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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelBones | CamelBones is a programming framework that allows one to use Mac OS X's Cocoa API from the Perl programming language. Its main author and maintainer was Sherm Pendley, before he died in 2011.
In 2004, an unfinished version was made available to the public, and in 2006, the project released version 1.0. The last version as of 2011 was 1.1.2.
As of Pendley's death in 2011, the project is currently unmaintained.
References
External links
CamelBones
Sherm Pendley obituary
MacOS programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan%20Fiber%20Systems | MFS Communications Company, Inc. (Metropolitan Fiber Systems) was a competitive local exchange carrier that owned and operated local network access facilities installed in and around major U.S. cities and several major European cities. MFS also possessed significant transmission and switching facilities and network capacity that it leased from other carriers in the United States and Western Europe.
History
The company was founded in 1988 as Kiewit Communications, a subsidiary of Kiewit Corporation.
By 1991, the company owned fiber-optic lines that serve large business customers in 11 cities.
In 1993, the company became a public company via an initial public offering.
In April 1996, the company announced the acquisition of UUNET.
In August 1996, WorldCom announced the acquisition of the company and the transaction was completed in December 1996. Worldcom filed bankruptcy in 2002.
Level 3 Communications and NorthPoint Communications were founded by former executives of MFS.
References
1988 establishments in Nebraska
1993 initial public offerings
1996 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct telecommunications companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ%20Altman | Russ Biagio Altman is an American professor of bioengineering, genetics, medicine, and biomedical data science (and of computer science, by courtesy) and past chairman of the bioengineering department at Stanford University.
Education
Altman holds an A.B. from Harvard College in 1983, a Ph.D. in medical information sciences from Stanford in 1989 and M.D. from Stanford Medical School in 1990.
After his internship at Stanford, he became board certified in 1991 in internal medicine and in clinical informatics in 2014. After a year of post-doctoral research, he joined the faculty as assistant professor in 1992. He became full professor in 2004, and was chair of the department of bioengineering from 2007 to June 2012.
He currently is the Kenneth Fong Professor of Engineering at Stanford, and an advisor to the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.
As of 2018, Altman was a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science.
Research and career
His primary research interests are in the application of computing and informatics technologies to problems relevant to medicine. He is particularly interested in methods for understanding drug action at molecular, cellular, organism and population levels. His lab studies how human genetic variation impacts drug response, helping start the PharmGKB project in 2000.
Other work focuses on the analysis of biological molecules to understand the actions, interactions and adverse events of drugs, publishing a database called FEATURE in 2003.
He helps lead an FDA-supported center for regulatory science and innovation (CERSI).
He chaired the Science Board advising the FDA Commissioner, serves on the NIH director’s advisory committee, and is co-chair of the IOM Drug Forum. He is an organizer of the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing.
He co-founded Personalis, Inc. in 2011 along with three other faculty members including Euan Ashley, Atul Butte, Michael Snyder and businessman John West.
In 2017, he started hosting a show on SiriusXM (Insight Channel 121) titled "The Future of Everything". He is clinically active with a pharmacogenomics consultative service at Stanford Healthcare.
Awards and honors
Altman received the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1997) and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1996). He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academies. He was president (2000 to 2002), founding board member, and a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), and-president of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (ASCPT) from March 2013 to 2014.
He received the Stanford Medical School graduate teaching award in 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Paladin%203 | The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3 (), also known as Sword and Fairy 3 () or Chinese Paladin 3, is a shenmo/xianxia-themed fantasy adventure role-playing computer game developed by Taiwanese game company Softstar Entertainment. It is the third installment in The Legend of Sword and Fairy video game series and the first to be developed by Softstar's Shanghai subsidiary, and serves as a prequel to the original The Legend of Sword and Fairy, set around 50 years before the plot of the first game.
Gameplay
Characters' stats are measured in jing (精), qi (氣) and shen (神). Jing are health points; Qi is the energy required to perform special moves; Shen are magic points. The concept of the five elements (Fire, Water, Lightning, Wind and Earth), which works in a way similar to the Wu Xing in Chinese philosophy, is also applied in the game. Each of the five protagonists have a special attribute based on one of the elements and can use special powers (xianshu) of their respective elements.
Plot
Fei Peng, a divine general from Heaven, fights with Chong Lou, the Lord of Demons. Neither of them is able to defeat his opponent and they gradually become less willing to destroy each other out of mutual admiration. Chong Lou challenges Fei Peng to another battle to determine the final victor between the two of them. Fei Peng hesitates, because he will break Heaven's laws if he agrees, but eventually succumbs to temptation. The battle between Fei Peng and Chong Lou lasts several days and draws the attention of the Heavenly Emperor, who sends his troops to arrest Fei Peng. Fei Peng is distracted and loses to Chong Lou. His sword is knocked away by Chong Lou and falls into the human world below. Fei Peng is punished for breaking celestial rules by banishment from Heaven into the human realm.
Fei Peng, now an ordinary human being, goes through the cycle of life and death numerous times, and is eventually reincarnated as Jing Tian, a young pawnshop worker in Yuzhou. He acquires a magical weapon, the Demon Sword, by chance. The spirit of Long Kui, the younger sister of Long Yang (one of Jing Tian's previous incarnations), resides in the sword, and she joins Jing Tian in his adventures.
At the same time, he meets Tang Xuejian, a girl from the prestigious Tang clan. He is drawn into the internal conflict within Tang's family and the clash between the Tang clan and the Thunderbolt Hall. Subsequently, Jing Tian meets Xu Changqing, an outcast of the Mount Shu Sect, and Xu's fiancée, Zi Xuan. He joins them in their quest to find the five elemental pearls, which can seal all evil spirits and monsters in the Monster-Locking Tower.
Endings
The five possible endings to the game are:
Long Kui's ending: Tang Xuejian jumps into a pit of fire to fix the Demon Sword. Jingtian fights with Chonglou and loses. Jingtian lives with Long Kui in the end.
Tang Xuejian's ending: Similar to Long Kui's ending, but Long Kui jumps into the pit of fire carrying a useless sword, preventing Tang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblate%20Youth%20Australia | Oblate Youth Australia (OYA) is a network of Catholic youth who identify with a particular Charism of the Religious order of The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Created in 2000 by Fr. Christian Fini at St. John Vianney's Parish, the community has grown into a national group, gathering yearly at the National Oblate Youth Encounter and participating in a variety of youth ministry events within Australia and across the world.
History
Created by Fr Christian Fini in mid 2000 after spending time in Italy on his pastoral year of learning, OYA was humble in its beginning. The first meeting was held at the Parish of St John Vianney in Mulgrave, Victoria, Melbourne. The group focused on the coming Sunday's gospel in reflection and prayer. As time went on the group went on a spiritual weekend, which was to be the first Oblate Youth Encounter, held in Dromana. Ten members of the youth group attended this weekend which was to set a series of events in motion. As time went on Fr Christian left Melbourne and travelled to Eaglevale, Sydney. There he resided at the parish of Mary Immaculate. A new youth group was started at that parish with a similar program and scheme. The participants of the youth group in Melbourne was left to its own devices and thrived under their own guidance
With a new location for the Encounter the numbers grew to an astounding 75 participants. This ushered in a new phase of the Oblate Youth Phenomenon.
A new focus has come into sight since World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne where it was announced that the next world youth day would be held in Sydney. As the Oblate Youth community in Australia it became the mission of the community to host a pre-world youth day event for the Oblate Youth of the World. The preparations for this have taken on a new level of involvement. The entire organisation of the event is being achieved by existing members of the community.
Structure
Director
Fr Christian Fini OMI is the director of Oblate youth Australia. His role as director is one of direction and vision to the entire Oblate Youth community. Where possible he meets with the National Coordinators to work out a broader direction and then with Local (State) Coordinators to make the direction a reality.
National Coordinators
The National Coordinators of Oblate Youth Australia are Matthew Pilcher, Vanessa Ashokkumar, Hayley Chapman, Tishan Lokuge, Edward Bartels and Jason D'Rozario. Their role as National Coordinators is to implement the national direction and vision of Oblate Youth Australia, providing opportunities for the local Oblate communities to gather as a national community and to support local communities in their youth ministry.
Project Officer
The Project Officer for Oblate Youth Australia is Emma Rice. They work together with the Director and the National Coordinators to fulfil the vision of Oblate Youth Australia.
Oblateyouth.com
Launched on the first of March 2003 the Oblate Youth Australia website is a place for the youth who |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor-Lab | Actor-Lab is a program that visualizes the Lego Mindstorms internal logic through visual flowcharts. The ideas underlying actor-lab are derived from the event-driven, message-passing computer languages that began with the actor based languages devised by Hewit. Actor-lab requires constant communication with a programmable brick (e.g. the RCX) via an infra-red link. This means that the user has to mount the programmable brick vertically for models that move about, and hold the tower in some form of gantry crane. Actor-lab shows the user in real-time what is happening on the programmable brick, including simulation of motors, sensors, lights, and sounds. One can also add controls at the bottom of the screen to give oneself real-time control of your program/model. There is a similar program from Lego called Robolab, where one can actually download programs to the Lego programmable brick.
Controls within
Alt+Mouse Drag on an actor will move him to any location specified.
Double Click on an actor will edit his current messages.
Alt+Click on a control will edit the current actions that the control sends to actors.
Notice that there is one control that cannot be edited. This control is Power OFF or Stop.
References
External links
Actor Lab Home
Robolab Online
Lego Mindstorms
Simulation programming languages
Pedagogic integrated development environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension%20Data | Dimension Data is a company specialising in information technology services. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, the company maintains operations on every inhabited continent. Dimension Data focuses on services including IT consulting, technical and support services, and managed services. The company is the official technology partner of the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España and also sponsored a team of the same name. In 2010, the company was fully acquired by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). On 1 July 2019, all Dimension Data operations, excluding those in the Middle East and Africa, became part of NTT Ltd.
History
Dimension Data was founded in 1983 by Keith McLachlan, Werner Sievers, Jeremy Ord, Peter Neale, and Kevin Hamilton. The company was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on 15 July 1987. Jeremy Ord was appointed as the company's executive chairman in that same year (a position he continued to hold as of 2016). In 1991, the company became the official South African distributor for Cisco Systems.
In 1993, the company expanded to Botswana, and, between 1995 and 1997, it began further expansion into the Asia Pacific region. In 1996, Dimension Data purchased a 45% stake in the Australian company, ComTech. It would later buyout the company fully in 2000. The company also bought a stake in the South African company, Internet Solutions, in 1996. Dimension Data would increase their stake in the company the following year. Also in 1997 the company purchased majority stakes in The Merchants Group and Datacraft.
Between 1998 and 2000, the company focused its expansion efforts on the northern hemisphere, investing in and acquiring a variety of companies in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. One such acquisition was the 1998 purchase of London-based telecommunications company, Plessey. On 31 July 2000, Dimension Data was listed on the London Stock Exchange raising $1.25 billion in the process. By 2003, the company's revenue had jumped to $2 billion.
In 2004, Brett Dawson was appointed as CEO of the company and Jeremy Ord was appointed as Group Executive Chairman. Over the next 6 years, the company expanded in Africa, the Middle East, and South America. By September 2009, the company had an annual revenue of around $4 billion.
In July 2010, Dimension Data was acquired by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) for £2.1 billion ($3.2 billion). In October of that year, NTT announced that Dimension Data would be delisted from both the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange by the end of the year. Over the next few years, Dimension Data continued acquiring and integrating businesses like OpSource, NextiraOne, and Oakton.
In June 2016, Brett Dawson stepped down as CEO and was replaced by then COO, Jason Goodall. At the time, Dimension Data maintained 31,000 staff in 58 countries across all 6 inhabited continents. The annual revenue of the company was $7.5 billion.
On 1 July 2019, the majority of Dimensio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MA%20plot | Within computational biology, an MA plot is an application of a Bland–Altman plot for visual representation of genomic data. The plot visualizes the differences between measurements taken in two samples, by transforming the data onto M (log ratio) and A (mean average) scales, then plotting these values. Though originally applied in the context of two channel DNA microarray gene expression data, MA plots are also used to visualise high-throughput sequencing analysis.
Explanation
Microarray data is often normalized within arrays to control for systematic biases in dye coupling and hybridization efficiencies, as well as other technical biases in the DNA probes and the print tip used to spot the array. By minimizing these systematic variations, true biological differences can be found. To determine whether normalization is needed, one can plot Cy5 (R) intensities against Cy3 (G) intensities and see whether the slope of the line is around 1. An improved method, which is basically a scaled, 45 degree rotation of the R vs. G plot is an MA-plot. The MA-plot is a plot of the distribution of the red/green intensity ratio ('M') plotted by the average intensity ('A'). M and A are defined by the following equations.
M is, therefore, the binary logarithm of the intensity ratio (or difference between log intensities) and A is the average log intensity for a dot in the plot. MA plots are then used to visualize intensity-dependent ratio of raw microarray data (microarrays typically show a bias here, with higher A resulting in higher |M|, i.e. the brighter the spot the more likely an observed difference between sample and control). The MA plot puts the variable M on the y-axis and A on the x-axis and gives a quick overview of the distribution of the data.
In many microarray gene expression experiments, an underlying assumption is that most of the genes would not see any change in their expression; therefore, the majority of the points on the y-axis (M) would be located at 0, since log(1) is 0. If this is not the case, then a normalization method such as LOESS should be applied to the data before statistical analysis. (On the diagram below see the red line running below the zero mark before normalization, it should be straight. Since it is not straight, the data should be normalized. After being normalized, the red line is straight on the zero line and shows as pink/black.)
Packages
Several Bioconductor packages, for the R software, provide the facility for creating MA plots. These include affy (ma.plot, mva.pairs), limma (plotMA), marray (maPlot), and edgeR(maPlot)
Similar "RA" plots can be generated using the raPlot function in the caroline CRAN R package.
An interactive MA plot to filter genes by M, A and p-values, search by names or with a lasso, and save selected genes, is available as an R-Shiny code Enhanced-MA-Plot.
Example in the R programming language
library(affy)
if (require(affydata))
{
data(Dilution)
}
y <- (exprs(Dilution)[, c("20B" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AH | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20satellite%20map%20images%20with%20missing%20or%20unclear%20data | This is a list of satellite map images with missing or unclear data. Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite imagery. There are cases where the censorship of certain sites was subsequently removed. For example, when Google Maps and Google Earth were launched, images of the White House and United States Capitol were blurred out; however, these sites are now uncensored.
Countries engaged with Google Maps
During talks with the Indian government, Google issued a statement saying "Google has been talking and will continue to talk to the Indian government about any security concerns it may have regarding Google Earth." Google agreed to blur images on request of the Indian government.
The Australian government has decided that images of sensitive areas are not a risk, due to poor level of detail. It was reported that in the lead-up to the APEC forum in Sydney held in September 2007 certain key locations in images of the city's central business district, where APEC leaders were meeting, might have been intentionally reduced in resolution; however, Google has indicated that the change was unrelated to APEC, while the NSW police said that they knew nothing about the change in Google's images. Images of the prime minister's official residence, The Lodge have not been blurred. However, images of its roof have been and the entrance to The Lodge is blurred in Google Street View.
The government of Malaysia has stated that it will not ask Google to censor sensitive areas because that would identify the locations it deemed to be sensitive.
List
Most military and defense facilities, along with many private homes, appear blurred in mapping services. The vast majority of Antarctica is also in low resolution due to the bright, often featureless, ice and snow making high-resolution imaging both difficult and largely unnecessary. The following is a partial list of notable known map sections that have been blurred or blanked.
Antarctica
Asia
Europe
North America
South America
See also
Cartographic censorship
References
Google Maps
Internet censorship
Cartographic censorship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Network%20Challenge | Food Network Challenge is a competitive cooking television series that aired on the Food Network. In each episode, professional chefs vie in a timed competition in their professional specialty. The winner receives a cheque for $10,000 and a gold medal. The first run of the series started in 2005 as a number of specials, before becoming a regular series that launched in 2007 and ended in 2011.
On November 18, 2019, it was announced that the show would return, with a premiere on December 23, 2019. Ian Ziering became the new host.
Format
The competitions are judged by specialists in their culinary fields, dependent upon the particular 'challenge'. Contestants are given eight hours to complete a task and must adhere to the competition rules; for example, edible art cake competitions often require that a cake reaches a minimum height, exhibits a certain theme, and is able to be moved to a judging table without falling over. After eight hours, the host stops all activity by saying "Competitors, stop your work!".
Episodes are shot in front of a live audience, usually at tourist attractions such as the Mall of America or Disney World. Depending on the discipline and scope of the competition, the number of competitors can range from two to hundreds. Occasionally, regional competitions are held to determine who the competitors are to be each week. Some of the events are also held as world championships or as 'invitationals'.
The winner usually receives a check for $10,000 and a gold medal. In competitions featuring five or more competitors, silver and bronze medals are also sometimes awarded, though they have no cash prize.
In 2009, the show debuted its first elimination-style competition called Last Cake Standing. In this format, six cake designers competed for a prize of $50,000.
In April 2010, original host Keegan Gerhard was promoted to judge alongside Kerry Vincent, and was replaced as host by Claire Robinson. The way in which the results were read also changed for most of, but not all of the shows; where previously only the winner was announced, the newer format's results began with announcing the third- and fourth-place finishers, who were then asked to leave the stage before the victor was revealed.
Competitions
The competitions presented on the program covered a wide range of areas, from cake decorating to ice sculpting to teppanyaki to macaroni and cheese, with cakes being the most frequently-covered area.
Last Cake Standing
In April 2009, a special version of Challenge was launched called Last Cake Standing. This series began with six competitors, with an elimination at the end of each episode until only three competitors remained. The challenges in this series were often harder and longer and with more twists than those in the 'normal' series. The finale was the longest in challenge history, giving the last three remaining competitors — Courtney Clark, Mary Maher, and Bronwen Weber — 24 hours to design and create their cake for a set of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AI | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaveh%20Pahlavan | Kaveh Pahlavan ( born in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran), is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and the director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts. Pahlavan started doing research on Wi-Fi when it was in its infancy, and has worked on wireless indoor geolocation, and Body Area Networking.
He has contributed to numerous technical publications and holds a number of patents in these areas. His current area of research is opportunistic application of RF signals from wireless devices for gesture and motion detection as well as authentication and security.
Education and career
Pahlavan received his BS/MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran in 1975, and his PhD degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts in 1979.
He began his academic career as an assistant professor at the Northeastern University, Boston, in 1979, before joining the faculty at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 1985. At WPI he founded the world's first academic research program in wireless local area networks (WLAN), commercially known as Wi-Fi (1985). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Oulu, Finland (1995-2007), where he also spent his sabbatical leave in 1999. He has spent his other sabbatical leaves at Olin College and Harvard University in 2004 and 2011 respectively.
He was the chief technical adviser of Skyhook Wireless in Boston between 2004 and 2014. WINDATA was one of the pioneers in design of WLAN and Skyhook is the pioneer of Wi-Fi positioning systems. Pahlavan has also acted as a consultant to many firms in the wireless industry, including Nokia, Apple, DEC, Honeywell, Electrobit, JPL and NTT. He also led the US team for review of the National R&D Programs, sponsored by the Finnish Academy and TEKES (2000, 2003).
He was elected as a fellow of the IEEE (1996) for contributions to data communication with particular emphasis on wireless office information networks, was selected as a member of the Evolution of Untethered Communications Committee, National Research Council (1997), was the first Fulbright-Nokia scholar (2000), and was awarded the WPI's Board of Trustees' Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship Award (2011).
Pahlavan is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, a member of the advisory board of IEEE Wireless Communications.
Books
Pahlavan has co-authored several books including:
Understanding Communications Networks – for Emerging Cybernetics Applications Forthcoming, Kaveh Pahlavan, River Publishers, the Netherlands, , 612 pages, March 2021.
Indoor Geolocation Science and Technology At the Emergence of Smart World and IoT, K. Pahlavan, River Publishers, the Netherlands, , 471 pages, Hardcover, January 2019.
