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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima%20Broadcasting | , also known as KFB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the ANN. Their headquarters are located in Kōriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture.
History
Pre-launch
Prior to its launch, there were already 2 stations set up in the prefecture: Fukushima TV (affiliated to Fuji TV, TV Asahi, and TBS) and Fukushima Central TV (affiliated to Nippon TV). In June 1980, the Ministry of Posts (now known as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) opened applications for Fukushima's third private broadcaster, attracting 112 companies.After talks between the four main commercial broadcasters in Japan and Radio Fukushima in December 1980, it was agreed that the affiliate for the new broadcaster would be from TV Asahi.
Both TV Asahi and TBS, which were interested in applying for a broadcast license, hoped to use "Fukushima Broadcasting" as a tentative name for the new regional broadcaster. Later, TV Asahi made plans to either use "Fukushima Asahi Broadcasting" or "Fukushima Asahi Television" as its names, but neither name was approved by the Ministry of Posts.On December 19 of the same year, the new broadcaster obtained a license under the name Fukushima Broadcasting.
Fukushima Broadcasting chose Koriyama City as the location of its headquarters as Koriyama is the largest economic city in the prefecture. On February 4, 1981, the broadcaster was founded.
Launching and further developments
After its headquarters completed on August 10, 1981, pilot broadcasts began on September 15 of the same year. At 6:20am on October 1, 1981, Fukushima Broadcasting started its broadcasting operations.The broadcaster also entered into event sponsorships such as Fukushima Summer Festival and NASA Space Science Expo.In addition, the broadcaster also held cultural activities such as the performing of the Vienna Boys' Choir in the prefecture.
When TV-U Fukushima started broadcasting in 1983, Fukushima already had 4 commercial broadcasters in the prefecture.In 1985, a broadcasting union was established.KFB first used the Electronic news-gathering system in 1989In order to update the main control room equipment, KFB began to renovate the headquarters in 1997. This series of works was completed in April 1998. On September 6, 1998, a mechanical failure occurred at the Fukushima Broadcasting Aizuwakamatsu broadcasting station, causing about 87,500 households in the Aizu area to be unable to watch the Fukushima Broadcasting program for 8.5 hours.
Stations
Analog
Fukushima(Main Station) JOJI-TV 35ch
Aizuwakamatsu 41ch
Iwaki 36ch
Tomioka 40ch
Haramachi 48ch
Shirakawa 46ch
Takine 61ch
Mizuishi 60ch
Hanawa 42ch
Bandai-Atami 21ch
Fukushima-Shinobu 47ch
Tsuchiyu 53ch
Nihonmatsu 57ch
Watari 62ch
Naganuma 54ch
Yanaizu-Mishima 58ch
Futaba-Kawauchi 56ch
Ishikawa 43ch
Tajima 35ch
Iidate 48ch
Iwaki-Tono 52ch
Aizu-Higashiyama 59ch
Iidate-Mukōshi 54ch
Iidate-Sekizawa 53ch
Iwaki-Yotsunami 39ch
Ten'ei 59ch
Kōriyama-Kawachi 54ch
Bandai-Takatama 50ch
Warabidaira 39ch
Kawamata 43ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDAG | KDAG (96.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an active rock music format. Licensed to Farmington, New Mexico, United States, the station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and features programming from Westwood One.
Translators
KDAG programming is also carried on a broadcast translator station to extend or improve the coverage area of the station.
References
External links
DAG
Active rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1975
IHeartMedia radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIDB | KIDB may refer to:
KIDB-LD, a defunct low-power television station (channel 35) formerly licensed to serve Sweetwater, Texas, United States
Ki Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntruShield | The McAfee IntruShield is a network-based intrusion prevention sensor appliance that is used in prevention of zero-day, DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, spyware, malware, botnets and VoIP threats. It is now called McAfee Network Security Platform.
References
External links
http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/datasheets/ds_intrushield_ips_app_ent.pdf
^^ Broken ^^
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20synchronous%20compensator | A static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), is a shunt-connected, reactive compensation device used on transmission networks. It uses power electronics to form a voltage-source converter that can act as either a source or sink of reactive AC power to an electricity network. It is a member of the FACTS family of devices.
STATCOMS are alternatives to other passive reactive power devices, such as capacitors and inductors (reactors). They have a variable reactive power output, can change their output in terms of milliseconds, and able to supply and consume both capacitive and inductive vars. While they can be used for voltage support and power factor correction, their speed and capability are better suited for dynamic situations like supporting the grid under fault conditions or contingency events.
The use of voltage-source based FACTs device had been desirable for some time, as it helps mitigate the limitations of current-source based devices whose reactive output decreases with system voltage. However, limitations in technology have historically prevented wide adoption of STATCOMs. When gate turn-off thyristors (GTO) became more widely available in the 1990s and had the ability to switch both on and off at higher power levels, the first STATCOMs began to be commercially available. These devices typically used 3-level topologies and Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) to simulate voltage waveforms.
Modern STATCOMs now make use of Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs), which allow for faster switching at high-power levels. 3-level topologies have begun to give way to Multi-Modular Converter (MMC) Topologies, which allow for more levels in the voltage waveform, reducing harmonics and improving performance.
History
When AC won the War of Currents in the late 19th century, and electric grids began expanding and connecting cities and states, the need for reactive compensation became apparent. While AC offered benefits with transformation and reduced current, the alternating nature of voltage and current lead to additional challenges with the natural capacitance and inductance of transmission lines. Heavily loaded lines consumed reactive power due to the line's inductance, and as transmission voltage increased throughout the 20th century, the higher voltage supplied capacitive reactive power. As operating a transmission line only at it surge impedance loading (SIL) was not feasible, other means to manage the reactive power was needed.
Synchronous Machines were commonly used at the time for Generators, and could provide some reactive power support, however were limited due to the increase in losses it caused. They also became less effective as higher voltage transmissions lines moved loads further from sources. Fixed, shunt capacitor and reactor banks filled this need by being deployed where needed. In particular, shunt capacitors switched by circuit breakers provided an effective means to managing varying reactive power requirements due to changing lo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona%20Bogale | Yona Bogale (; 1908–1987) was an Ethiopian Jewish educator and public figure, who served as the director of the Beta Israel education network in Ethiopia and worked vigorously for the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. He led the efforts to improve the living conditions of the Beta Israel in Ethiopia by expanding education, providing medical facilities, increasing agricultural production and promoting religious freedom. His persistence in the face of opposition enabled many thousands of his people to fulfill their lifelong dream of Aliyah, or return to the homeland of Israel.
Biography
Yona Bogale was born in 1908 in the rural village of Wolleqa, near Gondar in Northern Ethiopia, The eldest of five children of Bogale Birru and Beletu Reda, he was raised in a family of farmers and goat and cattle herders, but showed an early aptitude for language and education. With the help of Dr. Jacob (Jacques) Faitlovitch and Professor Tamrat Emmanuel, he completed his primary studies, and at the age of 12, and was one of several young people selected to study abroad. After attending elementary school in Jerusalem for four years, he spent two years in high school in Frankfurt, Germany. He attended the University of Heidelberg in Germany for two years and completed his international studies at the Asher Institute for Jewish Education in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Alliance Francaise Universelle in Paris, France. After returning to Addis Ababa in 1932, he taught in the teacher training and boarding school opened there by Faitlovitch, eventually becoming its principal. From 1935, Bogale served as a translator for the Ethiopian Red Cross at the time of the Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia. Afterwards, he returned to work in several private businesses, before being appointed in 1941 to a position in the Ethiopian government by King Hailie Selassie I. In 1945, he married Tayitu Kelkele and began a union that spanned 45 years and produced eight children. After Ethiopia gained its independence, Bogale worked as head of the translation department in the Ethiopian Ministry of Education for twelve years. Then, with the cooperation of the Jewish Agency, Sochnut Hayhudit, Bogale opened and supervised more than 20 Jewish schools in Ethiopia. In the wake of Faitlovitch's death. in 1955, Bogale and Tamrat Emmanuel became the lead advocates for the Beta Israel community. For the next two decades, he was the driving force in opening new schools, medical facilities, prayer houses and agricultural stations in the northwestern part of Ethiopia. His work drew the attention of religious leaders and government officials in Israel, as well as Jewish organizations worldwide, particularly with regard to his goal of aliyah for all Ethiopian Jews.
Quest for Aliyah
In 1979, increasingly pressured by the Derg, the military coalition that had replaced the King, Bogale emigrated to Israel with help from the American Association for Ethiopian Jews and his own relatives. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Colmena | La Colmena is Spanish for "the hive" or "the beehive". "La Colmena" may refer to:
La Colmena, Paraguay, a city in Paraguay
La colmena (film), a 1982 Spanish-language film
La colmena, a computer game released in 1992 by the Spanish company Opera Soft
The Hive (Cela novel), a 1951 Spanish-language novel by Camilo José Cela, entitled La Colmena in Spanish
La Colmena, a nickname for Nicolás de Piérola Avenue in Lima
La Colmena, another name for the Tacna-Colmena Building in Lima
See also
Beehive (disambiguation)
Hive (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio%20e.go%21 | Studio e.go! was a Japanese eroge company which used to produce fantasy games of various genres for computers, including role-playing video games, SRPGs, and visual novels. The cutscenes of these games were illustrated by Kazue Yamamoto.
Some products were officially translated to Traditional Chinese for distribution in Taiwan between 1999 and 2001. Since these games were being marketed for all ages in Taiwan, the erotic scenes inside the story were modified or deleted. Taiwan Symbio (信必優多媒體) was the official distributor of the Chinese versions.
On March 17, 2009, amidst preparations for the company's 10th anniversary celebrations, Kazue Yamamoto announced that she was leaving the company. This announcement was followed by the departure of all of the remaining staff two days later.
Kazue Yamamoto founded a new company called Debo no su seisakujo (でぼの巣製作所) The company uses a fat sparrow named "Debo" (でぼ, "plump") as its mascot.
Game List
PC Games
PS2 Games
Dreamcast Games
On (unknown date, date needed) a "Coming Soon" message was put up on the Company's Website announcing that the company was going to release some games for Dreamcast in the near future. Although three games were supposed to be released as per the initial announcement, only 2 were released, both on 22 January 2004.
Castle Fantasia: Seima Taisen
Izumo
Adaption of Games into other Media
Most of the Company's games were adapted into an anime series or OVA, though some of them were never licensed.
In Order of Release they are:
Izumo The Best: Complete Edition (Aired on TV Between 25 January 2003 to 25 October 2004. Two years later, on 25 January 2005, Izumo - The Complete Edition was released )
Castle Fantasia: Seima Taisen (Aired on TV Between 25 January 2003 to 25 October 2004)
Wind of Ebenbourg
Izumo: Takeki Tsurugi no Senki (Aired on TV Between 3 April 2005 to 19 June 2005)
Angel's Feather
Other Products
The merchandise, released by the company as supplements to their games, is very varied, ranging from their own OST games (Most of these were composed by Angel Note and the Openings and Endings of some these Games were performed (and in some cases, written) by Candy) to Artbooks and Fanbooks of the games.
Some of these fanbooks were produced for and published by other companies, and in most of the cases, not for Studio e.go itself.
Sub-Companies
There were two sub-companies of Studio E.go!, one of them was Blue Impact, a Boy's Love (BL) Game producer and publisher, which made Angel's Feather, which is still producing White Shadow, and which was the publisher of Working Days in 2001.
Some of its releases were:
White Shadow
Angel's Feather~Mono Hot Springs~(Tentative)
Angel's Feather -Kuro no Zanei- (The PS2 Version of The Original Game. Rated 15+)
Angel's Feather -Kohaku no Hitomi- (This was the 18+ Version of the Original Angel's Feather)
Angel's Feather (This release was rated 15+)
The other sub-branch of the company is Cool Beans (KU-RUBI-NZU) 「くーるびーんず] which is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20graphics%20unit | A remote graphics unit (RGU) is a device that allows a computer to be separated from some input/output devices such as keyboard, mouse, speakers, and display monitors. The key part being remoted is the graphics sub-system of the computer.
History
RGUs may have their origin with experiments with graphics controllers on mainframe computers in the 1970s. RGUs have been mostly associated with high end workstations running Unix-like operating systems or Windows since the late 1990s. Generally RGUs are used for special applications like remote sensing, financial services commodity trading desks, computer-aided design, etc.
Depending on how one chooses to define RGUs, dedicated X terminals may also be included.
Application
Usually the reasons that might lie behind the desire to separate the user interface of a computer from the actual computer itself would be: securing computers away from users for corporate or government security, to reduce heat and noise in rooms with many computer operators, or to facilitate computer maintenance by placing all computers in very close proximity to one another.
KVM interoperability
Unlike other technologies used to achieve this, such as KVM Extension (or Remote KVM) and DVI Extension for example, a remote graphics unit will effectively split a computer's PCI or PCI-Express bus and transmit only bus commands over to the user side.
With KVM Extension and DVI Extension, the graphics processing is done by a traditional graphics processing unit (GPU) on the computer side. Bus data is much smaller than rendered graphics data so the theory behind the remote graphics unit is that it is possible to achieve higher resolutions and better graphics performance when there is a large separation in distance between the user-side input/output devices and the computer side.
Examples
An example of a product line that was commercialized using RGU as the description of the technology is the Matrox Extio series. Extio is a brand that is marketing shorthand for "External I/O".
Related products
Other products supporting the concept behind the remote graphics unit include bus extension technologies where a standard graphics processing unit is plugged into a remote PCI slot via a standard graphics add-in card. Various types of bus extension technologies are available including the DeTwo System from Amulet Hotkey as well as products from Avocent.
Graphics hardware
Computer peripherals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transport%20in%20China | Rail transport in China began in the late nineteenth century during the Qing dynasty. Since then, the Chinese rail network has become one of the largest in the world.
Qing dynasty
The first railways in China were built during the Qing dynasty in the late 19th century, after extensive railway networks were already in place in Europe, North America, India and Japan. The late arrival of railways in China was due both to the lack of industrialization and skeptical attitude of the Qing government. Although diverse and prominent personages such as Lin Zexu and Taiping rebel Hong Rengan called for the building of railways in China in the mid-19th century, the conservative Qing court considered steam engines to be "clever but useless" contraptions, and resisted the railways, which would "deprive us of defensive barriers, harm our fields and interfere with our feng shui. In the 1860s, Chinese laborers helped build the Central Pacific Railroad in the United States.
Early efforts
In 1865, a British merchant built a 600-meter long narrow gauge railroad outside the Xuanwu Gate in Beijing to demonstrate the technology to the imperial court. The court found it "exceedingly special and strange in the utmost" and promptly had the railway dismantled.
The first railroad to operate commercially in China opened in Shanghai in July 1876. The railway, known as the Woosung Road, ran from the American Concession in the present-day Zhabei District to Woosung in the present-day Baoshan District and was built by the British trading firm, Jardine, Matheson and Co. Construction took place without approval from the Qing government, which had paid 285,000 taels of silver for the railroad and had it dismantled in October 1877. The rails and rolling stock were later shipped to Taiwan. In late 1884, Jardine, Matheson arranged a loan of 500 million taels of silver to the Chinese government in late 1884 "for the purpose of building railways".
The first railway to endure was the Kaiping Tramway and Imperial Railways of North China constructed by British engineer Claude William Kinder. Initially, a 10 kilometre (6.2 mi) line from Tangshan to Xugezhuang built in 1881 to transport coal from the coal mine in Tangshan, this line was extended to Tianjin in 1888 and Shanhaiguan and Suizhong in 1894. This railway became known as the "Guanneiwai Railway" (literally, inner and outer Shanhaiguan railway). The railway was backed by the powerful Viceroy of Zhili, Li Hongzhang, who overcame objections from conservative ministers. To secure the support of the Empress Dowager Cixi for railway construction, Li Hongzhang imported a small train set from Germany and built a narrow gauge railway from her residence in Zhongnanhai to her dining hall in Beihai in 1888. The Empress, concerned that the locomotive's noise would disturb the geomancy or fengshui of the imperial city, required the train be pulled by eunuchs instead of steam engine.
The next effort was made by Taiwan Governor Liu Mingchuan. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-MPLS | T-MPLS or Transport MPLS is a transport network layer technology that uses extensions to a subset of the existing MPLS standards and is designed specifically for application in transport networks. Work to define T-MPLS was started by the ITU-T in February 2006. It was intended specifically as a connection-oriented packet-switched (co-ps) application offering a simpler implementation by removing MPLS features that are not relevant to co-ps applications and adding mechanisms that provide support of critical transport functionality.
ITU-T ceased work on T-MPLS in December 2008, in favour of MPLS-TP standardization.
T-MPLS uses the same architectural principles of layered networking that are used in other technologies like SDH and OTN. Service providers have already developed management processes and work procedures based on these principles for use in networks that use those other technologies.
In this way T-MPLS was intended to provide a reliable packet-based technology that is familiar and also aligned with circuit-based transport networking; it supports current organizational processes and large-scale work procedures.
T-MPLS is a low cost Layer 2 technology that provides QoS, end-to-end OA&M and protection switching.
The following ITU-T Recommendations exist for T-MPLS. These Recommendations will be superseded (i.e., replaced) by new revisions that apply to MPLS-TP and reference the joint work being undertaken by the ITU-T and IETF.
A further set of ITU-T Recommendations were at a draft stage when work on T-MPLS was halted. These may be resumed at a later stage to reference the material developed as part of the MPLS-TP effort.
After IETF raised concerns over T-MPLS technology, mainly about incompatibility with the already established IP/MPLS, the ITU-T and the IETF started a joint activity to solve potential issues. The decision was to transfer control to IETF to develop a new MPLS profile specialized for transport (MPLS-TP) with input from ITU recommendations
A new activity was added to the charter of the MPLS working group of IETF.
References
External links
ITU-T series G recommendations
IETF MPLS Charter
MPLS networking
Internet Standards
Network protocols
Tunneling protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20database | Mobile computing devices (e.g., smartphones and PDAs) store and share data over a mobile network, or a database which is actually stored by the mobile device. This could be a list of contacts, price information, distance travelled, or any other information.
Many applications require the ability to download information from an information repository and operate on this information even when out of range or disconnected. An example of this is your contacts and calendar on the phone. In this scenario, a user would require access to update information from files in the home directories on a server or customer records from a database. This type of access and work load generated by such users is different from the traditional workloads seen in client–server systems of today.
Mobile databases are not used solely for the revision of company contacts and calendars, but used in a number of industries.
Considerations
Mobile users must be able to work without a network connection due to poor or even non-existent connections. A cache could be maintained to hold recently accessed data and transactions so that they are not lost due to connection failure. Users might not require access to truly live data, only recently modified data, and uploading of changing might be deferred until reconnected.
Bandwidth must be conserved (a common requirement on wireless networks that charge per megabyte or data transferred).
Mobile computing devices tend to have slower CPUs and limited battery life.
Users with multiple devices (e.g. smartphone and tablet) need to synchronize their devices to a centralized data store. This may require application-specific automation features.
This is in database theory known as "replication", and good mobile database system should provide tools for automatic replication that takes into account that others may have modified the same data as you while you were away, and not just the last update is kept, but also supports "merge" of variants.
Users may change location geographically and on the network. Usually dealing with this is left to the operating system, which is responsible for maintaining the wireless network connection.
Products
Commercially available mobile databases include those shown on this comparison chart. *Peer To Peer (P2P) or Device To Device
See also
Cloud computing
References
External links
Mobile Database Review: Microsoft Databases for Windows CE, By Bryan Morgan, Apr 5, 2002, InformIT
Mobile Database Review: Sybase SQL Anywhere Studio 8.0, By Bryan Morgan, Feb 15, 2002, InformIT
Types of databases
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summercamp%20Nightmare | Summercamp Nightmare is the second studio album by the band 3 released in 2003.
Overview
The band decided they wanted to record the entire record without the use of computers or digital recording technology, so it was recorded entirely to analog tape.
Some of the tracks that appear on this album had previously been included on the band's live album Half Life, while "Dregs" and "Amaze Disgrace" were later featured again on next band's album Wake Pig, most notably "Amaze Disgrace", which has appeared on three of the band's albums as well as Joey Eppard's first solo album Been to the Future.
