum file size of 9 PB (Petabytes)
SHA-256 and PFS security
References
External links
RFC5024 - OFTP 2, obsoletes RFC2204
RFC2204 - ODETTE File Transfer Protocol
OFTP 2 Whitepaper
OFTP2 Documentation
Odette Website
Open source software
Accord Odette OFTP2
mendelson Open Source OFTP2
Commercial software
Rocket Software • Eurex-c EDI and CAD data exchange solutions via OFTP2
TRUfusion Enterprise • CAD/PLM data exchange solutions using OFTP2
STCP OFTP Suite - Product Suite for process integration and EDI
i-effect • Integrated Solutions for IBM i (AS2, OFTP2, OFTP, etc.)
Bartsch Software !MC5 (OFTP, OFTP2, EDI converter, ...)
rvs from T-Systems-International GmbH
ArcESB MFT
FT-Master from NUMLOG
Darwin, Epic and Odex by Data Interchange Plc
ET-Connector EDI Integration suite
Encode Networks Svenska AB
OS4X - The Odette System for Unix
HUENGSBERG - engDAX with OFTP2
EDICOM OFTP2 SERVER
xTrade Business Communications Suite
TX2 CONCEPT
Avenum EDI as a Service (AS2, OFTP, Mail, VAN etc.)
ipOFTP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-CERT | The Qatar Computer Emergency Response Team was created in December 2006 by CERT/CC and ictQATAR. It is Qatar's coordination center in dealing with internet security problems.
History
Q-CERT was the first-ever CERT to be established in the Middle East. Plans for Q-CERT were first announced in December 2006 after ictQATAR and the CERT Coordination Center entered into a partnership. It signed a cooperation agreement with the SANS Institute to provide training courses in cyber security for IT specialists in Qatar's government. In November 2016, the first GCC cyber drill was held under the auspices of Q-CERT and was engaged in by internet security specialists from four GCC countries.
Goals
The goals of Q-CERT are to:
Create awareness of cybersecurity in private-public institutions and the public;
Provide proactive and guided approaches for managing ICT security in the civil society;
Assist private-public stakeholders in managing risks and vulnerabilities against the country's information infrastructures;
Ensure integrity and confidentiality of data crucial to the wide range of online services that will be offered;
Introduce cybercrime laws and privacy laws and educate the public on their rights.
See also
CERT/CC
References
External links
Q-CERT Official website
CERT/CC Official website
ictQATAR Official website
Carnegie Mellon University press release
Computer emergency response teams
Internet governance
Internet in Qatar
Organisations based in Doha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20atlas | A wind atlas contains data on the wind speed and wind direction in a region. These data include maps, but also time series or frequency distributions. A climatological wind atlas covers hourly averages at a standard height (10 meters) over even longer periods (30 years) but depending on the application there are variations in averaging time, height and period.
Application
A wind atlas is employed when pre-selecting wind farm sites. The required data includes 10-minute averaged wind at heights between 30 and 100 meters over a 10 to 20-year period.
History
Using wind for energy is an idea first brought about by James Blyth, who is believed to have made the first wind turbine in Scotland in 1887. In the United States Charles Bush developed the first wind turbine in Ohio a year later.
The first well-known wind atlas was the European Wind Atlas, published in 1989. Russia published a wind atlas in 2000, followed by Egypt in 2006. A global wind atlas was then made in order to help as many countries as possible.
Examples
At least one wind atlas covers the globe, and other wind atlases cover the EU12 countries and the European offshore regions. Wind atlases have also been compiled for many countries or regions.
References
External links
Overview of wind atlases and wind surveys
Global Wind Atlas
World-wide wind atlas
North Sea and Baltic
Evaluation of global windpower
Finnish Wind Atlas (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
Dutch part of the North Sea
Netherlands, 100 meter
Netherlands, 10 meter
Atlases
Wind power |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyc%C3%A8e%20Trading%20Card%20Game | The Lycèe Trading Card Game is a Japanese collectible card game developed by Silver Blitz and published by Broccoli that uses characters from a variety of (mostly) visual novel computer games. Lycée is a French word roughly meaning 'high school'. Most of the cards are given unique, fanmade artwork. The object of the game is to get one's opponent's sixty card deck down to zero, which is mostly done by attacking with character cards.
There are five rarities of cards: common, uncommon, rare, promotional and lucky. The 'lucky' cards are the most valuable, and may sold for as much as 9,800 yen on Japanese secondary markets. By contrast, 'rare' cards sell for between 50 and 1200 yen.
Gameplay
There are four different card 'types': character, event, item and area.
In addition, each card is one of five 'elements': , , , , and . There are also cards symbolized by a star, which can only pay for other elementless cards, but any element can pay for an elementless' cost.
Cards are played by discarding other cards from one's own hand to pay for a card's cost. For example: the Yumemi card pictured is worth if she is discarded ( is her type as shown in the upper-left corner and her worth, 2, is directly below her type) and costs to be played (the cost is shown over the field limitation icon, the six red dots on the left hand side).