Principles of Wireless Access and Localization, K. Pahlavan and P Krishnamurthy, John Wiley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-domain%20routing | Inter-domain routing is data flow control and interaction between Primary Domain Controller (PDC) computers. This type of computer uses various computer protocols and services to operate. It is most commonly used to multicast between internet domains.
Internet use
An Internet service provider, ISP, is provided with a unique URL access address. This address is a unique number. The number for each ISP is stored within a DNS server. The DNS servers interpret the ISP URL Domain name and provide the appropriate IP address number. The Domain is under the control of a specialized computer, called a PDC, (primary domain controller). This computer holds records of all the user accounts within the domain, their rights to access information, and lists of approved System Operatives. This PDC is backed up by an SDC, (a secondary domain controller), this computer synchronises itself with the PDC and takes over the role in the event of a PDC failure. Multiple replication servers connect to these control computers and they are routed to the Internet backbone to provide the requested data to and from the domain.
Communication protocols
Internet protocols that are focused on inter-domain functions include: Border Gateway Multicast Protocol, Classless Inter-Domain Routing, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol, and Protocol Independent Multicast.
Services
A PDC uses a number of special computer programs to announce its presence to other domain controllers. It uses Windows Internet naming service WINS and Browser services to allow other computers to gain access to digital information that it has control over.
Other
The opposite of inter-domain routing is intra-domain routing, routing within a domain or an autonomous system.
References
See also
List of routing protocols.
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20SR%20Merchant%20Navy%20class%20locomotives | The SR Merchant Navy class is a type of steam locomotive, designed by Oliver Bulleid, that ran on the British Southern Railway network. All were built at the Southern Railway's Eastleigh Works. The following table sets out the names, numbers and other vital statistics of the locomotives that comprised the class. The 'Merchant Navies' represented a publicity success for the Southern Railway in highlighting the names of Merchant Navy shipping lines that used Southampton Docks, which were served by the Southern Railway. They also constituted a roving memorial to the seamen who fought at sea during the Second World War to keep Britain supplied with food, fuel and other goods.
The shipping lines below are linked to their current or last owners, and take into account the many mergers that occur in the Merchant Marine industry, for example, General Steam Navigation merged with P & O in 1920, and finally disappeared as a separate entity in 1972.
See also
SR Merchant Navy Class 35006 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.
SR Merchant Navy Class 35009 Shaw Savill
SR Merchant Navy Class 35027 Port Line
SR Merchant Navy Class 35028 Clan Line
Footnotes
External links
Southern e-groupMerchant Navy information
Preserved locomotives
Peninsular & Oriental S.N. Co (35006)
General Steam Navigation (35011)
Clan Line (35028)
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
4-6-2 locomotives
Merchant Navy
Streamlined steam locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1941
British railway-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouettes%20Genevoises%20Navigation | Mouettes Genevoises Navigation is a private water bus operator in Geneva, Switzerland, operating four lines across the western end of Lake Geneva. A member of the integrated Unireso fare network, its head office is in Geneva. The modern company was founded in 1897 by the merger of three boat operators.
Name
"Mouettes" translates to "gulls". The origin of this name is not well understood, but may date from an era of many boat companies, each named after different birds. The boats today are usually painted in yellow and red, the heraldic colors of Geneva.
Lines
The four lines are considered integral to the city's transport network and thus receive public funding.
M1 Line Pâquis – Molard
M2 Line Pâquis – Quai Gustave Ador
M3 Line Pâquis – Geneva beach
M4 Line Geneva beach – De-Chateaubriand
References
External links
Mouettes Genevoises
Public transport in Switzerland
Organisations based in Geneva
Transport in Geneva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20Radio | Heat Radio is a British digital radio station, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Kiss Network.
As of September 2023, the station has a weekly audience of 473,000 listeners according to RAJAR.
History
Heat Radio launched in 2003 as a non-stop music station broadcasting from London, where it was located alongside the sister magazine.
In 2007 the station re-launched with presenters and showbiz news throughout the day.
In 2009, Heat moved to Bauer Radio's studios in Castlefield, Manchester, as part of a cost-cutting programme, to be based alongside sister radio stations Key 103 and The Hits Radio, where music and entertainment news output would be sourced. That same year, the station, along with The Hits Radio, Smash Hits Radio, Q Radio and Kerrang Radio, were removed from Sky, Virgin Media and UPC Ireland, due to cost-cutting measures with Bauer Radio, BSkyB and Liberty Global.
In January 2015, heat moved back to London be based with Bauer's other national brands at One Golden Square.
In early 2016 the station, along with Kisstory, migrated from being provided on local DAB multiplexes to instead being transmitted over the Sound Digital national multiplex, in which Bauer is a shareholder. Some of the local capacity previously used by Heat and Kisstory was reallocated to KissFresh.
The station has been appearing in Heat magazine, with regular adverts, shared content and joint campaigns like a recent promotion with Channel 4's Hollyoaks, and ITV2's The Only Way Is Essex.
In its early years, Heat generally broadcast at 64 kbit/s in mono on DAB. Following the 2007 relaunch, the service was boosted to 112 kbit/s in stereo where possible (in London, Smash Hits Radio moved to the former Heat capacity to allow the prior SH slot to be used as part of the extended Heat). More recently, the Heat service switched back to mono, generally at 80 kbit/s, and this bitrate carried over when heat migrated to SDL National.
On 1 February 2019, Heat Radio became an online only non-stop music station as it was removed from the Sound Digital national multiplex but remained on Freeview until June 2020 when it was replaced by Greatest Hits Radio. On 27 July 2020, it returned to be broadcast via DAB via local radio in Inverness.
On 3 April 2023, following the conversion of Clyde 2, Forth 2 and Tay 2 to the Greatest Hits Radio brand, Heat Radio was added to the local DAB multiplexes for Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee/Perth in place of the previously-provided Greatest Hits Radio UK.
On 26 September 2023, it was announced that Heat will return over Autumn 2023 to SDL nationally on DAB+ with seven other stations.
See also
Heat (magazine)
Heat (TV channel)
References
External links
Digital-only radio stations
Bauer Radio
Radio stations established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocyber | is a 1992 Japanese manga series by Tony Takezaki. One volume of the manga was published, and the story remains unfinished. It was adapted by Koichi Ohata into a five-part original video animation (OVA) series in 1994. The plot of the anime differs significantly from the manga. Both are notable for their extreme graphic violence.
The OVA was produced by Bandai Visual and released in North America by U.S. Manga Corps. Genocyber was also released by Manga Entertainment's UK and Australian Divisions in The Cyberpunk Collection but only episodes 1-3 were released in these regions; this collection also included two other cyberpunk OVAs, Cyber City Oedo 808 and A.D. Police. The remaining two parts were not released into English until U.S. Manga Corp obtained the rights and had Central Park Media dub the remaining two episodes that were not dubbed by Manga UK.
In September 2020, Discotek Media announced they have acquired the distribution rights to Genocyber.
Plot
Episode 1: A New Life
The world's nations are beginning to form a new global government. The first OVA is centered around a young girl named Elaine and details the development and creation of a "Genocyber", an ultimate biological weapon created by combining the powers and consciousness of two psychic sisters. The project is directed by a mad scientist and funded by the Kuryu Group (The Kuryu Group was called Kuron in the English dub by Manga UK, but this was corrected by Central Park Media for episodes 4 and 5), a huge Japanese corporation that is a world leader in military research. Starting off in Hong Kong, the story follows Elaine, a nervous young girl. She is central to the ambitions of the scientist who wants to combine her powers with those of her crippled sister, Diana, to activate the Genocyber. Both were children of a former colleague of the mad scientist, whom he betrayed to receive funding for his research.
In its physical form, Genocyber is a gigantic humanoid monster, which the scientist calls a Vajra. In addition to having almost unlimited strength and regenerative abilities, Genocyber also possesses incredible telekinetic and pyrokinetic powers.
After a brutal search by the scientist and his masked henchmen for Elaine that kills dozens, Elaine is chased by cyborg agents of the Kuryu group, and the scientist is later arrested for going rogue and conducting his own research without the group's approval. During a battle where Diana wears a cybernetic suit of her own to try to catch her, Elaine supposedly dies, which leads to the cyborgs arresting the scientist and collecting Diana. However, Elaine (from within Diana) then uses her psychic power to merge with her and become Genocyber. In the ensuing battle, in which the scientist is killed, huge fires are started, and numerous buildings are heavily damaged, Genocyber also destroys the cyborg agents and throws one of them through a moving airplane. The next morning, Elaine finds that her only friend, a young homeless boy called |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophon%20program | Bellerophon is a computer program for detecting chimeric sequences in multiple sequence datasets by an adaptation of partial treeing analysis. Bellerophon was specifically developed to detect 16S rRNA gene chimeras in PCR-clone libraries of environmental samples, but can be applied to other nucleotide sequence alignments.
External links
Interactive bellerophon web server
References
Bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Towboy | "Midnight Towboy" is the third episode of the nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 7, 2007, and in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2007. This is the first Simpsons episode to premiere in October since season eleven's "Treehouse of Horror X", which aired on October 31, 1999.
When Homer's car is towed, he meets Louie, a tow truck driver who introduces Homer to the joy of towing cars for a living. Homer soon goes too far, prompting Springfieldians to plot their revenge. Meanwhile, Marge becomes concerned about Maggie's clinginess and hires a counselor to make her independent. This episode was written by Stephanie Gillis, and directed by Matthew Nastuk. Matt Dillon guest stars as Louie.
During its first airing, the episode gained 7.7 million viewers.
Plot
Marge discovers that Maggie has become excessively clingy while putting her to bed one night. After Maggie's behavior causes a bottle of milk to fall and break on the kitchen floor, Bart and Lisa help Marge get in touch with Creative Responses for Infant Edu-Loving (CRIE, pronounced as the word "cry"), a group that helps children to be more independent. A CRIE counselor arrives to work with Maggie, ordering Marge to leave her alone in a room. Marge is unnerved by Maggie's crying at first, but Maggie quickly calms down as Marge watches in surprise. Maggie is soon able to climb up into her own high chair and get a book and banana for herself, and Marge is saddened to realize that she is no longer needed.
Meanwhile, Homer drives all over Springfield in search of more milk, to no avail. He finally buys some in the sleazy neighboring city of Guidopolis, which is populated by Italian-American stereotypes, but finds his car being towed away by a man named Louie. Seeing Homer's fascination with towing, Louie unhooks the car and introduces him to the business, but warns him not to work in Guidopolis as it is Louie's territory. Homer begins to tow one car after another in Springfield, angering the residents and prompting them to plan revenge.
The residents plant a car just inside Guidopolis, set it up to appear as if it is parked illegally, and hide the city-limits sign to fool Homer into thinking that it is within Springfield. When he tows the car, they reveal the sign; furious at this trespassing, Louie abducts Homer and locks him in his basement with other tow truck drivers who have run afoul of him.
With Homer gone, the parking situation in Springfield degenerates into pandemonium. After four days, Maggie rides Santa's Little Helper into Guidopolis and frees the drivers by using the hook on Louie's tow truck to rip out the bars on his basement window. Homer returns home with Maggie and the dog, and Marge and Maggie happily reconcile.
Cultural references
The episode title is a reference to Midnight Cowboy. Louie's trapdoor is activated by a bust of Jon Bon Jovi, à la the 1960s Batman TV show. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo%20Sarrey | Domingo Sarrey (Santander, Cantabria, Spain 1948) is a visual artist and video artist.
His first video art piece was generated in the Computing Centre of Madrid Complutense University in 1968, while studying physics, although he had already carried out other cinematic creations in 8 mm.
He was the first artist in creating and exhibiting a multi-vision with six projectors, "PANORAMA 78", in the MEAC (Spanish Contemporary Art Museum) in 1978. Other works such as "Villa María", "The Factory", "Words", "Radio Broadcast", "Reading", etc., were produced between 1972 and 1982, and were exhibited as the first manifestations of video-art as an artistic medium in some of the most renowned galleries, art centres, and institutions (Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander 1978, Galería Juana Mordó, 1979, Rompeolas, 1982, Espacio P (de Pedro Gardel) 1982, Casa de Velázquez,1982, Instituto Alemán1 1983, Liceo Francés 1983, Fundación Juan March 1984, Alphaville "Circuitos de Video", 1984, Centro Nicolás Salmerón, 1986, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía etc.).
References
External links
Domingo Sarrey
1948 births
Living people
People from Santander, Spain
Artists from Cantabria
Spanish video artists
Spanish contemporary artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeSurvey | LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a free and open source on-line statistical survey web app written in PHP based on a MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL or MSSQL database, distributed under the GNU General Public License. As a web server-based software it enables users using a web interface to develop and publish on-line surveys, collect responses, create statistics, and export the resulting data to other applications.
History
LimeSurvey was registered as a SourceForge.net project called PHPSurveyor on February 20, 2003 and was originally written by the Australian software developer Jason Cleeland. The first public release, version 0.93, was published on March 5, 2003. The project quickly developed a large audience of users after the development of advanced features such as branching (conditions), token control and templating.
In 2004, during the 2004 U.S. presidential election, PHPSurveyor was used to gather data about voting irregularities. It identified over 13500 incidents in the first 10 hours of voting and was selected as part of their Election Incident Reporting System.
Starting in early 2005, Carsten Schmitz, a German IT project manager, started taking on some of the lead developer responsibilities, with the full project being transferred to him in 2006. On May 17, 2007 the project name was changed from PHPSurveyor to LimeSurvey in order to make software licensing easier by not including PHP in the name.
In late 2008, a LimeSurvey hosting service named LimeService was created by LimeSurvey project leader Carsten Schmitz. It hosts LimeSurvey for users for a small fee per response.
As of June 4, 2008, LimeSurvey was ranked on SourceForge.net with an overall rank of 99 out of over 100,000 projects as of June 4, 2008. It has been downloaded more than 200,000 times and its development status is listed as "5 - Production/Stable, 6 - Mature".
In 2009, LimeSurvey participated in the Google Summer of Code, a program encouraging students older than 18 years old to work on projects aimed at helping open-source projects. The student projects helped develop the interface and statistical modules of the upcoming LimeSurvey 2.0.
In 2010, LimeSurvey again participated in Google Summer of Code. Students developed a Database Storage Engine for LimeSurvey 2.0, and implemented the much demanded “File upload question” type. In November, LimeSurvey also participated in the Google Code-in, a similar program rewarding high school students to contribute to open source projects. Tasks ranged from improving LimeSurvey’s Wikipedia pages to enhancing the user interface. LimeSurvey also participated in the 2011 Google Summer of Code.
As of 2010, LimeSurvey had 2,944 weekly downloads on SourceForge, and an Alexa traffic rank of 32,633.
Version 2.0
In 2012 the LimeSurvey development team released LimeSurvey 2.0. The code base for LimeSurvey 2.0 was completely re-written from scratch using a MVC (Model–view–controller) approach and the Yii PHP framework. Besides the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20High%20Performance%20Computing | The International Conference on High Performance Computing (or HiPC) is an international meeting on high performance computing. It serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the high performance computing area. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications.
References
External links
Official HiPC Website
Distributed computing conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20China | The gauge for the most of the China national railway network is standard gauge. Currently, in the national railway network, only the Kunming–Haiphong railway uses narrow gauge. In addition, there are some industrial lines still using narrow gauge, mostly narrow gauge or narrow gauge. As of 2003, 600+ km narrow-gauge railways, 50000+ km standard gauge railways, and 9.4 km broad gauge railways were in use in mainland China.
Operational narrow-gauge railways
Kunming–Hekou Railway
The Kunming–Hekou railway (previously known as the "Sino-Vietnamese Railway") was part of the Kunming–Haiphong railway built by French colonists between Vietnam and China. Due to landslides and the opening of the new standard-gauge Kunming-Yuxi-Hekou railway, this meter-gauge line is now inoperative for passengers (except for a small section within Greater Kunming) but does have freight services.
This railway, opened in 1910, had a gauge branch line from Caoba to Shiping which operated 0-10-0 tender locos built by Baldwin Locomotive Works. This branch has been later converted to 1,000 mm gauge as well, and presently (2016) is used by tourist excursion trains around Jianshui
The meter gauge section was originally administered in more or less the same way as the Indochinese networks, and it was physically possible for through trains to be run from Kunming to Saigon, as meter gauge was used in both these countries. During the Japanese occupation Japanese National Railways Class 9600 2-8-0 locomotives were shipped to aid their invasion. After the completion of the "death railway" in Thailand, it would have been possible for a time for through traffic to Burma (if not for a gap between Saigon and Phnom Penh, in Cambodia). This is now impossible as sections of this railway have been destroyed during the conflicts since World War II.
Industrial railways
In Manchuria, lumber industries built narrow-gauge railways into the forests. These used Russian and Japanese locomotives, copied from Soviet or Eastern European designs. Now most of them have disappeared. These railways mostly use a gauge of .
gauge railways
Several gauge railways were constructed by the Japanese.
Manchuria
There were several gauge military railways in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. These Japanese military railways – which includes a section converted from the Chinese Eastern Railway – used Japanese National Railways stock and were quickly converted back to standard gauge after the war to facilitate through traffic with the British controlled Peking-Mukden (Beijing-Shenyang) Railway, which was standard gauge. As a result, the South Manchurian Railway, a creation of the Japanese Kwantung Army, was standard gauge.
Hainan
In 1941–43, during the Japanese occupation of Hainan, several gauge rail lines were constructed in the western part of the island. Of particular importance for the Japanese war effort was the line connecting the iron ore mine in Shilu with the Basuo Harbor.
The li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented | Service-oriented may refer to:
Service-orientation, in business computing
Service-oriented architecture (SOA), related to the above meaning
Service-oriented development of applications (SODA), a way of producing service-oriented architecture applications
Service-oriented device architecture (SODA), to enable devices to be connected to a service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Service-oriented distributed applications, an architecture that allows some services to be run on the client and some on the server
Service-oriented infrastructure (SOI), a system for describing information technology infrastructure as a service
Service-oriented modeling, a discipline of modeling business and software systems
Service-oriented provisioning (SOP), a technology concept pertaining to Wireless Internet service provider (WISP) and ISP space
Service-oriented software engineering (SOSE), a software engineering methodology focused on the composition of reusable components
Service-oriented transformation, the successor to classic business transformation initiatives
Service-oriented (sexuality), in human sexuality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversified%20Technology | Diversified Technology, Inc. was a computer hardware manufacturing company. Based in Ridgeland, Mississippi, the company, which was a subsidiary of Ergon, Inc., was formed in 1971. In 1987, Diversified Technology released the first IBM-compatible single-board computer for a passive ISA backplane. Diversified was also the first to introduce an ATCA- and InfiniBand-based blade network switch, introduced in Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron variants in 2005 and 2007 respectively.
Diversified Technology ceased operations in 2013.
External links
References
1971 establishments in Mississippi
2013 disestablishments in Mississippi
American companies established in 1971
American companies disestablished in 2013
Companies based in Mississippi
Computer companies established in 1971
Computer companies disestablished in 2013
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rivals%20of%20Sherlock%20Holmes%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a British anthology mystery television series produced by Thames Television which was originally broadcast on the ITV Network. There were two series of 13 fifty-minute episodes; the first aired in 1971, the second in 1973. The programme presented adaptations of short mystery, suspense or crime stories featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes took its inspiration – and title – from a series of published anthologies by Hugh Greene, younger brother of author Graham Greene and the former director-general of the BBC. Greene is credited on the programme as a creative consultant.
Recurring characters
Douglas Wilmer as Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen (2 episodes)
Peter Vaughan as Horace Dorrington (2 episodes)
Kenneth Colley as Farrish (2 episodes)
Petronella Barker as Miss Parrot (2 episodes)
Peter Barkworth as Martin Hewitt (2 episodes)
Ronald Hines as Jonathan Pryde (2 episodes)
Episode list
Series 1 (20 Sep – 9 Dec 1971)
Series 2 (29 Jan – 7 May 1973)
DVD availability
The first series was released on a 4-disc Region 2 DVD set by Network Distributing on 15 June 2009. Acorn Media released a Region 1 version of this set on 1 September 2009. Series Two was released on a Network DVD 4-disc Region 2 release on 15 February 2010; Acorn followed with a Region 1 version on 27 April.