Track listing
Personnel
3
Lead vocals & Guitar — Joey Eppard
Guitars — Billy Riker
Bass Guitar — Joe Cuchelo
Keys/Percussion — Joe Stote
Drums — Chris "Gartdrumm" Gartmann
Additional
Executive producer — Tom Benton
Cover art by Joey Eppard
Back insert photo by Allison Braun
Insert photos by Molly Rubin
Graphics by The Turning Mill
Mastered at The Clubhouse, Rhinebeck, New York by Paul Antonell and Sean Price
"Dregs" and "Amaze Disgrace" recorded at The Temple of Stote, produced by Joey Eppard, engineered and mixed by Robert Frazza
All other songs recorded at IIWII studios in Weehawken, NJ, produced by Robert "Chicken" Burke, engineered by Sal Mormando, and mixed by Sal Mormando, Joey Eppard, and Robert "Chicken" Burke
References
2003 albums
3 (American band) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream%20FM | Dream FM may refer to:
Dream FM (Leeds), a former pirate radio station in Leeds, United Kingdom
Dream FM (London), a former pirate radio station based in London, United Kingdom
Dream FM Network, a radio network based in the Philippines
Dream 100, a radio station broadcasting in Colchester, United Kingdom
Chelmsford Radio, known until February 2009 as "Dream 107.7 FM" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Samson | William Byars Samson (born 1943, in Forfar) is a Scottish astronomer, academic, computer scientist and a researcher in the fields of Astronomy, Databases, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life.
Will Samson graduated with a degree in mathematics from University of St. Andrews in 1966. He earned his PhD in Astronomy in 1971 from the University of Edinburgh. In 1976, Samson went on to study at Heriot-Watt University where he obtained his MSc in Computer Science."
Early years
William Samson's earliest fascination with the skies came when he was seven years old and his mother took him outside to point out great winter constellations like the Plough and Orion. Another inspiration was his music teacher at Forfar Academy, Willie Bernard, who took the class on a trip to the Mills Observatory. "He did that when he got fed up trying to teach us to sing."
Bill then aged 12 went back home with great fascination of the celestial constellations and built his first telescope using old spectacle lenses scrounged from an optician in Forfar, that he put into a cardboard tube. According to Samson, "It wasn’t wonderful, but good enough to see craters on the moon." He then went on to build his second and third telescopes from kits. The fourth one he built from scratch by grinding a disc of plate glass to make a mirror.
Career
In 1971 he was appointed as the scientific officer at Home Office until 1973. In 1973, he became a lecturer of computer science at Dundee Institute of Technology for seven years. In 1980 he was appointed as the lecturer of computer science at the University of Stirling. Later he was appointed as the senior lecturer (1980–1982) and reader (1985–1997) in computing at the University of Abertay. In 1997, he was the acting head of School of Informatics at the Abertay University. From 1997 to 2002, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Abertay. He became the curator and the official astronomer at Mills Observatory in 2002 until his retirement on 13 March 2007.
Samson is currently the honorary reader in University of Abertay and honorary lecturer in engineering and physics at the University of Dundee from 2002. He is also noted as a research student supervisor and research degree external examiner. His publication includes 25 refereed journal articles and over 30 conference papers.
Sources
Astronomical Society of Edinburgh, Journal 45, Scottish Astronomy Weekend 2002
Mills Observatory, Dundee City Council, Dundee City Archive
Biography of Dr. William Samson, Mills Observatory, Dundee
References
1943 births
Scottish astronomers
20th-century British astronomers
21st-century British astronomers
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Alumni of Heriot-Watt University
Academics of the University of Abertay Dundee
Academics of the University of St Andrews
People from Forfar
Living people
People educated at Forfar Academy
Scottish computer scientists
Academics of the University of Stirling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRIDE%20%28security%29 | STRIDE is a model for identifying computer security threats developed by Praerit Garg and Loren Kohnfelder at Microsoft. It provides a mnemonic for security threats in six categories.
The threats are:
Spoofing
Tampering
Repudiation
Information disclosure (privacy breach or data leak)
Denial of service
Elevation of privilege
The STRIDE was initially created as part of the process of threat modeling. STRIDE is a model of threats, used to help reason and find threats to a system. It is used in conjunction with a model of the target system that can be constructed in parallel. This includes a full breakdown of processes, data stores, data flows, and trust boundaries.
Today it is often used by security experts to help answer the question "what can go wrong in this system we're working on?"
Each threat is a violation of a desirable property for a system:
Notes on the threats
Repudiation is unusual because it's a threat when viewed from a security perspective, and a desirable property of some privacy systems, for example, Goldberg's "Off the Record" messaging system. This is a useful demonstration of the tension that security design analysis must sometimes grapple with.
Elevation of privilege is often called escalation of privilege, or privilege escalation. They are synonymous.
See also
Attack tree – another approach to security threat modeling, stemming from dependency analysis
Cyber security and countermeasure
DREAD (risk assessment model) – another mnemonic for security threats
OWASP – an organization devoted to improving web application security through education
CIA also known as AIC – another mnemonic for a security model to build security in IT systems
References
External links
Uncover Security Design Flaws Using The STRIDE Approach
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Faith%20Network | Catholic Faith Network (CFN), formerly Telecare, is an American television channel available to Altice USA, Verizon Fios, and Charter Communications subscribers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Founded in 1969 by Monsignor Thomas Hartman of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre in New York. CFN broadcasts programming aimed at to Catholic viewers, including live religious services, talk shows, devotional programs, educational programming, entertainment, and children's programs. It also presents coverage of special events at the Vatican and of papal journeys. The Catholic Faith Network (CFN) is available on Optimum channel 29/137, Verizon Fios TV channel 296, and Charter Spectrum channel 162/471 throughout the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area. The Catholic Faith Network (CFN) is also available on select cable and satellite systems nationwide, along with an on-demand library of original programming and a 24/7 live stream.
Telecare was rebranded as Catholic Faith Network on September 7, 2018.
Leadership
Msgr. James C. Vlaun is currently President and CEO of Catholic Faith Network (CFN).
Program titles
A partial listing of CFN's programs:
Daily Mass from St. Agnes Cathedral (Rockville Centre, New York) (Long Island, New York) (in English and Spanish)
Daily Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral (New York City)
Daily Mass Celebrated by Pope Francis from the Santa Marta Chapel in Rome (on demand)
Catholic Perspectives with Bishop William Murphy
Celebrating the Saints
CFN Live
CFN News
CFN Special Presentation
Chaplet of Divine Mercy
Catholic Health: Dr. O: Faithfully Transforming Health Care
Catholic Health: Lifestyles at the Heart of Health
Conversation with Cardinal Dolan
Encounter - with Bishop John Barres
Family Comes First - Hosted by Vincent J. Russo and Victoria Roberts Drogin. Real families facing real issues with grace, hope, and determination
In His Image
Living Word
Live from the Sheen Center
Molloy: Public Square 2.0
Papal Audience from Rome
Real Food, hosted by Monsignor Jim Vlaun, highlights the importance of faith, gathering with family, and the spiritual nature of sharing a meal, bringing faith into the kitchen
Seven Last Words of Christ
Stations of the Cross
St. Joseph's College: Living Our Mission
St. Joseph's Seminary
Tomorrow's Hope
Walking with Mary
The Word
The Rosary (in English and Spanish)
Religion and Rock
Religion and Rock is a weekly 60-minute classic rock radio program with Monsignor Jim Vlaun, broadcast locally on Sunday morning, and on Sirius/XM on Saturday and Sunday evenings. The podcasts are available free on the website and on iTunes. (Not to be confused with Rock & Religion Radio Show.)
Studios
The Catholic Faith Network's studio facilities are located in Uniondale, New York on the campus of Kellenberg Memorial High School and in Manhattan.
See also
Catholic television
Catholic television channels
Catholic television networks
The God Squad (Telecare), forme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translational%20Backus%E2%80%93Naur%20form | Translational Backus–Naur Form (TBNF or Translational BNF) refers to Backus–Naur form, which is a formal grammar notation used to define the syntax of computer languages, such as Algol, Ada, C++, COBOL, Fortran, Java, Perl, Python, and many others. TBNF goes beyond BNF and extended BNF (EBNF) grammar notation because it not only defines the syntax of a language, but also defines the structure of the abstract syntax tree (AST) to be created in memory and the output intermediate code to be generated. Thus TBNF defines the complete translation process from input source code to intermediate code. Specification of the output intermediate code is optional, in which case you will still get automatic AST creation and have the ability to define its structure in the grammar.
Overview
The TBNF concept was first published in April 2006 in a paper at SIGPLAN Notices, a special interest group of the ACM.
Here is a sample grammar specified in TBNF:
/* TBNF Grammar for a simple language.
Five node arguments are used in this grammar to avoid having to create node actions.
*/
/* Input Tokens. */
<error> => error() ;
<identifier> => lookup(); // Lookup & store in symbol table.
<integer> => lookup(); // Lookup & store in symbol table.
<eof> ;
/* Operator precedence. */
{ '==' '!=' } << // Lowest priority.
{ '+' '-' } <<
{ '*' '/' } << // Highest priority.
/* Productions. */
Goal -> Program... <eof> *> goal_ (0,,"\t\tSTART\n" ,,"\t\tEOF\n\n")
Program -> 'program' <identifier> '{' Stmt... '}' *> program_ (2,,"\t\tPROGRAM %s\n",,"\t\tEND PROGRAM %s\n")
Stmt -> Assignment
-> IfThen
-> IfElse
-> IfThenElse
Assignment ~> Target '=' Exp ';' *> assign_ (0,, ,,"\t\tSTORE\n")
IfThen -> 'if' RelExp Then 'endif' *> if_ (0,,"if&0:\n",,"endif&0:\n" )
IfElse -> 'if' RelExp Else 'endif' *> if_ (0,,"if&0:\n",,"endif&0:\n" )
IfThenElse -> 'if' RelExp Then2 Else2 'endif' *> if_ (0,,"if&0:\n",,"endif&0:\n" )
Target -> <identifier> *> ident_ (1,,,,"\t\tLADR %s\n")
RelExp -> Exp '==' Exp *> eq_ (0,,,,"\t\tEQ\n" )
-> Exp '!=' Exp *> ne_ (0,,,,"\t\tNE\n" )
Exp -> Primary
-> Exp '+' Exp *> add_ (0,,,,"\t\tADD\n")
-> Exp '-' Exp *> sub_ (0,,,,"\t\tSUB\n")
-> Exp '*' Exp *> mul_ (0,,,,"\t\tMUL\n")
-> Exp '/' Exp *> div_ (0,,,,"\t\tDIV\n")
Primary -> <integer> *> intr_ (1,,,,"\t\t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIKEN%20MDGRAPE-3 | MDGRAPE-3 is an ultra-high performance petascale supercomputer system developed by the Riken research institute in Japan. It is a special purpose system built for molecular dynamics simulations, especially protein structure prediction.
MDGRAPE-3 consists of 201 units of 24 custom MDGRAPE-3 chips (4,824 total), plus additional dual-core Intel Xeon processors (codename "Dempsey") which serve as host machines.
In June 2006 Riken announced its completion, achieving the petaFLOPS level of floating point arithmetic performance. This was more than three times faster than the 2006 version of the IBM Blue Gene/L system, which then led the TOP500 list of supercomputers at 0.28 petaFLOPS. Because it's not a general-purpose machine capable of running the LINPACK benchmarks, MDGRAPE-3 does not qualify for the TOP500 list.
See also
Supercomputing in Japan
MDGRAPE-4
References
Makoto Taiji, "MDGRAPE-3 chip: A 165-Gflops application-specific LSI for Molecular Dynamics Simulations", 16th IEEE Hot Chips Symposium, August 2004.
External links
MD-GRAPE Project@IBM
High-Performance Molecular Simulation Team@Riken
Peta Computing Institute
Tetsu Narumi's MDGRAPE page
Molecular Dynamics Machine using MDGRAPE-2
Computer-related introductions in 2006
Petascale computers
Riken
Molecular dynamics
Supercomputers
Supercomputing in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satandisk | SatanDisk is a SD and MMC card adapter for Atari 16-bit computers, such as the Atari ST invented 2007. The objective is to replace mechanical hard drives available from Atari (SH204, SH205 and Megafile) and compatible products. It is out of the pre-production stage and units have now been shipped to most customers. The interface allows the connection of an SD or MMC card to be attached to the ACSI (hard disc) port of Atari computers, and has been tested to be compatible with TOS versions 1.02 to 2.06. The maximum supported size is 4 GB. The device appears to the system as any regular ACSI attached hard disc, but has so far only been successfully used with the proprietary and commercial HDDriver driver package.
In 2009 the developer Jookie (Miroslav NOHAJ) introduced a successor UltraSatan which supports two SD/MMC cards in parallel. The adapter features hot-plug capability of the cards and includes a battery backed up RTC chip. Additionally to the commercial HDDriver it is supported by the free ICD PRO.
External links
Project website SatanDisk
Project website UltraSatan
HDDRIVER website
Atari ST
Solid-state computer storage media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwar%20%28video%20game%29 | Cyberwar is a DOS game based on the film The Lawnmower Man and a direct sequel to the video game adaptation of the film, which itself takes place after the film. It was released in 1994 by SCi. Ports were announced for the Sega CD, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, and in Japan only for the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation, but only the PlayStation version was released.
Gameplay
The player assumes the role of Dr. Angelo, sent in to virtual reality to defeat Jobe, who was born with an intellectual disability but increased his brain capacity by 400% using virtual reality, then eventually left his physical body and entered VR permanently. The various gameplay elements are based on the virtual reality segments seen in the original film. For instance, one of the levels has the player flying through tunnels while avoiding multiple objects, much like one of the games in the film.
If the player misses any part of any challenge, they reach a game over. Cyberwar consists of three discs but also includes a CD with the soundtrack featured in the game.
Reception
A reviewer for Next Generation gave the PC version two out of five stars, calling it "little more than a rehash of SCI's original title The Lawnmower Man with slightly changed action sequences and the 256-color graphics supposed to be included the first time."
On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the PlayStation version of the game an 18 out of 40. Reviewing it as an import, Next Generation gave it two out of five stars, razing it for its extremely limited interactivity.
References
External links
SCi Website
SCi Games Ltd. Profile on MobyGames
1994 video games
Cancelled 3DO Interactive Multiplayer games
Cancelled Sega CD games
Cancelled Sega Saturn games
DOS games
Full motion video based games
Classic Mac OS games
PlayStation (console) games
SCi Games games
Science fiction video games
Video games based on films
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games about virtual reality
Video games about video games
Single-player video games
Video game sequels
Interplay Entertainment games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%20to%20the%20Animals%20%28TV%20series%29 | Talk to the Animals is an Australian television series. It originally was broadcast on the Seven Network between 1993 and 1996, where it was hosted by Harry Cooper. In 2006, the show was relaunched on the Nine Network with Nicky Buckley hosting. In 2010, Dr. Katrina Warren took over the hosting duties. The program also screened internationally on Animal Planet.
The series focuses on the extraordinary relationships between people and animals. It ranges from adventures in the wild to domestic pet advice.
External links
Official site
Seven Network original programming
Nine Network original programming
1993 Australian television series debuts
1996 Australian television series endings
2006 Australian television series debuts
2010 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Animal Planet original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solbourne%20Computer | Solbourne Computer, Inc. was originally a vendor of computer systems based in Longmont, Colorado, United States, at first 52% owned by Matsushita. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the company produced a range of computer workstations and servers based on the SPARC microprocessor architecture, largely compatible with Sun Microsystems' Sun-4 systems. Some of these are notable for supporting symmetric multiprocessing some time before Sun themselves produced multiprocessor systems. Even when Sun produced multiprocessor systems, SunOS uses an asymmetric multiprocessing model rather than OS/MP's symmetric multiprocessing model; Sun would not adopt symmetric multiprocessing until the release of Solaris 2.0 in 1992. Due to the cost of engineering and producing new systems to compete with Sun's increasingly competitive hardware offerings and the loss of symmetric multiprocessing as a distinguishing feature, in 1994, Solbourne left the computer hardware business, with Grumman Systems Support Corporation taking over support for Solbourne customers until 2000.
In 1994, Walt Pounds assumed the role of CEO of Solbourne, and the Solbourne headquarters were moved to Boulder, Colorado. From that point until July 2008, Solbourne focused on providing consulting services and solutions based on Oracle Applications and associated technologies. Solbourne established a strong reputation in the Oracle E-Business Suite community, and became a dominant provider of consulting services to state and local Oracle E-Business Suite customers.
On July 11, 2008, Solbourne closed a transaction to sell substantially all of the company assets to Deloitte Consulting. The Solbourne management team and more than 100 professionals joined Deloitte's Enterprise Applications, Technology Integration and Human Capital service areas.
Models
Solbourne's range comprises the following:
Multiprocessor workstations and servers using the KBus 64-bit inter-processor bus:
Series4: 16.67 MHz Fujitsu MB86900 processor(s)
Series5: 33 MHz Cypress CY7C601 processor(s)
Series5e: 40 MHz Cypress CY7C601 processor(s)
Series6: 33 MHz SuperSPARC processor(s)
Series6E: 50 MHz SuperSPARC processor(s)
Single-processor IDT (Integrated DeskTop) workstations based on the Panasonic MN10501 KAP SPARC-compatible processor:
S3000: portable workstation with integrated plasma display
S4000: 33 MHz CPU "pizza-box"-style desktop workstation
S4000DX: 36 MHz S4000 with secondary processor cache
The MN10501 processor had been developed by Solbourne in association with Matsushita, providing a single-chip product featuring an integrated floating-point arithmetic unit, memory management hardware, branch prediction logic, 8 KB of cache memory, a 64-bit data bus, and "mostly 64-bit data paths on chip".
Operating systems
All Solbourne systems run OS/MP, a modified version of SunOS 4.1 supporting multiprocessor systems. The final release of OS/MP was 4.1D, corresponding to SunOS 4.1.3.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina%20Ballet | Carolina Ballet is one of America's arts organizations, programming traditional ballets and new works by contemporary choreographers. The Ballet was launched as a professional company in 1998 under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Robert Weiss. In 2019, Zalman Raffael became the Artistic Director/CEO joined by Michele Weathers as executive director. For more than 20 years, Carolina Ballet has garnered critical praise from the national and international media, staged over 100 world premiere ballets, and in 2018, chartered the School of Carolina Ballet. Since its inaugural season in 1998, Carolina Ballet and this community have accomplished something remarkable. The company has grown from a budget of $1.2 million featuring sixteen dancers and five apprentices in three programs to a $6.0 million budget featuring 38 dancers in eight programs including the holiday tradition, The Nutcracker.
History
Carolina Ballet, Inc. was founded in 1984 as Raleigh Dance Theatre, Inc. by Ann Vorus, owner of the Raleigh Dance Theatre.
As a student company, its purpose was to provide performance opportunities for students of the school. Over several years, both the school and the company grew in reputation and stature in its metamorphosis as Carolina Ballet Theatre, a pre-professional regional company under Ms. Vorus and her successor as artistic director, Mary LeGere. Performances of the company began to attract favorable notice from area dance critics. In the fall of 1993, Raleigh lawyer Ward Purrington suggested to Ms. Vorus and the Raleigh Dance Theatre board that the company aspire to professional status. Market research suggested a professional dance presence in the Triangle region was not only needed but desired as well.
Robert Weiss, a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet and past artistic director of Pennsylvania Ballet, was selected in April 1997 as the founding artistic director of the new professional company, known as Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Notable productions
Handel's Messiah, choreography by Robert Weiss, premiering in 1998
Beethoven, Janáček, J. Mark Scearce The Kreutzer Sonata, based on the Tolstoy novella, 2000
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, first performed in 2001
Poulenc, Debussy, Chausson Monet Impressions, 2006
Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy, based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, 2007
Robert Weiss, "Cinderella," music by Karl Moraski
Dancers
Dancers of the Carolina Ballet, as of July 2021:
Principals
Margaret Severin-Hansen
Soloists
Sam Ainley
Taylor Ayotte
Kathleen Black
Luke Potgieter
Sokvannara Sar
McKenzie Van Oss
Lauren Wolfram
Corps de Ballet
Elye Bailey
Ashton Bradley
Robert Champ
Saskia de Muinck Keizer
Andrew Denise
Laurel Dorn
Heather Duncan
Emily Fretz
Jonas Godwin
Pierson Hall
Zoe Harrel
Maggie-Kate Howard
Anthony Hoyos
Anna Ingold
Jilian Kossak
Bryce Leippe
Juliet Marinello
Ling Minucci
Sofia Rose Peetoom
SarahAnne Perel
Russell Schmidt
Alexa Testa
El |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip%20TFO | Flip TFO is the children-oriented programming block of the Canadian French language educational television channel TFO, which serves the province of Ontario, Canada.
Its shows air weekday evenings and on afternoons and evenings during weekends.
History
TFO launched its children-oriented block in 1996, labeling it Méga TFO. The block aired a live call-in show to serve as its anchor program also titled Méga TFO, hosted by Stephanie Broschart and Alain Boisvert. In 2001, the show was replaced by Mégallô, which had a similar format. In September 2009, the block amended its name to mirror the anchor program's title. In September 2013, the block was rebranded as Flip TFO along with the new main program, replacing Mégallô. In September 2017, the program was renamed Flip l'algorithme and much like its predecessors, attempts to present content in a humorous way.
