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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Centers%20for%20Biomedical%20Computing | The National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBCs) are part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health plan to develop and implement the core of a universal computing infrastructure that is urgently needed to speed progress in biomedical research. Their mission is to create innovative software programs and other tools that will enable the biomedical community to integrate, analyze, model, simulate, and share data on human health and disease.
Recognizing the potential benefits to human health that can be realized from applying and advancing the field of biomedical computing, the Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI) was launched at the NIH in April 2000. This initiative is aimed at making optimal use of computer science and technology to address problems in biology and medicine. The full text of the original BISTI Report is available.
As of April 2016, the web site for the National Centers for Biomedical Computing (http://www.ncbcs.org) is no longer managed by that organization, though many of the centers still are supported.
Current Centers
Center for Computational Biology
National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Simbios: Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures, Stanford University
National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics
National Center for Multi-Scale Study of Cellular Networks
National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing
See also
Biositemaps
Biomedical Computation Review, a quarterly magazine created by Simbios to help build community among the diverse disciplines that participate in the field.
External links
NIH Roadmap National Centers for Biomedical Computing, archive.org
National Center for Multi-Scale Study of Cellular Networks
National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing
Genomics
Proteomics
Medical research institutes in the United States
Bioinformatics organizations
National Institutes of Health
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLUXNET | FLUXNET is a global network of micrometeorological tower sites that use eddy covariance methods to measure the exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy between the biosphere and atmosphere. FLUXNET is a global 'network of regional networks' that serves to provide an infrastructure to compile, archive and distribute data for the scientific community. The most recent FLUXNET data product, FLUXNET2015, is hosted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) and is publicly available for download. Currently there are over 1000 active and historic flux measurement sites.
FLUXNET works to ensure that different flux networks are calibrated to facilitate comparison between sites, and it provides a forum for the distribution of knowledge and data between scientists. Researchers also collect data on site vegetation, soil, trace gas fluxes, hydrology, and meteorological characteristics at the tower sites.
History and Background
FLUXNET started in 1997 and has grown from a handful of sites in North America and Europe to a current population exceeding 260 registered sites world-wide. Today, FLUXNET consists of regional networks in North America (AmeriFlux, Fluxnet-Canada, NEON), South America (LBA), Europe (CarboEuroFlux, ICOS), Australasia (OzFlux) , Asia (China Flux, and Asia Flux) and Africa (AfriFlux). At each tower site, the eddy covariance flux measurements are made every 30 minutes and are integrated on daily, monthly and annual time scales. The spatial scale of the footprint at each tower site reaches between 200 m and a kilometer.
An overarching intent of FLUXNET, and its regional partners, is to provide data that can be used to validate terrestrial carbon fluxes derived from sensors on NASA satellites, such as TERRA and AQUA, and from biogeochemical models. To achieve this overarching goal, the objectives and priorities of FLUXNET have evolved as the network has grown and matured. During the initial stages of FLUXNET, the priority of our research was to develop value-added products, such as gap-filled data sets of net ecosystem productivity, NEP, evaporation, energy exchange and meteorology. The rationales for this undertaking were: 1) to compute daily, monthly and annual sums of net carbon, water and energy exchange; and 2) to produce continuous datasets for the execution and testing of a variety of biogeochemical/biophysical/ecosystem dynamic models and satellite-based remote sensing algorithms.
During the second stage of FLUXNET the research priority involved the decomposition of NEE measurements into component fluxes such as GPP and ecosystem respiration, Reco. This step is required for FLUXNET to be a successful tool for validating MODIS-based estimate of terrestrial carbon exchange; algorithms driven by satellite-based remote sensing instruments are unable to assess NEE directly, and instead compute GPP or NPP. In the intervening years, FLUXNET scientists have used the flux-component datasets (GPP, Reco) to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFBI-FM | CFBI-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 97.7 FM in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The station airs a community radio format with programming in both English and Inuinnaqtun.
External links
Fbi
Fbi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20Southeastern%20University%20College%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Computing | The College of Engineering and Computing, commonly known as CEC, formerly the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, at Nova Southeastern University provides educational programs to prepare students for leadership roles in technology. The college is located on the main campus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida within the Carl DeSantis building. In addition to its regional accreditation by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, NSU has been designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the U.S. National Security Agency and the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Degree programs
The college offers several bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs.
B.S. in computer science
B.S. in information technology
B.S. in engineering
M.S. in computer science
M.S. in cybersecurity management
M.S. in information assurance & cybersecurity
M.S. in information systems
M.S. in information technology
Ph.D. in computer science
Ph.D. in information assurance
Ph.D. in information systems
National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education
On April 17, 2008, NSU was re-designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education for the academic years 2008-2014 by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). NSU first received this designation in March 2005 covering the period through March 2008. CEC’s information security curriculum meets the NSA Committee on National Security Systems standards 4011, 4012, and 4013.
References
External links
Nova Southeastern University
Computer science departments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20Lynch | Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), where he has been since 1997. He is also an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information.
Career and awards
Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent eighteen years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. He is both a past president and recipient of the 2008 Award of Merit of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch lectures extensively on issues pertaining to digital libraries, information policy, and emerging interoperability standards.
In 2011 he was appointed co-chair of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI); His work has been recognized by the American Library Association's Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education's Homer Bernhardt Award. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017.
Education
Lynch holds a B.A in Mathematics and Computer Science from Columbia College, a M.S. in Computer Science from the Columbia University School of Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1987) from the University of California, Berkeley.
Selected publications
Clifford Lynch, Stewardship in the "Age of Algorithms", First Monday, Volume 22, Number 12 (4 December 2017).
Clifford A. Lynch, "Big data: How do your data grow?" Nature, vol. 455, no. 7209 (September 3, 2008).
Clifford A. Lynch, "Digital Libraries, Learning Communities, and Open Education," Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, Toru Iiyoshi, M. S. Vijay Kumar (Eds.), (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008).
Clifford A. Lynch, "Imagining a University Press System to Support Scholarship in the Digital Age." Journal of Electronic Publishing. November 2012.
Clifford A. Lynch and Joan K. Lippincott, "Institutional Repository Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005," D-Lib Magazine, 11:9 (September 2005).
Clifford A. Lynch, "The Impact of Digital Scholarship on Research Libraries," The Journal of Library Administration 49:3 (April 2009), pp. 227–244.
Clifford A. Lynch, "Open Computation: Beyond Human-Reader-Centric Views of Scholarly Literatures," Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, Neil Jacobs (Ed.), (Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2006), 185–193.
Clifford A. Lynch, "Searching the Internet," Scientific American 276:3 (March 1997), pp. 52–56.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of California, Berkeley School of Information faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Scholarly communication
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Tng | Shawn Tng, 唐志瑋, is a singer and composer from Singapore.
Early life and education
Tng studied Computer Science at National University of Singapore.
Music career
Tng was part of a Singaporean pop group, Three Springs, comprising Jeremy Wong, Willie Tan and him. Tng was dubbed by Hong Kong's media as the new Eric Moo.
Tng started his music career with the release his first solo album "相信" in 1994, followed by his second album "觉醒" in 1995.
Tng wrote a theme song titled "决定" for the popular TCS Channel 8 TV serial "真心男儿".
In 1995, Tng subsequently launched his singing career in Taiwan releasing his first album there "爱你的我能怎么做".
In 1995, Tng released a duet with Annie Yi titled "守侯".
In 1996, Tng wrote a theme song titled "See The Sunrise" for RTHK's annual "Solar Project"(太阳计划) which was performed by popular singers Kit Chan, Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, Vivian Chow, Tai Zheng Xiao and some other RTHK's DJs. Also viewable at "See the Sunrise"
In 1996, Tng performed the theme song for the animation series Street Fighter (街頭霸王).
In 1996, Tng participated in the Hong Kong CASH 香港作曲家及作詞家協會 Contest and won the 1st Runner-up.
In 1997, Liu Wen Zheng(刘文正) named Shawn Tng as one of the rising stars of the Mandarin pop scene in 1996–97.
In 1997, Yin Xia (银霞) starred in Shawn Tng's 决定 (Decision) music video.
Tng retired from the music scene in 1997.
Career
Tng joined Microsoft in 1999.
Discography
Albums
Compilation
Featured in
Awards
References
20th-century Singaporean male singers
Singaporean people of Chinese descent
Singaporean composers
Singaporean Mandopop singers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJVB | CJVB (1470 kHz) is a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which broadcasts multilingual programming. Owned by the Fairchild Group, the station with a power of 50,000 watts, using two different directional patterns for daytime and nighttime operation. CJVB's studios and transmitter are located in Richmond.
Operation began as a 10,000-watt station at the same transmitter site in 1972, with a power increase to 50 kW in 1979. The station was originally licensed to Jan van Bruchem, whose initials give CJVB its call letters. CJVB was the third multicultural radio station in Canada, following CHIN in Toronto and CFMB in Montreal. It was also the first radio station in the Vancouver area to broadcast in AM stereo.
CJVB airs primarily Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) programming from Monday through Saturday. On Sunday, the station airs a selection of programs in other languages.
History
Van Bruchem ownership
Jan van Bruchem immigrated from the Netherlands to the Toronto area in the 1960s and began working part-time at a 250-watt radio station in Barrie. The owner of that station needed someone to do a Dutch-language program to thank farmers that had cleared marsh land in the area. Van Bruchem agreed, and at the petition of the community, a Dutch-language show became a regular fixture on the station and was syndicated to others; by the late 1960s, 124 stations aired his show.
At the end of the 1960s, van Bruchem turned his attention to starting a multicultural radio station somewhere in Canada. However, stations were already set up in Toronto and Montreal, and only one market looked remotely large enough to support such a station under the rules of the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC). His first CRTC application was rejected on the grounds that Vancouver did not have the requisite 150,000 people for such a licence to be granted. The main reason was a lack of statistics on new arrivals to Canada; as a result, van Bruchem hit the streets, documenting ethnic restaurants and Sikh temples. These figures and updated data from Statistics Canada accompanied Van Bruchem's 1971 bid for an ethnic station in Vancouver, under the corporate aegis of Great Pacific Broadcasting Ltd. Another reason given was that stations on the U.S. side of the border were airing 23 hours a week of foreign-language programming, most of it organized by Vancouver residents who could not get air time on Canadian stations.
In late November 1971, the CRTC awarded the licence to van Bruchem, who sold his house in Thornhill, Ontario, and moved to Vancouver to start the station. From studios at 814 Richards, CJVB went on the air on June 18, 1972, broadcasting in English and 17 foreign languages; it also aired a daily newscast from the Dutch international radio service. The young CJVB produced more than 98 percent of its own programming, 90 percent of which was live. It took advertisers several years to be convinced of the efficacy of advertising on an ethnic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIAY-FM | CIAY-FM, branded as Life 100.7, is a Christian radio station in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. CIAY-FM broadcasts at 100.7 FM airing a combination of religious programming and Contemporary Christian music.
The station is licensed to the Bethany Pentecostal Tabernacle church and is operated by New Life FM, a nonprofit organization involving several other Christian groups. CIAY-FM went on the air in 2004, and relies mostly on volunteer labour.
Rebroadcasters
In addition to its transmitter in Whitehorse, CIAY-FM operates rebroadcasters in:
Watson Lake, Yukon
Teslin, Yukon
Atlin, British Columbia
Tuktoyuktuk, NWT
Inuvik, NWT
References
External links
Iay
Iay
Radio stations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Catch-Up | The Catch-Up was an Australian daytime live television talk show on the Nine Network created by Mia Freedman.
The show featured a panel of women as co-hosts, with Libbi Gorr, Zoe Sheridan, Mary Moody and Lisa Oldfield. It premiered on 26 February 2007 and was produced at Channel Nine's studio in Willoughby.
The concept of The Catch-Up was to showcase women discussing views, news and gossip with each other as well as with their guests. The program followed a similar format to The View.
The show was under pressure even before it began. The Nine Network decision to cancel its broadcast of the US soap opera The Young and the Restless after 33 years to make way for the program caused outrage amongst fans of show which had been aired on the Nine Network since 1974.
Cancellation
Due to low ratings, the show was cancelled on 13 June 2007 and the last episode aired on 15 June.
References
External links
Australian television talk shows
Nine Network original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts
2007 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sooty%20dunnart | The sooty dunnart (Sminthopsis fuliginosus) is a species of dunnart found in Western Australia. It is one of the least-known of the dunnarts, with the IUCN classifying it as data deficient. It was formerly believed to be a subspecies of the common dunnart (S. murina).
References
Dasyuromorphs
Mammals of Western Australia
Marsupials of Australia
Mammals described in 1852
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Cadastral%20DataBase | Digital Cadastral DataBase (DCDB) is a computerised map or 'spatial' location showing property boundaries normally in relation to adjoining and other close properties or parcels of land. Commonly used as a basic layer of data used in map based computer programs that gives an outline of the legal boundaries of a property. By using lines to represent an area, features such as rivers and roads can be shown in relation to the property location.
See also
Cartography
GIS software
Geographical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCS%20Group | NCS Group (also known as NCS Pte Ltd or "NCS", previously known as National Computer Systems) is a multinational information technology company headquartered in Singapore. Founded in 1981 as an agency of the Singapore government, it was privatised in 1996 and subsequently become part of the Singtel group in 1997. NCS has over 12,000 staff located in more than 20 cities across Asia Pacific.
History
NCS was founded in 1981 when the Government of Singapore embarked upon initiatives to harness information technology (IT) for both the public and private sectors.
It was restructured as a commercial entity in 1996 and a year later, became a wholly owned subsidiary of SingTel Group. NCS adopted its current name on 1 November 2003.
SingTel Aeradio was a communication engineering services provider in airport consultancy, facility management services, engineering and radio communications, C4ISR*, intelligent building, smart security services, transportation services, IT infrastructure system, IT Security training and certification, telecommunication and multimedia.
In 2002, SingTel Aeradio merged with NCS, retaining much of its identity as NCS Communications Engineering (NCS Comms Engg).
In 2008, NCS bought 60% of local rival IT company, Singapore Computer Systems, shares, triggering a buyout of the company.
In 2020, NCS acquires digital services 2359 Media.
Management
In 2005, Chong Yoke Sin became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). She resigned in 2007 for personal reasons and Lim Eng took over as the CEO.
Lim retired in 2010 and Chief Operating Officer Chia Wee Boon took over as CEO.
On 1 August 2019, the Singtel Group appointed Ng Kuo Pin as the new chief executive officer of NCS after Chia stepped down.
Products and services
The company offers several services including consultancy, development, integration, infrastructure management, and BPO to customers from the public, education, financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, logistics, telecommunications, utilities and transportation sectors.
Incidents
Community Health Assist Scheme computer system error
On 16 February 2019, the MOH released statement that there was an error in the computer system, managed by NCS Group, for the Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS). Remedial actions were then carried out by MOH and NCS Group to assess impact on the affected applicants. MOH reportedly had the intention to recover costs and expenses due to this incident from NCS Group as allowed in the contract between them.
Workers protest at NCS Hub entrance
On 18 October 2022, 9 foreign workers blocked the main entrance of NCS Hub, the company's headquarter in Singapore, and holding up signs protesting against the contractor company they work under for owing salary. Some workers holding signs written "欠債還錢" (owe money pay money) and one of them holds "上海忠記私人有限公司" (Shanghai Chong Kee Pte Ltd). The Singapore Police Force received call for assistance at around 1.50pm and deploy officer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAPI-1 | The SAPI-1 was a computer produced in the former Czechoslovakia by Tesla since 1980.
It was designed by Eduard Smutný (hardware) and his brother Tomáš Smutný (software), and based on the Intel 8080/2 MHz clone (and later Z80). The SAPI-86 was also developed as an 8086 clone of the PC.
The SAPI-1 had a modular construction with modules:
JPR-1 - processor board based on MHB 8080 processor, 1 KB SRAM, 4 KB ROM modules and 6 IO ports
JPR-1Z - processor board based on Z80 processor
ARB-1 - bus unit
JZS-1 - power supply with rack
ANK-1 - non smart, no ergonomic membrane keyboard (comparable with Sinclair ZX-80 and ZX-81)
REM-1 - extension board with EPROM and SRAM modules
AND-1 - alfanumeric video adapter, 40 columns x 24 rows, black and white with 2 KBytes of video buffer at 3800
AND-1A - alfanumeric video adapter, 40 columns x 24 rows, black and white with 2 KBytes of video buffer at E800
RAM-1 - board of 32 KB of dynamic RAM
DSM-1 - modem and serial interface (based on MHB 1012 UART) used to communication with tape recorder
BDK-1 - universal developer board
DPP-1 - parallel port board (based on two MHB 8255 chips)
DGD-1 - B/W graphic video adapter - requires second monitor, cannot output to monitor connected to AND-1
RPD-1 - floppy disk controller, due to its complexity (discrete glue logic) was built on two boards connected by cable. This came very late.
3 versions of SAPI-1 were produced:
SAPI-1 ZPS 1 (základní průmyslová sestava - basic industrial set):
integer Micro-Basic was stored in ROM, as well as simple machine code monitor, tape was used as main storage device, using single block recording.
SAPI-1 ZPS 2:
MIKOS (mikro kazetový operační systém - micro cassette operating system) with better machine code monitor was stored in ROM, any other programming language was loaded from tape, using blocks of 255 data bytes.
SAPI-1 ZPS 3:
ROM contains CP/M booting sequence, CP/M is booting from 8" Shugart floppy disk drives. Position of VideoRAM was moved from 3800 to E800 to allow CP/M running.
The "Z" version of SAPI-1 ZPS 3 used Z80 processor clone instead of 8080 clone, video with 64 characters per line instead of 40.
References
Mycro-1
Science and technology in Czechoslovakia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComputerScope | ComputerScope was a computer magazine edited and produced by the publishing company MediaTeam in Dublin, Ireland for one year between 1984 and 1985.
History
ComputerScope was first published in 1984 by the Scope Communications Group. It was then published by MediaTeam Ltd, which was formed when CPG and Scope Communications merged in 2005. The magazine was edited by Paul Hearns. It was renamed as TechPro magazine in 1985.
Description
ComputerScope was a monthly end-user Information and Communications Technology magazine targeting IT professionals in the public and private sectors in Ireland. It was distributed as a request-only, controlled circulation publication; readers must qualify to receive a free subscription. Those who did not meet the criteria to receive free copies could obtain a paid subscription..
ComputerScope was audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK); the website claimed to have 10,000 readers. The magazine and its sister title Irish Computer were both replaced by TechCentral.ie.
MediaTeam
MediaTeam also published three other ICT titles: Irish Computer, Smart Company, and PCLive!, plus Shelflife and The Irish Garden. MediaTeam is a member of the Periodical Publishers Association of Ireland.
References
External links
ComputerScope.ie
Defunct computer magazines
Magazines published in Ireland
Magazines established in 1984
Monthly magazines published in Ireland
Mass media in Dublin (city)
Defunct magazines published in Ireland
Magazines disestablished in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMB | LMB is the abbreviation of:
La Martiniere College for Boys, Kolkata
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, a research institute in Cambridge, England
Left Mouse Button on a mouse (computing)
Leptomycin B, an inhibitor of protein export from the cell nucleus
Liga Mexicana de Beisbol, the Mexican Baseball League
Line Mode Browser, the first multi-platform web browser
Lois McMaster Bujold, science fiction and fantasy author |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtest | SIMTEST is a computerized adaptive test (CAT) of foreign language ability designed and developed at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It classifies examinees according to 6 levels of proficiency as defined in the Council of Europe document: “A Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR): learning, teaching, assessment” (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
SIMTEST has been developed for both placement and certification purposes. Version 1 was available in local for Windows and current version is available on-line. It consists of 4 component tests that may be used - according to the testing context or institutional requirements - to test knowledge of vocabulary, grammar and language functions in addition to reading and listening comprehension. The only non-CAT component consists of a series of 4 C-Tests (a cloze procedure developed in the 1980s at Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg in Germany - based on theories of language redundancy relating to Gestalt theory). An initial estimation of the level of language proficiency detected by the C-Tests may be used as an entry point to the CAT components. Multiple choice items are presented on a CAT administration based on an algorithm described by Henning (1987).
