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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediomelum%20cuspidatum | Pediomelum cuspidatum (also known as Psoralea cuspidata) is a perennial herb also known as the buffalo pea, largebract Indian breadroot and the tall-bread scurf-pea. It is found on the black soil prairies in Texas. It has an inflorescence on stems 18-40 centimeters long arising from a subterranean stem and deep carrot-shaped root that is 4–15 cm long. The long petioled leaves are palmately divided into 5 linear-elliptic leaflets that are 2-4 centimeters long. The flowers, borne in condensed spikes from the leaves, are light blue and pea-like.
Cultivation and uses
Pediomelum cuspidata emerges in late Spring, and sets few seeds, unlike its smaller, fecund cousin Pediomelum hypogaeum.
The species has edible tuberous roots, although some sources describe it as 'bitter'.
References
Delena Tull (1987), Edible and Useful Pants of Texas and the Southwest, pgs 86-87
H.D. Harrington (1967), Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains, pg 206
Psoraleeae
Medicinal plants
Root vegetables
Edible legumes
Flora of Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYND-FM | WYND-FM (95.5 MHz, "Wind-FM") is a commercial radio station in Silver Springs, Florida, broadcasting to the Ocala, Florida area. The same programming is simulcast on stations WNDN (Chiefland) and WNDD (Alachua).
External links
Official Website
YND-FM
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNDD%20%28FM%29 | WNDD (92.5 MHz, "Wind FM") is a commercial FM radio station in Alachua, Florida, broadcasting to the Gainesville/Ocala, Florida market. The same programming is simulcast on stations WYND-FM (Silver Springs) and WNDN (Chiefland).
External links
Official Website
NDD
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1996
1996 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNDN | WNDN (107.9 FM, "Wind FM") is a commercial radio station in Chiefland, Florida, broadcasting to the Gainesville-Ocala, Florida area. The same programming is simulcast on stations WYND-FM (Silver Springs) and WNDD (Alachua).
External links
Official Website
NDN
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHPS | Carewise Health, formerly SHPS, Inc. (pronounced "ships") is a national provider of health improvement programs. The company is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Primary data center operations are in Minneapolis. Carewise Health has satellite offices in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, Arizona, Seattle, and Walnut Creek, California.
History
The company was founded as SHPS in 1997 as a joint venture between SYKES Enterprises and Health Plan Services, and financed by Prudential Financial Services.
In December 1997, Prudential Financial Services and SYKES Enterprises, Incorporated formed SYKES Health Plan Services (SHPS), Inc.
In 2000, SHPS was purchased by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity firm which focuses on information and business services, healthcare and communications.
In 2001, SHPS acquired CareWise, Inc., a provider of care management services to complement existing healthcare services offerings.
In 2003, SHPS acquired eBenX, Inc., a human resource and benefits administrator.
In 2004, SHPS acquired National Health Services, Inc. and Landacorp, Inc., two care management providers.
In 2006, SHPS introduced its enhanced health management delivery model.
In 2007, SHPS introduced a health risk engine to help employers strategically manage the clinical risk in their employee population. Also, in 2007, SHPS' Landacorp division released its CareRadius product suite, intended to simplify complex medical management processes and enable health plans to simplify work flow, improve health outcomes, and lower costs.
In April 2012, SHPS sold its Human Resource Solutions subsidiary, which administers Flexible spending accounts, to Automatic Data Processing. It retains ownership of the Carewise Health component.
In October 2012, the company sold LandaCorp for $38 million.
In December 2013, a new ownership group acquired Carewise.
See also
Health consumerism
Outsourcing
Healthcare
Health economics
Management consulting
Third party administrator
References
External links
1997 establishments in Kentucky
American companies established in 1997
Companies based in Louisville, Kentucky
Health care companies based in Kentucky
Outsourcing companies
Private equity portfolio companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperplay | Paperplay is a British children's television programme, produced by Thames Television for the ITV network between 1974 and 1981. The show was devised and presented by Susan Stranks, a former Magpie presenter.
In each show, Stranks would make simple creations from paper and other household waste. Assisting her would be two mischievous hand puppet spiders named Itsy and Bitsy. Itsy was the red male, growling spider and Bitsy the yellow female, squeaking spider. Occasionally they were joined by other puppets, such as Boris the ladybird, Cardew the caterpillar and Katie the bird. The puppets were operated by Norman Beardsley, who was hidden by a black backdrop.
References
External links
Itsy and Bitsy at Toonhound
Paperplay at sausageNet
British television shows featuring puppetry
ITV children's television shows
1974 British television series debuts
1981 British television series endings
Arts and crafts television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B | The D-17B (D17B) computer was used in the Minuteman I NS-1OQ missile guidance system. The complete guidance system contained a D-17B computer, the associated stable platform, and power supplies.
The D-17B weighed approximately , contained 1,521 transistors, 6,282 diodes, 1,116 capacitors, and 504 resistors. These components were mounted on double copper-clad, engraved, gold-plated, glass fiber laminate circuit boards. There were 75 of these circuit boards and each one was coated with a flexible polyurethane compound for moisture and vibration protection. The high degree of reliability and ruggedness of the computer were driven by the strict requirements of the weapons system.
Design constraints
High reliability was required of the D-17B. It controlled a key weapon that would have just one chance to execute its mission. Reliability of the D-17B was achieved through the use of solid-state electronics and a relatively simple design. Simpler DRL (diode–resistor) logic was used extensively, but less-reliable DTL (diode–transistor) logic (which provides gain and inversion) was used only where needed. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the D-17B was designed, transistors lacked today's reliability. Reliability was also enhanced by the rotating-disk memory with non-destructive readout (NDRO). In actual real-time situations, Minuteman missiles achieved a mean time between failures (MTBF) of over 5.5 years .
The Soviets had much larger rockets and could use vacuum tubes in their guidance systems. (The weights of the Minuteman I and II remain classified, but the Minuteman III was 35,000 kg versus the Soviet R-7 missile (1959) of 280,000 kg.) The US planners had to choose either to develop solid state guidance systems (which weigh less) or consider the additional cost and time delay of developing larger rockets.
Specifications
Minuteman I D-17B computer specifications
Year: 1962
The D17B is a synchronous serial general-purpose digital computer.
Manufacturer:
Autonetics Division of North American Aviation
Applications:
Guidance and control of the Minuteman I ICBM.
Programming and numerical system:
Number system: Binary, fixed point, 2's complement
Logic levels: 0 V for logical 0 (false), -10 V for logical 1 (true)
Data word length (bits): 11 or 24 (double precision)
Instruction word length (bits): 24
Binary digits/word: 27
Instructions/word: 1
Instruction type: One and half address
Number of instructions: 39 types from a 4-bit op code by using five bits of the operand address field for instructions which do not access memory.
Execution times in microseconds:
Add: µs
Multiply: µs or µs (double precision)
Divide: (software)
(Note: Parallel processing such as two simultaneous single precision operations is permitted without additional execution time.)
Clock channel: 345.6 Hz
Addressing:
Direct addressing of entire memory
Two-address (unflagged) and three-address (flagged) instructions
Memory:
Word length (bits): 24 plus 5 timing
Type: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero%20Software | Vero Software is a company based in Cheltenham, England, that specialises in CAD CAM (Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing).
History
Vero was founded in Northern Italy in October 1988 by Don Babbs and Ezio Galardo when they left Olivetti. In the mid 1990s, its VISI-CAD and VISI-CAM products were the first to use the PC implementation of the Parasolid kernel.
The company was incorporated in 1997 under the name Deepcredit Limited, and then renamed as VI Group Plc in 1998 prior to its listing on the London Stock Market. In October 2007, the company was renamed to Vero Software.
On 11 August 2008, Vero Software Plc and its UK subsidiaries Vero UK Limited and Camtek Limited moved to a combined facility in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire from its previous location in Stroud. In 2010 and 2014 Vero Software was awarded 'The Queens Award for Enterprise'.
Vero Software develops and distributes software for aiding the design and manufacturing processes, providing solutions for the tooling, production engineering, sheet metal, metal fabrication, stone and woodworking industries. The company's brands include Alphacam, Cabinet Vision, Edgecam, Machining STRATEGIST, PEPS, Radan, SMIRT, SURFCAM, VISI, and WorkNC, along with the production control MRP system Javelin.
The company has direct offices in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, USA, Brazil, Netherlands, China, Korea, Spain and India supplying products to more than 45 countries through its wholly owned subsidiaries and expansive reseller network.
Acquisitions and capital funds
May 2000 – acquired an Italian software company formerly known as Tecnocam for $349k plus shares.
March 2001 – acquired the Electronic Data Interchange, a division of the South Wales-based Ubiquity Software Corporation used for the secure transfer of automotive CAD/CAM data for $361k.
May 2001 – November 2003 – raised up to €4.2million from a Eureka development grant Accordingly, the Company recognised $680k due to the Eureka grant and other Italian grant awards as development cost savings in the 2002 accounts.
May 2002 – Raised $4.6m from the stock market.
July 2002 – took over its US subsidiary for the assumption of $355k in debt and forgiveness of another $259k of debt.
August 2002 – sold its office in Prague for $33k.
September 2002 – acquired machining STRATEGIST and the majority of the programming team from NC Graphics for £1m cash plus shares.
May 2003 – Received £143k from the South West Regional Development Agency.
December 2006 – acquired Camtek, a nearby CAM software supplier.
July 2010 – Battery Ventures acquires Vero Software.
October 2011 – acquired Planit Software.
January 2013 – acquired Sescoi International.
February 2013 – acquired Surfcam.
August 2014 – Vero Software was acquired by Hexagon AB.
Solutions
Production CAM:
Edgecam: a production CAM software for milling, turning and mill-turn machining.
Surfcam: is a CNC Programming software for 2 axis to 5 axis machining.
Machining Strategist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Christakis | Alexander (Aleco) Christakis (; born 1937) is a Greek American social scientist, systems scientist and cyberneticist, former faculty member of several Universities, organizational consultant and member of the Club of Rome, known for his "study and design of social systems".
Biography
Christakis came to the United States in 1956, and received a BA in theoretical physics at Princeton University and a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics at Yale. Later on he proceeded studying urban planning, and systems science until 1970.where?
After the birth of his son Nicholas he returned to Greece and joined the architectural firm of Doxiadis Associates which was specialized in architecture and town planning. In 1968 he was co-founder of the Club of Rome, where he was a collaborator of Aurelio Peccei, Erich Jantsch and Hasan Özbekhan. Since the 1970s Christakis has served on the faculties of Yale University, Georgetown University, University of Athens, and the University of Virginia. He also spent five years at George Mason University as the Director of the Center for Interactive Management headed by John N. Warfield. In 1989 Christakis founded his own management consultancy firm CWA Ltd. dedicated to apply Interactive Management principles, and he has been CEO ever since.
Christakis serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals, including Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, Systems: Journal of Transdisciplinary Systems Science, and the Journal of Applied Systems Studies.
In 2002, Christakis served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He also serves as president of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras, a non-profit organization dedicated to the evolution of civic, global, and institutional capacity for coordinated democratic decision-making using systems principles (Co-Laboratories of Democracy.) The Institute for 21st Century Agoras is credited for the formalization of the science of Structured dialogic design in its present form. Christakis is also a partner with Dialogic Design International, a consulting firm that deploys SDD in systemic design approaches for complex organizational and systems problems.
In 2007 he served on the board of directors of the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), of Future Worlds Center, and also as an Advisor to the Ambassadors Program of AIO which serves indigenous people around the world.
He has received numerous awards and distinctions including the Demosophia Award, the Creative Programming Award from the National University Continuing Education Association and the most prestigious medal of the Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies to name a few.
Contributions to international peace building
Christakis has been invited to support the peace process in Cyprus and the Middle East. He and Laouris led the implementation of series of mass scale dialogues using the structured dialogic design process in the Civil Society Dialogue project in Cyprus and in the Act Beyond Borders p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20monoid | In mathematics and computer science, a history monoid is a way of representing the histories of concurrently running computer processes as a collection of strings, each string representing the individual history of a process. The history monoid provides a set of synchronization primitives (such as locks, mutexes or thread joins) for providing rendezvous points between a set of independently executing processes or threads.
History monoids occur in the theory of concurrent computation, and provide a low-level mathematical foundation for process calculi, such as CSP the language of communicating sequential processes, or CCS, the calculus of communicating systems. History monoids were first presented by M.W. Shields.
History monoids are isomorphic to trace monoids (free partially commutative monoids) and to the monoid of dependency graphs. As such, they are free objects and are universal. The history monoid is a type of semi-abelian categorical product in the category of monoids.
Product monoids and projection
Let
denote an n-tuple of (not necessarily pairwise disjoint) alphabets . Let denote all possible combinations of one finite-length string from each alphabet:
(In more formal language, is the Cartesian product of the free monoids of the . The superscript star is the Kleene star.) Composition in the product monoid is component-wise, so that, for
and
then
for all in . Define the union alphabet to be
(The union here is the set union, not the disjoint union.) Given any string , we can pick out just the letters in some using the corresponding string projection . A distribution is the mapping that operates on with all of the , separating it into components in each free monoid:
Histories
For every , the tuple is called the elementary history of a. It serves as an indicator function for the inclusion of a letter a in an alphabet . That is,
where
Here, denotes the empty string. The history monoid is the submonoid of the product monoid generated by the elementary histories: (where the superscript star is the Kleene star applied with a component-wise definition of composition as given above). The elements of are called global histories, and the projections of a global history are called individual histories.
Connection to computer science
The use of the word history in this context, and the connection to concurrent computing, can be understood as follows. An individual history is a record of the sequence of states of a process (or thread or machine); the alphabet is the set of states of the process.
A letter that occurs in two or more alphabets serves as a synchronization primitive between the various individual histories. That is, if such a letter occurs in one individual history, it must also occur in another history, and serves to "tie" or "rendezvous" them together.
Consider, for example, and . The union alphabet is of course . The elementary histories are , , , and . In this example, an individual history of the first |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro%20%28Palm%20OS%29 | Saguaro was an application for Palm OS, one of the first designed to give Palm-OS-based PDAs true multitasking features comparable to desktop computers. Saguaro was also the first Palm OS application capable of competing with the graphic performance of the iPhone.
History
Saguaro, produced by PDA Performance, Inc., had a long development cycle of three years. Currently, the full version is not available for download, however, two beta versions had been released: Saguaro Beta (a private beta) and Saguaro Sneak Peek (a public beta). Information about the Saguaro private beta is severely lacking, however it is speculated to be more full-featured than the public beta. PDA Performance released lineUp, an application based on Saguaro’s code, on November 30, 2007.
PDA Performance announced their closure on February 28, 2008. As a result, a complete version of Saguaro has not been released.
Specifications
Little data is available on the technical specifications of Saguaro, as PDA Performance had not released an SDK. Saguaro was rumored to implement cooperative multitasking for Saguaro-compatible applications, referred to as "widgets". The term caused speculation in the Palm community as to whether Saguaro was intended to replace the Palm OS to run applications or if it was designed to be a widget engine. Saguaro was also rumored to be capable of running "legacy" palm applications by acting as a launcher.
Saguaro featured its own graphics engine, called "MojaveGL", which also functioned as a window manager. MojaveGL is capable of alpha blending, thus allowing Saguaro to create translucent windows.
LineUp
LineUp is a widget engine developed by PDA Performance that is heavily based on Saguaro's code. LineUp has relatively few widgets available, of which most are news-based (CNN, CNET, Washington Post, etc). An SDK has not been released to allow third party developers to create widgets, causing many users to lose interest in the "fancy RSS reader."
LineUp itself is quick and fluid, providing users a preview of Saguaro and the MojaveGL framework on what it is based.
External links
Official Saguaro web site
Saguaro Sneak Peak (sic) Preview
LineUp Announcement
References
Palm OS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn%20EMI%20Computer%20Software | Thorn EMI Computer Software was a British video games software house set up in the early 1980s as part of the now-defunct British conglomerate Thorn EMI. They released a number of games in the early 1980s, initially for the Atari 8-bit family, and later for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and VIC-20 computers. In 1984, the Thorn EMI name was dropped in favour of Creative Sparks as the company were reportedly unhappy with their image in the video games market. A budget label, Sparklers, was created in early 1985 to publish titles at £2.50. Later in 1985, Creative Sparks, Sparklers and the distribution company, Creative Sparks Distribution (CSD) gained independence from Thorn EMI after a management buyout.
In July 1987, six months after buying software company Mikro-Gen for a "substantial" sum,
Creative Sparks went into receivership with debts estimated at up to £1.5million.
The back catalogue of the company was acquired by Tynesoft, Alternative Software and Maynard International (Top Ten Software).
The former management at CSD went on to form Software Publishing Associates, owners of the Crysys and Pirate Software labels.
Releases
Many of the company's games listed below were issued on more than one label over the years. A typical example is River Rescue, first released under the Thorn EMI label, then later sold (with updated artwork) under the Creative Sparks brand. This was followed by a budget release on the company's own Sparklers label then- after Creative Sparks' demise- another budget reissue by Alternative Software.
'Thorn EMI' label
Blockade Runner
Carnival Massacre
Gold Rush
Home Financial Management
Orc Attack
River Rescue
Road Racer
Submarine Commander
The VIC Music Composer
Tower of Evil
Volcanic Planet
'Creative Sparks' label
Black Hawk
Computer War
Countdown to Meltdown
Danger Mouse In Double Trouble
Danger Mouse In The Black Forest Chateau
Delta Wing
Snodgits
Special Delivery
Stagecoach
Story House
Tower of Evil
Danger Mouse in Making Whoopee
'Sparklers' label
Bargain Basement
Desert Burner
Doombase
Quackshot
St Crippens
References
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Man%20in%20the%20Wall | "The Man in the Wall" is the sixth episode of the first season of the television series Bones. Originally aired on November 15, 2005, on FOX network, the episode is written by Elizabeth Benjamin and directed by Tawnia McKiernan. The plot features FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth and Dr. Temperance Brennan's investigation into a mummified man found inside a wall in a nightclub.
