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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPAP | SPAP may refer to:
Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways (Siderodromi Pireos Athinon Peloponisou), a meter-gauge railway network in southern Greece
Samodzielny Pododdział Antyterrorystyczny Policji, an independent anti-terrorist police subunits of the Polish police
Seaport-Airport Road, a proposed highway to Cochin International Airport, Kerala, India
Secure Password Authentication Protocol
Shiva Password Authentication Protocol
Socialist Popular Alliance Party, Egypt
Sodium-proton antiporter
State Prescription Assistance Program, a social program prescription assistance offered in U.S. states as part of Medicaid
Systolic pulmonary artery pressure (sPAP); see pulmonary hypertension |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%20chart | An area chart or area graph displays graphically quantitative data. It is based on the line chart. The area between axis and line are commonly emphasized with colors, textures and hatchings. Commonly one compares two or more quantities with an area chart.
History
William Playfair is usually credited with inventing the area charts as well as the line, bar, and pie charts. His book The Commercial and Political Atlas, published in 1786, contained a number of time-series graphs, including Interest of the National Debt from the Revolution and Chart of all the Imports and Exports to and from England from the Year 1700 to 1782 that are often described as the first area charts in history.
Common uses
Area charts are used to represent cumulated totals using numbers or percentages (stacked area charts in this case) over time.
Use the area chart for showing trends over time among related attributes. The area chart is like the plot chart except that the area below the plotted line is filled in with color to indicate volume.
When multiple attributes are included, the first attribute is plotted as a line with color fill followed by the second attribute, and so on.
Variations
Area charts which use vertical and horizontal lines to connect the data points in a series forming a step-like progression are called step-area charts.
Area charts in which data points are connected by smooth curves instead of straight lines are called spline-area charts.
Stacked area charts in which the area is displaced around the central axis are called streamgraphs.
References
Diagrams
Statistical charts and diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEpi | OpenEpi is a free, web-based, open source, operating system-independent series of programs for use in epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, and medicine, providing a number of epidemiologic and statistical tools for summary data. OpenEpi was developed in JavaScript and HTML, and can be run in modern web browsers. The program can be run from the OpenEpi website or downloaded and run without a web connection. The source code and documentation is downloadable and freely available for use by other investigators. OpenEpi has been reviewed, both by media organizations and in research journals.
The OpenEpi developers have had extensive experience in the development and testing of Epi Info, a program developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and widely used around the world for data entry and analysis. OpenEpi was developed to perform analyses found in the DOS version of Epi Info modules StatCalc and EpiTable, to improve upon the types of analyses provided by these modules, and to provide a number of tools and calculations not currently available in Epi Info. It is the first step toward an entirely web-based set of epidemiologic software tools. OpenEpi can be thought of as an important companion to Epi Info and to other programs such as SAS, PSPP, SPSS, Stata, SYSTAT, Minitab, Epidata, and R (see the R programming language). Another functionally similar Windows-based program is Winpepi. See also list of statistical packages and comparison of statistical packages. Both OpenEpi and Epi Info were developed with the goal of providing tools for low and moderate resource areas of the world. The initial development of OpenEpi was supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Emory University.
Types
The types of calculations currently performed by OpenEpi include:
Various confidence intervals for proportions, rates, standardized mortality ratio, mean, median, percentiles
2x2 crude and stratified tables for count and rate data
Matched case-control analysis
Test for trend with count data
Independent t-test and one-way ANOVA
Diagnostic and screening test analyses with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves
Sample size for proportions, cross-sectional surveys, unmatched case-control, cohort, randomized controlled trials, and comparison of two means
Power calculations for proportions (unmatched case-control, cross-sectional, cohort, randomized controlled trials) and for the comparison of two means
Random number generator
For epidemiologists and other health researchers, OpenEpi performs a number of calculations based on tables not found in most epidemiologic and statistical packages. For example, for a single 2x2 table, in addition to the results presented in other programs, OpenEpi provides estimates for:
Etiologic or prevented fraction in the population and in exposed with confidence intervals, based on risk, odds, or rate data
The cross-product and MLE odds ratio estimate
Mid-p exact p- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP%20Community%20Network | SAP Community (formerly SAP Community Network or SCN) is the official user community of SAP SE. SAP software users, developers, consultants, mentors and students use the SAP Community Network to get help, share ideas, learn, innovate and connect with others. There are an average of 2 million unique visitors to SCN each month, who use the information that has been shared on the site.
SCN has over 430 spaces (sub-groups) dedicated to SAP products, topics, technologies, industries, programming languages (such as ABAP) and more. Almost all spaces contain related discussion threads (forums), blogs, documents, elearning, and polls. There are also several spaces in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian.
History
The SAP Community Network (SCN) was created in July 2003 as part of the SAP Developer Network.
In 2006, a sub-community for business process experts was created for users that defined their role as business analysts or consultants. After the acquisition of BusinessObjects, the BusinessObjects Diamond community was integrated into SCN at first as the BusinessObjects community and later as the Business Analytics Community. University Alliances Community was launched in 2009 to support collaboration among professors, students, customers and partners worldwide.
Around 2008, the term "SAP Developer Network" no longer adequately described the scope of the community so it was rename to SAP Community Network, and later to simply SAP Community. SCN is still colloquially referred to as "SDN."
In March 2012, the SAP Community Network was migrated to a Jive based platform hosted on a new sub-domain: scn.sap.com. The new platform is more robust than the former and finally brings all discussions (forums), blogs and documents into a single space for easier access and use. After the migration, the sub-communities for SDN, BPX and BOC/BA continue to exist in newsletter format.
On April 28, 2013, the SAP Community Network was enhanced with the Jive Gamification Module (JGM). Gamification, the use of game mechanics to make tasks more fun, is used to encourage community engagement on SCN. Included in the implementation are missions (activities that are recorded by the system, such as likes, ratings, comments), badges for completed missions, badges for lifetime points (levels), and badges for specific roles. In the first week after the launch of JGM, community actions increased by 1034% and active members (members with >0 points) increased by 516%. The Gamification Team at SAP/SCN continue to provide new missions that encourage healthy participation in the community.
In October 2016, the SAP Community Network website hosted so far on its own subdomain scn.sap.com was redirected to the subdirectory of the more generic Community portal of the main SAP website. The SAP Community Network was then renamed more simply as the SAP Community.