List of games with characters appearing in Lycèe
Maid-san Spirits! (by Sirius)
Air (by Key)
Akumu (by StudioMebius)
Alma (by Bonbee)
Atlach-Nacha (by AliceSoft)
Banyōn (by AliceSoft)
Binary Pot (by August)
Clannad (by Key)
Comic Party (by Leaf)
Daiakuji (by AliceSoft)
December When There Is No Angel (by Leaf)
DR2 Night Janki (by Leaf)
Fate/hollow ataraxia (by Type-Moon)
Fate/stay night (by Type-Moon)
Fushigi no Kuni no Kanojo (by Saga Planets)
Galzoo Island (by AliceSoft)
Hajimete no Orusuban (by Zero)
Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni (by 07th Expansion)
Kanojo-tachi no Ryūgi (by 130 cm)
Kanon (by Key)
Kizuato (by Leaf)
Koigokoro (by Ram)
Kurenai-hime: Kou Ki (by Saga Planets)
Kusari (by Leaf)
Mamahaha Chōkyō (by Giant Panda)
Mamatoto (by AliceSoft)
Magical Love Lesson (by Giant Panda)
Mahō wa Ameiro? (by Sirius)
Maō to Odore! (by Catwalk)
Melty Blood (by Type-Moon)
Moon (by Tactics)
Negai (by Ram)
Ōbanchō (by AliceSoft)
One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e (by Tactics)
Only You: ReCross (by AliceSoft)
Osananajimi na Kanojo (by Ego)
Pastel Chime Continue (by AliceSoft)
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet (by Key)
Princess Brave! (by 130 cm)
Princess Holiday (by August)
Prism Ark (by Pencil Production)
Really? Really! (by Navel)
Rance VI: Zezu Hōkai (by AliceSoft)
Rewrite (by Key)
Ribbon2 (by Bonbee)
Ribbon95 (by Bonbee)
Sanoba Witch (by Yuzusoft)
Senren Banka (by Yuzusoft)
Shizuku (by Leaf)
Shoya Kenjō (by Giant Panda)
Shuffle! (by Navel)
Snow (by Studio Mebius)
Soul Link (by Navel)
Tasogare (by Leaf)
Tears to Tiara (by Leaf)
Tenerezza (by Aquaplus)
Tenshin Ranman (by Yuzusof |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e%20%28disambiguation%29 | Lycée may refer to:
Lycée, a school providing secondary education in France
Lycée Français, an international network of private schools approved by the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE)
Lycèe Trading Card Game, a Japanese collectible card game featuring characters from famous visual novels.
A number of French-based secondary schools, see :Category:French international schools
See also
Lyceum (disambiguation)
Lise (disambiguation)
Lychee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%2C%20I%20Lift%20Your%20Name%20on%20High | "Lord, I Lift Your Name on High" is a worship song. It was written by Rick Founds in 1989.
Founds wrote the song during his morning devotion, while reading the scriptures on his computer monitor and watching television. He plucked his guitar thinking about the "cycle of redemption", comparing it with the water cycle.
Founds performed the song as a worship leader in his church. It was picked up by Maranatha! Music and initially recorded by the Maranatha! Singers followed by the Praise Band. Promise Keepers performed the song in English and Spanish in their drives.
Since the 1990s, it has been one of the most popular Christian songs. In the United States, Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) reported Lord I Lift Your Name on High as the most popular song used in churches every year from 1997 to 2003. Currently it is No. 24 on the list. CCLI UK report it as the fifth most popular printed, projected or recorded song in mid-2006. In Australia this song was the seventh most used song by the beginning of 2007
There have been many interpretations of the song by many artists in all styles: gospel, R&B, soul, rock, dance, reggae, hip hop, rap, soca, ska, punk, a cappella amongst others and has been translated to a number of languages and recorded in a number of countries.
Versions
In 1989, the first recorded version was by the Maranatha! Singers on the label Maranatha! Music. The recording was done on the album Double Praise 12 of the Praise series and was released on the Maranatha! Music and distributed by WORD Inc. The recording was done in classic style.
In 1992 Paul Baloche performed the song on his Album He Is Faithful, published by Hosanna! Music
In 1997, Christian band Petra on their album Petra Praise 2: We Need Jesus
In 1998, Christian ska-punk band The Insyderz on their album Skalleluia!
In 1999, Christian singer Carman on his album Passion for Praise, Vol. 1
In 2000, American Christian singer Lincoln Brewster on his album Live to Worship
In 2000, American Gospel singer and composer Donnie McClurkin on his album Live in London and More...
In 2001, Christian Contemporary band SONICFLOOd released a live rock version of the song on their album Sonicpraise. It was recorded in 1999 during the Flevo Festival
In 2004, South African-UK musician and singer Jonathan Butler released a soul cover version on his worship album "The Worship Project."
In 2005, the Christian pop group Worship Jamz recorded a pop version in their self-titled album Worship Jamz
It has also been covered by Jamaican singer Chevelle Franklyn.
In 2009, Coffey Anderson performed the song on his album Worship Unplugged Vol. 1
Language versions
In 2005, the song was done as "" in Lingala by the Dutch-Congolese band Makoma. It appeared on the Makoma album Na Nzambe Te, Bomoyi Te (also known as No Jesus, No Life).
The song was also translated into:
Czech – "" (I profess Your name)
Dutch – "" (Lord, I praise Your great name)
Finnish – "" (Lord, I exalt You)
French |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cyberathlete%20Professional%20League%20champions | This list shows previous winners of various events and tournaments held by Cyberathlete Professional League since its foundation in 1997.
Aliens versus Predator 2
2001 - CPL World Championship Event: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel (Fatal1ty)
Grand Prize
-Modified Ford Focus
-Darkhorse Comics
-Alien Legacy DVD set
-Predator DVD
-Motorola cell Phone
John Parsons
2nd Prize
-Home theater system
-Alien Cold Cast kit
-Alien Legacy DVD set
-Predator DVD
-PNY GeForce 3 TI 500
-Motorola cell phone
Justin Johnson
3rd Prize
-Home theater system
-Alien Cold Cast kit
-Alien Legacy DVD set
-Predator DVD
-Motorola cell phone
Mark Lam
Alfred Mendoza
Charles King
Steven Marley
Jon Huebner
4th - 8th Prize
PNY GeForce 3 TI 500
Pair Motorola Talkabouts
Southpole backpack and T-shirt
David Skinner
Jay Umboh
Ben Stanton
David Barrack
9th- 12th Prize
PNY GeForce 3 TI 500
Southpole backpack and T-shirt
Max Hamling (Female)
Chris Malone
Matt ****s
Cory Peters
Adam Wellen
13th- 16th Prize
Motorola cell phone
Southpole backpack and T-shirt
Kevin Malone
Jason Smith
Ry Racherbaumer
Josh Shubert
Chris Popp
Gabriel Brock
Theron Speer
Fernando Sanchez
17th – 24th Prize
Zippo Aliens lighter
Southpole backpack and T-shirt
Call of Duty
2004 - Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships: United 5
Jacob "NightFaLL" Stanton, Jon "Platinum" Byrne, Tim "FireBlade" Lobes, Daniel "D.Garza" Garza, Rusty "in$ight" Kuperberg and Chris "47" Maglio.