Summary
Angela Montenegro persuades her best friend, Dr. Temperance Brennan, to stop working and go to a club with her. At the club, Brennan inadvertently starts a fight by describing the music as "tribal." She kicks a man, who falls against a wall and breaks it, revealing a hidden mummy and dispersing a cloud of methamphetamine onto the dance floor which doses Angela and Brennan as well.
The man turns out to be Roy Taylor or more popularly known as D.J. Mount, a rising disc jockey at the nightclub. Inside the wall of the club, Brennan and her assistant, Zack Addy, discover a belly button ring with the words "Luv Rulz" engraved on it, making a fellow disc jockey, D.J. Rulz, a prime suspect. The stud came from D.J. Mount's girlfriend, who was D.J. Rulz's ex-girlfriend.
When Booth and Brennan go to find Mount's girlfriend, Eve, they discover from her brother that Eve had left her daughter with him and although she had promised to return, she never did. They discover that the methamphetamine found on the money she left her brother is the same as the methamphetamine on Mount's face. She becomes a suspect until they realize she had been behind Mount at the time Mount was stuck in the wall where he was mummified, and the methamphetamine was pushed into his face from the front, indicating that there was a third person in the wall.
They discover an FBI agent is working undercover for Randall Hall, the owner of the club. The agent claims that Randall is passing methamphetamine through the club. They confront Hall, who tells them that Rulz built himself a new studio a day after Mount went missing. They find Eve's body using a police cadaver dog, but Rulz did not have the strength to kill her, as he was shot through the wrist a few years ago. They find a bone dimple on both bodies, but cannot explain it.
They take Rulz in, and he tells them that Mount was going to jump labels from Randall Hall's Basement Records, and that Randall paid for his studio. From this they have Randall's motive: Mount was going to jump labels and Eve was stealing his methamphetamine and cash to pay for them to have a better life.
Booth goes to the club and gets Randall to poke him with his cane, and almost breaks it before Brennan realizes that his cane is what caused the bone dimples on both bodies. This is confirmed when a test in the lab show the cane created them both. The team now have forensics that confirm he is the killer.
Music
The episode features the following music: -
Rize - Flii Stylz
Soul Survivor - Young Jeezy featuring Akon
Run It! - Chris Brown
Something - Cary Brothers
Gunpowder La |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Disk%20Recorder | Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is an open-source application for Linux designed to allow any computer to function as a digital video recorder, in order to record and replay TV programming using the computer's hard drive. The computer needs to be equipped with a digital TV tuner card. VDR can also operate as an mp3 player and DVD player using available plugins. VDR uses drivers from the LinuxTV project. VDR was originally written by Klaus-Peter Schmidinger, one of the founders of CadSoft Computer GmbH and original developer of the EAGLE electronic design application. The software was originally hosted on CadSoft's server.
See also
Comparison of PVR software packages
References
Further reading
(NB. This is the same article as published in c't 20/2003.)
(NB. Also in LinuxUser 12/2002, p. 22.)
External links
VDR (The Video Disk Recorder) Home page Official website
VDR Wiki/English VDR Wiki
Free video software
Television technology
Television time shifting technology
Video recording software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured%20neuronal%20network | A cultured neuronal network is a cell culture of neurons that is used as a model to study the central nervous system, especially the brain. Often, cultured neuronal networks are connected to an input/output device such as a multi-electrode array (MEA), thus allowing two-way communication between the researcher and the network. This model has proved to be an invaluable tool to scientists studying the underlying principles behind neuronal learning, memory, plasticity, connectivity, and information processing.
Cultured neurons are often connected via computer to a real or simulated robotic component, creating a hybrot or animat, respectively. Researchers can then thoroughly study learning and plasticity in a realistic context, where the neuronal networks are able to interact with their environment and receive at least some artificial sensory feedback. One example of this can be seen in the Multielectrode Array Art (MEART) system developed by the Potter Research Group at the Georgia Institute of Technology in collaboration with SymbioticA, The Centre for Excellence in Biological Art, at the University of Western Australia. Another example can be seen in the neurally controlled animat.
Use as a model
Advantages
The use of cultured neuronal networks as a model for their in vivo counterparts has been an indispensable resource for decades. It allows researchers to investigate neuronal activity in a much more controlled environment than would be possible in a live organism. Through this mechanism researchers have gleaned important information about the mechanisms behind learning and memory.
A cultured neuronal network allows researchers to observe neuronal activity from several vantage points. Electrophysiological recording and stimulation can take place either across the network or locally via an MEA, and the network development can be visually observed using microscopy techniques. Moreover, chemical analysis of the neurons and their environment is more easily accomplished than in an in vivo setting.
Disadvantages
Cultured neuronal networks are by definition disembodied cultures of neurons. Thus by being outside their natural environment, the neurons are influenced in ways that are not biologically normal. Foremost among these abnormalities is the fact that the neurons are usually harvested as neural stem cells from a fetus and are therefore disrupted at a critical stage in network development. When the neurons are suspended in solution and subsequently dispensed, the connections previously made are destroyed and new ones formed. Ultimately, the connectivity (and consequently the functionality) of the tissue is changed from what the original template suggested.
Another disadvantage lies in the fact that the cultured neurons lack a body and are thus severed from sensory input as well as the ability to express behavior – a crucial characteristic in learning and memory experiments. It is believed that such sensory deprivation has adverse effects on th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Ethiopia | The time zone in Ethiopia is East Africa Time (EAT) (UTC+03:00). The IANA time zone database identifier is Africa/Addis_Ababa.
Ethiopia does not observe daylight saving time.
Date and time notation
Almost all Ethiopians use a modified 12-hour clock system. The daytime cycle begins at dawn 12:00 (6:00:00 AM EAT) and ends at dusk 11:59:59 (5:59:59 PM EAT).
The nighttime cycle begins at dusk 12:00 (6:00:00 PM EAT) and ends at dawn at 11:59:59 (5:59:59 AM EAT). The convention is that the day begins at 1:00 o'clock in the morning according to the 12-hour cycle (7:00 AM EAT) rather than midnight (12:00 AM EAT). Therefore, the local population could be said to effectively observe UTC-03:00 rather than UTC+03:00 in terms of the numbering of hours and their association with 24-hour days, with the exception of the hour from 6:00 AM EAT to 6:59 AM EAT.
, the modified 12-hour system remained common, despite pressure to follow international norms.
See also
Thai six-hour clock
References
External links
Time in Ethiopia - Current Time Date in Ethiopia
Time in Ethiopia - Local and International
Time in Eritrea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemundo | Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast. It provides content nationally with programming syndicated worldwide to more than 100 countries in over 35 languages.
The network was founded in 1984 as NetSpan before being renamed Telemundo in 1987 after the branding used on WKAQ-TV, its owned-and-operated station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1997, Liberty Media and Sony Pictures Entertainment acquired controlling interest in Telemundo. NBC then purchased Telemundo in 2001.
The channel broadcasts programs and original content aimed at Latin American audiences in the United States and worldwide, consisting of telenovelas, sports, reality television, news programming and films—either imported or Spanish-dubbed. In addition, Telemundo operates Universo, a separate channel directed towards young Hispanic audiences; Telemundo Digital Media, which distributes original programming content across mass media, the Telemundo and Universo websites; Puerto Rico free-to-air station WKAQ-TV; and international distribution arm Telemundo Internacional.
Telemundo is headquartered in Miami and operates a studio and productions facility in the Miami suburb of Doral, Florida, and has 1,900 employees worldwide. The majority of Telemundo's programs are shot at an operated studio facility in Miami, where 85 percent of the network's telenovelas were recorded during 2011. The average hourly primetime drama costs $70K to produce.
History
Originally launched as NetSpan in 1984, the network was renamed Telemundo in 1987, after the network owners purchased the previous owner of WKAQ-TV (channel 2), a television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, branded on air as Telemundo. On March 28, 1954, WKAQ-TV signed on. It was originally founded by Ángel Ramos – owner of Puerto Rico's main newspaper at the time, , and the U.S. territory's first radio station, WKAQ (also known as "Radio El Mundo"). Ramos wanted to maintain a consistent branding for his media properties based around the "mundo" theme (the Spanish word for "world"), and chose to brand his new television property as "Telemundo" (in effect, translating to "Teleworld" or "World TV"). On April 14, 1983, Ramos sold WKAQ-TV to John Blair & Co.
Launch as NetSpan (1984–1987)
In 1984, the owners of WNJU (channel 47) in Linden, New Jersey (serving the New York City area) and KSTS (channel 48) in San Jose, California formed NetSpan, the second Spanish-language television network in the continental United States (behind the longer-established Spanish International Network, the forerunner to Univision). These stations joined KVEA (channel 52) in Los Angeles, run by its general manager and part-owner Joe Wallach, in 1985. The following year, KVEA's part-owner, Reliance Group Holdings, acquired the Telemundo brand when it purchased John Blair & Co., which also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaTMAN | The Fife and Tayside Metropolitan Area Network is one of the regional networks that comprise JANET. FaTMAN connects three universities (University of Dundee, University of St Andrews and University of Abertay Dundee) and two colleges (Dundee and Angus College and Fife College) to each other and to the Janet backbone in the east of Scotland. There is also an UoD Fife campus node. The University of Dundee is the Regional Network Operator.
The FaTMAN POPs were replaced by Janet managed POPs in mid 2010.
External links
Fife and Tayside Metropolitan Area Network
History of FaTMAN
Regional academic computer networks in the United Kingdom
Education in Fife
Education in Dundee
Education in Perth and Kinross
Education in Angus, Scotland
Higher education in Scotland
Internet in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula%20Martin | Ursula Hilda Mary Martin (born 3 August 1953) is a British computer scientist, with research interests in theoretical computer science and formal methods. She is also known for her activities aimed at encouraging women in the fields of computing and mathematics. Since 2019, she has served as a professor at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
From 20142018, Martin was a Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and holds an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship. Prior to this she held a chair of Computer Science in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, where she was Vice-Principal of Science and Engineering, 20052009.
Education
Martin was born in London on 3 August 1953 to Anne Louise (née Priestman) and Captain Geoffrey Richard Martin. She was educated at Abbey College at Malvern Wells. In 1975 she graduated with an MA from Girton College, Cambridge, and in 1979 with a PhD from the University of Warwick, both in mathematics.
Career and research
Martin began in mathematics working in group theory, later moving into string rewriting systems. She has held academic posts at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Manchester and Royal Holloway, University of London. She has made sabbatical visits to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and SRI International (Menlo Park). In 2004 she was a visiting fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.
From 1992 to 2002, Martin was Professor of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She was the first female professor at the University since its foundation in 1411.
From 2003 to 2005, Martin was seconded to the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory part-time and served as the director of the Women@CL project to lead local, national and international initiatives for women in computing, supported by Microsoft Research and Intel Cambridge Research. She was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Martin has served as an advisory editor for the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic journal (published by Elsevier) and on the editorial boards for The Journal of Computation and Mathematics (London Mathematical Society) and Formal Aspects of Computing (Springer-Verlag).
Publications
Her publications include
with Christopher Hollings and Adrian Rice, Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist, Bodleian Library, 2018, 114 pp.
Honours and awards
Martin was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to computer science. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) and the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).
References
1953 births
Living people
Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Warwick
British computer scientists
Formal methods people
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Academics of the University of Manchester
Ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rad%20Girls | Rad Girls was a stunt and prank television show which aired on the music network Fuse TV and then on MAVTV. The show's format was essentially a female version of MTV's Jackass, with three female performers: Ramona Cash, Munchie, and Darling Clementine, doing stunts and pranks that involve disgusting food, bodily excretions, and debauchery.
According to the trio's MySpace page, Fuse decided to change format to exclusively music-based programming, thus not renewing Rad Girls for a second season. Over 4,000 ardent fans of Rad Girls signed an online petition ("Bring Back the Rad Girls!") to get the show back on the air, but their contract with Fuse ended in February 2008. Rad Girls Season 2 premiered on November 7, 2008 on MavTV, an HD network oriented towards male viewers.
The program has also aired internationally, on five continents: Australia (XYZ Networks), New Zealand (C4 New Zealand), Canada (Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting Inc.), UK (MTV Networks Europe), South Africa (M-Net), Brazil (Globosat), and Korea (Dong ah TV).
Episodes
Season one
Season two
See also
Dirty Sanchez
The Dudesons
Jackass
The Janoskians
The Mad Hueys
The Single Life with Sam Phillips (Rad Girls featured in MavTV Episode 5)
Tokyo Shock Boys
Too Stupid to Die
1000 Ways to Die
References
External links
Archive of Fox News’ American Newsroom
Archive of H Magazine, November 2008
YRB Magazine, "The Fight Issue," April 2009
Archive of official website
Archive of Rad Girls at MavTV.com
Radgirls at Fuse.tv
2000s American reality television series
2007 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
Fuse (TV channel) original programming
Television series by Entertainment One
Television shows set in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurama-dera%20Cable | The is a funicular line operated by Kurama-dera, a famous Buddhist temple in Mount Kurama, Sakyō, Kyoto, Japan. The line is officially called .
Basic data
Distance:
Vertical interval:
Gauge:
Stations: 2
Track: Single track
Overview
The funicular line serves for the visitors to Kurama-dera temple built in 770. As the temple resides in the heart of the Mount Kurama, it takes roughly 30 minutes on foot from the while the funicular line links the same route in just 2 minutes. The temple, however, recommends its visitors not to use the funicular, but to walk on foot if possible to feel stronger impressions.
As a legally recognized Japanese railway line, this is the only one operated by a , as well as the only one that is nominally free of charge. This is also the shortest line in the country, if considered as a railway. The line has only single car, counterbalanced by a weight. The line opened on January 1, 1957, as an ordinary iron-wheeled funicular with two cars, gauge, later changed in 1996 as the current rubber-tired system with gauge.
The car in use as at March 2006 was nicknamed Ushiwaka-gō III, after Minamoto no Yoshitsune (called Ushiwakamaru in his childhood), who was put and got training in the temple. By May 2018 the car in use was "Ushiwaka IV".
As of March 2015, the fare to ride was 200 yen.
Stations
Sanmon Station (山門): Transfer to Kurama, Eizan Electric Railway Kurama Line (5 minutes walk).
Tahōtō Station (多宝塔)
See also
Funicular railway
List of funicular railways
List of railway lines in Japan
Funicular railways in Japan
800 mm gauge railways in Japan
2 ft 6 in gauge railways in Japan
1957 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDVH-FM | WDVH-FM is an FM radio station licensed to Trenton, Florida and broadcasting to the Gainesville-Ocala, Florida radio market on 101.7 MHz. It is owned by the Radio Training Network and airs a Contemporary Christian radio format known as The Joy FM. The Radio Training Network owns about a dozen FM stations and translators in Florida as part of "The Joy FM" network originating from WJIS in Bradenton. While WDVH-FM is a licensed as a commercial station, The Joy FM Network operates as a non-commercial organization, asking for donations during on-air fundraisers.
History
The 101.7 frequency in Trenton was added to the FCC's table of allotments in 1985. On March 25, 1987, the station first signed on the air as WCWB from a tower site approximately two miles west of Trenton. It broadcast an automated country music format from a single wide mobile home next to the transmitting tower. In April 1994, the call sign was changed to WDJY.
In late 2000, the station ownership changed from Pinnacle AM Broadcasting, Inc to Pamal Broadcasting along with sister station AM 980 WLUS. In February 2004, WLUS's call letters were changed back to its heritage call sign, WDVH. At the same time, WDJY's call letters changed to WDVH-FM. This began the simulcast of the "Country Legends" classic country format from the WDVH studios on SE 27th Street in Gainesville. In October 2005, the studios were moved into the Sunshine Broadcasting building, located on 100 NW 76th Street in the Tower Hill Office Park, Gainesville. On November 1, 2011, the station switched from a classic country format to Contemporary Christian, branded as "Pulse 101.7" under new call letters, WPLL-FM. On September 20, 2012, Pulse 101.7 moved up to 106.9 WKZY, along with its Contemporary Christian format. The station's call sign was changed back to WDVH-FM on October 24, 2012. On April 15, 2013 WDVH-FM split from its simulcast with WPLL and changed its format to classic country, branded as "101.7 Hank FM". On May 1, 2016 sister station WDVH 980 AM flipped its format from talk radio to a simulcast of WDVH-FM. On September 6, 2016 WDVH-FM added a simulcast of country music on translator station 94.1 FM W241DH. The station and the translator were rebranded as "I Am Country 94.1/101.7".
On August 17, 2017, the classic country format moved to 106.9 WPLL as 101.7 WDVH-FM became an affiliate of The Joy FM Network. The station was sold by MARC Radio Gainesville, LLC, to the parent company of The Joy FM, the Radio Training Network. Following WDVH-FM's sale, AM 980 WDVH and translator station 94.1 W241DH began simulcasting WPLL, after the country format and "I am Country" branding moved to WPLL; WDVH AM / W241DH has since split from WPLL to broadcast an Urban Oldies format as "R&B 94.1".
References
External links
Pamal Broadcasting - Gainesville area stations
Radio stations established in 1987
1987 establishments in Florida
DVH-FM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized%20object%20location%20and%20routing | In computer science, Decentralized Object Location and Routing (DOLR) is a scalable, location-independent routing technology. It uses location-independent names, or aliases, for each node in the network, and it is an example of peer-to-peer networking that uses a structured-overlay system called Tapestry. It was designed to facilitate large internet applications with millions of users physically distributed around the globe and using a variety of wireless and wired interfaces, specifically in situations where a traditional unstructured network of popular Domain name system servers would fail to perform well.