In September 2019, the SAP Community website moved again, this time to its own subdomain co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%203%20system%20software | The PlayStation 3 system software, is the updatable firmware and operating system of the PlayStation 3. The base operating system used by Sony for the PlayStation 3 is a fork of both FreeBSD and NetBSD known internally as CellOS or GameOS. It uses XrossMediaBar as its graphical shell.
The process of updating is almost identical to that of the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation 4. The software may be updated by downloading the update directly on the PlayStation 3, downloading it from the user's local Official PlayStation website to a PC and using a USB storage device to transfer it to the PlayStation 3, or installing the update from game discs containing update data.
The initial slim PS3s SKU shipped with a unique firmware with new features, also seen in software 3.00.
Technology
System
The native operating system of the PlayStation 3 is CellOS, which is believed to be a fork of FreeBSD; TCP/IP stack fingerprinting identifies a PlayStation 3 as running FreeBSD, and the PlayStation 3 is known to contain code from FreeBSD and NetBSD.
The 3D computer graphics API software used in the PlayStation 3 is LibGCM and PSGL, based on OpenGL ES and Nvidia's Cg. LibGCM is a low level API, and PSGL is a higher level API, but most developers preferred to use libGCM due to higher levels of performance. This is similar to the later PlayStation 4 console which also has two APIs, the low level GNM and the higher level GNMX.
Unlike the Software Development Kit (SDK) for mobile apps, Sony's PlayStation 3 SDK is only available to registered game development companies and contains software tools and an integrated hardware component. Due to the fact that it requires a licensing agreement with Sony (which is considered expensive), a number of open source and homebrew PS3 SDKs are available in addition to a number of leaked PS3 SDKs.
Graphical shell
The PlayStation 3 uses the XrossMediaBar (XMB) as its graphical user interface, which is also used in the PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld console, a variety of Sony BRAVIA HDTVs, Blu-ray disc players and many more Sony products. XMB displays icons horizontally across the screen that be seen as categories. Users can navigate through them using the left and right buttons of the D-pad, which move the icons forward or back across the screen, highlighting just one at a time, as opposed to using any kind of pointer to select an option. When one category is selected, there are usually more specific options then available to select that are spread vertically above and below the selected icon. Users may navigate among these options by using the up and down buttons of the D-pad.
The basic features offered by XMB implementations varies based on device and software version. Apart from those appearing in the PSP console such as category icons for Photos, Music and Games, the PS3 added Users, TV and Friends to the XMB. Also, XMB offers a degree of multitasking. In-game XMB features were added to the PS3 prope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity%20Duets%3A%20Philippine%20Edition | Celebrity Duets: Philippine Edition is a Philippine television interactive reality-based singing competition show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez, it premiered on August 11, 2007. The show concluded on November 14, 2009. It was replaced by Kakasa Ka Ba sa Grade 5? in its time slot.
Cast
Season 1
Judges
Mitch Valdez - Comedian and stage performer
Louie Ocampo - Composer and arranger
Buboy Garovillo - Member of APO Hiking Society
Contestants
Notes
On October 20, 2007, finals night, three contestants competed for the title of Celebrity Duets Champion.
Duet partners
Season 2
Judges
Freddie Santos - Veteran concert & theatre director
Danny Tan - Renowned composer & arranger
Tessa Prieto-Valdez - Celebrity Duets 1st grand winner & socialite
Contestants
Duet partners
Season 3
Judges
Freddie Santos - Veteran concert & theatre director
Danny Tan - Renowned composer & arranger
Tessa Prieto-Valdez - Celebrity Duets 1st grand winner & socialite
Contestants
Duet partners
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode of Celebrity Duets: Philippine Edition scored a 17.8% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series
Philippine television series based on American television series
Television series by Fremantle (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle%20Collection | Puzzle Collection may refer to:
Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection, a collection of puzzle computer games
Nintendo Puzzle Collection, a collection of puzzle video games by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube home console
Pokémon Puzzle Collection, a puzzle minigames collection for the Pokémon mini handheld game console
Puzzle Series, a video game brand by Hudson Soft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger%20M%C3%B8ller-Pedersen | Birger Møller-Pedersen (born 11 November 1949) is a computer scientist and professor at the University of Oslo, department of informatics. He published numerous works on object-oriented programming and has contributed to the creation of the BETA programming language, which is a descendant of Simula.
Academic work
Møller-Pedersen is a professor at the department of informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway. He teaches courses mainly in compiler design and programming languages.
References
External links
University of Oslo
Department of Informatics
Personal homepage
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Computer programmers
Living people
1949 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity%20diagram | The affinity diagram is a business tool used to organize ideas and data. It is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. People have been grouping data into groups based on natural relationships for thousands of years; however, the term affinity diagram was devised by Jiro Kawakita in the 1960s and is sometimes referred to as the KJ Method.
The tool is commonly used within project management and allows large numbers of ideas stemming from brainstorming to be sorted into groups, based on their natural relationships, for review and analysis. It is also frequently used in contextual inquiry as a way to organize notes and insights from field interviews. It can also be used for organizing other freeform comments, such as open-ended survey responses, support call logs, or other qualitative data.
Process
The affinity diagram organizes ideas with following steps:
Record each idea on cards or notes.
Look for ideas that seem to be related.
Sort cards into groups until all cards have been used.
Once the cards have been sorted into groups the team may sort large clusters into subgroups for easier management and analysis. Once completed, the affinity diagram may be used to create a cause and effect diagram.
In many cases, the best results tend to be achieved when the activity is completed by a cross-functional team, including key stakeholders. The process requires becoming deeply immersed in the data, which has benefits beyond the tangible deliverables.
Citations
References
External links
Memosort - Online tool for collaborative affinity diagramming
Online AFFINITY tool at Discover 6 Sigma Lab
Business terms
Usability
Creativity techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Hombre%20chipset | Hombre is a RISC chipset for the Amiga, designed by Commodore, which was intended as the basis of a range of Amiga personal computers and multimedia products, including a successor to the Amiga 1200, a next generation game machine called CD64 and a 3D accelerator PCI card. Hombre was canceled along with the bankruptcy of Commodore International.