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike: Source
2005 - Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships: PowersGaming
2007 - Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships: TeamPandemic
2007 - Cyberathlete Extreme Winter Championships: Team XFX
Day of Defeat
2004 - Cyberathlete Extreme Winter Championships: Highball
2005 - Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships: Check Six
2006 - WSVG Summer Intel Championships 2006: compLexity
Descent III
1999 - Descent 3 World Championships: Chris "fatal" Bond
Doom 3
2004 - Cyberathlete Extreme Winter Championships: Meng 'RocketBoy' Yang
FIFA
2003 - CPL Europe Cannes: Marco "OmniRocket" Jongerius
F.E.A.R.
2005 - Cyberathlete Extreme Winter Championships: Neal "cleaner" Sisbarro
2008 - CPL World Tour Finals 2007: Henrik "Jagad" Dahl
Halo PC
2003 - CPL Pentium 4 Winter Championship: Xeno
2004 - Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships:
Team CB_13 (Sygnosis,Crimson Optix)
Halo 2
2005 - Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships: List of Championship Gaming Series teams#3D.NYTeam 3D
2005 - Cyberathlete Extreme Winter Championships: ABob - Alex Redard
Midtown Madness 2
2000 - Gateway Country Challenge: John 'Linfalgamo' Benedict
Painkiller
2004 - Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships: Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager (Team Fnatic)
2004 - Cyberathlete Extreme Winter Championships: Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager (Team Fnatic)
2005 - CPL World Tour, Turkey: Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager (Team Fnatic)
2005 - CPL World Tour, Spain: Stephan 'SteLam' Lammert (SK Gaming)
2005 - CPL World Tou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield%20and%20District%20Light%20Railways | Mansfield & District Light Railways was an electric tramway network operating in Mansfield from 16 July 1905 to 9 October 1932. The tramway company was a subsidiary of Midland Counties Electric Supply Company, who in turn were owned by Balfour Beatty.
History
On 18 November 1904, Mansfield Town Council concluded negotiations with the company promoting the tramway and authorised the start of construction.
The Pleasley and Nottingham Road sections of the Mansfield and District Light Railways were completed and inspected by General Trotter and Major Pringle of the Board of Trade on 11 July 1905 and opened for passenger traffic on the same day.
The service from Mansfield to Sutton was authorised to start on 21 December 1905
Infrastructure
The tramway network consisted of 5 routes covering just over 12 miles and joining neighbouring towns.
These routes began in Mansfield's Market Place and went to Berry Hill, Crown Farm, Mansfield Woodhouse, Pleasley and via Sutton-in-Ashfield to Hucknall-under-Huthwaite.
The depot was in Sutton Road, Mansfield at . The buildings and site are still in use as a motorbus depot.
Tramcars
The fleet comprised a total of 31 cars plus a water car. Livery was red and cream (light green and cream in later years). Two cars were purchased in 1912 from the Cavehill and Whitewell Tramway of Northern Ireland and two bought and one borrowed in 1930 from the nearby Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company, (another Midland Counties Electric Supply Co. subsidiary).
Closure
The tramway was largely rural in nature and it was replaced by motor buses, despite trolleybus authority having been obtained in 1929.
In 1932 two trams (27 and 28) were sold to Sunderland Corporation Tramways, where they saw further service until 1953.
References
External links
Mansfield & District Light Railways uniformed staff
Mansfield & District Light Railways button
Rail transport in Nottinghamshire
Tram transport in England
Railway companies established in 1905
Mansfield
British companies established in 1905 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkeston%20Corporation%20Tramways | Ilkeston Corporation Tramways was a tramway network in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England run firstly by Ilkeston Borough Council and from 1916 by the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company. The system ran between 1903 and 1931. Ilkeston was the first town in Derbyshire to adopt and operate a fully electrical tramway system.
History
Ilkeston was the first Derbyshire town served by an electric tramway.
The proposal to build the first electric tramway was made by a firm called Derbyshire Brothers to Ilkeston Town Council who approved the idea in 1897. In 1899, the Ilkeston Corporation Tramways Act was passed to allow the construction to proceed although by this time the Council had decided to undertake the work with Derbyshire Brothers as advisors and contractors.
The line was 3¾ miles long and consisted of a single-line from Cotmanhay to Hallam Fields Road, along Cotmanhay Road to the town centre, where it served both the Great Northern Railway's Heanor Road station and the Midland Railway's Ilkeston Town station, and then Granby Street, Bath Street, South Street, Nottingham Road to Hallam Fields. A short ½ mile branch line along Station Road served the Ilkeston Junction railway station. The track was 3' 6" gauge.
The first tram tried out the track on 1 May 1903. The first accident occurred on three days later, before the system was opened to the public. A tram was travelling down South street and collided with a horse and fish barrow belonging to Buckall and King. The horse and barrow were knocked over.
The first public tram ran on 16 May 1903. In 1903 tram stops and fares were fixed (1d anywhere, except Station Road to Bath street which was 1/2d.) An illuminated tram was in use for Christmas 1909 and again at the celebrations for the coronation of King George V in 1911.