References
Routing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20F.%20Akyildiz | Ian F. Akyildiz (born Ilhan Fuat Akyildiz on April 11, 1954, in Istanbul, Turkey) received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently, he is the President and CTO of the Truva Inc. since March 1989. He retired from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech in 2021 after almost 35 years service as Ken Byers Chair Professor in Telecommunications and Chair of the Telecom group.
He serves on the advisory board of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates since June 1, 2020. He is also an adjunct professor with the University of Helsinki since 2021, University of Iceland since 2020, and University of Cyprus since 2017.
Dr. Akyildiz was the Megagrant Research Leader and Advisor to the Director of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow, Russia, (2018-2020). He is the Ken Byers Chair Professor Emeritus in Telecommunications, Past Chair of the Telecom group at the ECE and the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology (1985–2020). He founded the N3Cat (NanoNetworking Center) at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona, Spain, in 2008.
He advised 48 PhD students, and 13 PostDocs, 52 visiting researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, and 15 Master students at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
His current research interests are in 6G/7G, Wireless Systems, TeraHertz Communication, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Nanonetworks, Internet of Space Things/CUBESATs, Internet of BioNanoThings, Molecular Communication and Underwater Communication. According to Google Scholar as of April 2023, his h-index is 135 and the total number of citations to his papers is 140+K.
Research contributions
1980s
Queueing Network Models
Akyildiz started his research work on queueing networks models in the early 1980s. His PhD thesis (1984) was entitled “Multiprocessor Systems with Process Communication” where he developed queuing network models to analyze the performance of the multiprocessor systems which were important subject in the early 1980s. In particular, he developed queueing network models for process communication where the buffers were finite and blocking/losses of messages could occur.
His paper was the first which was an original work introducing the duality of the state spaces of queueing networks with blocking/finite buffers versus queueing networks without blocking kind of mapping of state space to each other, and accordingly obtaining exact product form solution for two nodes.
Based on this novel duality concept, Dr. Akyildiz showed in an approximate duality (mapping) of state spaces between queuing networks with and without blocking having arbitrary number of nodes. He then derived the approximate throughput formu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Years%20Day%20%28band%29 | New Years Day is an American rock band formed in Anaheim, California, in 2005. After building a reputation strictly through promotion on the social networking website MySpace, the band released its debut self-titled EP in 2006 and their first full-length album My Dear in 2007. Six years after their initial debut, Victim to Villain was finally released, followed by Malevolence in 2015. Malevolence peaked at 45 on the Billboard 200, the band's highest charting thus far.
History
2005: Inception and formation
New Years Day formed in 2005, after bassist Adam Lohrbach left the band Home Grown. Lohrbach carried over the many emotional elements present in Home Grown's final 2004 EP When It All Comes Down and cultivated it into new material for New Years Day. Meeting with lead vocalist Ashley "Ash" Costello (born 1985) and guitarist/keyboardist Keith Drover, the three friends wrote and rehearsed songs about their difficult and emotional relationship break-ups. Soon after, the group produced a two-song demo and invited a mutual friend of the group, Eric Seilo, to play bass during their 2005 tours. Ultimately, Seilo left New Years Day at the end of 2005 to pursue higher education. After acquiring former Wakefield guitarist Mike Schoolden and drummer Russell Dixon, the group decided to call themselves New Years Day.
2006–2010: Razor and My Dear
The band built a surprisingly strong online presence through showcasing, promotion and posting songs on MySpace. New Years Day was featured on the MySpace Records, Volume 1 compilation CD and on the video game soundtrack for Saints Row. After considering an offer from Pete Wentz's Decaydance Records label, the band decided to sign with TVT Records instead and released their first self-titled EP in 2006. Originally referred to as Razor, the EP was primarily marketed as a digital release accessible through downloading services, although CD hard copies were also sold to fans at live shows. New Years Day performed at the South by Southwest music festival the following year.
By May 8, 2007, New Years Day released its debut album My Dear, which was self-financed, self-produced and recorded over an eight-month period by friend and producer Eugene Perreras. The album included collaborations with members of Reel Big Fish and Motion City Soundtrack. During this period of time, the band toured with fellow artists, The Fall of Troy, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Ozma and Hawthorne Heights. Guitarist Keith Drover left the band shortly after touring to move to Sweden. The band debuted the music video for the lead single "I Was Right", directed by Shane Drake. Notably, the video won the MTVU "Freshman Face" poll and was added to the channel's ongoing playlist.
In 2008, TVT went bankrupt and was forced to sell its recording assets to The Orchard. Consequently, My Dear lacked the proper promotion required to succeed and Schoolden and Lohrbach both left the band shortly thereafter. Despite the small setbacks, the remaining members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provider%20edge%20router | A provider edge router (PE router) is a router between one network service provider's area and areas administered by other network providers. A network provider is usually an Internet service provider as well (or only that).
The term PE router covers equipment capable of a broad range of routing protocols, notably:
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) (PE to PE or PE to CE communication)
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) (PE to CE router communication)
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) (PE to P router communication)
PE routers do not need to be aware of what kind of traffic is coming from the provider's network, as opposed to a P router that functions as a transit within the service provider's network. However, some PE routers also do labelling.
See also
Customer edge router
Provider router
References
Routers (computing)
MPLS networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer%20edge%20router | The customer edge router (CE) is the router at the customer premises that is connected to the provider edge router of a service provider IP/MPLS network. The CE router peers with the provider edge router (PE) and exchanges routes with the corresponding VRF inside the PE. The routing protocol used could be static or dynamic (an interior gateway protocol like OSPF or an exterior gateway protocol like BGP).
The customer edge router can either be owned by the customer or service provider.
See also
Provider edge router
Provider router
References
Routers (computing)
MPLS networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Rochford | Andrew Michael Rochford is an Australian television and radio presenter and practices as a doctor.
Rochford was formerly a co-host of Network Ten's Breakfast program alongside Paul Henry and Kathryn Robinson and National Medical Editor on the Seven Network.
Personal life
Rochford was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up on the Northern Beaches. He attended secondary school at St Augustine's College before going to university and completing an undergraduate degree in medical science at the University of Sydney followed by a graduate degree in medicine, which he finalised in 2004, passing with honours.
Rochford lives an active lifestyle and enjoys playing many different sports such as swimming, skiing, basketball and golf in his spare time.
Rochford is the brother of Australian Radio and Television personality James Rochford.
Media career
Television
In 2004, Rochford and Jamie Nicholson, his girlfriend at that time, entered a competition to be a part of the Australian television show The Block. They were accepted as a reserve in the event of a departure by any other couple. Two other contestants were forced to depart after one of the couple was found to have spent six months in jail during 2002 after conviction for a drug-related offence. Rochford and his partner then went on to win the show, which included as prize money A$100,000 plus any extra money that could be won after the auction of the property they had renovated. Following that auction, the apartment they renovated sold for $868,000 which meant that the couple pocketed the extra $78,000 above the reserve price.
Rochford's profile was so increased by his time on The Block that shortly after his win he was offered a position with the What's Good For You team and joined the television program in 2006. The program was hosted by Sigrid Thornton. Specifically, Rochford's task was in part to report on certain medical myths and to be a medical "guinea-pig", testing out the fact or fallacy of the underpinning suggestion of the myth. For example, he was stung by a jellyfish to see what method best relieved the pain; ate 15 kilograms (33 lb) of carrots to see if that consumption would improve his eyesight. In addition to his role as a "guinea pig", he also has undertaken more serious roles. For example, he reported on the concentration of pathogens in various meats and related those facts to a better understanding of how to cook those meats.
Rochford has also been on game shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Temptation as a guest playing for charity.
He has hosted a number Nine Network shows including Amazing Medical Stories, What's Good For You and Random Acts of Kindness.
In 2010, Rochford joined Network Ten's The Project as a regular guest panelist. He also filled in for co-host Charlie Pickering on the show . He was a regular guest panelist on The Circle and had a cameo appearance in an episode of Offspring.
On 18 August 2011, it was announced that Rochford would be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Label%20switching | Label switching is a technique of network relaying to overcome the problems perceived by traditional IP-table switching (also known as traditional layer 3 hop-by-hop routing). Here, the switching of network packets occurs at a lower level, namely the data link layer rather than the traditional network layer.
Each packet is assigned a label number and the switching takes place after examination of the label assigned to each packet. The switching is much faster than IP-routing. New technologies such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) use label switching. The established ATM protocol also uses label switching at its core.
According to (An Architecture for Differentiated Services, December 1998):
"Examples of the label switching (or virtual circuit) model include Frame Relay, ATM, and MPLS. In this model path forwarding state and traffic management or quality of service (QoS) state is established for traffic streams on each hop along a network path. Traffic aggregates of varying granularity are associated with a label switched path at an ingress node, and packets/cells within each label switched path are marked with a forwarding label that is used to look up the next-hop node, the per-hop forwarding behavior, and the replacement label at each hop. This model permits finer granularity resource allocation to traffic streams, since label values are not globally significant but are only significant on a single link; therefore resources can be reserved for the aggregate of packets/cells received on a link with a particular label, and the label switching semantics govern the next-hop selection, allowing a traffic stream to follow a specially engineered path through the network."
A related topic is "Multilayer Switching," which discusses silicon-based wire-speed routing devices that examine not only layer 3 packet information, but also layer 4 (transport) and layer 7 (application) information.
References
See also
Virtual circuit
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20geography | Statistical geography is the study and practice of collecting, analysing and presenting data that has a geographic or areal dimension, such as census or demographics data. It uses techniques from spatial analysis, but also encompasses geographical activities such as the defining and naming of geographical regions for statistical purposes. For example, for the purposes of statistical geography, the Australian Bureau of Statistics uses the Australian Standard Geographical Classification, a hierarchical regionalisation that divides Australia up into states and territories, then statistical divisions, statistical subdivisions, statistical local areas, and finally census collection districts.
Background
Geographers study how and why elements differ from place to place, as well as how spatial patterns change through time. Geographers begin with the question 'Where?', exploring how features are distributed on a physical or cultural landscape, observing spatial patterns and the variation of phenomena. Contemporary geographical analysis has shifted to 'Why?', determining why a specific spatial pattern exists, what spatial or ecological processes may have affected a pattern, and why such processes operate. Only by approaching the 'why?' questions can social scientists begin to appreciate the mechanisms of change, which are infinite in their complexity.
Role of statistics in geography
Statistical techniques and procedures are applied in all fields of academic research; wherever data are collected and summarized or wherever any numerical information is analyzed or research is conducted, statistics are needed for sound analysis and interpretation of results.
Geographers use statistics in numerous ways:
To describe and summarize spatial data.
To make generalizations concerning complex spatial patterns.
To estimate the probability of outcomes for an event at a given location.
To use samples of geographic data to infer characteristics for a larger set of geographic data (population).
To determine if the magnitude or frequency of some phenomenon differs from one location to another.
To learn whether an actual spatial pattern matches some expected pattern.
Spatial data and descriptive statistics
There are several potential difficulties associated with the analysis of spatial data, among these are boundary delineation, modifiable areal units, and the level of spatial aggregation or scale. In each of these cases, the absolute descriptive statistics of an area - the mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and variation - are changed through the manipulation of these spatial problems.
Boundary delineation
The location of a study area boundary and the positioning of internal boundaries affect various descriptive statistics. With respect to measures such as the mean or standard deviation, the study area size alone may have large implications; consider a study of per capita income within a city, if confined to the inner city, income levels are likely to be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20gaming%20officer | A chief gaming officer, or chief game officer (abbreviated as CGO) is an executive position whose holder is focused on research and technical issues within a computer game company.
Responsibilities
The chief gaming officer or chief game officer is in charge of heading both the game development and the online/offline publishing functions of the company, and unlike most other C-Suite titles, reports directly to the Chief operating officer instead of the Chief executive officer.
The CGO has authority to manage the online game production cycle from start to finish. As head of game development, he or she is solely responsible for the conceptualization and planning of new games, the budget allocations to different gaming projects, the budget allocation within each game, assembling a team of software developers and game designers, and ultimately, the approval of new games.
As head of online publishing, the CGO also manages the online publishing, web portal, localization, and user interaction for all of the company products. The CGO negotiates and executes the appropriate agreements for web hosting and networking services for game delivery to the community, resolving issues with local internet service providers, and making sure that appropriate online payment agreements and systems are in place in each country. In addition to the online publishing of individual games, he acts as the portal manager, coordinating the development and publishing teams for the company web portal, which is of vital importance for a company delivering its products and collecting its user fees exclusively through the Internet.
The CGO has the ultimate decision-making authority over the localization function, being the final person responsible for adapting each game to the geographical market where it is delivered. He interfaces directly with the community manager and marketing manager to ensure that the final product is delivered and marketed in the most effective way, consistently integrating customer feedback into new releases.
Usage
The first two video game companies that have employed this executive position are Bigpoint and Golden Worlds Entertainment Media Group.
Some Esports teams, including British team Excel Esports, uses the title for their manager.
External links
Bigpoint Appoints Chief Game Officer, January 18, 2010
Golden Worlds Entertainment Media Group appoints former CEO Kalicanthus as Chief Game Officer
References
Business occupations
Management occupations
Corporate titles
Leadership
Positions of authority
Corporate executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20study%20of%20energy%20data | Energy statistics refers to collecting, compiling, analyzing and disseminating data on commodities such as coal, crude oil, natural gas, electricity, or renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, wind or solar energy), when they are used for the energy they contain. Energy is the capability of some substances, resulting from their physico-chemical properties, to do work or produce heat. Some energy commodities, called fuels, release their energy content as heat when they burn. This heat could be used to run an internal or external combustion engine.
The need to have statistics on energy commodities became obvious during the 1973 oil crisis that brought tenfold increase in petroleum prices. Before the crisis, to have accurate data on global energy supply and demand was not deemed critical. Another concern of energy statistics today is a huge gap in energy use between developed and developing countries. As the gap narrows (see picture), the pressure on energy supply increases tremendously.
The data on energy and electricity come from three principal sources:
Energy industry
Other industries ("self-producers")
Consumers
The flows of and trade in energy commodities are measured both in physical units (e.g., metric tons), and, when energy balances are calculated, in energy units (e.g., terajoules or tons of oil equivalent). What makes energy statistics specific and different from other fields of economic statistics is the fact that energy commodities undergo greater number of transformations (flows) than other commodities. In these transformations energy is conserved, as defined by and within the limitations of the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
See also
Energy system
World energy resources and consumption
External links
Statistical Energy Database Review: Enerdata Yearbook 2012
International Energy Agency: Statistics
United Nations: Energy Statistics
The Oslo Group on Energy Statistics
DOE Energy Information Administration
Year of Energy 2009
European Energy Statistics & Key Indicators
Publications
Energy Statistics Yearbook 2004, United Nations, 2006
Energy Balances and Electricity Profiles 2004, United Nations, 2006
Statistical data sets
Energy measurement
Applied statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20data%20rescue | Environmental data rescue is a collection of processes, including photography and scanning, that stores historical and modern environmental data in a usable format. The data is then analyzed and used in scientific models. Historical weather information helps meteorologists and climatologists understand past trends in weather changes, which helps them forecast and predict future weather.
One method takes digital photographs of environmental datum stored on paper medium and then ships the images to a facility where they are entered into a database.
Throughout the world, some estimate 700,000 pieces of data are lost every day due to inks fading, paper deteriorating, magnetic tape print-through etc. A rough estimate of 100 billion parameter values that are still on paper exists, microfiche, microfilm, and magnetic tape that are in a format unusable by computers and scientists alike, which need to be digitized. This data is stored on a variety of media from paper, microfiche, to older magnetic tapes that are going bad.
Once data is digitized, it can be used to help a large range of people from farmers to engineers and in scientific pursuits such as climate studies. Historical environmental data are also used as a basis for "Disease Vectorization" where the areal spread of airborne diseases are correlated to historical weather conditions so that in future outbreaks, health care teams can predict the direction and rate of spread of the disease so that remedial actions can begin before the disease reaches the vulnerable population. Historic data are also used in designing structures such as bridges and buildings, assist the 1.8 billion subsistence farmers throughout the world better plan crops alleviating starvation.
National Climatic Data Center is the current collection point for this data within the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. The International Environmental Data Rescue Organization, a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization has also already participated in the rescue and digitization of one million historic weather observations in Africa and South America.
See also
Citizen science
Data archiving
References
Environmental science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Dubai | The population of Dubai is estimated to be 3.5 million as of April 2022 according to government data. , 3.2 million were non-Emirati, and 69% were male. About 58.50% of the population is concentrated in the 25-44 age group. This unnatural age and gender distribution is due to the large proportion of foreign workers, most of whom are working-age males. Life expectancy at birth was 81 years for males, and 82.1 for females.
Ethnic breakdown
Approximately
67% of the expatriate population (and 71% of the emirate's total population) is South Asian. About 25% of the population have Iranian origin. About 8% of the total population of Dubai is categorized as "Western". The median age in the emirate was about 27 years. In 2014, there were estimated to be 15.54 births and 1.99 deaths per 1,000 people.
Culture
Dubai has diverse cultures all present at the same time in the city. There is no dominant culture that is associated with a particular ethnicity.
Languages spoken
Dubai's official language is Arabic, but English is the lingua franca and is far more commonly used than any other language in the daily communications between the city's residents.