History
In 1993, Commodore International ceased the development of the AAA chipset when they concluded conventional PC clones would have similar performance shortly after the AAA machines would be released.
In the place of AAA, Commodore began to design a new 64-bit 3D graphics chipset based on Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC architecture to serve as the new basis of the Amiga personal computer series. It was codenamed Hombre (pronounced "ómbre" which means man in Spanish) and was developed in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard over an estimated eighteen-month period.
Backward compatibility
Hombre does not support any planar mode, nor any emulation for the legacy Amiga chipset or Motorola 680x0 CPU registers, so it was completely incompatible with former Amiga models. According to Hombre designer Dr. Ed Hepler, Commodore intended to produce an AGA Amiga upon a single chip to solve the backward compatibility issues. This single chip would include Motorola MC680x0 core, plus the AGA chipset. The chip could be integrated in Hombre based computers for backward compatibility with AGA software.
Design
Hombre is based around two chips: Nathaniel, a System Controller chip, and Natalie, a Display Controller chip.
The System Controller chip was designed by Dr. Ed Hepler, well known as the designer of the AAA Andrea chip. The chip is similar in principle to the chip bus controller found in Agnus, Alice, and Andrea of the Amiga chipsets. Nathaniel features the following:
An inhouse designed 100+ MHz 64-bit integer PA-RISC microprocessor with SIMD and additional graphics processing related instructions
An advanced DMA engine and blitter with fixed-point arithmetic 3D texture mapping and gouraud shading using trapezoids as primitives
64-bit RISC-like Copper co-processor
16-bit resolution sound processor with twelve voices
Additional logic has been included to permit some floating point operations to be performed in hardware, a floating point register file is included.
The inclusion of a double precision floating point unit was also under consideration.
The Display Controller Chip was designed by Tim McDonald, also known as the designer of the AAA Monica chip. It is similar in principle to the Denise, Lisa, and Monica chips found on original Amigas. In addition, the chipset also supported future official or third-party upgrades through extension for an external PA-RISC processor.
Natalie features the following:
VGA monitor control
Built in genlock and framegrabber
Logic for 2 analog game port joysticks
These chips and some other circuitry would be part of a PCI card, through the ReTargetable Graphics system.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20bisimulation | In theoretical computer science, probabilistic bisimulation is an extension of the concept of bisimulation for fully probabilistic transition systems first described by K.G. Larsen and A. Skou.
A discrete probabilistic transition system is a triple
where gives the probability of starting in the state s, performing the action a and ending up in the state t. The set of states is assumed to be countable. There is no attempt to assign probabilities to actions. It is assumed that the actions are chosen nondeterministically by an adversary or by the environment. This type of system is fully probabilistic, there is no other indeterminacy.
The definition of a probabilistic bisimulation on a system S is an equivalence relation R on the state space St, such that for every pair s,t in St with sRt and for every action a in Act and for every equivalence class C of R
Two states are said to be probabilistically bisimilar if there is some such R relating them.
When applied to Markov chains, probabilistic bisimulation is the same concept as lumpability.
Probabilistic bisimulation extends naturally to weighted bisimulation.
References
Theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card%20reciprocal%20agreements | In order to expand the acceptance of their credit and debit cards, many networks, such as Discover, JCB, UnionPay, BC Card, RuPay and TROY create alliances with other networks.
Existing reciprocal agreements
The table below is designed so that one can easily look up his/her branded card in the first column, and see what other networks it is accepted on. Information, naturally, will be repeated as a result.
References
Credit card issuer associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20President%20Is%20Missing%20%28video%20game%29 | The President Is Missing is a computer simulation game written by Paul Norman for the Commodore 64 and published by Cosmi in 1988. The game came with an audio cassette with different recordings and an anonymous note signed by "Saduj" (Judas in reverse).
Plot
In the game, which is set in 1996, the President of the United States is attending an anti-terror summit in Europe with ten Western European leaders. Terrorists attack the summit, knocking out the attendees and security personnel with sleeping gas. The terrorists then kidnap the president and the other leaders and hold them hostage. The terrorists leave an audiotape behind, stating that they are Islamic and make numerous demands in exchange for safe release of the hostages.
The player assumes the role of the special investigator, who must find the President and the rest of the hostages. The investigator works from his computer terminal, which has access to dossiers of many different individuals such as known terrorists and members of the Cabinet. The investigator also has eight special agents, whom he can send out to interview people or find out information. The agents' reports are then stored on the computer.
The audiotape that comes with the game contains news reports, recorded messages by the President of the United States and the President of France while in captivity, intercepted telephone calls, an interview with the First Lady, and intercepts of Morse code messages.
The game includes tools to decipher Morse code messages and other coded clues.
If the player learned where a hostage or hostages were being held, he could send a special strike team to a particular address. The strike team would then report its findings, which could include other clues.
The computer terminal also has two secret files, one by the CIA and one by the National Security Council, that could not be accessed without prior authorization. The player, however, could attempt to hack into the files.
Resolution
As the game went on, it was clear that there was a much wider conspiracy going on. The player had to figure it out. As a game, The President Is Missing never ended. The game includes a note telling the player that once they unraveled the game's complex plot, they are to write a report and summarize all of the evidence and send it to Cosmi. In turn, the company would respond to the player.
Reception
Computer Gaming World applauded The President Is Missings premise, plot, and graphics, but criticized its execution. The magazine concluded, "the game has simply too much dead-time to be truly exciting or for players to maintain their initial enthusiasm."
References
External links
Images of The President Is Missing package, manual and screenshots from C64Sets.com
1988 video games
Crime investigation simulators
Video games set in 1996
Alternate history video games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Cosmi Corporation games
Video games scored by Barry Leitch
Video games developed in the United States
Vid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllosticta%20perseae | Phyllosticta perseae is a fungal plant pathogen infecting avocados.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Avocado tree diseases
perseae
Fungi described in 1885 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCDB | DCDB may refer to:
Digital Cadastral DataBase
Direct Current Distribution Board
Dickenson County Discussion Board |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBAK | WBAK (104.7 MHz "Big 104 FM") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Belfast, Maine. It is owned by Blueberry Broadcasting, and broadcasts a classic hits radio format. Its programming is also simulcast on WBKA (107.7 FM) in Bar Harbor, as well as WABK-FM (104.3 FM) in Gardiner (serving Augusta).