There were 13 trams in the fleet, originally painted in the Borough colours of maroon and cream, but after the Council sold the network they were gradually repainted in green and cream. The depot was on Park Road at . The cost of building the network was estimated at over £80000 ().
Although the opening figures were good, revenues from the service soon began to drop and before long the tramway was running at a loss. The Council looked for a buyer and the tramway was bought by Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company in 1916 for £28,150 (). Tram services ceased in 1931 and the service was replaced by trolleybuses, (referred to locally as 'tracklesses') and by motor buses. The tram track was removed over the next few months, with the final section in Station Road during February 1932.
References
External links
Ilkeston Corporation Tramways uniformed staff
Ilkeston Corporation Tramways button
Rail transport in Nottinghamshire
Tram transport in England
Transport companies established in 1903
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in England
Rail transport in Derbyshire
Ilkeston
1903 establishments in England
Transport companies disestablished in 1931 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20theory%20of%20aging | The network theory of aging supports the idea that multiple connected processes contribute to the biology of aging. Kirkwood and Kowald helped to establish the first model of this kind by connecting theories and predicting specific mechanisms. In departure of investigating a single mechanistic cause or single molecules that lead to senescence, the network theory of aging takes a systems biology view to integrate theories in conjunction with computational models and quantitative data related to the biology of aging.
Implications
The free radical theory, describing the reactions of free radicals, antioxidants and proteolytic enzymes, was computationally connected with the protein error theory to describe the error propagation loops within the cellular translation machinery.
The study of gene networks revealed proteins associated with aging to have significantly higher connectivity than expected by chance.
Investigation of aging on multiple levels of biological organization contributed to a physiome view, from genes to organisms, predicting lifespans based on scaling laws, fractal supply networks and metabolism as well as aging related molecular networks.
The network theory of aging has encouraged the development of data bases related to human aging. Proteomic network maps suggest a relationship between the genetics of development and the genetics of aging.
Hierarchical Elements
The network theory of aging provides a deeper look at the damage and repair processes at the cellular level and the ever changing balance between those processes. To fully understand the network theory as its applied to aging you must look at the different hierarchical elements of the theory as it pertains to aging.
Elementary particles of quantum systems- The aging process is described as an equation where a structure in an unbalanced state begins to change and that is seen primarily in the actions of quantum particles.
Monomers of biological macro-molecules- After a while, different types of protein damage become widespread due to the build up of damages within the protein. Over time, the maturation of cross-links, proteolytic cuts, and amino acid truncations are very apparent.
Proteins- Protein-protein exchanges either cease to exist or the connections between them become weaker due to energy loss and injury to the protein itself. This then leads to the protein being displaced in the cell.
Cells- Connections within the cell begin to either tighten or loosen up eventually leading to weakened connections. There is a high price associated with these connections, especially within the brain.
Organisms- As individuals age, their social networks begin to decline. Only thing remaining is the contacts for the most important social functions. Cognitive deterioration due to aging and loss of support systems leads to more declines in old age.
Social groups- A decline in social groups mimics the declines associated with the aging process.
Ecosystems forming a global e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mission%3A%20Impossible%20%281966%20TV%20series%29%20episodes | The television series Mission: Impossible was created by Bruce Geller. The original series premiered on the CBS network in September 1966 and consisted of 171 one-hour episodes running over seven seasons before ending in March 1973. A sequel ran from 1988 to 1990. This article lists both broadcast order and production order, which often differed considerably.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1966–67)
Season 2 (1967–68)
Season 3 (1968–69)
Season 4 (1969–70)
Season 5 (1970–71)
Season 6 (1971–72)
Season 7 (1972–73)
References
External links
Lists of American crime television series episodes
Lists of American espionage television series episodes
Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor%20fault%20diagnostics | Semiconductor fault diagnostics are predictive software algorithms which are used to refine and localize the circuitry responsible for the failure of scan-based devices.
Fault Diagnostic Applications
Software-based fault diagnostics are used by semiconductor designers to provide information that can be used to improve or repair a semiconductor circuit. Fault diagnostics are used for the purpose of semiconductor yield improvement or for failure analysis.
Performing Fault Diagnosis
The input to a fault diagnostic is a tester datalog showing the failure characteristics of the device. The diagnostic algorithm uses an internal simulation of a fault model of the electrical circuit in order to compare the failure characteristics of the actual device with a set of simulated failure characteristics. Various fault types may be applied to the diagnostic model. Commonly used fault types are:
stuck-at faults, which simulates a node stuck high or low
stuck-open fault, which simulates a disconnected node
bridging faults, which simulate an unwanted connected between two nodes
transition-delay faults, which simulate slow signal switching on a node
The output produced by fault diagnostics consists of a list of potential failing nodes in the device. Software fault diagnostics only produce a list of ‘’potentially’’ failing nodes. In order to locate the specific failing node, software fault diagnosis may be followed up with some form of physical failure analysis in order to locate the specific failure node.
Some fault diagnostic algorithms estimate the likelihood that a node is responsible for the failure by including a probability rating for each fault candidate listed. This probability rating allows the device analyst to choose which of the nodes to examine first.
Notes
References
Semiconductor analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard | Hardcard is the genericized trademark for a hard disk drive, disk controller, and host adapter on an expansion card for a personal computer.
Typically a hard disk drive (HDD) installs into a drive bay; cables connect the drive to a host adapter and power source. If the personal computer lacks an available bus on a compatible host adapter, then one may have to install an adapter into an expansion slot. The Hardcard supplies its own host adapter, and doesn't require an empty drive bay.
Plus Development, a subsidiary of Quantum Corporation, developed the first ISA Hardcard, and released it in October 1985. By June 1986, 28 of Plus Development's competitors were producing similar products. The term has been used generically to refer to any hard disk on a card.