Religion
Article 7 of the UAE's Provisional Constitution declares Islam the official state religion of the Union. The Government funds or subsidizes almost 95 percent of Sunni mosques and employs all Sunni imams; approximately 5 percent of Sunni mosques are entirely private, and several large mosques have large private endowments. Shias are 15% of UAE's native population. The Shi'a minority is free to worship and maintain its own mosques. Shi'a Muslims in Dubai may pursue Shi'a family law cases through a special Shi'a council rather than the Shari'a courts.
Dubai has large expatriate communities of Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs and others. Non-Muslim groups can own their own houses of worship, wherein they can practice their religion freely, by requesting a land grant and permission to build a compound. Groups that do not have their own buildings must use the facilities of other religious organizations or worship in private homes. While the UAE does not offer any federal-level method of granting official status to religious groups, the individual emirates may exercise autonomy in officially recognizing a particular religious denomination. For instance, Dubai granted legal status to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1993. Dubai is also the only emirate that has Hindu temples and a Sikh Gurdwara.
In early 2001, ground was broken for the construction of several additional churches on a parcel of land in Jebel Ali donated by the government of Dubai to four Protestant congregations and a Roman Catholic congregation. Construction on the first Greek Orthodox Church in Dubai (to be called St. Mary's) began at the end of 2005. The land for the construction of the church was also donated by the government to the Greek Orthodox community of Dubai.
Financial support to non-Muslim groups from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSC | NCSC may refer to:
Organizations
National Commission for Scheduled Castes, India
National Cyber Security Centre (Ireland)
National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)
United States
National Catholic Student Coalition
National Center for State Courts
National Computer Security Center, part of the National Security Agency
National Council for Senior Citizens
National Counterintelligence and Security Center
National Cybersecurity Center
North Carolina Solar Center
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPJS | WPJS (1330 AM) is an Urban Gospel formatted radio station licensed to serve Conway, South Carolina, which targets a primarily African-American audience and also airs community-oriented programming.
History
WLAT was the first radio station in Horry County, South Carolina, first licensed on September 24, 1945. At first, WLAT transmitted on 1490 kHz with a 250-watt signal. In 1956, WLAT moved from 1490 to 1330 kHz, along with a daytime power increase to 1,000 watts, but giving up night authorization. The station applied for another power increase in 1958 to 5,000 watts, and would seek 500 watts at night in 1961. A sister FM station was added circa 1964. Formats for the AM station over the years included beautiful music and, as of 1985, country music.
In 1988, the new owners of WLAT, which by this time was separate from the FM, changed the format to urban contemporary and called it "Hot 1330". The owners had changed the callsign of a station in Charlotte, North Carolina, from WLIT, and just in case they wanted to use the letters again, they gave the letters to WLAT. Later, the same thing was done when the station's owners changed the callsign WBIG on a Greensboro, North Carolina station. The station took the callsign WPJS on May 31, 1991.
The current format was chosen in the early 1990s. The old studios on U. S. 501 stood empty until being demolished, and the WLAT call letters still stood next to the road.
References
External links
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
PJS
Gospel radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Dog%20%28TV%20series%29 | Bad Dog is an animated series produced by CinéGroupe and Saban Entertainment for the Teletoon and Fox Family Channel networks, first airing on Teletoon on March 1, 1999. The cartoon focused on the Potanski family and their dog Berkeley. The show's gimmick was that, whenever Berkeley was told that he was a bad dog, he would freeze and pretend to be dead until someone told him he was a good dog.
The show was inspired by the After Dark screensaver "Bad Dog". The two dogs have a similar appearance, and the "Bad Dog" of the show is named Berkeley, a likely reference to Berkeley Systems, the creators of After Dark. The show was paired with another series called Monster Farm.
Internationally, the series did air on Fox Kids (later known as Jetix), being lastly rerun in 2011 on Disney Channel in Netherlands.
Characters
Berkeley aka "Barky": The not-so-normal dog owned by the Potanski family who likes having adventures and always gets everyone into trouble. He appears to have a compulsion to obey every order he hears, including those that were not given to him. As a running gag, he passes out when he hears Bad Dog and wakes up when he hears Good Dog.
"Little Vic" Potanski: The younger Potanski son. He loves Berkeley extremely.
Penelope Potanski: The sole Potanski daughter. She likes her beauty, and also seems to have something of a penchant for the theatre.
Trevor Potanski: The easily panicked genius older son with a like of playing chess. He wears glasses. He also has a large amount of allergies and phobias.
Mr. and Mrs. Potanski: The parents of Vic, Penelope, and Trevor and the owners of Berkeley. Mr. Potanski is an inventor who owns a business called "Potanski's Top Of The Line", however all of his inventions backfire with disastrous results. Mrs. Potanski is a psychiatrist whose office is located in her house.
Grandfather Potanski: The eldest Potanski. Once an astronaut, he likes watching space-related programs on TV and often mistakes everyone's name.
Lester Johnson: Neighbor of the Potanskis who loves his cat named Special, but hates Berkeley and often calls him "The Beast Dog".
Special: Lester Johnson's cat, who usually doesn't move and frequently sought out by Berkeley.
Mrs. Simpkins: A frequent patient of Mrs. Potanski, who has a phobia of practically everything; her main phobia, however, appears to be of dogs.
Voices
Harvey Atkin as Mr. Potanski
Sheila McCarthy as Mrs. Potanski
John Stocker as Grandpa Potanski
Emilie-Claire Barlow as Penelope Potanski/Priscilla the Supermodel
Tracey Moore as Vic Potanski
Robert Smith as Trevor Potanski
James Rankin
Ron Rubin
Richard Binsley as The-Rat-Away-3000
Don Francks
Philip Williams as Barry Little
Michael Hall as Professor Peerless
Episodes
Season 1
1. Disobedience School Part 1 / Disobedience School Part 2
The Potanski family must figure out why their dog, Berkeley, is acting weird / Mrs. Eva hypnotizes Berkeley to be a normal dog, not the crazy dog.
2. Beast Of Show / Trouble With Toto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20static%20timing%20analysis | Conventional static timing analysis (STA) has been a stock analysis algorithm for the design of digital circuits over the last 30 years. However, in recent years the increased variation in semiconductor devices and interconnect has introduced a number of issues that cannot be handled by traditional (deterministic) STA. This has led to considerable research into statistical static timing analysis, which replaces the normal deterministic timing of gates and interconnects with probability distributions, and gives a distribution of possible circuit outcomes rather than a single outcome.
Comparison with conventional STA
Deterministic STA is popular for good reasons:
It requires no vectors, so it does not miss paths.
The run time is linear in circuit size (for the basic algorithm).
The result is conservative.
It typically uses some fairly simple libraries (typically delay and output slope as a function of input slope and output load).
It is easy to extend to incremental operation for use in optimization.
STA, while very successful, has a number of limitations:
Cannot easily handle within-die correlation, especially if spatial correlation is included.
Needs many corners to handle all possible cases.
If there are significant random variations, then in order to be conservative at all times, it is too pessimistic to result in competitive products.
Changes to address various correlation problems, such as CPPR (Common Path Pessimism Removal) make the basic algorithm slower than linear time, or non-incremental, or both.
SSTA attacks these limitations more or less directly. First, SSTA uses sensitivities to find correlations among delays. Then it uses these correlations when computing how to add statistical distributions of delays.
There is no technical reason why determistic STA could not be enhanced to handle correlation and sensitivities, by keeping a vector of sensitivities with each value as SSTA does. Historically, this seemed like a big burden to add to STA, whereas it was clear it was needed for SSTA, so no-one complained. See some of the criticism of SSTA below where this alternative is proposed.
Methods
There are two main categories of SSTA algorithms – path-based and block-based methods.
A path-based algorithm sums gate and wire delays on specific paths. The statistical calculation is simple, but the paths of interest must be identified prior to running the analysis. There is the potential that some other paths may be relevant but not analyzed so path selection is important.
A block-based algorithm generates the arrival times (and required) times for each node, working forward (and backward) from the clocked elements. The advantage is completeness, and no need for path selection. The biggest problem is that a statistical max (or min) operation that also considered correlation is needed, which is a hard technical problem.
There are SSTA cell characterization tools that are now available such as Altos Design Automation's Variety |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKIC-LD | KKIC-LD (channel 16) is a low-power television station in Boise, Idaho, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Estrella TV network. Founded November 10, 1993, It is owned by Cocola Broadcasting.
Recent developments
On March 30, 2023, Bridge Media Networks, the parent company of NewsNet and Sports News Highlights (SNH) (backed by 5-hour Energy creator Manoj Bhargava), announced it would acquire KKIC-LD and six other Cocola stations for $3.2 million. Upon completion of the transaction, KKIC-LD will become Bhargava's first TV station property in the state of Idaho.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
KIC-LD
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Spanish-language television stations in the United States
2001 establishments in Idaho
KIC-LD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20on%20USA | The NBA on USA is the de facto name for the USA Network's National Basketball Association (NBA) television coverage. The program ran from the season through the season.
Coverage overview
Before the USA Network came to be (1969-1979)
Manhattan Cable and HBO
Manhattan Cable (subsequently referred to as the MSG Network) debuted in the spring of 1969 and did all home events from the Madison Square Garden: New York Knicks basketball, New York Rangers hockey, college basketball, horse shows, Golden Gloves boxing, tennis, the Westminster Dog Show, ice capades, professional wrestling, etc. The first reference to the channel as “MSG Network” was sometime around 1971–72, although the name did not become official until 1977.
The first televised events were NHL and NBA playoffs in the spring of 1969; in those playoffs Marty Glickman did play-by-play for the Knicks broadcasts while Win Elliott did play-by-play for the Rangers.
Meanwhile, HBO began simulcasting some MSG games in 1972 beginning with the Rangers/Vancouver Canucks game on November 8, 1972 (the first ever program televised on HBO, to a few subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, PA). 1974–75 marked the only year in which HBO used MSG announcers for their feed. Because HBO is a premium cable service, this created a burden on announcers to fill in dead airtime on HBO while commercials aired on MSG Network. HBO did not broadcast Knicks or Rangers games after the 1976–77 season.
UA-Columbia
When the MSG/HBO marriage ended in 1977, Madison Square Garden proceeded to seek a new partner to launch a national network to show off its events. So for several years, beginning with the 1977–78 season, all MSG home events (such as those involving the Knicks, Rangers, etc.) were then televised on a fledgling network that would eventually become known as the USA Network. This channel, which debuted in September 1977, was basically a continuation of the existing MSG Network. The key difference however, was that it was now nationally syndicated via satellite rather than terrestrially. It was also the first cable channel to be supported by advertising revenues. By this time, the channel was officially called the “Madison Square Garden Network” or MSG Network.
In , the National Hockey League replaced their syndicated coverage package The NHL Network with a package on USA. At the time, the USA Network was called UA-Columbia. As the immediate forerunner for the USA Network, UA-Columbia, served as the cable syndicated arm of MSG Network in New York, PRISM channel in Philadelphia, and whatever pay/cable outlets were around in 1979.
The formation of the USA Network
On April 9, 1980, the Madison Square Garden Network changed its name to the USA Network. This occurred when the ownership structure was reorganized under a joint operating agreement by the UA-Columbia Cablevision cable system (now known as Cablevision Systems Corporation) and MCA (then the parent of Universal Studios, now owned by NBCUniversal). Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment%20Desk | Entertainment Desk was a Canadian entertainment news television series, which aired on the Global Television Network in the 1990s. Anchored by Bob McAdorey, the show aired weekday afternoons.
Entertainment news shows in Canada
Global Television Network original programming
Television series by Corus Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNAL | Reach North Asia Loop (RNAL) is a multi-terabit intra-Asia self-healing submarine telecommunications cable system, connecting the principal cities in Asia.
The 10,000 km cable network provides intra-regional, city-to-city connectivity between Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei. The cable network was developed jointly by Reach and FLAG Telecom. Reach has constructed the eastern leg of the multi-terabit cable that connects Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, while FLAG built the western leg connecting Japan, Hong Kong, and Korea.
Overview
FLAG manages and operates the system on its own behalf and that of Reach under a developmental agreement. FLAG and Reach each own three of the system's six fiber pairs. Reach markets its share of the system as Reach North Asia Loop (RNAL).
RNAL has the largest share of cable capacity in Asia with 29% (second largest is C2C with 25%). Cyclist Egan BeRNAL is named after the cable system.
It has landing points in:
Tong Fuk, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Pusan, South Korea
Wada, Awa District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Toucheng, Yilan County, Taiwan
Technology
RNAL is a high-capacity 6-fiber-pair redundant loop system, upgradeable using Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM). Reach owns 3 fiber pairs and FLAG owns the other 3 fiber pairs.
Service Availability and Configuration
The cable landing shore ends are buried through plough and jetting techniques to minimise the possible impact of fishing, large ship anchors and other ocean hazards that can occur in shallow water. Armored cable protection is also utilised in shallow water areas including the shore ends.
The RNAL is a self-healing loop cable with a traffic restoration time of less than 1 second in the event of a cable fault and availability of 99.999% (about 5 minutes of downtime per year).
Damage to RNAL was reported as affecting internet traffic to China on 18 August 2009.
Upgrade
In January 2012 PCCW Global and Ciena Corporation jointly announced their intent to upgrade RNAL with Ciena's WaveLogic coherent optical 100G networking solutions.
PCCW Global will light a ring of dark fibers on RNAL so that it can support significantly more than its original design capacity.
External links
Comprehensive list of the approximately 1000 cable landing sites globally
References
Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean
Japan–South Korea relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZRX%20%28AM%29 | WZRX (1590 AM, "Fox Sports 1590") was a sports radio station in Jackson, Mississippi. WZRX aired programming from Fox Sports Radio.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the station was called "W1" (WWUN). It was a Top 40 rock-and-roll station, but it was not as popular as WRBC-AM. The station changed formats to the big-band sound in 1985, later changing the call letters to WYHT-AM (Your Hit Tunes). The hours were expanded to 24 hours a day. John Friskello was the major local announcer. It remained with that format until it changed again in the 1980s. Later, the call letters were changed to WZRX. For a while, it was a blues station, but in 2005 the format turned to all black gospel music as "Glory 1590". The format changed again in 2006 to an all-news, CNN Headline News affiliate.
The station also broadcast talk shows hosted by Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs.
The CNN Headline News talk and discussion programs hosted by Nancy Grace and Jane Velez-Mitchell plus Showbiz News were also broadcast each evening.
On October 3, 2011, WZRX changed their format to sports, with programming from Fox Sports Radio.
The station went silent on January 1, 2012. On July 31, 2012, WZRX's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the WZRX call sign was deleted from the FCC's database.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWZRX (Facility ID: 37169)
FCC History Cards for WZRX (covering 1953-1980 as WOKJ / WWUN / WYHT / WCCL)
ZRX
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2012
Defunct radio stations in the United States
IHeartMedia radio stations
2012 disestablishments in Mississippi
ZRX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q40%20%28motherboard%29 | The Q40 and Q60 (sometimes known generically as the Qx0 series) are computer motherboards designed in the late 1990s, based on the Motorola 68040 and 68060 microprocessors respectively and intended to be partially compatible with the Sinclair QL microcomputer. Later these were sold as a fully assembled computer in an AT desktop case.
Hardware
The Q40 and Q60 motherboards were designed by Peter Graf of Germany and manufactured by D&D Systems of the United Kingdom.
Peter Graf designed it to fit any standard AT form factor computer case, although D&D later sold it as complete, fully assembled computer.
The Q40 consists of a sub-AT form factor board comprising a 40 MHz 68040 processor, 1 MiB of video RAM, and several PLDs implementing a QL-compatible video display generator, an ISA bus, stereo 20 kHz audio DACs and an AT keyboard interface. Floppy disk, ATA hard disk, RS-232 and Centronics printer port interfaces are provided by an ISA "multi-I/O" card in one of the two ISA slots provided. Up to 32 MiB of FPM or EDO RAM can be installed in two 72-pin SIMM slots. Also included are sockets for two ROM devices, 2 kiB of non-volatile RAM and a real-time clock. Both of the QL's standard video modes are supported, plus two extended modes: 512×256 or 1024×512 pixels with 16-bit colour. The Q40 board was produced in limited quantities before being superseded by the Q40i; essentially a Q60 board with a 40 MHz 68040.
The Q60 became available in 1999. It is a revised board with a 66 MHz 68060 (Q60/66) or 80 MHz 68LC060 (Q60/80) processor and support for up to 128 MiB of RAM.
In 2013 Peter Graf announced that he was working on the Q68, a FPGA based QL compatible single board computer. The Q68 was first presented to the public in April 2014 and became available in autumn 2017. It is produced and marketed by Derek Stewart (of former D&D Systems).
Software
Three operating systems are available for the Q40/Q60; these comprise QDOS Classic (an enhanced version of Qdos 1.10), SMSQ/E and a custom Linux distribution.
References
External links
Official Q40/Q60 website
68k-based computers
Motherboard
Sinclair QL clones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlink%20%28Unix%29 | In Unix-like operating systems, unlink is a system call and a command line utility to delete files. The program directly interfaces the system call, which removes the file name and (but not on GNU systems) directories like rm and rmdir. If the file name was the last hard link to the file, the file itself is deleted as soon as no program has it open.
It also appears in the PHP, Node.js, R, Perl and Python standard libraries in the form of the unlink() built-in function. Like the Unix utility, it is also used to delete files.
Examples
To delete a file named foo, one could type:
% unlink foo
In PHP, one could use the following function to do the same:
unlink("foo");
The Perl syntax is identical to the PHP syntax, save for the parentheses:
unlink "foo";
In Node.js it is almost the same as the others:
fs.unlink("foo", callback);
In R (with the S language compatibility):
unlink("foo")
#Comment: using the inside argument 'recursive = TRUE', directories can be deleted
Similarly in Python:
os.unlink("foo")
See also
List of Unix commands
link (Unix)
ln (Unix)
References
Unix SUS2008 utilities
System calls |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana-1 | Gondwana-1 is a submarine communications cable network connecting New Caledonia and Australia brought into service in mid-2008.