References
External links
Flip TFO site
Television programming blocks in Canada
TFO original programming
1996 Canadian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melling%20Branch | The Melling Branch is a railway branch line in the Hutt Valley, north of Wellington, New Zealand. It is part of the national rail network and formerly part of the Wairarapa Line. Until 2010 it was one of only two passenger-only lines in the country (the second one being the Johnsonville Line), since that year the two being joined by the Onehunga Branch and later by the Manukau Branch.
Services are operated by Transdev Wellington under the Metlink brand and marketed as the Melling Line. Matangi EMU trains run between Wellington and Melling from Monday to Friday.
The Melling Line is expected to close for up to eighteen months from July 2024 to enable the RiverLink flood protection project to proceed. A new Melling station is to be built 250m south of the existing station, which will be preserved as a heritage building.
History
Construction
The colonial government of William Fox passed the Railways Act in 1870, which authorised the surveying of several railway lines including one from Wellington to the Wairarapa. Surveyor John Rochfort was hired by the Public Works Department to investigate four potential routes for this line and reported back with his findings at the completion of his trip. He recommended a line following the road between Wellington and Petoni on the seaward side, running up the western side of the Hutt Valley before crossing the Hutt River at Silver Stream , heading north through Upper Hutt, up the Mungaroa and Pakuratahi Valleys, and over the Rimutaka Range to Featherston. The Public Works Department concurred with his assessment and tasked him with completing a more detailed survey including cost estimates.
Construction of the Wairarapa Line was authorised by the Railways Act of 1871. A further survey was commissioned and carried out between January and April 1872. The route of the line had been decided on in March but the Government, being cautious about such a large undertaking, was only willing to commit itself to the first stage of the project. The Government entered into a contract for the construction of the formation for a railway line from Wellington to Lower Hutt with John Brogden and Sons on 10 August 1872. Work commenced later that month on the 20th with a turning-of-the-first-sod ceremony officiated by the Governor General, Sir George Bowen. Progress was slow, and by July 1873 rails had only reached the south bank of the Kaiwarra Stream. The arrival of the first locomotive in November 1873 helped to speed up the pace of construction and the rails reached Lower Hutt in January 1874. John Brogden and Sons, initially tasked with creating the formation only, were also given the job of platelaying. The next few months were spent ballasting the line with this being completed on 4 April.
A special train ran two days prior to the official opening of the line to Lower Hutt and return carrying various political and civic dignitaries. The first revenue service departed Wellington on 14 April 1874, without ceremony, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Jerusalem | Transport in Jerusalem is characterized by a well-developed inter-city network and an emerging, developing intra-city network. Ben Gurion International Airport serves as Jerusalem's closest international airport. Egged bus lines and Israel Railways connect the city of Jerusalem to much of Israel, and a high-speed rail line to the airport and Tel Aviv is currently under construction, while the segment to Ben Gurion Airport is already in limited operation. Within the city, the roads, rather than the rails, are the primary mode of transportation.
Roads
Begin Highway (Highway 50) is the western inner city expressway in Jerusalem. It runs north to south from Atarot to Manahat (Malha), and is being extended to link further south into Highway 60 to Gush Etzion. The northern end of the highway is fed by Highway 443 from Tel Aviv and Modiin. The Atarot-Talpiot route (Highway 60) is the main route which traverses the center of the city; and Herzl Boulevard, which begins at the northern entrance of the city and continues south via Mount Herzl and the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. It then merges into additional routes that lead to the southwestern quarters. The Golomb-Herzog-Ben-Zvi route also links the southern quarters with the city center.
Running east through the city center, Jaffa Road connects the Jaffa Gate of the Old City as well as the central-eastern neighbourhoods and the northwestern city entrance to Highway 1. Highway 1 bypasses the city-centre to the north as Yigael Yadin Boulevard, and links Ma'ale Adummim to Begin Highway near Ramot.
Construction is progressing on parts of a 35-kilometer (22-mi) ring road around the city, fostering faster connection between the suburbs and the city center. The eastern half of the project was conceptualized decades ago, but reaction to the proposed highway is still mixed.
Buses
Jerusalem Central Bus Station is Jerusalem's main intercity bus station. The city is served mainly by Egged buses, though as of 2009, a number of other companies are providing an increasing number of bus lines to and from the city also; as of 2009, Dan and Superbus also use the Central Bus Station. City buses in Jerusalem are run by Egged, which runs close to 100 bus lines throughout the city and its suburbs. A map of the various lines may be accessed on MobileMe
Two joint Egged–Dan bus lines serve the Bnei Brak – Jerusalem route, while Superbus and Veolia serve Modi'in Illit and Modi'in respectively. As of December 2008, Superbus also provides all bus routes in the Jerusalem corridor, between Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh. The Illit company provides bus lines to Beitar Illit.
East Jerusalem Arab-run buses serve the city's Arab neighborhoods in Eastern Jerusalem and also some Palestinian towns in the Palestinian Authority and Israeli Arab towns. This system is based out of the East Jerusalem Central Bus Station on Sultan Suleiman Street, though buses also leave from outside the Damascus Gate of the Old City.
The Egged and the East |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Krizmanich | Jack Krizmanich (born December 16, 1978) is an American actor and model. He played Aaron Spencer on the MyNetworkTV serial Wicked Wicked Games. His previous acting credits include Passions, What I Like About You, Ludis on True Blood and the film Shadowboxer.
Krizmanich was born in the small town of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. While working at a restaurant in high school, Jack was discovered by an agent at IMAGE Models.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
American male television actors
Male actors from Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Cahoon | Todd Cahoon (born September 15, 1973) is an American actor. He starred as Jack Porter on the MyNetworkTV serial Watch Over Me. His previous acting credits include guest appearances on CSI: NY, Without a Trace and Charmed.
Filmography
Bay State (1991) .... Davis Sands #2 (1994–1996)
Under Pressure (2000) .... Submarine First Mate
Destiny (2002) .... Brad
Bob Steel (2004) .... Young Rich Man
Ladder 49 (2004) .... Paramedic Taping Pizza Slices to Lonely Dog
Charmed (1998) .... Dominic - Episode: "Still Charmed and Kicking" (2005)
Without a Trace (2002) .... Jake - Episode: "From the Ashes" (2005)
Decoy (2006) .... Homeless Brother
Zoey 101 (2005) .... Dean Taylor - Episode: "Hot Dean" (2006)
CSI: NY (2004) .... Anthony Fabrizio - Episode: "Some Buried Bones" (2007) and Matt Cooper - Episode: "Like Water For Murder" (2008)
Nip/Tuck (2003) .... Bob Levitts - Episodes: "Magda and Jeff" and "Kyle Ainge" (2008)
The Closer (2005) .... Ryan Hughes - Episode 4x08: "Split Ends" (2008)
Cold Case (2003) .... Bruce Donnelly - Episode: "The Dealer" (2008)
Watch Over Me (2006) .... Jack Porter
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) .... Ted Bundy
Desperate Housewives (2009) .... Bill Brown
Lift Me Up (2015) .... John Donelson
External links
1973 births
American male film actors
American male television actors
Male actors from California
Living people
Male actors from San Jose, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Menard | Marc Menard is a Canadian actor. He starred as Michael Krieger on the MyNetworkTV serial Watch Over Me. His previous acting credits include All My Children, Ocean Ave, and the film John Tucker Must Die.
Filmography
External links
Living people
Canadian male television actors
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings%20%281988%20TV%20series%29 | Wings is an hour-long televised aviation history documentary television series which aired on the Discovery Channel family of networks. It was produced by Phil Osborn.
Original program
Originally called Great Planes, the Wings program initially aired Wednesdays and Saturdays on the Discovery Channel in the United States from 9–10 p.m. Eastern beginning in 1988 and into the early 1990s.
Great Planes
Great Planes was the original subset of Wings episodes which focused on one particular aircraft type. The original Great Planes program was initially produced by Aviation Video International in Australia, and distributed by the Discovery Channel.
When it initially aired in America, the majority of episodes were narrated by the program's Australian writer and director, Luke Swann, with some others written and narrated by John Honey and Phil Chugg. In 1991 (notably following the first Gulf War), episodes were re-edited to include interviews with pilots of the profiled aircraft types before and following commercial breaks, and the narration was re-dubbed with American narrators Ron David and Tom Hair.
Episodes
Boeing 707
Boeing 747
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
British Aerospace/McDonnell Douglas Harrier
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Consolidated PBY Catalina
Convair B-36 Peacemaker
Douglas A-1 Skyraider
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
Douglas A-26 Invader
Douglas C-47 Dakota
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
Grumman F-14 Tomcat
Grumman F4F Wildcat/F6F Hellcat
Lockheed Constellation
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Martin B-26 Marauder
Martin B-57 Canberra
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
North American B-25 Mitchell
North American F-86 Sabre
North American F-100 Super Sabre
North American P-51 Mustang
North American XB-70 Valkyrie
Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter
Republic F-84 Thunderjet
Republic F-105 Thunderchief
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
Rockwell B-1 Lancer
Vought A-7 Corsair II
Vought F4U Corsair
Some other episodes profiled non-American aircraft, including the Aérospatiale-British Aerospace Concorde, Mitsubishi A6M Zero, Panavia Tornado, and Supermarine Spitfire.
Strange Planes
A series of thirteen episodes, entitled Strange Planes (and later released on VHS video), focused on several unusual aircraft types.
Episodes
"Strange Shapes"
"Parasites"
"Vertical"
"Giants"
“Catapult Planes”
”Strangest Planes”
“Pusher Planes”
“Feed The Birds”
“Rubber Planes”
“Hovercrafts”
”Circles In The Sky”
“Drones.Midgets.Mutations…”
“Eyes In The Sky”
Miscellaneous programs
These programs were shown occasionally during the Wings time slot. They were produced from various sources.
Air Combat Today
Combat Aircraft of the Future
Modern Air Combat 3
Modern Fighters
Modern Missiles
Naval Combat Aircraft
Soviet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum%C3%ADferos | Plumíferos (Free Birds: Flying Adventures) is a 2010 Argentine computer-animated adventure comedy film, produced by CS Entertainment, Manos Digitales Animation Studio, and 100 Bares Producciones, and was released on February 18, 2010 in Argentina. The film was directed by Daniel DeFelippo and Gustavo Giannini.
The English-language version was released direct-to-video in the United States on 1 April 2014 titled Birds of Paradise from Lionsgate Home Entertainment, featuring the voices of Ashley Tisdale, Drake Bell, Jon Lovitz, Ken Jeong, Jane Lynch, and Keith David.
Plot
"It's an everyday universe that exists 7 feet over our heads. They are city birds that you can find in every tree or every corner."
Development
The project was completed in 2009 and released in theaters in Argentina on February 18, 2010.
Cast
Luisana Lopilato as Feifi, a canary that escapes from the cage of a network tycoon, Mr. Puertas, and starts trying a new life in freedom as a common bird.
Mariano Martínez as Juan, a house sparrow that feels ordinary and underestimates his own race. Accidentally, he changes the way he looks, and the same reason that will make him feel unique is what is going to put his life in danger.
Carla Peterson as Clarita, a bat.
Mirta Wons as Libia, a rock pigeon. The character is portrayed as a man in the English dub.
Luis Machín as Sr. Puertas, a network tycoon.
Peto Menahem as Pipo, a blue-chested hummingbird.
Animation
The film's animation was done by Manos Digitales Animation Studio, using Blender and other open source software for all 3D models, animation, lighting and render process, under Linux operating systems. Since then, Plumíferos is the first feature film to be 100% completely animated in Blender.
See also
List of animated feature-length films
List of computer-animated films
References
External links
advertisement redirect
Video conference with creators (2006, 69 mins)
Interview with one of the makers (Google translation)
Manos Digitales
2010 films
2010 computer-animated films
Argentine animated films
2010s adventure comedy films
2010s Spanish-language films
2010 comedy films
2010s Argentine films
Animated films about birds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neisse%20University | The Neisse University is a trinational academic network held by the cooperating partners University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Technical University of Liberec and Wroclaw University of Technology. The places of study are located in the border triangle of Czech Republic, Poland and Germany, which are approximately 100 km apart.
History
The Neisse University was established in 2001, admitting students for degrees in "Information and Communication Management", currently the only course offered. Its first president was Prof. Dr. Phil. Peter Schmidt.
In 2004 it was accredited by ACQUIN.
Prof. Klaus ten Hagen was elected as the new president in 2004.
Since 2007 it has been possible to also immatriculate students from other than the three countries participating in the project. This is especially true of the new master course which is focused on an internationally diverse student group.
Profile of the university
Neisse University has a special profile by following facts:
lectures and seminars are held exclusively in English language
the place of study changes from Liberec in the first, Jelenia Gora in the second to Görlitz in the third year
international students
Study courses
Economics and Computer Science
BSc. Information and Communication Management
Faculties
Due to the changing place of study, the courses available at the Neisse University belong to different faculties of the partner institutes.
Bsc Information and Communication Management
Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Liberec
Faculty of Computer Science at the Wroclaw University of Technology
Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz
External links
Website of the Neisse University
Website of the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz
Website of the Technical University of Liberec
Website of the Wroclaw University of Technology
Academic Coordination Centre of the Euro-Region Neisse
student-portal of the "NU Students"
Student Portal NISA WIKISPACES
Universities in the Czech Republic
Universities and colleges in Saxony
Universities and colleges in Poland
Görlitz
Liberec
Zittau
Buildings and structures in Jelenia Góra
Educational institutions established in 2001
2001 establishments in Germany
2001 establishments in Poland
2001 establishments in the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20University%20of%20Bangladesh | Green University of Bangladesh (GUB) () is a private university in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It offers BSc in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), BSc in Textile Engineering, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA), BSS in Journalism and Media Communication, Bachelor of Law (LLB), Bachelor of English, Bachelor of Sociology, Master of Law (LLM), among others.
The university is accredited by the government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, and its curricula and programs have been approved by the Bangladesh University Grants Commission, the only national accreditation authority in Bangladesh. The President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh is the Chancellor of Green University of Bangladesh. The Vice Chancellor, the Pro-Vice Chancellor, and the Treasurer are appointed by the President of the country in his capacity as the Chancellor of the university.
History
Green University of Bangladesh (GUB) was founded in 2003 under the Private University Act 1992.
Administration
The university has four faculties. Each faculty has departments. A dean is the head of each faculty, while departments are headed by chairpersons.
List of vice-chancellors
Prof. Md. Golam Samdani Fakir (May 2013 – 2023)
Prof Dr Khawza Iftekhar Uddin Ahmed (Acting)
Faculties and Departments
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Undergraduate programs
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering
B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
B.Sc. in Textile Engineering
Faculty of Business
Undergraduate program
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
Graduate program
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Master of Bank Management (MBM)
Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences
Undergraduate program
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English
Bachelor of Laws (LLB-Hon's)
Bachelor of Laws (LLB-Pass)
Journalism & Media Communication
BSS (Hon's) in Sociology
BSS (Hon's) in Anthropology
Graduate program
Master of Laws (LL.M)
Scholarship arrangement
There are special discounts on tuition fees including scholarships for poor and meritorious students. 25% to 100% discount is available for undergraduate programs.
Academic session
Spring: February to July
Fall: August to January
Journals
Green University of Bangladesh Journal of Science and Engineering (GUBJSE)
Green University Review of Social Sciences (GURSS)
Library facilities
In addition to studies, there are library facilities to develop the talents and thinking of the students. The library has local and foreign books.
Programming contests
A two-day(12-13 Oct 2018) inter-university programming contest was held at Green University's auditorium with the participation of 116 groups of 45 universities across the country by the initiative of Green University and US Bangla Airlines.
US-Bangla Airlines - Green University of Bangladesh IUPC 2018
Gallery
References
External links
Green University of Bangladesh Hom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRZ | LRZ may refer to:
Louis Rees-Zammit
Low Rainfall Zone
Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, German computing facility
Landesrundfunkzentrale Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, German regional media authority
The file extension used by lrzip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20Academy%20Award%20for%20Best%20Film | Polish Academy Award for Best Film is one of the awards given to the best Polish motion picture.
Winners and nominees
References
External links
Polish Film Awards at Internet Movie Database
Polish Film Awards; official website
Awards for best film
Polish film awards
Awards established in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugat | Bugat may refer to:
Places
Bugat, Bayan-Ölgii, western Mongolia
Bugat, Bulgan, northern Mongolia
Bugat, Govi-Altai, western Mongolia
Other
Bugat (Trojan horse), a computer malware
Dridex, a banking trojan that is also known as Bugat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expand%20%28Unix%29 | expand is a program that converts tab characters into groups of space characters, while maintaining correct alignment. It is available in Unix operating systems and many Unix-like operating systems. The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.
Example
For example:
$ echo -e "foo\tbar" | expand | xxd -g 1 -u
0000000: 66 6F 6F 20 20 20 20 20 62 61 72 0A foo bar.
$ echo -e "foo\tbar" | xxd -g 1 -u
0000000: 66 6F 6F 09 62 61 72 0A foo.bar.
$
Here the echo command prints a string of text that includes a tab character, then the output is directed into the expand command. The resulting output is then displayed in hexadecimal and as characters by the xxd dump command. At the second prompt, the same echo output is sent directly to the xxd command. As can be seen by comparing the two, the expand program converts the tab (specified as '\t' to the echo program) into spaces.
See also
List of Unix commands
Unexpand
References
External links
Standard Unix programs
Unix SUS2008 utilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CobraNet | CobraNet is a combination of software, hardware, and network protocols designed to deliver uncompressed, multi-channel, low-latency digital audio over a standard Ethernet network. Developed in the 1990s, CobraNet is widely regarded as the first commercially successful audio-over-Ethernet implementation.
CobraNet was designed for and is primarily used in large commercial audio installations such as convention centers, stadiums, airports, theme parks, and concert halls. It has applications where a large number of audio channels must be transmitted over long distances or to multiple locations.
CobraNet is an alternative to analog audio, which suffers from signal degradation over long cable runs due to electromagnetic interference, high-frequency attenuation, and voltage drop. Additionally, the use of digital multiplexing allows audio to be transmitted using less cabling than analog audio.
History
CobraNet was developed in 1996 by Boulder, Colorado-based Peak Audio. Initial demonstrations were of a 10 Mbit/s point-to-point system with limited channel capacity. The first permanent installation of CobraNet in this early form was to provide background music throughout Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park. The first commercial use of CobraNet was during the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXI in 1997.
CobraNet was first introduced as an interoperable standard in collaboration with manufacturer QSC Audio Products. QSC was the first to license the technology from Peak Audio and marketed it under the RAVE brand. At this point CobraNet had graduated to fast Ethernet and used a unique collision avoidance technique to carry up to 64 channels per Ethernet collision domain.
CobraNet was subsequently enhanced to support and eventually require a switched Ethernet network. An SNMP agent was added for remote control and monitoring. Support for higher sample rates, increased bit resolutions and lowered latency capabilities were later introduced in an incremental and backward-compatible manner.
In May 2001, Cirrus Logic announced that it had acquired the assets of Peak Audio. Leveraging Cirrus DSP technology, a low-cost SoC implementation of CobraNet was developed and marketed.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
Using CobraNet and fast Ethernet, 64 channels of uncompressed digital audio are carried through a single category 5 cable. Using gigabit or fiber optic Ethernet variants, the cost of cabling per audio channel is reduced further compared to the fast Ethernet implementation. CobraNet data can coexist with data traffic over existing Ethernet networks so a single network infrastructure can serve audio distribution and other networking needs.
Audio routing can be changed at any time with network commands, and does not require rewiring.
Audio is transmitted in digital form, and provides reduced susceptibility to electromagnetic interference, crosstalk, coloration, and attenuation owing to cable impedance.
Use of Ethernet by CobraNet offers many high av |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fmt%20%28Unix%29 | The command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems is used to format natural language text for humans to read.
Overview
The command has been traditionally used to reformat email messages after composition and prior to delivery. Its syntax is similar among various Unixes, but not identical. attempts to break, fill and join input lines to produce globally optimal, balanced output with the lengths of each line approaching the target width as closely as possible, rather than wrapping the input lines exactly as (from GNU Core Utilities) does.
In most implementations of , the word wrap optimization procedure usually requires two criteria: the target output line width, and the maximum acceptable line width (which should be larger than the previous one to give room for optimization). It might be not always possible to give these two options simultaneously. For example, early versions of GNU can only accept the maximum width option, which is given by switch, or directly as the first command line option for compatibility (later versions use to specify the goal width and for the maximum width). See the Solaris man page for and FreeBSD manual entry for for detailed examples, and compare with the latest documentation of GNU utility included by most Linux distributions. See also the Plan 9 man page.
Unlike , has no Unicode support, and does not support text justification.
The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.