Language tests
Educational software
School examinations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Only%20Love | My Only Love is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1982 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the fifth instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Louie Ignacio, it stars Mark Herras, Rhian Ramos and Bianca King. It premiered on November 12, 2007 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Kung Mahawi Man ang Ulap. The series concluded on February 29, 2008 with a total of 79 episodes. It was replaced by Kaputol ng Isang Awit in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Rhian Ramos as Cindy Moreno
Mark Herras as Billy Soriano
Bianca King as Trixie
Supporting cast
Alfred Vargas as Emman
Rita Avila as Camille
Sherilyn Reyes as Loren
Gladys Reyes as Pearl
Stef Prescott as Tiffany
Ana Capri as Magda
Daniel Fernando as Luisito
Ruby Rodriguez as Tessie
Tessbomb as Paris
Kevin Santos as Paul
Marco Alcaraz as Jonas
Chariz Solomon as Marge
Paulo Avelino as Alvin
Guest cast
Lloyd Samartino as Ricardo
Gail Lardizabal as Innah
Krystal Reyes as young Cindy
Renz Valerio as young Billy
Ella Guevara as young Trixie
Joy Folloso as young Tiffany
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of My Only Love earned a 19.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 20.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff%20%28disambiguation%29 | Chaff is dry inedible plant material.
Chaff may also refer to:
Chaff (countermeasure), a radar countermeasure for aircraft or other targets
Chaff algorithm, an algorithm for solving instances of the boolean satisfiability problem
Chaffing and winnowing, a method in cryptography to protect a message without encryption
Chaff (newspaper), a former students' newspaper of Massey University Students' Association
See also
"Gumbo Chaff" or "Gombo Chaff", an American song
Chaff cutter, a mechanical device for cutting straw or hay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20Vector%20Format | Serial Vector Format (SVF) is a file format that contains boundary scan vectors to be sent to an electronic circuit using a JTAG interface. Boundary scan vectors consist of the following data:
Stimulus data: This is data to be sent to a device or electronic circuit
Expected response: This is the data the device or circuit is expected to send back if there is no error
Mask data: Defines which bits in the expected response are valid; other bits of the device's response are unknown and must be ignored when comparing the expected response and the data returned from the circuit
Additional information on how to send the data (e.g. maximum clock frequency)
The SVF standard was jointly developed by companies Texas Instruments and Teradyne. Control over the format has been handed off to boundary-scan solution provider ASSET InterTech. The most recent revision is Revision E.
SVF files are used to transfer boundary scan data between tools. As an example a VHDL compiler may create an SVF file that is read by a tool for programming CPLDs.
The SVF file is defined as an ASCII file that consists of a set of SVF statements. The maximum number of characters allowed on a line is 256, although one SVF statement can span more than one line. Each statement consists of a command and associated parameters. Each SVF statement is terminated by a semicolon. SVF is not case sensitive. Comments can be inserted into a SVF file after an exclamation point ‘!’ or a pair of slashes ‘//’. Either ‘//’ or ‘!’ will comment out the remainder of the line.
SVF commands
ENDDR: Specifies default end state for DR scan operations.
ENDIR: Specifies default end state for IR scan operations.
FREQUENCY: Specifies maximum test clock frequency for IEEE 1149.1 bus operations.
HDR: (Header Data Register) Specifies a header pattern that is prepended to the beginning of subsequent DR scan operations.
HIR: (Header Instruction Register) Specifies a header pattern that is prepended to the beginning of subsequent IR scan operations.
PIO: (Parallel Input/Output) Specifies a parallel test pattern.
PIOMAP: (Parallel Input/Output Map) Maps PIO column positions to a logical pin.
RUNTEST: Forces the IEEE 1149.1 bus to a run state for a specified number of clocks or a specified time period.
SDR: (Scan Data Register) Performs an IEEE 1149.1 Data Register scan.
SIR: (Scan Instruction Register) Performs an IEEE 1149.1 Instruction Register scan.
STATE: Forces the IEEE 1149.1 bus to a specified stable state.
TDR: (Trailer Data Register) Specifies a trailer pattern that is appended to the end of subsequent DR scan operations.
TIR: (Trailer Instruction Register) Specifies a trailer pattern that is appended to the end of subsequent IR scan operations.
TRST: (Test ReSeT) Controls the optional Test Reset line.
References
The In-System Configuration Handbook: A Designer's Guide to ISC, Neil G. Jacobson,
External links
Serial Vector Format Specification latest version available - Revision E
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream%20ripping | Stream ripping (also called stream recording) is the process of saving data streams to a file. The process is sometimes referred to as destreaming.
Stream ripping is most often referred in the context of saving audio or video from streaming media websites and services such as YouTube outside of the officially-provided means of offline playback (if any) using unsanctioned software and tools. This is often prohibited under each respective website or service's Terms of Use.
Legality
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has taken stances against tools that are, in particular, used to rip content from YouTube, citing that their use to download music from the website and convert them to audio formats constitutes a violation of their members' copyrights. The RIAA has targeted various stream ripping websites (including the websites themselves, and listings for them via search engines) under the anti-circumvention provisions of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under its claim that a "rolling cipher" used by YouTube to generate the URL for the video file itself constitutes a technical protection measure, since it is "intended to inhibit direct access to the underlying YouTube video files, thereby preventing or inhibiting the downloading, copying, or distribution of the video files". Unlike the more common forms of takedowns performed under the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, there is no scheme of counter-notices for such takedowns. These actions have faced criticism, noting that there are legitimate uses for these services beyond ripping music, such as downloading video content needed to utilize one's right to fair use, or explicit rights of reuse (such as free content licenses) granted by a content creator.
In October 2020, the RIAA similarly issued takedowns to code hosting service GitHub targeting youtube-dl, an open source tool for similar purposes, also citing circumvention of the aforementioned "rolling cipher", as well as usage examples in its readme file that "expressly suggests" its use with copyrighted works.
On November 16, 2020, GitHub later reinstated youtube-dl and subsequently released a related blog post with more information on the status of the takedown.
On February 9, 2023, Github and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed Amicus Curiae contesting the ruling against a stream ripping service, Yout, concerning that the ruling could render many software that add features or customize user experience as a circumvention violation, and arguing that lacking features such as a download button is not a technical protection measure because youtube allowed any browser to access its videos including browsers that allow users to customize them.
See also
Comparison of YouTube downloaders
Protection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations Treaty
References
External links
StreamRecorder.NET
Digital television
Film and video technology
Internet broadcasting
Internet radio
Str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream%20ripper | Stream ripper may refer to:
Stream recorder, a program for recording data streams
Streamripper, a Stream recorder for audio streams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoshaiah%20Rabbah | Hoshaiah Rabbah or Hoshayya Rabbah (also "Roba", "Berabbi", Hebrew: אושעיא בריבי) was a Amora of the Land of Israel from the first amoraic generation (about 200 CE), compiler of Baraitot explaining the Mishnah-Tosefta.
Biography
He was closely associated with the successors of Judah ha-Nasi, as was his father with Judah ha-Nasi himself. Hoshaiah's father, Hama, lived in Sepphoris, the residence of Judah ha-Nasi and the seat of the patriarchs.
Hoshaiah's yeshivah, too, was for many years located at Sepphoris, where pupils crowded to hear his lectures. Johanan bar Nappaha, one of his greatest disciples, declared that Hoshaiah in his generation was like Rabbi Meir in his: even his colleagues could not always grasp the profundity of his arguments. And the esteem in which Hoshaiah was held by his pupils may be gauged by the statement that, even after Johanan had himself become a great scholar and a famous teacher and no longer needed Hoshaiah's instruction, he continued visiting the master, who in the meantime had grown old and moved his school to Caesarea.
Hoshaiah's consideration for others is exemplified in his gracious apology to the blind teacher whom he had engaged for his son, and whom he did not suffer to meet visitors at dinner for fear that he might be embarrassed.
Hoshaiah's authority must have been very powerful in his later years, when he successfully resisted the efforts of Gamaliel III, the son of Judah ha-Nasi, to introduce demai into Syria. It is also indicated by his remarkable interposition in regard to the Mishnah which declares that "a Gentile's testimony in the case of an agunah is allowed only if stated as a matter of fact and without any intention to testify".
Teachings
Halacha
Hoshaiah was called the "father of the Mishnah," not so much because of his collection and edition of the mishnayot, as because of the ability with which he explained and interpreted them. His most important halakhic decision is directed against the standard weights and measures, held by R. Johanan to be traditional from the Sinaitic period. Hoshaiah's radical point of view can be traced to his theory of the development of the Mishnah. He even goes so far as to overrule both Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel with reference to offerings brought on visiting the Temple in Jerusalem three times every year. The custom of greeting mourners on Shabbat was permitted in southern Galilee, including Caesarea, and prohibited in other places. Hoshaiah happened to be in a certain town on the Sabbath, and, meeting mourners, greeted them, saying, "I do not know your custom, but I greet you according to our custom".
Aggadah
Hoshaiah's aggadic teachings are numerous, scattered principally in Midrash Rabbah, which some have erroneously attributed to him because of the opening words "R. Hoshaiah Rabbah." In Genesis Rabbah, Hoshaiah's text with reference to the Creation is the verse "Then I was by him, as one brought up [= אמון] with him". He transposes the letters to re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperEdit | Tumult Whisk (originally Tumult HyperEdit) is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Jonathan Deutsch.
Development
In 2003, while studying computer science at Indiana's Purdue University, Jonathan Deutsch wrote HyperEdit to create a live HTML editor that would remove the need to save an HTML file and reload it in a browser to test each change. French news site MacGeneration said live preview was a novel idea in 2003. HypedEdit's live preview was built on Apple's newly released open-source WebKit web rendering engine. It was initially released as donationware.
HyperEdit was renamed to Whisk with the release of version 2.0. Whisk was released as shareware with a free trial, and some of its code was taken from Deutsch's "Hype" web animation application.
Features
The software is primarily targeted at web developers, combining a HTML (including CSS), PHP and JavaScript editor in one lightweight program. It offers customizable syntax highlighting for these web languages.
Its features include W3C validation (which underlines mistakes in red), a JavaScript debugger, code snippets, and a real-time preview in the application's right pane.
Reception
Macworld Robert Ellis rated HyperEdit 4.5 mice out of 5, praising its live previewing and describing it as a lower-cost, less-bloated alternative to Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver. Charles Arthur also praised it in The Independent and The Guardian, saying that its live preview turned a normally "miserable task" into something "interactive, fun, and much quicker". By 2004, Tucows rated it as the second-best HTML editor ahead of Dreamweaver.
References
MacOS text-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCI | ABCI or ABCi may refer to:
Aden Bowman Collegiate
Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland
Association of Baptist Churches in Israel
AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure, a Japanese supercomputer under development
Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence, precursor of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%20T1000 | The Toshiba T1000 is a discontinued laptop computer manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation in 1987. It has a similar specification to the IBM PC Convertible, with a 4.77 MHz 80C88 processor, 512 KB of RAM, and a monochrome CGA-compatible LCD. Unlike the Convertible, it includes a standard serial port and parallel port, connectors for an external monitor, and a real-time clock.
Unusually for an IBM compatible PC, the T1000 contains a 256 KB ROM with a copy of MS-DOS 2.11. This acts as a small, read-only hard drive. Alternative operating systems can still be loaded from the floppy drive, or (if present) the RAM disk.
Along with the T1200 and earlier T1100, the Toshiba T1000 was one of the early computers to feature a "laptop" form factor and battery-powered operation.
Reception
PC Magazine in 1988 named the Toshiba T1000 an "Editor's Choice" among 12 tested portable computers. One reviewer called it "the first real DOS laptop" and a plausible replacement for his Tandy 200, while another praised its durability after 60,000 miles of traveling and "incredible bargain" $800 street price. BYTE in 1989 listed the T1000 as among the "Excellence" winners of the BYTE Awards, stating that it "takes portability to the limit ... as self-contained as you can get and still have a real computer that can handle real-world workloads." Noting that it was available for as little as $850, the magazine reported that "Many of us are in love with this one." In the same issue, Jerry Pournelle praised it as a "little gem". While acknowledging that it cost more than the TRS-80 Model 100 and NEC PC-8201, he believed that "you get quite a lot for the added weight and price", and reported that "Many writers swear by the T1000. David Drake loves his."
Specification
Software Compatibility
Compatible with software written for the IBM PC/XT using a color graphics adapter (CGA) display
Interfaces
RGB (CGA) color video port
Composite B&W monochrome video port
RS-232-C serial port
Parallel printer port
Numeric keypad port
External diskette drive port
Toshiba proprietary memory slot
Toshiba proprietary modem slot - "B" form factor
See also
Toshiba T1000LE
Toshiba T1100
Toshiba T1200
Toshiba T3100
Notes
The laptop's battery pack must be charged and working for the laptop to power on.
References
Toshiba Corporation, T1000 Portable Personal Computer User's Manual, 1987
IBM PC compatibles
T1000
Products introduced in 1987
Computer-related introductions in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordmaster | Swordmaster or Sword Master is a person skilled in the art of swordsmanship
Swordmaster may also refer to:
Characters
Carla the Swordmaster, a character in The Secret of Monkey Island computer game
Sword Master (Marvel Comics), a character in the Marvel universe
Sword Master, a character in the manga/comic Afro Samurai
Swordmaster (Soul series), a character from the Soul Calibur video game series and associated comics/manga
Swordmaster, a gameplay style in the Devil May Cry video game series and associated comics/manga
"Swordmaster", Dungeon & Fighter OF Famole slayer Class
Other
Sword Master (film), a 2016 Chinese film directed by Derek Of Yee
Sword Master (video game), a 1990 NES video game
The Swordmaster, the official publication of the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association
"Swordmaster", a song on Battlelore's 2002 debut album ...Where the Shadows Lie
"Swordmaster", a song on 3 Inches of Blood's 2004 album Advance and Vanquish
See also
The Swordmasters of Dune, the original name of the 2016 novel Navigators of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Swordmasters of Ginaz, an organization in the Dune universe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic%20Bunny | Toxic Bunny is a side-scrolling action platform game for DOS computers released in 1996 by Celestial Games. The premise of the game is that a bunny named Toxic, a coffee guzzling, gun slinging maniac who is having a really bad day. The game covers four large levels in which Toxic hunts the person (or animal) responsible for interrupting his coffee break, brainwashing all his friends, and covering the planet with a decaffeinated goo. Within the game you can use any number of incredibly large weapons including a Nitric Hamster Launcher, while squashing aliens with rusty nautical equipment.
The game has been called a psychedelic parody of Epic Games character, Jazz Jackrabbit.
References
1996 video games
Windows games
DOS games
Platformers
Video games about rabbits and hares
Video games developed in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Zemanek | Heinz Zemanek (actually Heinrich Josef Zemanek) (1 January 1920 – 16 July 2014) was an Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorised computers on the European continent. The computer was nicknamed Mailüfterl — Viennese for "May breeze" — in reference to Whirlwind, a computer developed at MIT between 1945 and 1951.
Life
Heinz Zemanek went to a secondary school in Vienna and earned his Matura in 1937. He then started to study at the University of Vienna. In 1940, Zemanek was drafted into the Wehrmacht, where he served in a "communication unit" and also as a teacher in an Intelligence Service School. Returning to studying radar technology he earned his Diplom in 1944 with the help of University of Stuttgart professor Richard Feldtkeller (1901–1981).
After the war Zemanek worked as an assistant at the university and earned his PhD in 1951 about timesharing methods in multiplex telegraphy. In 1952 he completed the URR1 (Universal Relais Rechner 1, i.e., Universal Relay Computer 1). He died at the age of 94 on 16 July 2014.
The Vienna Lab
The IBM Laboratory Vienna, also known as the Vienna Lab, was founded in 1961 as a department of the IBM Laboratory in Böblingen, Germany, with Professor Zemanek as its first manager. Zemanek remained with the Vienna Lab until 1976, when he was appointed an IBM Fellow. He was crucial in the creation of the formal definition of the programming language PL/I.
For several years, Zemanek had been a lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology, which features a lecture hall named in his honor. He was also a long-time member of the International Federation for Information Processing, of which he was president from 1971 to 1974.
Scouting
Professor Zemanek joined the Boy Scouts in 1932 and served as Scout Leader, International Secretary of Austria from 1946 to 1949 and International Commissioner of the Pfadfinder Österreichs from 1949 to 1954.
Honours and awards
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (2005)
Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna
Joseph Johann Ritter von Prechtl Medal from the Technical University of Vienna
Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the European Society for the Education of Engineers
Wilhelm Exner Medal (1972).
Rudolf Kompfner Medal of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Technical University of Vienna (2010)
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Hero of Uzbekistan
Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor (Eduard Rhein Foundation, 1998)
Heinz-Zemanek-Preis, an award for extraordinary accomplishments in the field of computer science, was named for him
Kardinal-Innitzer-Preis (2003) – for his lifetime accomplishments
Literature
Bekanntes & Unbekanntes aus der Kalenderwissenschaft. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1978
Kalender und Chronologie. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1990
Weltmacht Computer. Esslingen: Bechtle, 1991
Das geistige Umfeld der Informationstechnik. Berlin: Springer, 1992
Unser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Pribylovsky | Vladimir Valerianovich Pribylovsky (, 6 March 195613 January 2016) was a Soviet and Russian political scientist, historian, journalist, human rights activist, and author of internet database Anticompromat.org on biographies of Russian politicians. He also authored more than 40 books.
Biography
Pribylovsky graduated from the Department of Medieval History of Moscow State University in 1981 specializing in Byzantine studies, and published several articles on early Byzantine history. In the 1980s he was persecuted by Soviet authorities for spreading banned literature.
Since 1993 he was the president of the Panorama Information and Research Center think tank. From November 2005 he operated the Russian-language website Anticompromat.org, which is essentially a collection of biographies of Russian politicians compiled and partially written by Pribylovsky from a variety of published sources. The site was included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials. On 31 March, after being shortly closed, the website moved to a Californian hosting.
Together with Yury Felshtinsky, Pribylovsky co-authored The Operation Successor, a book about Vladimir Putin's rise to power. Later versions were published as The Age of Assassins and Corporation. According to reviews, the book describes KGB's system of corporate rule in Russia.
His latest project was providing Russian language documents about corruption in Russia for international project "Kleptocracy Initiative", including documents on registration of cooperative Ozero.
On 13 January 2016, Pribylovsky was found dead in his Moscow apartment. His last book was "Around Putin". It was published after his death. The body of Pribylovsky, according to his will, was cremated. He was buried at the Khovansky cemetery in Moscow.
Books
Guide to New Russian Political Parties and Organizations; Dec 1992 ;
National-patriots, Church and Putin. Parliamentary and Presidential Campaigns 1999–2000. By E.Mikhailovskya, V.Pribylovsky, A.Verkhovsky. 2001.
, 2004
Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Pribylovsky, The Corporation. Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin, , Encounter Books; February 25, 2009, description.
Vladimir Pribylovsky The Purge by Vladimir Putin. Who has been eliminated, and who remains? (Russian), 2013, , Google books and review.
Around Putin. A biographical directory (Russian), Panorama, 2016, . Online version of the book.
Animal Farm 2, an unofficial sequel to Animal Farm. Online version on Orwell's Site
References
External links
Biography
Anticompromat.org
Panorama.ru
1956 births
2016 deaths
Writers from Moscow
Moscow State University alumni
Russian male journalists
Soviet journalists
Soviet Byzantinists
20th-century Russian historians
Russian Byzantinists
Russian political scientists
Russian political writers
Russian political activists
Soviet dissidents
Russian human rights activists
Soviet historians
Scholars of Byzantine history
21st-century Russian historians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Grune | Dick Grune is a Dutch computer scientist and university lecturer best known for inventing and developing the first version of the Concurrent Versions System (CVS). Grune was involved in the construction of Algol 68 compilers in the 1970s and the Amsterdam Compiler Kit in the 1980s.
He also named gnome sort, a sorting algorithm invented by Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, who originally published it under the name stupid sort.
Selected publications
Henri E. Bal and Dick Grune. Programming Language Essentials. Addison-Wesley, 1994. .
Dick Grune and Ceriel J. H. Jacobs. Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (Second Edition). Springer, 2008. .