Bibliography
Greene, Hugh; editor. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Pantheon Books, 1970;
Greene, Hugh; editor. Cosmopolitan Crimes: Foreign Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Pantheon Books, 1971;
Greene, Hugh; editor. Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Pantheon Books, 1973;
Greene, Hugh; editor. The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Pantheon Books, 1976;
Notes
References
External links
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes at the BFI Film & TV database
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes at Television Heaven
1970s British anthology television series
1970s British crime television series
1970s British drama television series
1970s British mystery television series
1971 British television series debuts
1973 British television series endings
British detective television series
English-language television shows
ITV mystery shows
Television series based on short fiction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeless%20%28radio%20network%29 | Timeless was a 24-hour satellite music service of Citadel Media (through Citadel Broadcasting). It has distributed a mix of soft oldies and adult standards to radio stations around the United States. It was a combination of two former formats: gold-based adult contemporary Unforgettable Favorites (also known as "Memories") and adult standards Timeless Classics/Timeless Favorites (originally known as "Stardust"). Since 2007, it was simply known as "Timeless", still using the "Timeless Favorites" branding sparingly.
The lineup of DJs included Steve Gunn (DJ), Laurie Bandemir, Scott Reese, Debbie Douglas, Vic Thomas, and Mike Matthews on weekdays, and Steve Cumming, Frank Welch, Angie Michaels and Bob Lawrence on weekends, as well as Jack Grady.
Classic artists that were heard on Timeless include The Carpenters, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Barry Manilow, James Taylor, Neil Diamond, Anne Murray, Billy Joel, The Beach Boys, Linda Ronstadt, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley, Carly Simon, The Bee Gees, Glen Campbell, Paul Simon and a dozen more.
History
Satellite Music Network (later taken over by ABC) started the Stardust format in 1981 in the Chicago area, and Eddie Hubbard was one of its first DJs.
Past personalities include Jack Davis, Joe Lacina, Jerry Mitchell, Ted Ostrem, Dave Rafferty, Patty Pratt, Larry Carolla, Ron Baxley and Bud Buschardt. The name "Stardust" was taken from a 1927 song called "Stardust" composed by Hoagy Carmichael and performed by Mitchell Parish. For most of its history Stardust was an adult standards format, focusing on the big band era in its early years and evolving over the years to include more oldies and adult contemporary music. The format was called "Unforgettable Favorites" on the air for a while until ABC's Memories, another satellite format from the same company, began using the term. Stardust became "Timeless Classics" and continued to use the term until early in 2007. Among the artists who have recorded standards in recent years that were included in the format: Paul Anka, Michael Bublé, Ray Charles, Manilow, Bette Midler, Ronnie Milsap, Ronstadt, Carly Simon, John Stevens, Rod Stewart, B. J. Thomas, Jamie Cullum, Debby Boone, and Steve Tyrell.
In Summer 2006, Stardust changed to a new sound with the end of Memories, adding a number of that format's songs. The "Unforgettable Favorites" feed was still active as The Christmas Channel on a seasonal basis until 2014.
Close Down
On November 12, 2009, the staff at parent company Citadel Media says that "Timeless" was losing affiliates and became less attractive to advertisers. Citadel Media President John Rosso said it would be discontinued as of February 13, 2010.
This satellite format signed off 2 days after its scheduled date of February 13. The network signed off at 12AM Central Time on February 15, 2010. The last song played on the network was "Kind of a Drag" by The Buckinghams
Former affiliates (listed below) had the option t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Cable | CBS Cable was an early but short-lived cable television network operated by CBS, Inc., dedicated to the lively arts (i.e. symphony, dance, theatre, opera, etc.). It debuted on October 12, 1981 and ceased operations on December 17, 1982.
CBS Cable was a personal project of CBS founder William Paley, who hoped it would blaze a trail for cultural programming in the then-emerging cable television medium. Its program offerings were ambitious and often critically praised. Nevertheless, the network struggled, and ultimately failed, largely because of the reluctance of many cable systems across the United States to give it carriage, limiting severely its ability to attract both viewers and advertisers for its costly lineup of programming. Its program offerings, while critically hailed in their own right, frequently overlapped cultural, literary and historical programs broadcast over the air in prime time by PBS in nearly every television market. Further, cable systems in the early 1980s had far more limited channel capacity than they do today (usually the standard thirty-five channels in most cities). CBS Cable was competing for channel space by appealing to a select and relatively small upscale audience, while other networks coming on line at the same time such as MTV and ESPN promised larger and more broad-based viewership and therefore got cable operators to carry them far more easily. MTV and ESPN thrived and gave rise to additional companion channels within a short time, while the CBS Cable channel folded after just over 14 months in operation.
CBS made another effort to launch a cable network using the CBS name, CBS Eye On People, which launched in 1997, featuring mostly biography programming and programs from the CBS News archives, along with old episodes of 60 Minutes and other CBS newsmagazines. However the effort proved to be unsuccessful, and in 1998 CBS sold its stake in the network to Discovery Communications, which rebranded it as Discovery People before utilizing the channel slots acquired in the deal for their other networks.
As a CBS division name
The CBS Cable name was used for three years as the name of the network's cable division, after the 1996 purchase of The Nashville Network (now the general-interest Paramount Network) and Country Music Television from Gaylord Entertainment, along with CBS' existing stakes in the regional sports networks Midwest Sports Channel in the Twin Cities/Milwaukee (now split into Bally Sports North, serving Minnesota and the Dakotas, and Bally Sports Wisconsin for Wisconsin, purchased in 1992 by CBS as part of their acquisition of Midwest Television, the owners of WCCO-TV and Green Bay's WFRV-TV) and the Home Team Sports network in the Baltimore/Washington market (now Monumental Sports Network). TNN and CMT were folded into MTV Networks after the 1999 merger with Viacom, with the sports networks sold to other parties shortly after the merger.
Host
Patrick Watson (also known for PBS' Live at Lincoln |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone%20%28Java%20method%29 | clone() is a method in the Java programming language for object duplication. In Java, objects are manipulated through reference variables, and there is no operator for copying an object—the assignment operator duplicates the reference, not the object. The clone() method provides this missing functionality.
Overview
Classes that want copying functionality must implement some method to do so. To a certain extent that function is provided by "Object.clone()".
clone() acts like a copy constructor. Typically it calls the clone() method of its superclass to obtain the copy, etc. until it eventually reaches Object's clone() method. The special clone() method in the base class Object provides a standard mechanism for duplicating objects.
The class Object's clone() method creates and returns a copy of the object, with the same class and with all the fields having the same values. However, Object.clone() throws a CloneNotSupportedException unless the object is an instance of a class that implements the marker interface Cloneable.
The default implementation of Object.clone() performs a shallow copy. When a class desires a deep copy or some other custom behavior, they must implement that in their own clone() method after they obtain the copy from the superclass.
The syntax for calling clone in Java is (assuming obj is a variable of a class type that has a public clone() method):
Object copy = obj.clone();
or commonly
MyClass copy = (MyClass) obj.clone();
which provides the typecasting needed to assign the general Object reference returned from clone to a reference to a MyClass object.
One disadvantage with the design of the clone() method is that the return type of clone() is Object, and needs to be explicitly cast back into the appropriate type. However, overriding clone() to return the appropriate type is preferable and eliminates the need for casting in the client (using covariant return types, since J2SE 5.0).
Another disadvantage is that one often cannot access the clone() method on an abstract type. Most interfaces and abstract classes in Java do not specify a public clone() method. As a result, often the clone() method can only be used if the actual class of an object is known, which is contrary to the abstraction principle of using the most generic type possible. For example, if one has a List reference in Java, one cannot invoke clone() on that reference because List specifies no public clone() method. Actual implementations of List like ArrayList and LinkedList all generally have clone() methods themselves, but it is inconvenient and bad abstraction to carry around the actual class type of an object.
Alternatives
There are alternatives to clone(), notably the use of a copy constructor - a constructor that accepts as a parameter another instance of the same class - or a factory method. These methods are not always adequate when the concrete type of the cloned object is not known in advance. (However, clone() is often not adequate either for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20October%20Road%20episodes | October Road, a television drama series created by André Nemec, Scott Rosenberg and Josh Appelbaum, premiered on March 15, 2007 on ABC network in the United States and ended on March 10, 2008. The show spans two seasons of 19 episodes. All episodes were approximately 41 minutes long excluding commercials. ABC decided to cancel the series due to declining ratings in the second season.
Both seasons of October Road were released on DVD in United States in 2007 and 2009, respectively.</ref> Following the show's cancellation, the writers wrote an additional 15-minute episode concluding the events of the series finale. The episode was filmed and is featured on the second season DVD.
October Road follows Nick Garrett, a man returning to his hometown 10 years after he had left it to go backpacking to Europe but never returned. After leaving all of his friends and family behind, Nick now has to face the changes and the ghosts from his past. The series stars Bryan Greenberg as Nick, Laura Prepon as Hannah Daniels, Warren Christie as Ray Cataldo, Geoff Stults as Eddie Latekka, Tom Berenger as Bob Garrett, Rebecca Field as Janet Meadows, Brad William Henke as Owen Rowan, Evan Jones as "Ikey," Jay Paulson as "Physical Phil," Slade Pearce as Sam Daniels, Odette Yustman as Aubrey Diaz, and Lindy Booth as "Pizza Girl."
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2007)
Season 2 (2007–08)
References
External links
Full episodes of October Road from AOL
Lists of American drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiValue%20database | A MultiValue database is a type of NoSQL and multidimensional database, typically considered synonymous with PICK, a database originally developed as the Pick operating system.
MultiValue databases include commercial products from Rocket Software, Revelation, InterSystems, Northgate Information Solutions, ONgroup, and other companies. These databases differ from a relational database in that they have features that support and encourage the use of attributes which can take a list of values, rather than all attributes being single-valued. They are often categorized with MUMPS within the category of post-relational databases, although the data model actually pre-dates the relational model. Unlike SQL-DBMS tools, most MultiValue databases can be accessed both with or without SQL.
History
Don Nelson designed the MultiValue data model in the early to mid-1960s. Dick Pick, a developer at TRW, worked on the first implementation of this model for the US Army in 1965. Pick considered the software to be in the public domain because it was written for the military. This was but the first dispute regarding MultiValue databases that was addressed by the courts.
Ken Simms wrote DataBASIC, sometimes known as S-BASIC, in the mid-1970s. It was based on Dartmouth BASIC, but had enhanced features for data management. Simms played a lot of Star Trek while developing the language, in order to have the language function to his satisfaction.
Three of the implementations of MultiValue - PICK version R77, Microdata Reality 3.x, and Prime Information 1.0 - were very similar. In spite of attempts to standardize, particularly by International Spectrum and the Spectrum Manufacturers Association, who designed a logo for all to use, there are no standards across MultiValue implementations. Subsequently, these flavors diverged, although with some cross-over. These streams of MultiValue database development could be classified as one stemming from PICK R83, one from Microdata Reality, and one from Prime Information. Because of the differences, some implementations have provisions for supporting several flavors of the languages. An attempt to document the similarities and differences can be found at the Post-Relational Database Reference (PRDB).
Marketing groups and others in the industry over the years have classified MultiValue databases as pre-relational, post-relational, relational, and embedded, with detractors often classifying it as legacy. It could now be classified as NoSQL. With a data model that aligns well with JSON and XML and that permits access with or without the use of SQL.
One reasonable hypothesis for this data model lasting 50 years, with new database implementations of the model even in the 21st century is that it provides inexpensive database solutions. Historically, with industry benchmarks tied to SQL transactions, this has been a difficult hypothesis to test, although there are considerable anecdotes of failed attempts to get the functionality of a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Networks | Berkeley Networks was a leading startup company that built intelligent switches targeted for the enterprise computer networking market segment.
The company was established in 1996. The name of the company comes from the school University of California, Berkeley. The founder and CEO, Dr. Ravi Sethi, received his Ph.D. and MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley Networks was acquired by Pittsburgh-based FORE Systems for US$250 million, and then which later was acquired by London-based GEC (now Marconi Corporation plc) for £2.8 Billion.
See also
Telecommunication
Communications protocols
External links
Intel Capital: The Berkeley Networks Investment
Fore Systems Agrees to Purchase Berkeley Networks
Defunct networking companies
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%20Memorandum | Martian Memorandum is a dystopian cyberpunk/noir graphic adventure game that was originally released in 1991 for MS-DOS. It was developed and published by Access Software. The game is the second in the series of Tex Murphy mysteries; its immediate sequel is Under a Killing Moon. The game is set in 2039, several years after Mean Streets.
The game was re-released in 2014 on Steam with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Plot
Tex Murphy is hired by business mogul Marshall Alexander, founder of TerraForm Corporation, to locate his missing daughter, Alexis. As in the first game, Tex travels between destinations and interrogates characters associated with the subject such as Alexander's attorney, his wife, and Alexis's roommate and business partners. Interrogations are menu-based and dialogues open up additional destinations and dialogue options. The investigation reveals to Tex that the girl's disappearance is linked with an item in Alexander's possession.
Alexis has been traced on planet Mars, whose exploitation is mostly owned by Alexander's company. Tex finds out that Alexander was actually Collier Stanton, a scientist and explorer of Mars, infamous for killing mutant colonists to obtain the "Oracle Stone". With this stone, Alexander foresaw the future, read antagonists' minds and built his corporate empire. Alexis's good will was used to lure her into stealing the Stone and bring it to Mars, only to fall into the hands of Thomas Dangerfield, the original discoverer of the Stone.
The character of Larry Hammond, who appeared in Mean Streets, returns to this game, giving information to the player. Lowell Percival, who is introduced here, also appears in Killing Moon, as does Mac Malden, who appears in both Killing Moon and Pandora Directive.
Gameplay
Unlike the more experimental Mean Streets, Martian Memorandum adheres to the genre conventions of the point-and-click adventure game. The gameplay style is based on interrogations, gathering information which "unlocks" new destinations and interrogation options. A verb bar at the bottom of the screen allows players to select different ways to interact with their environment. Certain objects can be collected, placed in an inventory and then used at a later point in time. It also introduced dialog trees to the series. Conversations feature voice and small video clips, elements that were greatly expanded in later games in the series. The game is notable for its increased use of digitized human voices and digital "video" of human actors, playable even through a PC's internal speaker.
Reception
Dragon gave the game 3 out of 5 stars. Computer Gaming World in 1992 praised the audio and digitized animation, and concluded that "Martian Memorandum produces hours of enjoyment [and] provides a tremendous challenge". That year the magazine named it one of the year's top four adventure games.
References
External links
Martian Memorandum at MobyGames
1991 video games
Adventure games
DOS games
Linux games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/365-day%20calendar | A 365-day calendar consists of exactly 365 days per year (in common years), and is primarily used in computer models and as an assumption in every-day calculations. For example, a calculation of a daily rate may use an annual total divided by exactly 365.
Interest rates in some banks are calculated using a 365-day calendar.
Other 365-day calendars
Some Mesoamerican calendars used a 365-day year with no leap year, resulting in a gradual shift of the seasons relative to the calendar. This includes the Maya Haab' and the Aztec Xiuhpohualli calendars.
Some versions of the Zoroastrian calendar also use a fixed length of 365 days with no rule for leap days, despite potential leap year rules being acknowledged by the 9th century at the latest. In particular, of the versions still in use today the Qadimi version does not have any form of leap rule; the Shahanshahi version had one leap month added in the 12th century but no leap years since, while the Fasli version (introduced in the 20th century) adds one day every four years.
See also
360-day calendar
References
Specific calendars
Settlement (finance) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20markup%20language | A mathematical markup language is a computer notation for representing mathematical formulae, based on mathematical notation. Specialized markup languages are necessary because computers normally deal with linear text and more limited character sets (although increasing support for Unicode is obsoleting very simple uses). A formally standardized syntax also allows a computer to interpret otherwise ambiguous content, for rendering or even evaluating. For computer-interpretable syntaxes, the most popular are TeX/LaTeX, MathML (Mathematical Markup Language), OpenMath and OMDoc.
Notations for human input
Popular languages for input by humans and interpretation by computers include TeX/LaTeX and eqn.
Computer algebra systems such as Macsyma, Mathematica (Wolfram Language), Maple, and MATLAB each have their own syntax.
When the purpose is informal communication with other humans, syntax is often ad hoc, sometimes called "ASCII math notation". Academics sometimes use syntax based on TeX due to familiarity with it from writing papers. Those used to programming languages may also use shorthands like "!" for . Web pages may also use a limited amount of HTML to mark up a small subset, for example superscripting. Ad hoc syntax requires context to interpret ambiguous syntax, for example "<=" could be "is implied by" or "less than or equal to", and "dy/dx" is likely to denote a derivative, but strictly speaking could also mean a finite quantity dy divided by dx.
Unicode improves the support for mathematics, compared to ASCII only.
Examples
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!TeX
!eqn
!ad hoc ASCII
!ad hoc Unicode
!formula
|-
|$a^2$
|a sup 2
|a^2
|a²
|
|-
|$\sum_{k=1}^N k^2 $
|sum from { k = 1 } to N { k sup 2 }
|sum_{k=1}^N k^2
|Σ_{k=1}^N k²
|
|-
|$\neg (a > 2) \Rightarrow a \le 2$
|neg (a > 2) drarrow a <= 2
|!(a > 2) => a <= 2
|¬(a > 2) ⇒ a ≤ 2
|
|}
Markup languages for computer interchange
Markup languages optimized for computer-to-computer communication include MathML, OpenMath, and OMDoc. These are designed for clarity, parseability and to minimize ambiguity, at the price of verbosity. However, the verbosity makes them clumsier for humans to type directly.
Conversion
Many input, rendering, and conversion tools exist.
Microsoft Word included Equation Editor, a limited version of MathType, until 2007. These allow entering formulae using a graphical user interface, and converting to standard markup languages such as MathML. With Microsoft's release of Microsoft Office 2007 and the Office Open XML file formats, they introduced a new equation editor which uses a new format, "Office Math Markup Language" (OMML). The lack of compatibility led some prestigious scientific journals to refuse to accept manuscripts which had been produced using Microsoft Office 2007.
SciWriter is another GUI that can generate MathML and LaTeX.
ASCIIMathML, a JavaScript program, can convert ad hoc ASCII notation to MathML.
See also
Proof assistant
Formal proof
Lis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AJ | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AK | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AL | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenticeship%20Ambassadors%20Network | The Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network is an employer-led body sponsored by the Skills Funding Agency in England. Its remit is to encourage more employers to become involved in apprenticeships in England.
The Network is the successor body to the Apprenticeship Task Force established by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. David Meller, of the Meller Group, was Chair from 2014 - 2018 followed by Jason Holt CBE of the Holts Group of Companies from 2018 to 2022. The previous Chairman was Sir Roy Gardner, Chairman of Compass Group Plc. Members include ex-apprentice Mike Turner CBE Chairman of Babcock International and companies as diverse as Asda, British Gas, BT and Toyota.
The Network has presented Honorary Apprenticeship Awards to prominent people who have served an Apprenticeship and/or have had significant involvement in work based learning or achieved success via social enterprise or their profession. These Honoraries in turn then act as role models for young people and other employers.
In June 2007, at 11 Downing Street, Honorary Apprenticeships were awarded to
Gary Rhodes OBE, Charles Worthington , and Kamal Basran.
Recipients in 2009, at an event at 10 Downing Street, were Sir Alex Ferguson, CBE, Sir John Cassels CB, Mike Turner CBE, Alan Titchmarsh , Brian Turner CBE, and Margaret Gildea OBE.