Example
Given text like this as input:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur dignissim
venenatis pede. Quisque dui dui, ultricies ut, facilisis non, pulvinar non. Duis quis arcu a purus volutpat iaculis. Morbi id dui in diam ornare
dictum. Praesent consectetuer vehicula ipsum. Praesent tortor massa, congue et,
ornare in, posuere eget, pede.
Vivamus rhoncus. Quisque lacus. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Nullam mauris
tellus, sollicitudin non, semper eget, sodales non, pede. Phasellus varius
ullamcorper libero. Fusce ipsum lorem, iaculis nec, vulputate vitae, suscipit
vel, tortor. Cras varius.
Nullam fringilla pellentesque orci. Nulla eu ante pulvinar velit rhoncus
lacinia. Morbi fringilla lacus quis arcu. Vestibulum sem quam, dapibus in,
fringilla ut, venenatis ut, neque.
After passing this through , the width of each line is at most 50 characters and the text flows within this constraint:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer
adipiscing elit. Curabitur dignissim venenatis
pede. Quisque dui dui, ultricies ut, facilisis
non, pulvinar non, purus. Duis quis arcu a
purus volutpat iaculis. Morbi id dui in diam
ornare dictum. Praesent consectetuer vehicula
ipsum. Praesent tortor massa, congue et, ornare
in, posuere eget, pede.
Vivamus rhoncus. Quisque lacus. In hac
habitasse platea dictumst. Nullam mauris tellus,
sollicitudin non, semper eget, sodales non,
pede. P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%20%28Unix%29 | is a legacy utility available on some Unix and Unix-like operating systems. This utility outputs a 16-bit checksum of each argument file, as well as the number of blocks they take on disk. Two different checksum algorithms are in use. POSIX abandoned sum in favor of cksum.
Overview
The program is generally only useful for historical interest. It is not part of POSIX. Two algorithms are typically available: a BSD checksum and a SYSV checksum. Both are weaker than the already weak 32-bit CRC used by cksum.
The default algorithm on FreeBSD and GNU implementations is the BSD checksum. Switching between the two algorithms is done via command line options.
The two commonly used algorithms are as follows.
The BSD sum, -r in GNU sum and -o1 in FreeBSD cksum:
Initialize checksum to 0
For each byte of the input stream
Perform 16-bit bitwise right rotation by 1 bit on the checksum
Add the byte to the checksum, and apply modulo 2 ^ 16 to the result, thereby keeping it within 16 bits
The result is a 16-bit checksum
The above algorithm appeared in Seventh Edition Unix.
The System V sum, -s in GNU sum and -o2 in FreeBSD cksum:
checksum0 = sum of all bytes of the input stream modulo 2 ^ 32
checksum1 = checksum0 modulo 2 ^ 16 + checksum0 / 2 ^ 16
checksum = checksum1 modulo 2 ^16 + checksum1 / 2 ^ 16
The result is a 16-bit checksum calculated from the initial 32-bit plain byte sum
Syntax
The utility is invoked from the command line according to the following syntax:
sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...
with the possible option parameters being:
use BSD checksum algorithm, use 1K blocks (defeats )
,
use SYSV checksum algorithm, use 512 bytes blocks
display the help screen and exit
output version information and exit
When no file parameter is given, or when FILE is , the standard input is used as input file.
Example of use:
$ echo Hello > testfile
$ sum testfile
36978 1
Example of -s use in GNU sum:
$ echo Hello > testfile
$ sum -s testfile
510 1 testfile
Example of using standard input, -r and printf to avoid newline:
$ printf Hello | sum -r
08401 1
See also
GNU Core Utilities
UnxUtils port to native Win32
References
External links
sum in The Single UNIX ® Specification, Version 2, 1997, opengroup.org – does not specify checksum algorithm
C.4 Utilities in The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 edition, opengroup.org – indicates sum as removed
– manual pages from GNU coreutils
– states the sum algorithms in options -o1 and -o2 to cksum
The Unix Tree, tuhs.org – the source code of old versions of Unix
Linux package management-related software
Unix package management-related software
Linux security software
Unix security-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20JX | The IBM JX (or JXPC) was a personal computer released in 1984 into the Japanese, Australian and New Zealand markets. Designed in Japan, it was based on the technology of the IBM PCjr and was designated the IBM 5511. It was targeted in the Australasian market towards the public education sector rather than at consumers, and was sold in three levels: JX (64 KiB), JX2 (128 KiB) and JX3 (256 KiB). Upgrades were available to both 384 KiB and 512 KiB. The JX was the first IBM PC to use 3.5" floppy drives.
IBM Japan expected to sell 200,000 units of JX, but only 40,000 units were produced. The JX was discontinued in 1987, and IBM Japan gave 15,000 units of JX to its employees in honor of the company's 50th anniversary.
General
The IBM JX's main difference from the PCjr was a professional keyboard (rather than the PCjr's disparaged chiclet keyboard), dual 3.5" floppy drives, as well as options for a 5.25" floppy drive and a hard drive, both of which sat atop the main unit. The JX did not support PCjr-like "sidecar" add-ons for hardware expansion. In common with the PCjr, however, it had no DMA controller. It also supported the otherwise unique-in-the-IBM-PC-world ECGA (Enhanced Color Graphics Adapter—16 simultaneous colors, but only at 320×200 resolution) and the PCjr's 4-channel sound. Support for these two features was utilised by only a handful of software developers—Sierra On-line being the most well-known.
Configuration
It had several innovative features:
Single or twin 3.5" 720 KB (initially only 360 KB) diskette drives
Wireless infra-red keyboard
16-color video output
Stackable expansion
Joystick ports
Cartridge slots
In Japan, both white and dark gray units were available, but elsewhere all IBM JXs were dark gray—very unusual in the days of the standard color of IBM "beige boxes". All models sold in Japan have a Japanese font stored on 128 KB of ROM, but the basic system only has the capability to display 40×11 Japanese text. The Extended Display Cartridge provides 40×25 Japanese text mode, and its display resolution is 720×512 pixels like a 16 pixel font model of the IBM 5550. This cartridge contains a BASIC interpreter compatible with 5550's.
However, one disadvantage it shared with the PCjr was that it could not use the standard ISA bus cards of the IBM PC.
The system operated PC DOS 2.11 as well as Microsoft Disk BASIC and Microsoft Advanced BASIC. Like the PC, if the system was left to boot without inserting a diskette into one of the drives the Microsoft Cassette BASIC interpreter would be loaded, which was compatible with IBM PCjr BASIC, including Cartridge BASIC. PC DOS 2.11 could only use half of the tracks of a 3.5" drive, however, since it didn't really understand what a 3.5" drive even was. The PCjx's BIOS could only address the first 40 tracks, like a 5.25" drive.
The PCjx later had a BIOS upgrade chip, sold together with PC DOS 3.21, which could use the full 720 KB capacity of the diskette drives. Some popular options |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logname | In computer software, logname (stands for Login Name) is a program in Unix and Unix-like operating systems that prints the name of the user who is currently logged in on the terminal. It usually corresponds to the LOGNAME variable in the system-state environment (but this variable could have been modified).
History
The logname system call and command appeared for the first time in UNIX System III. The author of the version of logname bundled in GNU coreutils is unknown. The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.
Usage
$ logname --help
Usage: logname [OPTION]
Print the name of the current user.
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
See also
whoami
References
External links
Unix user management and support-related utilities
Unix SUS2008 utilities
IBM i Qshell commands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LART | LART is a single-board computer (SBC) designed by staff of the University of Delft/Netherlands.
The creators advertise complete layout by means of CAD files, software and kernel patches for Linux. The software is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), and the Hardware design is released under the MIT License. TU Delft built some boards, some people built their own LARTs (the board can be made at home by a competent engineer), and a batch was produced and sold in 2002-2003 by Aleph One Ltd and Remote 12, in an early demonstration of the viability of the Open Hardware concept (manufacture can be performed by groups other than the designers and copyright holders).
The standard LART configuration featured 32 MB DRAM and 4 MB Flash ROM. Most interesting is the low-power consumption of less than 1 W while providing ~ 250 MIPS, making it an ideal system for embedded computing.
The project also spun off an Open Hardware parallel port JTAG interface board and the Blob bootloader.
References
External links
LART hardware shop and related information
Embedded Linux
Open computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cophenetic | In the clustering of biological information such as data from microarray experiments, the cophenetic similarity or cophenetic distance of two objects is a measure of how similar those two objects have to be in order to be grouped into the same cluster. The cophenetic distance between two objects is the height of the dendrogram where the two branches that include the two objects merge into a single branch. Outside the context of a dendrogram, it is the distance between the largest two clusters that contain the two objects individually when they are merged into a single cluster that contains both.
See also
Cophenetic correlation
References
External links
University of Ohio lecture
Microarrays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Nim | Android Nim is a computerized version of the strategy game Nim programmed by Leo Christopherson for the TRS-80 and published in 1978 by 80-NW Publishing. A port to the Commodore PET by Don Dennis was released in July 1979, followed by an Apple II version in 1980.
Android Nim is played versus the computer. The stones or other objects of traditional Nim are replaced by androids; their animation was considered impressive in 1978.
Gameplay
The object of the game is to remove the last android from three rows of androids. The game's premise is simple, but its animation is impressive given the limitations of the TRS-80's display. Throughout the game androids are animated to face different directions, as if bored or engaging in conversation with one another.
The game starts with three rows of androids which contain 7, 5, and 3 androids respectively. An animated android asks the player if they would like to go first. The player chooses a row and types in how many droids to remove. An animated droid at the head of the row then nods its head and raises a gun and the other androids turn to look at the selected row. The specified number of androids are then zapped with a laser beam. It is then the computer's turn—with similar effect—and play continues until the last android is removed.
If the human wins, the computer is an amusingly poor sport and displays astonishment; if it wins, the computer displays a huge "I WIN!". If the computer is about to lose, it pretends to seek futile ways to avoid losing (i.e., by selecting more androids than are available in a given row) before giving up.
Reception
The game was reviewed in The Dragon #44 by Mark Herro. Herro stated, "if you want a good 'demo' program or just a little light entertainment — I think you could do worse than to try out this game. I like Android Nim."
References
External links
PET gameplay video at YouTube
Windows version by Leo Christopherson
review
Review in Creative Computing
Review in 80 Micro
Review in 80 Micro
1978 video games
Apple II games
Commodore PET games
SoftSide games
TRS-80 games
Public-domain software with source code
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Brantford%E2%80%93Cambridge%20Trails | The Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails are a network of multiuse interurban recreational rail trails connecting several municipalities in southern Ontario, Canada. The trails are part of the Southern Ontario Loop of the Trans Canada Trail. From end to end, the trail is long, running from Cambridge south through Paris to Brantford and then East to central Hamilton.
Gordon Glaves Memorial Pathway
The first portion of the Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails to be completed was named the Gordon Glaves Memorial Pathway in 1993.
Cambridge to Paris Rail Trail
The second portion of the Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails is the Cambridge to Paris Rail Trail, which was opened in 1994 along the right of way of the now-defunct Lake Erie and Northern Railway. The northern trailhead is in Galt off Water Street, and from there the trail passes south through Glen Morris, a distance of approximately . It then continues on to Paris until officially terminating and becoming the SC Johnson Trail. The total length of the trail is .
Hamilton to Brantford Rail Trail
In 1996, the Hamilton to Brantford Rail Trail was the third portion of the Hamilton–Brantford–Cambridge Trails to be completed. It runs from Hamilton to Brantford through the towns of Dundas and Jerseyville. The entire former railway bed is surfaced with stone dust and marked with a post at each kilometre, with frequent benches by the side of the path. From Brantford to Jerseyville the trail is owned and maintained by the Grand River Conservation Authority with the Jerseyville-Hamilton section similarly owned by The Hamilton Region Conservation Authority.
Beginning in Hamilton just north of the Chedoke Municipal Golf Course, the trail runs West over Ontario Highway 403, through Ainslie Wood and into the Dundas Valley Conservation Area. Parking and washroom facilities are available at the Dundas Valley Trail Centre, from the trail head. The path winds up the face of the Niagara Escarpment for , reaching the trail's peak elevation at the ruins of Summit Station on the boundary of the Hamilton Harbour and Grand River watersheds.
The trail then descends through farmland to Jerseyville, where another parking lot is located at kilometre 18.5. It continues in a nearly straight line for several kilometres before turning South, crossing under the 403 and passing another parking area at the point. The final run through Brantford to connect with the Gordon Glaves Memorial Pathway.
SC Johnson Trail
The SC Johnson Trail (or SC Johnson Rail Trail) follows another section of abandoned Lake Erie and Northern Railway right of way between Paris and Brantford. It connects to the Gordon Glaves Memorial Pathway in Brantford.
The trail opened in 1998, completing the network of off-road trails from Hamilton to Cambridge.
See also
Golden Horseshoe
List of rail trails
List of trails in Canada
External links
Conservation Hamilton Brochure
References
Transport in Cambridge, Ontario
Bike paths in the Regional Mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac%20%28Intel-based%29 | The Intel-based iMac is a discontinued series of Macintosh all-in-one desktop computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Inc. from 2006 to 2022. While sold, it was one of three desktop computers in the Macintosh lineup, serving as an all-in-one alternative to the Mac Mini, and sat below the performance range Mac Pro. It was sold alongside the Xeon-based iMac Pro from 2017 to 2021.
Pre-2009 iMac models featured either a white polycarbonate enclosure or an aluminum enclosure. The October 2009 iMac model featured a unibody aluminum enclosure, a version of which could had been seen on the latest models before the launch of the Apple silicon colorful iMacs. The iMacs released in October 2012 also featured a much thinner display, with the edge measuring just 5 mm.
The Intel-based iMac was succeeded by the Apple silicon iMac beginning in 2021 as part of the Mac transition to Apple silicon. On April 20, 2021, Apple discontinued the 21.5-inch Intel iMac with 4K Retina Display following the release of a 24-inch model based on the Apple M1 processor, and discontinued the remaining non-Retina models in October 2021. The 27-inch model was discontinued on March 8, 2022, following the announcement of the Mac Studio and 27-inch Apple Studio Display.
History
At the Macworld Conference and Expo on January 10, 2006, Steve Jobs announced that the new iMac would be the first Macintosh to use an Intel CPU, the Core Duo. The introduction of the new iMac along with the Intel-based MacBook Pro was the start of the Mac transition to Intel processors. In the following months, the other Mac products followed, including the introduction of the Intel Core-powered Mac mini on February 28, 2006, the MacBook consumer line of laptop computers on May 16, 2006, the Mac Pro on August 7, 2006, and the Xserve in 2007, completing the transition.
The features, price, and case design remained unchanged from the iMac G5. The processor speed, however, according to tests run by Apple using SPEC, was declared to be two to three times faster than the iMac G5.
On June 22, 2020, Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote included the announcement that future Macintosh computers would transition yet again to Apple's own ARM-based system-on-chips; in April 2021, Apple unveiled a redesigned iMac based on its M1 system-on-chip.
Polycarbonate (2006)
Alongside the MacBook Pro, the iMac Core Duo represents Apple's first computer to feature Intel processors instead of PowerPC processors. It retained the style, design, and features of the preceding iMac G5.
In early February 2006, Apple confirmed reports of video display problems on the new Intel-based iMacs. When playing video on Apple's Front Row media browser, some 20-inch iMacs (those built-to-order with upgraded video cards) showed random horizontal lines, ghosting, video tearing and other problems. The problem was fixed with a software update.
In early September 2006, Apple introduced a new version of the iMac including a Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM%20Nimbus | RM Nimbus was a range of personal computers from British company Research Machines (now RM Education) sold from 1985 until the early 1990s, after which the designation Nimbus was discontinued. The first of these computers, the RM Nimbus PC-186, was not IBM PC compatible, but its successors the PC-286 and PC-386 were. RM computers were predominantly sold to schools and colleges in the United Kingdom for use as LAN workstations in classrooms.
Models
PC-186
The RM Nimbus PC-186 was a 16-bit microcomputer introduced in 1985. It is one of a small number of computers based on the Intel 80186 processor, a version of the Intel 8086 (as used by the IBM PC) originally intended as a processor for embedded systems.
It ran MS-DOS 3.1 but was not IBM PC compatible. The PC-186 could run Windows versions up to and including Windows 3.0, but only in real mode, as protected mode was only available on 286 or higher processors.
Most PC-186 systems were used as workstations within a local area network and were supplied without a hard disk. The operating system was started from a floppy disk or via a remote boot ROM on its network interface card, connecting to the LAN's fileserver. Stand-alone workstations were rarer but available with either twin floppy drives or a 20Mbyte hard drive and single floppy drive.
I/O Connectors
Mouse - 9 pin D-Sub connector, sometimes confused as a serial port, it uses quadrature signalling
Keyboard - Earlier models - Proprietary keyboard port, Later models - PS/2 keyboard port
Video - 5 pin DIN plug with TTL RGB output compatible with BBC micro monitor connectors - modified CGA output
Parallel - Optional via expansion card - usually with BBC micro 'user port' alongside- both with ribbon pin connectors
Network -BNC connector - Zilog Z-NET, Ethernet expansion cards were available for later models - both allowed network boot
Piconet - a proprietary serial interface for connecting peripherals
Power - Standard IEC connector in and out for monitor supply
X Series: AX/VX
The RM Nimbus AX and VX models were launched in 1986 and used the 80286 (later the 80386) processor. They were fully IBM compatible, as were all subsequent RM computers. The AX and VX were offered for use as a network file server or as a high-end workstation. They employed either EGA or VGA graphics cards, and were equipped with an ESDI interface for a hard drive, as well as a 3½" floppy drive. By default they were equipped with a Zilog Z-Net interface card, but a second Ethernet card could be added alongside to allow both network interfaces to be used simultaneously, however, the two network interfaces were not able to be bridged. Expansion cards could be added to standard 8-bit and 16-bit ISA sockets, which were both on the motherboard, and on an attached expansion board which was supplied as standard.
M Series: PC-286 and PC-386
RM released PCs based on Intel 286 and 386 processors under the RM Nimbus name. The PC-286 and early PC-386 versions were termed the M Serie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Schlaff | Martin Schlaff (born 6 August 1953) is an Austrian businessman, networker and philanthropist. Since 2006, he is a major shareholder of RHI Magnesita. His net worth is estimated over €8 billion.
Career
Schlaff was born in Vienna, Austria, to Jewish refugees from World War II. He and his brother James took over the commercial firm Robert Placzek AG.
He was occupied in trade with East Germany before the German reunification. According to the German parliament, Schlaff was an unofficial informant of the Stasi. His codename was "Landgraf" and registration number "3886-86". The Stasi archives have files about him as early as 1982. Schlaff had several meetings with East German officials in 1982. Stasi documents describe how senior Stasi officers were impressed with Schlaff's "extensive holdings, his various companies, and his access to the needed American technology". According to German accusations, Schlaff supplied East Germany with goods that were embargoed by the West.
When the parliament of Germany investigated public funds that disappeared after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, it found out that East Germany (GDR) had transferred large amounts of money to Schlaff through accounts in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, in return for goods "under Western embargo". Supposedly, high-ranking Stasi officers continued their post-GDR careers in management positions in Schlaff's group of companies. For example, in 1990 Herbert Kohler, Stasi commander in Dresden, transferred 170 million marks to Schlaff for "harddisks" and months later went to work for him.
The investigations concluded that "Schlaff's empire of companies played a crucial role" in the Stasi attempts to secure the financial future of Stasi agents and keep the intelligence network alive.
Activities in Israel
In 1998 Schlaff opened a casino in Jericho in partnership with a company partly owned by Yasir Arafat. Named "The Oasis", it was aimed at Israelis, who could not gamble in Israel where gaming is not legal. The casino was closed during the Second Intifada.
According to later investigations, Schlaff had many meetings with Ariel Sharon. In 2002 Schlaff used his contacts with Sharon to help normalize the Austrian Federal Government's relations with Israel. The Israeli Government had recalled its ambassador from Vienna, after government participation of the FPÖ in 2000. A new Israeli ambassador was sent to Austria in 2004.
Journalist Gidi Weitz published several stories in Ha'aretz accusing Schlaff of corrupt and illegal activities, both financial and political, in several countries including Austria and Israel. Non of these accusations led to criminal indictments or verdicts, neither in Israel nor in Austria.
Mobile phone companies
In the first years of the century, he has purchased Bulgarian Mobiltel, and resold it after several years for big profit. Simular deals were thereafter executed in two other emerging markets, but with less profit. After restructuring the companies, the Serbian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXET-TV | DXET-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Metro Davao, Philippines, serving as the Mindanao flagship of the TV5 network. It is owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent; TV5 also provides certain services to One Sports outlet DXAN-TV (channel 29) under an airtime lease agreement with owner Nation Broadcasting Corporation. Both stations share studios and transmitters at TV5 Heights, Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City.