Dick Grune, Kees van Reeuwijk, Henri E. Bal, Ceriel J. H. Jacobs, and Koen G. Langendoen. Modern Compiler Design (Second Edition). John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
References
External links
Dick Grune's home page
Dick Grune's blog
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Concurrent Versions System
People from Enschede
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEF%20Forum | MEF, founded in 2001, is a nonprofit international industry consortium, of network, cloud, and technology providers. MEF, originally known as the Metro Ethernet Forum, was dedicated to Carrier Ethernet networks and services, and in recent years, significantly broadened its scope, which now includes underlay connectivity services such as Optical, Carrier Ethernet, IP, along with overlay digital services including SD-WAN Services, as well as APIs to support orchestration of the service lifecycle (termed Lifecycle Service Orchestration, or LSO APIs based on MEF 55 Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO): Reference Architecture and Framework, for connectivity and digital services). Along with this change in scope, MEF re-branded from the "Metro Ethernet Forum", to simply "MEF". "MEF Forum" is MEF's legal name.
The forum is composed of service providers, incumbent local exchange carriers, network equipment vendors, cloud providers and other related organizations, within the information and communications technology industry, that share an interest in connectivity services, digital services, automation, orchestration and standardization to pragmatically enhance and accelerate the industry's digital transformation. There are approximately 200 MEF members, many of which have achieved MEF 3.0 certification of their MEF-standardized services or technology.
MEF comprises multiple technical committees to develop, evolve and promote the adoption of MEF standard services and interfaces. The forum regularly makes recommendations to, and collaborates with, existing standards bodies, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
History
MEF was preceded by the Ethernet in the First Mile Alliance (EFMA), also a nonprofit international industry consortium, which was established in 2001 to promote standards-based Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) technologies and products and position EFM as a networking technology for an access network.
In 2005, with the completion of the 802.3ah standard by the IEEE, the EFMA became part of MEF.
In 2015, MEF voted to change its name to "MEF Forum" to reflect its expansion in setting standards for network virtualization.
In 2017, the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) was merged into MEF.
In 2018, MEF published its first technical standards on optical transport (MEF 63) and IP (MEF 61).
MEF white papers
These white papers provide a comprehensive technical overview of MEF services, APIs, certification and new areas of work with MEF, based on the work of MEF's technical committees.
Technical specifications
As of October 2020, MEF had approved and published 80 technical standards, including amendments, excluding superseded standards:
MEF 2 Requirements and Framework for Ethernet Service Protection
MEF 3 Circuit Emulation Service Definitions, Framework and Requirements in Metro Ethernet Networks
MEF 4 Metro Ethernet N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macecraft%20Software | Macecraft Software is a Finnish computer software company founded in 2001 by Jouni Vuorio and Jani Vuorio. The company is mainly known for its utility software jv16 PowerTools. Other products include standalone registry cleaners, RegSupreme Pro and RegSupreme.
Before 2003, as a hobby Jouni Vuorio developed a freeware software called RegCleaner. The transition from creating freeware software to shareware products also generated heated discussion.
In December 2013, a crowdfunding campaign was launched at indiegogo with the aim of making Jv16 PowerTools free and open source. The Thunderclap Web site said that the campaign reached 252% of its goal of 500 supporters with 1,2558 subscribers, but Macecraft said that the campaign did not reach its financial goal, so the software was not made free and open source.
Instead, contributors were given software updates. The Macecraft discussion forum went offline for a prolonged period at about this time but eventually came back online, with apologies for the prolonged absence for maintenance.
References
External links
Macecraft, Inc.
Software companies of Finland
2001 establishments in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo%20Majin | Tokyo Majin, known in Japan as , is a Japanese anime series, which premiered in Japan on the anime satellite TV network Animax. A large part of the Tokyo Majin Gakuen franchise, it is loosely based on a Japan-exclusive video game series.
On June 26, 2007, ADV Films announced that it had acquired the license to the anime.) ADV distributed the series under the title of Tokyo Majin, dropping "Gakuen: Kenpuchō Tō" from the title. In 2008, the anime became one of over 30 ADV titles whose licenses were transferred to Funimation. American television network Chiller began airing the series as part of their Anime Wednesdays programming block on July 15, 2015.
Plot
The nights of Tokyo are disturbed by mysterious deaths involving the 'Reborn Dead', people who disappear at night and suddenly reappear during the day as a corpse. Also, as corpses are sent to the morgue to be autopsied, they disappear again leaving signs showing that they escaped themselves.
To fight these 'Reborn Dead' and to prevent more deaths, mysterious transfer student, Tatsuma Hiyuu, and delinquent student, Kyouichi Houraiji, stay up every night to fight the demons and discover the cause. They are joined by rest of the final year students at the Magami Academy who all have supernatural powers. They must fight not only the demons, but the powerful beings controlling them who are bent on destroying the city and the people within it.
Characters
Main characters
Tatsuma is a mysterious boy who transfers to Magami Academy in his senior year of high school. He is often shown as being very silent and carefree, but he actually has more insight than the people around him. He usually hangs out with Kyouichi and helps him fight gangsters from other schools, giving him the status of the fifth most delinquent student in Magami's history. Tatsuma is probably the only one in the group who is close to Kyouichi and will often calmly tease and irritate him.
He is a highly trained fighter; he knows a person's vital points, whether or not they are fighting seriously, and if they have killed before. He is often the first to realize a threat that is approaching them and sometimes gets a strange feeling when someone near him is in danger. What adds to his mysteriousness is the fact that two months prior to enrolling in Magami High, it is revealed that he was actually sent there by his master (who said that his skills will be needed there), though none of the others know of this. Also, during a fight with Kodzunu, they both see a flashback image of four people, who bear similarities to Tatsuma's current group, during the Bakumatsu. This bothers Kodzunu; he leads Tatsuma into a trap to find out more. Once again, the two see a vision of the past. This time Kodzunu realizes that Tatsuma's ancestors had a hand in the destruction of the Kodzunu clan during the Edo period.
Tatsuma has birth marks on both of his hands (as well as both feet and his chest) which he was told by his father to treasure because it wil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chsh | chsh (an abbreviation of "change shell") is a command on Unix-like operating systems that is used to change a login shell. Users can either supply the pathname of the shell that they wish to change to on the command line, or supply no arguments, in which case allows the user to change the shell interactively.
Usage
is a setuid program that modifies the file, and only allows ordinary users to modify their own login shells. The superuser can modify the shells of other users, by supplying the name of the user whose shell is to be modified as a command-line argument. For security reasons, the shells that both ordinary users and the superuser can specify are limited by the contents of the file, with the pathname of the shell being required to be exactly as it appears in that file. (This security feature is alterable by re-compiling the source code for the command with a different configuration option, and thus is not necessarily enabled on all systems.) The superuser can, however, also modify the password file directly, setting any user's shell to any executable file on the system without reference to and without using .
On most systems, when is invoked without the command-line option (to specify the name of the shell), it prompts the user to select one. On Mac OS X, if invoked without the option, displays a text file in the default editor (initially set to vim) allowing the user to change all of the features of their user account that they are permitted to change, the pathname of the shell being the name next to "Shell:". When the user quits vim, the changes made there are transferred to the /etc/passwd file which only root can change directly.
Using the option (for example: ) greatly simplifies the task of changing shells.
Depending on the system, may or may not prompt the user for a password before changing the shell, or entering interactive mode. On some systems, use of by non-root users is disabled entirely by the sysadmin.
On many Linux distributions, the command is a PAM-aware application. As such, its behaviour can be tailored, using PAM configuration options, for individual users. For example, an directive that specifies the module can be used to deny access to individual users, by specifying a file of the usernames to deny access to with the option to that module (along with the option).
Portability
POSIX does not describe utilities such as , which are used for modifying the user's entry in . Most Unix-like systems provide . SVr4-based systems provided a similar capability with passwd. Two of the three remaining systems (IBM AIX and HP-UX) provide in addition to . The exception is Solaris, where non-administrators are unable to change their shell unless a network name server such as NIS or NIS+ is installed. The obsolete SGI SVr4 system IRIX64 also lacked .
See also
Comparison of command shells
References
Further reading
— some examples of invoking with the and options
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20the%20Netherlands | Rail transport in the Netherlands uses a dense railway network which connects nearly all major towns and cities. There are as many train stations as there are municipalities in the Netherlands . The network totals on of track; a line may run both ways, or two lines may run (one in each direction) on major routes. Three-quarters of the lines have been electrified.
The Dutch rail network primarily supports passenger transport. Rail travel comprises the majority of the distance travelled on Dutch public transport. The national rail infrastructure is managed and maintained by the government agency ProRail, and a number of operators have concessions to operate their trains. The entire network is standard gauge. The Netherlands is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC), and its country code is 84.
Most Dutch trains are equipped with Wi-Fi. They offer no onboard catering, except for a limited service on some international trains, due to the short distances involved.
Operators
Public-transport authorities in the Netherlands issue concessions for groups of lines:
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; Dutch Railways) – services the main passenger rail network (Hoofdrailnet), including limited night service
Arriva Netherlands – services the northern secondary lines around Leeuwarden and Groningen, some eastern secondary lines around Arnhem and Zutphen, the southern secondary lines in Limburg, and one central secondary line
Breng – services part of an eastern secondary line with Arriva
Keolis Nederland – services two eastern secondary lines (between Zwolle and Kampen and Zwolle and Enschede) and a secondary line (as Syntus) between Zutphen and Oldenzaal
Connexxion – services a secondary line between Ede-Wageningen and Amersfoort
Qbuzz – services the MerwedeLingelijn between Dordrecht and Geldermalsen
NS International - services international trains and domestic high-speed service.
Foreign railway operators with NS authorization service several Dutch stations:
DB Regio, including DB Regionalbahn Westfalen and DB Euregiobahn
NMBS/SNCB – Maastricht–Eijsden, as part of the Maastricht–Liège service; and also Roosendaal to Antwerpen and beyond.
A common fare system applies nationwide, although operators tend to use separate tariffs. Although most trains have first- and second-class compartiments, Keolis Nederland and (sometimes) Arriva have second-class compartments only. The Netherlands' largest cargo carrier is DB Schenker; others include ACTS, Crossrail, ERS Railways, Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln, Rail4chem and Veolia Cargo. The network is maintained by the government-owned ProRail, which is responsible for allocating slots to companies.
History
The Dutch National Railway Company (Nederlandse Spoorwegen/NS) was founded in 1837 and tasked with building the Dutch railway network. The first Dutch railway was built and opened in 1839 on a short stretch between Amsterdam and Haarlem, and was expanded between 1840 and 1847 to The Hague and Rotterdam. O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAY.tv | GAY.tv, having debuted in 2002, was the only Italian television channel with programming aimed at LGBT, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, audiences. On 18 December 2008, due to low revenue, it shut down operations and focused all activity on the website. On 13 September, GAY.tv launched a new website which returned some of the original material from the TV show.
External links
Defunct television channels in Italy
LGBT-related television channels
Television networks in Italy
LGBT-related mass media in Italy
Television channels and stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in Italy
2008 disestablishments in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection%20of%20a%20polyhedron%20with%20a%20line | In computational geometry, the problem of computing the intersection of a polyhedron with a line has important applications in computer graphics, optimization, and even in some Monte Carlo methods. It can be viewed as a three-dimensional version of the line clipping problem.
If the polyhedron is given as the intersection of a finite number of halfspaces, then one may partition the halfspaces into three subsets: the ones that include only one infinite end of the line, the ones that include the other end, and the ones that include both ends. The halfspaces that include both ends must be parallel to the given line, and do not contribute to the solution. Each of the other two subsets (if it is non-empty) contributes a single endpoint to the intersection, which may be found by intersecting the line with each of the halfplane boundary planes and choosing the intersection point that is closest to the end of the line contained by the halfspaces in the subset. This method, a variant of the Cyrus–Beck algorithm, takes time linear in the number of face planes of the input polyhedron. Alternatively, by testing the line against each of the polygonal facets of the given polyhedron, it is possible to stop the search early when a facet pierced by the line is found.
If a single polyhedron is to be intersected with many lines, it is possible to preprocess the polyhedron into a hierarchical data structure in such a way that intersections with each query line can be determined in logarithmic time per query.
References
External links
Intersection of convex hull with a line with pseudo code
Euclidean geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine%20Pipehead%20Dam | The Serpentine Pipehead Dam was constructed to use the Serpentine River, in Western Australia, to convey water from Serpentine Dam to the interconnection with the metropolitan trunk main network. The dam is also used to store water from the Dandalup scheme whereby water can be pumped or gravity transferred back into the Serpentine Pipehead Dam. The dam site also contains a water treatment plant and picnic area. The pipehead dam is upstream from Serpentine Falls and was constructed in the late 1950s, opening in 1957. The dam utilized of concrete and of earth.
External links
Dam storage level website
Serpentine Dam facilities brochure
Dams completed in 1957
Dams in Western Australia
Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNBC%20Africa | Consumer News and Business Channel Africa (known as CNBC Africa) is an African pay television network launched on 1 June 2007. Founded by Rakesh Wahi and Zafar Siddiqi, the network is produced under license from CNBC International and is owned by Africa Business News. It is headquartered in Sandton, Johannesburg.
The channel features programmes and updates from CNBC Europe, the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the US and other CNBC affiliates around the world.
Bureaus
Bureaus for CNBC Africa are located in:
The channel produces 7 hours of local programming per business day. Local content is generated in the studios in Sandton, Johannesburg.
The Arabic Business Programmes Show for:
Cairo
Casablanca
Khartoum
Shows
Regular expert contributors
Bruce Whitfield
Paul Theron
Awards
2009: CNBC Africa received the Best Television Feature 2009 for the programme "Doing Business in Africa" at the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards.
2009: CNBC Africa producer and reporter, Talia Sanhewe, was the winner of the Vodacom Journalist of the Year 2009 Western Region Television News Category.
2010: CNBC Africa won the Banking Reporting Category of the Africa investor Financial Reporting Awards 2010. The channel was nominated in both the 'Ai Financial News Reporting - Banking' and 'Ai Financial News Reporting - Resources (Mining, Energy, Oil & Gas)' categories.
2010: CNBC Africa received the Broadcast Award at the Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism 2010
2010: Producer Natascha Jacobsz-Botha was the winner of the Citadel ‘Words on Money’ Journalism Awards ‘Newcomer of the Year 2010’.
2010: CNBC Africa was nominated for 'Best Infrastructure Feature' and 'Best Tourism Feature' at the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2010.
References
External links
CNBC global channels
Television stations in South Africa
English-language television stations in South Africa
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Mass media in Johannesburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/7 | The IBM System/7 was a computer system designed for industrial control, announced on October 28, 1970 and first shipped in 1971. It was a 16-bit machine and one of the first made by IBM to use novel semiconductor memory, instead of magnetic core memory conventional at that date.
IBM had earlier products in industrial control market, notably the IBM 1800 which appeared in 1964. However, there was minimal resemblance in architecture or software between the 1800 series and the System/7.
System/7 was designed and assembled in Boca Raton, Florida.
Hardware architecture
The processor designation for the system was IBM 5010. There were 8 registers which were mostly general purpose (capable of being used equally in instructions) although R0 had some extra capabilities for indexed memory access or system I/O. Later models may have been faster, but the versions existing in 1973 had register to register operation times of 400 ns, memory read operations at 800 ns, memory write operations at 1.2 µs, and direct IO operations were generally 2.2 μs. The instruction set would be familiar to a modern RISC programmer, with the emphasis on register operations and few memory operations or fancy addressing modes. For example, the multiply and divide instructions were done in software and needed to be specifically built into the operating system to be used.
The machine was physically compact for its day, designed around chassis/gate configurations shared with other IBM machines such as the 3705 communications controller, and a typical configuration would take up one or two racks about high, the smallest System/7's were only about high. The usual console device was a Teletype Model 33 ASR (designated as the IBM 5028), which was also how the machine would generally read its boot loader sequence. Since the semiconductor memory emptied when it lost power (in those days, losing memory when you switched off the power was regarded as a novelty) and the S/7 didn't have ROM, the machine had minimal capabilities at startup. It typically would read a tiny bootloader from the Teletype, and then that program would in turn read in the full program from another computer or from a high speed paper tape reader, or from an RPQ interface to a tape cassette player. Although many of the external devices used on the system used the ASCII character set, the internal operation of the system used the EBCDIC character set which IBM used on most systems.
Specialization
There were various specializations for process control. The CPU had 4 banks of registers each of different priority and it could respond to interrupts within one instruction cycle by switching to the higher priority set. Many specialized I/O devices could be configured for things such as analog measurement or signal generation, solid state or relay switching, or TTL digital input and output lines. The machine could be installed in an industrial environment without air conditioning, although there were feature cod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20transport%20in%20Australia | Road transport is an element of the Australian transport network, and contributes to the Australian economy. Australia relies heavily on road transport due to Australia's large area and low population density in considerable parts of the country.
Another reason for the reliance upon roads is that the Australian rail network has not been sufficiently developed for a lot of the freight and passenger requirements in most areas of Australia. This has meant that goods that would otherwise be transported by rail are moved across Australia via road trains. Almost every household owns at least one car, and uses it most days.
Victoria is the state with the highest density of arterial roads in Australia.
History
Costs and funding
Funding and responsibility for Australia's road network is split between the three levels of government; Federal, State and Local.
Because of long distances, low population densities, and widely separated major settlements, the costs of and funding for roads in Australia has been, historically, a major fiscal issue for all levels of government, especially Federal and State. The popular phrase 'the tyranny of distance', also the title of a famous historical work, captures the central role of transport in Australian policy, producing many conflicts. It was not until the Bland enquiry in Victoria that there was an attempt to outline the complex questions in economic theory and practice of determining and measuring road costs and their allocation. In 1978-80 the McDonell Enquiry reviewed road and rail freight transport in New South Wales and its affected cities and regions, (the 'hub' of the Australian freight transport system). It was set up because of the 'truckies' blockades and national disturbances which disrupted access to all mainland capitals. These were largely sparked by the levels of road taxes. This enquiry developed the first comprehensive theoretical and measurement system for assessing and allocating road costs,. This system was subsequently applied more widely, and then extended, with later studies, for the establishment of current national policy and principles.
The Federal government provides funds under the AusLink programme for several funding programs including:
National Projects
National Network Maintenance, essentially the National Highway, comprising the main freeways and highways linking the major cities of Australia
Roads to Recovery Program - provides funding allocations to councils in each State or Territory.
Black Spot Program (improvements to high accident risk spots)
Strategic Regional Program
Innovation and Research
Funding for Local Roads
Other highways and main roads linking regional centres are funded by the respective state governments. Local and minor roads are generally funded by the third tier of government, local councils.
The Business Council of Australia in its Infrastructure Action Plan, estimated that in 2004, road infrastructure was under funded by A$10 billion.
Roads and high |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral%20modeling%20in%20computer-aided%20design | In computer-aided design, behavioral modeling is a high-level circuit modeling technique where behavior of logic is modeled.
The Verilog-AMS and VHDL-AMS languages are widely used to model logic behavior.
Other modeling approaches
RTL Modeling : logic is modeled at register level.
Structural Modeling : logic is modeled at both register level and gate level.
References
Analog Behavioral Modeling with the Verilog-A Language by Dan FitzPatrick, Ira Miller.
Computer-aided design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero | Vero may refer to:
Geography
Vero Beach, Florida, a city in the United States
Vero, Corse-du-Sud, a commune of France in Corsica
Other
Véro, a talk show on the Radio-Canada television network
Vero (app), a social media company co-founded by Ayman Hariri
Vero cell
Vero man, Pleistocene-era human remains found near Vero Beach, Florida
Vero Software Plc
Vero (supermarket chain) in the Republic of Macedonia
Vero, a candy brand owned by Barcel
Vernon Richards, born Vero Recchioni, a twentieth century Anglo-Italian anarchist
Vero Technologies Ltd, a former British manufacturing company
Vero Insurance, an Australian insurance company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20Spider%27s%20Sunny%20Patch%20Friends | Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, sometimes shortened to Sunny Patch, is a computer-animated children's television series produced by Nelvana in association with AbsoluteDigital Pictures and Callaway Arts & Entertainment as a follow-up to Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids. It was based on David Kirk's Sunny Patch brand and the accompanying Miss Spider book series. In Canada, the show aired on Treehouse TV. In the United States, it aired on Nick Jr. 44 episodes were produced.
Premise
The show takes place in "Sunny Patch" (a tiny town made of common forest items), populated by anthropomorphic bugs, and primarily focuses on the Spider family. The episodes follow the children's adventures playing in Sunny Patch and learning life lessons, such as being kind to others, being imaginative, having responsibility, and being curious about the world around them.