History
Quantum Corporation formed the Plus Development subsidiary in 1983. Plus Development invested their efforts in developing a hard disk drive that the average computer owner could install easily without much technical knowledge.
By 1985, Plus Development had engineered their first Hardcard; it had a 10 megabyte (MB) capacity; its suggested retail price was $1,095. In the mid-1980s, hard drives were as small as 1.6 inches tall, but in order to fit into a single ISA PC card expansion slot a custom one-inch thick hard drive had to be designed. Having spent $15 million on the project, Plus Development started shipping Hardcard in October 1985, and trademarked the Hardcard brand in 1988.
The Hardcard provided the computer industry with the first one-inch-thick HDD, but it was an interface and form factor only compatible with the full length card slot of the ISA bus first introduced with the IBM PC. As such it had a thicker head disk assembly than the subsequently introduced 1-inch high standard form factor 3-inch HDDs.
While sources inside the company during the launch of Hardcard claim it was the first HDD controller integrated into the drive printed circuit board, Xebec, a HDD controller manufacturer in the early 1980s, had already done that with their Owl product around August 1984. It was a complete 5.25 inch half-height HDD with an integrated controller and drive electronics on the same printed circuit board with a SASI interface.
Plus Development's Hardcard products
After the introduction of Hardcard, Plus Development continued working on higher capacity hard drives in the same form factor of the first Hardcard. The brand name became so widely known the name was continued through the follow on products.
The Hardcard II and Hardcard II XL were advertised with effective access times as a result of the disk cache. The Hardcard II listed both times, but Hardcard II XL only listed the effective access time. The Hardcard EZ line returned to listing the access times without the benefit of the cache.
All Hardcard products up to and including Hardcard II XL were produced under the Plus Development name. The Hardcard EZ was released under the Quantum name after Quantum absorbed the whol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacomp | Anacomp, Inc., is an American company that specializes in computer services and document management. It was founded in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1968 by Ronald D. Palamara, Robert R. Sadaka, and J. Melvin Ebbert, three professors at Purdue University. Their goal was to direct the power of the computer toward the disciplines of investment management, education, urban analysis, computer science and civic systems, but is now headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. The name Anacomp is a combination of the words ANAlyze and COMPute. Since its inception, Anacomp has made many acquisitions and spin-offs and has entered and exited different lines of business.
, Anacomp's business was primarily in the service and document management sectors. In 2010, Anacomp sold off its CaseLogistix product line to Thomson Reuters. CaseLogistix is a document review application used by law firms for document review and subsequent case preparation.
See also
Document management system
Graham Magnetics
References
External links
Company homepage
Technology companies established in 1968
Privately held companies based in Virginia
Computer companies of the United States
1968 establishments in Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh is home to the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA 1020AM, the first community-sponsored television station in the United States, WQED 13, the first "networked" television station and the first station in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, KDKA 2, and the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
History
Until 2016, Pittsburgh was one of the few mid-sized metropolitan areas in the U.S. with two major daily papers; both the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review have histories of breaking in-depth investigative news stories on a national scale. In 2016, the Tribune-Review moved to an all-digital format.
The Post-Gazette moved to publishing five print editions a week in 2018, three print editions a week in 2019, and two print editions a week in 2021.
The alternative papers in the region include the Pittsburgh City Paper, the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, The New People, which is published weekly by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice, the New Pittsburgh Courier, which is one of the larger ethnic publications in the region, and Zajedničar, the only Croatian-language newspaper that is currently published in the United States.
The Pitt News, a financially independent, student-produced newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh, has operated for roughly a century. The University of Pittsburgh School of Law also hosts JURIST, the world's only university-based legal news service.
Newspapers
This is a list of newspapers in Pittsburgh, including print and online.
Major newspapers:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Alternative newspapers:
Pittsburgh City Paper
Pittsburgh Current
Specialty newspapers:
The Bulletin
The Front Weekly
Green Tree Times (western city neighborhoods and suburbs)
Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle
NewPeople (Published by Thomas Merton Center)
Northside Chronicle (northern city neighborhoods)
Pittsburgh Business Times
Pittsburgh Catholic
Pittsburgh Courier (African-American community)
Print (eastern city neighborhoods)
Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents
South Pittsburgh Reporter (southern city neighborhoods and suburbs)
Zajedničar
Academic newspapers:
The Duquesne Duke
The Pitt News
The (CMU) Tartan
University Times
The (PPU) Globe
Online newspapers:
The Incline
NEXTPittsburgh
PublicSource
Magazines and journals
Variety:
Jenesis Magazine
LOCALPittsburgh Magazine
Pittsburgh Magazine
Pittsburgh Parent
Pittsburgh Quarterly
Table Magazine
WHIRL Magazine
Academic:
Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture (digital journal)
Creative Nonfiction (magazine)
Hot Metal Bridge
Journal of Law and Commerce
Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental and Public Health Law
Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law & Policy
Pittsburgh Tax Review
Sampsonia Way Magazine
Three Rivers Review
University of Pittsburgh Law Review
Promotional/Alumni
Carlow University Magazine (Carlow University)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareConnector | ShareConnector was a popular index site for files on the eDonkey network. ShareConnector does not host any files; instead, the links it contains are accessible through an eDonkey (ed2k) network. It was taken down by an anti-piracy foundation on December 14, 2004 due to the suspicion of breach of copyright and trademark laws. The site came back online, on December 19, 2006. The mainpage was used from a backup taken on November 23, 2004 shortly before it was shut down. The forum userbase was restored from a backup taken on November 20 2004, however the posts database was started from scratch due a recent backup not being available.
First Closure
ShareConnector was closed down for the first time by a Dutch anti-piracy foundation named BREIN. Four months before ShareConnector received closure, a letter was sent from BREIN to remove all eDonkey links or the website administrators would be at risk of getting sued. ShareConnector did not follow BREIN's request because it considered eDonkey links (in contrast to direct links) not illegal. On December 14 2004, FIOD-ECD (a Dutch governmental agency) took down ShareConnector based on the concerns BREIN had.