In 2011, recipient Sir Alan Jones, former Chairman, Semta, received his award during the National Apprenticeship Service Awards in June. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, Frances O'Grady, TUC Deputy General Secretary, Allan Cook CBE, Chairman Atkins Plc, and John Armitt, Chairman, Olympic Development Authority also received Honorary Apprenticeship Awards for 2011 at a ceremony at Lancaster House on 14 December 2011.
On 10 July 2013, Ross Brawn OBE, Theo Fennell, Christine Gaskell MBE, Michel Roux Jr, Pete Waterman OBE and Baroness Wall of New Barnet received Honorary Apprenticeships, presented by Deputy Prime Minister Rt Hon Nick Clegg, at Admiralty House.
See also
National Apprenticeship Service
Apprenticeships
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20070510050121/http://www.employersforapprentices.gov.uk/
Apprenticeship
Education in England
Economy of England
Internship programs
Vocational education in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Homicide | City Homicide is an Australian television drama series that aired on the Seven Network between 27 August 2007 and 30 March 2011. The series was set on the Homicide floor of a metropolitan police headquarters in Melbourne. The main characters were six detectives, who solve the murder cases, and their three superior officers.
City Homicide did not return in its regular format in 2011. A six-episode miniseries titled No Greater Honour was shown instead which marked the closing storyline of the series. The miniseries guest-starred Claire van der Boom, Marcus Graham, John Howard and Graeme Blundell.
Production
The series' co-writers are John Hugginson who has previously worked on Water Rats, Murder Call and Blue Heelers, and John Banas who has written for All Saints and Stingers in addition to Water Rats and Blue Heelers. In an interview with the Herald Sun, Banas said the show had been in planning since "late last millennium".
The bulk of City Homicide is shot at Seven's South Melbourne studios and the show features Melbourne landmarks, such as Flinders Street station and the city's trams.
The series is distributed overseas by Southern Star Group.
The show originally starred Shane Bourne, Nadine Garner, Daniel MacPherson, Aaron Pedersen, Damien Richardson and Noni Hazlehurst. After the second season, the show's executive producers decided to vary the Homicide squad substantially—Nadia Townsend and John Adam were both added to the cast early in the third season, Bourne took a temporary hiatus that lasted most of the third season, guest star David Field made more frequent and substantive appearances, and main characters were written out of many episodes. This custom continued throughout the remainder of the show, with Field (still credited as a guest star) notably appearing more frequently than any other main cast member. Ryan O'Kane entered for seasons 4 and 5 (miniseries) as new member of the team Detective Rhys Levitt.
Cast
Main cast
None of the main characters appear in all episodes, as periods of leave and rostered days off are incorporated into each character's appearances.
Detective Senior Sergeant Stanley Wolfe (Shane Bourne, 70 episodes, seasons 1–5) is the operational leader of the Homicide squad. Wolfe is an authoritative yet compassionate boss with years of Homicide experience. He is highly religious, a recovering alcoholic and, as of the second season, going through a relatively civil divorce with his wife Linda. Stanley's reputation is threatened in season three by the resurfacing of an old case of his, which resulted in his alcoholism coming to light and his extended leave from Homicide, which ended in the season four premiere. He is seen to have a very proper nature (exemplified by his being called Stanley as opposed to Stan, although Jarvis does use the latter name), but can be extremely emotional in certain cases, usually ones concerning serial killers and children.
Detective Sergeant Matt Ryan (Damien Richardson, 82 episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit%20FM | Spirit FM may refer to:
Spirit FM (UK radio station), a radio station in West Sussex, United Kingdom
Spirit FM (Missouri), a network of Christian radio stations in Missouri, United States
Spirit FM, a network of Christian radio stations in Virginia and West Virginia, United States, which includes WPAR
Spirit FM, a network of Christian radio stations of the Catholic Media Network in the Philippines
Spirit FM (Narrandera), a community radio station broadcasting from Narrandera, Australia
WBVM, 90.5 FM, a Christian radio station in Tampa, Florida, United States branded Spirit FM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio%20Teesside | Greatest Hits Radio Teesside is an Independent Local Radio station serving Teesside, as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network.
History
Originally launched as Great North Radio by the Metro Radio Group in March 1989. The station broadcast on the old Radio Tees AM frequency of 1170 kHz Medium Wave.
In 1996, Emap bought Metro Radio Group and at the start of 1997, Emap decided to scrap Great North Radio and replaced it with local stations under the brand name of Magic, with a new format of Hot Adult Contemporary music. Magic 1170 launched on 19 February 1997. Tom Davies was the first ever voice heard on Magic 1170 and successfully hosted the breakfast show on the station for a number of years.
In December 2001, EMAP decided that it was more economical for the Magic network to share off-peak programmes and in line with the other Magic AM stations began networking between 10am-2pm, and 7pm-6am. During these hours it was simply known as Magic, although there were local commercial breaks, and local news on the hour.
In January 2003 after a decline in listening, the station ceased networking with the London station, Magic 105.4, and a regional network was created with Magic 1152 in Manchester at the hub at the weekend and the Newcastle station of the same name during the week. During networked hours, local adverts are aired, as well as a local news summary on the hour together with local traffic and travel in the afternoon.
From July 2006, more networking was introduced across the Northern Magic AM network with only the weekday breakfast (with a running length of four hours) presented from local studios.
Between March 2013 and December 2014, weekday breakfast was a syndicated regional programme from Magic 1152 in Newcastle presented by Anna Foster. On 5 April 2013, the studios in Thornaby ceased broadcasting local programming on sister station TFM.
On 5 January 2015, Magic 1170 was rebranded as TFM 2 as part of a revamp of the Bauer network and all programming is now networked with the other Bauer AM stations in the North although local news, weather and travel continue to be broadcast as opt-outs during the day.
On 7 January 2019, TFM 2 rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio Teesside.
Programming
The station carries primarily a schedule of networked programming, produced and broadcast from Bauer's Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Glasgow studios, and from Bauer's Golden Square headquarters in Soho.
Regional programming consisted (until April 2022) of Night Owls with Alan Robson, airing each Sunday from 10pm-2am. This was syndicated via the sister station in Newcastle.
News
Bauer’s Newcastle newsroom broadcasts local news bulletins for Teesside hourly from 06:00 to 19:00 on weekdays and from 07:00 to 13:00 at weekends. Headlines are broadcast on the half-hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows, alongside traffic bulletins. National bulletins from Sky News Radio are carried at other times.
References
External links
Transm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow%20station%20%28Pittsburgh%20Regional%20Transit%29 | Willow is a station on the Overbrook branch of Pittsburgh Regional Transit's light rail network. It is located in Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania. It is a transfer point between the Red Line (serving Castle Shannon, Mt. Lebanon, Dormont, and Beechview) and the Blue and Silver Lines (serving Overbrook, Carrick, Bon Air, Bethel Park and Library). The station's name was derived from Willow Avenue, the street that runs parallel with and across the light rail. No parking is available at the site and because park and ride commuters can more conveniently reach the nearby Memorial Hall station, Willow almost exclusively serves nearby apartments and individuals switching trains.
History
Willow was opened in 2004, one of eight new platform equipped stations which replaced 33 streetcar style stops along the Overbrook branch.
References
External links
Port Authority T Stations Listings
View of the newly opened Willow station in 2004
Station from Google Maps Street View
Port Authority of Allegheny County stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 2004
Blue Line (Pittsburgh)
Silver Line (Pittsburgh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cero | Cero or CERO may refer to:
Cero (fish), a large food and game fish of the scombroid family, found chiefly in the West Indies
Computer Entertainment Rating Organization, the organization that rates video games and computer software in Japan
, more than one United States Navy ship
Cero (TV channel) or #0, Spanish TV channel
See also
Cerro (disambiguation)
Serro, a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20Safety%20and%20Standards%20Board | The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) is a British independent company limited by guarantee. Interested parties include various rail industry organisations, including Network Rail, train operating companies (TOCs), and rolling stock companies (ROSCOs). The RSSB operates as a not-for-profit entity, its primary purpose being to bring about improved health and safety performance throughout Britain's railway network.
In the fulfilment of this purpose, the Board undertakes numerous safety-focused monitoring and continuous improvement programmes, such as the railway supplier quality assurance scheme RISQS and the Confidential Incident Reporting & Analysis System (CIRAS). It is also works with operators to identify and address risks, and is responsible for the updating and issuing of the British Railway Rule Book, amongst its other activities. The majority of Britain's train operators are obliged to be members of the RSSB, and to ensure compliance with their membership obligations across all of their operations. During the 2010s, the RSSB was restructured in order to better fulfil its purpose.
History
The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) which was established during 2003 as a result of a direct recommendation of the public inquiry into the Ladbroke Grove rail crash. According to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) regulatory body: "The RSSB's principal objective is to lead and facilitate the rail industry's work to achieve continuous improvement in the health and safety performance of the railways in Great Britain." In accordance with this principle, the agency's prime purpose is to lead the various other entities associated with Great Britain's rail network, including the ORR, rail infrastructure owner and maintainer Network Rail, and the Rail Delivery Group operating body. Amongst its responsibilities, the RSSB is responsible for the publication and updating of the British Railway Rule Book, which defines technical standards and operating procedures upon the railway.
The RSSB's ownership is divided amongst a range of different organisations in the British railway sector, including Network Rail, infrastructure managers, train operating companies, and rolling stock companies. As a condition of their licence obligations, the majority of Britain's train operators are required by the ORR to be members of the RSSB and to comply with the obligations of membership. The RSSB is financed primarily via levies sourced from its members. The ORR itself supervises the RSSB, performing periodic independent reviews of the organisation for such purposes.
Operationally, the RSSB has routinely employed various techniques to assess and manage risk, particularly during incident investigations, to help drive improvements in the rail industry's health and safety policies. It operates multiple teams of inspectors that act not only to ensure legal compliance and appropriate certification is obtained and maintained by the organisations involved, but to foster a cli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Rail%20Conditions%20of%20Travel | The National Rail Conditions of Travel (NRCoT) is a contractual document setting out the consumer's rights and responsibilities when travelling on the National Rail railway network in Great Britain. These replaced the National Rail Conditions of Carriage (NRCoC) as of 1 October 2016.
Background
When a train ticket is purchased, a contract is established. The NRCoT are the principal terms of that contract between traveller and train operating company (TOC), which have been established by the Rail Delivery Group. The document is available for public viewing at the National Rail website, as a free PDF download or from any staffed ticket office.
Additional terms do apply to travellers, primarily from two sources:
For certain ticket types (such as those purchased at discount in advance), the TOCs concerned apply additional terms and conditions on top of the NRCoT.
The NRCoT cover the entitlement and restrictions of travellers, however they are not the only document to do so. Under the Transport Act 2000 (section 219), the Railway Bylaws also apply, though more generally.
Content
Whilst the NRCoT are referred to on all train tickets, at stations, and on Internet sites selling tickets for rail travel, very few travellers ever bother to read the document, unless they find themselves in dispute with a rail company on some matter. They are, however, of use to the consumer, because they afford considerable rights to the traveller with regards ticket validity. This has become a matter of significant public interest recently, in view of the complex and convoluted pricing structure of rail tickets in Great Britain.
See also
Rail transport in the United Kingdom
References
External links
The National Rail Conditions of Travel
Passenger rail transport in the United Kingdom
Rail transport terms of service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20iBridge%20Network | The iBridge Network is a Web-based mechanism for the dissemination of innovations such as research results and reports, computer software and other copyrighted works, biological research materials, and patented inventions. It is implemented as a database with Web interfaces and electronic commerce capabilities. As of 2007, providers are predominantly universities and their individual researchers, although federal laboratories and for-profit organizations are also encouraged to contribute. Intended adopters are other researchers and entrepreneurial individuals, groups, and organizations.
The model underlying the iBridge Network is that aggregating research results and inventions from multiple institutions and establishing simple ways to search and transact will increase the flow of innovation to entrepreneurial actors for further development, application and delivery to society.
In operation, researchers and their institutions post descriptions of their results and inventions on the iBridge Network site and set terms of transfer. Prospective adopters search for and review non-confidential summaries of available innovations, agree to terms of transfer, and download an item directly from the site (in the case of electronic media such as software, data, or reports) or arrange for delivery from the provider (in the case of biological research materials or other tangibles). At the option of the provider, innovations may be acquired without special terms or may require acceptance of an electronic license, and may be without charge or fee-based. Any provider charges are payable by e-commerce mechanisms, but the Network itself is a non-profit enterprise.
The iBridge Network goes beyond earlier experiments in expediting technology transfer in several ways:
greater emphasis on one-to-many transfers (non-exclusive licenses)
aggregation of innovations from multiple research institutions
permission and functionality for transactions directly between an innovation provider and the network and directly between the network and an adopter (disintermediation)
options for fee-based and electronic license-based transactions
design principles and functionality determined by input from traditional university technology transfer offices.
management as a not-for-profit
The first realization of the iBridge Network was a 2005-2006 pilot project joining seven U.S. universities by the Kauffman Innovation Network, Inc., an initiative of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Flintbox, a software company founded in 2003, and now owned by Wellspring Worldwide, partnered with the Kauffman Foundation in 2006 to provide the technology behind the iBridge Network. Starting in 2007, additional universities in the U.S. and abroad were invited to join, with attention to smaller institutions, for which a confederated approach might increase the visibility and outflow of innovations.
Future growth of the iBridge Network model depends on increasing the number of institutions th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik%20Frystyk%20Nielsen | Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (born 1969) is a Danish engineer and computer scientist. He is best known for his pioneering work on the World Wide Web and subsequent work on computer network protocols.
Biography
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen was born 1 August 1969 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Frystyk Nielsen received a master's degree in Engineering of Telecommunications from Aalborg University in Denmark in August 1994.
Frystyk Nielsen's Web work began at CERN, when he became Tim Berners-Lee's first graduate student, and shared an office with Håkon Wium Lie, the co-inventor of Cascading Style Sheets. They developed together the Arena web browser.
It was at this time he began work with Berners-Lee, and later joined Roy Fielding et al. Frystyk Nielsen was invited by Berners-Lee to join the technical staff of the newly formed World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1994. He joined the staff of W3C in March 1995, and continued work on HTTP and other Web protocol topics such as the Line Mode Browser and libwww.
Frystyk Nielsen was one of the principal authors of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) specifications, published in 1996.
He then managed the development of a "next generation" called HTTP 1.1, published in 1999.
He left W3C in July 1999.
Frystyk Nielsen joined the staff of Microsoft in August 1999, and began work on SOAP 1.1. Previous versions of SOAP had been proposed as an XML-based object serialization protocol, such as XML-RPC but through the input of Frystyk Nielsen, Noah Mendelsohn, and others, SOAP 1.1 grew into a lightweight message-oriented protocol for exchanging semi-structured information in a highly decentralized environment.
In 2000, Frystyk Nielsen joined as an editor the standardizing effort of SOAP within the W3C XML Protocol Working Group which eventually became SOAP 1.2.
In 2003, Frystyk Nielsen started an incubation project together with George Chrysanthakopoulos focusing on providing a new Web-oriented application model and associated programming model suited for highly concurrent and distributed environments. An output of the incubation is DSSP, a SOAP-based protocol that augments the Web and HTTP model with structured data manipulation and event notifications. By the end of 2005, the incubation moved into productization as Frystyk Nielsen and Chrysanthakopoulos joined the newly formed Microsoft Robotics Group. In June 2006 the first version of the Microsoft Robotics Studio shipped to the public. Frystyk Nielsen is currently the Principal Architect at Applied AI team at Microsoft, working on bringing AI to the edge.
References
Further reading
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Danish computer scientists
1969 births
Living people
World Wide Web Consortium
People associated with CERN
Aalborg University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Retro was a Latin American cable television network with classic programming that included movies and popular classic TV Series. It was owned by Turner Broadcasting System Latin America, a unit of WarnerMedia. Its headquarters were located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On March 25, 2009, Turner Broadcasting System announced the replacement of Retro by a Latin American version of the channel truTV, also owned by Turner Broadcasting System. Most of the programming from Retro is still being aired on TCM Classic Entertainment.
On April 1, 2009 at 5:30am (Buenos Aires time), the channel aired its last show, the Robotech episode "Symphony of Light". Retro was replaced by truTV at 6am.
In some countries of Latin America, some cable television companies opted to replace Retro with TCM Classic Entertainment instead of truTV.
Programming
Thunderbirds
The Dukes of Hazzard
Knight Rider
Robotech
Bonanza
Little House on the Prairie
The Outer Limits
The Saint
Columbo
The Persuaders!
Three Stooges
The Prisoner
References
See also
truTV (Latin America)
truTV
Television stations in Argentina
Defunct television channels
Spanish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009
Warner Bros. Discovery Americas
Defunct television channels and networks in Venezuela
Classic television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Rutherford%20%28political%20scientist%29 | Kenneth R. Rutherford is co-founder of the Landmine Survivors Network and an American researcher in the field of political science.
International work
While studying political science at the University of Colorado in the mid-1980s, Rutherford decided to work in international development. Since graduating in 1985, he has worked for international aid agencies in Bosnia, Kenya, Mauritania, Senegal and Somalia, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Jordan.
Rutherford began his international career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania (1987–1989). During this period he was contracted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to assist in refugee camps on the border between Mauritania and Senegal.
He returned to the US to earn his MBA at the University of Colorado, then in 1993 went to work for the International Rescue Committee in Kenya and Somalia, where he was injured by a landmine.
Together with Jerry White he co-founded Landmine Survivors Network in 1995 which later became Survivor Corps. He and White accompanied Princess Diana on her last humanitarian mission to visit landmine survivors in Bosnia-Herzegovina in August 1997, only three weeks before her death. Rutherford was a prominent leader in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines which won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2000, he earned his doctorate in political science from Georgetown University.
He was associate professor of political science at Missouri State University from 2002 until 2010. In 2005, Rutherford went to Jordan on a Fulbright Fellowship where he taught international politics at the University of Jordan in Amman.
In 2008, Rutherford played a key role in the drafting of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. He was a board member of Survivor Corps until it closed in September 2010.
In February 2010, Rutherford became Director of the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery (CISR), which includes the Mine Action Information Center, at James Madison University. In his capacity as CISR Director, he oversees and participates in post-conflict missions and projects in numerous countries worldwide, including Burundi, Iraq, Tajikistan and Vietnam.
He currently serves on the board of directors of Legacies of War, Friendship Industries, the Shenandoah Valley Civil War Roundtable and the Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation.
Landmine accident
On December 16, 1993, while working for the International Rescue Committee in Somalia, Rutherford's vehicle struck a landmine, injuring him severely. After a medical evacuation during which he nearly bled to death, one leg was amputated to save his life and the second one amputated several years later. He has since spoken to the United States Congress against landmines. "It was an experience that fundamentally altered my life for the good," Rutherford said. "It crystallized my vision of what I believe I was put on this Earth to do."
Publications
Article |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showtime%20Arabia | Showtime Arabia was Showtime Networks' pay television service in the Middle East and North Africa. It was a joint venture between Kuwaiti holding company KIPCO (79% stake) and American media firm Viacom Inc. (21% stake). The company was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and had its headquarters at Dubai Media City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Showtime Arabia was one of three Pay TV networks in the Middle East and North Africa, it offered motion pictures, sporting events and original content, some of which was localized. It had the exclusive rights to broadcast the Barclays Premier League in the Middle East and North Africa. On 12 July 2009, the company announced a merger with competitor Orbit Communications Company to form Orbit Showtime Network (OSN).
Technical
When Showtime launched, some of its channels were TMC, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Paramount, Style, Discovery and Hallmark. Gulf DTH F.Z. L.L.C. was the operating company behind the digital pay TV broadcaster, Showtime Arabia. Its broadcast facilities were based at Dubai Media City in the United Arab Emirates and its uplink teleport station is Samacom, the monopoly uplink provider in the UAE. Showtime Arabia used Irdeto Access Conditional Access technology to encrypt its DTH (Direct-to-Home) channels over satellite and the OpenTV interactive platform that runs on primarily UEC Multi-Media set-top boxes.