Episodes
Characters
Main
Miss Spider (voiced by Brooke Shields in Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids, Kristin Davis in the final series in the Canadian version and Maria Darling in the UK version) is an adoptee, adopted by Betty Beetle when her biological mother abandoned her before she hatched and Holley's wife. Miss Spider tries to be a kind and caring mother and gives equal time to all of her many children. She strongly believes that "We have to be good to bugs, all bugs."
Squirt (voiced by Scott Beaudin in the Canadian version and Joanna Ruiz in the UK version) is a curious and adventurous green spider who is 6 years old. Squirt is considered to be the leader of the children and as such, more stories that focus on him than any other. He enjoys surfing the air on his webs, dreams of flying like Shimmer or Dragon, and is often ready to take the lead in an adventure. Because of his impulsive and curious personality, he often needs the advice of his parents to help him with situations.
Shimmer (voiced by Rebecca Brenner in the Canadian version and Maria Darling in the UK version) is a smart and tomboyish pink jewel beetle with an interest in sports and games who is 8 years old. Shimmer is different from the rest of the family as she has abilities the others do not such as heat sensors. She is one of Miss Spider and Holley's adoptive children.
Dragon (voiced by Mitchell Eisner in the Canadian version and Maria Darling in the UK version) is a fearless and brave purple dragonfly who is one of Miss Spider and Holley's adoptive children. He is 9 years old and the eldest of the Spider children and often very bad towards others, especially Squirt. In many episodes, Dragon serves as an example of peer pressure. For example, in "Cry Buggie", Dragon makes fun of Squirt when he shows his feelings.
Bounce (voiced by Julie Lemieux in the Canadian version and Joanna Ruiz in the UK version) is a hyperactive and gluttonous blue bedbug who is one of Miss Spider and Holley's adoptive children. He is 7 years old and a two-legged, high-energy bug and the only bug character in the show to have teeth. He and Dragon hav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20chemistry%20observational%20databases | Over the last two centuries many environmental chemical observations have been made from a variety of ground-based, airborne, and orbital platforms and deposited in databases. Many of these databases are publicly available. All of the instruments mentioned in this article give online public access to their data. These observations are critical in developing our understanding of the Earth's atmosphere and issues such as climate change, ozone depletion and air quality. Some of the external links provide repositories of many of these datasets in one place. For example, the Cambridge Atmospheric Chemical Database, is a large database in a uniform ASCII format. Each observation is augmented with the meteorological conditions such as the temperature, potential temperature, geopotential height, and equivalent PV latitude.
Ground-based and balloon observations
NDSC observations. The Network for the Detection for Stratospheric Change (NDSC) is a set of high-quality remote-sounding research stations for observing and understanding the physical and chemical state of the stratosphere. Ozone and key ozone-related chemical compounds and parameters are targeted for measurement. The NDSC is a major component of the international upper atmosphere research effort and has been endorsed by national and international scientific agencies, including the International Ozone Commission, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The primary instruments and measurements are: Ozone lidar (vertical profiles of ozone from the tropopause to at least 40 km altitude; in some cases tropospheric ozone will also be measured). Temperature lidar (vertical profiles of temperature from about 30 to 80 km). Aerosol lidar (vertical profiles of aerosol optical depth in the lower stratosphere). Water vapor lidar (vertical profiles of water vapor in the lower stratosphere). Ozone microwave (vertical profiles of stratospheric ozone from 20 to 70 km). H2O microwave (vertical profiles water vapor from about 20 to 80 km). ClO microwave (vertical profiles of ClO from about 25 to 45 km, depending on latitude). Ultraviolet/Visible spectrograph (column abundance of ozone, NO2, and, at some latitudes, OClO and BrO). Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer (column abundances of a broad range of species including ozone, HCl, NO, NO2, ClONO2, and HNO3).
MkIV observations. The MkIV Interferometer is a Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) Spectrometer, designed and built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1984, to remotely sense the composition of the Earth's atmosphere by the technique of solar absorption spectrometry. This was born out of concern that man-made pollutants (e.g. chlorofluorocarbons, aircraft exhaust) might perturb the ozone layer. Since 1984, the MkIV Interferometer has participated in 3 NASA DC-8 polar aircraft campaigns, and has successfully completed 15 balloon flights. In addition, the MkIV Interferometer made over 900 days o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20the%20East%20College%20of%20Computer%20Studies%20and%20System | The University of the East College of Computer Studies and Systems pioneered in the offering of a baccalaureate degree in Computer Science in the University Belt area starting 1988. Presently the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has identified the University of the East as a Center of Excellence in Information Technology Education.
History
In 1984, the University began offering computer courses as part of the BS in Business Administration program. These courses were available for both credit-earning subjects and non-degree computer courses. In 1986, the CCSS was known as the Computer Institute for Studies and Systems (CISS). Initially, the institute offered non-degree computer training programs in consortium with the University of the Philippines until 1987. Nati C. San Gabriel served as the Director of the CISS and later became the Dean when the Institute was established as a College.
After Dean San Gabriel’s retirement in 1997, Presidio R. Calumpit Jr.-who was crucial to the transformation of the CISS into the CCSS-became the second CCSS Dean in May 1997. An Economics graduate of CAS Manila and a Master of Science in Computer Science graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University, Dean Calumpit holds the CCSS deanship to this day, along with being the National President of the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators Foundation Inc. (PSITE) and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Philippine Computer Society (PCS), both for SY 2004-2005.
The UE Management has been supportive in updating physical facilities since the first semester SY 1998-1999, with the major renovation of the CCSS Academic Building. Today the College has five computer laboratory rooms at the ground floor and four at the Panfilo O. Domingo Center for IT Building.
The university has migrated from ATM to Gigabit Ethernet to support its growing online requirements. It has expanded its online learning capabilities and improved its administrative functionality at its Manila campus with an Ethernet networking solution from Nortel Networks. The upgrade has significantly improved the speed and performance of student and faculty access to online learning resources and academic records. The upgrade has also supported the university's plan for a unified communications network that will ultimately link the Manila facility with campuses in Caloocan and Quezon City.
Department Profile
The college curriculum spans from computer programming, computer organization, computer systems, data structures and algorithms, file processing, programming languages, database systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence and computer networks.
Besides the four-year Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) program, and in response to the needs of the industry, the College has added three other courses: a two-year degree program in Associate in Computer Technology (ACT) in June 1998, a four-year degree program in Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT) i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide%20Wide%20World | Wide Wide World is a 1955–1958 90-minute documentary series telecast live on NBC on Sunday afternoons at 4pm Eastern. Conceived by network head Pat Weaver and hosted by Dave Garroway, Wide Wide World was introduced on the Producers' Showcase series on June 27, 1955. The premiere episode, featuring entertainment from the US, Canada and Mexico, was the first international North American telecast in the history of the medium.
It returned in the fall as a regular Sunday series, telecast from October 16, 1955 to June 8, 1958. The program was sponsored by General Motors and Barry Wood was the executive producer. Nelson Case was the announcer. In March 1956, Time magazine reported that it was the highest-rated daytime show on television.
Garroway was the host of the series which featured live remote segments from locations throughout North America and occasional reports on film from elsewhere in the world. The series carried live events into four million households. The October 16 premiere, "A Sunday in Autumn," featured 50 cameras in 11 cities, including a college campus, the fishing fleet at Gloucester, Massachusetts, rainswept streets in Manhattan and Monitor broadcasting in NBC's Radio Central studio. An appearance by Dick Button ice skating at Rockefeller Center was canceled because the rain had washed away the ice, and a curious coverage by a nervous Ted Husing of an attempt by Donald Campbell to break a speed record showed nothing more than his boat, on the other side of the lake, failing to take off. Time reviewed:
NBC's Wide Wide World whisked its audience all over the map. The camera lazed its way down the Mississippi, poked into a New Jersey lane where lovers walked and old men raked autumn leaves, wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets. There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center, the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair, an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell's jet racer at Arizona's man-made Lake Mead. Always there was the immediacy of things happening this very minute, but the real brilliancy of Wide World may lie in its avoidance of the TV interview. The only one attempted, at the Texas Fair, proved again that—given a microphone and someone to interview—an announcer can turn any subject into a crashing bore. The words needed in Wide World were supplied by Dave Garroway and kept to a literate minimum.
Other episodes: "New Orleans" (February 2, 1958), "American Theater '58" (March 16, 1958), "Flagstop at Malta Bend" (March 30, 1958) and "The Museum of Modern Art" (April 27, 1958).
History
According to host Dave Garroway, the fourth episode features the first live broadcast from a movie set, from the William Wyler film Friendly Persuasion, starring Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire.
300,000 ducks
ESPN's Steve Bowman described the logistics involved in sett |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayal | Kayal may refer to:
People
Beram Kayal (born 1988), Israeli professional footballer
Neeraj Kayal, Indian computer scientist
Other
The Malayalam term for a lake; see Geography of Kerala
A type of Hindustani music; see Khyal
Kayal (film), a 2014 Tamil film
Kayalpatnam, a town in Tamil Nadu, India
Kayal (TV series), a 2021 Tamil TV series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Solitaire | Solitaire is a computer game included with Microsoft Windows, based on a card game of the same name, also known as Klondike. Its original version was programmed by Wes Cherry, and the cards were designed by Susan Kare.
History
Microsoft has included the game as part of its Windows product line since Windows 3.0, starting from 1990. The game was developed during the summer of 1988 by the intern Wes Cherry. The card deck itself was designed by Macintosh pioneer Susan Kare. Cherry's version was to include a boss key that would have switched the game to a fake Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, but he was asked to remove this from the final release.
Microsoft intended Solitaire "to soothe people intimidated by the operating system," and at a time where many users were still unfamiliar with graphical user interfaces, it proved useful in familiarizing them with the use of a mouse, such as the drag-and-drop technique required for moving cards.
According to Microsoft telemetry, Solitaire was among the three most-used Windows programs and FreeCell was seventh, ahead of Word and Microsoft Excel. Lost business productivity by employees playing Solitaire has become a common concern since it became standard on Microsoft Windows.
In October 2012, along with the release of the Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft released a new version of Solitaire called Microsoft Solitaire Collection. This version, game designed by Microsoft Studios, with visual design led by William Bredbeck, and developed by Arkadium, is advertisement supported and introduced many new features to the game. As with the original release of the game, William Bredbeck is quoted as saying "One of the intentions of the redesign was to introduce users to the novel changes incorporated in the new Windows 8 operating system". This design is still in use through Windows 11.
Microsoft Solitaire celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 18, 2015. To celebrate this event, Microsoft hosted a Solitaire tournament on the Microsoft campus and broadcast the main event on Twitch.
In 2019, The Strong National Museum of Play inducted Microsoft Solitaire to its World Video Game Hall of Fame.
By its 30th anniversary in 2020, it was estimated that the game still had 35 million active monthly players and more than 100 million games played daily, according to Microsoft.
Features
When a game is won, the cards appear to fall off each stack and bounce off the screen. This "victory" screen is considered a prototypical element that would become popular in casual games, compared to the use of "Ode to Joy" on winning a level of Peggle, and makes Solitaire one of the first such casual video games.
Since Windows 3.0, Solitaire allows selecting the design on the back of the cards, choosing whether one or three cards are drawn from the deck at a time, switching between Vegas scoring and Standard scoring, and disabling scoring entirely. The game can also be timed for additional points if the game is won. There is a cheat tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Fetal%20Therapy%20Network | The North American Fetal Therapy Network (NAFTNet) is a voluntary association of medical centers in the United States and Canada with established expertise in fetal surgery and other forms of multidisciplinary care for complex disorders of the fetus.
The goal of NAFTNet is to foster collaborative research in fetal medicine. Members of NAFTNet can access current research protocols and participate in research studies. The NAFTNet initiative is funded, in part, by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
NAFTNet also functions as an educational resource for patients and future parents. Its web site offer links to governmental agencies, medical sites, patient support groups and other resources in the field of fetal medicine and fetal intervention.
History
In 2004, physicians from several centers that perform fetal surgery and advanced fetal therapy organized a workshop under the auspices of the National Institute for Child Health and Development to examine the future of fetal medicine.
One of the group's recommendations was that an organization that would regroup the most active centers throughout North America could help promote evidence-based fetal medicine and could help individual centers conduct sound and effective clinical research in the new field of fetal medicine.
The following year, physicians from four of the centers that participated in the workshop laid the groundwork for a North American Fetal Therapy Network, the steering Ccmmittee of which is now composed of representatives from 18 fetal treatment centers. NAFTNet members are physicians from various specialties involved in fetal medicine, including maternal-fetal medicine, pediatric surgery, genetics, neonatology and fetal cardiology.
Fetal therapy
Fetal therapy, or fetal treatment, is part of fetal medicine. It includes interventions performed on a “sick” fetus with the aim of achieving fetal well being. These interventions include medical (i.e. non-invasive) and surgical procedures.
In general a medical intervention is performed by administering medication to the mother. The drug crosses through the placenta and reaches the blood circulation of the fetus.
Surgical intervention on the fetus may involve either a direct operation of the fetus or an intervention on the placenta, as in the case of twin-twin-transfusion syndrome (TTTS). In some cases, it may be performed at the time of delivery: the Ex Utero-Intrapartum (“EXIT procedure”) procedure.
Fetal therapy, and advanced fetal therapy in particular, is a relatively new field in medicine. Because of the complexity and the significant risks involved with a surgical or medical intervention on a pregnant woman and her fetus, these procedures are usually performed in specialized centers and involve a multidisciplinary team of specialists.
See also
Fetoscopy
References
External links
NAFTNet.org
International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society
Eurofoetus
Medical associations based in the United States
Obstetrics and gynaec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward%E2%80%93backward%20algorithm | The forward–backward algorithm is an inference algorithm for hidden Markov models which computes the posterior marginals of all hidden state variables given a sequence of observations/emissions , i.e. it computes, for all hidden state variables , the distribution . This inference task is usually called smoothing. The algorithm makes use of the principle of dynamic programming to efficiently compute the values that are required to obtain the posterior marginal distributions in two passes. The first pass goes forward in time while the second goes backward in time; hence the name forward–backward algorithm.
The term forward–backward algorithm is also used to refer to any algorithm belonging to the general class of algorithms that operate on sequence models in a forward–backward manner. In this sense, the descriptions in the remainder of this article refer only to one specific instance of this class.
Overview
In the first pass, the forward–backward algorithm computes a set of forward probabilities which provide, for all , the probability of ending up in any particular state given the first observations in the sequence, i.e. . In the second pass, the algorithm computes a set of backward probabilities which provide the probability of observing the remaining observations given any starting point , i.e. . These two sets of probability distributions can then be combined to obtain the distribution over states at any specific point in time given the entire observation sequence:
The last step follows from an application of the Bayes' rule and the conditional independence of and given .
As outlined above, the algorithm involves three steps:
computing forward probabilities
computing backward probabilities
computing smoothed values.
The forward and backward steps may also be called "forward message pass" and "backward message pass" - these terms are due to the message-passing used in general belief propagation approaches. At each single observation in the sequence, probabilities to be used for calculations at the next observation are computed. The smoothing step can be calculated simultaneously during the backward pass. This step allows the algorithm to take into account any past observations of output for computing more accurate results.
The forward–backward algorithm can be used to find the most likely state for any point in time. It cannot, however, be used to find the most likely sequence of states (see Viterbi algorithm).
Forward probabilities
The following description will use matrices of probability values rather than probability distributions, although in general the forward-backward algorithm can be applied to continuous as well as discrete probability models.
We transform the probability distributions related to a given hidden Markov model into matrix notation as follows.
The transition probabilities of a given random variable representing all possible states in the hidden Markov model will be represented by the matrix where the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20W.%20Goldsmith | Raymond W. Goldsmith (Dec 23, 1904 – July 12, 1988, Hamden, Connecticut) was an American economist specialising in historical data on national income, saving, financial intermediation, and financial assets and liabilities.
Goldsmith was born in Brussels to a family of Jewish ancestry, and grew up in Frankfurt. After finishing secondary school, he worked in a bank for a year that include the German hyperinflation of 1923. He then studied at the Berlin Handelshochschule and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1928. From then until he left for the US in 1934, he was employed by the German statistical office and the Institut fur Finanzwesen, working on studies of the banking and economic systems of Latin America and elsewhere. He was a fellow at the Brookings Institution, 1930–31, and a postdoc at the London School of Economics, 1933–34.
Between 1934 and 1951, he worked in various capacities at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the War Production Board. At the Department of State, he helped devise the Colm-Dodge-Goldsmith plan for the German currency reform of 1946, and the financial implementation of the 1947 Austrian peace agreement. He was a consultant to many foreign countries including India, Japan, and Brazil.
In 1951, Goldsmith was appointed professor at New York University and a staff member at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 1953 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He published his magnum opus, A Study of Saving in the United States, in 1955. This work, partly coauthored with Dorothy Brady and Horst Menderhausen, ran to three volumes totalling more than 2000 pages and included many hundreds of tables of time series data. These data were crucial for early empirical tests of the life cycle and the permanent income theories of consumption, as the official national income accounts for the USA begin only in 1929. From 1962 to 1973, he was professor of economics at Yale University, remaining an active scholar until the end of his life.
Goldsmith is mainly known as the author of about 15 scholarly books, immensely rich in historical economic and financial data about the US, other countries, and the ancient world.
Financial Intermediaries in the American Economy since 1900.
1962. The national Wealth of the U.S. in the Postwar Period.
1963 (with Robert E. Lipsey and Morris Mendelson). Studies in the National Balance Sheet of the U.S. In two volumes.
1969. Financial Structure and Development.
The books by Goldsmith are a good place to look for American data on national income flows before 1929, stocks of tangible assets before 1925, and on financial assets and liabilities before 1945. His method for estimating Roman GDP from meager ancient evidence provided the basis for subsequent attempts by economic historians such as Angus Maddison, Peter Temin and others.
His wife, Selma Fine Goldsmith, was also a noted economic statistician.
Works
(1984) "An Estimate of the Size and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20Cricket%20Plus | ATN Cricket Plus is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). ATN Cricket Plus broadcasts programming related to the sport of cricket including live and tape-delayed matches and news and highlight series.
History
In April 2006, ATN was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called ATN - Asian Sports Network (ASN), described as "a national, English-language Category 2 pay television programming service devoted to the game of cricket. The service shall broadcast live cricket games from various venues around the world and shall showcase local cricket games. The service shall also broadcast discussions about the game of cricket."
ATN announced on January 31, 2007 plans to launch the channel as ATN Cricket Plus, in a licensing partnership with DirectTV, who launched their own Cricket Plus channel in the United States in 2006 with Taj TV. The channel launched in February 2007 on Rogers Cable.
On September 25, 2012, ATN Cricket Plus' broadcasting license to operate as a pay service was revoked at ATN's request. The channel subsequently re-launched as a regular specialty service on June 17, 2012, under the following license: ATN - Asian Sports Network.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2007
2007 establishments in the United States
English-language television stations in Canada
Sports television networks in Canada
Cricket in Canada
Cricket on television
Indian diaspora mass media
Indo-Canadian culture
Asian-Canadian culture in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness%20test | A randomness test (or test for randomness), in data evaluation, is a test used to analyze the distribution of a set of data to see whether it can be described as random (patternless). In stochastic modeling, as in some computer simulations, the hoped-for randomness of potential input data can be verified, by a formal test for randomness, to show that the data are valid for use in simulation runs. In some cases, data reveals an obvious non-random pattern, as with so-called "runs in the data" (such as expecting random 0–9 but finding "4 3 2 1 0 4 3 2 1..." and rarely going above 4). If a selected set of data fails the tests, then parameters can be changed or other randomized data can be used which does pass the tests for randomness.
Background
The issue of randomness is an important philosophical and theoretical question. Tests for randomness can be used to determine whether a data set has a recognisable pattern, which would indicate that the process that generated it is significantly non-random. For the most part, statistical analysis has, in practice, been much more concerned with finding regularities in data as opposed to testing for randomness. Many "random number generators" in use today are defined by algorithms, and so are actually pseudo-random number generators. The sequences they produce are called pseudo-random sequences. These generators do not always generate sequences which are sufficiently random, but instead can produce sequences which contain patterns. For example, the infamous RANDU routine fails many randomness tests dramatically, including the spectral test.