Studios and offices are on Target Industrial Circle in Bangor. WBAK's transmitter is off Murray Lane in Frankfort. WBKA's transmitter is off Tunk Lake Road in Sullivan. WBAK's competitor is WBQX in Thomaston. WBKA's competitors are cross-town station WNSX in Winter Harbor and WWMJ in Ellsworth.
History
WBAK
WBAK signed on the air on March 7, 1986 as WWFX. It was a contemporary hit radio station known as "The Fox" and was owned by Sunnie Silverman. Silverman sold the station to Bruce Mittman, owner of WICE in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, that December. WWFX was taken over in 1991 by Union Financial Services. The station was sold to Group H Radio on March 17, 1993.
Group H announced on September 18, 1996 that it would sell WWFX to Star Broadcasting, a company owned by Mark Osborne and Natalie Knox (current owners of WNSX) that already owned WKSQ and WLKE (now WBFE). To minimize playlist overlap with WKSQ, on September 20, Star changed the station's format to country music as "The Bear." The first song was "Gone Country" by Alan Jackson. The change gave rival WQCB its first competition since WYOU-FM became modern rock station WWBX a year earlier. The WWFX call letters were replaced with WBFB on April 25, 1997 after the station attempted to obtain the WEBR call sign.
Osborne and Knox sold WBFB, WKSQ, and WLKE to Communications Capital Managers in February 2000; that July, CCM announced that it would sell the group (which through other purchases also included WBYA, WGUY, and WVOM) to Clear Channel Communications. Clear Channel announced on November 16, 2006 that it would sell its Bangor stations after being bought by private equity firms, resulting in a sale to Blueberry Broadcasting to 2008; on September 28, 2009, Blueberry began simulcasting WBFB on WLKE and WMCM, replacing their separate country formats. The station swapped formats and call letters with 97.1 FM (the former WYOU-FM) on September 1, 2011 and became sports radio station WAEI-FM, simulcasting with WAEI (WLKE and WMCM continue to simulcast WBFB on its new frequency). The call letters were changed to WBAK on February 5, 2012; the next day, the format was changed to classic hits, leaving the sports format exclusively on WAEI's 910 AM frequency.
WBKA
WBKA went on the air May 6, 1995 as WMDI (for its location on Mount Desert Island), programming 1970s' music. Original owner MDI Communications sold the station to Bridge Broadcast Corporation in 1997; the new owners changed the station's format to adult album alternative. WMDI was simulcast on WNSX from that station's launch in July 2000 until February 2001, when WNSX was sold to Clear Channel Communications and began to simulcast WFZX. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mutant%20Virus%3A%20Crisis%20in%20a%20Computer%20World | The Mutant Virus: Crisis in a Computer World is an NES video game produced by ASC Games. It was made in April 1992.
Gameplay
The plot centers around protagonist, Ron, and his fight to eliminate a virus out of a global A.I. that is responsible for every aspect of technology in the game's present day. If Ron is unable to extinguish the virus, humanity will be thrown back to the Stone Age. The player controls a miniature "space ship" that shoots anti-virus and other variations of the weapon to try to contain the virus in that room.
The virus in the game is a cellular automaton following the rules of Conway's Game of Life, with the exception that each cell is either a virus cell (green) or a clean cell (light blue). As new cells are created, they either become virus cells or clean cells depending on which type makes up the majority of their neighbors.
See also
List of Nintendo Entertainment System games
References
External links
1992 video games
Cellular automata in computer games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
North America-exclusive video games
Science fiction video games
Top-down video games
Video games developed in the United States
ASC Games games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKA%20Cartoon%20Network | AKA Cartoon Network was a slot in the Cartoon Network weekday evening schedule from 1999 to 2000, between 7 and 9pm on weekday evenings. The slot consisted of repeated shows such as Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes and Cow and Chicken. In addition, the slot included an original show called Cult Toons, broadcast only on Friday evenings.
'AKA' Stings and Cult Toons material would consist of Hanna-Barbera owned footage, prominently from the 1960s and 1970s (such as Wacky Races, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, The Banana Splits (including Arabian Knights and Danger Island), Hong Kong Phooey, Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!, Harlem Globetrotters). More contemporary material included Cow and Chicken and Dexter's Laboratory.
Cult Toons
Cult Toons (also referred to by Exceeda as 'AKA Cult Toons') was a series of 30-minute slot experimental alternate comedy VJ (video jockey) videos, directed by Xavier Perkins and Brett Foraker. The inclusion of seemingly irrelevant and obscure clips from films and cartoons gave the show a very surreal and non sequitur quality.
For example, common features of the re-edited cartoons would include repeated footage (when a character would say "You can say that again" the previous line would often be repeated), freezing the footage (usually after a line such as "Hold everything!" or "Stop!"), overdubbing voices (including randomly replacing lines with the theme music to The Godzilla Power Hour), and repeating a line or sound effect and adding drum beats and record scratches over it, turning it into a brief hip-hop song.
The start of an episode of The Gary Coleman Show would often feature halfway through the show, edited so that lead character Andy LeBeau would suddenly explode a few seconds in. It would then end abruptly over a 'Technical Difficulties' caption, with a dramatic music sting.
Another example, suddenly cutting to a clip of a martial arts film if a character got angry. In addition, in an episode featuring the Super Furry Animals, the opening titles of Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! were edited so that all mentions of "bears" were replaced with themselves saying "furry animals".
Prominent material however would be live-action films ranging from blaxploitation to Bruce Lee, as well as footage of celebrity interviews and turntable DJs created especially for the show.
The show would also feature clips from interviews with a range of special guests and promoted talents, particularly in the second series. Some special guests on the show included Rio Ferdinand, Super Furry Animals, Cast, Kele Le Roc, London Towers, Keith Duffy, Catatonia, Gay Dad, 21st Century Girls, Rick Witter, Courduroy, WCW Nitro Girls, Regular Fries, The Jungle Brothers, Trev Sinclair, Reef, Zach Shaw, A and Waikiki.
Tom Guest worked extensively on the show as a music producer. He later worked on a variety of products, including Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon commercials and idents in the early 2000s, a number |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler%27s%20Ultimate | Tyler's Ultimate is a television show on Food Network hosted by Tyler Florence. The show focuses on making "ultimate" versions of popular or common dishes.