Showtime Arabia Channel lineup
* 43 channels** + 1 promotional channel
** 12 general entertainment channels, seven movie channels, five sports channels, five documentary channels, five kids channels, four pay-per-view channels, three music channels, and three news channels
Orbit Communications Company merger
On 12 July 2009, Showtime Arabia and Orbit Communications Company announced a merger that created the “biggest Pay-TV platform” in the Middle East and North Africa.
The newly formed company is an equal partnership that would offer 70 exclusive channels featuring new movies, sports, series, Arabic content and international shows.
New customers can subscribe to packages featuring Showtime Arabia's and Orbit Communications Company's programs, while existing subscribers will be able to either retain or upgrade their content. The company will offer HD channels, video on demand and other interactive services.
See also
Showtime around the world
Orbit Communications Company
Orbit Showtime Network (OSN)
References
External links
Orbit Showtime Network's homepage
Packages of Orbit Showtime Network
Viacom's homepage
Dubai Media City
NileSat Satellite
1996 establishments in the United Arab Emirates
2009 disestablishments in the United Arab Emirates
Television stations in the United Arab Emirates
Mass media companies established in 1996
Mass media companies disestablished in 2009
Defunct companies of the United Arab Emirates
Mass media companies of the United Arab Emirates
Direct broadcast satellite services
Former CBS Corporation subsidiaries
Showtime Net |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Packet%20Filter | The Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) is a technology used in certain computer operating systems for programs that need to, among other things, analyze network traffic. It provides a raw interface to data link layers, permitting raw link-layer packets to be sent and received. In addition, if the driver for the network interface supports promiscuous mode, it allows the interface to be put into that mode so that all packets on the network can be received, even those destined to other hosts.
BPF supports filtering packets, allowing a userspace process to supply a filter program that specifies which packets it wants to receive. For example, a tcpdump process may want to receive only packets that initiate a TCP connection. BPF returns only packets that pass the filter that the process supplies. This avoids copying unwanted packets from the operating system kernel to the process, greatly improving performance. The filter program is in the form of instructions for a virtual machine, which are interpreted, or compiled into machine code by a just-in-time (JIT) mechanism and executed, in the kernel.
BPF is sometimes used to refer to just the filtering mechanism, rather than to the entire interface. Some systems, such as Linux and Tru64 UNIX, provide a raw interface to the data link layer other than the BPF raw interface but use the BPF filtering mechanisms for that raw interface. The BPF filtering mechanism is available on most Unix-like operating systems.
The Linux kernel provides an extended version of the BPF filtering mechanism, called eBPF, which uses a JIT mechanism, and which is used for packet filtering, as well as for other purposes in the kernel. eBPF is also available for Microsoft Windows.
Raw data-link interface
BPF provides pseudo-devices that can be bound to a network interface; reads from the device will read buffers full of packets received on the network interface, and writes to the device will inject packets on the network interface.
In 2007, Robert Watson and Christian Peron added zero-copy buffer extensions to the BPF implementation in the FreeBSD operating system, allowing kernel packet capture in the device driver interrupt handler to write directly to user process memory in order to avoid the requirement for two copies for all packet data received via the BPF device. While one copy remains in the receipt path for user processes, this preserves the independence of different BPF device consumers, as well as allowing the packing of headers into the BPF buffer rather than copying complete packet data.
Filtering
BPF's filtering capabilities are implemented as an interpreter for a machine language for the BPF virtual machine, a 32-bit machine with fixed-length instructions, one accumulator, and one index register. Programs in that language can fetch data from the packet, perform arithmetic operations on data from the packet, and compare the results against constants or against data in the packet or test bits in the results, accepting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkin%27%20with%20Val%20and%20Dave | Junkin' with Val and Dave was a television show which aired on the Turner South cable network. The program was Turner South's highest rated original production.
The show followed hosts Val Myers and Dave Bird (who was also the show's creator and executive producer) as they traveled throughout the Southeast visiting flea markets and yard sales, each episode based in a different city. During a typical program, Val and Dave chatted with sellers and bought merchandise they found interesting, then sold the items on eBay and donated the money to charity. Auction results were broadcast in subsequent episodes.
Awards
During its four seasons in production, the series won two Southeast Regional Emmy Awards:
2004: Outstanding Achievement: Television Programming Excellence, Entertainment Program (for episode #113, "Foley, Alabama")
2006: Outstanding Achievement: Television Special Achievement Excellence, Interactivity
References
External links
2003 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader%20election | In distributed computing, leader election is the process of designating a single process as the organizer of some task distributed among several computers (nodes). Before the task has begun, all network nodes are either unaware which node will serve as the "leader" (or coordinator) of the task, or unable to communicate with the current coordinator. After a leader election algorithm has been run, however, each node throughout the network recognizes a particular, unique node as the task leader.
The network nodes communicate among themselves in order to decide which of them will get into the "leader" state. For that, they need some method in order to break the symmetry among them. For example, if each node has unique and comparable identities, then the nodes can compare their identities, and decide that the node with the highest identity is the leader.
The definition of this problem is often attributed to LeLann, who formalized it as a method to create a new token in a token ring network in which the token has been lost.
Leader election algorithms are designed to be economical in terms of total bytes transmitted, and time. The algorithm suggested by Gallager, Humblet, and Spira for general undirected graphs has had a strong impact on the design of distributed algorithms in general, and won the Dijkstra Prize for an influential paper in distributed computing.
Many other algorithms have been suggested for different kinds of network graphs, such as undirected rings, unidirectional rings, complete graphs, grids, directed Euler graphs, and others. A general method that decouples the issue of the graph family from the design of the leader election algorithm was suggested by Korach, Kutten, and Moran.
Definition
The problem of leader election is for each processor eventually to decide whether it is a leader or not, subject to the constraint that exactly one processor decides that it is the leader. An algorithm solves the leader election problem if:
States of processors are divided into elected and not-elected states. Once elected, it remains as elected (similarly if not elected).
In every execution, exactly one processor becomes elected and the rest determine that they are not elected.
A valid leader election algorithm must meet the following conditions:
Termination: the algorithm should finish within a finite time once the leader is selected. In randomized approaches this condition is sometimes weakened (for example, requiring termination with probability 1).
Uniqueness: there is exactly one processor that considers itself as leader.
Agreement: all other processors know who the leader is.
An algorithm for leader election may vary in the following aspects:
Communication mechanism: the processors are either synchronous in which processes are synchronized by a clock signal or asynchronous where processes run at arbitrary speeds.
Process names: whether processes have a unique identity or are indistinguishable (anonymous).
Network topology: fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Leff | Robert Leff co-founded the computer software distribution company Softsel in 1980, and developed the venture into a $5 billion, multi-national computer products distributor now named Merisel. Softsel (originally called Robwin Computing) initially grew out of a distribution company Leff bought from Sierra On-Line co-founder Ken Williams.
References
External links
Board of Directors, Rainmaker Systems
Merisel, Inc at Funding Universe
Living people
American businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Stuff | Free Stuff is a television program on the G4 network. "Featured products" ranging in value from $20.00 to $599.00 were previewed and then given away. Viewers entered to win the items by using their computer to submit codes which were shown to the viewers by Lloyd the Chimp during commercial breaks. The show aired throughout the month of June 2007 at 6:30 and 10:00 PM EDT/PDT and officially ended on June 29, 2007.
Free Stuff was hosted by Morgan Webb and Kevin Pereira.
External links
G4 (American TV network) original programming
Interactive television
2007 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Merrill%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Richard Merrill was a Digital Equipment Corporation employee who invented the FOCAL programming language and programmed the first two interpreters for the language in 1968 and 1969, for the PDP-8. He also developed later versions of the interpreter for the PDP-7 and PDP-9, later ported it to the PDP-11.
Merrill also designed and programmed the EDIT-8 text editor (using paper-tape).
Rick Merrill is an alumnus of Episcopal High School, a preparatory school in Alexandria, VA and of M.I.T BS'63 MS'65 and Clark University MBA'85
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
Digital Equipment Corporation people
Programming language designers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Select%20%281992%E2%80%931995%29 | BBC Select was an overnight television service run by the BBC during the hours when BBC1 or BBC2 had closed down, usually between 2am and 6am. The channel showed programming intended for specialist audiences, such as businessmen, lawyers, nurses and teachers, and was designed to be viewed after broadcast via a video recording. It was funded by a subscription, and most programming was scrambled.
History
The service was officially launched during the overnight hours of 21 January 1992, and ran on both BBC1 and 2. A spiritual predecessor of BBC Select intended for members of the British health care profession, called British Medical TV (BMTV), aired encrypted health care-related programming during the overnight hours of BBC1 and 2 between 1989 and 1992. BBC Select experimented with programming for specific audiences, and with overnight broadcasts, experience that the BBC would later use when broadcasting the BBC Learning Zone. By broadcasting the programming then, it allowed the BBC to broaden their audience, while allowing more time in the day for other programming.
The programming was specifically aimed at the professional services of business, nurses, teachers and lawyers with programming made in-house by the BBC with some programming supplied by other independent companies as part of their remit. An example of this was Thames Television whose film Living with Disabilities, and their series The Way Ahead, both made for the Department of Social Security, were distributed free, on condition that no financial gain be made from it: as a result the programme was broadcast un-encrypted.
Corporate companies also took advantage of the service. In 1992 and 1993 Cable & Wireless used BBC Select to broadcast highlights of their annual general meeting (AGM). The first broadcast, of their 1992 AGM, was the first time in the UK that a company AGM had been televised. These highlights were broadcast unencrypted.
The service was closed on 8 October 1995 with the launch of BBC Learning Zone.
BBC Selector
To watch programming, a set-top box, or BBC Selector and BBC Select viewing card was required which both decoded and unscrambled the programme. The box also received signals, sent out prior to the programme start, that would alert the box to the fact the programme was starting. The box would then trigger VCRs to begin recording by sending out a pulse of Infrared to set off the VCR's recorder, as if the viewer had pressed the record button.
The scrambling system used was called "VideoCrypt 'S'". The system was very similar to what British Sky Broadcasting were using for their analogue satellite transmissions, but was modified due to technical limitations of terrestrial TV.
Presentation
The new service had differing presentation to the BBC channels that they broadcast on. The presentation featured a single gold circle in centre screen with the BBC Select caption beneath. The 'S' in Select of the caption has a circle around it. The channel featured no announce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen%20Sandiego | Carmen Sandiego (sometimes referred to as Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?) is a media franchise based on a series of computer video games created by the American software company Broderbund. While the original 1985 Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? video game was classified as a "mystery exploration" series by creators and the media, the series would later be deemed edutainment when the games became unexpectedly popular in classrooms. The franchise centers around the fictional thieving villain of the same name, who is the ringleader of the criminal organization V.I.L.E.; the protagonists (most often including the in-game character controlled by the computer user) are agents of the ACME Detective Agency who try to thwart the crooks' plans to steal treasures from around the world, while the later ultimate goal is to capture Carmen Sandiego herself.
The franchise primarily focuses on teaching children geography, but has also branched out into history, mathematics, language arts, and other subjects. An attempt was made to create a series of state-specific games in the 1980s, but the only prototype to be completed was in North Dakota. Beginning in 1988, Carmen Sandiego Days became popular across American public schools. In the 1990s, the franchise extended into three television shows, books and comics, board games, a concert series, two planetarium shows, and two music albums. By 1996, the Carmen Sandiego character and game concept had been licensed to over 20 companies including HarperCollins, University Games, Great American Puzzle Factory, DIC Entertainment, WGBH/WQED, Micro Games of America, Publications International and Troll Associates. Towards the turn of the 21st century, the Carmen Sandiego property passed through a series of five corporate hands: Broderbund (1985-1997), The Learning Company (1998), Mattel (1999), The Gores Group (2000), and Riverdeep (2001–present). Subsequent acquisitions and mergers of Riverdeep (licensed to Encore) led to the franchise currently being in the possession of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. For the next 15 years, the series would become mostly dormant despite a few licensed games. In 2017, soon after Netflix commissioned an animated show based on the property, HMH hired Brandginuity to reboot Carmen Sandiego through a licensing program built around the show and the franchise as a whole including toys, games, and apparel. HMH Productions, established in 2018, is currently the content incubator, production company, and brand manager for Carmen Sandiego. HMH Productions co-produced the animated Netflix TV series Carmen Sandiego, which ran for four seasons from 2019 to 2021 (including a 2020 interactive special), and is set to produce a live-action film as well. As of May 10, 2021, the franchise is owned by HarperCollins, which acquired HMH's trade division.
The franchise has become known for its ability to surreptitiously teach facts, breed empathy for other cultures, and develop logic skills, all behi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Pro%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast the National Football League's Pro Bowl throughout the years.
1950s
Notes
From the 1951 thru the 1964 seasons, the Pro Bowl television rightsholders were the Los Angeles Newspaper Charities, as opposed to the National Football League. Since the 1965 season, the NFL has owned the telecast rights.
The DuMont Television Network obtained rights to the 1955 game from the Los Angeles Newspaper Charities just 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.
Both NBC and CBS passed on the rights to the 1957 game. ABC apparently considered televising the game, but could not gain enough clearance of affiliates to make a telecast feasible. So for the third straight year, there was no telecast.
1960s
1970s
Notes
For the first four seasons following the AFL-NFL merger (–), CBS and NBC alternated coverage of the Super Bowl and Pro Bowl.
The game was part of ABC's Monday Night Football package from the through seasons (the 1975–1987 games). By 1986, ABC's coverage of the Pro Bowl promoted under the Wide World of Sports anthology series umbrella.
1980s
Notes
In 1980 (the first year that the Pro Bowl was in Hawaii), Al Michaels filled-in for Frank Gifford on play-by-play. Gifford was in Austria covering the World Championships of Skiing.
Although Hawaii does not have an NFL team of its own, the Pro Bowl games played there from 1980–2009 were still subject to the NFL's blackout policies, requiring the game to be blacked out within the state of Hawaii if all seats were not sold out by the specified 72-hour deadline.
1990s
2000s
Notes
Because ABC Sports had rights to both the Pro Bowl and the NHL All-Star Game, through their association agreement with ESPN, from 2000 through 2003, excluding 2002, ABC aired both games on the same day. ABC dubbed these doubleheaders as “All-Star Sunday”.
In 2003, John Madden declined to be part of the announcing crew due to his aviatophobia and claustrophobia. He was replaced on the telecast by former San Diego Chargers quarterback Dan Fouts, whom Madden had replaced on the Monday Night Football crew. This was also the case in 2009, when Cris Collinsworth filled in for Madden on NBC's coverage.
In 2004–2006, ABC (who by the early 2000s, had been suffering through several years of dismal ratings) sold its rights to the Pro Bowl (which had been part of the Monday Night Football package since 1995) to sister network ESPN. In those years, the ESPN Sunday Night Football crew covered the game. Prior to the game being moved to ESPN, ABC considered moving the game to Monday night.
Under the eight year television contract beginning in 2006, the network that broadcasts the Super Bowl would also get the Pro Bowl. Typically, CBS and Fox would utilize their "B" or "Number 2" broadcasting crew.
The 2007 game on CBS was held on the Saturday after Super B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suryoyo%20Sat | Suryoyo Sat () is an Aramaic language TV channel broadcasting from Södertälje, Sweden. The channel is broadcast to more than 80 countries.
Suryoyo Sat's programming is mainly conducted in Turoyo Neo-Aramaic and to a lesser extent in English and Arabic.
Manipulation scandal
In April 2013, the Södertälje-based daily newspaper Länstidningen (LT) accused Suryoyo SAT of manipulation of a photo taken during Abdullah Güls, then President of Turkey, visit in Sweden. In the picture, where Gül poses with a Syriac Orthodox archbishop and a number of representatives from the Assyrian and Syriac-Aramaic federations in Sweden, Suryoyo SAT replaced one of the Assyrian representatives with a Syriac-Aramaic one. Two days later, Suryoyo SAT apologized for the incident, saying that the involved persons had been warned.
See also
ANB SAT
Ishtar TV
KBSV
Suroyo TV
References
External links
Suryoyo Sat
Suryoyo Sat Germany
Suryoyo Sat Netherlands
Aramaic-language television channels
Television channels in Sweden
Television channels and stations established in 2006
2006 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sinclair%20QL%20software | This is a list of software titles produced for the Sinclair QL personal computer.
Notation: Program name (purpose), publisher, first release
Utilities
#
3D Precision, High-Precision Imaging System, Digital Precision
A
Abacus (Spreadsheet), Psion (Sinclair), 1984
APL Interpreter
ArcED, coWo
Archive (Database), Psion (Sinclair), 1984
Archivist database (Std and MP), A.R.K. (Richard Howe), 1984
Assembler and Linker, Computer One
Assembler, GST Computer Systems
Assembler, Metacomco
Assembler Workbench, Talent
B
Banks of Plants, Toby Hodd, 1986
BASIC TO CPORT, Translator from SuperBASIC to Kernighan & Ritchie C, Digital Precision
BCPL Compiler, Metacomco
Beule Tools, Peter Beule
C
C Compiler (Small C), GST
C Compiler (Lattice C), Metacomco c68
Cad Pak, Datalink
Cardfile database (128K and 256K), A.R.K. (Richard Howe), 1986
Cartridge Doctor, Talent
Cosmos, Talent
CST Disk Utilities (Backup, Convert, Filed, Disced, Ramdrive), Cambridge Systems Technology
D
Data Design (Database), The Progs
Desktop Publisher, Digital Precision
Desktop Publisher Special Edition, Digital Precision
Digital C (Small C), Digital Precision
Digital C Special Edition (~~K&R C), Digital Precision
DISA (Intelligent Disassembler), JO
Disk Mate 5, PM data (Pål Monstad)
Disktool & Quickdisk, Ultrasoft (Martin Berndt)
DJ Toolkit (DJTK)
E
Easel (Business Graphics), Psion (Sinclair), 1984
EasyPTR, Albin Hessler
Eye-Q, Graphics System, Digital Precision
Eye-Q Special Edition, Graphics System, Digital Precision
F
Ferret (File Search Utility), Sector Software
Fibu (Accounting), eTo soft
Flashback (Database), Sector Software
Forth, Computer One
Fortran 77, Prospero
Front Page, (Desktop Publisher), GAP Software
G
Giga-BASIC, Giga-Soft (ABC Electronic)
Giga-Chroma, Giga-Soft (ABC Electronic)
Giga-Disassembler with Monitor, Giga-Soft (ABC Electronic)
Grafix III, Digital Precision
Graphics Toolkit, Ultrasoft (Martin Berndt)
GraphiQL, Talent
GST Assembler
I
Ice Toolkit, Eidersoft (on eprom)
IDIS (Intelligent disassembler), Digital Precision
IDIS Special Edition (Intelligent disassembler), Digital Precision
Image D, PDQL
L
Librarian database (128K and 256K), A.R.K. (Richard Howe), 1986
Lightning, Text/Graphics/Maths Accelerator, Digital Precision
Lightning Special Edition, Digital Precision
Lisp Interpreter, Metacomco
M
Macro Assembler, GST
Mailfile database (128K and 256K), A.R.K. (Richard Howe), 1986
Mailmerge, A.R.K. (Richard Howe), 1986
Master Spy editor, A.R.K. (Richard Howe), 1988
Media Manager md/fdd editor and repair tools, Digital Precision, 1986
Mega Dictionary for Perfection, 360K word Spellchecker, Digital Precision
Menu Extension, JMS
M-Paint, Medic
Monitor, Computer One
Mon QL, Hisoft
N
Nucleon, Pyramide
P
Page Designer, Sector Software
Page Designer 2, Sector Software
Page Designer 3, Sector Software
Paint Master, Shadow Games
Pascal Compiler, Computer One
Pascal (ISO 7185/ANSI 770×3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire%20Radio%20Network | The Yorkshire Radio Network was a group of three radio stations which shared programmes in the evening and at weekends. YRN was made-up of Pennine Radio in Bradford, Viking Radio in Hull and Radio Hallam in Sheffield.