Stephen Wolfram used randomness tests on the output of Rule 30 to examine its potential for generating random numbers, though it was shown to have an effective key size far smaller than its actual size and to perform poorly on a chi-squared test. The use of an ill-conceived random number generator can put the validity of an experiment in doubt by violating statistical assumptions. Though there are commonly used statistical testing techniques such as NIST standards, Yongge Wang showed that NIST standards are not sufficient. Furthermore, Yongge Wang designed statistical–distance–based and law–of–the–iterated–logarithm–based testing techniques. Using this technique, Yongge Wang and Tony Nicol detected the weakness in commonly used pseudorandom generators such as the well known Debian version of OpenSSL pseudorandom generator which was fixed in 2008.
Specific tests for randomness
There have been a fairly small number of different types of (pseudo-)random number generators used in practice. They can be found in the list of random number generators, and have included:
Linear congruential generator and Linear-feedback shift register
Generalized Fibonacci generator
Cryptographic generators
Quadratic congruential generator
Cellular automaton generators
Pseudorandom binary sequence
These different generators have varying degrees of success in passing the accepted test |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20Happy | B. Happy (1999) is a Cartoon Network "World Premiere Toons" series created by Mark Newgarden. It was originally produced in Flash 3.0 by Funny Garbage. The series lasted four episodes and ran 24 hours a day on cartoonnetwork.com from 1999–2003. In each episode B. Happy, a reluctant Bluebird Of Happiness, is dispatched to Earth by Maureen, the Goddess of Happiness, to help determine a case of personal human misery. If B. Happy chooses incorrectly he is made personally miserable himself by the angry Goddess. If he chooses correctly, he is rewarded with complex carbohydrates. The viewer (augmented by the technological marvel of CLICK-O-RAMA) helps the decide the fate of each case and of B. Happy himself.
Characters
B. Happy- The main character of the series who appears to possess the accommodations of a stereotypical beatnik. When the problematic personal situations of the people on Earth come to the point of utter chaos B. Happy is dispatched by the goddess Maureen unto Earth to fix their problems. Forced out of his home in Heaven, B. Happy must fix the problems of the people on Earth if he ever wants to come back. B. Happy is a lazy irritable bird whose attitude makes it unlikely he can achieve world peace. Whenever B. Happy can't solve a person's problem he is left to his last resort which he calls "The Egg", in which (even though he's male) he lays an egg that ultimately holds the answers to all problems.
Maureen- A god-like figure who watches over Earth and looks over the actions of people, especially B. Happy. Maureen is a single, giant, purple head and can appear in front of B. Happy at will, usually to inform him if he's passed or failed one part of his mission. She, herself, won't help B. Happy and is infuriatingly mad whenever B. Happy fails one part of his mission (and usually electrocutes him) but duly pleased whenever he succeeds (and sings happily, to the annoyance of B. Happy).
Episode guide
Episode 1: The Case of The Pity Kitty- A smaller cat is bullied by a bigger cat and takes away the smaller cat's food. B. Happy tries to devise payback for the bigger cat and have in return food for the smaller cat.
Episode 2: The Case of The Hiccuping Arteest- B. Happy must cure the hiccups of an artist.
Episode 3: The Case of The Bawling Baby- B. Happy must stop the never-ending crying of a bratty baby hopefully to take away the grief of the baby's mother.
Episode 4: A Personal Message To You From B. Happy- B. Happy has a personal talk with the viewers.
Credits
Created, Written & Directed by Mark Newgarden
Executive Producers: John Carlin, Mark Newgarden
Creative Directors: Peter Girardi, Chris Capuzzo
Producers: Kristin Ellinington, Denise Rotina
Co- producer: Laura Rosenberg Kraning
Production Assistants: Mia Lotringer, Seth Cooper
Technical Director: Veronique Brossier
Title Design: Peter Girardi
Lead Animator: Devin Flynn
Animation: Veronique Brossier, John F. Brzyski, Xeth Feinberg
Additional Animators: Dave Redl, Jason Sawtelle
Inkin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20Robinson | Dominic Robinson (born 1965) is a computer game programmer. He came to prominence as an in-house programmer for Hewson Consultants when he converted Uridium to the Spectrum (a feat previously considered impossible) in 1986. This was followed by another classic Spectrum shoot-em up, Zynaps, and a puzzle/shooter, Anarchy, both of which were released in 1987. After leaving Hewson, he joined Graftgold to work on the Spectrum conversion of Flying Shark, as well as the Amiga and Atari ST versions of Simulcra and Rainbow Islands.
Robinson left Graftgold to pursue his interest in 3D graphics, moving to Leeds-based Vektor Grafix. This company was later absorbed into Microprose. When Microprose closed their Leeds studio, he went on to form Wayward Design, which he later sold to Rage Software.
List of games
Uridium (1986), Hewson Consultants Ltd.
Uridium Plus (1986), Hewson Consultants Ltd.
Zynaps (1987), Hewson Consultants Ltd.
Anarchy (1987), Hewson Consultants Ltd.
Flying Shark (1987), Firebird Software Ltd.
Simulcra (1990), Micro Style
Rainbow Islands (1990), Ocean Software Ltd.
Paradroid 90 (1990), Hewson Consultants Ltd.
Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart's Super Off Road (1990), Virgin Mastertronic Ltd.
Killing Cloud (1991), Konami, Inc., Mirrorsoft Ltd.
B-17 Flying Fortress (1992), MicroProse Software, Inc.
Dogfight - 80 Years of Aerial Warfare (1993), MicroProse Software, Inc.
Assault Rigs (1996), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.
Shipwreckers! (1997), Psygnosis Limited
G-Police (1997), Psygnosis Limited
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th (2000), MicroProse Software, Inc.
Championship Manager 4 (2003), Eidos Interactive Ltd.
References
External links
CRASH Issue 34 features an article about Robinson's work to convert Uridium, while at Hewson.
1965 births
Living people
British video game designers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh%20with%20the%20Australian%20Women%27s%20Weekly | Fresh with the Australian Women's Weekly was an Australian television program on the Nine Network. The show began on 10 January 2000 known simply as Fresh and had screened in various timeslots.
Hosts
Jason Roberts (2000–2003)
Geoff Jansz (2004–2006)
Pete Evans (2007–2009)
Lyndey Milan (2000–2009)
Ill-fated Expansion
The format of the show was changed from 30 April 2007 to include more lifestyle features and stories. It was lengthened to an hour and moved to midday. This move, however, only lasted for two weeks and from 14 May the show was cut back to half an hour and returned to its previous timeslot. In 2008, it was announced that the Australian Women's Weekly would no longer sponsor Fresh, and this ultimately became the reason for its axing.
Cancellation
On 19 February 2009, the Nine Network announced that the program had been axed due to there being no sponsor, with the last-ever episode airing on 13 March 2009. However, Fresh'''s cooking segments were to continue in Mornings with Kerri-Anne.
The last-ever broadcast ended with a final goodbye from Pete Evans and Lyndey Milan, thanking viewers for their support over the previous nine years followed by a look at archived memories from the previous nine years.
The following week, the Fresh website was removed. The program was replaced with regional affiliate WIN Television's Alive and Cooking'' which aired for a month, until it too was removed from the line-up, replaced by the extended Nine Morning News.
Easy Eats
The show's highlights dubbed as episodes edited in Easy Eats, an hour show dedicated to cooking. It was broadcast on the Nine Network since 2019.
See also
List of programs broadcast by Nine Network
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Official website (removed from 13 March 2009 and now on the website)
Australian cooking television series
Nine Network original programming
2000 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 34th Daytime Emmy Awards, commemorating excellence in American daytime programming from 2006, was held on June 15, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. CBS televised the ceremonies in the United States, their last time doing so as of 2017. Meanwhile, Creative Arts Emmy Awards were presented one day earlier on June 14 at the Hollywood and Highland Ballroom.
Nominations for the children's series categories were announced on February 7, 2007. The rest of the nominations were released on March 14.
The "Service Show" award categories were renamed the "Lifestyle" categories. Also a new award for Outstanding Morning Programming debuted. The Creative Arts Awards were held the day before the regular ceremony.
Nominations and winners
The following is a partial list of nominees, with winners in bold:
Outstanding Drama Series
A first-place tie was recorded in this category.
The Bold and the Beautiful
Guiding Light
One Life to Live
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Crystal Chappell (Olivia Spencer, Guiding Light)
Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor, The Young and the Restless)
Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Summers Newman, The Young and the Restless)
Maura West (Carly Tenney Snyder, As the World Turns)
Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne, Guiding Light)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer, General Hospital)
Ricky Paull Goldin (Gus Aitoro, Guiding Light)
Christian LeBlanc (Michael Baldwin, The Young and the Restless)
Michael Park (Jack Snyder, As the World Turns)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Genie Francis (Laura Spencer, General Hospital)
Renée Elise Goldsberry (Evangeline Williamson, One Life to Live)
Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth Webber, General Hospital)
Lesli Kay (Felicia Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Gina Tognoni (Dinah Marler, Guiding Light)
Heather Tom (Kelly Cramer, One Life to Live)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Trent Dawson (Henry Coleman, As the World Turns)
Dan Gauthier (Kevin Buchanan, One Life to Live)
Rick Hearst (Ric Lansing, General Hospital)
Greg Rikaart (Kevin Fisher, The Young and the Restless)
Kristoff St. John (Neil Winters, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series
Julie Marie Berman (Lulu Spencer, General Hospital)
Alexandra Chando (Maddie Coleman, As the World Turns)
Stephanie Gatschet (Tammy Winslow Randall, Guiding Light)
Jennifer Landon (Gwen Norbeck Munson, As the World Turns)
Leven Rambin (Lily Montgomery, All My Children)
Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series
Van Hansis (Luke Snyder, As the World Turns)
Bryton McClure (Devon Hamilton, The Young and the Restless)
Tom Pelphrey (Jonathan Randall, Guiding Light)
Jesse Soffer (Will Munson, As the World Turns)
James Stevenson (Jared Casey, Passions)
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team
The Bold and the Beautiful
General Hospital
Guiding Light
The Young and the Restl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20T.%20Ross | Douglas Taylor "Doug" Ross (21 December 1929 – 31 January 2007) was an American computer scientist pioneer, and chairman of SofTech, Inc. He is most famous for originating the term CAD for computer-aided design, and is considered to be the father of Automatically Programmed Tools (APT), a programming language to drive numerical control in manufacturing. His later work focused on a pseudophilosophy he developed and named Plex.
Biography
Ross was born in China, where his parents both worked as medical missionaries, and he then grew up in the United States in Canandaigua, New York. He received a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) cum laude in mathematics from Oberlin College in 1951, and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1954. Afterward, he began but didn't finish his Ph.D., at MIT due to his pressing work as head of MIT's Computer Applications Group.
In the 1950s, he participated in the MIT Whirlwind I computer project. In 1969, Ross founded SofTech, Inc., which began as an early supplier of custom compilers for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) for the languages Ada and Pascal. Ross lectured at MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and was chairman emeritus. He retired at Softech, having served as the company's president from 1969 to 1975, when he became chairman of the board of directors.
Among his many honors are the Joseph Marie Jacquard Memorial Award from the Numerical Control Society, in 1975, and the Distinguished Contributions Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 1980, and Honorary Engineer of the Year Award from the San Fernando Valley Engineer's Council, 1981. The MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science named after him the Douglas T. Ross Career Development Associate Professor of Software Development. The D.T.Ross Medal Award of the Berliner Kreis Scientific Forum for Product Development of the WiGeP Academic Society of Product Development Berliner Kreis & WGMK was named in his honor.
Work
Ross contributed to the MIT Whirlwind I computer project, which was the first to display real-time text and graphics. Many consider him to be the father of Automatically Programmed Tools (APT), the language that drives numerical control in manufacturing. Also he originated the term CAD for computer-aided design.
MIT Whirlwind project
Ross came to MIT in the fall of 1951 as a teaching assistant in the mathematics department. His wife, Pat, was a "computer banging away on a Marchant calculator" at Lincoln Laboratory before it officially took over the Whirlwind I computer. Her group used the Servomechanisms Labs analog correlation computer, built by Norbert Wiener. It had ball-and-disk integrators and arms used to hand trace strip chart curves of radar noise data. When the machine was in use, variables in equations were represented by rotations in its shafts. These were connected with mechanical pens which plot a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVVV-LD | KVVV-LD (channel 15) is a low-power television station in Houston, Texas, United States. Owned by Sovryn Holdings, the station maintains multiple affiliations with several digital multicast networks. KVVV-LD's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.
History
Originally owned by VVI LPTV Inc. (a subsidiary of the ValueVision home shopping network), the station began broadcasting under the call sign K53FV at the end of 1991. It had been licensed to broadcast on channel 55, but made way for full-power KTBU by moving to channel 53. Its original transmitter site was at the top of the Texas Commerce Tower in downtown Houston.
The station was sold to Pappas Telecasting in July 1999. The new owners changed the call sign to KVVV-LP on February 21, 2000. During its brief time on the air under Pappas ownership, the station served as a repeater of Pappas' full-power station on channel 57 with KUGB. Pappas took the station off the air March 1, 2001, and the station remained off the air through November 2004.
In June 2004, the station was granted permission to move to a new tower site near Moses Lake north of Texas City. During construction, the tower at the Texas City site was found to be unsafe, and Pappas requested permission to broadcast temporarily from Missouri City beginning in September 2006.
On September 11, 2007, KVVV-LP was granted a permit to build a digital station on channel 15. The change in channel assignment was due to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s auction of block B of the lower 700 MHz frequency band, which is now used by cellular telephones.
Pappas Telecasting's financial difficulties forced KVVV-LP to go off the air November 3, 2007. KVVV-LP's channel 53 analog transmitter was returned to the air briefly on October 30, 2009, to avoid cancellation of its license. (Federal law mandates that a station that is silent for more than a year must surrender its license.) A short time after transmissions resumed, a line carrying coolant to the transmitter burst, spraying coolant over the engineer and the transmitter. The channel 53 transmitter shut down immediately and never returned to the air.
The station's call sign was changed to KVVV-LD on January 28, 2011, and the station returned to the air on channel 15 on January 17, 2012. In January 2013, KVVV-LD (by now held by a liquidating trustee) was sold to Abraham Telecasting Company, which took over the station's operations on February 1 while the acquisition awaits FCC approval. The new owner quickly moved to add multicast channels to the station; The Word Network and Christian Television Network were the first two added.
On June 6, 2023, it was announced that Bridge Media Networks, the parent company of 24/7 headline news service NewsNet, backed by 5-hour Energy creator Manoj Bhargava, would acquire KVVV-LD for $1.55 million. Upon completion of the transaction, KVVV-LD will become the fifth NewsNet owned-and-operated stati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Yankees%20Radio%20Network | The New York Yankees Radio Network is an Audacy-owned radio network that broadcasts New York Yankees baseball games to 52 stations across 14 states. The network's flagship station is WFAN, which succeeded sister station WCBS as the flagship in 2014; WCBS had aired Yankees broadcasts since the network was founded in 2002 while WFAN had been the flagship station for the Yankees' crosstown rivals, the New York Mets, since the station's founding. (In a rare move, WFAN carried the live broadcast of the Yankees day/night doubleheader at the Baltimore Orioles on August 28, 2011, so WCBS could remain within its usual news format for live, continuing coverage of Hurricane Irene.) The full on-air name of the broadcasts is the WFAN Yankees Radio Network Driven by Jeep, with the Chrysler LLC subsidiary continuing its sponsorship of the network while games are broadcast from the "Duck Duck Go broadcast booth."
The YES Network provides some technical support for each broadcast, and Sirius XM carries the network's feed for every home game the Yankees play per their contract. A separate, Spanish-language broadcast airs on New York's WADO, 1280 AM.
The Yankees formed their own radio network in 2002 after WCBS outbid longtime Yankees home WABC for the rights.
Broadcasters
Since 2005, John Sterling (play-by-play) and Suzyn Waldman (color commentary) have been the Yankees Radio Network broadcast team. Waldman is the first and one of the few women to hold a full-time position with a major league team, and had served as a Yankees beat reporter for the YES Network before moving to the broadcast booth. Waldman was also one of the original personalities at WFAN upon its 1987 launch, where she served as a studio host for various teams (including the New York Knicks, for whom she hosted the pregame show) and also was the station's Yankees beat reporter.
Sterling joined the Yankees in 1989 (or more accurately rejoined; he had done work for the Yankees in the 1970s) after calling games for Turner Sports for the previous decade and has been at the mic for every Yankee game since, having never missed one game in his more than 25 years as Yankees play-by-play man. Prior to the Yankee broadcasts moving from WABC to WCBS, Sterling worked with Jay Johnstone, Joe Angel, and Michael Kay. He is widely known (and perhaps infamous) for his home run calls, which often involve one of his player nicknames or catchphrases and for saying "Ballgame over! Yankees win! Theeeeeee Yankees win!" after a Yankee victory. Sterling will often stretch out "the" for dramatic victories as well as say "Yankees win" in a more excited voice. (If the team loses, Sterling will end with a more subdued "Ballgame over, (opposing team) wins".)
The network uses the instrumental version of "Here Come the Yankees" as its theme song, and highlights from past games are dubbed over it for game opens.
For the inaugural season of the Yankees Radio Network, the team continued the longstanding tradition carried on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARX | WARX (93.9 FM) is a non-commercial radio station in Lewiston, Maine that features worship music programming from Air1. It is under ownership of the Educational Media Foundation.
The station (at that time WCYI), along with co-owned WCLZ, was transferred to The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC, due to parent company Citadel Broadcasting buying out ABC Radio. The station kept the Opie & Anthony Show . In October 2007 Saga Communications bought WCLZ, dropping the simulcast but keeping the Opie & Anthony Show, thus resulting in WCYI programming an automated Blues format in October 2007.
The station has had several previous on-air slogans including Eagle 94 as an oldies formatted station. It also simulcasted WCYY for over 10 years until the transfer to The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC, when it switched to a simulcast of WCLZ.
On February 21, 2008, it was announced that the Educational Media Foundation bought WCYI for a reported $1 million. In early March 2008 it was report that WCYI would likely become an affiliate of EMF's K-Love contemporary Christian music format. However, later the same month, it was reported that the station would carry Air 1 (sister network to K-Love) according to EMF's vice president of communications. On August 15, 2008, the station changed its call letters to WARX.
References
External links
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Air1 radio stations
Radio stations established in 1948
ARX
1948 establishments in Maine
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
ARX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent%20heuristic | In the study of path-finding problems in artificial intelligence, a heuristic function is said to be consistent, or monotone, if its estimate is always less than or equal to the estimated distance from any neighbouring vertex to the goal, plus the cost of reaching that neighbour.
Formally, for every node N and each successor P of N, the estimated cost of reaching the goal from N is no greater than the step cost of getting to P plus the estimated cost of reaching the goal from P. That is:
and
where
h is the consistent heuristic function
N is any node in the graph
P is any descendant of N
G is any goal node
c(N,P) is the cost of reaching node P from N
Informally, every node i will give an estimate that, accounting for the cost to reach the next node, is always lesser than the estimate at node i+1.
A consistent heuristic is also admissible, i.e. it never overestimates the cost of reaching the goal (the converse, however, is not always true). Assuming non negative edges, this can be easily proved by induction.
Let be the estimated cost for the goal node. This implies that the base condition is trivially true as 0 ≤ 0. Since the heuristic is consistent, . The given terms are equal to the true cost, , so any consistent heuristic is also admissible since it is upperbounded by the true cost.
The converse is clearly not true as we can always construct a heuristic that is always below the true cost but is nevertheless inconsistent by, for instance, increasing the heuristic estimate from the farthest node as we get closer and, when the estimate becomes at most the true cost , we make .
Consequences of monotonicity
Consistent heuristics are called monotone because the estimated final cost of a partial solution, is monotonically non-decreasing along any path, where is the cost of the best path from start node to . It's necessary and sufficient for a heuristic to obey the triangle inequality in order to be consistent.
In the A* search algorithm, using a consistent heuristic means that once a node is expanded, the cost by which it was reached is the lowest possible, under the same conditions that Dijkstra's algorithm requires in solving the shortest path problem (no negative cost edges). In fact, if the search graph is given cost for a consistent , then A* is equivalent to best-first search on that graph using Dijkstra's algorithm. In the unusual event that an admissible heuristic is not consistent, a node will need repeated expansion every time a new best (so-far) cost is achieved for it.
If the given heuristic is admissible but not consistent, one can artificially force the heuristic values along a path to be monotonically non-decreasing
by using
as the heuristic value for instead of , where is the node immediately preceding on the path and . This idea is due to László Mérō
and is now known as pathmax.