The cable landing points are:
Narrabeen beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Poindimié commune, North Province, New Caledonia
Mouli Island, Ouvea commune, Loyalty Islands Province, New Caledonia
Xepenehe, Lifou commune, Loyalty Islands Province, New Caledonia
The Australian end of the Cable was terminated in mid November 2007 by the Cable Ship Ile de Re
completing the laying of the cable. The fibre optic cable is laid in the Northern Sydney Protection Zone and comes ashore at Narrabeen beach where the Southern Cross Cable and Australia-Japan Cable are also laid. The system was officially brought into service in September 2008. Gondwana drastically boosted the capacity of the New Caledonia international gateway and decreased the latency to reach Australia and Western Europe, previously handicapped by a 700 ms round trip delay between Australian and Caledonian satellite teleport. It offers the second fibre access point in South Pacific islands after Fijian access to Southern Cross cable, commissioned in 2001.
The fibre optic cable is a two-part system, firstly linking New Caledonia to Australia (and then on to the world via the existing Australian fibre optic cables) and a short unrepeated cable from New Caledonia to the Loyalty Islands, with a landing stations at Poindimie (Main island), Mouly (Ouvea) and Xepenehe (Lifou).
The need for the cable was the increasing demand for advanced telecommunications such as broadband and due to the high cost of satellite bandwidth.
References
Communications in New Caledonia
Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean
Telecommunications in Australia
Australia–France relations
2008 establishments in Australia
2008 establishments in New Caledonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Architecture%20Computing%20Environment | Open Architecture Computing Environment (OACE) was a specification that aimed to provide a standards-based computing environment in order to decouple computing environment from software applications.
It was proposed for the United States Department of Defense in 2004.
See also
Open architecture
Mission Data Interface
References
Distributed computing architecture
United States Navy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keio%206000%20series | The was an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type in Japan, operated by Keio Corporation on its suburban Tokyo commuter rail network between 1972 and 2011. It was the first rolling stock in Keio's history with long cars with four pairs of doors per car side. Sets were refurbished from 1986 to extend their service life.
A four-car formation was used on the Keio Dobutsuen Line as a wanman driver-only-operated shuttle service.
Technical specifications
Motor output:
Formation: 2 cars (cleared for Toei Shinjuku Line), 3 cars, 4 cars, 5 cars, 6 cars, 8 cars
Control system: field chopper (initial car was resistance control)
Some have 5 doors, but some were rebuilt with 4 doors. 4-car trains (only used on Dōbutsuen Line) and 6-car trains had 5 pairs of doors on each side, and 5-car sets had rebuilt cars.
Operations
Keiō Line (including Keiō New Line)
Keiō Dōbutsuen Line
Keiō Sagamihara Line
Keiō Takao Line
Keiō Keibajō Line
Toei Shinjuku Line
Interior
Passenger accommodation consisted of longitudinal bench seating throughout.
History
The first units entered service on 23 May 1972.
The type was withdrawn from service on 13 March 2011.
DeWa 600 series
Three cars were converted to maintenance cars and reclassified as DeWa 600 series in October 2004. The DeWa 600 series replaced the older DeWa 5000 series maintenance cars which were operated since 1995. The remodeling went as follows:
6107 (set 6707) → 601 (the cab from car 6707 was transferred)
6407 (set 6708) → 621 (a simple cab was added)
6457 (set 6708) → 631
The cars received a new grey livery with red and white diagonal stripes.
The DeWa 600 series was used with ChiKi 290 or KuYa 900 sandwiched between cars 601 and 621. It also served as a shunting vehicle at Wakabadai depot.
Following the introduction of successor maintenance cars DeYa 901 and DeYa 902 in September 2015, the DeWa 600 series was withdrawn from service and scrapped in April 2016.
References
External links
Electric multiple units of Japan
6000 series
Train-related introductions in 1972
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDCZ | WDCZ (970 AM) is an American radio station in Buffalo, New York.
WDCZ has not originated any programming of its own since 2012. The station operated as a commercial station from its launch in 1924 until 1975, then operated as a public radio station from 1975 to 2012. In its later years, much of its programming was duplicating that of competing FM station WBFO, which eventually prompted the two stations to merge operations (using WBFO's frequency) in 2012. After several months of simulcasting WBFO, the 970 facility was sold off to the owners of religious-formatted WDCX-FM, who in turn switched 970 to a simulcast of WDCX, a status it has held ever since.
History
WDCZ was launched on October 14, 1924 as WEBR. Fran Striker, later famous for co-creating the Lone Ranger, worked for the station in the early 1930s. From 1936 to 1944, WEBR was an affiliate of the Blue Network (later the American Broadcasting Company) and then with the Mutual Broadcasting System. The station was a commercial operation for its first five decades on air, competing (generally with a measure of success, despite the weakness of its highly directional signal that is aimed directly at Toronto) against competing Buffalo stations. At at least two points in its history it was a sister station to WBEN, during the times when regulatory rules allowed it.
The station changed formats and owners (one of which was the Buffalo Courier-Express) in the early 1970s until the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association, who had owned WNED-TV since 1959, bought WEBR and sister station WREZ-FM (now WNED-FM) in 1975. WEBR adopted an (almost) all-news format a year later (although an evening and overnight jazz program, Jazz In The Nighttime with Al Wallack, remained on the air). In 1993 the station was assigned the WNED calls and all non-news programming was dropped. (The WEBR call sign, history and Wallack's jazz program would later be acquired by local taxicab company owner Bill Yuhnke and assigned to the former WJJL on AM 1440 in 2020; in addition to Wallack, former WEBR midday jock Jack Horohoe was brought out of retirement to resume his show.)
Unlike its counterpart WBFO, which still had music programming in midday, at night and on the weekend, WNED focused entirely on spoken-word programming. Several of the programs on WNED and WBFO (specifically both drive time programs, Morning Edition and All Things Considered) overlapped with different production teams for local inserts, each with its own hosts. (In addition, the weekend A Prairie Home Companion aired on both WNED-AM and WNED-FM, an arrangement that continues as of 2013 with WBFO and WNED-FM.)
Until March 1, 2012, WNED was one of two National Public Radio affiliates in Buffalo. The remaining affiliate is WBFO, formerly operated by the University of Buffalo. WBFO was purchased from the State of New York by the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association, the parent organization of WNED, WNED-TV and WNED-FM in July 2011.
Wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20the%20Philippines | The Republic of the Philippines has a network of diplomatic missions in major cities around the world, under the purview of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), to forward the country's interests in the areas that they serve, as well as to serve the ever-growing numbers of Overseas Filipinos and Overseas Filipino Workers.
Although the Philippine diplomatic mission network is wide, there are embassies that are accredited to other nations without Philippine diplomatic posts. The network as of January 2022 consists of 63 embassies, 26 consulates-general, 4 permanent missions to international organizations, and the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) in Taipei, and its two extension offices.
Excluded from this listing are honorary consulates, branches of the Sentro Rizal, overseas offices of the Department of Tourism, and trade missions (with the exception of MECO, which serves as the Philippines' de facto embassy to Taiwan).
History
Although attempts at initial diplomatic relations were made during the Philippine Revolution and the time of the First Philippine Republic, most nations have established diplomatic relations with the Philippines only in the years after the country achieved independence from the United States in 1946.
The first documented instance of a diplomatic mission of the Philippines being established abroad was that of the embassy in Tokyo, which was opened by the Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of the Empire of Japan, on March 24, 1944 with Jorge B. Vargas as its first ambassador. However, the mission was summarily closed with Japan's defeat in World War II, and as it was never recognized by the pre-war Commonwealth of the Philippines, the oldest continually-operating Philippine diplomatic mission is that of the embassy in Washington, D.C., replacing the office of the Resident Commissioner of the Philippines after the country achieved independence from the United States on July 4, 1946, and led by Joaquín Miguel Elizalde as its first ambassador. This was followed shortly thereafter with the establishment of the permanent mission to the United Nations.
A number of missions were opened in the first years after independence. In his 1947 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Manuel Roxas announced that missions in a number of other cities were also opened aside from the embassy in Washington, D.C.; these included the first consulates general in New York City, San Francisco, and Honolulu, as well as consulates in Xiamen and Hong Kong. Additional missions were opened the following year, including the first missions in Europe (in London, Madrid and Rome) and Latin America (in Buenos Aires). By 1952, the Philippine foreign service had grown to encompass missions in 11 countries, and by 1965 grew further to missions in 36 countries worldwide.
The Philippines' diplomatic presence grew significantly during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, spurred in part by the normalization of relations with the Easter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLGI | WLGI, known as "Radio Baháʼí", is licensed to Hemingway, South Carolina, and broadcasts at 90.9 FM. The station broadcasts a variety of programming, both religious and secular. The station is licensed by the FCC for noncommercial Class C1 operation and is operated by the Louis G. Gregory Baháʼí Institute, named after Hand of the Cause Louis George Gregory, a prominent African-American Baháʼí. It serves Horry, Georgetown, Williamsburg, Florence and Marion counties, in South Carolina, areas for which the station also provides announcements, partners with local organizations and agencies, and supports remote broadcasts.
See Baháʼí Faith in South Carolina.
References
External links
www.wlgi.org — Official web site of WLGI Radio Baháʼí
https://www.radiobahai.us/on-air/ - WLGI Program Page
https://www.radiobahai.us/about/about-radio-bahai/ About Radio Baha’i
LGI
Religious broadcasting in the United States
Bahá'í Faith in the United States
Radio stations established in 1983
Religion in South Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingomonas%20echinoides | Sphingomonas echinoides is a Gram-negative soil bacterium.
External links
usage of this bacteria
Type strain of Sphingomonas echinoides at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
echinoides
Bacteria described in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingomonas%20trueperi | Sphingomonas trueperi is a Gram-negative soil bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Sphingomonas trueperi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
trueperi
Bacteria described in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupriavidus%20oxalaticus | Cupriavidus oxalaticus is a genus of bacteria that includes the former genus Wautersia.
External links
Type strain of Cupriavidus oxalaticus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Burkholderiaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav%20Chv%C3%A1tal | Václav (Vašek) Chvátal () is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and a visiting professor at Charles University in Prague. He has published extensively on topics in graph theory, combinatorics, and combinatorial optimization.
Biography
Chvátal was born in 1946 in Prague and educated in mathematics at Charles University in Prague, where he studied under the supervision of Zdeněk Hedrlín. He fled Czechoslovakia in 1968, three days after the Soviet invasion, and completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, under the supervision of Crispin St. J. A. Nash-Williams, in the fall of 1970. Subsequently, he took positions at McGill University (1971 and 1978–1986), Stanford University (1972 and 1974–1977), the Université de Montréal (1972–1974 and 1977–1978), and Rutgers University (1986-2004) before returning to Montreal for the
Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization
at Concordia (2004-2011) and the Canada Research Chair in Discrete Mathematics (2011-2014) till his retirement.
Research
Chvátal first learned of graph theory in 1964, on finding a book by Claude Berge in a Pilsen bookstore and much of his research involves graph theory:
His first mathematical publication, at the age of 19, concerned directed graphs that cannot be mapped to themselves by any nontrivial graph homomorphism
Another graph-theoretic result of Chvátal was the 1970 construction of the smallest possible triangle-free graph that is both 4-chromatic and 4-regular, now known as the Chvátal graph.
A 1972 paper relating Hamiltonian cycles to connectivity and maximum independent set size of a graph, earned Chvátal his Erdős number of 1. Specifically, if there exists an s such that a given graph is s-vertex-connected and has no (s + 1)-vertex independent set, the graph must be Hamiltonian. Avis et al. tell the story of Chvátal and Erdős working out this result over the course of a long road trip, and later thanking Louise Guy "for her steady driving."
In a 1973 paper, Chvátal introduced the concept of graph toughness, a measure of graph connectivity that is closely connected to the existence of Hamiltonian cycles. A graph is t-tough if, for every k greater than 1, the removal of fewer than tk vertices leaves fewer than k connected components in the remaining subgraph. For instance, in a graph with a Hamiltonian cycle, the removal of any nonempty set of vertices partitions the cycle into at most as many pieces as the number of removed vertices, so Hamiltonian graphs are 1-tough. Chvátal conjectured that 3/2-tough graphs, and later that 2-tough graphs, are always Hamiltonian; despite later researchers finding counterexamples to these conjectures, it still remains open whether some constant bound on the graph toughness is enough to guarantee Hamiltonicity.
Some of Chvátal's work concerns families of sets, or equivalently hypergraphs, a subject already |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malikia%20spinosa | Malikia spinosa is a Gram-negative soil bacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Malikia spinosa at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Comamonadaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD%20Data%20Communications | RAD (the registered trademark of RAD Data Communications Ltd.) is a privately held corporation, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel that designs and manufacturers specialized networking equipment.
RAD is a member of the $1.3 billion RAD Group of companies.
History
RAD was founded by brothers Yehuda and Zohar Zisapel in 1981 as a spin-off from Bynet, a networking hardware distribution company founded by Yehuda in 1973. Their goal was to develop their own products; the company was simply named RAD, for Research And Development.
RAD first successful product was a miniature (by 1980s standards) modem for telephone lines that did not require a separate power source. This novel concept quickly became a commercial success, and by 1985, RAD annual revenues reached $5.5 million. This initial product line evolved into RAD Data Communications, the largest company within the RAD Group.
In 2014, RAD opened a new $32 million advanced R&D center for developing NFV and SDN solutions in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
The company is active in industry standardization bodies such as the Broadband Forum, ETSI NFV ISG, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF).
One of the 46 copies of Rodin's The Thinker that were made from the original cast after the sculptor's death was acquired by Yehuda Zisapel and placed on permanent exhibit in the lobby of RAD's current Tel Aviv headquarters when the building was opened in 2000.
Products
RAD's research, development and engineering includes hardware virtualization, operations, administration and management (OAM) and performance management; service assurance; traffic management; fault management; synchronization and timing over packet; TDM pseudowire; ASIC and FPGA development; hardware miniaturization; SFP form-factor solutions; and business DSL.
An early RAD modem, the SRM-3, was recognized as the world's smallest in the 1992 Guinness Book of World Records. Used for connecting asynchronous terminals to host computers, it measured by by .
In 1998, RAD invented TDM over IP (TDMoIP®) technology and in 2013 it pioneered Distributed Network Function Virtualization (D-NFV®). At Mobile World Congress 2015, RAD introduced the world's first SFP-based IEEE 1588 Grandmaster clock with a built-in GNSS receiver.
In 2015 RAD also launched a virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) device for IP and Carrier Ethernet services with a field pluggable module for hosting virtual network functions (VNFs) and in 2016 it added a white box option that is license-upgradable for network functions such as routing, service demarcation and performance monitoring. RAD's portfolio includes the smallest NFV-empowered device yet invented.
RAD has also been cited as an industry leader in developing communications platforms and security solutions for public utilities.
Markets
The company's installed base now exceeds 15,000,000 units and includes more than 150 telec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellvibrio%20japonicus | Cellvibrio japonicus is a Gram-negative soil bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Cellvibrio japonicus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Pseudomonadales
Bacteria described in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnselsdorf | Günselsdorf is a town in the district of Baden in Lower Austria in Austria.
Population
Economy
The global headquarters of Feller GmbH, a worldwide manufacturer of power cords, data cables and interconnection wiring, is situated here.
References
Cities and towns in Baden District, Austria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSST%20Public%20Schools | DSST Public Schools (DSST), formerly known as the Denver School of Science and Technology, is a public charterSTEM network comprising 16 schools on eight campuses in Denver and Aurora, Colorado, United States, in partnership with Denver Public Schools.
DSST is ranked among the top 200 public high schools in the US.
Overview
Metropolitan area students are selected for admission entirely by a lottery. As students follow a science, mathematics, and technology focused liberal arts education, more than half of the graduates declare a STEM major in college. Students of color comprise 80 percent of the student body and 68 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch. All DSST students follow a prospectus that includes seven years of natural sciences, seven years of mathematics, three years of Spanish, a trimester internship, and a two-trimester senior project.
History
DSST was founded in 2004 at Park Hill in northeast Denver by David Ethan Greenberg, who also served as the first board chair of its successor organization, DSST Public Schools. Bill Kurtz, a former investment banker at JP Morgan, is founding principal.
Recognition
According to the 2015 U.S. News & World Report ranking of American public high schools, the Stapleton campus was nationally ranked 192nd, 158th in STEM education, 55th among charter schools, and 5th in Colorado. In the same year, the school was ranked 5th in mathematics proficiency, tied for 15th in reading proficiency, and was ranked 5th in college readiness, in the state. In a 2014 Denver School Performance report, five of the top six schools in Denver were part of DSST.
Since graduating its first class in 2008, 100 percent of DSST: Montview and DSST: Green Valley Ranch seniors have been accepted to a four-year university.
DSST is recognized for its values-centered culture, daily emphasizing respect and responsibility,
and has been regarded as one of the top mid-size workplaces in Colorado.
Demographics
Support
Donors have played a significant role in the establishment and expansion of DSST. Notable contributions include a $7 million gift by Liberty Media chairman John C. Malone, a $3 million grant by the Daniels Fund, $1 million gift by media mogul Oprah Winfrey, a $1 million donation by the Anna and John Sie Foundation, a $500,000 grant by the Thiry-O'Leary Foundation, and a $50,000 grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
References
External links
Charter schools in Colorado
Educational institutions established in 2004
Education in Aurora, Colorado
High schools in Denver
Schools in Denver
Public high schools in Colorado
Public middle schools in Colorado
2004 establishments in Colorado |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achromobacter%20ruhlandii | Achromobacter ruhlandii is a Gram-negative bacterium included in the order Burkholderiales.