History
YRN was based at Hartshead in Sheffield at Radio Hallam, although all of the live programmes came from Studio 2 at Viking Radio in Hull.
The company came about when Radio Hallam merged with Pennine Radio and later took over Viking Radio and the Yorkshire Radio Network began broadcasting on 18 May 1987.
In 1989 all of the three radio stations' medium wave frequencies were used to form a new service called Classic Gold. YRN was bought by the Metro Radio Group and as Pennine was making a loss they decided to rename it and in August 1991 The Pulse of West Yorkshire was born.
For a while YRN used the overnight sustaining service "The Superstation".
YRN bought Rediffusion Singapore for the sum of S$9 million in July 1989.
Programming
There was live networked programming across the stations each evening broadcast from Viking Radio's studio's at Commercial Road in Hull. The programmes would mostly start after 8pm weekdays and slightly earlier over weekends.
Ad-breaks were not split so it was not unusual to hear promos for Viking whilst you were listening to either Hallam or Pennine. However, both "Benny Brown's American Countdown" and "Rick Dees Weekly Top-40" programmes where bought in and played-out locally by each station, so the commercials were also played separately by the tech-ops at each individual station.
Tim Finlay would often say "we're on more frequencies than you've had hot dinners!", those frequencies before the AM/FM split were 96.1, 96.9, 97.4, 97.5, 102.5, 102.9, 103.2 and 103.4 MHz and 990, 1161, 1278, 1305, 1530 and 1548 kHz.
For a short-time Howard Pressman presented a weekend afternoon show on the network. However, there was no reference to which station it was on other than in the jingles, which were only ever played after the ad-break and fired at each individual station.
Jingles
Each jingle was sung with different endings to ensure each station was fairly represented, for example:
"Latest hits, Greatest hits, Pennine, Hallam and Viking".
"Every hour there's more music power, on Viking, Hallam and Pennine".
"We're with you all the time, Pennine, Hallam and Viking".
"Upfront, In front, Hallam, Pennine and Viking".
This was a remarkably democratic process and was not present with previous packages. The older jingles would either sing "Yorkshire Radio Network" thus, not naming any station at all, or the order of the stations would be "Viking, Pennine and Hallam" this being unfair to Hallam, which was always last.
Each YRN cut was also sung for each individual station with the same melody. This was to ensure one identity throughout each station regardless of the time of day, for example:
"Every hour there's more music power, on Viking F.M".
"Every hour there's more music power, on Pennine F.M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provocator | Provocator is a shoot 'em up video game developed for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers. It was the first game by Network 23 and was published in the summer of 1991 by C.T.S. (Computer Tutorial Services) to critical acclaim.
The game requires the player to protect a massive convoy of space craft as they pass through 32 waves of alien occupied territory. It combines similar game mechanics to Defender with a setting reminiscent of late-1970s TV show Battlestar Galactica.
Gameplay
Several ships in the convoy have forest domes that supply the fleet with food and oxygen. The player is tasked with protecting these domes from alien squadrons that launch increasingly frequent attacks on them. When a dome is under attack, a warning sound alerts the player to the threat and if it isn't met within 15 seconds, the dome is permanently destroyed. If all the forest domes are destroyed, the fate of the convoy is sealed and the game ends.
The game grants the player freedom to move around the convoy at will, but collision with any part of the fleet results in the loss of a life. Familiarity with the convoy layout is paramount to protecting it.
Upon completion of a level the player is instructed to carefully dock with the largest ship in the fleet to re-fuel. Once successfully docked, bonus points are awarded for every dome left intact.
A radar at the top of the screen shows the fleet in its entirety, allowing the player to track alien movement and help navigate.
The game's 32 levels are split into 3 acts (or 'phases') Once a phase has been completed, the player is rewarded with a still postcard style snapshot of a ship in the fleet.
The player's ship (which is highly reminiscent of a Colonial Viper) features a turbo thrust and spits out two laser bolts with each press of the fire button, resulting in extremely rapid fire. The convoy ships are shielded against the player's lasers and dissolve them upon impact with an electric particle effect.
Certain alien types escort power-up orbs that when shot upgrade the player's weapon systems.
Technical information
Provocator runs at a consistent 50 frames per second on all Archimedes platforms.
The convoy glides over a deep parallax star field. It is 32 screens in width, 2 in height and wrapped as the player passed from one end to another.
References
External links
Provocator review scans
1991 video games
Acorn Archimedes games
Shoot 'em ups
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20Trade%20Register | The Finnish Trade Register (, ) is a company register in Finland. It provides official information on businesses in the whole country, including data from current and old register entries, articles of association, partnership agreements or rules. It is part of the Finnish Patent and Registration Office.
Registrar
The register is maintained by the Finnish Patent and Registration Office.
Content
The content of the Trade Register is specified by Finnish law.
Identifier
When a start-up notification is filed with the Trade Register or the Register of Foundations, the new business or foundation receives its Business ID (, ).
Following Limited Liability Companies Act of Finland (624/2006; amendments up to 981/2011 included; osakeyhtiölaki)
Chapter 3 Shares Section 15 — Share register and shareholder register Finnish companies independently maintain registers of shareholders.
The transition period has to be completed by 01.07.2020 when all Finnish companies must inform the government agency about their beneficial owners whose share is equal or more than 25%.
Company can be represented by both the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Procurator (Fin: Prokuristit), who is the official representative of the company in all government and trade matters.
Any official action of any authorized persons of the company may be registered and/or certified by the state magistrate (Fin: Maistraati) of the Republic of Finland, including by state notary (Fin: Julkinen Notaary). The document certified in the magistrate is the official government trade document which has full legal force. https://www.maistraatti.fi/
Public companies
Public Finnish companies whose shares are listed on stock exchanges disclose information in annual reports. :en:Annual Report
Annual report usually contains finance and official audit statements, structure, subsidiaries with or without intermediate owners, shareholders or major shareholders, board of directors and management of companies. Annual report is the main official document for shareholders, official state agencies and external users.
Public companies reveal their structure on its official sites, on official sites of stock exchanges were their shares traded or on official exchange information platforms e.g. NASDAQ, MarketScreener, Bloomberg, Reuters and others.
http://www.nasdaqomxnordic.com
https://www.marketscreener.com
https://www.bloomberg.com
https://www.reuters.com
Public availability
The particulars reported by a company in its notice to the Trade Register and the documents attached to the notice are all public information. A part of this information can be accessed in English free of charge via internet from the government services YTJ – The Business Information System (YTJ company search) and Virre (Virre company search) and various commercial data providers. The official electronic extract from the Finnish Trade Register in Virre cost 3.22 euros as of 10 January 2019.
Purpose
Provider of legal docum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNWS%20%28AM%29 | KNWS, known on-air as Faith 1090 KNWS, or by the network name Faith Radio, is a radio station in Waterloo, Iowa, owned and operated by University of Northwestern - St Paul and is a non-profit, listener-supported radio station relying on donations from the local community throughout the year. It broadcasts on 1090 AM, covering Waterloo, Iowa and surrounding areas in eastern Iowa. KNWS is licensed to broadcast during daylight hours only, but has an in-market translator located at 93.1 FM which airs a full 24-hour 7-day schedule.
Outside of station identification, it sources all programming from the Faith Radio network via satellite.
History
KNWS went on air in May 1947 as KAYX, owned by the Waterloo Broadcasting Company. The station became KBOK on April 27, 1950, with the new call letters making their on-air debut on May 8; at that time, Waterloo sought to move the station to 1280 kHz from a new tower site, but eventually requested that the construction permit be canceled.
In January 1953, it was announced that the Northwestern Schools would acquire KBOK, converting it to a noncommercial format and relocating its studios from downtown to the transmitter site. On April 1, 1953, Northwestern began operating the new KNWS, its first expansion outside of Minneapolis.
Translators
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KNWS
Waterloo, Iowa
NWS
Northwestern Media
NWS
Radio stations established in 1947
1947 establishments in Iowa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Beale | Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale FRS (8 September 1928 – 23 December 1985) was an applied mathematician and statistician who was one of the pioneers of mathematical programming.
Career
He was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours in mathematics in 1949 and gaining a diploma in mathematical statistics in 1950. He then joined the Mathematics Group at the UK Admiralty Research Laboratory, working under Stephen Vajda for 11 years, except for a leave of absence in 1957/58 to assist the Statistical Techniques Research Group at Princeton University. In 1955 he extended George Dantzig's Simplex Algorithm to minimise a quadratic function.
In 1961 he became a founder member of a computer services company C.E.I.R (UK), which BP bought and renamed Scicon, and in 1967 he became visiting professor at Imperial College, London.
Beale was chairman of the Mathematical Programming Society from 1974 to 1976, vice-president of the Royal Statistical Society from 1978 to 1980, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a member of the International Statistical Institute. In 1979, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society "for his applications of mathematical and statistical techniques to industrial problems and for his contributions to the theory of mathematical programming", and he was elected to the Council of the Royal Society in 1984. He was awarded the Silver Medal of the Operational Research Society in 1980, and became vice-president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He was also non-executive chairman of Beale International Technology.
The Times suggested that he "used his blend of theory and state-of-the-art practice to encourage several generations of young mathematicians and computer scientists," and that his "many papers and his seminal book Mathematical Programming in Practice were major influences in their field, with their succinctness and clarity."
Beale's FRS memoir mentioned his "extraordinary skill" and "substantial contributions to knowledge".
Memorials
The Mathematical Programming Society awards the "Beale–Orchard-Hays" Prize in memory of him and William Orchard-Hays.
The Operational Research Society awards the Beale Medal for "the most outstanding sustained contribution to Operational Research".
A two-day symposium was held in his memory at the Royal Society in 1987.
The book Questions of Truth is dedicated to him and Ruth Polkinghorne.
He makes a cameo appearance in E.M. Delafield's A Provincial Lady Goes Further.
Publications
Beale produced over 100 scholarly papers and two books:
(Based on his lecture notes and working papers at Scicon and edited by his former colleague Lynne Mackley.)
Family
Beale was a son of Muriel Rebecca Beale OBE, descendant of General Sir John Slade, grandniece of Edmond Warre, niece of Henry Adolphus Warre Slade, daughter of Marcus Warre Slade Queen's Counsel, and first cousin of Madelaine Slade.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STXIT | STXIT is a macro instruction for the DOS/360 operating system for the IBM System/360 series of mainframe computers, and its successors on later mainframe series, and was also available for the UNIVAC Series 90 mainframes running its TOS/DOS operating system and later on its VS/9 operating system.
Background
The macro was an abbreviation of the term "Set Exit," and was used by programs written in assembly language. It is used to create a recovery routine in the event of program errors, similar to signal handlers in C and Try/Finally blocks in C++, Java and other object oriented languages.
The STXIT macro would provide an error recovery address for several major types of errors and certain operator signals. The errors covered depended upon the operating system. In general, the errors which it provided recovery included
address protection violate (accessing memory not owned by the application)
privilege violation (attempts to execute privileged instructions)
divide check (division by zero)
floating point check (floating point underflow or overflow)
timer runout (where a timer set by the program has expired) this particular interrupt is not actually an error, it is how a program responds to a watchdog timer
Interrupt resume, a function on the UNIVAC Series 90 where an interactive user has issued a break to a program to go to command mode, and issued an INTR command to cause the program to resume at the INTR point. If the program has not specified an INTR resume address, the INTR command is rejected. This is similar to the REENTER command on the RT-11 operating system on Digital computers.
The timer interrupt STXIT provided a mechanism for sampling program execution and was used by various legacy performance analyzers. Essentially a PSW was gathered for each time interval and used for later analysis to determine hot spots.
The program check STXIT provided a mechanism for program animation via the deliberate introduction of invalid opcodes (on the fly) to locations in the target programs. Once the exit recovery was entered, the original opcode would be restored ready for later resumption and a new location set.
Macro format
The format of the macro call depended upon the system it was used upon.
IBM DOS/VSE
For DOS/VSE it was one of two forms, either the macro call to establish (create) a STXIT routine to handle the appropriate event, or a macro call to de-establish (no longer handle) the event. To establish a STXIT routine, you would code:
[label] STXIT {AB|IT|PC|OC|TT}, RoutineAddress, SaveArea [,OPTION= {DUMP|NODUMP} ] comment
Where
label - the optional label for this statement.
First argument: One of , , , , or must be used. These indicated which event you were handling for that particular STXIT call. Except for the AB handler, a STXIT handler routine completed through use of the EXIT macro. To handle more than one event, multiple invocations of the macro must be used, each one specifying a single event. These codes indicate:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Television%20of%20Kosovo | Radio Television of Kosovo (; ; RTK) is the public service broadcaster in Kosovo. RTK operates two radio services broadcasting a diverse programming of news and entertainment and four 24-hour television services broadcasting on terrestrial and satellite networks.
History
RTK replaced (The Radio Television of Prishtina, RTP), which ceased to function in July 1990. After UNMIK took over the administration of Kosovo in June 1999 and re-employed former RTP staffs, RTK began broadcasting in September 1999 via analog satellite in PAL and SECAM television broadcast standards with a daily two-hour transmission, expanding to four hours per day in November 2000, with programming mainly in Albanian and once-a-day news edition in Serbian and Turkish. The following July, it expanded to seven hours a day and began offering programming in Bosnian as well.
In 2001, RTK was established as an independent public service broadcaster by a UNMIK broadcasting regulation. The station was initially managed by the European Broadcasting Union to permit time for a non-political Board of Directors to be established. This was in place and the station was independent of the EBU by the end of the year. In January 2002, an office was opened in Tirana, with a website launching in July. A second office was opened in Tetovo in November 2002.
In 2002, at which time it was broadcasting 15 hours a day, 35% of the station's broadcasts were produced externally, with the bulk of programming local. It included news and business coverage as well as farming information. Broadcasting remained multilingual, with programming in another language (the Romani language magazine “Yekhipe") beginning in September 2003. On 22 December of that year, the station began broadcasting 24 hours a day. Also in 2002, RTK began hosting awards, with the best news moderator being honored by the "Drita Germizaj" award and the best cameraman by the "Rudolf Sopi" award.
RTK's radio transmission began with the October 1999 acquisition of the multilingual public radio station "Radio Prishtina", which became "Radio Kosovo". In 2000, it acquired the multi-ethnic UN youth radio station Radio Blue Sky.
In 2013, RTK introduced a new logo and a newly corporate identity for the first time of 14 years since 1999. By that, the grey-coloured 1-numeral along with the red letter R, the white letter T, and the yellow letter K are all replaced by something brand new that is the RTK wordmark which is coloured blue, but it has the letter K being put inside a half square. At the same time, RTK's TV services were expanded to include a channel called RTK 2, which is intended to focus on minorities, and with it, all minority language programming were moved from RTK 1 to RTK 2.
By 2014, RTK saw the launch of two new stations such as RTK 3 which is a news channel and RTK 4 which is an arts and documentary channel.
Journalists at RTK have repeatedly protested in 2015 against political interference, up to asking for the dismissal o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Intellectual%20Property%20Institutes%20Network | The European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN) is a cooperation network of intellectual property (IP) institutions, organizing conferences. It was founded in 1999. Its aim is "to facilitate and increase cooperation among IP institutions and students in Europe".
Its members are:
Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg, France
Magister Lvcentinvs, University of Alicante, Spain
Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, London, United Kingdom
Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), LL.M. Program, Munich, Germany
Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management (IPKM), Maastricht University
See also
Intellectual property organization
References
External links
European Intellectual Property Institutes Network
European Intellectual Property Institutes Network at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC)
European Intellectual Property Institutes Network at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI)
Organizations established in 1999
Intellectual property organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewers%20for%20Quality%20Television | Viewers for Quality Television (also called "VQT") was an American nonprofit organization (under 501(c)(3)) founded in 1984 to advocate network television series that members of the organization voted to be of the "highest quality." The group's goal was to rescue "...critically acclaimed programs from cancellation despite their Nielsen program rating." It was a participatory organization that was open to all interested viewers. The organization was dissolved in late 2000 due to financial problems.
History
The group's founder Dorothy Swanson started VQT to save the television show Cagney and Lacey from cancellation. The VQT presented an award each year called the "Q" Award, based on the votes of its members. Actors were nominated based on the group's judgement of the "quality" of the acting. Other programs supported by the group included St. Elsewhere, Designing Women, Frank's Place, Quantum Leap, Sports Night, and Party of Five.
Aftermath
Swanson dissolved VQT in 2000 after the organization's membership dropped to 1,000 members (down from a peak of 5,000 members), which reduced the funding for the organization. With the low membership and lack of funding, VQT was not able to put on its annual "Q" awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Swanson claims that she disbanded the organization to avoid the danger of "... the organization becom[ing] a shadow of its former self, whether under my direction or somebody else's."
They became the subject of the 2018 documentary United We Fan.
List of Q Awards winners
Best Quality Drama Series:
1985: Cagney & Lacey
1986: Cagney & Lacey
1987: Cagney & Lacey
1988: Cagney & Lacey
1989: China Beach
1990: China Beach
1991: China Beach
1992: I'll Fly Away
1993: I'll Fly Away
1994: NYPD Blue
1995: Picket Fences
1996: Homicide: Life on the Street
1997: ER
1998: The Practice
1999: The Practice
2000: The West Wing
Best Quality Comedy Series:
1985: The Cosby Show
1986: The Cosby Show
1987: Designing Women
1988: Designing Women
1989: Designing Women
1990: Designing Women
1991: Murphy Brown
1992: Brooklyn Bridge
1993: Brooklyn Bridge
1994: Mad About You
1995: Frasier
1996: Frasier
1997: Frasier
1998: Ally McBeal
1999: Everybody Loves Raymond
2000: Everybody Loves Raymond
Best Actor in a Quality Drama Series:
1985: Daniel J. Travanti – Hill Street Blues
1986: William Daniels – St. Elsewhere
1987: William Daniels – St. Elsewhere
1988: Ron Perlman – Beauty and the Beast
1989: Ron Perlman – Beauty and the Beast
1990: Scott Bakula – Quantum Leap
1991: Scott Bakula – Quantum Leap
1992: Scott Bakula – Quantum Leap
1993: Scott Bakula – Quantum Leap
1994: Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue
1995: Andre Braugher – Homicide: Life on the Street
1996: Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue
1997: Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue
1998: Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue
1999: Dennis Franz – NYPD Blue
2000: Martin Sheen – The West Wing
Best Actor in a Quality Comedy Series:
1985: Bill Cosby – The Cosby Show
1986: Bill Cosby – The C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir%20computing | Reservoir computing is a framework for computation derived from recurrent neural network theory that maps input signals into higher dimensional computational spaces through the dynamics of a fixed, non-linear system called a reservoir. After the input signal is fed into the reservoir, which is treated as a "black box," a simple readout mechanism is trained to read the state of the reservoir and map it to the desired output. The first key benefit of this framework is that training is performed only at the readout stage, as the reservoir dynamics are fixed. The second is that the computational power of naturally available systems, both classical and quantum mechanical, can be used to reduce the effective computational cost.
History
The concept of reservoir computing stems from the use of recursive connections within neural networks to create a complex dynamical system. It is a generalisation of earlier neural network architectures such as recurrent neural networks, liquid-state machines and echo-state networks. Reservoir computing also extends to physical systems that are not networks in the classical sense, but rather continuous systems in space and/or time: e.g. a literal "bucket of water" can serve as a reservoir that performs computations on inputs given as perturbations of the surface. The resultant complexity of such recurrent neural networks was found to be useful in solving a variety of problems including language processing and dynamic system modeling. However, training of recurrent neural networks is challenging and computationally expensive. Reservoir computing reduces those training-related challenges by fixing the dynamics of the reservoir and only training the linear output layer.
A large variety of nonlinear dynamical systems can serve as a reservoir that performs computations. In recent years semiconductor lasers have attracted considerable interest as computation can be fast and energy efficient compared to electrical components.