History
1962 – DXMT-TV Channel 5, the first broadcast in the whole Mindanao was launched by Associated Broadcasting Corporation until President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law was forced to shut-down in 1972.
July 8, 1993 – The station was reopened as the Associated Broadcasting Company along with the callsign as DXET-TV, transferred its frequency from Channel 5 to Channel 2, and opened their new state of the art studio in Shrine Hills, Matina.
December 9, 1994 – ABC TV stations acquired a new franchise to operate under Republic Act 7831 signed by President of the Philippines Fidel V. Ramos. In the same year, the station went on nationwide satellite broadcasting. In a phenomenal growth, ABC Davao earned its reputation as "The Fastest Growing Network" under new network executive Tina Monzon-Palma who served as Chief Operating Officer.
August 8, 2008 – The station aired a countdown to its re-launch for much of the next day until 19:00 PHT, when the network officially re-launched under its new name TV5.
2011 – TV5 Davao was relaunched and increased its transmitting power to 50,000 watts (259.2 kW ERP) that covers the whole Davao Region.
May 9, 2012 – TV5 Davao launched as an originating station with the 5-minute newscast Aksyon Alerto Dabaw.
May 5, 2014 – TV5 Davao launched its regional newscast Aksyon Dabaw with Mikey Aportadera and Gem Avancena-Arenas.
September 8, 2016 – Aksyon Dabaw (after 2 years) and TV5 Cebu's Aksyon Bisaya were cancelled due to cost-cutting measures by the network to sustain its day-by-day operations. Although the newscast was ended, the reporters and cameramen were remain employed and they will continue to give reports for Aksyon/Frontline Pilipinas newscast seen nationally on TV5 and for Radyo5. In the future, TV5 Davao is now downgraded to become a relay (satellite-selling) station from the flagship station in Manila DWET-TV Channel 5 effective September 11.
February 17, 2018 – as the recent changes within the network and in celebration of its 10th anniversary, TV5 Davao was relaunched as The 5 Network with a new logo and station ID entitled Get It on 5, whereas the TV on the northeastern quadrant of the logo has been dropped, making it more flexible for the other divisions to use it as part of their own identity.
January 13, 2019 – 5 Davao introduced a variation of the current numerical 5 logo, similar to the newly launched network, 5 Plus.
August 15, 2020 – 5 Davao was reverted to TV5 while retaining the 2019 numerical 5 logo.
June 28, 2021 – |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood%20Empire%20Food%20Bank | Redwood Empire Food Bank (REFB) is a food bank on the North Coast of California which belongs to the Feeding America network. Its mission is to end hunger in its community.
Founded in 1987, REFB is Sonoma County's largest hunger-relief organization, serving 133 charitable organizations, including emergency food pantries/closets, shelters and dining rooms, childcare centers/youth programs, group homes, and disaster relief agencies. Seniors, children, and working families come to food distributions seeking supplemental groceries.
REFB acquires food and distributes it through a network of charitable agencies and its own food assistance programs and also provides food to Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte Counties through smaller food banks. In addition, the REFB advocates for legislation to provide long-term solutions to hunger in its community.
Recipients
In 2018, The Redwood Empire Food Bank distributed the equivalent of 40 million meals, or 40,000 per day. Each year, the Redwood Empire Food Bank serves 82,000 people across five counties—Sonoma County, Lake County, Mendocino County, Humboldt County, and Del Norte County. A January 2010 report estimated that REFB was providing emergency food for over 110,000 different people annually, and that in any given week about 26,000 different people were receiving emergency food assistance. In late 2010, REFB was serving 78,000 monthly meals, an increase of more than 11 percent over 2009.
Operations
Food collection and distribution
The vast majority of Redwood Empire Food Bank's work is direct service. Approximately 70% of the food distributed through the food bank goes out through 300+ pop-up food distributions each month. The remaining food is distributed through the Agency Shopping Program, which provides food to 170+ member charities that serve people in need.
The food bank's 2007 holiday food drive set a goal to collect of food and $160,000.
Education
The Redwood Empire Food Bank addresses the needs of low-income seniors living with diabetes through the Diabetes Wellness program.
In 2012, REFB began implementing a three-year, $800,000 project, funded by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, to address type 2 diabetes. The Diabetes Wellness Project provides food and educational materials to individuals, and conducts screenings. Much of the project is being done in partnership with Sonoma County healthcare providers.
2013 expansion
In September 2011, Redwood Empire Food Bank purchased a 60,000-square-foot building near the Charles M. Schulz – Sonoma County Airport for $5 million. It opened the building after investing $2.5 million in renovations and improvements, including a 5,000-square-foot freezer and cooler, warehouse racking, truck docks and offices.
The new location also created a new "value marketplace" grocery store for low-income families, bringing dignity to the WIC and CalFresh shopping experience.
The building groundbreaking celebration was in October 2012. The new buil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Belegrin | Michelle Belegrin is an American actress and model, who starred as Andrea Zavatti on the MyNetworkTV serial Desire. She has also modeled, standing at 5 feet 7½ inches tall, for Marie Claire, ELLE and Fashion Quarterly. She appeared in the 2009 film, Blood and Bone, starring Michael Jai White.
Personal
Belegrin has lived all over California from Sacramento to Los Angeles. She obtained a degree from the University of California Santa Barbara.
Appearances
At the start of her career, Belegrin did several commercials for Honda, Panasonic and Bally's Total Fitness. She has appeared in many television series and movies, including CSI: Miami, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Kitchen Confidential, Fistful of Diamonds, Project Solitude, Potheads: The Movie, Red 71 and Blood and Bone.
References
External links
American television actresses
American film actresses
Female models from California
American telenovela actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRA | DXRA (783 AM) Radyo ni Juan is a radio station owned and operated by Rizal Memorial Colleges Broadcasting Corporation. It serves as the flagship station of the Radyo ni Juan network. The station's studio is located at Door 1C, Anda Corporate Center, F. Inigo St., Davao City, and its transmitter is located along Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City.
History
On August 27, 1987, DXRA was attacked by the New People's Army, in what became known as the DXRA Massacre, resulting in nine deaths.
In 2012, DXRA became part of the Radyo ni Juan network under the helm of the late broadcaster Dodong Solis.
On December 2, 2020, the station, along with most of Radyo ni Juan stations, went off the air due to financial problems.
References
Radio stations in Davao City
College radio stations in the Philippines
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Terrorism victims
Radio stations established in 1975 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving%20Babies | Saving Babies is an Australian medical documentary television series that screened on Network Ten from 15 February 2007 to 29 March 2007; airing seven episodes. The show was filmed at Sydney's Royal Hospital for Women and presented by former newsreader, Kim Watkins.
The show follows the stories of unwell newborn infants and their families as they go through numerous medical examinations and treatments. Each half-hour show follows three families and their stories while in the hospital. The program was broadcast on Thursday nights.
The shows presenter, Kim Watkins, has had her own experience with the Royal Hospital for Women after giving birth to premature twin girls.
Spin-Off
While the show did not eventually return for a second season, a spin-off series, Saving Kids, aired on Network Ten in 2008. Watkins did not reprise her role as host, with Damien Leith taking over.
References
External links
Network 10 original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts
Australian factual television series
Australian medical television series
2007 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CISL%20Research%20Data%20Archive | NCAR Research Data Archive archives data for atmospheric and geosciences research. The archive is maintained by the Data Support Section of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory] (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
The archive acquires, curates, preserves and disseminates an extensive list of over 700 data sets. Registration is free and open to the general public. Nearly all of the datasets are free to all registered users; a few are restricted to certain users (e.g. university researchers).
In addition, the catalog shows data sets available in these categories: atmospheric, oceanographic, geophysical, hydrology, gridded analysis and MM5 model input data. The archive also maintains climate model output products for use in assessment and impact studies. Model outputs came directly from the modellers or from the IPCC Data Distribution Center The archive also stores a number of source codes for the efficient handling and analysis of data.
NCAR RDA also provides data rescue services for any discipline for a fee.
External links
CISL Research Data Archive web site
Research organizations in the United States
Atmospheric sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPIC | UPIC (Unité Polyagogique Informatique CEMAMu) is a computerised musical composition tool, devised by the composer Iannis Xenakis. It was developed at the Centre d'Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales (CEMAMu) in Paris, and was completed in 1977. Xenakis used it on his subsequent piece Mycènes Alpha (1978) and two other works. It has also been used by composers such as Julio Estrada, (Eua´on (1980)), Jean-Claude Risset (on Saxatile (1992)), Jorge Antunes (Interlude de l'opéra Olga (1992)), François-Bernard Mâche (Hypérion (1981), Nocturne (1981), Tithon (1989), Moires (1994), Canopée (2003)), Takehito Shimazu (Illusions in Desolate Fields (1994)), Gérard Pape (Le Fleuve du Désir III (1994)), and Curtis Roads (Purity (1994) and Sonal Atoms (1998)). Aphex Twin implies that he uses UPIC in an interview where he is asked what software he uses and he replies that, "UPIC by Xenakis puts almost everything else to shame [and] it's under 1mb".
Physically, the UPIC is a digitising tablet linked to a computer, which has a vector display. Its functionality is similar to that of the later Fairlight CMI, in that the user draws waveforms and volume envelopes on the tablet, which are rendered by the computer. Once the waveforms have been stored, the user can compose with them by drawing "compositions" on the tablet, with the X-axis representing time, and the Y-axis representing pitch. The compositions can be stretched in duration from a few seconds to an hour. They can also be transposed, reversed, inverted, and subject to a number of algorithmic transformations. The system allows for real time performance by moving the stylus across the tablet.
The UPIC system has subsequently been expanded to allow for digitally sampled waveforms as source material, rather than purely synthesised tones. In 2005, Mode Records of New York released a 2-CD compilation of works composed with the UPIC at CCMIX, entitled Xenakis, UPIC, Continuum, which provides an overview of the machine's sonic possibilities.
There were a couple of attempts to reproduce the UPIC system using commodity hardware, for instance Iannix, HighC, UPISketch. IanniX, which has been sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, is a graphical open-source sequencer which syncs via Open Sound Control events and curves to a real-time environment (like Pure Data, SuperCollider, Csound, MaxMSP and openFrameworks among others). For its part, HighC is currently used as a pedagogical tool in classes ranging from early teens to Master classes in composition, while some contemporary composers, such as George Hatzimichelakis have made it part of their toolset.
Another pedagogical tool, UPISketch, was inspired by the UPIC. The first version, released in 2018, runs on OSX and iOS. It was made possible thanks to a partnership between the Centre Iannis Xenakis and the European University of Cyprus, with funding from the Interfaces Project.
References
Further reading
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut, Patrick G. T. Heal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZYM | KZYM (1230 AM) is an American radio station broadcasting from Joplin, Missouri.
Programming
AM 1230 The Talker features: Glenn Beck, Markley Van Camp and Robbins, Dave Ramsey, Jesse Kelly, and At Home with Gary Sullivan.
KZYM also features news from SRN (Salem Radio Network) at the top and bottom of the hour. Salem provides national news with a Christian view.
KZYM broadcasts St. Louis Cardinals and Missouri Southern State University football, men's and women's basketball games. KZYM also airs Joplin High football and basketball.
External links
FCC History Cards for KZYM
ZYM
News and talk radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%203D%20graphics%20libraries | 3D graphics have become so popular, particularly in video games, that specialized APIs (application programming interfaces) have been created to ease the processes in all stages of computer graphics generation. These APIs have also proved vital to computer graphics hardware manufacturers, as they provide a way for programmers to access the hardware in an abstract way, while still taking advantage of the special hardware of any specific graphics card.
The first 3D graphics framework was probably Core, published by the ACM in 1977.
Low-level 3D API
These APIs for 3D computer graphics are particularly popular:
ANGLE, web browsers graphics engine, a cross-platform translator of OpenGL ES calls to DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API calls.
Direct3D (a subset of DirectX)
Glide a defunct 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive.
Mantle developed by AMD.
Metal developed by Apple.
OpenGL and the OpenGL Shading Language
OpenGL ES 3D API for embedded devices.
OptiX 7.0 and Latest developed by NVIDIA.
LibGCM
QuickDraw 3D developed by Apple Computer starting in 1995, abandoned in 1998.
Vulkan
Web-based API
WebGL is a JavaScript interface for OpenGL ES API, promoted by Khronos.
WebGPU an under-development web standard and JavaScript API for accelerated graphics and compute.
High-level 3D API
There are also higher-level 3D scene-graph APIs which provide additional functionality on top of the lower-level rendering API. Such libraries under active development include:
BGFX
ClanLib
Crystal Space
HOOPS 3D Graphics System
Horde3D
Irrlicht Engine
Java 3D
Java FX
JMonkey Engine
JT Open from Siemens Digital Industries Software
magnum
Mobile 3D Graphics API (M3G; JSR-184)
OGRE
OpenGL Performer
OpenSceneGraph (now obsolete OSG.JS for WebPlatforms)
OpenSG
QSDK
RAMSES
RenderWare
Panda3D
Zea Engine
Unigine
VTK
JavaScript-based engines
There is more interest in web browser based high-level API for 3D graphics engines. Some are:
A-Frame
Blend4Web
CopperLicht
O3D
StormEngineC
Three.js
Babylon.js
Verge3D
X3DOM
Zea Engine
Flash-based engines
Stage3D in the 3D library in Flash version 11 and later
Papervision3D and its fork Away3D for Flash
See also
Graphics library
Game engine
3D computer graphics software
Computing-related lists
Lists of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Radio%203%20Sessions | CBC Radio 3 Sessions is a Canadian radio program, which airs on the satellite radio network CBC Radio 3. Hosted by Tariq Hussain, the program airs in-studio sessions by Canadian musicians in the Radio 3 studios, including both live song performances and interview segments. Two artists are profiled in each episode, each of which performs for half an hour.
Some of the sessions predate Radio 3's presence as a radio network, dating back to its time as a webcast provider. One of its projects during that era was Just Concerts, a website which aired both studio sessions and recordings of regular concerts. The studio sessions began to air as a radio program in February 2007.
The program airs at 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET) on Saturdays, midnight PT (3 a.m. ET) on Sundays and 4 a.m. PT (7 a.m. ET) on Mondays. For the first four episodes, the Sunday time slot was also part of the network's simulcast on CBC Radio 2. The program is also available as streaming audio from CBC Radio 3's website, and has also aired as a television series on the CBC's digital bold network.
Podcast
On September 12, 2007, CBC Radio 3 introduced the CBC Radio 3 Sessions podcast, which allows anyone to download the program onto their computer or digital audio player. Each podcast session features a single artist.
Sirius Satellite Sessions Episodes
Shout Out Out Out Out, We Are Wolves
Hot Hot Heat, Shapes and Sizes
Destroyer, The FemBots
Jason Collett, Christine Fellows
Dragon Fli Empire, The Phonograff
Immaculate Machine, The Meligrove Band
Joel Plaskett, Cuff the Duke
Shotgun & Jaybird, Blood Meridian
Tokyo Police Club, You Say Party! We Say Die!
The Acorn, Precious Fathers
The Flatliners, The Black Halos
Vailhalen, The Blood Lines
The Inflation Kills, Sylvie
Malajube, Novillero
Les Georges Leningrad, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Pony Up, The Hot Springs
The Sadies, The Buttless Chaps
Wintersleep, Bend Sinister
Pride Tiger, Raising the Fawn
The Constantines, Ladyhawk
Hylozoists, The Old Soul
Matt Mays, Matthew Barber
The Golden Dogs, Two Hours Traffic
Jill Barber, Amy Millan
Henri Fabergé and the Adorables, The Bicycles
Champion, Telefuzz
Podcast Sessions Episodes
See also
Bold Concert Series
East Coast Sessions
References
CBC Radio 3 programs
2007 radio programme debuts
Canadian music radio programs
2000s Canadian music television series
2000s Canadian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogong | Hogong was a minister of Silla in the age of nation-building. It is recorded that he was originally from the Wa people of Japan, though his family name or clan name was unknown to the compiler of the Historical Records of the Three Kingdoms. He was called Hogong (meaning "Duke Bottle Gourd") because he was wearing one or more bottle gourds on his waist when he first came across the sea. He was a very important person in initial Silla because he appeared in stories of primogenitors of all royal families.
In 20 BC, Hyeokgeose of Silla (박혁거세) dispatched him to Mahan confederacy. The king of Mahan scolded him on account of the fact that Silla had not sent tribute, but Hogong criticized the king's impoliteness with fortitude. The king became angry at Hogong and tried to kill him, but surrounding subordinates stopped the king, and he was permitted his homecoming.
In 58, he assumed the position of the minister's first rank.
In 65, he discovered Kim Alji, who would become primogenitor of the Kim royal clan of Silla, in the forest of Gyerim.
Popular culture
Portrayed by Lee Byung-joon in the 2016-2017 KBS2 TV series Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth.
References
History of Korea
Silla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20%28British%20TV%20series%29 | Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance. The series also starred Hermione Norris, Celia Imrie, Karl Davies, Phyllida Law and Tony Slattery.
The first series of six one-hour episodes was aired in 2007 and averaged six million viewers per week. Despite a mid-series ratings dip, the executive chairman of ITV praised the programme and ordered a second series, which was filmed in 2007 and broadcast in January and February 2008. Filming on the third series ran from July to September 2008 for broadcast from 7 June 2009.
Stephen Fry announced in October 2009 that ITV was cancelling the series, a fact later confirmed by the channel, which said that given tighter budgets, more expensive productions were being cut.
Series synopses
The series follows Peter Kingdom, a small-town solicitor whose work revolves around cases brought by the eclectic and eccentric populace of Market Shipborough. The series retains a largely episodic format, where self-contained plots play out before the hour concludes, though a continuing storyline concerns the mysterious disappearance of Simon Kingdom, Peter's half-brother. The first episode reveals that he vanished at sea six months previously and that everybody who knew him (including Peter) assumed that he committed suicide. Each week there are further indications that he did not die, culminating in episode six when it is revealed that he had a relationship with a woman who become pregnant with his child after he had supposedly died. In the first series we are also introduced to Peter's half-sister, Beatrice, who slowly becomes an integral character in the series.
Simon returns in the second series and is charged with faking his own death. He is released from custody after Lyle, the trainee solicitor in Peter's practice, decides to use Simon's own money (possibly obtained illegally by Simon) to bail him, after Simon reveals he was actually attempting suicide. Beatrice learns that she is pregnant and she leaves Market Shipborough, until the baby is born in the last episode of the series. Lyle threatens to leave Kingdom & Kingdom when his mentor Peter begins to neglect him, but he changes his mind when Peter makes him a partner. In the final episode, a torrential storm hits Market Shipborough, flooding much of the town. While searching for his brother, who drove off the previous night, Peter encounters something unseen by the audience, which is revealed to be Simon's dead body in Series 3.
Series 3 focuses more on Peter's life, Beatrice and her new baby (Petra), Lyle, and Gloria, the receptionist. Toward the end of the series Peter begins to suffer from small blackouts. He has some minor tests done to find out the cause of the problem. It is revealed in the last ep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succinct%20data%20structure | In computer science, a succinct data structure is a data structure which uses an amount of space that is "close" to the information-theoretic lower bound, but (unlike other compressed representations) still allows for efficient query operations. The concept was originally introduced by Jacobson to encode bit vectors, (unlabeled) trees, and planar graphs. Unlike general lossless data compression algorithms, succinct data structures retain the ability to use them in-place, without decompressing them first. A related notion is that of a compressed data structure, insofar as the size of the stored or encoded data similarly depends upon the specific content of the data itself.
Suppose that is the information-theoretical optimal number of bits needed to store some data. A representation of this data is called:
implicit if it takes bits of space,
succinct if it takes bits of space, and
compact if it takes bits of space.
For example, a data structure that uses bits of storage is compact, bits is succinct, bits is also succinct, and bits is implicit.
Implicit structures are thus usually reduced to storing information using some permutation of the input data; the most well-known example of this is the heap.
Succinct indexable dictionaries
Succinct indexable dictionaries, also called rank/select dictionaries, form the basis of a number of succinct representation techniques, including binary trees, -ary trees and multisets, as well as suffix trees and arrays. The basic problem is to store a subset of a universe , usually represented as a bit array where iff An indexable dictionary supports the usual methods on dictionaries (queries, and insertions/deletions in the dynamic case) as well as the following operations:
for .
In other words, returns the number of elements equal to up to position while returns the position of the -th occurrence of .