Contrary to common belief, pathmax does not turn an admissible heuristic into a consistent heuristic. For example, if A* us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircel | Aircel Ltd. was an Indian mobile network operator headquartered in Mumbai that offered voice and 2G and 3G data services. Maxis Communications held a 74% stake and Sindya Securities and Investments held the remaining 26%. Aircel was founded by Chinnakannan Sivasankaran and commenced operations in Tamil Nadu in 1999. It was once a market leader in Tamil Nadu and had considerable presence in Odisha, Assam and North-East telecom circles. 2G and 3G Services including voice were shut down in all circles after failure of merger talks with Reliance Communications.
History
Aircel was founded by Chinnakannan Sivasankaran from Kovilur village, Cheyyar taluk, Tiruvannamalai district and started its operations in the Tamil Nadu telecom circle in 1999. It became the leading operator in Tamil Nadu and one of the fastest growing mobile operators in India. Malaysian telecom company Maxis Communications bought a 74% stock in the company from Sivasankaran in 2005. The remaining 26% stock is held by Sindya Securities and Investments promoted by Suneeta Reddy, managing director of Apollo Hospitals. In 2012, as a part of a major re-organization in its operations, the company scaled down its operations in five telecom circles, namely Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat. On 14 September 2016, Reliance Communications and Aircel announced the merger of their mobile network operations. Following the merger, the joint entity was expected to become India's fourth largest telecom operator in term of consumer base and revenues. A year later, however, both the companies called off the deal citing regulatory and legal issues.
Aircel had planned to shut down its operations in unprofitable circles including, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh (West) from 30 January 2018. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) asked Aircel to report the number of subscribers who have ported out from Aircel in these six circles. In cases, where the porting process could not be completed TRAI has asked the reasons for it. After the failed merger deal with Reliance, Aircel had considered merging with Bharti Airtel, whose chairman Sunil Mittal had stated in November 2017, that Airtel "was open to acquisition talks". , Aircel was under a debt of around .
Services
3G
On 19 May 2010, the 3G spectrum auction in India ended. Aircel paid 65 billion for spectrum in 13 circles: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Kolkata, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, North East, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, UP East and West Bengal. It paid US$1.44 billion ( 79.1 billion) for the 3G spectrum. The company, had about 5 million 3G customers. Following the key players in 3G, Aircel also slashed its 3G tariff. In 2011, Aircel became the launch partner for Apple iPhone 4 along with Bharti Airtel.
4G
In June 2010, Aircel paid 34.38 billion for acquiring wireless broadband spectrum in eight circles: Andhra Pradesh, Ass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical%20Common%20Lisp | Practical Common Lisp is an introductory book on the programming language Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. It features a fairly complete introduction to the language interspersed with practical example chapters, which show developing various pieces of software such as a unit testing framework, a library for parsing ID3 tags, a spam filter, and a SHOUTcast server.
At the Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards in 2006, it won a Productivity Award in the technical book category.
The full text is available online. In a 2006 Google TechTalk, Seibel presented the book's main points in the context of linguistic relativity (the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis).
See also
Common Lisp the Language
References
External links
Practical Common Lisp – why did we publish this book?
Practical Common Lisp
Common Lisp publications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20Southwest | Bally Sports Southwest is a Texas-based regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group (a joint-venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios), and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts regional coverage of professional, collegiate and high school sports events throughout the South Central United States. The network is headquartered in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Irving, Texas, with master control hubbed at Bally Sports Networks' operations center in Atlanta, which houses master control operations for its regional networks in the Southeastern United States.
Bally Sports Southwest is available on cable providers throughout much of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
History
Bally Sports Southwest originally launched on January 4, 1983, as Home Sports Entertainment (HSE), a unit of Warner-Amex Cable. As one of the first regional sports networks in North America, it served as the cable television home of professional and collegiate sports teams throughout Texas and surrounding states. In 1988, HSE became an affiliate of Prime Sports Networks.
Like many Prime Sports-affiliated networks, it shared channel space with other networks on several cable providers in its service area (most often resulting in its programming being restricted to nighttime periods) until the early 1990s, when cable systems began upgrading their headend infrastructures to increase channel capacity, reassigning most of the cable channels that shared time with HSE to other channel slots once these upgrades were complete. In 1994, Liberty Media acquired HSE, converting it into an owned-and-operated affiliate of Prime Sports and changing its name to Prime Sports Southwest.
In 1996, News Corporation, which formed its own sports division for the Fox network two years earlier, acquired a 50% interest in the Prime Network from Liberty Media; the network was officially rebranded as Fox Sports Southwest on November 1 of that year, as part of a relaunch of the Prime Network affiliates as the cornerstones of the new Fox Sports Net. The channel was then rebranded as Fox Sports Net Southwest in 2000, as part of a collective brand modification of the FSN networks under the "Fox Sports Net" banner.
In 2004, the channel shortened its name to FSN Southwest, through the networks' de-emphasis of the brand, before reverting to the Fox Sports Southwest moniker in 2008. In 2007, a high definition simulcast feed of Fox Sports Southwest, which broadcasts in the 720p format was launched. Initially, the channel did not provide a 24-hour simulcast but it broadcast various Mavericks, Rangers, Spurs and Stars games, as well as several NCAA football and basketball games shown nationally on FSN and other programming distributed nationally by Fox Sports Networks in high definition. Today, nearly all programming is shown in HD. In July 2013, News Corporation spun off the Fox Sports N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUNY%20TV | CUNY TV is a non-commercial educational television station in New York City, part of the City University of New York's university system. It offers telecourse programming in various subjects ranging from mathematics, physics, and biology to history, art, and social studies. It also provides cultural programming with shows in German, Spanish, and French. The station was first established in 1985 and, in 2009, became a full-capacity HD studio and post-production facility complete with a six-camera mobile production truck.
History
The station was first established in 1985 as CUNY TV.
In 2009, the station transitioned to HDTV and began broadcasting on cable in SD and on WNYE-TV digital channel DTV 25.3 in 720p HD.
In 2012, television and radio studios at CUNY TV were renamed "Himan Brown TV & Radio Studios, after Himan Brown, an American radio producer and director. Since 1999, the station has won numerous television industry awards, including 18 New York Emmy Awards, numerous Telly Awards, and Communicator Awards, for its variety of series and programme specials.
Original programming
The station airs Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! twice a day, as well as daily world news in English from Deutsche Welle. The station also airs many classic and foreign films, especially from Poland, like Professor Jerry Carlson's and City College's film studies programme's show, City Cinematheque. Public affairs shows also include Baruch College's forums. The station also produces and co-produces several original series at its studios; after the original airing on cable, the shows are archived and uploaded to the station's YouTube channel.
Some original series currently in production are:
219West, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's monthly news magazine that covers the New York City area;
Arts in the City, a monthly look at the lively arts scene in the New York metropolitan area, hosted by Carol Anne Riddell;
Asian American Life, monthly series about the fastest growing immigrant group in the country, living in the New York metropolitan area, hosted by Ernabel Demillo;
Black America, an in-depth conversation that explores what it means to be Black in America;
Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV;
Building New York: New York Stories and The Stoler Report - New York's Business Report series about real estate and business leaders of the Metropolitan region;
City Cinematheque, world film series, hosted by Professor Jerry Carlson, includes a lively discussion with scholars, film professionals, and critics;
CityWide, monthly talk show covers business and public affairs in New York City (Archive);
Conversations with Jim Zirin, interview show about understanding and interpreting national and world events;
CUNY Forum, an hour-long monthly forum to discuss in New York City government and politics;
DiverseCITY, monthly magazine show about New York City's neighbourhoods and ethnic communities;
Eldridge & Co., hosted by former New York City Council member Ronnie Eldridge;
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel%20queue | Multi-level queueing, used at least since the late 1950s/early 1960s, is a queue with a predefined number of levels. Items get assigned to a particular level at insert (using some predefined algorithm), and thus cannot be moved to another level (unlike in the multilevel feedback queue). Items get removed from the queue by removing all items from a level, and then moving to the next. If an item is added to a level above, the "fetching" restarts from there. Each level of the queue is free to use its own scheduling, thus adding greater flexibility than merely having multiple levels in a queue.
Process Scheduling
Multi-level queue scheduling algorithm is used in scenarios where the processes can be classified into groups based on property like process type, CPU time, IO access, memory size, etc. One general classification of the processes is foreground processes and background processes. In a multi-level queue scheduling algorithm, there will be 'n' number of queues, where 'n' is the number of groups the processes are classified into. Each queue will be assigned a priority and will have its own scheduling algorithm like Round-robin scheduling or FCFS. For the process in a queue to execute, all the queues of priority higher than it should be empty, meaning the process in those high priority queues should have completed its execution. In this scheduling algorithm, once assigned to a queue, the process will not move to any other queues.
Consider the following table with the arrival time, execute time and type of the process (foreground or background - where foreground processes are given high priority) to understand non pre-emptive and pre-emptive multilevel scheduling in depth with FCFS algorithm for both the queues:
See also
Fair-share scheduling
Lottery scheduling
References
Scheduling algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datar%20Kaur | Maharani Datar Kaur (born Bibi Raj Kaur Nakai; (c. 1784– 20 June 1838) was the queen consort of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire and the mother of his successor, Maharaja Kharak Singh. She was the daughter of Sardar Ran Singh Nakai, third ruler of the Nakai Misl and Sardarni Karmo Kaur.
Datar Kaur was betrothed to Ranjit Singh in childhood; the Anand Karaj took place when the couple were still young. Though Ranjit Singh married several times for political reasons, Datar Kaur remained his favorite and most respected wife. He lovingly addressed her as Mai Nakain.
In 1801, she gave birth to Kharak Singh, the heir apparent of Ranjit Singh. She took an active interest in the affairs of the State and was given command during the Battle of Multan (1818) alongside her son, Kharak Singh. She was the grandmother of Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh (1821–1840) and aunt of Sardar Kahan Singh Nakai. Datar Kaur died on 20 June 1838 in her haveli in Sheikhupura.
Her Samadhi is located in the royal garden, now part of the Islamia College, Civil Lines, Lahore grounds.
Family history
Bibi Raj Kaur was born in Baherwal Kalan into the family of the ruling Nakai Sardars; Nakai Misl was founded by Sandhu Jats.
Raj Kaur was the youngest and the only daughter of Sardar Ran Singh Nakai and his wife, Sardarni Karmo Kaur. She was the granddaughter of Sardar Natha Singh (d. 1768) brother of the legendary Heera Singh Sandhu (1706–1767), founder of the principality of Nakai Misl in 1748. She had three eldest brothers Sardar Bhagwan Singh, the fourth ruler of the Nakai Misl; Sardar Gyan Singh who became the fifth chief of the Nakais and Khazan Singh.
Her father, Ran Singh was the third and the most powerful ruler of Nakai Misl, a fierce warrior and under his leadership the misl was at its highest. He was an ambitious man and had exceeded his rule to the taluqas of Bucheke, Chhanga Manga, 69 km from Lahore, Chhichha, Devsal, Fatahpur, Jethupur, Kasur, Kharral fort of Kot Kamalia, Sharakpur, Gugera pargana, 5 km to the west of the Ravi, and Shergarh. He had fought repeatedly against Kamar Singh, the ruler of Syedwala. Sometime before his death, he defeated him and captured Syedwala.
Ran Singh was succeeded by his eldest son Bhagwan Singh, he was unable to hold his territory against Wazir Singh, the brother of Kamar Singh and lost Syedwala to him. Bhagwan Singh realizing that he might lose all of his territory, in consultation with Sardarni Karmo Kaur, set up the engagement of the infant Raj Kaur to the four-year-old, Ranjit Singh in order to gain the powerful Maha Singh of the Sukerchakia Misl as an ally. Wazir Singh tried to break off this match, but was unable to do so. In an attempt to mislead her, Wazir Singh claimed that the Nakai Sandhu Jatts are superior to the Sukerchakias, but Sardarni Karmo Kaur refused to break off the match and stated as Sikhs we are all equal.
Later in 1785, Maha Singh was facing attacks from Sardar Jai Singh Kanhaiya of the K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTRB | KTRB (860 AM) is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California. The station has a talk radio format, airing programming from the Salem Radio Network, using the slogan "860 AM The Answer." KTRB is owned by Salem Media Group, through licensee New Inspiration Broadcasting Company, Inc.; Salem uses "The Answer" as a brand for most of its talk stations.
The station features nationally syndicated programming, including Salem hosts Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Sebastain Gorka, and Larry Elder.
History
KTRB signed on the air on June 18, 1933, licensed to Modesto, California. Its owner, Pappas Telecasting, obtained permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move the station to the larger, more lucrative San Francisco media market. To replace the loss of the station in Modesto, Pappas Telecasting established KMPH on 840 AM in Modesto. In order to serve the Bay Area with a usable signal, but protect other stations on the frequency, a new transmitter site was constructed in Sunol, California which pointed its signal west over the Bay Area. This site is situated directly south of Livermore. During transmission testing in the Bay Area, KTRB began airing a classic rock music format on February 1, 2007.
As a hot talk station
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that KTRB would debut a hot talk format on March 15, 2007, featuring syndicated personalities Mancow Muller and John London, who once aired on San Francisco stations, as well as other syndicated hosts such as Glenn Beck. A similar article appeared a few days later in the San Jose Mercury News. On January 25, 2010, the station announced that conservative talker Michael Savage would take over the afternoon slot, four months after being let go by KNEW (910 AM). That April, a replay of Savage's show also began airing in morning drive time, owing to his live show being frequently preempted due to live coverage of Athletics games.
As a sports talk station
In the fall of 2008, KTRB switched to a sports radio format. It became the flagship station of Stanford University football and men's basketball. It also became the flagship of the Oakland Athletics baseball team.
Receivership by Comerica Bank
KMPH was shut down on August 31, 2010 due to lack of revenue. On September 10, 2010, KTRB was taken over by Comerica Bank through the receivership of Susan L. Uecker. The station dismissed its entire staff except for the chief engineer and ceased to carry Michael Savage, but continued its sports format using syndicated shows. Athletics baseball broadcasts, including pregame and postgame shows, were taken over by the team itself. After the Athletics' attempt to purchase the station collapsed, the broadcasts were moved to KBWF 95.7 FM, (now KGMZ-FM) for the 2011 season with the Bay Bridge Series exhibition games airing on KFRC (1550 AM, now KZDG).
With no capital available to repair the failed former directional day/night transmitter site, a new transmitter site was ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Lisp | On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp is a book by Paul Graham on macro programming in Common Lisp. Published in 1993, it is currently out of print, but can be freely downloaded as a PDF file.
See also
Anaphoric macro
References
External links
On Lisp home page
Free versions of "On Lisp"
On Lisp in pdf-format
On Lisp in multiple HTML files
On Lisp in multiple HTML files (white on black)
On Lisp in a single HTML file
Piecing Together a Printed Copy of "On Lisp" -- includes the nine missing diagrams.
Common Lisp publications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Catalyst%206500 | The Cisco Catalyst 6500 is a modular chassis network switch manufactured by Cisco Systems from 1999 to 2015, capable of delivering speeds of up to "400 million packets per second".
A 6500 comprises a chassis, power supplies, one or two supervisors, line cards, and service modules. A chassis can have 3, 4, 6, 9, or 13 slots each (Catalyst model 6503, 6504, 6506, 6509, or 6513, respectively) with the option of one or two modular power supplies. The supervisor engine provides centralised forwarding information and processing; up to two of these cards can be installed in a chassis to provide active/standby or stateful failover. The line cards provide port connectivity and service modules to allow for devices such as firewalls to be integrated within the switch.
Supervisor
The 6500 Supervisor comprises a Multilayer Switch Feature Card (MSFC) and a Policy Feature Card (PFC). The MSFC runs all software processes, such as routing protocols. The PFC makes forwarding decisions in hardware.
The supervisor has connections to the switching fabric and classic bus, as well as bootflash for the Cisco IOS software.
The latest generation supervisor is 'Supervisor 2T'.
This supervisor was introduced at Cisco Live Las Vegas in July 2011.
It provides 80 gigabits per slot on all slots of 6500-E chassis.
Operating systems
The 6500 currently supports three operating systems: CatOS, Native IOS, and Modular IOS.
CatOS
CatOS is supported for layer 2 (switching) operations only. And, able to perform routing functions (e.g. Layer 3) operations, the switch must be run in hybrid mode. In this case, CatOS runs on the Switch Processor (SP) portion of the Supervisor, and IOS runs on the Route Processor (RP), also known as the MSFC. To make configuration changes, user must then manually switch between the two environments.
CatOS does have some missing functionality, and is generally considered 'obsolete' compared to running a switch in Native Mode.
Native IOS
Cisco IOS can be run on both the SP and RP. In this instance, the user is unaware of where a command is being executed on the switch, even though technically two IOS images are loaded—one on each processor. This mode is the default shipping mode for Cisco products and enjoys the support of all new features and line cards.
Modular IOS
Modular IOS is a version of Cisco IOS that employs a modern UNIX-based kernel to overcome some of the limitations of IOS. Additional to this is the ability to perform patching of processes without rebooting the device and in-service upgrades.
Methods of operation
The 6500 has five major modes of operation: Classic, , , , and .
Classic Bus
The 6500 classic architecture provides 32 Gbit/s centralised forwarding performance. The design is such that an incoming packet is first queued on the line card and then placed on to the global data bus (dBus) and is copied to all other line cards, including the supervisor. The supervisor then looks up the correct egress port, access lists, po |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands%20Worldwide%20Students | Netherlands Worldwide Students (), NWS for short, is a Dutch student organisation
NWS forms a worldwide network of Dutch students currently, formerly and prospectively enrolled at foreign universities or professional schools. It offers a platform for joint activities and bridges the gap to the government, private sector, academic sector and society of the Netherlands. Most importantly, NWS tries to maintain a strong connection between Dutch students abroad and the Netherlands, and vice versa. Integral to this mission is making sure that the voices of Dutch students abroad are being heard in policy debates and that the value of studying abroad is appreciated from an individual, economic and societal perspective.
NWS Clubs form an integral part of the NWS network, offering local activities, seminars, borrels and Dutch gezelligheid at universities outside of the Netherlands. NWS Clubs are active at Harvard, Cornell, Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Paris and Bruges, amongst others.
In addition, NWS maintains an online database of Dutch students currently or formerly enrolled at foreign universities. This network provides its participants access to local contacts, knowledge and advice in any sector or country to facilitate studying abroad or returning to the Netherlands. NWS also has its own Wiki-based site, for user-generated information on studying abroad, foreign universities, financial aid and such.
NWS was founded in 2007 by and for students and is completely run by volunteers. It is registered as a charity and receives support from Nuffic, the IB-Group, as well as several Dutch multinationals through sponsorship for events.
As part of their activities, NWS conducts research on studying abroad through surveys among its members. The findings are presented in the "NWS-onderzoek" research report, which is published every other year. After publicatiosen, the report is presented to a representative of the Dutch government. Previous representatives to receive the report include Sybrand Haersma Buma and former State Secretary of Education Halbe Zijlstra. In past years, the research report has focused on obstacles for Dutch students in going abroad and returning to the Netherlands.
Over the past few years, NWS has increasingly become involved in informing Dutch secondary school and university students about the opportunities for studying abroad.
External links
NWS Website (in Dutch)
Nuffic's main website
Student societies in the Netherlands
Dutch social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarCry%20Network | WarCry Network (or WarCry.com per the URL) was a web portal centered on the MMO (massively multiplayer online) genre of video games. It boasted a large community of professional web sites and databases for these games. One of the regular features at WarCry.com were exclusive interviews with game developers and game company executives.
Previously associated closely with its sister site The Escapist, WarCry was deactivated in late 2018 during the liquidation of its owner, Defy Media.
History
The company known as WarCry Corp. was started in 1997 by Alexander Macris. Originally a developer and publisher of online games, in 2001 WarCry acquired the assets of Crossroads Gaming Network (also known as XRGaming) in an undisclosed private transaction. The merged company took the WarCry name, but dropped the online gaming angle to concentrate on more coverage of games, particularly massively multiplayer which had been XRGaming's stock in trade. Whilst popular, XRGaming had been suffering in the midst of the dot-com bust and WarCry's funding enabled both to survive.
Themis Group
Macris and Thomas Kurz founded Themis Group in August 2001 as a consulting firm for MMOG developers. Initially, Themis and WarCry were considered separate by Macris, who had sold his stake in WarCry.