The show began as a secondary show for host Tyler Florence who was still making episodes of his original show, Food 911. At the time of its conception, Food Network became very active in creating traveling food shows. Tyler's Ultimate was unique in the regard that the host himself usually cooked on the program in addition to traveling. The original format of the show featured Tyler focusing on a particular dish for each episode. He would travel around the world to discover different versions of that dish, as well as its origins, in an attempt to discover the ultimate version of that dish. At the end of the episode, Florence would combine the recipes he learned through his travels and adding his own spin to create "the ultimate recipe," though some episodes simply had him eating the dish, not preparing it at all.
The show's format has changed; the traveling is removed as well as where the inspiration of the ultimate recipe came from, and Florence simply presents his version for the entire program, typically with more side dishes.
External links
Food Network: Tyler's Ultimate
Food Network Episode Guide
Food Network original programming
2000s American reality television series
2003 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Webber | Elizabeth Webber is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network, played by Rebecca Herbst. Elizabeth is the granddaughter of the show's original lead character, Steve Hardy (John Beradino) and daughter of Jeff Webber (Richard Dean Anderson). Introduced on August 1, 1997, as a rebellious teenager, Elizabeth comes to live with her grandmother Audrey Hardy (Rachel Ames) and sister Sarah Webber (Jennifer Sky). Feeling abandoned by her parents, Elizabeth is a wild child with no regard for her life. In 1998, after she is raped, Elizabeth goes from a rebellious teenager to a terrified timid girl. She finds comfort with Lucky Spencer (Jonathan Jackson) and they fall in love. The duo's endearing young love story propels them into supercouple status in the same vein as Lucky's famous parents, Luke and Laura (Anthony Geary and Genie Francis). Elizabeth and Lucky's (then Greg Vaughan) rocky marriages ultimately end in divorce. Their failed reunion in 2009 results in Elizabeth's affair with Lucky's half-brother Nikolas Cassadine (Tyler Christopher), and her giving birth to Lucky's son, Aiden. In 2006, in the midst of her chaotic marriage to Lucky, Elizabeth has an affair with her long time friend, mob hitman Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) which leads to the birth of her middle son, Jake whom Lucky initially raises as his own. Jason and Elizabeth would also achieve supercouple status. Elizabeth later marries reformed serial killer Franco Baldwin (Roger Howarth) in 2019, but the marriage ends when he is killed.
Having played one of the show's most beloved characters, Herbst has earned three Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her portrayal of Elizabeth, in 1999, 2007 and 2012. The actress and character's popularity were put on full display when she was suddenly fired from the series in 2011, as fan backlash forced the network to rehire the actress.
Casting
Rebecca Herbst originally auditioned for the role of Sarah Webber. Although she did not get the part, General Hospital created the role of Sarah's sister Elizabeth for Herbst to play, and she debuted on August 1, 1997. Rumors circulated about Herbst's departure, starting when her on-screen love interest Jonathan Jackson (Lucky Spencer) left the series in April 1999, continuing through Herbst's contract expiration in the summer of 2000. Herbst re-signed in July for three years. In November, Herbst guest starred along with Jacob Young (then-Lucky Spencer) and Jacklyn Zeman (Bobbie Spencer) on the FOX network sketch comedy series MADtv, making a small cameo as Elizabeth. On January 18, 2011, ABC Daytime announced that Herbst had been let go from General Hospital and her exit would be storyline dictated. After much fan protest, a month after the original announcement, ABC released another statement saying that Herbst would retain her role on the show. Richard M. Simms, executive editor of Soaps In Depth discussed the fans' impact on reversal, stating:
In May 2011, it was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayla%20Brady | Kayla Brady Johnson is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, a soap opera on the NBC network. She made her first appearance in 1982. Kayla was created by Pat Falken Smith as one of the original members of the Brady family. She is known for her popular pairing with Steve Johnson. This relationship gave the couple the title of a famous super couple. Kayla was described as being the "good" girl of the serial. During her time on Days of our Lives, Kayla was extremely well received by television critics. Kayla Brady Johnson is one of the six Brady children. She is the daughter of the late Shawn Brady and Caroline Brady. She is the sister of Roman and Kimberly Brady, the half-sister of Bo Brady, and the sister of adopted brothers Frankie and Max Brady. She has been married five times, once to Jack Deveraux and four times to Steve Johnson. Steve and Kayla have two children, a daughter, Stephanie, and a son, Joey. Mary Beth Evans returned to Days of Our Lives for a short-stint on June 18, 2010, and then again on recurring status starting in December 2011. She was upgraded to regular status in 2015.
Casting
The role was originated on January 18, 1982, by actress Catherine Mary Stewart who played the role until December 14, 1983. The role was recast in 1986, with actress Mary Beth Evans taking on the role. Evans is most recognizable in the role as Kayla. She played the role from May 23, 1986 to May 26, 1992. Mary Beth Evans returned to play Kayla on June 12, 2006. She announced her departure from the serial on February 17, 2009.
She returned to play Kayla in a recurring capacity from June 18 to 29, 2010 and September 23, 2010 to February 15, 2011. In December 2011, Evans began appearing on a regular basis in a recurring capacity. In May 2015, Evans announced she had been put back on contract with Days of Our Lives.
Storylines
1982–83, 1986–92
Kayla is first introduced to the show in 1982 as Roman Brady's younger sister and a nurse who works at University Hospital. Kayla shares a past relationship with Mike Horton, and also dates David Banning. She is involved with Chris Kositchek and loses her virginity to him. Kayla leaves in 1983 when Chris cannot commit to her.
Kayla returns to Salem in 1986 with Mary Beth Evans in the role after Steve Johnson is hired to scare her away from Cleveland. Accepting a job offer from Tom Horton, Kayla establishes a low income clinic on the riverfront and continues to cross paths with Steve. The two help orphans Max and Frankie find a home with Kayla's parents, and later go on the run together when Steve's former paramour Britta Englund is killed. When Orpheus kidnaps Marlena, the "Three Knives" tattoos shared by Steve, Bo, and Britta, become an important clue in the story, with Steve and Kayla traveling to Stockholm to help Roman unravel the mystery.