External links
Type strain of Achromobacter ruhlandii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Burkholderiales
Bacteria described in 1981 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkholderia%20glumae | Burkholderia glumae is a Gram-negative, soil-borne, betaproteobacterium.
Genome
Of all bacteria with the necessary sequence data available, B. glumae has the highest number of prophages (bacteriophages integrated into its genome).
References
External links
Louisiana Agriculture, Summer 2011, Vol. 54, pp. 16/17
Texas Rice, September 2010, Vol. X, pp. 3/8
Type strain of Burkholderia glumae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Burkholderiaceae
Bacterial plant pathogens and diseases
Rice diseases
Bacteria described in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terena | Terena may refer to:
Terena people, an ethnic group in Brazil
Terêna language, their language
TERENA, Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association
Terena (São Pedro), parish within the municipality Alandroal, Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlemoss%20High%20School | Littlemoss High School for Boys was a comprehensive school in Littlemoss, Droylsden, Tameside, England. It merged with Droylsden High School, Mathematics and Computing College for Girls in September 2009 to become Droylsden Academy.
Prior to the merger it educated about 550 boys and held specialist Business and Enterprise College status.
Academic standards
The school was under special measures from March 1998 until July 2002.
After their March 2004 inspection Ofsted reported that "This is a good, effective school that has been very successful in improving the areas of weakness identified in the previous report. Very good leadership, together with the significant improvements in teaching and learning and in pupils’ behaviour, has improved standards overall, although standards are still below average." They rated the school Good, point three on a seven-point scale.
Awards and mentions
Schools Achievement Award and Sportsmark in 2002.
Mentioned in Parliament as a member of the Peacemaker Consultation Programme.
Notable teachers
Sarah Joynes was awarded a distinction in the North West Guardian Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School in 2007.
Woodwork teacher Harry "Bulldog" Johnson achieved national fame in 1979 when he won the jackpot on Littlewoods Pools, receiving a prize of over £750,000. He planned to retire at the end of the school term but died of a heart attack just a few weeks after his win.
In July 2008, Science teacher Chris Hilton disappeared on holiday in the French Alps. His body was discovered 7 months later in February 2009.
Former German & French teacher Geoff Rees is now part of the rock group the Badgers
Notable alumni
Howard Donald of Take That attended Littlemoss High School between 1979 and 1984.
Carl Murphy who received a Royal Humane Society Testimonial in December 2004 for saving a man's life at sea.
Dale Cregan the One eyed Manchester Cop Killer attended in the 90's
Notes
The photograph showing of the school prior to demolition is not Littlemoss School.
The photograph is of Manor Road Girls School.
Please update as this misinformation is now being shared on social media post in error.
References
External links
Official site
Defunct schools in Tameside
2009 disestablishments in England
Educational institutions disestablished in 2009
Droylsden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylorubrum%20rhodinum | Methylorubrum rhodinum is a Gram-negative soil bacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Methylobacterium rhodinum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse%20of%20Horror%20XVIII | "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" is the fifth episode of the nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 4, 2007. In the eighteenth annual Treehouse of Horror episode, Bart harbors Kodos the alien in "E.T., Go Home," Homer and Marge are husband and wife assassins who try to take each other out in "Mr. & Mrs. Simpson," and Ned Flanders is given God-like powers during his demonstration on the wages of sin in "Heck House." It was written by Marc Wilmore and directed by Chuck Sheetz. Maggie Simpson does not appear in this episode.
It is also the first Treehouse of Horror episode to premiere after the movie.
Plot
In the opening sequence, Marge talks about Halloween being "last week" and suddenly various logos for other Fox shows pop up on the screen, including the mini logos for American Idol, Fox Sports, Prison Break, Cops, House, and 24. Marge winds up killing several miniature characters that pop up from the logos (except the Prison Break one, which has the characters running away from the scene) and bakes them into meatloaf, which she serves to her family. When she cuts it, the other characters' body parts are shown to spell out the title of the episode and the opening credits (Homer eats the piece with the "developed by" credit, says "Mmmmmmm, developed by", and drools).
E.T., Go Home
In a parody of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Marge tells Bart to get butane from their "butane storage shed" in the back yard. As he does so, he finds Kodos there. Kodos states his desire is to return home and that he had come to Earth in peace, though he hints that he was really sent there to destroy mankind. Bart, however, is oblivious to this, and decides to help him return home. Lisa arrives and is happy with the alien in their home and decides to help Bart and Kodos obtain a list of devices (including two tickets to see Avenue Q, Uranium, and "7 billion body bags") that he can use to contact his home planet, though this appears to be part of his diabolical plan. Homer discovers Kodos when the two accidentally share a shower, but he and Marge decide to let the kids help Kodos anyway, after Kodos hints it would be racist to turn him away (He said that they did not want him in the house because he was Jewish). When NASA agents arrive at the Simpsons home, Homer distracts them by dressing as Abraham Lincoln while Bart sneaks Kodos out. However, when Kodos kills several agents along the way, Bart begins to think Kodos's intentions are not as friendly as he was led to believe. Finally, Kodos reveals that the devices he had the Simpsons collect were for a portal-generating device so that others of his planet can come to Earth and wipe out the human race and eat their heads. When the aliens (including Kang) invade, the rest of the Simpson family shows up, along with the military. A brief war is waged, and Earth ultimately overpowers the aliens (the massive heads of Kodos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo%20Streetcar | The is a tram network located in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is operated by the Sapporo City Transportation Bureau. The system is sometimes referred to by residents as simply the . The first section of the network opened in 1909 as the ; it was electrified in 1918. The Transportation Bureau took over the network in 1927.
Lines and routes
At its peak in 1958, the network was in length with 11 lines and 7 routes. However, the network shrank due to increased automobile ownership and the opening of the Sapporo Municipal Subway.
After the closures in the 1970s, three lines remained. They were collectively called the or simply the , since the lines covered an incomplete city center route.
: Nishi-Yon-Chōme – Nishi-Jūgo-Chōme
: Nishi-Jūgo-Chōme – Chūō-Toshokan-Mae
: Chūō-Toshokan-Mae – Susukino
The lines were combined into a single circle route following the opening of the between Susukino and Nishi-Yon-Chōme in December 2015.
Almost all trams run the full circle line, with several trams running between Nishi-Yon-Chōme and Nishisen-Jūroku-Jō during the morning rush hours.
Trams run at a frequency of 7 to 8 minutes during the day and 3 minutes during weekday peak periods between Nishi-Yon-Chōme and Nishisen-Jūroku-Jō stations.
Vehicles are taken out of service at Chūō-Toshokan-Mae.
The fare is ¥200. Like the subway, the tram accepts the SAPICA card, a prepaid magnetic card. Any other electronic IC cards (like Kitaca or Suica) can also be used.
Stations
All stations are located in Chūō-ku, Sapporo.
See also
Sapporo Municipal Subway
Sapporo City Transportation Bureau
List of tram and light rail transit systems
References
External links
Official English Website
Sapporo Public Transport Information
Tram transport in Japan
Streetcar
600 V DC railway electrification
Sapporo
Hokkaido Heritage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz%20Bogaert | Lorenz Bogaert, born 1976, is a Belgian serial Internet entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Massive Media, a social media company owning digital brands such as social networking services Netlog and Ablo and social dating community Twoo. Lorenz lives in Ghent.
Education
Bogaert studied law and management at the universities of Brussels (BE), Fribourg (CH) and Namur (BE).
Career
In 2012 Massive Media was acquired by Meetic, now part of internet holding company IAC. Bogaert is also co-founder of cryptocurrency portfolio application Delta, which was acquired by eToro in 2019 and he was involved in launching expense management scale-up Rydoo, acquired by Sodexo in 2017. Another company founded by Bogaert is proptech scale-up Realo of which he is executive chairman. In 2019 he was listed as the 4th most important angel investor in Belgium by Antwerp Management School.
Bogaert was awarded Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008.
References
External links
Lorenz Bogaert profile at TEDxBrussels, 2011
How Netlog Leaps Language Barriers in the Wall Street Journal
Why Belgium is an innovation hotspot
Living people
1976 births
Belgian businesspeople
Belgian company founders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20New%20Adventures%20of%20Winnie%20the%20Pooh%20episodes | This is a complete list of episodes of Disney's The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The series premiered on January 17, 1988 on Disney Channel. Thirteen episodes were aired on the network before the series moved to ABC that fall.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1988–89)
The early half of the season was animated by TMS with the exception of “The Wishing Bear”, which was animated by Walt Disney Animation Australia. Walt Disney Animation Australia later took over animation production of the series, starting with “Fish Out of Water”.
Season 2 (1989)
Walt Disney Animation Australia animated most of the episodes of Season 2, with the exception of “To Catch a Hiccup”, which was animated by Walt Disney Animation Japan.
Season 3 (1990)
Walt Disney Animation Australia animated nearly all of the episodes of Season 3, with the exception of “April Pooh” which was animated by Walt Disney Animation UK Limited.
Season 4 (1991)
This season was animated both by Wang Animation and Hanho Heung-Up.
Additional specials
See also
Winnie-the-Pooh
List of Winnie-the-Pooh characters
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
References
External links
Winnie-the-Pooh Episode Guide
Winnie-the-Pooh television series
New Adventures of Winnie
Lists of Disney Channel television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorfun | Endorfun is a single-player puzzle computer game released in 1995 for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. It was later released in Japan under the title Cu-On-Pa, appearing on the consoles Super Famicom and PlayStation. A Nintendo 64 version was announced (again under the title Cu-On-Pa) but never released. The game achieved notoriety for the extensive use of spoken "positive affirmations" on its soundtrack.
Gameplay
The player controls a small cube, referred to as a light body, by using the keyboard or mouse. The light body rolls along a grid (the unified field) collecting life force tiles (coloured tiles with a texture matching that of the cube) by rolling the cube over them such that the top face of the cube matches the colour of the tile. Coloured tiles of varying types appear randomly on the playing surface, but can be eliminated in the same manner as life force tiles.
Games are divided into multiple levels, each of which has a set time limit and a life force target. If a player collects the target amount of life force play proceeds to the next level. If the timer expires or the light body is unable to move (all adjacent grid spaces are blocked by coloured tiles) then the game is over.
There are three different modes of play in Endorfun, each with different goals:
Longevity: play for the longest possible time
Abundance: pass through a set number of levels before time runs out
Quickening: as Abundance, but levels become progressively faster and more difficult
Soundtrack
Endorfun's soundtrack is composed of a large number of short, looped song segments. Each segment is approximately 5 seconds long, with different segments strung together to provide longer, varied soundtracks for each level.
Each level's soundtrack contains messages oriented towards peace, well-being, love, and happiness.
Subliminal messages
Endorfun features phrases described by the press at the time of its release as "subliminal messages", which are audibly spoken through speakers or headphones to the player during gameplay. These messages, dubbed "positive affirmations" by the game's publisher, take the form of phrases intended to convey positive feelings and moods such as body positivity and optimism, such as "I am joyful", "I am powerful" and "I am at peace". They became immediately controversial due to their nature and were criticized by the press and a professor at the University of Michigan, who raised concerns that these messages, though ostensibly positive, could have certain unintended consequences.
Time Warner stated that all of the messages included in the game were only intended "to uplift the heart and mind of its users" and that an exhaustive list of all such phrases was printed on the game's retail box, so that consumers buying knew exactly what they would be exposed to. The "subliminal" phrases were also optional and can be disabled by the player through the game's sound menu, though doing so disables music (but not other sounds) as well. Instructions f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemBuilder/SB%2B | SB/XA is a 4GL development and runtime environment originally written for the Pick family of computer databases/environments and now part of the Rocket U2 software suite.
The SystemBuilder environment comprises SB+ Server, often running on a Rocket U2 database, SBClient which runs as a Microsoft Windows desktop client and the SB/XA Communications server for browser clients. The product can be run in either developer or runtime mode. The development environment enables rapid prototyping, development and deployment of applications and supports a variety of user interface environments.
History
System Builder originally owned by Computermatic PL was started in a garden shed in South Africa by first cousins Neill and Derek Miller in 1982. The popularity of the Pick database system, combined with a lack of a good development framework led them to develop a tool to build standard menus and screens.
The product was very successful and after expanding into international markets and after a few versions they began to re-develop the product from the ground up. This was to become SB+ and was released in early 1990.
Traditionally, up to this time, Pick systems were accessed using green-screen terminals like the Wyse60 or VT100 but with the rise of the PC a new paradigm presented itself and so around the end of 1991 the product was enhanced with the addition of a specialised terminal emulation client called Termulator! This was able to tightly integrate the server and the PC to allow for facilities like downloads direct from the server into Lotus 1-2-3 or the new kid on the block, Microsoft Excel.
Shortly after, the client program was renamed SBClient and the ability to develop and render screens in either character or GUI mode.
Having been bought by Unidata Corporation in 1996, and following Unidata's merger with VMark Software Inc to form Ardent Software in 1998, the SystemBuilder product set came under the ownership of Informix in 2000 following their purchase of Ardent Software for its Datastage product. Subsequently, in 2001 Informix themselves were bought by IBM, and the U2 and SystemBuilder products eventually found their way to become part of IBM's Data Management portfolio.
Development of the SystemBuilder and RedBack products continued in Sydney until 2005, when they were merged with the U2 development team located in Denver, United States. On 1 October 2009, Rocket Software announced the purchase of the entire U2 suite, which includes SystemBuilder, from IBM.
The SystemBuilder Development Environment
The System Builder/SB+ server environment is based around a set of key tools and utilities. These leverage out to provide a powerful and comprehensive development environment which is, itself, built mainly from these tools. SB+ includes an application menuing system, screen generator, a 3GL programming language, an expression language, the GUI components and report writer tool.
Evolution
In August 2008, System Builder released SB/XA v6.0.0 SB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20State%20University%20Housing | Michigan State University Housing is a large and complex network of housing for students and faculty of Michigan State University. Most of the housing is in the form of residence halls on the school's campus, but there are also university apartments, fraternity and sorority housing, and free-standing housing for grad students, faculty and staff.
The residence halls are arranged into five neighborhoods; Brody Neighborhood, North Neighborhood, South Neighborhood, River Trail Neighborhood, and East Neighborhood.
The university expanded its housing greatly in the 1950s and 1960s, resulting in what is now the largest residence hall system in the United States. 18,200 students live in MSU's 23 undergraduate halls, one graduate hall, and three apartment villages. Each hall has its own hall government, with representatives in the Residence Halls Association (RHA). In total there are 245 buildings for housing and food service, as well as 74 other buildings that help support the housing complex system. Despite the size and extent of on-campus housing, 58% of students live off-campus.
Residence halls
North Neighborhood
North Neighborhood, which includes Red Cedar neighborhood and West Circle neighborhood, was designed by the Malcomson, Calder & Hammond Architectural Firm, and was built throughout the 1930s and 1940s. This was built as one of the nine Public Works Administration (PWA) building projects on campus in that era. Built on "sacred ground", the original campus growth sprang from this area. The ivy-covered halls are of a Tudor-style design, with high-pitched gabled roofs, metal casement windows, slate roofs, and Renaissance detailing, and recall medieval estates.
Currently all but Yakeley are co-ed, though the West Circle complex was originally all female. Reflecting that fact, each of the West Circle halls is named for a woman who made significant contributions to Michigan State.
North Neighborhood is composed of residence halls from both West Circle and Red Cedar:
The West Circle neighborhood is made up of six buildings:
Mary Anne Mayo (1931) - houses 250 students
Louise H. Campbell (1939) - houses approximately 300 students
Linda E. Landon (1947) - houses approximately 300 students
Elida Yakeley-Maude Gilchrist (1947) - houses a combined 500 students
Sarah Langdon Williams (1937) - houses 160 residents
The Red Cedar Complex is close to the geographic center of campus. Snyder and Phillips Halls contain classrooms and are home to the Residential College in Arts & Humanities.
Stevens T. Mason/Theophilus Abbot Halls
Jonathan L. Snyder/T. Glenn Phillips Halls
Mary Mayo Hall
Mary Mayo Hall was built in 1931 as the first residence hall in the West Circle complex.
It is named after Mary Mayo, a school teacher and wife of a Civil War veteran who was also an active member of the Grange. Mayo wanted her daughter to be able to attend a collegiate institution, but MAC (Michigan Agricultural College, former name for Michigan State University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Rivers%20Educational%20Computer%20Association | Tri-Rivers Educational Computer Association (TRECA) in an information technology center (ITC) serving the state of Ohio and founded in 1979. It serves a consortium of local school districts across the state of Ohio, providing technology and educational support. TRECA provides services in the areas of student information systems, state reporting, fiscal services, instructional services, professional development training and information technology support.
TRECA also operates TRECA Digital Academy, an online public school for Ohio students in grades K-12 headquartered in Marion, Ohio. Operated by TRECA, the school provides students in many school districts in Ohio with distance learning options. The program serves nearly 3000 students and is particularly targeted at students who are at-risk, ill, or home-schooled. Students work from home on school-supplied computers; they correspond with teachers and send in assignments electronically. The Akron school district has the largest such program in Ohio. Students who complete the program through 12th grade graduate with a regular high school diploma and even a cap-and-gown graduation ceremony.
In 2018, TRECA Digital Academy began offering students an opportunity to learn workplace skills, earn college credit, and pursue industry credentials through a career technical education program called TRECA Tech. The courses in the program currently include cybersecurity, marketing, computer and web programming, business and administrative services, interactive media, finance, accounting, and Cisco networking.