Recent advances in both AI and quantum information theory have given rise to the concept of quantum neural networks. These hold promise in quantum information processing, which is challenging to classical networks, but can also find application in solving classical problems. In 2018, a physical realization of a quantum reservoir computing architecture was demonstrated in the form of nuclear spins within a molecular solid. However, the nuclear spin experiments in did not demonstrate quantum reservoir computing per se as they did not involve processing of sequential data. Rather the data were vector inputs, which makes this more accurately a demonstration of quantum implementation of a random kitchen sink algorithm (also going by the name of extreme learning machines in some communities). In 2019, another possible implementation of quantum reservoir processors was proposed in the form of two-dimensional fermionic lattices. In 2020, realization of reservoir computing on gate-based quantum computers was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazhi | Palazhi is a suburb of Kozhikode city in India. It has risen to prominence quite recently because of the UL cyberpark, the Government Cyber park and the creation of a township called HiLITE City and Landmark world and many other flat projectshere. Palazhi town is four kilometres from Thondayad junction in Kozhikode city. Metro International Cardiac Center and the Cradle Maternity hospital are situated at Palazhi.
History
100 years ago, the beach area was the centre of the city of Kozhikode. In the 1970s, the downtown shifted to the Mananchira area, and in the 1980s, Mavoor Road became the centre of activity. In the 2010s, the Thondayad Bypass area and the suburb of Palazhi on the Airport road have emerged as the new city centres with a vibrant night life.
Palazhi was originally a village with waterlogged streets in monsoon creating problems for the residents. Recently the area has been highly commercialized because of the proximity to the highway road and the eastern part of the city. The creation of Hilite Township and Hilite Mall has increased traffic issues in and around Palazhi.
Methottuthazham
Methottuthazham is a small village on the western side of Palazhi. This place is famous for the Bhayankavu Temple and the Ollur Shiva Temple. City suburbs like Vazhipokku, Manathal Thazham, Poovangal, Mecheri Thazham, Kaithapadam, Kattukulangara and Kommeri are near to Methott Thazham. Methott Thazham is directly connected by a main road to Kottooli and Pottammal junctions.
Flooded Streets
Every year, the streets of Palazhi area gets flooded from June to August. During this period, access to the houses in this area becomes very difficult either by foot or by vehicles. As the flooded area is quite large, no solutions have been devised yet for this issue.
Hilite Township
Hilite township is a residential and commercial facility located at Palazhi junction. Hilite Mall is the largest shopping mall of North Kerala with 1,400,000 sq feet of shopping space. It is part of the Hilite City (11.256873°N 75.821287°E), an integrated township project almost completed now. The actor Nirmal Palazhi is from this place.
Landmarks in Palazhi
Cyberpark Kozhikode
Uralungal Cyberpark
Metro International Cardiac Center
Cradle Maternity Hospital
Landmark World
HiLite City
Palazhi Timber
Koodathum Para Colony
Mampuzha Bridge
Nesto Hypermarket
Dominos pizza
Location
See also
Airport Road, Kozhikode
References
External links
PVS Prestige Palazhi
Suburbs of Kozhikode
Kozhikode downtown |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20systems%20management%20systems | This is a list of notable systems management systems.
Overview
See also
Configuration management
Comparison of network monitoring systems
Comparison of open source configuration management software
Systems management
Systems management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZJV | DZJV (1458 AM) is a radio station owned and operated by ZOE Broadcasting Network. Its studio and tower site are located at #140 Brgy. Parian, Calamba, Laguna, near Riverview Resort.
From April 2014 to March 2015, 8TriMedia Broadcasting occupied the 6PM to 10PM timeslot. It operates daily from 8am to 4pm.
References
Christian radio stations in the Philippines
ZOE Broadcasting Network
DZJV
Radio stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigor%20Gaming | Vigor Gaming was a privately held manufacturer of enthusiast level personal computers based in City of Industry, California. The company was founded in 2004 by several former employees and the former owner of competing company. Vigor Gaming Computers were designed specifically for gaming enthusiasts, and are broken down into various models with varying capabilities. Vigor offered several different models of desktop computers and laptop computers with prices ranging from sub $1,000 all the way up to $15,000 for a fully configured gaming PC. Vigor gaming also produced enthusiast grade components, including their Monsoon II Thermoelectric cooling solution designed to aid in overclocking.
Bankruptcy
In March 2010, news broke that Vigor Gaming had become bankrupt and defunct. During the month Vigor's customer support became unreachable by phone or e-mail. All customer orders pending were left unfulfilled.
Industry Recognition
Vigor Gaming PCs have received a lot of attention in various print magazines such as PC Magazine, Maximum PC, and Computer Shopper, but their most publicized product has been the Monsoon II Thermoelectric cooling solution. This device, which incorporates active TEC technology with a powerful air-cooler, received much acclaim on enthusiast hardware review sites, such as Tom's Hardware,GotFrag Hardware, TweakTown, PC Perspective, and AnandTech.
See also
List of Computer System Manufacturers
References
External links
Vigor Gaming Website
Desktop review at PC Magazine
Desktop review at Computer Shopper
2004 establishments in California
2010 disestablishments in California
American companies established in 2004
American companies disestablished in 2010
Companies based in the City of Industry, California
Computer companies established in 2004
Computer companies disestablished in 2010
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Computing%20Corporation | Secure Computing Corporation (SCC) was a public company that developed and sold computer security appliances and hosted services to protect users and data. McAfee acquired the company in 2008.
The company also developed filtering systems used by governments such as Iran and Saudi Arabia that blocks their citizens from accessing information on the Internet.
Company history
In 1984, a research group called the Secure Computing Technology Center (SCTC) was formed at Honeywell in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The centerpiece of SCTC was its work on security-evaluated operating systems for the NSA. This work included the Secure Ada Target (SAT) and the Logical Coprocessing Kernel (LOCK), both designed to meet the stringent A1 level of the Trusted Computer Systems Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC).
Over the next several years, Secure Computing morphed from a small defense contractor into a commercial product vendor, largely because the investment community was much less interested in purchasing security goods from defense contractors than from commercial product vendors, especially vendors in the growing Internet space.
Secure Computing became a publicly traded company in 1995. Following the pattern of other Internet-related startups, the stock price tripled its first day: it opened at $16 a share and closed at $48. The price peaked around $64 in the next several weeks and then collapsed over the following year or so. It ranged between roughly $3 and $20 afterward until the company was purchased by McAfee.
The company headquarters were moved to San Jose, California, in 1998, though the bulk of the workforce remained in the Twin Cities. The Roseville employees completed a move to St. Paul, Minnesota, in February 2006. Several other sites now exist, largely the result of mergers.
Mergers and acquisitions
Secure Computing consisted of several merged units, one of the oldest being Enigma Logic, Inc., which was started around 1982. Bob Bosen, the founder, claims to have created the first security token to provide challenge–response authentication. Bosen published a computer game for the TRS-80 home computer in 1979, called 80 Space Raiders, that used a simple challenge–response mechanism for copy protection. People who used the mechanism encouraged him to repackage it for remote authentication. Bosen started Enigma Logic to do so, and filed for patents in 1982–83; a patent was issued in the United Kingdom in 1986. Ultimately, the "challenge" portion of the challenge–response was eliminated to produce a one-time password token similar to the SecurID product. Enigma Logic merged with Secure Computing Corporation in 1996.
Secure Computing acquired the SmartFilter product line by purchasing Webster Network Strategies, the producer of the WebTrack product, in 1996. The acquisition included the domain name webster.com, which was eventually sold to the publishers of Webster's Dictionary.
Shortly after acquiring the Webster/SmartFilter product, Secure Computing mer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile-ITX | Mobile-ITX is the smallest (by 2009) x86 compliant motherboard form factor presented by VIA Technologies in December, 2009. The motherboard size (CPU module) is . There are no computer ports on the CPU module and it is necessary to use an I/O carrier board. The design is intended for medical, transportation and military embedded markets.
History
The Mobile-ITX form factor was announced by VIA Technologies at Computex in June, 2007. The motherboard size of first prototypes was . The design was intended for ultra-mobile computing such as a smartphone or UMPC.
The prototype boards shown to date include a x86-compliant 1 GHz VIA C7-M processor, 256 or 512 megabytes of RAM, a modified version of the VIA CX700 chipset (called the CX700S), an interface for a cellular radio module (demonstration boards contain a CDMA radio), a DC-DC electrical converter, and various connecting interfaces.
At the announcement, an ultra-mobile PC reference design was shown running Windows XP Embedded.
Notes and references
External links
Mobile-ITX Specification
Motherboard form factors
IBM PC compatibles
Mobile computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasero%20%28software%29 | Brasero is a free and open-source disc-burning program for Unix-like operating systems, it serves as a graphical front-end (using GTK) to cdrtools, cdrskin, growisofs, and (optionally) libburn. Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
History
Brasero was developed by Philippe Rouquier & Luis Medinas. The project was originally named Bonfire, but was renamed after the Spanish word brasero for a small heater used to provide warmth for people sitting at a table.
Early releases of the application were well received. In a review in April 2007 published in Free Software Magazine Robin Monks concluded:
After further development and the inclusion of Brasero 0.7.1 in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron in April 2008 the application received further press reviews. In May 2008 Ryan Paul of Ars Technica said:
Brasero was later integrated into GNOME and the version numbers were aligned with GNOME desktop version numbering. Ars Technica reviewed Brasero 2.26, then the newest version, in March 2009, saying:
Brasero was at one time the default CD/DVD application in the GNOME desktop, but with more modern computer hardware omitting optical drives, it was removed from the GNOME core feature set with version 3.8 in 2013.
Features
Data
Brasero supports both CD and DVD formats. It allows for editing of the disc contents and can remove, move and rename files that are located inside folders. It can also burn data to CD/DVDs on the fly.
The application allows automatic filtering for unwanted files, including hidden files, broken and recursive symlinks and files not conforming to the Joliet CD standard. Brasero supports multisessions, the Joliet extension and can create an image of the user's hard drive.
Audio
When creating audio CDs Brasero writes CD-TEXT information automatically found, using GStreamer. It also supports the editing of CD-TEXT information and can burn audio CDs on the fly. It can use all audio file formats handled by GStreamer local installation, including Ogg, FLAC and MP3. Brasero can also search for audio files that are inside dropped folders.
Copying
Brasero is capable of copying a CD/DVD to the user's hard drive in iso format and can copy DVDs and CDs on the fly. It supports single-session data DVDs and any type of CD.
Other features
Brasero can also erase CD/DVDs, save and load ongoing projects and can burn CD and DVD images and cue files.
It includes a song, image and video previewer using the GStreamer multimedia framework. When operating on a Linux kernel newer than 2.6.13 it provides file change notification.
When used with GDL, Brasero has a customizable user interface.
The application supports drag and drop as well as cut and paste from the Nautilus (GNOME file manager) and also other applications. It can use files from a network when the protocol is handled via GVfs. It can search for files using Tracker, allowing a search that is based on keywords or on file type. Brasero can also display a playlist and its contents. P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forties%20pipeline%20system | The Forties pipeline system (FPS) is a major pipeline transport network in the North Sea. It is owned and operated by Ineos and carries 30% of the UK's oil, or about of oil per day, to shore. It carries liquids production from 85 fields in the North Sea and several Norwegian fields on behalf of around 40 companies. The system has a capacity of 575,000 barrels of oil a day.
FPS consists of a pipeline originating at APA Corporation's Forties Charlie platform. The pipeline carries crude oil , routing through the Forties Unity riser platform, to the terminal at Cruden Bay. From there unstabilised crude is co-mingled with natural gas condensate from the St Fergus terminal and pumped to the processing facility at Kinneil, Grangemouth. The onshore pipeline has three intermediate pumping stations at Netherley, Brechin and Balbeggie.
History
The original 32-inch pipeline was opened in 1975 to transport oil from the Forties Oil Field, the UK’s first major offshore oil field. The Forties Unity installation was installed in 1992 including new 36-inch pipelines. The 32-inch pipeline was abandoned in situ.
It was formerly owned and operated by BP, which retained the asset after selling the Forties Oil Field to APA Corporation in 2003.
In April 2017, BP agreed to sell the pipeline to Ineos for a $125 million upfront payment and an additional $125 million in possible earnouts over 7 years.
FPS was out of service from 11 December 2017 due to a crack found the prior week, and returned to full capacity on 30 December 2017.
Throughput
The early oil production from the Forties field (in 1000 barrels) was:
The cumulative throughput of crude oil through the Forties system up to the end of 1997 was 552,146,000 tonnes. The recent throughput (in 1000 tonnes) was:
References
External links
INEOS FPS
BP buildings and structures
North Sea energy
Pipelines under the North Sea
Oil pipelines in the United Kingdom
1975 establishments in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby%20Computer%20Club | The Hobby Computer Club (HCC) is a Dutch computer club, now based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. It was established on April 27, 1977, by a small group of people near the town of Leiden. It grew to become a nationally significant club of over 200,000 members in 2003.
History
The HCC was inspired by the Amateur Computer Club founded in 1973 by Mike Lord. Dick Barnhoorn became a member of the ACC and after a few years started the HCC in the Netherlands and Belgium (for Dutch/Flemish speakers). In the beginning letters were sent to popular electronics and IT magazines. The initial logo of HCC was an adapted copy of the ACC logo. The first HCC meeting was in a building of the Delft University of Technology, at that moment the HCC had 12 members.
A small stenciled, A5 size, newsletter was published bimonthly called HCCN (HCC Nieuwsbrief) similar to ACCN (ACC Newsletter). After participating in a large event for technical hobbies in April 1978 membership increased from 200 to over 1000. Soon the HCC had branches in every part of the Netherlands, and through the years the HCC grew to more than 200,000 members. The small newsletter turned into a monthly computer magazine called Computer!Totaal. The HCC now also offers a free Internet service to its members, as well as free technical assistance with computer problems.
For many decades a big exhibition called the "HCC dagen" (HCC Days) was held in Jaarbeurs in Utrecht with thousands of attendees. A tradition started in 1977, for showing off the member's activities and giving commercial parties an opportunity to demonstrate new products and sell equipment and software. It was interrupted in 2010 because the commercial parties lost interest as internet was becoming their main sales platform. In 2011 HCC organised a similar event on a much smaller scale than before, HCC!digital.
See also
Microcomputer Club Nederland
References
Computer clubs in the Netherlands
1973 establishments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip%20protocol | A gossip protocol or epidemic protocol is a procedure or process of computer peer-to-peer communication that is based on the way epidemics spread. Some distributed systems use peer-to-peer gossip to ensure that data is disseminated to all members of a group. Some ad-hoc networks have no central registry and the only way to spread common data is to rely on each member to pass it along to their neighbors.
Communication
The concept of gossip communication can be illustrated by the analogy of office workers spreading rumors. Let's say each hour the office workers congregate around the water cooler. Each employee pairs off with another, chosen at random, and shares the latest gossip. At the start of the day, Dave starts a new rumor: he comments to Bob that he believes that Charlie dyes his mustache. At the next meeting, Bob tells Alice, while Dave repeats the idea to Eve. After each water cooler rendezvous, the number of individuals who have heard the rumor roughly doubles (though this doesn't account for gossiping twice to the same person; perhaps Dave tries to tell the story to Frank, only to find that Frank already heard it from Alice). Computer systems typically implement this type of protocol with a form of random "peer selection": with a given frequency, each machine picks another machine at random and shares any rumors.
Variants and styles
There are probably hundreds of variants of specific gossip-like protocols because each use-scenario is likely to be customized to the organization's specific needs.
For example, a gossip protocol might employ some of these ideas:
The core of the protocol involves periodic, pairwise, inter-process interactions.
The information exchanged during these interactions is of bounded size.
When agents interact, the state of at least one agent changes to reflect the state of the other.
Reliable communication is not assumed.
The frequency of the interactions is low compared to typical message latencies so that the protocol costs are negligible.
There is some form of randomness in the peer selection. Peers might be selected from the full set of nodes or from a smaller set of neighbors.
Due to the replication there is an implicit redundancy of the delivered information.
Protocol types
It is useful to distinguish two prevailing styles of gossip protocol:
Dissemination protocols (or rumor-mongering protocols). These use gossip to spread information; they basically work by flooding agents in the network, but in a manner that produces bounded worst-case loads:
Event dissemination protocols use gossip to carry out multicasts. They report events, but the gossip occurs periodically and events don't actually trigger the gossip. One concern here is the potentially high latency from when the event occurs until it is delivered.
Background data dissemination protocols continuously gossip about information associated with the participating nodes. Typically, propagation latency isn't a concern, perhaps because the i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Engineering%20for%20Adaptive%20and%20Self-Managing%20Systems | The Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS) is an academic conference for exchanging research results and experiences in the areas of autonomic computing, self-managing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-configuring, and self-adaptive systems theory.
It was established in 2006 at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
It integrated workshops held mainly at ICSE and the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) conference since 2002, including the FSE 2002 and 2004 Workshops on Self-Healing (Self-Managed) Systems (WOSS), ICSE 2005 Workshop on Design and Evolution of Autonomic Application Software, and the ICSE 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 Workshops on Architecting Dependable Systems.
References
External links
ICSE 2012 SEAMS
ICSE 2011 SEAMS
ICSE 2010 SEAMS
ICSE 2009 SEAMS
ICSE 2008 SEAMS
ICSE 2007 SEAMS
ICSE 2006 SEAMS
SEAMS 2007 Organizer Information
IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)
Software engineering conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwood%20Acres%20Park | Hartwood Acres is a county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Hartwood is considered the crown jewel of the county's network of nine distinct parks.
Purchased by the county in 1969, its special feature is one of the largest and most spectacular country estates in the region. Hartwood consists of a stately Tudor mansion (begun in 1927 and completed in 1929), an English style Formal Garden, a cottage, a stable complex, and a gate lodge (erected in 1927). The mansion, designed by Alfred Hopkins for John and Mary Flinn Lawrence, houses a collection of original English and American antiques.
Hartwood is sited northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh on largely forested land in both Hampton and Indiana townships. The park also offers a large-stage concert area where the Free Summer Concert Series is held, as well as the Allegheny County Music Festival, and of trails—horse riding, walking, hiking, biking, and cross country skiing. Hartwood is especially well-known because of its now-defunct "Festival of Lights," a large outdoor light display once held during the holiday season to benefit local charities.
History
Mary Flinn Lawrence, a Pittsburgh philanthropist, created Hartwood with money she inherited from her father, Senator William Flinn. In the 1920s, she and her husband John Lawrence asked architect Alfred Hopkins to borrow design elements from a manor house the Lawrences had seen in Broadway, Oxfordshire, England. The result was a stately 31-room slate-roofed stone house constructed around a great hall.
Mary transformed the grounds of her estate into an equestrian arts showcase, building riding trails that extend for miles, show rings, steeplechase layouts, and ivy-covered stables. The stalls of the stables are made of varnished oak.
The Allegheny Parks Commission bought of land and riding trails from Mary (John died in 1945) in 1969, with several stipulations. 1) Mary was to be able to remain in residence until her death as were her servants, 2) The land would never be subdivided, and 3) the county would also purchase her sister Edith's home, which was called Harkaway Farm (This is now the area called the Middle Road Concert Area where the amphitheater is located). Mary died on October 29, 1974, and in 1976 the new park was opened to the public.
Usage in popular culture
A large segment of the 1996 TV film The Christmas Tree, directed by Sally Field, was filmed at Hartwood.
Some scenes in the 2006 film 10th & Wolf were filmed in the Hartwood Mansion's great hall.
The pilot episode for the cancelled Twentieth Century Fox Television adaptation of Joe Hill's Eisner Award-winning graphic novel, Locke & Key, was filmed at the Hartwood Mansion in early 2011.
Scenes from the 2014 blockbuster The Fault in our Stars were filmed near the Middle Road entrance to the park.
Scenes from the 2022 Netflix film The Pale Blue Eye feature the Hartwood stables as well as exterior shots of the Hartwood Mansion.