In 1987, Kayla helps Adrienne Johnson find work at the Emergency Center, not knowing she is actually Steve's long lost sister. Steve and Kayla are torn apart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing%20Persons%20Unit | Missing Persons Unit is an Australian television documentary series on the Nine Network hosted by actor and personality Steve Bastoni. The show documents people who have gone missing in Australia and the police who investigate their cases. The show was hosted for its first three years by Mike Munro before he moved to the Seven Network.
The program is produced by Sydney production company Freehand, executive producer for series 1-3 was Ivo Burum.
The first series of Missing Persons Unit screened from February 2006 as 30-minute episodes. The second series began airing in a 60-minute format from February 2008 and remained in that format with the third series airing from June 2009. It began airing on UK television in 2007.
Synopsis
Missing Persons Unit is an observational documentary series that explores the world of the New South Wales Police MPU and the families of missing people.
Filmed at police stations, forensics labs, with families and on location with search and rescue, the program follows MPU operatives as they investigate cases and piece together the jigsaw that might lead to closure for a grief-stricken family.
References
External links
Official Missing Persons Unit site
Missing Persons Unit, Southern Star International
"Theatre of Baring it all", Ruth Ritchie, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 May 2006
Missing Persons Unit proves to be FFC’s most popular doco to date, Tim Irons, Inside Film Magazine, 8 February 2006
Australian Missing Persons Register
Official Freehand Website
2000s Australian documentary television series
Nine Network original programming
2006 Australian television series debuts
2010 Australian television series endings
Documentary television series about policing
Television series by Freehand Productions
2010s Australian documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20in%20fiction | Artificial intelligence is a recurrent theme in science fiction, whether utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, or dystopian, emphasising the dangers.
The notion of machines with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon. Since then, many science fiction stories have presented different effects of creating such intelligence, often involving rebellions by robots. Among the best known of these are Stanley Kubrick's 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey with its murderous onboard computer HAL 9000, contrasting with the more benign R2-D2 in George Lucas's 1977 Star Wars and the eponymous robot in Pixar's 2008 WALL-E.
Scientists and engineers have noted the implausibility of many science fiction scenarios, but have mentioned fictional robots many times in artificial intelligence research articles, most often in a utopian context.
Background
The notion of advanced robots with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon. This drew on an earlier (1863) article of his, Darwin among the Machines, where he raised the question of the evolution of consciousness among self-replicating machines that might supplant humans as the dominant species. Similar ideas were also discussed by others around the same time as Butler, including George Eliot in a chapter of her final published work Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879). The creature in Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein has also been considered an artificial being, for instance by the science fiction author Brian Aldiss. Beings with at least some appearance of intelligence were imagined, too, in classical antiquity.
Utopian and dystopian visions
Artificial intelligence is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals.
It is a recurrent theme in science fiction; scholars have divided it into utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, and dystopian, emphasising the dangers.
Utopian
Optimistic visions of the future of artificial intelligence are possible in science fiction. Benign AI characters include Robby in Lost in Space, from 1965 to 1968; Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 to 1994; and Pixar's WALL-E in 2008. Iain Banks's Culture series of novels portrays a utopian, post-scarcity space society of humanoids, aliens, and advanced beings with artificial intelligence living in socialist habitats across the Milky Way. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified four major themes in utopian scenarios featuring AI: immortality, or indefinite lifespans; ease, or freedom from the need to work; gratification, or pleasure and entertainment provided by machines; and dominance, the power to protect oneself or rule over others.
Alexander Wiegel contrasts the role of AI in 2001: A Space Odyssey and in Duncan Jones's 2009 film Moon. Whereas in 1968, Wiegel argues, the public felt "technology paranoia" and the AI computer HAL was portrayed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Eastern%20Trail | The Great Eastern Trail is a network of hiking trails forming a long-distance route in the eastern United States. North of Georgia, the route runs parallel to, and slightly to the west of, the Appalachian Trail. As of 2022, it is still under development and its current length is approximately . Upon its completion the network is projected to be more than in length.
Description
The Great Eastern Trail network mostly consists of previously existing long-distance trails that have been combined to form a multi-state network. Some new connectors between those trails remain to be developed. Hiking northbound, the network is projected to begin in Florida and to pass through Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, with its northern terminus at the North Country Trail in western New York State. Much of the route in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia will be shared with the Eastern Continental Trail network.
Upon its completion, the Great Eastern Trail is slated to be added to the US National Trails System. The project received support from the American Hiking Society and the Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program of the US National Park Service, but then became an independent entity. The Great Eastern Trail Association was incorporated in Virginia on August 10, 2007, by signatories from the nine states through which the trail passes.
In June 2013 "Hillbilly" Bart Houck of Mullens, West Virginia and Joanna "Someday" Swanson of Willow River, Minnesota became the first to complete a thru-hike on the developed segments of the Great Eastern Trail network from Alabama to New York. In October 2016, Kathy Finch of New Hampshire became the first to complete a southbound thru-hike of the completed segments from New York to Alabama.
Trails in the network
The Great Eastern Trail will be incorporated into portions of the previously existing trails listed below; while several gaps remain to be filled. The list below follows the projected route from south to north.
Florida Trail
Connector to be developed in the Florida panhandle and southern Alabama
Pinhoti Trail in Alabama and Georgia
Connector to be developed in northwestern Georgia and southeastern Tennessee
Cumberland Trail in Tennessee (itself under development)
Connector to be developed around the Tennessee/Kentucky state line
Pine Mountain Trail in Kentucky (itself under development)
Connector to be developed from eastern Kentucky to southwestern Virginia
Brief concurrency with the Appalachian Trail in Virginia and West Virginia
Allegheny Trail in West Virginia (itself under development)
Connector to be developed in northeastern West Virginia
Tuscarora Trail
Standing Stone Trail
Mid State Trail
Finger Lakes Trail
References
External links
Great Eastern Trail - official website
Cumberland Trail
Journal of through hike
Hiking trails in Pennsylvania
Hiking trails in Maryland
Hiking trails in Virginia
Hiking trails in Tennessee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiksTV | RiksTV (formerly NTV Pluss) is the distributor of pay television in the Norwegian digital terrestrial television network.
Except for NRK1, NRK2, NRK3/NRK Super and the NRK radio channels, all broadcasts in the Norwegian DTT network are encrypted. The channels that are broadcast in the RiksTV packages are selected by RiksTV themselves.