On July 12, 2005, Themis launched The Escapist, a weekly online magazine with Macris taking the role of publisher. By 2007, WarCry and The Escapist began using the same web software and similar layouts throughout their parallel life cycle. During this time, the company was split into two divisions: TAP Interactive, a continuation of the consulting firm; and Themis Media, an umbrella division for the websites.
On October 6, 2008, Themis Group announced they would be consolidating TAP Interactive into Themis Media, thus putting all their efforts into WarCry and The Escapist.
Acquisition and Decline
Themis Group was purchased by Alloy Digital (later Defy Media) in 2012.
While The Escapist was purchased by Enthusiast Gaming in July 2018, the deal did not include WarCry. With the closure of Defy Media in November 2018, WarCry was taken offline.
Coverage
The WarCry Network specialized in covering numerous popular MMOGs. The network itself had numerous daughter sites dedicated to covering almost all aspects of the games it covers. It has specific database pages for no less than 29 different online games, including extremely popular games such as World of Warcraft, Everquest 2, Lineage II, City of Heroes and even the aging Dark Age of Camelot. The WarCry network now covers games, movies, anime, comics and other parts of the entertainment industry, supplied by a network of contributors and user-submitted content. Similar to many print gaming magazines, the WarCry network conducted its own "Editor's Choice Awards" in 2006.
Some of their contemporaries included TenTonHammer.com, IGN's Vault Network, Stratics and the Coldfront Gaming Network.
Impact
Many gaming news sites index and/or li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Cloud | is an action role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. Originally intended as a launch title for the system in March 2000, the game was eventually released in Japan in December 2000, in North America in May 2001, and in Europe in September. A spiritual sequel, Dark Chronicle (called Dark Cloud 2 in North America), was released in Japan in 2002 and worldwide the following year.
Uniquely combining the mechanisms of action role-playing games with elements of city-building games, Dark Cloud tells the story of a group of adventurers who band together to fight against the Dark Genie, who has attacked and destroyed many villages. The main protagonist and player character is Toan, a boy who is given a magical stone called the Atlamillia by Simba, the Fairy King, granting him the power to rebuild the destroyed lands.
Dark Cloud was met with mainly positive reviews by critics, who praised its blend of gameplay types, although some criticized its combat as repetitive. The game was a commercial success. Although it initially sold poorly in Japan, it eventually went on to sell over 800,000 copies worldwide. The game was later released via emulation for the PlayStation 4 through the PlayStation Network in December 2015.
Gameplay
Dark Cloud is an action role-playing game played from a third-person perspective, in which the player moves through procedurally-generated dungeons, battling monsters and collecting items. On random dungeon levels, the player may have the option of entering a separate "back door" area which contains stronger monsters and rarer treasure. Although the majority of combat involves real time hack and slash, the player will occasionally "Duel" an enemy. In this type of battle, the player must correctly press a sequence of buttons, similar to a quick time event. Whilst in dungeons, the player has both a health meter and a thirst meter. The thirst meter gradually decreases over time, and when fully depleted, it causes the health meter to begin to decrease. To prevent the thirst meter from depleting, the player must drink water or step into one of the pools found in many dungeon levels.
A major component of Dark Cloud gameplay involves special items called "Atla" which are used to rebuild the world outside the dungeons. Atla, which are present in most dungeon levels, are large spherical objects which can be retrieved by Toan only. When Atla are removed from the dungeon, they transform into pieces of the world (trees, houses, villagers, etc.). These pieces must then be reassembled in "Georama mode"; a gameplay mode similar to city-building games, in which the player can arrange the pieces onto the landscape. After villagers have been placed, the player can speak to them to discover their wishes for rebuilding the village, regarding both what they need for their own house to be rebuilt completely, and where they wish their house to be placed. The player's progress in term |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%2073 | No 73, later retitled 7T3, is a British 1980s children's TV show produced by Television South (TVS) for the ITV network. It was broadcast live on Saturday mornings and ran from 1982 to 1988. The show had an ensemble cast amongst others, Sandi Toksvig, Neil Buchanan, Patrick Doyle, Andrea Arnold, Kim Goody and Kate Copstick.
When Television South won the contract to provide ITV coverage for the South of England in 1980, the first thing they set up was a children's department. A team put together with a background in theatre and drama, soon decided to produce a Saturday morning show that differed from the usual Tiswas and Saturday Superstore formula: This show would feature actors in character as hosts, performing their own comedic storyline around the usual guests, music videos, competitions and cartoons. Much of the show was improvised and a whole week of rehearsals plus an extensive dress rehearsal on Friday preceded each live broadcast on Saturday morning.
Series
First series: January–February 1982
No 73 opened its door to the public for the first time on 2 January 1982 at 11am, but only as a regional programme in the South and South East of England (much of the ITV network continued to carry Tiswas). Ethel Davis (Sandi Toksvig), an eccentric old lady who progressively got younger as the show went on, owned the place. Harry Stern (Nick Staverson) was introduced as her bumbling nephew. Dawn Lodge (Andrea Arnold), the roller-boot-wearing female lodger, quickly became the go-to person for the animal spot with international vet David Taylor. Most eccentric of all, Patrick Doyle appeared as Percy Simmonds, inventor and love interest to Ethel. Each episode ended with Ethel hosting the ("daring, dazzling, death-defyingly dull, devastatingly dangerous, delectable, delicatestible, divinely decadent") Sandwich Quiz, a madcap-general knowledge game pitting two of that week's guests against each other.
Second series: June - August 1982
The show returned on 5 June 1982, still being broadcast from Southampton studios and only shown to TVS viewers. Neil Buchanan had unofficially joined the cast as the resident caricaturist and another major cast member, Kim Goody, first appeared this season performing at the TVS theatre in Gillingham, where Percy held a job as handyman. Neighbours Martin and Hazel Edwards (Richard Addison and Jeannie Crowther) from No 75 also started to figure into the storyline, usually with Martin being at odds with Ethel.
Third series: April–August 1983
Now broadcast across all the ITV regions, except TSW, the production moved to TVS's new Maidstone studios, changing postcodes (though the house remained the same) and Percy was now supposed to be his own Scottish cousin Alec, enabling Patrick Doyle to speak with his own accent. This did not stop him from leaving at the end of this series. In this series, Sandi and the resident inventor, Tony English, created the Hover Cupboard and later tested it out at sea travelling from Southampt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hughes%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | R. John M. Hughes, born , is a computer scientist and professor in the department of Computing Science at the Chalmers University of Technology.
Contributions
In 1984, Hughes received his PhD from the University of Oxford for the thesis "The Design and Implementation of Programming Languages".
Hughes is a member of the Functional Programming group at Chalmers, and much of his research relates to the Haskell programming language. He does research in the field of programming languages and is the author of many influential research papers on the subject, including "Why Functional Programming Matters".
Hughes is one of the developers of QuickCheck, as well as cofounder and CEO of QuviQ, which provides the QuickCheck software and offers classes in how to use it.
In 2016 he appeared in the popular science YouTube channel Computerphile explaining Functional Programming and QuickCheck.
Recognition
Hughes was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to software testing and functional programming".
See also
Haskell programming language
QuickCheck
References
Bibliography
J. Hughes. "Generalizing monads to arrows". Science of Computer Programming, (37):67-111, 2000.
External links
Living people
Swedish computer scientists
Programming language researchers
Year of birth uncertain
Computer science educators
1958 births
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20problem%20%28algorithms%29 | Dynamic problems in computational complexity theory are problems stated in terms of changing input data. In its most general form, a problem in this category is usually stated as follows:
Given a class of input objects, find efficient algorithms and data structures to answer a certain query about a set of input objects each time the input data is modified, i.e., objects are inserted or deleted.
Problems in this class have the following measures of complexity:
Space the amount of memory space required to store the data structure;
Initialization time time required for the initial construction of the data structure;
Insertion time time required for the update of the data structure when one more input element is added;
Deletion time time required for the update of the data structure when an input element is deleted;
Query time time required to answer a query;
Other operations specific to the problem in question
The overall set of computations for a dynamic problem is called a dynamic algorithm.
Many algorithmic problems stated in terms of fixed input data (called static problems in this context and solved by static algorithms) have meaningful dynamic versions.
Special cases
Incremental algorithms, or online algorithms, are algorithms in which only additions of elements are allowed, possibly starting from empty/trivial input data.
Decremental algorithms are algorithms in which only deletions of elements are allowed, starting with the initialization of a full data structure.
If both additions and deletions are allowed, the algorithm is sometimes called fully dynamic.
Examples
Maximal element
Static problem For a set of N numbers find the maximal one.
The problem may be solved in O(N) time.
Dynamic problem For an initial set of N numbers, dynamically maintain the maximal one when insertion and deletions are allowed.
A well-known solution for this problem is using a self-balancing binary search tree. It takes space O(N), may be initially constructed in time O(N log N) and provides insertion, deletion and query times in O(log N).
The priority queue maintenance problem It is a simplified version of this dynamic problem, where one requires to delete only the maximal element. This version may do with simpler data structures.
Graphs
Given a graph, maintain its parameters, such as connectivity, maximal degree, shortest paths, etc., when insertion and deletion of its edges are allowed.
See also
Dynamization
Dynamic connectivity
Kinetic data structure
References
Computational complexity theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caropsis | Caropsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. Its only species is Caropsis verticillatoinundata, native to France and Portugal.
References
Monotypic Apiaceae genera
Apiaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Poison | Terry Poison was an Israeli electropop band. It consisted of Louise Kahn (lead vocals, guitar), Anna Landesman (synth bass) and Idan Bruno Grife (main producer, computers and synth guitar). Former band members include Gili Saar (keys), Petite Meller (vocals), and Issar Tennenbaum (Rockfour).
Each band member had a role: Louise Kahn, the leader, Petite Meller, the lolita, Gili Saar, the cold beauty, and Anna Landesman, the gothic touch and Bruno Grife, the chief hacker.
The band once stated that "Terry Poison" was fictional character. A sex and rock'n'roll girl who they would like to emulate because the girls in the band were from good families. "Terry Poison does crazy things, she never goes to bed, she doesn't get old. And besides, she has big breasts." they said.
Myspace played a part in getting the band noticed by producers and people outside of Israel.
Their debut album "Terry Poison" was released in Israel of which 3 of the album's tracks made it number 1 on all national radio charts. All the band's music was recorded in English and some French.
In 2007 the album Buzz On the Bell was released.
In 2009 they were selected by Depeche Mode to open for them in Ramat Gan's stadium. The band wrote and recorded ‘Little Doll’, the theme song for a TV serial titled "Dolls".
Touring the US and Europe, they have played at festivals such as SXSW, Sziget, Berlin Pride, Fusion, and Rock en Seine. The band had a partnership with El Al, the Israeli Airline, that allowed them to fly for free.
After many years together, the band stopped working and performing in 2015. The members live today in different countries and are involved in new projects
References
Israeli electronic music groups
Electronica music groups
Musical groups from Tel Aviv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametricity | In programming language theory, parametricity is an abstract uniformity property enjoyed by parametrically polymorphic functions, which captures the intuition that all instances of a polymorphic function act the same way.
Idea
Consider this example, based on a set X and the type T(X) = [X → X] of functions from X to itself. The higher-order function twiceX : T(X) → T(X) given by twiceX(f) = f ∘ f, is intuitively independent of the set X. The family of all such functions twiceX, parametrized by sets X, is called a "parametrically polymorphic function". We simply write twice for the entire family of these functions and write its type as X. T(X) → T(X). The individual functions twiceX are called the components or instances of the polymorphic function. Notice that all the component functions twiceX act "the same way" because they are given by the same rule. Other families of functions obtained by picking one arbitrary function from each T(X) → T(X) would not have such uniformity. They are called "ad hoc polymorphic functions". Parametricity is the abstract property enjoyed by the uniformly acting families such as twice, which distinguishes them from ad hoc families. With an adequate formalization of parametricity, it is possible to prove that the parametrically polymorphic functions of type X. T(X) → T(X) are one-to-one with natural numbers. The function corresponding to the natural number n is given by the rule f fn, i.e., the polymorphic Church numeral for n. In contrast, the collection of all ad hoc families would be too large to be a set.
History
The parametricity theorem was originally stated by John C. Reynolds, who called it the abstraction theorem. In his paper "Theorems for free!", Philip Wadler described an application of parametricity to derive theorems about parametrically polymorphic functions based on their types.
Programming language implementation
Parametricity is the basis for many program transformations implemented in compilers for the Haskell programming language. These transformations were traditionally thought to be correct in Haskell because of Haskell's non-strict semantics. Despite being a lazy programming language, Haskell does support certain primitive operations—such as the operator seq—that enable so-called "selective strictness", allowing the programmer to force the evaluation of certain expressions. In their paper "Free theorems in the presence of seq", Patricia Johann and Janis Voigtlaender showed that because of the presence of these operations, the general parametricity theorem does not hold for Haskell programs; thus, these transformations are unsound in general.
Dependent types
See also
Parametric polymorphism
Non-strict programming language
References
External links
Wadler: Parametricity
Programming language topics
Type theory
Polymorphism (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart%20Typing | JumpStart Typing is a personal computer game intended to teach typing skills to kids aged seven to ten. The game reuses the cast of JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain.
The game is set at Sparks Stadium, where keyboarding Olympics take place between the Sparks Team and the Galaxy Gladiators. When Polly Spark gets mad at Coach Qwerty, who didn't like her "untapped typing talent" and consequently kicked her off the team, she locks him in the Trophy Room. When Botley reminds her of how much her father wanted to win a new trophy for the Trophy Room, Polly decides to let Coach Qwerty out, but it turns out that her power cards needed to unlock and open the Trophy Room need to be recharged.
The user must therefore coach the Sparks Team in Qwerty's place and recharge Polly's power cards through taking timed typing tests. At the beginning of the game, the user takes a diagnostic test to determine the words per minute goals that need to be reached to activate the power cards.
Keyboard Training Center
The Keyboard Training Center is run by Polly and includes the locked Trophy Room, the Technique-O-Tron and the Test-O-Matic. The Technique-O-Tron provides two humorous movies, made in a style to suggest they were made in the mid-20th century despite featuring modern computer keyboards, that teach the user about the "home row" keys and correct typing posture. The Test-O-Matic features lessons and timed typing tests. It is through taking the timed typing tests that the user attempts to reach the words per minute that activate the power cards.
The games
Outside the Keyboard Training Center, Botley joins the user for the games, which the user plays to win gold, silver and bronze medals. Winning these medals do not lead to the freeing of Coach Qwerty. Naturally, the user has a limited amount of "strength" to play the games and, if the "strength bar" gets too low, it must be restored through taking lessons and timed typing tests in the Keyboard Training Center. Botley may have been voiced by a new person, but he still seems the same, and none of the robots from JumpStart 3rd Grade are seen. The games are as follows:
Roller Racer - The user helps a Sparks player skateboard down a track and avoid hitting obstacles or the mischievous Track Trickster by typing the letters that appear on them.
Keyboard Kicks - In this foosball-esque game, the user types the letters that activate a row of Sparks players, so that they will block the ball away from the Sparks' goal. Thus Sending the ball right at the Galaxy Gladiators' goal 10 points were needed to be scored in the game to win
Trail Blazer - The user helps fifty Sparks snowboarders make it to the bottom of a mountain by typing the letters that appear above each of them.
Cliff Hanger - The user types the letters on different ledges to help the Sparks player climb to the top of Mount Keys, while avoiding Wall Crawlers, who throw balls of slime down on the climber.
The Fans Go Wild - The user types the lette |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart%20Adventures%203rd%20Grade%3A%20Mystery%20Mountain | JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain is a personal computer game in Knowledge Adventure's JumpStart series of educational software. As the title suggests, the game is intended to teach a third grade curriculum. This is the only version of this game created and, unusually for Knowledge Adventure, was still being sold over fifteen years after its initial release on December 2, 1996. On June 6, 2003, it was included as the "Fundamentals" disc of JumpStart Advanced 3rd Grade.
Plot
Set in a retro-futuristic universe, the game concerns Polly Spark, the bratty daughter of a wealthy inventor, and her attempt to alter history so that her inane answers to a history quiz she failed will be correct. To do this, she sends 25 reprogrammed robots back in time and, with her father conveniently away on a business trip, she takes over Mystery Mountain, the literal "mountain mansion" where she and her father live. The goal of the game is to help Botley, the robot assigned to keep Polly under control, save the world by retrieving each of the 25 robots and bringing them back to the present.
Gameplay
Each of the game's 25 missions (one for each robot that must be rescued) begins with the user selecting one of Polly's questions from the TransQuizzer. On the TransQuizzer, Polly's teacher Ms. Winkle poses a historical question, and Polly gives a surreally humorous answer. Polly then appears on a monitor to state which robot she has sent back in time for the question and to list the four Mission Clues that need to be found for the mission.
Botley, using his powerful sensory device, then determines which games need to be played in order to retrieve the needed Mission Clues. Once all the Mission Clues have been collected, the user will still need to collect an increasing number of Invention Points in order to be allowed to enter the Time Machine Mission Control. The number of Invention Points required to enter the Time Machine gradually increases over time.
Once inside the Time Machine Mission Control, the user has to get past the Wheel of Invention in order to acquire a Time Key and enter the Time Machine itself, though Polly has apparently reprogrammed the Wheel so it's not just a quiz, but rather a quiz show called "Pollywood Squares". Here, Monty Monitor quizzes the user with questions that provide the point in time where Polly has sent the missing robot and which eventually reveal the correct answer to Polly's original test question.
After this activity is completed, the user enters the Time Machine and travels back in time to retrieve the robot and bring it back to the present, where the rescued robots are deposited in an area called the "robot roost." After the robot has been rescued, the user begins a new mission by selecting another question from the TransQuizzer. However, if the user doesn't start the mission to play all the games to win more Invention Points, Botley mentions that Polly will win. The game continues in this manner until all 25 robo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart%20Adventures%204th%20Grade%3A%20Haunted%20Island | JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island is a personal computer game in Knowledge Adventure's JumpStart series of educational software intended to teach a fourth grade curriculum. The game was released on December 2, 1996.
On November 24, 1997 and on August 26, 1998, revised versions of the game were published. Although little was changed in terms of gameplay, an in-game map was added, and the difficulty select was given an icon.
In 1999, the game was retired and replaced by JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Sapphire Falls.
Plot and gameplay
A peaceful schoolhouse with white picket fences are shown in the beginning with pleasant music. Suddenly, lightning flashes, and the schoolhouse and the fences take on a twisted shape. Inside, the substitute teacher named Ms. Grunkle (who reveals herself to be a witch) casts a spell on a frightened girl named Zev Cosmo. Although Zev's face is blacked out when the effects take place, we can see her turning into a monster. The same thing happens to Wolfgang, then Albert Brayne. Then a half-dozen of frightened students named Violet, Jane Plain, Penny Scilin, James, Tiffany, Stanley ZeBlucky, and Joe are all turned into monsters one-by-one. Ms. Grunkle flies on her broomstick to her house. Along the way, she drops the 25 skeleton keys to her house and her magic wand by Madame Pomreeda's carriage. After that, the words "Haunted Island" appear on the screen. (The other three students not shown in the introduction are: Calvin, Laura, and Debbie.)
During the game, the player is given missions by Madame Pomreeda. These missions require the player to complete three games to find a student's favorite things. Once the player has completed four missions, the character will be returned to normal, and the player will move on to another student. The game keeps track of a player's successes and failures, and a poor performance in one minigame will lead to it appearing more often.
The player also must collect all 25 keys in order to reach the attic, where the kids are being held. These are collected by earning 5000 points in one particular minigame.
The protagonist has a limited amount of "health," which is indicated by a candle in the upper left hand corner of the screen. Health is depleted through answering Repsac's questions incorrectly and is indicated by the candle burning down. If the candle burns out, the protagonist is cast into the island's labyrinth, which contains a "fountain of health" that will cause the candle to reburn and, eventually, grow back to its original size. However, finding one's way out of the labyrinth is difficult.
Storyline and Gameplay
The protagonist is a fourth-grade student who, fortunately, missed the day of school when the class's new substitute teacher was a witch named Ms. Grunkle.
After signing in at the schoolhouse, the protagonist is transported to Haunted Island off the Coast of West Africa. With the aid of a large purple bat named Flap and a fortune teller named Madame Pom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation%20%28computer%20science%29 | In the theory of programming languages in computer science, deforestation (also known as fusion) is a program transformation to eliminate intermediate lists or tree structures that are created and then immediately consumed by a program.