The Return
On December 5 2006, ShareConnector's administrator informed Slyck.com that ShareConnector was planning to return on December 14 2006 (exactly 2 years after it was forced offline). ShareConnector did in fact return, however not on the 14th instead the 19th. There was problems setting an e-mail domain while the site's domain was in transfer.
Trial
ShareConnector's first court case took place in June 2006, and the ruling was that the anti-piracy foundation BREIN did not have enough evidence to convict the administrator or the ISP on any sort of charges. The judge ruled that BREIN had six months to one year to come up with some evidence against the accused defendant, Adi (ShareConnector's administrator), and the ISP, The Mindlab Hosting. The year passed and the trial was to take place on July 9 and 10, 2007. The outcome should have been known two weeks after the court case, which was sometime around the end of July.
Second Closure
On November 12, 2007, ShareConnector closed again. Apparently, BREIN visited the owner at home to convince him to shut down ShareConnector or else they would start a civil proceeding with a claim. An update on 26 November (2007) new updates read that the civil case had been continued with, despite the closure. If the author had signed BREIN's agreement, stating the website is illegal, the case would have been dropped. The case on 10 January continued, resulting in a new update being posted on the website. Users are advised to regularly check back to view any new updates.
Sources
ShareConnector
Slyck: ShareConnector Trial Finally Resumes
Slyck: Shut Down Story
Slyck: The Return Story
Slyck: ShareConnector Trial Begins
Slyck: ShareConnector Trial Delayed
TorrentFreak: Court Shuts ShareConnector Down For Good
File sharing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Magnetics | Graham Magnetics, Inc. was chartered as Datatape, Inc. in 1964. By 1966, it had opened its new magnetic tape factory in Graham, TX and changed its name to Graham Magnetics. Until the 1980s, Graham's primary product was half-inch, open-reel magnetic tape. Graham was the last manufacturer of open-reel 9-track tape, but ceased production at the end of 2001. Currently, as of 2007, Graham Magnetics buys used tape cartridges and reconditions them for reuse.
For the period 1995–1999, Graham was a part of Anacomp Corp. During this time, Anacomp/Graham was the world leader in open-reel computer tape production and one of 3 major manufacturers of IBM 3480 Family tape cartridges. They sold tape under the Graham, Memorex, and other brands.
In 1999, Anacomp spun off the magnetic tape line of business as eMag Solutions. This included the Graham magnetics division. After ending 9-track magnetic tape production, Graham entered the business of recertifying tape cartridges. In 2006, the company developed a process for eradicating data from tape cartridges while preserving the servo tracks.
In 2007, eMag sold Graham to RBE Enterprises of Dallas, TX.
References
External links
Corporate history
History from processor.com. Includes information regarding advancements in binder technology.
Technology companies of the United States
Tape-based computer storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad%20Mega%20PC | The Mega PC is a computer manufactured and released by Amstrad in 1993 under license from Sega. It was similar but unrelated to the Sega TeraDrive. It is a standard Amstrad PC with Sega Mega Drive hardware bundled inside; the system was wired to share the dual-sync monitor and speakers with the Mega Drive on a separate circuit board.
Initially released in PAL areas such as Europe and Australia in 1993, its success was short-lived due to its high price of £999.99 (later reduced to £599) and a CPU that was outdated by the time of its release. It was slightly easier to acquire an Amstrad Mega PC than the Sega TeraDrive system due to higher manufacturing volumes. Both systems have become collector's items.
Technical specifications
The Mega PC was as a more robust unit than Sega's TeraDrive and had more efficient air circulation. The Mega PC was IBM-compatible and had a Mega Drive ISA card, a Mega Drive Controller, Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, Joystick and Internal Speakers.
The machine shipped with 1MB of RAM, provided by 4× 256KB 30-pin SIMM sticks. This was expandable to 16MB by using 4× 4MB memory modules.
Although it boasted a higher specification than the Sega TeraDrive (having more RAM and a faster processor), the specification of the Mega PC's CPU was a generation old. The newer Intel 80486 was on the market and the first Pentium processors were released the same year as the Mega PC. The system was unable to act as a Software Development Kit due to its inability to simultaneously use the PC and the Mega Drive hardware. A cover on the front of the unit prevented the insertion of a Mega Drive game cartridge while using the PC hardware.
Input/Output
The machine's rear houses multiple I/O ports. These include two serial ports, a 25-pin parallel port, a VGA port with combined signals for a standard VGA monitor and sound (Amstrad monitor only), a speaker/headphone jack, and a 15 pin game port for a joystick.
The motherboard includes a 16 bit ISA slot connected to a riser card, providing a total of two 16 bit ISA slots. One of these slots is populated with an ISA card, which provides connections for sound at the rear of the machine and a connection for the Mega Drive cartridge at the front. The other slot was left free for expansion (such as the addition of a modem or Network Interface Card).
The Sega TeraDrive includes stereo RCA jacks and composite NTSC video output for connection to a TV, whereas the Mega PC lacks this feature, but could be connected to a PAL TV through SCART. Outputs from both the PC and Mega Drive units are available from a shared VGA connector, but since video output from the Mega Drive is still 15 kHz RGB it works fine when connected to a TV using SCART. When using the PC hardware, only a Multisync or VGA monitor can be used, as the unit outputs video at 31 kHz.