History
Pre-launch
Some of the initial discussions concerned the availability of free-to-air channels other than the ones from NRK. TV 2 and TVNorge had stated that their channels would be encrypted, although they were free-to-air in the analogue network. This caused Modern Times Group, owners of TV3, to announce the launch of "TV4" that they wanted to be free-to-air. RiksTV were however unwilling to broadcast it free-to-air.
The first channels were announced on 12 June 2007, and were TV 2, TVNorge, TV3, TV 2 Zebra, Discovery Channel, Disney Channel, The Voice TV, SportN, TV 2 Filmkanalen, TV 2 Nyhetskanalen, Viasat 4, TVNorge2 (was named FEM the next day), Canal+ Sport 1 and Canal+ Film 1. The radio channels P4, Kanal 24 and Radio 1 were also included.
On 12 June, it was announced that Animal Planet, Canal+ Film 2, the National Geographic Channel, TV 2 Sport and local television would launch later on. It was however announced in July that BBC World would become a part of the RiksTV package and that Animal Planet, Canal+ Film 2 and National Geographic would be a part of the package from the start, thanks to new compression technology.
Among the rejected channels were MTV, Eurosport, SVT1 and SVT2 (these two due to rights issues). The fact that MTV was rejected, meant that The Voice TV would be the only music channel on RiksTV. International news channels such as CNN, BBC World and Sky News were also rejected initially, as TV2 Nyhetskanalen first was seen as good enough.
Launch
RiksTV started its launch on 1 September 2007, in Rogaland County. The lineup from the launch was:
RiksTV was then launched in the remaining counties in this order:
4 September 2007: Østfold
6 September 2007: Oslo and Akershus
1 October 2007: Hordaland
8 October 2007: Møre og Romsdal
11 October 2007: Buskerud, Vestfold and Telemark
1 November 2007: Sør-Trøndelag
5 November 2007: Sogn og Fjordane
8 November 2007: Hedmark and Oppland
November 2008: Aust-Agder, Vest-Agder, Nord-Trøndelag, Nordland, Troms and Finnmark
Post-launch
On 25 June 2009, TV 2 upgraded their signal and started broadcasting the entire channel in high-definition.
SportN closed down on 15 September 2009. Its channel space was left empty for two months until 15 November, when it was replaced by Eurosport.
On 10 September 2010, RiksTV announced the first major expansion of its channel lineup with six new channels. The new channels were the Swedish public service channels SVT1 and SVT2, the Children's channels Playhouse Disney and Disney XD, the lifestyle channel TLC and the new men's channel MAX. TVNorge will also started broadcasting in high-definition. The new cha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20P35 | The P35 Express (codenamed Bearlake) is a mainstream desktop computer chipset from Intel released in June 2007, although motherboards featuring the chipset were available a month earlier.
The P35 Express chipset supports Intel's LGA 775 socket and Core 2 Duo and Quad processors, and is also known to support 45 nm Wolfdale/Yorkfield dual and quad core CPUs. Theoretically, Intel also dropped support for Intel's Pentium 4 and Pentium D processors with this chipset although late Pentium 4 processors, including both the 32-bit-only (5x0) and the 32-bit/64-bit (5x1), and a few others, were fully supported.
It is notable for providing the first commodity support of DDR3 SDRAM. It also supports DDR2 SDRAM; the choice is made by the motherboard manufacturer, and some manufacturers supported both DDR3 and DDR2 on the same motherboard, but only one memory type at a time, often 4× DDR2 or 2× DDR3, as in the Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3L/R; but DDR3-only models, such as the Gigabyte GA-EP35T-DS3L/R and the DDR2-only models, such as the Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L/R were also made, concurrently. Another notable point is that it does not provide Parallel ATA support; most 2007 motherboards added PATA support via a JMicron JMB361 or JMB363 chip.
Features
1333/1066/800 MT/s front-side bus (FSB)
PCI Express 1.1
Up to ×16 interface with 8 GB/s total bandwidth (4GBps down, 4GBps up).
Some motherboards support Crossfire. No SLI support.
Intel Fast Memory Access
Updated Memory Controller Hub (MCH) to increase performance and reduce latency.
Dual channel DDR2 memory
Up to 12.8 GB/s bandwidth and 8 GB addressable memory.
Dual channel DDR3 memory
Up to 17 GB/s bandwidth and 8 GB addressable memory.
Intel Flex Memory Technology
Allows different memory sizes in dual-channel mode.
Intel High-Definition Audio
Intel Matrix Storage Technology
Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 with SATA and eSATA interfaces.
Intel Rapid Recover Technology
Intel Turbo Memory
SATA 3 Gbit/s
eSATA/Port Multiplier (Hot-plug and Port Multiplier is a BIOS option which few motherboards actually support)
SATA Port Disable
Allows disabling/enabling of individual SATA and eSATA ports for enhanced security.
USB Port Disable
Allows disabling/enabling of individual USB ports for enhanced security.
Intel Quiet System Technology
Automated system fan speed control.
See also
List of Intel chipsets
References
External links
P35 Express Chipset
82P35 Memory Controller
Intel P35 Express Chipset—Product Brief, Intel.
P35 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack | .hack (pronounced "Dot Hack") is a Japanese multimedia franchise that encompasses two projects: Project .hack and .hack Conglomerate. They were primarily created and developed by CyberConnect2, and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The series features an alternative history setting in the rise of the new millennium regarding the technological rise of a new version of the internet following a major global computer network disaster in the year 2005, and the mysterious events regarding the wildly popular fictional massively multiplayer online role-playing game The World. The series mainly comprises anime and video game titles which have been subsequently adapted into manga, novels, and other related media.
Project .hack
Project .hack was the first project of the .hack series. It launched in 2002 with the anime series .hack//Sign in April 2002 and the PlayStation 2 game .hack//Infection in June 2002. Project developers included Koichi Mashimo (Bee Train), Kazunori Itō (Catfish) and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Gainax). Since then, Project .hack has spanned television, video games, manga and novels. It centers mainly on the events and affairs of the prime installment of The World. The franchise began internationally when Bandai announced .hack//Infection, which was released in 2003 and .hack//Sign got an English dub, which was released on Cartoon Network in the same year.