There is a simple representation which uses bits of storage space (the original bit array and an auxiliary structure) and supports rank and select in constant time. It uses an idea similar to that for range-minimum queries; there are a constant number of recursions before stopping at a subproblem of a limited size. The bit array is partitioned into large blocks of size bits and small blocks of size bits. For each large block, the rank of its first bit is stored in a separate table ; each such entry takes bits for a total of bits of storage. Within a large block, another directory stores the rank of each of the small blocks it contains. The difference here is that it only needs bits for each entry, since only the differences from the rank of the first bit in the containing large block need to be stored. Thus, this table takes a total of bits. A lookup table can then be used that stores the answer to every possible rank query on a bit string of length for ; this requires bits of storage space. Thus, since each of these auxiliary tables take space, this data structure supports ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%208-bit%20computer%20peripherals | Atari 8-bit computer peripherals include floppy drives, printers, modems, and video game controllers for Atari's 8-bit computer family, which includes the 400/800, XL, XE, and XEGS.
Because the Atari 400/800 8-bit computers were bundled with an RF modulator, stringent FCC regulations limiting radio emissions applied. Consequently, the Atari 400/800 systems internal construction use large metal frames as Faraday cages to prevent emissions. This prevents the use of internal cards to add connections for peripherals.
To permit easy expansion, Atari developed the SIO (Serial Input/Output) bus. This bus daisy chains together all Atari peripherals into a single string. The Atari computer family was designed to be easy for novice users to expand, with one universal connector plug. Peripherals have their own IDs and can deliver downloadable drivers to the computer during the boot process. However, the additional electronics in these "intelligent" peripherals made them cost more than the "dumb" devices for other systems.
List of peripherals
The names and the styling of Atari's 8-bit peripherals generally match the contemporary computer family. Thus, they can be divided into one of three groups: the 400/800 era (4xx/8xx), the XL era (10xx), and the XE era (beginning with 'X'). The XL-era naming reflects Atari's original intention to launch an "Atari 1000" line. These are superficial issues and the majority of peripherals are compatible with any 8-bit Atari computer.
Atari failed to release a large selection of machines and peripherals that were otherwise completed.
400/800 era (1979-1982)
410 Program Recorder - a tape drive, 600 bit/s on compact cassettes
There are several variants of the 410. Early models were sizeable due largely to a much bigger speaker area at the back, and had square cornered buttons. Later versions were smaller and had buttons that were rounded off on the front.
The 410 used stereo with the data recorded on one track and the other track holding audio that could be fed through the 400 or 800's sound output (as demonstrated by the language courses). The tape could also be programmatically stopped and started, provided the 'Play' button was engaged.
810 Disk Drive - a 5¼" floppy disk drive, single-density single-sided, 90 KB
Pre-1982 drives "have notoriously poor speed regulation", ANALOG Computing reported in 1983; unlike other companies, "ATARI did not begin incorporating a reliable separator into the 810 until early 1982".
820 40-Column Printer - dot matrix on adding machine paper
822 Thermal Printer - 40-column thermal on slightly wider paper
825 80-Column Printer - dot matrix, used the Centronics interface so required an 850 (repackaged Centronics 737)
830 Acoustic Modem - a 300-baud modem, using an acoustic coupler, used RS-232 so required an 850 (relabelled Novation CAT)
835 Direct Connect Modem - a 300-baud modem, direct connect, basic Hayes compatible with SIO interface
850 Interface Module - include |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20protocol | A routing protocol specifies how routers communicate with each other to distribute information that enables them to select paths between nodes on a computer network. Routers perform the traffic directing functions on the Internet; data packets are forwarded through the networks of the internet from router to router until they reach their destination computer. Routing algorithms determine the specific choice of route. Each router has a prior knowledge only of networks attached to it directly. A routing protocol shares this information first among immediate neighbors, and then throughout the network. This way, routers gain knowledge of the topology of the network. The ability of routing protocols to dynamically adjust to changing conditions such as disabled connections and components and route data around obstructions is what gives the Internet its fault tolerance and high availability.
The specific characteristics of routing protocols include the manner in which they avoid routing loops, the manner in which they select preferred routes, using information about hop costs, the time they require to reach routing convergence, their scalability, and other factors such as relay multiplexing and cloud access framework parameters. Certain additional characteristics such as multilayer interfacing may also be employed as a means of distributing uncompromised networking gateways to authorized ports. This has the added benefit of preventing issues with routing protocol loops.
Many routing protocols are defined in technical standards documents called RFCs.
Types
Although there are many types of routing protocols, three major classes are in widespread use on IP networks:
Interior gateway protocols type 1, link-state routing protocols, such as OSPF and IS-IS
Interior gateway protocols type 2, distance-vector routing protocols, such as Routing Information Protocol, RIPv2, IGRP.
Exterior gateway protocols are routing protocols used on the Internet for exchanging routing information between Autonomous Systems, such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), a path-vector routing protocol. Exterior gateway protocols should not be confused with Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), an obsolete routing protocol.
OSI layer designation
Routing protocols, according to the OSI routing framework, are layer management protocols for the network layer, regardless of their transport mechanism:
IS-IS runs on the data link layer (Layer 2)
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is encapsulated in IP, but runs only on the IPv4 subnet, while the IPv6 version runs on the link using only link-local addressing.
IGRP, and EIGRP are directly encapsulated in IP. EIGRP uses its own reliable transmission mechanism, while IGRP assumed an unreliable transport.
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) runs over the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Version 1 operates in broadcast mode, while version 2 uses multicast addressing.
BGP runs over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
Interior gateway protoc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMUcam | A CMUcam is a low cost computer vision device intended for robotics research. CMUcams consist of a small video camera and a microcontroller with a serial interface. While other digital cameras typically use a much higher bandwidth connector, the CMUcam's lightweight interface allows it to be accessed by microcontrollers. More importantly, the on-board microprocessor supports simple image processing and color blob tracking, making rudimentary computer vision capable in systems that would previously have far too little power to do such a thing. It has been used in past years by the high-school FIRST Robotics Competition as a way of letting participants' robots track field elements and navigate autonomously. The CMUcam also has an extremely small form factor. For these reasons, it is relatively popular for making small, mobile robots.
The original design was originally made by Carnegie Mellon University, who has licensed it to various manufacturers.
Current Version
Pixy2 is the latest in the line of CMUcam sensors. It adds line tracking capability and an onboard light source to the previous CMUcam5, aka original Pixy. These sensors are produced in collaboration with Charmed Labs in Austin, TX.
External links
Robotics hardware
Image sensor technology in computer vision
Lua (programming language)-scriptable hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O%20scheduling | Input/output (I/O) scheduling is the method that computer operating systems use to decide in which order I/O operations will be submitted to storage volumes. I/O scheduling is sometimes called disk scheduling.
Purpose
I/O scheduling usually has to work with hard disk drives that have long access times for requests placed far away from the current position of the disk head (this operation is called a seek). To minimize the effect this has on system performance, most I/O schedulers implement a variant of the elevator algorithm that reorders the incoming randomly ordered requests so the associated data would be accessed with minimal head movement.
I/O schedulers can have many purposes depending on the goals; common purposes include the following
To minimize time wasted by hard disk seeks
To prioritize a certain processes' I/O requests
To give a share of the disk bandwidth to each running process
To guarantee that certain requests will be issued before a particular deadline
Disciplines
Common scheduling disciplines include the following:
Random scheduling (RSS)
First In, First Out (FIFO), also known as First Come First Served (FCFS)
Last In, First Out (LIFO)
Shortest seek first, also known as Shortest Seek / Service Time First (SSTF)
Elevator algorithm, also known as SCAN (including its variants, C-SCAN, LOOK, and C-LOOK)
N-Step-SCAN SCAN of N records at a time
FSCAN, N-Step-SCAN where N equals queue size at start of the SCAN cycle
Budget Fair Queueing (BFQ) scheduler on Linux
Completely Fair Queuing (CFQ) scheduler on Linux
Anticipatory scheduling
Noop scheduler
Deadline scheduler
mClock scheduler
Kyber
NONE (used for NVM Express drives)
mq-deadline (used for SSD SATA drives)
cfq bfq and bfq-mq (used for HDD drives)
See also
Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ)
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
References
Further reading
Linux I/O schedulers, from Ubuntu Wiki
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau. Arpaci-Dusseau Books, 2014. Relevant chapter: Hard Disk Drives
Love, R. (2005). Linux Kernel Development, Novell Press.
Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, seventh edition, by William Stallings.
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20ravine%20system | The Toronto ravine system is a distinctive feature of the city's geography, consisting of a network of deep ravines, which forms a large urban forest that runs through most of Toronto. The ravine system is the largest in any city in the world, with the Ravine and Natural Feature Protection Bylaw protecting approximately of public and privately-owned land. The ravine system has been presented as a central characteristic of the city, with the size of the ravine system leading Toronto to be described as "a city within a park".
The ravine system began to take shape approximately 12,000 years ago at the end of the Last Glacial Period when the glaciers that once covered Toronto retreated northeast and left valleys and rivers that eventually formed deep ravines. Due to the topography of the ravine system, limited urban development occurred within it until the mid-19th century. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the ravine system underwent a number of changes and saw several infrastructure developments built within it. Limited development in the ravine system continued until Hurricane Hazel passed through Toronto in 1954, when the destruction caused by the hurricane resulted in the cessation of almost all major developments in the ravine system. The Toronto ravine system remains largely undeveloped, with most of its public lands having been designated as parkland.
More than two-thirds of the publicly owned portions of the ravine system are made up of forests, with the other portions being beaches, meadows, open water, successional lands, and wetlands. Although large portions of the ravine system remain undeveloped, parts of the ravine system are used for flood management, carbon sequestration, and recreational purposes by the city. In addition to its human uses, the ravine system also serves as a habitat and wildlife corridor for a large number of animals.
Origin
The Toronto ravine system originated approximately 12,000 years ago at the end of the Last Glacial Period, with rivers and valleys being formed in the wake of the retreating glaciers and the compressed land it left. Meltwater from the glacial deposit at the Oak Ridges Moraine, situated north of the city, flowed southeast towards Glacial Lake Iroquois, carving through nearly of soil, alluvial soft sand, gravel, and clay till to form the ravine valleys. Most of the meltwater flowed southeast along shallow ice-scrapped depressions towards the glacial lake, creating small ponds north of Toronto. However, the early Don and Humber rivers are notable exceptions, with these waterways flowing along the compacted channels of the former Laurentian River System, an ancient river system that was scoured and buried during the Last Glacial Period.
After the glacial ice had retreated north of the St. Lawrence Valley approximately 9,000 years ago, the water level of glacial Lake Iroquois began to recede. The drop in water levels saw new waterways formed as the water meandered through the form |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCDATA | Parsed Character Data (PCDATA) is a data definition that originated in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and is used also in Extensible Markup Language (XML) Document Type Definition (DTD) to designate mixed content XML elements.
Example
The following sender-element could be part of an XML-document:
<sender>Anton Smith</sender>
The string "Anton Smith" would be considered as parsed character data.
When declaring document elements. An element declaration employing the #PCDATA content model value does not allow for child elements.
See also
CDATA
References
XML |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contention%20ratio | In computer networking, the contention ratio is the ratio of the potential maximum demand to the actual bandwidth. The higher the contention ratio, the greater the number of users that may be trying to use the actual bandwidth at any one time and, therefore, the lower the effective bandwidth offered, especially at peak times. A contended service is a service which offers the users of the network a minimum statistically guaranteed contention ratio, while typically offering peaks of usage of up to the maximum bandwidth supplied to the user. Contended services are usually much cheaper to provide than uncontended services, although they only reduce the backbone traffic costs for the users, and do not reduce the costs of providing and maintaining equipment for connecting to the network.
Examples by country
In the United Kingdom, a Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line (RADSL) connection used to be marketed with a contention ratio between 20:1 and 50:1 within the British Telecom network, meaning that 20 to 50 subscribers, each assigned or sold a bandwidth of up to 8 Mbit/s for instance, may be sharing 8 Mbit/s of downlink bandwidth. With the advent of ADSL2+ (up to 20 Mbit/s service, though in theory, ADSL2+ provides up to 24 Mbit/s), FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) offering 40 Mbit/s services and even FTTP (Fibre to the Premises) offering 100 Mbit/s, BT no longer work on "contention ratio" as a planning rule.
In the United States and on satellite internet connections, the contention ratio is often higher, and other formulas are used, such as counting only those users who are actually online at a particular time. It is also less often divulged by internet service providers elsewhere than it is in the UK. The connection speed for each user will therefore differ depending on the number of computers using the uplink connection at the same time because the uplink (where all the low bandwidth connections join) will only handle the speed that has been implemented on that line.
Issues
One of the issues with a stated contention ratio is that it is not, on its own, adequate for comparing services. There is a huge difference between 1000 users each on a 2Mbit/s service sharing a 40 Mbit/s pipe, and 50 users each on a 2 Mbit/s service sharing a 2 Mbit/s pipe. In the latter case two users trying to download at the same time means each get 50% of the speed. When there are 1000 users it would take 20 users using their entire 2Mbit/s link at the same time to show any congestion. However, both of these would be quoted as 50:1 contention.
If there are a small number of users of a contended service, then the peaks and troughs in usage will be very visible to each user, but if the same contention ratio applies to a large number of users then the probability of being affected by the contention can be much smaller. In telephony, 20 users each likely to make a call 10% of the time need 8 lines to ensure that there is less than 0.1% chance of being blocked. With 200 users, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Good%20Times%20episodes | The sitcom series Good Times, which originally aired on CBS from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979, has 133 episodes, three of which were not shown during the original network run but turned up in the syndication package.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1974)
Season 2 (1974–1975)
Season 3 (1975–1976)
Season 4 (1976–1977)
Season 5 (1977–1978)
Season 6 (1978–1979)
References
External links
Good Times |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%208-bit%20family%20software | Many games, utilities, and educational programs were available for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. Atari, Inc. was primarily the publisher following the launch of the Atari 400/800 in 1979, then increasingly by third parties. Atari also distributed "user written" software through the Atari Program Exchange from 1981 to 1984. After APX folded, many titles were picked up by Antic Software.
Programming languages
Assembly language
Atari, Inc. published two assemblers. The Atari Assembler Editor cartridge is a friendlier, integrated development environment using line numbers for editing source code similar to Atari BASIC. The professionally targeted Atari Macro Assembler shipped at a higher price on a copy protected disk without editor or debugger. Third-party assemblers include SynAssembler from Synapse Software and MAE (Macro Assembler Editor) from Eastern House.
Optimized Systems Software published an enhanced disk-based assembler mimicking the structure of Atari's Assembler Editor as EASMD (Editor/Assembler/Debug). It followed that with MAC/65 first on disk with BUG/65 as a companion product, then as a 16KB bank-switched cartridge. MAC/65 tokenizes lines of code as they are entered and has much faster assembly times than Atari's products.
Dunion's Debugging Tool (or DDT) by Jim Dunion is a machine language debugger originally sold through the Atari Program Exchange. A reduced version is included in the cartridge version of MAC/65. Atari magazine ANALOG Computing published the machine language monitor H:BUG as a type-in listing, followed by BBK Monitor.
BASIC
Atari shipped Atari BASIC with all their machines either as a cartridge or in ROM. It also sold Atari Microsoft BASIC on disk. Optimized Systems Software created a series of enhanced BASIC interpreters: BASIC A+, BASIC XL, BASIC XE. Commercial BASIC compilers for Atari BASIC were available: ABC (Monarch Data Systems, 1982), MMG BASIC Compiler (1984), Advan BASIC (1985). The freeware Turbo-BASIC XL compiler, released in 1985, was popular in the later years of the Atari 8-bit line.
In 1984, ANALOG Computing published Minicomp, a compiler that generates machine code from a very limited subset of Atari BASIC statements.
Pascal
Atari's own Atari Pascal requires two disk drives and was relegated to the Atari Program Exchange instead of the official product line. Later options were Draper Pascal (1983), Kyan Pascal (1986), and CLSN Pascal (1989).
Forth
Atari 8-bit Forths include fig-Forth, Extended fig-Forth (Atari Program Exchange), ES-Forth, QS Forth, and ValFORTH. The animated in-store demo to promote the 400/800 line was written with Atari's internal "Coin-Op Forth" implementation.
Other
Action! is an ALGOL 68-like procedural programming language on cartridge with an integrated compiler and full-screen text editor. The language is designed for quick compile times and to generate efficient 6502 machine code.
Deep Blue C is a port of Ron Cain's Small-C compiler. It was sold th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell%20School%20District%20%28Allegheny%20County%2C%20Pennsylvania%29 | Cornell School District is a diminutive, suburban public school district in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses approximately 2 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 7,363. In 2009, the district residents' per capita income was $17,935, while the median family income was $41,497. It serves students in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Coraopolis and Neville Township.
Cornell School District operates 2 schools: Cornell Elementary (K-6) and Cornell High School which serves 7-12th grade. In 2010 the high school and junior high school were combined for administration purposes. Cornell School District Educational Center is located on one campus in Coraopolis with separate wings for elementary and secondary instruction. The climate-controlled building includes a gymnasium, auditorium, and pool. Separate libraries fulfill the different needs of elementary and secondary students. The elementary and secondary cafeterias serve both breakfast and lunch.
The professional staff has an average of 9 years teaching experience, and 40 percent of the teachers have advanced degrees. The district's class sizes average about 20 students and a staff/pupil ratio of 14 to one.
Extracurriculars
The district offers a variety of clubs, activities and sports.
Athletics
The interscholastic athletic program provides high-level competition in both team and individual sports. Interscholastic sports are those in which students compete against teams or individuals from other school districts. Athletic activities are offered at the junior high school, 9th grade, junior varsity, and varsity levels. Some sports do not offer competition in all four levels.
Boys: Baseball, Basketball, Cross-Country, Football, Golf, Swimming, Track, and Soccer.
Girls: Basketball, Cross-Country, Golf, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Track, and Volleyball.
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (P.I.A.A.) governs high school interscholastic sports programs in Pennsylvania. As a member the district, follows the policies and regulations formulated by the association. Additional information regarding the athletic program is available from the athletic director.
Activities and clubs
Students are offered a number of extracurricular experiences. Students can participate in the band beginning in seventh grade. Other activities include a student newspaper, yearbook, Key Club, National Honor Society, junior high and high school student councils, and class plays.
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20110722190852/http://www.cornell.k12.pa.us/444375124132227/site/default.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/20081206021707/http://www.cornell.k12.pa.us/cornell/site/default.asp
External links
School districts established in 1972
School districts in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Education in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
1972 establishments in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madre%20Luna | Madre Luna (Mother Moon) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series, also known as Grains of Love, debuted on July 2, 2007. Veteran telenovela writer Julio Jiménez developed the story as a vehicle for star Amparo Grisales. The show scored a 35 percent share of the Colombian audience during the summer of 2007. During November 2007, it averaged 571,000 core adult (ages 18–49) viewers.
Luna's final episode aired Monday, January 28, 2008.
Story
This romantic melodrama features Alejandra Aguirre (Amparo Grisales), a gorgeous, tenacious woman with an amazingly well-preserved body who grows rice in the rural town of Castellón—and hides a deep, shocking secret. She is a 50-year-old woman with great passion, sensuality and splendor. Her self-willed intensity puts her in the middle of a rivalry between Leonardo Cisneros (Gabriel Porras) and his handsome, daring son Ángel (Michel Brown). Both dashing men want to possess this vivacious heroine.
Leonardo is Alejandra's old flame, who gave her two energetic children, Valentin and Demetrio. He reappears in her life after many years of absence and revives the strong feelings which she thought had died long ago. This turns her whole life upside down, forcing her to face her past.
Years before, Leonardo met Alejandra during a business trip and they fell in love. He never told his unsuspecting lover that he had been married to his cruel, calculating wife Flavia (Mónica Dionne), who is the mother of his son Ángel, for three years. Instead, he chose to live a double life of deception.
Not knowing the truth, Alejandra discovered that she was pregnant. When she finally discovered Leonardo's deception, she broke off the relationship. She chose to keep her silence rather than risk hurting his family. While she accepts a plot of land in Castellón from Leonardo, she avoids him for years before serendipity brings them back together.
Alejandra's reappearance sends a jolt of passion through Leonardo's heart. This also raises hatred and envy in vengeful people who want Alejandra and her children destroyed. These dangerous enemies include Doña Trinidad Zapata (Saby Kamalich), Flavia's tyrannical mother, and the villainous Tirso Reinoso (Paulo Quevedo), who oversees the Cisneros property, along with the scheming Commandante Veneno ("Captain Venom") (Mauricio Aspe), who leads a group of thugs called the Sierra Brigade.
Meanwhile, the younger generation faces its own fight for love, companionship and fulfillment. Leonardo's son Angel falls for Alejandra, knowing nothing of her forbidden secrets. Despite the enormous age difference, Angel becomes so obsessed that he tries to take her by force. This provokes Alejandra's strong desire to stand up against anyone who would abuse her or her children.