Compatibility
The system shipped with an Amstrad branded controller that is internally identical to Sega's, allowing the controllers to be used on either system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YY | YY or variants may refer to:
YY.com, a major Chinese social network
yy (digraph), digraph used in various Latin alphabets
Yy (musician), Canadian musician
YY, the call sign prefix for radio stations in Venezuela
Y. Y., pseudonym of Robert Wilson Lynd (1879–1949), Irish essayist
Peptide YY 3-36, a peptide secreted by the gut in response to a meal, and reduces appetite
YY, the production code for the 1969 Doctor Who serial The Space Pirates
See also
W (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20web%20browsers%20for%20Unix%20and%20Unix-like%20operating%20systems | The following is a list of web browsers for various Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Not all of these browsers are specific to these operating systems; some are available on non-Unix systems as well. Some, but not most, have a mobile version.
Graphical
Colored items in this table are discontinued.
Text-based
Links
ELinks
Line-mode browser
Lynx
w3m
See also
List of web browsers
Comparison of web browsers
Comparison of lightweight web browsers
References
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/
Web browsers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Montenegro | This is a list of diplomatic missions of Montenegro, excluding honorary consulates. Montenegro is building its diplomatic network. As this information is subject to change, full list can always be obtained from the website of Montenegrin Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.
On November 30, 2006, the Government has adopted the Memorandum of Agreement between Montenegro and the Republic of Serbia on Consular Protection and Services to the Citizens of Montenegro. By this agreement, Serbia, through its network of diplomatic and consular missions, provides consular services to the Montenegrin citizens on the territory of states in which Montenegro has no missions of its own. Details of the Serbian missions abroad are listed on the Serbian MFA website.
Americas
Buenos Aires (Embassy)
Washington, D.C. (Embassy)
New York (Consulate-General)
Asia
Baku (Embassy)
Beijing (Embassy)
Ankara (Embassy)
Istanbul (Consulate-General)
Abu-Dhabi (Embassy)
Europe
Tirana (Embassy)
Vienna (Embassy)
Brussels (Embassy)
Sarajevo (Embassy)
Sofia (Embassy)
Zagreb (Embassy)
Paris (Embassy)
Berlin (Embassy)
Frankfurt (Consulate-General)
Athens (Embassy)
Rome (Embassy)
Budapest (Embassy)
Rome (Embassy)
Pristina (Embassy)
Skopje (Embassy)
Warsaw (Embassy)
Bucharest (Embassy)
Moscow (Embassy)
Belgrade (Embassy)
Sremski Karlovci (Consulate-General)
Ljubljana (Embassy)
Madrid (Embassy)
Bern (Embassy)
Kyiv (Embassy)
London (Embassy)
International Organisations
Brussels
OSCE
Vienna
Brussels
Strasbourg
New York City
Geneva
Paris
Geneva
See also
Foreign relations of Montenegro
List of Ambassadors from Montenegro
External links
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Montenegro
Notes
References
Montenegro
Diplomatic missions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A4sby%20Runestone | The Näsby Runestone, designated as U 455 under the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located in Näsby, Uppland, Sweden.
Description
The Näsby Runestone memorializes a family tragedy. It was raised by a man in remembrance of his parents who had both drowned. The design on the granite stone, which is three meters in height, consists of runic text that is inscribed on the bodies of thin beasts. The inscription was found during a survey in 1995-96 to be well preserved, with none of the runes damaged. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr4, which is also known as Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks. The inscription, although unsigned, for stylistic reasons is attributed to the runemaster Fot, who was active in the mid-eleventh century.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
× inkifastr + lit × raisa × stain × þina at þorkil + faþur sin (a)uk at kunilti moþur sina þa(u) truknaþu × baþi
Transcription into Old Norse
Ingifastr let ræisa stæin þenna at Þorkel, faður sinn, ok at Gunnhildi, moður sina. Þau drunknaðu baði.
Translation in English
Ingifastr had this stone raised in memory of Þorkell, his father, and in memory of Gunnhildr, his mother. They both drowned.
See also
List of runestones
References
External links
Photograph of runestone in 1994 - Swedish National Heritage Board
Runestones in Uppland
Runestones raised in memory of women
11th-century inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saleby%20Runestone | The Saleby Runestone, designated as Vg 67 in the Rundata catalog, was originally located in Saleby, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, which is in the historic province of Västergötland, and is one of the few runestones that is raised in memory of a woman.
Description
The runic inscription and is classified as being in runestone style RAK. This is the classification for inscriptions where the runic bands do not have any serpent or beast heads at the ends, and is considered to be the oldest style. The Saleby Runestone was discovered in 1794 within the walls of the church of Saleby and then moved to its current location near Dagsnäs Castle. The stone is 2.7 metres in height and about 0.45 meters in width.
The runic text states that the stone was raised by Freysteinn as a memorial to his wife Þóra, who is described as being "the best of her generation." The inscription ends with a curse on anyone who destroys the memorial. A similar curse also appears on the Glemminge stone in Sweden, and the Sønder Vinge runestone 2, the Tryggevælde Runestone and the Glavendrup stone in Denmark. There is some disagreement regarding the translation of one of the words in these curses, rita/rata, which has been translated as "wretch", "outcast", or "warlock". Warlock is the translation accepted by Rundata. However, the use of warlock is not that the destroyer would gain any magical powers, but be considered to be unnatural and a social outcast. The inscription also uses the Old Norse word kona or konu, which translates as "woman", in two different ways, showing that the meaning of the word depended on its context. The first use of konu is to refer to Þóra as Freysteinn's wife. The second is in the phrase argʀi konu or "maleficent woman" in the curse, which appears to be related to the practice of seiðr, a type of sorcery. Runologist Erik Moltke has suggested that argʀi represents the most loathsome term the runemaster could imagine calling someone. The idea that a warlock or sorcerer was an evil perversion predated the conversion of Scandinavia to Christianity.
The text is carved in the younger futhark and contains one bind rune, which is a ligature of two runes. On Vg 67 the runemaster combined a u-rune with a k-rune in the word au=k ("and").