The term "deforestation" was originally coined by Philip Wadler in his 1990 paper "Deforestation: transforming programs to eliminate trees".
Deforestation is typically applied to programs in functional programming languages, particularly non-strict programming languages such as Haskell. One particular algorithm for deforestation, shortcut deforestation, is implemented in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Deforestation is closely related to escape analysis.
See also
Hylomorphism (computer science)
References
Compiler optimizations
Implementation of functional programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart%20Adventures%204th%20Grade%3A%20Sapphire%20Falls | JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Sapphire Falls is a personal computer game released by Knowledge Adventure on December 3, 1999 to replace their earlier JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island released in 1996.
Gameplay and plot
In the game, a hairy, bipedal creature invades an old, abandoned mine in the town of Sapphire Falls. Scaring away tourists, the creature succeeds in stealing a mysterious treasure map that no one has ever been able to read. Two aspiring fourth-grade reporters named Sally and T.J. along with their pint-sized dog Gizmo travel to the mine to solve the mystery.
References
1999 video games
JumpStart
Windows games
Classic Mac OS games
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%3A%20Stories%20of%20Passion | Women: Stories of Passion is an American anthology drama series that aired on the American cable television network Showtime from August 31, 1996 until April 4, 1999. and distributed by Playboy Entertainment overseas.
The episodes were based on stories of love and passion from a woman's point of view.
Episodes
Season 1 (1996)
Season 2 (1997)
Season 3 (1999)
References
External links
1990s American drama television series
1990s American anthology television series
1996 American television series debuts
1999 American television series endings
Showtime (TV network) original programming
English-language television shows
Television series by Alta Loma Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20Takahashi%27s%20Adventure%20Island%20IV | (Adventure Island IV for short) is a 1994 platform game released by Hudson Soft for the Family Computer; it was the final game released for the console in Japan. The game was never released outside of Japan.
Summary
Unlike previous entries in the Adventure Island series, Bōken Jima IV plays less like a linear platformer and more like an action/adventure platformer, similar to the later Wonder Boy games. Adventure Island IV also has a unique password system that the earlier games in the series did not have. It also features an egg item that allows the player character to teleport to the pedestal where the player puts it. There is a large variety of weapons to choose from which are unlocked by the player throughout the game. Many special items can be won in races and challenges, such as an angel/fairy item that allows the player character to re-spawn once, at the spot where they lost all hearts and even a compass that acts like a map showing the player with an arrow where to go. Whereas in the earlier Adventure Island games the player character had a food meter and when it runs out, the player lost a life, in Adventure Island IV, the player simply collects 8 food items to regain 1 heart as health.
Story
The evil Eggplant Wizard kidnaps Master Higgins' dinosaur friends and later his girlfriend Tina, Master Higgins starts an adventure to save them and stop the evil eggplant once and for all.
References
External links
Adventure Island IV in classic gaming
Takahashi Meijin no Bōkenjima IV in MobyGames
Adventure Island (franchise)
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Japan-exclusive video games
1994 video games
Metroidvania games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set on fictional islands
Action-adventure games
Single-player video games
Now Production games
Hudson Soft games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bear%27s%20Island | The Bear's Island () is a French animated television series produced by Pixibox and first aired in 1992. It was one of the first animated films which heavily involved computer animation.
Plot
Eddie is a white bear with a mask that lives on Rabbit's Island. One day little Ghost tells him that he is a bear and about the Island of the Bears. He leaves in a balloon with his friend Max (a rabbit) in search of the Bear's Island.
Characters
Eddie: a white bear wearing a mask
Little Max: Eddie's rabbit friend
OC: a ghost that lives in a bottle
Baron: a rose
Members of the 4 elements
The storm bird: He is the first villain of the four they meet. This takes place in the clouds. He plays the organ and divides into a flock of grey birds when he moves.
The siren Lodine: She lives on an iceberg. She moves in a bathtub carried by servants when she is out of the water.
The witch Marveline: She lives in a volcano. She was the most determined to stop Eddie because of a prophecy. This prophecy says that the power of the four elements would be lost if something happened with Bear's Island. It is possible that they made the island disappear because of this prophecy. From the start of the series, she monitors them and causes trouble.
The tropical monkey: He has a personal army of Vampire Dragon. He lived in the jungle and represents industrialization and pollution. He was building a fleet of aircraft in a bizarre series and throws acid.
References
1990s French animated television series
1992 French television series debuts
1992 French television series endings
French children's animated adventure television series
Animated television series about bears |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20T.%20Pollard | D.T. Pollard is the pen name of Danny Pollard, the African-American author of Rooftop Diva: A Novel of Triumph After Katrina and The Trophy Wife Network.
Rooftop Diva was listed as the #1 fiction paperback in a list of local bestsellers from Jokae's African-American Books published in the Dallas Morning News.
He grew up in Henderson, Texas, and now lives in Grand Prairie, Texas with his wife and son.
Bibliography
Rooftop Diva
The Trophy Wife Network
Tarp Town USA
External links
Official site
References
21st-century American novelists
African-American novelists
American male novelists
Florida A&M University alumni
Novelists from Texas
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American male writers
21st-century African-American writers
African-American male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FloraBase | FloraBase is a public access web-based database of the flora of Western Australia. It provides authoritative scientific information on 12,978 taxa, including descriptions, maps, images, conservation status and nomenclatural details. 1,272 alien taxa (naturalised weeds) are also recorded.
The system takes data from datasets including the Census of Western Australian Plants and the Western Australian Herbarium specimen database of more than 803,000 vouchered plant collections. It is operated by the Western Australian Herbarium within the Department of Parks and Wildlife. It was established in November 1998.
In its distribution guide it uses a combination of IBRA version 5.1 and John Stanley Beard's botanical provinces.
See also
Declared Rare and Priority Flora List
For other online flora databases see List of electronic Floras.
References
External links
Online botany databases
Botany in Western Australia
Biological databases
Databases in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal%20Bryant | Randal E. Bryant (born October 27, 1952) is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware and software. Bryant has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University since 1984. He served as the Dean of the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon from 2004 to 2014. Dr. Bryant retired and became a Founders University Professor Emeritus on June 30, 2020.
Over the years, Dr. Bryant has received many recognitions for his research on hardware and software verification as well as algorithms and computer architecture. His 1986 paper on symbolic Boolean manipulation using Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) has the highest citation count of any publication in the Citeseer database of computer science literature. In 2009 Bryant was awarded the Phil Kaufman Award by the EDA Consortium "for his seminal technological breakthroughs in the area of formal verification."
Early life and education
Bryant was born on October 27, 1952, and is the son of John H. Bryant and Barbara Everitt Bryant, and the grandson of William Littell Everitt, former dean of the electrical engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1949–68). His sister is Lois Bryant, a well-known textile artist (https://loisbryantstudio.com/home.html). Bryant was raised in Birmingham, Michigan. Starting in 1970, he attended the University of Michigan, where he received his B.S. in applied mathematics from in 1973. His master thesis on Simulation of Packet Communication Architecture Computer Systems, published in 1977, is known to be one of the first publications on distributed simulation. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981.
Career
From 1981 to 1984, Bryant was assistant professor of computer science at California Institute of Technology. His research areas included VLSI circuit models, logic simulation, and circuit testing. He also taught courses in computer architecture, digital systems theory, and computer algorithms.
In 1984, Bryant joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon as an assistant professor of computer science. He continued his research on VLSI simulation, VLSI circuit verification, symbolic manipulation, and parallel computation.
He was a visiting research fellow, Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan from 1990 to 1991.
In 1992, he became the university professor at Carnegie Mellon. Bryant taught computer architecture from 1992 to 1997.
He served as dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University from 2004 to 2014. During his tenure, the combined enrollment at SCS increased more than 50 percent.
In 2003, Bryant was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to symbolic simulation and logic verification.
He was on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2011 to 2013
In 2014–2015, he was the Assistant Director for Information Technology Research and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAAR | KAAR (92.5 FM) is a commercial radio station in Butte, Montana. KAAR airs the syndicated "U.S. Country" country music format from Jones Radio Networks.
KAAR and its sister stations are all located at 750 Dewey Blvd. in Butte. The rear of this radio facility houses the small studios of local NBC affiliate KTVM Channel 6. KAAR and KMBR share a transmitter site northeast of town, east of Interstate 15. 92.5 KAAR FM was first implemented in 1992 by Bob Toole, who at the time, served as General Manager of Fisher Radio in Butte. In 2002, Fisher acquired broadcaster Tom O'Neill as KAAR FM's morning DJ and Program Director. O'Neill has commanded the KAAR & KMBR air waves for over 20 years, and has successfully impacted listenership. In early 2019, KAAR FM ranked #1 in the Nielsen Ratings.
Ownership
In June 2006, KAAR was acquired by Cherry Creek Radio from Fisher Radio Regional Group as part of a 24-station deal with a total reported sale price of $33.3 million.
Effective June 17, 2022, KAAR was acquired by Townsquare Media from Cherry Creek Radio as part of a 42 station/21 translator deal with a sale price of $18.75 million.
References
External links
KAAR official website
Country radio stations in the United States
AAR
Radio stations established in 1988
1988 establishments in Montana
Townsquare Media radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20Association%20of%20Metropolitan%20St.%20Louis | The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) was founded in 1874 by some 100 members of the St. Louis bench and bar. BAMSL currently has over 5,000 members and a vast network of committees and sections.
History
On March 16, 1874, some 100 members of the St. Louis bar and bench convened to organize themselves professionally. Their forum was the Old Courthouse, already known to the law as the place where Dred Scott filed his first state court action seeking his freedom. A month and a half later, they filed Articles of Agreement and a petition for incorporation giving form to the Bar Association of St. Louis.
The Articles were filed in downtown St. Louis in what was then, prior to the separation of St. Louis from St. Louis County, the St. Louis County Circuit Court. The organization they established, known since 1967 as The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, now claims a membership of over 6,000 and a vast network of committees and sections. Yet its key purposes have remained constant: to maintain high standards among practitioners of the law; to be watchful of the fair administration of justice, and to promote social relations among its members.
Two of the Association's early presidents--James O. Broadhead and Henry Hitchcock—met with other lawyers in Saratoga, New York, in 1878 and founded the American Bar Association (ABA). Broadhead became the first president of the ABA; Hitchcock was its 12th in 1889. Five other presidents of The St. Louis Bar Association have headed the ABA: James Hagerman (1903); Fredrick W. Lehman (1908); Guy A. Thompson (1931); Jacob M. Lashly (1940) and John C. Shepherd (1986).
St. Louis Bar Association leaders were also instrumental in formation of The Missouri Bar Association in 1880, the precursor to the present integrated Missouri Bar of which all state lawyers and judges are required to be members. Broadhead and Hitchcock, as well as John Rutledge Shepley and Samuel M. Brechenridge, the first and second presidents respectively of The St. Louis Bar Association, were in the forefront of the 114 lawyers who met in Kansas City to establish The Missouri Bar Association.
Merit selection of judges was formally advocated by the Association as early as 1904. The Association's efforts in this area finally bore fruit in 1940 when the state Constitution was amended to establish the nonpartisan court plan in the Supreme Court, the courts of appeals and the circuit and probate courts of St. Louis and Jackson County. The amendment authorized extension of the plan to other judicial circuits by vote of the residents.
The Bar Association was also responsible for creation of the Legal Aid Society, today known as Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, Inc. The Society was established in a fledgling form in the administration of Daniel G. Taylor, 1909–1910. Its purpose: to provide counsel for indigent persons.
Current officers
President: Anne-Marie Brockland (Casey, Devoti & Brockland, PC)
President-Elect: Hon. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOPR | KOPR (94.1 FM) is an American commercial radio station licensed to serve the community of Butte, Montana.
KOPR airs the syndicated, "Custom Rock Hits" music format from Jones Radio Networks. The station has aired an adult hits format for several years.
External links
FCC History Cards for KOPR
OPR
Adult hits radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1972
1972 establishments in Montana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeeBase | BeeBase was an online bioinformatics database that hosted data related to Apis mellifera, the European honey bee along with some pathogens and other species. It was developed in collaboration with the Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium. In 2020 it was archived and replaced by the Hymenoptera Genome Database.
Data and services
Biological data and services available on BeeBase included:
DNA and protein sequence data
official bee gene set (developed by and hosted at Beebase)
genome browser
linkage maps
server to search the honey bee genome using BLAST
Services
In Feb 2007, BeeBase consisted of a GBrowser-based genome viewer and a Cmap-based comparative map viewer, both modules of the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project. The genome viewer included tracks for known honey bee genes, predicted gene sets (Ensembl, NCBI, EMBL-Heidelberg), STS markers (Solignac and Hunt linkage maps), honey bee expressed sequence tags (ESTs), homologs in fruit fly, mosquito and other insects and transposable elements. The honey bee comparative map viewer displayed linkage maps and the physical map (genome assembly), highlighting markers that are common among maps.
Additionally, a QTL viewer and a gene expression database were planned. The genome sequence was to serve as a reference to link these diverse data types.
Beebase organized the community annotation of the bee genome in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center.
Data
The now archived site hosts the genome sequence for apis mellifera along with those of the following pathogens:
Bombus terrestris
Bombus impatiens
Two additional species were under analysis:
Apis dorsata
Apis florea
See also
Wormbase
Flybase
Xenbase
References
External links
BeeBase
Model organism databases
Genome projects
Beekeeping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle%20Eye%20Mysteries | Eagle Eye Mysteries is a two-part series of educational computer games developed by Stormfront Studios and published by EA*Kids. The in-game protagonists are twins Jake and Jennifer Eagle who form the Eagle Eye Detective Agency. The character of Jennifer is voiced by Lauren Bloom and Jake is voiced by Evan Enright-Schulz. In 1994, Creative Labs and EA*Kids released a two-game compilation that included both Scooter's Magic Castle and Eagle Eye Mysteries in London. The first game was bundled into the Discovery CD New Edition kit along with 17 other games, while both were featured in Sound Blaster Digital Schoolhouse 4x.
Development
An activity book that came with the first game allowed players to complete a puzzle that would win them a chance to play a character in the sequel.
Gameplay
The game is a first-person detective game that involves reading, writing and puzzle-solving. The player can choose either twin as their companion as they explore the territory and solve cases that are given to them. After each case the player is rewarded with new pages in their digital "scrapbook".
Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original
Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original is centered on Jake and Jennifer Eagle's fictional hometown of Richview. The cases are locally based and usually involved finding something that has gone missing or tracking down a guilty culprit of a local crime. The headquarters for the Eagle Eye Detective Agency is the Eagle's Nest, an elaborate treehouse built in the Eagle family's backyard.
The chief enemy of Jake and Jennifer is a red-headed high school student and local troublemaker called Mark Moriarty, a reference to the famous nemesis of Sherlock Holmes who bears the same surname.
Eagle Eye Mysteries in London
In the sequel, Jack and Jennifer Eagle go to London on holiday to visit their cousin Nigel, Uncle Basil, and Aunt Miranda. More characters were introduced in this game, including Nigel's friends and various "Londonish" characters (including Nigel's schoolmates, the Tower of London Beefeaters and regulars at the local pub). The game was released in 1994.
The cases involved numerous aspects of English history, geography and literature. Clips before each case were introduced displaying various aspects of London life and culture, which contributed to the educational value of each case. Eagle Eye Mysteries in London also expanded its scope to include cases beyond London in nearby locations like Stonehenge, Torbay, Kenilworth Castle, and Dartmoor National Park, among others. These locations are accessed by Locomotive Train, Double-decker bus or Black Cab.
The game has 50 mysteries to solve.
Reception
PC Mag deemed the "Eagle Eye Mysteries" fun to play. Compute praised the " clever melding of mystery and education", which meant the educational elements were integrrated so well as to become "invisible".
Post-Tribune praised "Eagle Eye Mysteries in London" for teaching younger players about deductive reasoning.
References
Externa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Neighbours%20characters | Neighbours is a long-running Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems together. The series primarily centres on the residents of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the equally fictitious suburb of Erinsborough. Neighbours began with three households, including the Ramsay and Robinson families. When storylines for certain characters become tired, the scriptwriters simply move one family out and replace it with a new one. Ramsay Street is now a mixture of older characters and newer characters. The following is a list of characters and cast members who are currently appearing in the show or who are upcoming, returning and departing. Where more than one actor has portrayed a character, the current actor is listed first.
Present characters
Regular characters
Recurring characters
Cast changes
Departing characters
Former characters
References
External links
Characters and cast at the Official AU Neighbours website
Characters and cast at the Internet Movie Database
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVEN%20%28Ventura%2C%20California%29 | KVEN (1450 AM, "SportsRadio 1450") was a radio station licensed to Ventura, California. Operating from 1948 to 2021, KVEN last carried sports radio programming from the national CBS Sports Radio network, with no locally-originated programming. It was owned by Cumulus Media and broadcast with a power of 1,000 watts.
History
KVEN first signed on in March 1948 and aired a variety of programming during its first four decades. In 1965, Carroll R. Houser sold KVEN and sister station KVEN-FM to a group consisting of Ira Laufer, Robert L. Fox, and Greater California Capital Corporation — collectively doing business as KVEN Broadcasting Corporation — for $500,000. The new owners instituted new programming, consisting primarily of a middle of the road music format but also including regular editorials and more time devoted to public affairs. Within one year, the station saw a significant increase in advertising revenues.
In 1980, KVEN adopted a news/talk format. A prominent on-air personality from this era was Phil Hendrie, who left KFI in August 1990 to begin hosting a weekday afternoon program. The Phil Hendrie Show presented current topics in a satirical fashion using a cast of fictional characters. One such persona was "Raj Fahneen", introduced in September 1990 to "defend" the positions of Saddam Hussein just as tensions were rising in the Middle East in the lead-up to the Gulf War. A notable, more serious episode was broadcast November 4, 1991, the opening day of the Reagan Library, featuring a five-way on-air roundtable chat with US Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and George H. W. Bush. Hendrie left KVEN in 1992 to take his show to several major-market stations across the country. Overall, the station was one of Southern California's top 20 rated radio stations during the 1990s.
In August 1996, Fox sold KVEN and its FM counterpart, now called KHAY, to McDonald Media Group for $12.7 million. In December 1999, McDonald Media Group sold its eight stations, including KVEN, to Cumulus Media for $41 million; this marked Cumulus' debut on the Pacific coast.
KVEN adopted the branding "1450 The Boomer" in 2000 as an oldies radio station. Originally formatted by radio veteran Lee Marshall, it also aired the syndicated Wolfman Jack and Dr. Demento programs. Both were cancelled upon the switchover to ABC Radio's True Oldies Channel on June 23, 2008.
On February 1, 2011, KVEN flipped to a sports format with programming from ESPN Radio. The station became one of the first to carry the CBS Sports Radio network when it was launched January 3, 2013. KVEN added Armstrong & Getty to its lineup in August 2016.
KVEN broadcast major sporting events, most featuring Los Angeles-area teams. KVEN served as the Ventura County home of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball, while during the NCAA football season the station broadcast University of Southern California Trojans football games.
Cumulus shut down KVEN in July 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio%20BE-300 | The Cassiopeia BE-300 Pocket Manager was a personal digital assistant manufactured by Casio Computer Co. Ltd and first released June 25, 2001. In Japan, it was also marketed as BE-500. The Cassiopeia BE-300 used a cut-down version of Windows CE 3.0 that was not fully compatible with Windows CE applications. It featured a 32 thousand colors 320×240 touch-screen LCD, a 166 MHz MIPS CPU, and 16 MB of RAM. It was also equipped with a CompactFlash slot, allowing for the expansion of internal memory with external flash memory cards as well as the use of peripheral CF-compatible devices such as wireless and network adapters. Enthusiast reviews of the device were mixed with some excited about the hacking possibilities and the low price and others were dismissive of the device. In the general press it received modestly positive reviews.
The BE-300 was reasonably hackable and a community grew up dedicated to modifying it.
See also
Casio Cassiopeia
References
External links
Casio New Zealand Support Downloads for the Be300
Remaining Information from Casio's site
The BE-300 Advancement Society
PPX and Expod Main Website
TV theme Guy's BE300 Page
MutantCheese's BE300 Page
ABF forums
KCmenu II Website
Mono-Q Japanese Software Website and Home of SQ
Casio personal digital assistants
Windows CE devices
Products introduced in 2001 |
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