Leonardo's other sons are also adults with their own conflicts. Valentin now works on the rice farm and Demetrio attends |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20loading | Dynamic loading is a mechanism by which a computer program can, at run time, load a library (or other binary) into memory, retrieve the addresses of functions and variables contained in the library, execute those functions or access those variables, and unload the library from memory. It is one of the 3 mechanisms by which a computer program can use some other software; the other two are static linking and dynamic linking. Unlike static linking and dynamic linking, dynamic loading allows a computer program to start up in the absence of these libraries, to discover available libraries, and to potentially gain additional functionality.
History
Dynamic loading was a common technique for IBM's operating systems for System/360 such as OS/360, particularly for I/O subroutines, and for COBOL and PL/I runtime libraries, and continues to be used in IBM's operating systems for z/Architecture, such as z/OS. As far as the application programmer is concerned, the loading is largely transparent, since it is mostly handled by the operating system (or its I/O subsystem). The main advantages are:
Fixes (patches) to the subsystems fixed all programs at once, without the need to relink them
Libraries could be protected from unauthorized modification
IBM's strategic transaction processing system, CICS (1970s onwards) uses dynamic loading extensively both for its kernel and for normal application program loading. Corrections to application programs could be made offline and new copies of changed programs loaded dynamically without needing to restart CICS (which can, and frequently does, run 24/7).
Shared libraries were added to Unix in the 1980s, but initially without the ability to let a program load additional libraries after startup.
Uses
Dynamic loading is most frequently used in implementing software plugins. For example, the Apache Web Server's *.dso "dynamic shared object" plugin files are libraries which are loaded at runtime with dynamic loading. Dynamic loading is also used in implementing computer programs where multiple different libraries may supply the requisite functionality and where the user has the option to select which library or libraries to provide.
In C/C++
Not all systems support dynamic loading. UNIX-like operating systems such as macOS, Linux, and Solaris provide dynamic loading with the C programming language "dl" library. The Windows operating system provides dynamic loading through the Windows API.
Summary
Loading the library
Loading the library is accomplished with LoadLibrary or LoadLibraryEx on Windows and with dlopen on UNIX-like operating systems. Examples follow:
Most UNIX-like operating systems (Solaris, Linux, *BSD, etc.)
void* sdl_library = dlopen("libSDL.so", RTLD_LAZY);
if (sdl_library == NULL) {
// report error ...
} else {
// use the result in a call to dlsym
}
macOS
As a UNIX library:
void* sdl_library = dlopen("libSDL.dylib", RTLD_LAZY);
if (sdl_library == NULL) {
// report error ...
} else {
// us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung%20Laung%20Liu | Chung Laung Liu (; 1934 – 7 November 2020), also known as David Liu or C. L. Liu, was a Taiwanese computer scientist. Born in Guangzhou, he spent his childhood in Macau. He received his B.Sc. degree in Taiwan, master's degree and doctorate in United States.
Biography
Liu received his B.Sc. degree (1956) at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, and his S.M. and E.E. degrees (1960), and his Sc. D. degree (1962) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962–1972) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1972–1998), where he was Associate Provost from 1995 to 1998. He then retired from UIUC and served as President and Professor of Computer Science at the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan from February 1998 to February 2002. He was the William Mong Honorary Chair Professor at National Tsing Hua University. He was a Visiting Professor at City University of Hong Kong, and at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and Li K. T. Honorary Chair Professor at National Central University. Since 2007 he was Li Kuo-Ting Forum Professor at National Cheng Kung University.
He was the author and co-author of seven books and monographs, and over 180 technical papers. His research interests included computer-aided design of VLSI circuits, real-time systems, computer-aided instruction, combinatorial optimization, and discrete mathematics.
He received the IEEE Millennium Medal, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal in 2000. He also received the IEEE Computer Society, Real Time Systems Technical Committee 1999 Technical Achievement Award (inaugural winner) for his contributions in the area of real time scheduling, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 1998 Technical Achievement Award for his contributions in the area of computer aided design of VLSI circuits. He received an Outstanding Talents Foundation Award in 1998. He was the recipient of the 1994 IEEE Education Medal. He also received the Taylor L. Booth Education Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 1992, and the inaugural winner of the Karl V. Karlstrom Education Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1989.
He was a member of Academia Sinica (elected 2000), a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2004, the University of Macau awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Liu was married to Jane Liu, also a distinguished computer scientist and known for her work in real-time computing.
He died on 7 November 2020, aged 86, in Taipei.
Awards
2016: ACM SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award
2014: IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award
2011: Phil Kaufman Award, for technical and business contributions in Electronic design automation
2000: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Millennium Medal, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal
1999: The IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinair | Malinair was a commuter airline based at Glasgow Airport (GLA) in Scotland in the mid-1980s.
Code data
IATA Code: WG
ICAO Code: MAK
Callsign: Malin
History
The company was founded in June 1985 by Glasgow lawyer Frank Cannon. Scheduled operations were launched in early 1986 with a Glasgow to Donegal service using 9 passenger Britten Norman Islander aircraft. A planned expansion saw the recruitment of a number of ex Air Ecosse staff, including Malinair's General Manager and Operations Manager.
In the summer of 1986, Malinair began operating the former Air Ecosse Aberdeen-Glasgow-Belfast service with a leased Dornier 228 from Schreiner Airways (PH-SDO, re-registered G-MLDO cn8009) using Ecosse's route licence and WG flight code. By the following year the company had 3 BN2 Islanders (G-MALI, G-MALN, G-MALB) and 2 further Do.228s (G-MLNR cn8108 & G-CFIN cn8096) operating a mix of daytime schedule/charter and night mail flights.
1987 heralded an expansion of service from Donegal with the launch of flights to Manchester using a Do.228, whilst another Dornier operated Glasgow-Teesside-Gatwick. For a short time a BN2 Islander operated a Glasgow to Humberside service.
Night mail flights were operated from Belfast, Glasgow and Aberdeen, primarily for Datapost. Despite ambitious plans including a £15 million contract for 7 Dorniers, the company ceased operations in the autumn of 1987.
The end of Mailinair was complex with the shareholders agreeing in June 1987 to sell the company to Air Ecosse. Air Ecosse had itself been in administration since January 1987 and had only recently been bought by Isle of Man-based Traditional Investments for £477,000. Air Ecosse was in turn sold the following year to another Aberdeen based airline, Peregrine Air Services.
Fleet
3 – BN2 Islander
3 – Dornier 228
See also
List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom
References
Flight International. Sutton, UK: Reed Business Information. ISSN 0015-3710
Defunct airlines of Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20architecture | In the past computers needed to be disconnected from their internal network if they needed to be taken or moved anywhere. Mobile architecture allows maintaining this connection whilst during transit. Each day the number of mobile devices is increasing, mobile architecture is the pieces of technology needed to create a rich, connected user experience.
Currently, there is a lack of uniform interoperability plans and implementation. There is a lack of common industry view on the architectural framework. This increases costs and slows down 3rd party mobile development. An open approach is required across all industries to achieve the same end results and services.
Important components of a mobile architecture
Scalability – A Mobile Architecture must be able to be utilized with all recovery requirements on both large and small scale.
Secure – Encryption is important, transmission protocols must support encryption (SSL) via secure transit such as HTTPS
Reliable – Reliability is always important in all technologies and mobile architecture is no different.
The basic and detailed architecture of the Mobile device consists of Hardware and Software architecture. The main hardware components
of the mobile phone are the application processor that controls all other components of the device such as display, keypad, power, audio, video etc. The radio signals are handled by base band
processor which in turn communicates with other processors to use their functionality. Power and audio processor controls the functioning of speaker and microphone with the help of application
processor. Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) contains the details about the subscriber.
Best practices
Data should be populated for database views
Use version numbers to track updates during synchronization
Maintain only necessary user details in middle ware
The application should recognize when CPU battery is low and adjust background running to low to extend battery power
UI on multiple screens should have common elements
Future
A consortium of companies are pushing for products and services to be based on open, global standards, protocols and interfaces and are not locked to proprietary technologies. The applications layer to be bearer agnostic, for example:
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM),
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS),
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE),
Code-division multiple access (CDMA),
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).
The architecture framework and service enablers will be independent of operating systems. There will be support for inseparability of applications and platforms, seamless geographic and inter-generational roaming.
See also
Mobile Asset Management
Field Service Management
Device Management
Secure Mobile Architecture (SMA)
References
External links
Block diagram of the architecture of a fully equipped mobile phone
Mobile Device Architecture–CS 4720, Mobile Application Development
Smartphone Archi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INHERENT | The Indonesia Higher Education Network was an inter-university educational network in Indonesia. For the first phase of development, the network consists of 32 universities. The main ring of this network is located on the island of Java, five universities as a backbone network connected using STM-1 line with a total 155 Mbit/s of bandwidth capacity. Those universities are the University of Indonesia, the Bandung Institute of Technology, the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Gadjah Mada University and the Diponegoro University. It was active since 2006.
Since 2013, INHERENT is no longer active. The INHERENT Network was eventually replaced by Indonesia Research and Education Network (IDREN) in 2015.
References
Education in Indonesia
Internet in Indonesia
National research and education networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiograbber | Audiograbber is a proprietary freeware CD audio extractor/converter program for Microsoft Windows. It was one of the first programs in the genre to become popular. The data extraction algorithm was designed by Jackie Franck and was included in the Xing Technology software package Xing Audio Catalyst in the mid-1990s.
It does not use Xing Technology's proprietary MP3 encoding library. Instead, it uses the LAME encoder, Ogg Vorbis encoder, WMA codec, as well as any format supported by an external command-line encoder library. The author is no longer developing this software.
Audiograbber is able to rip CDs, or record audio coming in via mic jack, or capture audio playing on the computer but not from the internet, into several formats, including WAV, MP3 and others. It performs the conversions entirely digitally, bypassing the system sound card, enabling accurate digital conversion. For convenience, it supports the freedb database of Compact Disc track listings (offline as of June 13, 2020), to allow ripped tracks, with reduced user effort, to have the names of songs, artists and albums. It also supports normalizing, ID3 tag and CD-Text support. A line-in sampling function can automatically split LP recordings into separate tracks, plus it can perform noise reduction with a proprietary VST plug-in from Algorithmix.
Prior to the release of version 1.83 in February 2004, Audiograbber was shareware. The unregistered versions of the software only allowed a random selection of half the tracks of a given CD to be extracted in each ripping session. These limitations in the software were due to a restrictive clause in an agreement between the author and Xing Technology. After the agreement expired, the software was made available as freeware with no limitations on its function.
Version 1.83 (as well as the convenient Lame plugin installer on the same site) from the developer site comes bundled with several adware like Funmoods Toolbar, Conduit Search, Zapp, VO Package, Browser Utility, AnyProtect. One has to read the installation screens carefully and deselect everything that one does not want to install.
In 2020, 1.83 (2020 Edition) was released, featuring integrated MP3 support, and it is configured to connect to the GnuDB.
References
External links
Audiograbber homepage
Audiograbber homepage
Award page
Review of version 1.62 on Sonic Spot
Audiograbber information on Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase
Windows-only freeware
Windows CD ripping software
Data compression software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic/Four | Basic/Four is a variety of Business Basic which originally ran on computers of the same name introduced in 1971. The company that produced the system, Management Assistance, Inc., was later known as Basic/Four Corporation, MAI Basic Four, Inc., and MAI Basic Four Information Systems.
Basic/Four Corporation was created as a subsidiary of Management Assistance, Inc. in Irvine, California. Basic/Four sold small business minicomputers that were assembled from Microdata Corporation CPUs.
MAI Basic Four Business Basic was one of the first commercially available business BASIC interpreters. MAI Basic Four (the company) originally sold minicomputers, but later offered superminicomputers and microcomputers. The computers ran an operating system with the BASIC interpreter integrated. The BASIC interpreter was written in TREE-META.
In 1985, Wall Street financier Bennett S. LeBow purchased the company after it had experienced significant operating financial losses.
In 1988, LeBow used the company as a platform for an unsuccessful attempted hostile takeover of much larger Prime Computer.
In the mid-1980s, the company released accounting software for third-party microcomputers. In 1988, it released its own 80286-based workstation.
The Basic4 system was utilized by many small banks and credit unions.
In 1990, the company changed its name to MAI Systems Corporation and changed its business to be a system integrator instead of a combined hardware and software manufacturer, reselling third-party computers but installing their own customer-specific software system.
MAI Systems Corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of Softbrands Inc. in 2006.
See also
MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc.
References
External links
History of MAI
M.A.I. S10 Basic Four microcomputer system description
Pictures and descriptions of a few different Basic Four computers\
1971 establishments in California
2006 disestablishments in California
American companies established in 1971
American companies disestablished in 2006
BASIC interpreters
Computer companies established in 1971
Computer companies disestablished in 2006
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20on%20DuMont | The NFL on DuMont was an American television program that broadcast National Football League games on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The program ran from 1951 to 1955.
History
DuMont's NFL coverage consisted of contracts the network signed with individual NFL teams. Only for the NFL Championship Game did the network actually sign a contract with the league. Some teams did not have deals with DuMont; instead selling television rights to local stations, independent producers, or breweries who were major sponsors and who also packaged the telecasts.
1951-1952
Locally and regionally televised games were broadcast as early as 1939, but on December 23, 1951, DuMont televised the first ever live, coast-to-coast professional football game, the NFL Championship Game between the Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns. DuMont paid $75,000 for the rights to broadcast the game.
In 1952, DuMont only aired New York Giants games before moving to a more national scope the following season.
1953-1954
During the 1953 and 1954 seasons, DuMont broadcast Saturday night NFL games. It was the first time that National Football League games were televised live, coast-to-coast, in prime time, for the entire season. This predated Monday Night Football on ABC by 17 years. Several of the games in 1953 and 1954 originated in New York (Giants), Pittsburgh (Steelers), or Washington (Redskins). (All three of these cities had DuMont O&Os.)
From 1953-55, DuMont televised the Thanksgiving NFL games between the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers.
DuMont was nominated for Emmy Awards for its coverage of the 1953 and 1954 seasons but did not win.
DuMont proved to be a less than ideal choice for a national broadcaster. The network had only eighteen primary affiliates in 1954, dwarfed by the 120 available to NBC (although a number of ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates that had DuMont "secondary" affiliations did carry some NFL games, mainly on Sunday afternoons). Coverage of Canadian football's "Big Four" was more readily available on NBC than NFL games were in most markets on DuMont.
1955
In January 1955, DuMont obtained rights from the Los Angeles Newspaper Charities to cover the Pro Bowl only one week before the game date. As they had trouble lining up affiliates to cover the game on such short notice, the telecast was cancelled.
By 1955, the DuMont network was beginning to crumble. For instance, in 1955, NBC replaced DuMont as the network for the NFL Championship Game, paying a rights fee of $100,000. ABC acquired the rights to the Thanksgiving game. Meanwhile, most teams (sans the Giants, Eagles and Steelers, who received regionalized coverage from DuMont) were left to fend for themselves in terms of TV coverage.
Consequently, this is roughly how coverage went for each team in 1955:
Colts - local coverage
Bears - ABC home games
Cardinals - ABC home games
Browns - regional coverage, sponsored and produced by Carling Beer
Lions - local coverage
Packers - no c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt%20Institute%20Campus%20Network | The Roosevelt Institute's Network, formerly the "Roosevelt Institute Campus Network" and the "Roosevelt Institution", bills itself as the first student-run policy organization in the United States. It is a part of the Roosevelt Institute, an organization focused on carrying forward the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Individual chapters on college campuses conduct research and write policy regarding various public issues. In addition, chapters use Roosevelt's policy positions as a tool for systematic change in local communities across the country. Roosevelt also runs a paid summer internship program, publishes a yearly undergraduate journal series and undertakes state specific policy work.
Roosevelt was founded at Stanford University and Yale University following the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election. Its name is a counterpoint to the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford.
History
The Roosevelt Institution, now the Roosevelt Institute's Network, was founded in 2004 by disillusioned young progressives seeking a stronger voice in American policy-making. Quinn Wilhelmi, one of the organization's founders, often told students that "the three pillars of politics are money, bodies, and ideas."
Soon after the 2004 election, Kai Stinchcombe was trying to figure out what to do next. He had worked for the Kerry presidential campaign. After the election, he returned to Stanford and emailed a few list-servs suggesting they form a progressive student think tank to fight the influence of Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution. The email soon reached Dar Vanderbeck at Bates College and Jessica Singleton at Middlebury and they responded, proposing that such an organization could exist on campuses across the country.
Stanford grad student John Gedmark responded and was able to get in touch with living members of the Roosevelt family through a contact at the Stanford Law School. The Roosevelt family gave their blessing to use the name and connected them with the Roosevelt Institute, and Gedmark and Stinchcombe filed articles of incorporation in California for a new non-profit organization called "the Roosevelt Institute."
Though Roosevelt's policy model initially favored extended in-depth research, it soon evolved to include more succinct legislative proposals that cater to busy politicians and staffers. In 2006, Roosevelt experimented with narrowing the scope of its agenda by voting on three annual "Roosevelt Challenges": improving socio-economic diversity in higher education, making America work for working families, and increasing energy independence.
In 2007, the Roosevelt Institution merged with the Roosevelt Institute.
There are six national policy centers that are consistent year-to year: defense and diplomacy, economic development, education, equal justice, energy and environment, and health care. Each center has a lead strategist who is responsible for working with individual students on policy ideas, writing p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Speech%20API | The Java Speech API (JSAPI) is an application programming interface for cross-platform support of command and control recognizers, dictation systems, and speech synthesizers. Although JSAPI defines an interface only, there are several implementations created by third parties, for example FreeTTS.
Core technologies
Two core speech technologies are supported through the Java Speech API: speech synthesis and speech recognition.
Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis provides the reverse process of producing synthetic speech from text generated by an application, an applet, or a user. It is often referred to as text-to-speech technology.
The major steps in producing speech from text are as follows:
Structure analysis: Processes the input text to determine where paragraphs, sentences, and other structures start and end. For most languages, punctuation and formatting data are used in this stage.
Text pre-processing: Analyzes the input text for special constructs of the language. In English, special treatment is required for abbreviations, acronyms, dates, times, numbers, currency amounts, e-mail addresses, and many other forms. Other languages need special processing for these forms, and most languages have other specialized requirements.
The result of these first two steps is a spoken form of the written text. Here are examples of the differences between written and spoken text:
St. Matthew's hospital is on Main St.
-> “Saint Matthew's hospital is on Main Street”
Add $20 to account 55374.
-> “Add twenty dollars to account five five, three seven four.”
The remaining steps convert the spoken text to speech:
Text-to-phoneme conversion: Converts each word to phonemes. A phoneme is a basic unit of sound in a language.
Prosody analysis: Processes the sentence structure, words, and phonemes to determine the appropriate prosody for the sentence.
Waveform production: Uses the phonemes and prosody information to produce the audio waveform for each sentence.
Speech synthesizers can make errors in any of the processing steps described above. Human ears are well-tuned to detecting these errors, but careful work by developers can minimize errors and improve the speech output quality.
Speech recognition
Speech recognition provides computers with the ability to listen to spoken language and determine what has been said. In other words, it processes audio input containing speech by converting it to text.
The major steps of a typical speech recognizer are as follows:
Grammar design: Defines the words that may be spoken by a user and the patterns in which they may be spoken.
Signal processing: Analyzes the spectrum (i.e., the frequency) characteristics of the incoming audio.
Phoneme recognition: Compares the spectrum patterns to the patterns of the phonemes of the language being recognized.
Word recognition: Compares the sequence of likely phonemes against the words and patterns of words specified by the active grammars.
Result generati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floop | Floop may refer to:
FlooP, a programming language
Fegan Floop, a character in the Spy Kids series of films
FLOOPS, Florida Object Oriented Process Simulator, in semiconductor process simulation
Floops, a cartoon character created for the VRML language at SGI website
See also
Flop (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20engineering | Algorithm engineering focuses on the design, analysis, implementation, optimization, profiling and experimental evaluation of computer algorithms, bridging the gap between algorithm theory and practical applications of algorithms in software engineering.
It is a general methodology for algorithmic research.
Origins
In 1995, a report from an NSF-sponsored workshop "with the purpose of assessing the current goals and directions of the Theory of Computing (TOC) community" identified the slow speed of adoption of theoretical insights by practitioners as an important issue and suggested measures to
reduce the uncertainty by practitioners whether a certain theoretical breakthrough will translate into practical gains in their field of work, and
tackle the lack of ready-to-use algorithm libraries, which provide stable, bug-free and well-tested implementations for algorithmic problems and expose an easy-to-use interface for library consumers.
But also, promising algorithmic approaches have been neglected due to difficulties in mathematical analysis.
The term "algorithm engineering" was first used with specificity in 1997, with the first Workshop on Algorithm Engineering (WAE97), organized by Giuseppe F. Italiano.