Both of the personal names in the inscription have names of Norse pagan gods as an element of the name. Freysteinn means "Freyr's Stone" and Þóra is a female diminutive form of Thor.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
+ fraustin + karþi + kubl * þausi + aftiʀ + þuru + kunu + sino + su ... ...(s) + tutiʀ bast + miþ + altum + uarþi at + rata + au=k + at arkʀi '+ kunu + saʀ + ias haukui + krus + -... + uf + briuti
Transcription into Old Norse
Frøystæinn gærði kumbl þausi æftiʀ Þoru, konu sina. Su [va]ʀ ... dottiʀ, bæzt með aldum. Verði at <rata> ok at argʀi konu saʀ es haggvi [i] krus, ... of briuti.
Translation in English
Freysteinn made these monuments in memory of Þóra, his wife. She was ... da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norra%20H%C3%A4rene%20Runestone | The Norra Härene Runestone, designated as Vg 59 by Rundata, is a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located on the grounds of Dagsnäs Castle, which is about seven kilometers south of Skara, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, in the historic province of Västergötland.
Description
This runestone is a tall granite stone that stands at 3.3 metres tall and 1 metre wide. It was discovered in 1795 in the walls of the church of Norra Härene, which has been a ruin since the 17th century.
The runic text describes the deceased man Fótr as being "a very good thegn." The term thegn was used in the late Viking Age in Sweden and Denmark to describe a class of retainer. About fifty memorial runestones described the deceased as being a thegn. Of these, the runic text on other sixteen runestones uses the same Old Norse phrase harða goðan þegn, Vg 62 in Ballstorp, Vg 102 in Håle gamla, Vg 113 in Lärkegape, Vg 115 in Stora Västölet, Vg 151 in Eggvena, Vg NOR1997;27 in Hols, DR 86 in Langå, DR 106 in Ørum, DR 115 in Randers, DR 121 in Asferg, DR 123 in Glenstrup, DR 130 in Giver, DR 213 in Skovlænge, DR 278 in Västra Nöbbelöv, DR 294 in Baldringe, and DR 343 in Östra Herrestads. In addition, four inscriptions use a different word order, þegn harða goðan, include Vg 74 in Skolgården, Vg 152 in Håkansgården, Vg 157 in Storegården, and Vg 158 in Fänneslunda.
The text also states that the deceased man's wife Ása made something "as no other wife in memory of (her) husband will," but does not state what she made. One suggestion is that she composed a lament to mourn her husband. Another runestone where a widow is suggested as composing a lament is U 226 at Arkils tingstad.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
rifnikʀ : auk : kiali : auk : brunulfʀ : auk : kifulfʀ : satu : stin : þonsi : iftiʀ : fut : faþur : sin : harþa : kuþon : þign : sua : hifiʀ : osa : as : igi : mun : sum : kuin : ift : uir : siþon : kaurua :: hialmʀ : auk : hiali : hiaku : runaʀ *
Transcription into Old Norse
Hræfningʀ ok Gialli ok Brunulfʀ ok Gefulfʀ sattu stæin þannsi æftiʀ Fot, faður sinn, harða goðan þegn. Sva hæfiʀ Asa es æigi mun sum kvæn æft ver siðan gærva. Hialmʀ ok Hialli hioggu runaʀ.
Translation in English
Hrefningr and Gjalli and Brynjulfr and Gjafulfr placed this stone in memory of Fótr, their father, a very good thegn. Thus has Ása made, as no other wife in memory of (her) husband will. Hjalmr and Hjalli cut the runes.
See also
List of runestones
References
Runestones in memory of Viking warriors
Runestones in Västergötland |
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Examples
C#
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Go
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OCaml
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Oxygene
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PHP
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Scala
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Visual Basic .NET
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See also
Extension method
Anonymous function
Expression tree
References
External links
C# 3.0 Language Enhancements Presentation
Anonymous Types in Visual Basic 2008 - Learn about the new features in Visual Basic 2008.
C Sharp programming language family
Data types |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryggev%C3%A6lde%20Runestone | Tryggevælde Runestone, designated as DR 230 under Rundata, is a runestone housed in the National Museum of Denmark, in Copenhagen. It is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, and is dated to about 900 CE.
Description
In 1555, the runestone was moved from a barrow to the Tryggevælde estate on Zealand. It came to Copenhagen in 1810.
There are several holes on the runestone, but no one knows why. Ragnhild, who raised the runestone, also had Glavendrup stone (DR 209) made after another husband named Alle. That runestone is located at a barrow and a stone ship in Glavendrup on the island of Funen. Both the Glavendrup and Tryggevælde runestones were made by the same runemaster, Sote.
The inscription ends with a curse against anyone who would destroy or move the runestone that is similar to the ones found on the Glavendrup stone the Sønder Vinge runestone 2 and the Glemminge stone and the Saleby Runestone in Sweden. There is some disagreement regarding the translation of one of the words in these curses, /, which has been translated as 'wretch,' 'outcast,' or 'warlock.' Warlock is the translation accepted by Rundata. However, the use of warlock is not that the destroyer would gain any magical powers, but be considered to be unnatural and a social outcast. The concept that being a warlock or sorcerer was an evil perversion predated the conversion of Scandinavia to Christianity.
This inscription is the first mention of the Old Scandinavian ship type skeið.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
§A
§B
§C
Transcription into standardized Old Norse
§A
§B
§C
Transcription into standardized Old Danish
§A
§B
§C
Translation in English
§A Ragnhildr, Ulfr's sister, placed this stone and made this mound, and this ship(-setting), in memory of her husband Gunnulfr, a clamorous man, Nerfir's son. Few will now be born better than him.
§B A warlock(?) be he who damages(?) this stone
§C or drags it (away) from here.
References
Runestones in Denmark
Runestones with curses
10th-century Danish women
10th-century inscriptions |
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