References
External links
Official website
YouTube channel
Facebook page
Twitter page
Instagram page
Information technology organizations based in North America
Computer companies established in 1979
Schools in Ohio
Online K–12 schools
Online schools in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20E.%20Pattis | Richard Eric Pattis is an American professor emeritus at the University of California, Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, where he taught introductory programming and data structures.
He is the author of the Karel programming language, and published Karel the Robot: A gentle introduction to the art of programming.
Pattis has been a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington. He holds a master's degree from Stanford University.
References
External links
Living people
University of California, Irvine faculty
Computer science educators
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariba%20Heine | Cariba Heine (born 1 October 1988) is a South African-born Australian actress and dancer. She is known for her roles as Rikki Chadwick in the Network Ten show H2O: Just Add Water, Bridget Sanchez in the third series of Blue Water High, and Caroline Byrne in A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne.
Early life
Heine was born in Johannesburg to South African parents Michelle, a former showgirl, and Kevin Heine. She moved to Australia at the age of three with her parents and older brother Kyle (born 1985).
Career
Dancing
Her early days included training in jazz dance, tap dance, classical ballet, acrobatics and rhythmic gymnastics, and studying acting and singing at National Capital Acting School. She danced at her mother's dance school in Canberra, where she later attended Telopea Park School and St Clare's College. She was the youngest dancer to perform at the Stargazers Convention in Sydney, Australia. She was homeschooled to focus on her dance career, and performed in many stage productions, including a tour in the United States, where she featured in the music video for Will Young's song "Leave Right Now". After a serious hip injury, she was suggested to turn temporarily to acting by her manager.
Acting
Heine began her acting career in 2006 by being cast on the television series, H2O: Just Add Water, where she played Rikki Chadwick, one of the lead roles. Heine next portrayed Caroline Byrne in the television film A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne which was broadcast on Network Ten in Australia on 4 November 2009.
In 2011, she joined the cast of the indie film Lord of the Crows, though the film ultimately failed to get crowdfunded. In 2012, she portrayed Heather in Bait 3D, and Delvene Delaney in Channel 9's biographical TV miniseries Howzat! Kerry Packer's War. In 2016, Heine reprised her role as Rikki Chadwick in the final two episodes of the third series of Mako: Island of Secrets, a spin-off of H2O: Just Add Water. The same year Heine had a starring role in the short film How'd I Get in This Field which premiered at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival.
Heine joined the cast of Home and Away in 2018 as Ebony Harding. In 2020, she appeared in the thriller-drama series The Secrets She Keeps with Laura Carmichael and Jessica De Gouw.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1988 births
21st-century Australian actresses
Australian child actresses
Australian female dancers
Australian people of South African descent
Australian television actresses
Living people
Actresses from Johannesburg
South African emigrants to Australia
South African television actresses
White South African people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodi | Bodi may refer to:
Bodinayakkanur, India
Bodi, Benin
Bodi White, Louisiana politician
The Bodi people of Ethiopia
SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator, software
The protagonist from the animated film Rock Dog
Alternative name for asparagus bean in Trinidad and Tobago
See also
Bode (disambiguation)
Bode (surname)
Bodey, a surname
Bodhi, in Buddhism
Bodie (disambiguation)
Body (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luoma%20railway%20station | Luoma (Finnish) or Bobäck (Swedish) was a station on the VR commuter rail network located in Kirkkonummi, Finland, between the stations of Mankki and Masala. The station had two tracks, with track one serving trains towards Kirkkonummi and track two towards Helsinki. The station was opened in 1932, then named as Nokka. In that time, there was another station named Luoma, located about a kilometer more towards Helsinki. The station was out of use between 1944 and 1956, as the Porkkala Cape served as a Soviet military base and the frontier passed through the station. When the original Luoma station was shut down in 1978, the Nokka station was renamed as Luoma. Because of very low number of passengers, the station was closed a day after neighbouring station Mankki on 27 March 2016.
Connections
Only the U and L trains between Kirkkonummi and Helsinki stopped at Luoma, the faster S line did not. The Y train towards Karis ran through the station but did not stop.
References
Kirkkonummi
Railway stations in Uusimaa
Railway stations opened in 1932
Railway stations closed in 2016
Defunct railway stations in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20distribution%20in%20wireless%20sensor%20networks | Key distribution is an important issue in wireless sensor network (WSN) design. WSNs are networks of small, battery-powered, memory-constraint devices named sensor nodes, which have the capability of wireless communication over a restricted area. Due to memory and power constraints, they need to be well arranged to build a fully functional network.
Key distribution schemes
Key predistribution is the method of distribution of keys onto nodes before deployment. Therefore, the nodes build up the network using their secret keys after deployment, that is, when they reach their target position.
Key predistribution schemes are various methods that have been developed by academicians for a better maintenance of PEA management in WSNs. Basically a key predistribution scheme has 3 phases:
Key distribution
Shared key discovery
Path-key establishment
During these phases, secret keys are generated, placed in sensor nodes, and each sensor node searches the area in its communication range to find another node to communicate. A secure link is established when two nodes discover one or more common keys (this differs in each scheme), and communication is done on that link between those two nodes. Afterwards, paths are established connecting these links, to create a connected graph. The result is a wireless communication network functioning in its own way, according to the key predistribution scheme used in creation.
There are a number of aspects of WSNs on which key predistribution schemes are competing to achieve a better result. The most critical ones are: local and global connectivity, and resiliency.
Local connectivity means the probability that any two sensor nodes have a common key with which they can establish a secure link to communicate.
Global connectivity is the fraction of nodes that are in the largest connected graph over the number of all nodes.
Resiliency is the number of links that cannot be compromised when a number of nodes(therefore keys in them) are compromised. So it is basically the quality of resistance against the attempts to hack the network. Apart from these, two other critical issues in WSN design are computational cost and hardware cost. Computational cost is the amount of computation done during these phases. Hardware cost is generally the cost of the memory and battery in each node.
Keys may be generated randomly and then the nodes determine mutual connectivity. A structured approach based on matrices that establishes keys in a pair-wise fashion is due to Rolf Blom. Many variations to Blom's scheme exist. Thus the scheme of Du et al. combines Blom's key pre-distribution scheme with the random key pre-distribution method with it, providing better resiliency.
See also
Wireless sensor networks
Key distribution
Blom's scheme
References
External links
List of publications for Key Management in WSN
Key management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C45 | C45 or C-45 may refer to:
Beech C-45 Expeditor, an American military transport aircraft
C4.5 algorithm, used to generate a decision tree
C45 road (Namibia)
Caldwell 45, a spiral galaxy
Cannabis Act introduced as Bill C-45 to the Parliament of Canada
EADS/Northrop Grumman KC-45, a cancelled air refueling aircraft for the US Air Force
Scotch Game, a chess opening
Underground Work (Women) Convention, 1935 of the International Labour Organization
Ursus C-45, a Polish tractor
C45, a variant of Claridge Hi-Tec/Goncz Pistol rifle
C45, a 45-minute audio Compact Cassette tape
C45 Scaphandre Autonome, vintage scuba equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%201613 | IEEE-1613 is the IEEE standard detailing environmental and testing requirements for communications networking devices in electric power substations. The standard is sponsored by the IEEE Power & Energy Society.
External links
(current [2009] version)
(2011 amendments to current version)
(superseded by 2009 version)
IEEE standards
Electric power infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condictio%20causa%20data%20causa%20non%20secuta | The condictio causa data causa non secuta under Roman law was an action ("condictio") for recovery of a transfer of property, where the purpose for the transfer had failed (causa non secuta). During the recognition of innominate contracts, and their enforcement via the actio praescriptis verbis, the condictio causa data causa non secuta still had relevance, however, outside the field of valid contracts. This can be explained by reference to the purpose which failed (the basis of the action): where pacta sunt servanda, the purpose is successful on discharge of the legal duties which flow from the contract, namely transfer of the object of the contract.
The condictio causa data causa non secuta still exists in German Law and is represented in § 812 I 2 2. Alt BGB. Its modern short form is called "condictio ob rem". It has been used in several cases of post-socialist economies of Eastern Europe where the state was selling state owned property to nouveaux riches with an explicit request for the property (usually factories, but also land and other) to be brought for a specific purpose. As such requests were as a rule not fulfilled, in some (but by far not all) cases the public pressure has forced the governments to act upon the initial contract and claim back the property, paying the buyer who had failed to carry out his or her part of the agreement partial (or rarely full) restitution for his or her payment according to the first contract. Such cases were usually related to issues of bribery and embezzlement by state officials in the instances of signing the initial contracts of sale.
Scots law also still recognises the action of condictio causa data causa non secuta among the other condictiones, as was shown in the landmark case, in the field of unjustified enrichment (restitution), of Shilliday v Smith (especially per Lord President Rodger).
References
External links
Roman law
German business law
Scots law
Latin legal terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit%20data%20graph%20execution | Explicit data graph execution, or EDGE, is a type of instruction set architecture (ISA) which intends to improve computing performance compared to common processors like the Intel x86 line. EDGE combines many individual instructions into a larger group known as a "hyperblock". Hyperblocks are designed to be able to easily run in parallel.
Parallelism of modern CPU designs generally starts to plateau at about eight internal units and from one to four "cores", EDGE designs intend to support hundreds of internal units and offer processing speeds hundreds of times greater than existing designs. Major development of the EDGE concept had been led by the University of Texas at Austin under DARPA's Polymorphous Computing Architectures program, with the stated goal of producing a single-chip CPU design with 1 TFLOPS performance by 2012, which has yet to be realized as of 2018.
Traditional designs
Almost all computer programs consist of a series of instructions that convert data from one form to another. Most instructions require several internal steps to complete an operation. Over time, the relative performance and cost of the different steps have changed dramatically, resulting in several major shifts in ISA design.
CISC to RISC
In the 1960s memory was relatively expensive, and CPU designers produced instruction sets that densely encoded instructions and data in order to better utilize this resource. For instance, the add A to B to produce C instruction would be provided in many different forms that would gather A and B from different places; main memory, indexes, or registers. Providing these different instructions allowed the programmer to select the instruction that took up the least possible room in memory, reducing the program's needs and leaving more room for data.
Actually making these instructions work required circuitry in the CPU, which was a significant limitation in early designs and required designers to select just those instructions that were really needed. In 1964, IBM introduced its System/360 series which used microcode to allow a single expansive instruction set architecture (ISA) to run across a wide variety of machines by implementing more or less instructions in hardware depending on the need. This allowed the ISA to be expansive, and this became the paragon of computer design in the 1960s and 70s, the so-called orthogonal design. This style of memory access with wide variety of modes led to instruction sets with hundreds of different instructions, a style known today as CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing).
In 1975 IBM started a project to develop a telephone switch that required performance about three times that of their fastest contemporary computers. To reach this goal, the development team began to study the massive amount of performance data IBM had collected over the last decade. This study demonstrated that the complex ISA was in fact a significant problem; because only the most basic instructions were guaranteed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozine | Eurozine is a network of European cultural magazines based in Vienna, linking up more than 90 partner journals and just as many associated magazines and institutions from nearly all European countries. Eurozine is also an online magazine which publishes original articles and selected articles from its partner journals with additional translations into one of the major European languages.
By providing a Europe-wide overview of current themes and discussions, Eurozine offers information for an international readership and facilitates communication and exchange between authors and intellectuals from Europe and worldwide. Eurozine is a non-profit institution, its office is based in Vienna and headed by managing director Filip Zielinski. Since November 2018 Réka Kinga Papp is Editor-in-chief.
History
Eurozine emerged from an informal network dating back to 1983. Since that time, editors of various European cultural magazines have met once a year in European cities to exchange ideas and experiences.
In 1995, the meeting took place in Vienna. The success of this meeting, in which numerous eastern European magazines participated for the first time, and the rapid development of the Internet, encouraged the editors to reinforce the existing loose network with a virtual but more systematic one. Eurozine was established in 1998.
Today, Eurozine hosts the "European Meeting of Cultural Journals" each year together with one or more of its partners.
The magazines Kritika & Kontext (Bratislava), Mittelweg 36 (Hamburg), Ord&Bild (Gothenburg), Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (Coimbra), Transit - Europäische Revue (Vienna), and Wespennest (Vienna) are Eurozine'''s founders.
Partner journals (by countries, as of February 2016)''
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External links
1998 establishments in Austria
Cultural magazines
Magazines established in 1998
Magazines published in Vienna
Magazines published in Europe
Multilingual magazines
Networks
Online literary magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigel%27s%20Revenge | Rigel's Revenge is a text adventure published in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum home computers by Mastertronic on their "Bulldog" label. It was written by British studio Smart Egg Software using a heavily modified version of The Quill, an adventure-authoring package.
Plot
Harper and Elliot, two 23rd-century investigative journalists, have joined an organisation called the Alterian Corps in order to further their careers. They have been sent on a mission to the planet Rigel V which is in a state of war with one region holding out against the Federation troops attempting to conquer it. The Rigellians claim to possess a Doomsday Machine which will enact a terrible revenge if the Federation refuse to withdraw from the planet. Elliot has been smuggled in by the Alterian Corps in the guise of a Rigellian trooper with a mission to locate the whereabouts of the Doomsday Machine and report to Harper who is to follow one week later. Harper has instructions to meet Elliot at night in a certain backstreet in the occupied sector of the town.
Gameplay
The player takes control of Harper. The parser accepts standard text adventure commands and can understand simple sentences such as THROW RUBBLE AT THE TANK and LOOK INSIDE THE SATCHEL.
The game's interaction with the player is mainly through text output, but occasionally during the game static graphics are displayed.
Development
Reception
References
External links
1980s interactive fiction
1987 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Commodore 64 games
Fiction set around Rigel
Mastertronic games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megami%20Magazine | is a Japanese monthly magazine which focuses on bishōjo characters from anime and Japanese computer and console games, edited by IID and published by Gakken Plus. It is known for having many posters, pinups and large pictures among the articles.
Overview
Megami Magazine was originally released as an extra edition of the anime magazine "Animedia" by Gakken Kenkyusha (later Gakken Holdings). As the anime magazine was discontinued, publication began on July 28, 1999 for an independent Megami Magazine to fill the void with a focus on "gal games". Megami Magazine was originally released every odd month on the 28th before it was changed to every even month starting with the February 28, 2000 issue. This did not last long as the magazine was finally switched from a bi-monthly to a monthly basis release starting in November, 2000. During this time the focus of the magazine was shifted from "gal games" to "anime" due to a surge in popularity with "moe" type characters. An after effect from the monthly switch led to the split off of “Megami Magazine Special” from the main issue of “Animedia” starting in March 2003.
The Gakken Group was reorganized in October 2009 which caused Megami Magazine to briefly come under the umbrella of Gakken Publishing. This was further modified with the merging of Gakken Publishing with Gakken Marketing and others which led to Gakken Plus taking its place. Megami Magazine was converted into e-book format in April 2018 following the digital conversion of "Animedia" and "Voice Actor Animedia". On February 1, 2020 the editing and publishing business was transferred from Gakken Plus to IID along with "Animedia". The former of these two companies still officially releases the magazine under their name Gakken Plus.
Features
Adult content
Until the April 2005 issue, there was a section introducing adult anime, which included scenes of female characters with their nipples exposed. Some works even had posters attached, however that section has been discontinued.
Centerfolds and posters
Megami Magazine is unique because each issue is supplemented by more than 20 posters.
Girls Avenue
"Girls Avenue" was a section in Megami Magazine where an artist was featured and one of their illustrations was included as a pinup poster. As of Megami Magazine volume 150, the "Girls Avenue" section has been discontinued and is now released as a series of art books.
Mascot Character
Claire Froebel (Voice actor: Reiko Takagi / character design: Masa Shiranagi. The name was decided on by public readers) who is the navigator of the reader's corner "MegaTen!" had appeared in the magazine's TV commercials aired in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's and became a de facto mascot character of the magazine.
Series
Sister magazines & special editions
Along with the main Megami Magazine line, Gakken also publishes several other titles using the same name or content.
Radio
In commemoration of the 100th issue of the magazine in September 2008, the internet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoalteromonas%20mariniglutinosa | Pseudoalteromonas mariniglutinosa is a marine bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Pseudoalteromonas mariniglutinosa at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Kentucky%20Broadcasting | East Kentucky Broadcasting was a network of radio stations serving the Eastern Kentucky area.
History
On December 23, 1948, articles of incorporation were drafted to create a new radio station in Pikeville, Kentucky. This radio station became WPKE. On July 31, 1949, the first broadcast from WPKE was transmitted at 250 watts.
During the early 1950s, Jack Hatcher bought out stockholders O.T. Hinton, Mitchell Preston, Alvis P. Keene, Dr. O.W. Thompson, Clyde Childers and Edward Venters, becoming the sole owner of the radio station. Burton Robinson, the business manager of WPKE, hired 16-year-old Walter E. May as the first rock and roll disc jockey. After his death in 1960, his heirs sold all of the controlling stock to three men from Morehead, Kentucky.
Two years after the death of Hatcher, May bought a third of the company, and was subsequently named general manager of East Kentucky Broadcasting. May increased the transmittal power of WPKE from its original 250 watts to 1,000 watts. In 1965, two businessmen from Pikeville bought the remaining two-thirds of WPKE, organized by May. May then bought some stock from both businessmen, bringing his total interest in the company to 50%. The remaining stock was owned by five other businessmen, Henry Stratton, Hobert Clay Johnson, C.D. Roberts, Herman G. Dotson, and T.T. Colley, each with an equal 10% of the stock.
In 1966, Eastern Kentucky Broadcasting added another station, WPKE-FM, which later became WDHR. Between 1966 and 1980, EKB owned radio stations in Lexington, Hindman, Louisa, Nicholasville, Virgie, Prestonsburg, Coal Run, Jellico, Williamson, WV and Tennessee.