Difference from algorithm theory
Algorithm engineering does not intend to replace or compete with algorithm theory, but tries to enrich, refine and reinforce its formal approaches with experimental algorithmics (also called empirical algorithmics).
This way it can provide new insights into the efficiency and performance of algorithms in cases where
the algorithm at hand is less amenable to algorithm theoretic analysis,
formal analysis pessimistically suggests bounds which are unlikely to appear on inputs of practical interest,
the algorithm relies on the intricacies of modern hardware architectures like data locality, branch prediction, instruction stalls, instruction latencies which the machine model used in Algorithm Theory is unable to capture in the required detail,
the crossover between competing algorithms with different constant costs and asymptotic behaviors needs to be determined.
Methodology
Some researchers describe algorithm engineering's methodology as a cycle consisting of algorithm design, analysis, implementation and experimental evaluation, joined by further aspects like machine models or realistic inputs.
They argue that equating algorithm engineering with experimental algorithmics is too limited, because viewing design and analysis, implementation and experimentation as separate activities ignores the crucial feedback loop between those elements of algorithm engineering.
Realistic models and real inputs
While specific applications are outside the methodology of algorithm engineering, they play an important role in shaping realistic models of the problem and the underlying machine, and supply real inputs and other design parameters for experiments.
Design
Compared to algorithm theory, which usually focuses o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational%20network%20analysis | Organizational network analysis (ONA) is a method for studying communication and socio-technical networks within a formal organization. This technique creates statistical and graphical models of the people, tasks, groups, knowledge and resources of organizational systems. It is based on social network theory and more specifically, dynamic network analysis.
Applications
ONA can be used in a variety of ways by managers, consultants, and executives.
Network visualizations
There are several tools that allow managers to visually depict their employee networks. Most of the tools are built specifically for researchers and academics who study Network theory, but are relatively inexpensive to use, as long as the leaders are well-versed on how to capture the information, feed it into the tool in the correct formats, and understand how to "read" and translate the network graphs into business decisions.
Innovation gauge
Several recent studies and research has highlighted that 'Psychological Safety' is the marker for an innovative team. This has been studied and published first by Google, in their Project Aristotle work as well as highlighted in New York Times and other research publications. Amy Edmondson is the preeminent scholar and researcher in this field who has worked across various industries to identify the benefits and even the characteristics of 'Psychological Safety' in teams.
ONA is now increasingly being used in this context to analyze the relationships developed within a given team, and for understanding how that team works as a unit to create this psychological safety for its members. This technique is more thorough than the traditional surveys.
Employee engagement
Engagement surveys and other such culture surveys have become a mainstay of the workplace. However, one of the largest complaints from such surveys are that once managers see the results, often the aggregated sentiments of their employees, they are unsure of next steps and actions. Organizational Network Analysis, when combined with such engagement surveys, however change the way that leaders use and leverage these results. Because ONA allows managers to see the context behind the sentiments, they can actually understand how to correct or sustain these results. For example, if a company's engagement survey said 30% of the employees felt they are inadequately trained for their jobs, a manager would be perhaps inclined to either do nothing, or invest more in comprehensive training programs. However, doing an ONA alongside this might reveal to managers that employees are unhappy with training because they have limited access to institutional knowledge at the company. Then, instead of a training program, managers might simply work on ensuring their top knowledge hubs share their knowledge broadly, and have a longer, more sustainable improvement to the team's level of information and training.
References
Social networks
Systems theory
Workplace |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey%20Whitfield%20School | Trey Whitfield School is an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York, USA. The school has many activities including basketball, computer, choir, and drama. The grades range from nursery to 8th grade and there can be more than one class per grade depending on how many students there are.
Founders
Janie C. Whitney
The school was founded by Ms. Janie C. Whitney who has led the development of the school for over 20 years. Ms. Whitney was born in Cuthbert, Georgia. She attended Long Island University and studied accounting. She had always had a love for children and opened a day-care and after-school program in Bushwick, New York. In 1983, she became co-founder of Bethlehem Baptist Academy. As time went on the school became very productive and showed a strong will to build up a strong academic curriculum with good more character within its students.
A.B. Whitfield
A.B. Whitfield was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. He pursued many high school and college activities such as football, wrestling and track. He would later go on to play professional football. After he retired from football, he went on to earn a master's degree in education. He is the administrator and co owner of Trey Whitfield School. He has 35 years of educational experience and is retired from the NYC Board of Education where he was a teacher for 17 years, taught at elementary school level. He and Janie have also established the "Trey Whitfield Foundation" in memory of their son.
Name change
The school was originally known as Bethlehem Baptist Academy when it opened, but changed its name when the founders' son Trey Whitfield died in a boating accident while he was a senior attending Brewster Academy. The name change is seen as a tribute to their son who was considered an all-around good person.
References
www.treywhitfieldschool.org
External links
Trey Whitfield School website
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/24/nyregion/private-school-that-thrives-rules-minority-students-excel-brooklyn-site-it-model.html?pagewanted=1
Private elementary schools in Brooklyn
Private middle schools in Brooklyn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBD | TBD may refer to:
Arts and media
TBD (TV network), an American broadcast television network for millennials
TBD TV (now WJLA 24/7 News), a local cable news channel for Washington, D.C.
TBD Records, an American record label
TBD.com, a defunct news website for Washington, D.C.
"T.B.D.", a song by Live from Throwing Copper
Three Busy Debras, an American comedy television series
Military
Douglas TBD Devastator, a WWII torpedo aircraft
Torpedo boat destroyer, the forerunner to the modern naval destroyer
Track-before-detect, a radar detection method
Other uses
To be determined, or "to be decided" or "to be declared".
Triazabicyclodecene, a chemical compound
Three Bridges railway station, Sussex, England (by GBR code)
Timbiqui Airport, Cauca, Colombia (by IATA code)
See also
TBA (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser%20Filter | A Fraser Filter, named after Douglas Fraser, is typically used in geophysics when displaying VLF data. It is effectively the first derivative of the data.
If represents the collected data then is the average of two values. Consider this value to be plotted between point 1 and point 2 and do the same with points 3 and 4:
If represents the space between each station along the line then
is the Fraser Filter of those four values.
Since is constant, it can be ignored and the Fraser Filter considered to be
.
References
Geophysics
Linear filters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20roads%20in%20Windsor%2C%20Ontario | The road network in Windsor, Ontario is a grid system with elongated blocks, generally aligned with the Detroit River, with East-West roads running parallel to it, and North-South streets running perpendicular (90 Degrees) to it. This is an adoption from when French Canadian settlers first built farms and streets in the area. Many streets have French names in result, such as Lauzon Parkway, Marentette Avenue (a quiet residential street), Ouellette Avenue (considered by many Windsorites to be its "Main Street"), and Pelissier Street. The current street system of Windsor (grid with elongated blocks) reflects the French method of agricultural land division where the farms were long and narrow, fronting along the river (this originates from French methods of tax collection, with more taxes being paid by property owners with waterfront properties, thus why riverfront lots were usually narrow).
Introduction
Most of the city is uniform in its grid, but a few neighbourhoods have their own system. Forest Glade and The Villages of Riverside were built recently (in the 1960s and 1970s, and have circular patterns, while Sandwich has its own grid roughly 45 degrees off from the rest of the city, in a triangle from Huron Church Road and the Detroit River, south to Tecumseh Road and Prince Road. This is due to the river turning southwest-ward just west of the Ambassador Bridge. Another major part of the city where the streets "jog" across Tecumseh Road is Fountain Bleu, when Tecumseh Road was the former city limit with the former Township of Sandwich South until the 1960s.
Expressways
Windsor has one freeway, the E. C. Row Expressway.
Highway 401 skirts the City Limits from Provincial Rd (exit 14). to Cabana West/Todd Lane (exit 6), and enters the city in the far west end to Ojibway Pkwy. (exit 1). A former spur, Highway 3B, now known as Dougall Parkway is a limited access freeway between the 401 and Howard Avenue. Just north of Howard Avenue, Dougall Parkway becomes Dougall Avenue.
There are a few other divided highways/dual carriageways with varying levels of development, access, and intersections, such as Ojibway Parkway, Lauzon Parkway, Ouellette Avenue, and Huron Church Road.
Main East-West Roads
These main East-West arterial roads are listed from the Detroit River, heading towards the south:
Riverside Drive
University Avenue
Wyandotte Street
Tecumseh Road
Eugenie Street (short, but very busy connector)
E. C. Row Expressway
Cabana Road/Division Road
Other East-West Roads
Erie Street
Giles Boulevard
Ottawa Street
Shepherd Street
Grand Marais Road/West Grand Boulevard
Plymouth Road (originally built to direct traffic from the now-demolished Pillette Road Van plant away from residential areas to the north and east)
Dougall Parkway (leads to Ontario Highway 401, serves South Windsor and Southwood Lakes subdivision)
North Talbot Road
Totten Street
College Avenue (a busy truck route)
Prince Road (continuation of Totten Street, meets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference-map%20algorithm | The difference-map algorithm is a search algorithm for general constraint satisfaction problems. It is a meta-algorithm in the sense that it is built from more basic algorithms that perform projections onto constraint sets. From a mathematical perspective, the difference-map algorithm is a dynamical system based on a mapping of Euclidean space. Solutions are encoded as fixed points of the mapping.
Although originally conceived as a general method for solving the phase problem, the difference-map algorithm has been used for the boolean satisfiability problem, protein structure prediction, Ramsey numbers, diophantine equations, and Sudoku, as well as sphere- and disk-packing problems. Since these applications include NP-complete problems, the scope of the difference map is that of an incomplete algorithm. Whereas incomplete algorithms can efficiently verify solutions (once a candidate is found), they cannot prove that a solution does not exist.
The difference-map algorithm is a generalization of two iterative methods: Fienup's Hybrid input output (HIO) algorithm for phase retrieval and the Douglas-Rachford algorithm for convex optimization. Iterative methods, in general, have a long history in phase retrieval and convex optimization. The use of this style of algorithm for hard, non-convex problems is a more recent development.
Algorithm
The problem to be solved must first be formulated as a set intersection problem in Euclidean space: find an in the intersection of sets and . Another prerequisite is an implementation of the projections and that, given an arbitrary input point , return a point in the constraint set or that is nearest to . One iteration of the algorithm is given by the mapping:
The real parameter should not be equal to 0 but can have either sign; optimal values depend on the application and are determined through experimentation. As a first guess, the choice (or ) is recommended because it reduces the number of projection computations per iteration:
A point is a fixed point of the map precisely when . Since the left-hand side is an element of and the RHS is an element of , the equality implies that we have found a common element to the two constraint sets. Note that the fixed point itself need not belong to either or . The set of fixed points will typically have much higher dimension than the set of solutions.
The progress of the algorithm can be monitored by inspecting the norm of the difference of the two projections:
.
When this vanishes, a point common to both constraint sets has been found and the algorithm can be terminated.
Example: logical satisfiability
Incomplete algorithms, such as stochastic local search, are widely used for finding satisfying truth assignments to boolean formulas. As an example of solving an instance of 2-SAT with the difference-map algorithm, consider the following formula (~ indicates NOT):
(q1 or q2) and (~q1 or q3) and (~q2 or ~q3) and (q1 or ~q2)
To each of the eight litera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20delay | Network delay is a design and performance characteristic of a telecommunications network. It specifies the latency for a bit of data to travel across the network from one communication endpoint to another. It is typically measured in multiples or fractions of a second. Delay may differ slightly, depending on the location of the specific pair of communicating endpoints. Engineers usually report both the maximum and average delay, and they divide the delay into several parts:
Processing delay time it takes a router to process the packet header
Queuing delay time the packet spends in routing queues
Transmission delay time it takes to push the packet's bits onto the link
Propagation delay time for a signal to propagate through the media
A certain minimum level of delay is experienced by signals due to the time it takes to transmit a packet serially through a link. This delay is extended by more variable levels of delay due to network congestion. IP network delays can range from a few milliseconds to several hundred milliseconds.
See also
Age of Information
End-to-end delay
Lag (video games)
Latency (engineering)
Minimum-Pairs Protocol
Round-trip delay
References
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Genocide%20Scholars | The International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) is a non-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to fostering scholarly multi-disciplinary exchange and academic debate in the field of genocide studies.
The INoGS was founded on 14 January 2005 in Berlin. INoGS is open to researchers, teachers and students from all academic disciplines working on genocide and mass violence, and has worked closely with academic institutions such as the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence.
Since 2005, the Journal of Genocide Research is the official journal of the INoGS. The INoGS regularly organizes and sponsors international conferences and workshops on the subject of genocide studies.
Executive committee
Elisabeth Hope Murray, Embry-Riddle University in USA, President
Mohamed Adhikari, University of Cape Town vice-president.
Raz Segal, Stockton University USA, Executive Secretary
Rachel E. McGinnis Rochester Institute of Technology USA, vice executive secretary.
References
External links
Official website
Journal of Genocide Research
Genocide research and prevention organisations
Non-profit organisations based in Berlin
International learned societies
Organizations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapstar%20Superchef | Soapstar Superchef was a cooking show on the ITV Network, where soap stars from Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks (and Hollyoaks: In the City) and Neighbours competed to be crowned "kings" or "queens" of the kitchen.
Their culinary efforts were judged by an expert panel of three judges. Each judge gave a mark out of ten, and the teams were able to gain extra points by answering questions about a short clip from their rivals' soap.
Each team cooked twice and their points from both episodes were added together and the two teams with the highest totals competed head-to-head to win the show.
The show was hosted by Richard Arnold, known as GMTV's TV critic, and Nicki Chapman, an English television presenter who also worked in the British pop music industry.
Mathew Bose and Hayley Tamaddon were crowned Soapstar Superchefs on Friday 13 April 2007.
Scores
Judges/Chefs
Gino D'Acampo
Keith Floyd
Jilly Goolden
Ken Hom
Jonathan Meades
Jean-Christophe Novelli
Merrilees Parker
Paul Rankin
Jay Rayner
Rosemary Shrager
Brian Turner
Antony Worrall Thompson
Anniversary list
Soapstar Superchef 15th Anniversary (19 March 2022) ()
15 Years of Soapstar Superchef
15 Years of Soapstar Superchef (19 March 2022) ()
References
2007 British television series debuts
2007 British television series endings
ITV (TV network) original programming
Television series by ITV Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUDO%20%28software%29 | JUDO is a Java-based integrated development environment designed for children and beginning computer programmers. It is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Syntax
When you compile a program in JUDO, it works by inserting the user's code into a .java file with code that controls the window, listens for keystrokes, and handles MouseEvents. This means that JUDO code is actually Java code, just with an easier to use subset of functions that access the Java API.
void main() {
printLine("Hello World!");
}
This program will print out "Hello World".
See also
Thonny
Microsoft Small Basic
BASIC-256
Toolbox
Kojo
External links
JUDO's Website
A detailed tutorial on how to use JUDO.
Integrated development environments
Free integrated development environments
Pedagogic integrated development environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based%20collaboration | Role-Based Collaboration (RBC) represents an emerging research area.
RBC is an approach that can be used to integrate the theory of roles into Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) systems and other computer-based systems. It consists of a set of concepts, principles, mechanisms and methods. RBC presents challenges and benefits not found in traditional CSCW systems. This research will bring exciting improvements to the development and application of CSCW systems and methodologies of collaboration.
Even though we proposed RBC from the point of view of CSCW, we could expand RBC to more fields. RBC can be divided into two categories: special RBC and general RBC. Special RBC means role-based CSCW or HCI. To perform better system analysis, design, implementation, application and evaluations, it is hoped to apply role theory to CSCW or Human Computer Interaction (HCI) systems. Therefore, the gap can be bridged between their developers and the sociologists who are more concerned with the usability of CSCW systems. General RBC is to extend special RBC to the areas such as software engineering, social psychology, organization, management, and artificial intelligence (AI). General RBC considers not only supporting cooperation among people (CSCW) with computers but also that among the components of a system and between people and machines
See also
Role-playing game
Commons-based peer production
Enterprise social networking
References
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20Heiress%20episodes | The following is an episode list for the MyNetworkTV telenovela American Heiress. This limited-run serial began on March 13, 2007, but finished early on July 18, 2007. Each two-hour installment airs on Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. for two hours a week.
Episodes
Episode 1: Lion King
Original Air Date: 13 March 2007
The Wakefield family are introduced. It was revealed that the father planned on leaving his fortune to Elizabeth, which Damien tried to stop by setting up a plane accident. Before Lionel had a chance to get to the airport, he was stopped by Danielle who worked for the FBI. She had worked with her fiance in the jungle when they witnessed his company selling weapons to American enemies. Before the two could get away, Danielle's fiance was killed. He brushed her off, but confronted Damien about this new information. While telling Damien how disappointed he is in his son, Lionel had a heart attack that landed him in the hospital. Meanwhile, Elizabeth boarded the plane that was being captained by JD Bruce. They got word that Mr. Wakefield had a heart attack and turned the plane around without telling Elizabeth their reasoning in an attempt to keep her calm.
Episode 2: Crash and Burn
Original Air Date: 13 March 2007
While flying Elizabeth back to see Lionel, the plane crashed in the jungles of Guatemala. The co-pilot was killed on impact while it appeared that Elizabeth and JD survived. Elizabeth pulled JD from the plane and worked on retrieving her luggage. When JD awoke, he worried that they would not be saved for days; while Elizabeth kept high hopes about being found within days. Back in the hospital, the Wakefield family continued to deal with the condition of their father and the family learned that their daughter's and sister's plane had crashed. With the news that his sister may be dead, Damien requested that they stop searching for Elizabeth. He figured that his plan may work out yet if his sister had died and his father did not survive surgery.
Episode 3: Jungle Fever
Original Air Date: 20 March 2007
Elizabeth and JD continued to fight on the island while growing closer. She almost drowned while bathing, but was saved by JD who was watching her. An unknowing JD and Elizabeth were in danger of being attacked by the locals in Guatemala who discovered part of the plane that they crashed in. Lionel lived through surgery and was almost killed by Damien who told him of his daughters supposed death and sent him into cardiac arrest. The episode ended with the appearance of the Wakefield children's mother who was thought to be dead.
Episode 4: Lions and Tigers and Bears
Original Air Date: 20 March 2007
Danielle confronted Damian about his involvement in the guns that she had seen with his family's company name branded on the side of the transport box. Later, Danielle went home and discovered a cracked porcelain doll that had a message attached, left by Damian. In the jungle, Elizabeth and JD begia to form a friendship. The two slept at t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMC%20%28disambiguation%29 | MDMC, commonly called methylone, is an empathogen and stimulant psychoactive drug.
MDMC may also refer to:
Material Data Management Consortium, see Materials data management
MDMC/EDMA, a psychedelic drug first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin
Osvaldo Virgil Airport (ICAO: MDMC), Monte CristiDominican Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical%20publication%20planning | Pharmaceutical publication planning is the activity of planning the dissemination of scientific and clinical data on a drug to healthcare professionals at scientific congresses and medical society meetings and in peer reviewed medical journals.
Procedure
Pharmaceutical publication planning involves developing a detailed plan that outlines the timely presentation of verified scientific and clinical data to appropriate types of healthcare professionals such as physicians, pharmacists, nurses, as a drug undergoes clinical trials and after it is marketed. Because of scientific and therapeutic advances, pharmaceutical publication planning has become a well-established and important function by pharmaceutical companies in order to educate healthcare professionals accordingly about new drugs and marketed drugs with new clinical uses or safety information.
Within pharmaceutical companies, publication planning is usually overseen by medical or clinical affairs professionals. In this effort, pharmaceutical companies frequently use the assistance of medical communication agencies with publication planning expertise and professional medical writers.
Medical communication agencies
Medical communication agencies include a broad range of organizations, including those that focus largely or exclusively on publication planning. When developing and executing a publication plan on behalf of a pharmaceutical or biotechnology client, medical communication agencies employ professional publication strategists, scientific medical directors, medical writers and project managers. Working as a team, this group of individuals delves deep into their client's scientific discoveries, and propose the most effective and efficient ways to spread the word about new potential therapies to physicians and other healthcare providers.
There has been some discussion in the media regarding disclosure as it pertains to the use of professional medical writers in this endeavor. Some agencies and professional organizations focused on publication planning have been and continue to develop and refine ethical guidelines and standards for disclosure and transparency.
Professional publication planning associations
Professional organizations for individuals involved in pharmaceutical publication planning include the International Society of Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) and The International Publication Planning Association (TIPPA). The purpose of these organizations is to create a forum where individuals involved with pharmaceutical publication planning and biomedical publications can meet and share knowledge and experience. They serve to promote career opportunities and professional development of individuals involved with pharmaceutical publication planning, as well as to promote standards of excellence in ethical professional medical writing and the biomedical publication process in disseminating scientific and clinical data on pharmaceutical products.
In 2009, ISMPP |
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