Sculpture
Eleven large |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20good%20signal | The Power Good signal (power-good) is a signal provided by a computer power supply to indicate to the motherboard that all of the voltages are within specification and that the system may proceed to boot and operate.
ATX Power Good
The ATX specification defines the Power-Good signal as a +5-volt (V) signal generated in the power supply when it has passed its internal self-tests and the outputs have stabilized. This normally takes between 0.1 and 0.5 seconds after the power supply is switched on. The signal is then sent to the motherboard, where it is received by the processor timer chip that controls the reset line to the processor.
The ATX specification requires that the power-good signal ("PWR_OK") go high no sooner than after the power rails have stabilized, and remain high for after loss of AC power, and fall (to less than ) at least before the power rails fall out of specification (to 95% of their nominal value).
Cheaper and/or lower quality power supplies do not follow the ATX specification of a separate monitoring circuit; they instead wire the power good output to one of the lines. This means the processor will never reset given bad power unless the line drops low enough to turn off the trigger, which could be too low for proper operation.
Power Good values
Power good value is based on the delay in ms, that a power supply takes to become fully ready. Power good values are often considered abnormal if detected lower than 100 ms or higher than 500 ms.
References
External links
(Wayback Machine | 31.01.2019) Power Good article on pcguide
(Wayback Machine | 22.11.2009) ATX12V power supply design guide 2.01
ATX12V power supply design guide 2.01
Desktop Platform Form Factors Power Supply
Computer jargon
Power supplies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%20PL | SQL PL stands for Structured Query Language Procedural Language and was developed by IBM as a set of commands that extend the use of SQL in the IBM Db2 (DB2 UDB Version 7) database system. It provides procedural programmability in addition to the querying commands of SQL. It is a subset of the SQL Persistent Stored Modules (SQL/PSM) language standard.
As of DB2 version 9, SQL PL stored procedures can run natively inside the DB2 process (inside the DBM1 address space, more precisely) instead of being fenced in an external process. In DB2 version 9.7 IBM also added a PL/SQL front-end to this infrastructure (called "SQL Unified Runtime Engine"), meaning that procedural SQL using either the ISO standard or Oracle's syntax compile to bytecode running on the same engine in DB2.
See also
IBM Db2
Comparison of relational database management systems
References
External links
Examples in Rosetta Code
SQL
IBM software
IBM DB2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forethought%2C%20Inc. | Forethought, Inc. was a computer software company, best known as developers of what is now Microsoft PowerPoint.
History
In late 1983, Rob Campbell and Taylor Pohlman founded Forethought, Inc in order to develop object-oriented bit-mapped application software. In 1984, they hired Robert Gaskins, a former Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, in exchange for a large percentage of the company's stock. He and software developer Dennis Austin led the development of a program called Presenter, which they later renamed PowerPoint. Also in 1984, Forethought acquired the rights to publish a Macintosh version of a DOS-based application called Nutshell. They named the Mac version FileMaker and it soon became enormously successful.
PowerPoint 1.0 was released in 1987 for the Apple Macintosh. It ran in black and white, generating text-and-graphics pages for overhead transparencies. A new full-color version of PowerPoint shipped a year later after the first color Macintosh came to market. Later in 1987, Forethought and PowerPoint were purchased by Microsoft Corporation for $14 million (~$ in ). In May 1990 the first Windows 3.0 versions were produced. Since 1990, PowerPoint has been a standard part of the Microsoft Office suite of applications except for the Basic Edition. Microsoft PowerPoint would go on to become the most used and sought after presentation suite, having a 95% market share.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
1983 establishments in the United States
Software companies established in 1983
Microsoft acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidebar%20%28computing%29 | The sidebar is a graphical control element that displays various forms of information to the right or left side of an application window or operating system desktop. Examples of the sidebar can be seen in the Opera web browser, Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, SoftMaker Presentations and File Explorer; in each case, the app exposes various functionalities via the sidebar.
Overview
Sidebars have originated in desktop apps, which are designed for rectangular screens with longer horizontal sides. Like toolbars and status bars, sidebars host both information and GUI widgets with which the user issues commands to the app. Unlike toolbars and status bars, sidebars have larger surface areas because of horizontally longer layout of desktop apps. Sidebars may use accordions to organize widgets and accommodate a larger layout than the visible surface area.
Widgets
In a number of Widget engines, one is able to install applets which can reside on a sidebar. Notable examples include:
Windows Sidebar, part of Windows Vista only
Google Desktop
Drawers
Early versions of Mac OS X's Aqua UI supported a sidebar concept called drawers, which pop outside the application window frame rather than expand from the inside like most application sidebars, are used. Despite criticism, third-party applications like Transmit, OmniWeb, Shiira and BBEdit quickly adopted drawers. The standard email client, Mail, used drawers for listing mailboxes prior to 10.4 ("Tiger"), when they were replaced by a traditional sidebar. A number of other Apple-created applications and third-party applications have replaced drawers with a sidebar, or re-designed the interface to make a sidebar/drawer unnecessary. Apple's Human Interface Guidelines now recommend against their use. Formerly drawer-heavy apps, like iCal and Adium, now contain no drawers at all, and instead display an optional sidebar within the main window.
The Android mobile operating system also uses the term "drawers" to refer to a type of sidebar menu widget, usually accessible by swiping from the left edge of the screen.
References
Graphical control elements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTN | GTN may refer to:
Gas Transmission Northwest
Gdańsk Scientific Society (Polish: )
Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia
Glentanner Aerodrome, in New Zealand
Global Traffic Network, a traffic reporting service
Global Trance Network, a German record label
Glyceryl trinitrate
Grangetown railway station, in Wales
Gray Television, an American broadcaster
Greater Talent Network, an American speakers bureau
Guardian Television Network, in Columbus, Ohio
Global Television Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20and%20Stella%20in%3A%20Breaking%20the%20Ice | Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice, also known as Love Found, is a 1987 American computer animated short film.
Synopsis
Birds and fish are moving around different halves of a sphere, separated by a sheet of ice. One bird and one fish (Stanley and Stella) notice each other and approach their sides of the ice sheet. They look at each other through the ice and twirl to acknowledge that the feeling of love is mutual. Stella looks up and points, Stanley appears to be confused. Stella then taps her side of the ice sheet with her tail. Stanley gazes upward and then nods to her, understanding what he can do. As Stella watches, Stanley flies further and further up until he is high enough and then dives towards the ice sheet, breaking it.
Stella approaches Stanley, who appears to be unconscious, and nudges him awake. He looks around him to see that he is successful and Stella kisses his cheek. As they continue to gaze at each other, the birds and fish around them are shown freely mingling throughout the sphere.
History
The animation was created in 1987 by a crew of about 90 people from Symbolics Graphics Division, Whitney/Demos Productions, and elsewhere. It premiered at the Electronic Theater of SIGGRAPH 1987.
Symbolics undertook the production for two reasons. The first goal was as publicity and marketing for the products of Symbolics Graphics Division by creating content for submission to SIGGRAPH’s well regarded Electronic Theater. The second goal was to showcase the boids simulation of group motion. It was developed in 1986 and 1987 by Craig Reynolds of Symbolics Graphics Division, and described in a technical paper published at SIGGRAPH 1987
The film did not gain attention outside the computer graphic field until it was rescored by James Reynolds and edited into the direct to video compilation The Mind's Eye in 1990. In this compilation, the film was retitled as "Love Found", featured a new jazz score, and the credits were eliminated. This version of the film later aired numerous times in the early 1990s on the Canadian television station YTV as part of the "Short Circutz" interludes. Much of Stanley and Stella was later incorporated into a music video, which can still be seen occasionally on MTV, as well as being featured in a few segments of Club Mario.
References
External links
Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice on Internet Archive (remastered in 2023, highest quality)
Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice on YouTube (remastered in 2023)
1987 films
1987 short films
Computer-animated short films
American animated short films
1987 animated films
1980s American animated films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Park%20%28Pittsburgh%29 | North Park is a county park that is located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the largest in the county's 12,000-acre (49 km²) network of nine distinct parks.
History and notable features
Completed in 1931, North Park is sited northeast of downtown Pittsburgh in Hampton, McCandless, and Pine Townships. The park features the largest man-made body of water in the county, over , bordered by four miles of woodlands.
Its swimming pool was one of the largest in the United States when it opened on July 5, 1937. It holds 2,225,000 gallons of water (compared to 20–30,000 gallons in a modern city swimming pool) and has enough room for 5,000 people to swim. The pool is 50m x 105m.
The park also offers a golf course, a large ice skating rink that was completed in February 1961, a movie theater, picnic groves, tennis courts, basketball courts, kayak rentals, a treetop obstacle course with zipline, and several miles of trails for walking, hiking, bike riding, and mountain biking, including trails for the visually impaired, known as the "Braille Trail." The Rachel Carson Trail runs through North Park, as well. North Park is also notable for their boathouse restaurant called "Over the Bar", which has a bicycle theme.
The Latodami Nature Center offers environmental education programs for school groups, scouts, and other private and public groups.
Further reading
References
External links
North Park website
Latodami Nature Center
Parks in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Parks in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Nature centers in Pennsylvania
Braille trail sites
1931 establishments in Pennsylvania
Protected areas established in 1931
County parks in the United States
Swimming venues in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Park%20%28Pittsburgh%29 | South Park is a county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the second largest in the county's network of nine parks.
History and notable features
Completed in 1931, South Park is sited south of Downtown Pittsburgh in Bethel Park municipality and South Park Township. The park offers a wave pool, golf course, ice skating rink, picnic groves, tennis courts, and miles of trails. The South Park Nature Center offers public nature and environmental education programs year round during the week and on the weekend. The Allegheny County Park Rangers also offer a wide variety of environmental education programs.
Beginning in the 1930s, South Park was used as the county fairgrounds and for more than thirty years attracted a half million people each season. By the late 1960s, farming in the county had declined and the fair was discontinued in 1971.
It is the location of the Oliver Miller Homestead, an important site of the Whiskey Rebellion.
References
Citations
Bibliography
External links
South Park website
Parks in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Parks in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Nature centers in Pennsylvania
1931 establishments in Pennsylvania
Protected areas established in 1931
County parks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater%20model | Groundwater models are computer models of groundwater flow systems, and are used by hydrologists and hydrogeologists. Groundwater models are used to simulate and predict aquifer conditions.
Characteristics
An unambiguous definition of "groundwater model" is difficult to give, but there are many common characteristics.
A groundwater model may be a scale model or an electric model of a groundwater situation or aquifer. Groundwater models are used to represent the natural groundwater flow in the environment. Some groundwater models include (chemical) quality aspects of the groundwater. Such groundwater models try to predict the fate and movement of the chemical in natural, urban or hypothetical scenario.
Groundwater models may be used to predict the effects of hydrological changes (like groundwater pumping or irrigation developments) on the behavior of the aquifer and are often named groundwater simulation models. Groundwater models are used in various water management plans for urban areas.
As the computations in mathematical groundwater models are based on groundwater flow equations, which are differential equations that can often be solved only by approximate methods using a numerical analysis, these models are also called mathematical, numerical, or computational groundwater models.
The mathematical or the numerical models are usually based on the real physics the groundwater flow follows. These mathematical equations are solved using numerical codes such as MODFLOW, ParFlow, HydroGeoSphere, OpenGeoSys etc.
Various types of numerical solutions like the finite difference method and the finite element method are discussed in the article on "Hydrogeology".
Inputs
For the calculations one needs inputs like:
hydrological inputs,
operational inputs,
external conditions: initial and boundary conditions,
(hydraulic) parameters.
The model may have chemical components like water salinity, soil salinity and other quality indicators of water and soil, for which inputs may also be needed.
Hydrological inputs
The primary coupling between groundwater and hydrological inputs is the unsaturated zone or vadose zone. The soil acts to partition hydrological inputs such as rainfall or snowmelt into surface runoff, soil moisture, evapotranspiration and groundwater recharge. Flows through the unsaturated zone that couple surface water to soil moisture and groundwater can be upward or downward, depending upon the gradient of hydraulic head in the soil, can be modeled using the numerical solution of Richards' equation partial differential equation, or the ordinary differential equation Finite Water-Content method as validated for modeling groundwater and vadose zone interactions.
Operational inputs
The operational inputs concern human interferences with the water management like irrigation, drainage, pumping from wells, watertable control, and the operation of retention or infiltration basins, which are often of an hydrological nature.
These inputs may |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip%20%28Unix%20utility%29 | tip is a Unix utility for establishing a terminal connection to a remote system via a modem. It is commonly associated with BSD Unix, as well as other UNIX operating systems such as Sun's Solaris. It was originally included with 4.2BSD.
The name may refer to ARPANET's Terminal Interface Processor (TIP),
a variant of the IMP, used to connect serial terminals directly with ARPANET.
tip is referred to in the Solaris documentation as the preferred terminal emulator to connect to a Sun workstation's serial port for maintenance purposes, for example, to configure the OpenPROM firmware.
Basics
tip is one of the commands referenced in the expect reference book by Don Libes.
The tip command line options are as follows:
tip [-v] [-speed-entry] (<hostname> | <phone-number> | <device>)
Use ~. to exit.
Use ~# to break (Stop-A on a Sun keyboard).
Use ~? to list all commands.
Examples
This Expect script is a simple example that establishes a terminal session:
spawn tip modem
expect "connected"
send "ATD$argc\r"
set timeout 30
expect "CONNECT"
As tip does not have the built-in logging capabilities that Minicom has, we need to use some other means to record the session. One way is to use script:
$ script -a install.log
Script started, file is install.log
$ tip hardwire
[tip session takes place.]
$ exit
Script done, file is install.log
$
and so on. In the above example, run on a Sun SPARC 20 workstation running Solaris 9, we first created a log file called install.log in the current directory using script' and then tell tip to use serial port B.
See also
cu (Unix utility), a similar command
References
External links
NetBSD source to tip
Unix software
Communication software
Terminal emulators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive%20research | Unobtrusive research (or unobtrusive measures) is a method of data collection used primarily in the social sciences. The term "unobtrusive measures" was first coined by Webb, Campbell, Schwartz, & Sechrest in a 1966 book titled Unobtrusive Measures: nonreactive research in the social sciences. The authors described methodologies which do not involve direct elicitation of data from the research subjects. Unobtrusive measures are contrasted with interviews and questionnaires, in that they try to find indirect ways to obtain the necessary data. The unobtrusive approach often seeks unusual data sources, such as garbage, graffiti and obituaries, as well as more conventional ones such as published statistics.
Unobtrusive measures should not be perceived as an alternative to more reactive methods such as interviews, surveys and experiments, but rather as an additional tool in the tool chest of the social researcher. Unobtrusive measures can assist in tackling known biases such as selection bias and experimenter's bias. Webb and his colleagues emphasize the importance of triangulating the results obtained through various methodologies, each with its own unique set of (usually unknown) biases.
The proliferation of digital media opened a new era for communication researchers in search of unobtrusively obtained data sources. Online communication creates digital footprints that can allow an analysis of data that are obtained through unobtrusive methods, and are also massively larger than any corpora obtained via elicitation and human transcription. These footprints can now be used to analyze topics such as the content of communication events, the process of communication, and the structure of the communicative network. The surge of Internet-sourced research data rekindled the discussion of the ethical aspects of using unobtrusively obtained data. For example, can all data collected in the public domain be used for research purposes? When should we seek consent, and is it realistic to require informed consent from sources of unobtrusively collected data? These questions do not have a simple answer, and the solution is a result of a careful and ongoing dialog between researchers, and between researchers and society.
References
Lee, R. M. (2000). Unobtrusive Methods in Social Research. Open University Press.
Webb, E. J.; Campbell, D. T.; Schwartz, R. D. & Sechrest, L. (2000). Unobtrusive Measures; revised edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications Inc.
Social science methodology
Data collection in research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20accelerator | A Windows accelerator was a type of Graphics processing unit for personal computers with additional acceleration features like 2D line-drawings, blitter, clipping, font caching, hardware cursor support, color expansion, linear addressing, and pattern, polygon and area fills. The functionality marketed for accelerating the Microsoft Windows operating system. These have been superseded by multipurpose GPUs which include acceleration for 3D graphics.
Most of the Windows accelerator video cards were 2D capable fixed function accelerators that got 2D drawing commands and pixel data sent from the CPU and the fixed function run the given command which resulted in a faster drawing of the window. The lessened burden on the CPU, combined with the smaller data stream needed for the required instructions, resulted in improved performance compared to dumb frame-buffer only based video-cards.
In the high-end professional area a price of several thousands of dollars, there were also coprocessor based video chipsets like the Texas Instrument TMS34020 available that had their own processor which allowed to offload some of the processing data from the CPU to the coprocessor the videocard.
To make use of these accelerator or coprocessor based video cards, a Windows Graphic driver for the specific video chipset was necessary.
See also
SVGA
local bus
Windows 3.1x
References
Graphics processing units |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WILI%20%28AM%29 | WILI (1400 kHz) is an AM radio station in Willimantic, Connecticut, broadcasting at a power of 1,000 watts, full-time. WILI's programming is also heard on translator station W237EL (95.3 FM). It is affiliated with the ABC Entertainment Network, the Red Sox Radio Network, and the UConn Basketball and Football Networks. Its sister station is WILI-FM (98.3). The station is owned by Hall Communications, Inc. The studios are located on Main Street in Willimatic, near the Willimantic Footbridge.
Ownership
In May 2005, Florida-based Hall Communications reached an agreement to acquire WILI and WILI-FM from Nutmeg Broadcasting Co. At the time of the purchase, Hall already owned WICH and WCTY in Norwich and WNLC and WKNL in New London. In addition, Hall owns a number of stations in medium-sized markets along the eastern seaboard from Vermont to Florida.
Boom Box Parade
WILI has gained international attention for its unusual July 4 Boom Box Parade. Called "Connecticut's Unique People's Parade," it is the largest parade of its kind in the world. In 1986, no marching band could be found for Windham's Memorial Day Parade. Five weeks later, the "Boom Box Parade" concept was born, as WILI plays the marching band music on the air, while thousands march and watch, loudly playing their radios boom boxes.
Anyone can march in the Boom Box Parade. The only requirement is to wear some red, white, and blue, and bring a radio tuned to WILI. American flags are optional, but encouraged. There is no official theme for the parade. Every year WILI morning disc jockey Wayne Norman serves as the parade's Grand Marshal.
It was not held in 2020 due to the Coronavirus Pandemic but a Virtual Version was held instead.
Translators
References
External links
Willimantic, Connecticut
Windham County, Connecticut
ILI
Radio stations established in 1957
1957 establishments in Connecticut
Full service radio stations in the United States
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
News and talk radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce%20Park | Boyce Park is a county park lying mostly in the Borough of Plum, in eastern Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a part of the county's network of nine distinct parks. Its southernmost reaches (south of Old Frankstown Road) also extend into neighboring Monroeville.
Established in 1963, it is named for William D. Boyce, the founder of the Boy Scouts of America, who was born in the area. It is sited east of downtown Pittsburgh. It is the only park in the county for downhill skiing, with ski lifts and a lodge. It also offers a wave pool, tennis courts, ball fields, a nature center, greenhouse, arboretum and trails. The source of Plum Creek is in the northwest section of the park.
Sources
References
External links
Parks in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Parks in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Ski areas and resorts in Pennsylvania
Nature centers in Pennsylvania
1963 establishments in Pennsylvania
County parks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round%20Hill%20Park | Round Hill Park is a county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a part of the county's network of nine distinct parks.
Geography and notable features
This park is situated southeast of downtown Pittsburgh in Elizabeth Township and features a modern working demonstration farm that supplements the park itself.
Seventeen picnic groves reflect farm culture with names like Alfalfa, Timothy, Wagon Wheel, and Quiet Acres. The exhibit farm is open every day of the year and affords tens of thousands of school students on field trips, and daily visitors, an interpretive program that revolves around the farm, and the water and food cycles of life. It also offers soccer fields and gardens.
References
External links
Round Hill Park website
Parks in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
Parks in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
County parks in the United States |
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