On July 16, 1969, Walter E. May provided live coverage of the Apollo 11 launch from Cape Canaveral.
Since 1990, Walter E. May had served as the mayor of Pikeville and president of the board of directors at Pikeville Medical Center (throughout the years, EKB has raised over $50,000 for the hospital), in addition to his duties as Founder of East Kentucky Broadcasting. Currently, day-to-day operations of East Kentucky Broadcasting is the responsibility of corporate vice presidents Christy May Adkins and Walt May II.
May passed away on November 1, 2018. Effective May 29, 2019, East Kentucky Broadcasting sold their entire portfolio of nine stations and five translators to Mountain Top Media LLC for $2.85 million.
Former stations
References
External links
East Kentucky Broadcasting
WDHR
WZLK
WPKE FM
WLSI
WXCC
WPKE AM
Mass media in Kentucky
Companies based in Kentucky
Defunct radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Pikeville, Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankki%20railway%20station | Mankki railway station (, ) was a station on the VR commuter rail network located in Espoo, Finland, between the stations of Kauklahti and Luoma. The station had two tracks, with track one serving trains towards Kirkkonummi and the other towards Helsinki. The platform in the direction of Helsinki is a very rare wooden platform. Mankki was the least used station in the Espoo area, with only 60-100 passengers per day before its closure. Because of the very low number of passengers, the station was closed on 27th of March 2016.
Connections
Only the U and early morning/late night L trains between Kirkkonummi and Helsinki stopped at Mankki giving approximately an hourly service, but the faster S trains did not stop. The regional Y trains between Karis and Helsinki also passed through the station without stopping.
References
External links
Railway stations in Espoo
Railway stations closed in 2016
Defunct railway stations in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiP%20Animation%20Services | PiP Animation Services Inc. is a Canadian full-service animation studio based in Ottawa. Its most recent work includes the CBC series Wandering Wenda and the PBS Kids series Cyberchase. Their mascot is a toucan.
Animation accomplishments
Somewhere between 2000 and 2002, Pip did some work on the animated series Anne of Green Gables, in conjunction with Sullivan Entertainment's animation studio. Pip was specifically responsible for the digital backgrounds of certain episodes.
Pip did work on a couple of shows for the Amberwood Productions studio. The first was the Katie and Orbie television program. They were responsible for the background colors and the unit background designs for the show. The studio also did work on their show Hoze Houndz.
For Nelvana studios, Pip did work on the television series Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, which was broadcast on Nickelodeon and Teletoon.
It also contributed to the series The Ripping Friends, which was a series from animator John Kricfalusi of Ren & Stimpy fame. The studio also did some animation work for Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" as well.
In 2004, the company performed digital editing for a three commercial spot marketing campaign for the popular job-searching site, Monster.com.
In 2006, a series that Pip had contributed to, Caillou, won an award for Best Animated Production in a TV Series, from the Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts (CAEAA).
The studio was a co-producer of the 2021 film Lamya's Poem.
Animation techniques
Pip uses Adobe Photoshop, Painter and Illustrator for background work, but overall it uses the program Adobe Flash for its 2D animation.
Contributions to the animation/film industry
In 1999, Pip partnered with imX communications Inc., and Funbag Animation Studios Inc. to announce two new animation production companies: Helix Animation Inc. in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Helix Digital Inc. in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Helix Animation began working in July 1999, and Helix Digital officially opened its doors for business in June 2000.
In 2008, Pip hosted a party at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
References
External links
Canadian animation studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLTQ%20%28AM%29 | WLTQ (730 AM) is a radio station licensed to Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The format is Catholic talk, with some programming shared with nearby WWOS. 730 AM is a Canadian and Mexican clear-channel frequency.
History
WPAL was Charleston's first radio station targeting African-Americans. William Saunders bought the station in 1985 after being a part owner since 1971, and he added WPAL-FM in 1994. In 1998, he sold WPAL to Clear Channel.
Clear Channel changed the station call sign to WSCC (though the station was known as WSC) and its format to news/talk in 1999. The station moved from 18th to 16th.
By 2002, WSC was beating WTMA with 25-54 listeners in the early afternoon with Rush Limbaugh, who WSC took from WTMA. But WTMA was the clear winner in other slots.
In 2004, the station aired liberal/progressive talk shows from Air America Radio (Morning Sedition), (The Majority Report) and Jones Radio (The Stephanie Miller Show, The Ed Schultz Show) using the branding "Progressive 730".
In 2005, WLTQ began carrying the Music of Your Life standards feed, which was aired until the Spanish "Viva 730" format began in March 2008.
According to FCC filings, the station was sold to Indigo Radio LLC in July 2008. The new owners did not have access to the prior station's studio or broadcast facilities. They received FCC permission for construction at a new location. As of December 2008, the new owners applied for an additional 90 days to remain silent while they constructed their new facilities.
In July 2009, WLTQ returned to the air with black gospel music.
In 2010, Indigo announced the sale of WLTQ to Mediatrix SC LLC, owner of nearby WQIZ, for $525,000. In 2011, WLTQ changed to its current format.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WLTQ
LTQ (AM)
Radio stations established in 1971
LTQ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20Computer%20Society | The Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS) is regarded as the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems in Bangladesh. It was established in 1979. The Bangladesh Government Register no -1638(53)/95. This is also a sister society of IEEE Computer Society.
Membership
Five categories of membership to the Society.
Student member
Graduate Member
Associate Member
Member
Fellow
BCS Professional Membership is an industry benchmark. Its membership grades begin with Student and Graduate, then move to professional grades with Associate, Member and onto Fellow for highly qualified and experienced practitioners.
BCS and ISEB qualifications help to broaden the knowledge and skills sets of IT professionals.
Networking
Member Discounts
Publications
Knowledge Services
Training & Development
Affiliations
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Automatic Control Council (AACC)
Bangladesh Young Tourist Club (YTC)
Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS)
Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA)
Computer Training Institute (CTI)
References
External links
Official web site of Bangladesh Computer Society
Professional associations based in Bangladesh
Science and technology in Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Center%20%28TV%20series%29 | Business Center is business network CNBC's flagship primetime show that aired in 5 to 7 pm ET timeslot, hosted by Ron Insana and Sue Herera, and it was replaced by Bullseye on December 5, 2003.
History
Business Center was only a half-hour program to replace The Money Club, aired from 7 to 7:30 pm ET in 1997.
In c. 2000, it was expanded to 60 minutes, aired from 6:30 to 7:30. It also started airing from the New York Stock Exchange.
In c. 2001, it was expanded to 90 minutes, aired from 6 to 7:30.
In 2002, it was expanded again to 120 minutes, aired from 5 to 7 pm.
In late 2002, 6:30 to 7 pm timeslot was once replaced by Checkpoint CNBC with Martha MacCallum (and later replaced by Tom Costello), and Business Center was restored to 90 minutes.
Ultimately, both Checkpoint CNBC and Business Center were cancelled on December 5, 2003 as they were replaced by Kudlow & Cramer and Bullseye, respectively.
Business Center anchors
Ron Insana and Sue Herera (1999–2003)
Maria Bartiromo and Tyler Mathisen (1997–1999)
Business Center Reporters
Renay San Miguel
Garrett Glaser
Jim Paymar
Worldwide Business Center
Around CNBC's global branches, there are many counterparts of Business Center in the world:
1997 American television series debuts
2003 American television series endings
1990s American television talk shows
2000s American television talk shows
CNBC original programming
1990s American television news shows
2000s American television news shows
Business-related television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listonella | Listonella is a genus of Gram-negative marine bacteria in the family Vibrionaceae named after the American microbiologist J. Liston.
Analysis of phylogenetic, genomic and phenotypic data has shown the genus is not distinct from the genus Vibrio, so it is now considered a synonym of Vibrio.
References
Vibrionales
Bacteria genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adtran | Adtran, Inc. is an American Fiber Networking and Telecommunications company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. It was founded in 1985.
History
Adtran was founded in 1985 by Mark C. Smith and Lonnie S. McMillian, and began operations in 1986, following the AT&T divestiture of the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs). It supplied network equipment to both the RBOCs and independent telephone companies in the United States.
In 2011, Adtran acquired Bluesocket, a maker of enterprise Wi-Fi equipment based in Burlington, Massachusetts.
In December 2011 Adtran announced a plan to buy the Broadband part from Nokia Siemens Networks. In 2012 Adtran’s closing of acquisition of the Nokia Siemens Networks Broadband division was finished.
In 2012, Adtran acquired Nokia Siemens Networks’ Broadband Access Business based in Germany.
In 2016, Adtran acquired CommScope's active fiber business.
In 2018, Adtran acquired connected home software provider SmartRG, a Vancouver, WA, based company that develops and provides carrier-oriented, open-source connected home platforms and cloud services for broadband service providers.
In 2021, Adtran entered into a business combination with ADVA Optical Networks SE, a cloud and mobile services networking company based in Munich and Meiningen in Germany.
In 2022, Adtran acquired the remaining shares of Cambridge Communication Systems (CCS) Limited, a developer of wireless backhaul and transport systems for small cells. It offers an mmWave Gigabit fiber extension system along with web-based management software for planning, configuring and monitoring networks.
Locations
Adtran's corporate headquarters is located in Huntsville, Alabama, in Cummings Research Park. It has international offices located in:
Melbourne, Australia
Berlin and Greifswald, Germany
Hyderabad, India
Tel Aviv, Israel
Milan, Italy
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Bratislava, Slovakia
Tunis, Tunisia
Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Adastral Park, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Warsaw, Poland
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Certifications
The company is certified for ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001 and TL 9000.
References
External links
Companies based in Huntsville, Alabama
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Companies established in 1986
Networking companies of the United States
Networking hardware companies
Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Companies formerly in the MDAX
1986 establishments in the United States
1986 establishments in Alabama
Computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA%20Eden | VIA Eden is a name of a variant of VIA's C3/C7 x86 processors, designed to be used in embedded devices. They have smaller package sizes, lower power consumption, and somewhat lower computing performance than their C equivalents, due to reduced clock rates. They are often used in EPIA mini-ITX, nano-ITX, and Pico-ITX motherboards. In addition to x86 instruction decoding, the processors have a second undocumented Alternate Instruction Set.
The Eden is available in four main versions:
The Eden ULV 500 MHz was the first variant to achieve a TDP of 1W .
See also
List of VIA Eden microprocessors
References
External links
VIA Eden Processors - Low Power Fanless Processing
VIA's Small & Quiet Eden Platform
Eden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBIX | oBIX (for Open Building Information Exchange) is a standard for RESTful Web Services-based interfaces to building control systems. oBIX is about reading and writing data over a network of devices using XML and URIs, within a framework specifically designed for building automation.
Building control systems include those electrical and mechanical systems that operate inside a building, including Heating and Cooling (HVAC), Security, Power Management, and Life/Safety Alarms that are in nearly all buildings as well as the myriad of special purpose systems that may be tied to particular buildings such as A/V Event Management, Theatre Lighting, Medical Gas Distribution, Fume Hoods, and many others.
oBIX is a web services interface because it does not necessarily allow deep interactions with the underlying control systems. This interface can enable communications between enterprise applications and embedded building systems as well as between two embedded building systems. Facilities and their operations to be managed as full participants in knowledge-based businesses.
oBIX is being developed within OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. Version 1.0 was completed as a committee standard in December 2006.
Background
Presently most mechanical and electrical systems are provided with embedded digital controls (DDC). Most of these devices are low cost and not enabled for TCP/IP. They are installed with dedicated communications wiring. Larger DDC controllers provide network communications for these dedicated controllers. There are many well established binary protocols (BACnet, LonTalk, Modbus, DALI) that are used on these dedicated networks in addition to numerous proprietary protocols. While these binary protocols can be used over TCP/IP networks - they have challenges with routers, firewalls, security, and compatibility with other network applications. There is an added challenge in that the industry is split between several largely incompatible protocols.
Because oBIX integrates with the enterprise, it enables mechanical and electrical control systems to provide continuous visibility of operational status and performance. By exposing these operations using web services, it enables owners and tenants to use the full array of standard databases and OLAP tools to analyse their performance. oBIX enables facilities operators, owners and tenants to make decisions based on a fully integrated consideration of all life-cycle, environmental, cost, and performance factors.
Scope
oBIX provides a publicly available web services interface specification that can be used to obtain data in a simple and secure manner from HVAC, access control, utilities, and other building automation systems, and to provide data exchange between facility systems and enterprise applications. Release 1 provides a normalized representation for three of elements common to control systems:
Points: representing a single scalar value and its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBRwizard | MBRWizard is a Master Boot Record (MBR) management application for x86 and x86-64 based computers. As the use of disk imaging applications for backup and operating system deployment began to increase, as well as many users beginning to experiment with dual-booting Linux on existing Windows machines, key entries in the MBR were often changed or corrupted, rendering the machine unbootable. MBRWizard was designed to allow the user to reverse or repair these unwanted, destructive changes to the MBR, effectively enabling the computer to once again boot properly.
Summary
Originally developed in 1999 for internal use, it was continually updated and eventually released as freeware to the public in March 2003. Initial functionality was designed to sort partition table entries caused by effects of disk imaging, but quickly evolved to include the backup and recovery of the entire MBR, repair of a corrupt Windows MBR record, as well as direct modification of the disk signature. Additional functionality was added to allow partitions to be activated, hidden, and deleted. Later options were added to include disk wipe functionality, shutdown/reboot of the machine, mount/dismount of Windows volumes, and a staging byte utilized to maintain status between reboots.
Designed as a cross-platform application from the beginning, MBRWizard is noted as being very flexible as it can be implemented natively on most PC operating systems. In addition to the freeware MBRWizard CLI version, MBRWizard Suite 3.0 was released in 2010 as a commercial product, featuring a new graphical interface, and the ability to create custom WinPE boot environments for offline repair and recovery.
Supported operating systems
DOS
Win9x
Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, 2008, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, NT4
WinPE 1.x, 2.x, 3.x
BartPE
Linux
References
External links
Booting
BIOS
C++ software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbulbifer%20elongatus | Microbulbifer elongatus is a Gram-negative marine bacterium.
External links
Type strain of Microbulbifer elongatus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 1946 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RusNet | RusNet is the largest IRC network in Russia, Ukraine, and most of the ex-USSR, founded in 1997 through merge of the leading local IRC networks SibNet, VolgaNet, OdNet, and LvNet.
In 2008, RusNet became the 10th most popular IRC Network in the world, with 10233 average users (max 16883) and 8141 channels running on 43 servers. Particularly, it owes its popularity to several citywide Russian LANs that provide their users with the free access to RusNet IRC.
All servers connected to RusNet support all main Cyrillic encoding schemes, allowing users with different operating systems to communicate freely. The choice of the character encoding is defined by the TCP port used to connect to the network but may be changed later on-the-fly.
Currently all network servers support SSL connection. There are experimental servers that support UTF-8 encoding.
RusNet provides all modern IRC services, such as channel registration, username registration, etc.
Founders
Adel Abushaev (rawSocket)
Alexandr Dubovikov (baron)
Evgeniy Lineytsev (dARK)
References
External links
Rusnet official website
Internet Relay Chat networks
Internet in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Best%20Music | America's Best Music is the on-air branding of a soft oldies and adult standards 24-hour radio network, formerly known as AM Only. The service is syndicated by Westwood One, a subsidiary of Cumulus Media. It was one of the original Transtar Radio Networks formats. Despite its old name of AM Only, "America's Best Music" is no longer exclusive to AM stations and is carried on some FM stations.
Its main competitor is Music of Your Life, syndicated by Planet Halo, Inc. Until 2010, Timeless from Citadel/ABC Radio had been another similar format.
The target audience of the format is listeners 35 to 64, with a range of softer hits, primarily from the 1950s through the 1980s, plus a few newer titles in the playlist. Artists include The Beatles, Celine Dion, Elvis Presley, Dionne Warwick, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, The Carpenters, Lionel Richie, Barry Manilow, James Taylor, Elton John, Anne Murray, Simon and Garfunkel, Andy Williams, Linda Ronstadt, Natalie Cole, Nat King Cole, The Captain & Tennille, and The 5th Dimension. The format also incorporates "new standards" material by artists like Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Michael Bublé, Rod Stewart, Bette Midler and Carly Simon. An occasional newer song is heard if it has adult appeal, such as some recent hits by Adele. Also, the network switches to all Christmas music beginning in mid-December through Christmas Day each year.
History
"AM Only" was created by Transtar Radio Networks at a time when FM had overtaken AM for listeners seeking music on the radio. Most AM stations that had previously programmed formats such as Top 40, adult contemporary and country music saw their listeners switch to FM stations. These stations were in search of a format for mature listeners who were content with hearing music on AM radio, especially if the station played songs that FM stations thought was too old or conservative. "AM Only" was promoted exclusively to AM stations, though it was not long before some FM stations used it as well.
The format was promoted on-air as "Great Songs, Great Memories," and it continues to use that slogan to this day. One affiliate used an ad which stated: Ray Charles lives here. So does Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, The Lettermen, and The Nelson Riddle Orchestra. At KVIN, Vintage 920 The Vine, we play the original hits of the 40s, 50s and 60s. All day, every day.
After a February 1987 debut with Chick Watkins as program director, "AM Only" had 157 network affiliates by the end of 1993. Growth of the format was helped by new material from Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis, and artists such as Harry Connick Jr., along with movies such as Sleepless in Seattle. KJUL jumped to number 3 in the Las Vegas market, and KOY became the number 5 station in Phoenix, Arizona.
In 2000, over 240 radio stations used the adult standards format which was being distributed by this time by Westwood One.
In the first decade of the 21st Century, the format add |
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