Games
.hack, a series of four PlayStation 2 games that follow the story of the .hackers, Kite and BlackRose, and their attempts to find out what caused the sudden coma of Kite's friend, Orca, and BlackRose's brother, Kazu. The volumes included .hack//Infection, .hack//Mutation, .hack//Outbreak and .hack//Quarantine.
.hack//frägment, the first .hack Massively multiplayer online game (online role-playing game). It was released only in Japan, the online servers began on November 23, 2005 and ended on January 18, 2007.
.hack//Enemy, a collectible card game created by Decipher Inc. based on the .hack series. It was discontinued after running five separate expansions between 2003 and 2005.
Anime
.hack//Sign is an anime television series directed by Kōichi Mashimo and produced by studio Bee Train and Bandai Visual. It consists of twenty six original episodes and three additional ones, released on DVD as original video animations. The series focuses on a Wavemaster (magic user) named Tsukasa, a player character in the virtual reality game. He wakes up to find himself in a dungeon in The World, but he suffers amnesia as he wonders where he is and how he got there. The situation gets worse when he discovers he cannot log out and is trapped in the game. Tsukasa embarks with other players on a quest to find the truth behind the abnormal situation. The series is influenced by psychological and sociological subjects, such as anxiety, escapism and interpersonal relationships. The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 4, 2002 and September 25, 2002. It was later broadcast acro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Freakazoid%21%20episodes | Freakazoid! is an American animated series that lasted 24 episodes in two seasons from 1995 to 1997. Freakazoid! lasted one complete season and part of a second season on its premiere network, Kids' WB, from September 9, 1995, until February 14, 1997, when it was cancelled due to low ratings. However, the show was later picked up by Cartoon Network and rebroadcast from April 5, 1997 to March 29, 2003.
This list shows both seasons. The episodes here are organized by the air dates in which the episodes were shown with their segments in their originally produced order (for example, the episode "Statuesque" actually premiered on November 29, 1996, with its respective segments in a different order, but its airdate is given as June 6, 1997, the airdate in which it was shown with its segments in the original order). Most episodes were written by Paul Rugg and the directors varied.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1995–96)
The segments indicate in colors by which characters starred in them:
Blue = Toby Danger (1 segment)
Yellow = Lord Bravery (2 segments)
Red = The Lawn Gnomes (1 segment)
Green = The Huntsman (2 segments)
Purple = Fatman and Boy Blubber (1 segment)
Season 2 (1996–97)
References
External links
Freakazoid! |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancellation%20%28broadcasting%29 | In broadcasting, cancellation refers to when a radio or television program is abruptly ended by orders of the network or syndicator that distributes the show, usually against the intentions of the show's creators or producers.
Programs are typically canceled for financial reasons; low viewership or listenership will lead to lower advertising or subscription revenue, prompting networks to replace it with another show with the potential to turn a larger profit. Likewise, a disproportionately high budget is potentially undesirable (this is somewhat complicated, as prominent programs have effects on the viewership of programs that air before and after; an expensive program may be worth the cost—a loss leader—if it increases the ratings of other shows on the network, while a profitable low-budget show may still be canceled if it lowers the ratings of the surrounding programs). Other potential reasons for canceling television programs include unfavorable critical reviews, controversies involving the program's cast, conflicts among the show's staff members or to make room for new programming.
Shows whose runs end due to a mutual creative decision by its creators, producers, cast, and the network it airs on (such as Seinfeld, The Sopranos, or The Cosby Show) are not considered to be "canceled" but rather "concluded" or "ended", with a special last episode called its series finale. Even so, programs that end their runs in this manner are sometimes incorrectly stated to have been canceled, even if the program was renewed for a final season (such as with American Idol, by which the term was incorrectly applied upon the announcement of Fox, Fremantle Media and 19 Entertainment's decision to renew the show for a 15th and final season in May 2015 to air in 2016); shows that are canceled traditionally end their runs during the television season in which the program airs first-run episodes at the time, either effective immediately after the announcement is made by the network or until all remaining episodes are broadcast.
The Friday night death slot is a perceived graveyard slot in American television, referring to the idea that a television program in the United States scheduled on Friday evenings is highly likely to be canceled.
Overview
Commercial television and radio is supported by advertising. Subscription outlets, including cable and satellite television and satellite radio, have the additional revenue stream of subscriber fees (broadcast stations in some areas may also have retransmission consent privileges, but this is not universal; Canada, for instance, does not allow it). Viewing figures are collected by audience measurement ratings agencies (such as Nielsen in the United States), and the programs with the highest viewing figures command a higher advertising fee for the network. As such, shows with a low viewership are generally not as profitable. For most United States networks, the number of viewers within the 18–49 age range is more important |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Pittsburgh%20School%20of%20Computing%20and%20Information | The University of Pittsburgh's School of Computing and Information is one of the 17 schools and colleges of University of Pittsburgh located on the university's main campus in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The school was formed in 2017 with a focus on academic programs that teach contextually situated computing in an interdisciplinary manner. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees as well as certificate programs and houses three departments: Computer Science, Informatics and Networked Systems, and Information Culture and Data Stewardship.
The school was created by combining the university's School of Information Sciences, which was also known as the "iSchool" and was founded in 1901, with the Department of Computer Science, which was founded in 1966 and previously housed the university's Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Located on the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, the school was led by its founding Dean Paul Cohen until he stepped down in July 2020 to be temporarily replaced by Interim Dean Bruce Childers.
Founded in 1901, the former School of Information Sciences was one of the nation's pioneering schools in the education of information professionals. Originating as the Training School for Children's Librarians at the Carnegie Library, the school moved to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1930, and eventually to the University of Pittsburgh in 1961. In its last year as a separate school, it is ranked 10th in the list of Best Library and Information Studies Programs by U.S. News & World Report and is one of the original members in the list of I-Schools. The Department of Computer Science was founded in 1966 making it one of the oldest such departments in the country.
Academic programs
The School of Computing and Information offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs that are provided by three departments: Computer Science, Informatics and Networked Systems, and Information Culture and Data Stewardship. Various certificate of advanced study programs are also offered.
Undergraduate programs
The Bachelor of Science programs are offered for:
Computer Science
Information Science
Computational Biology
Digital Narrative and Interactive Design
Data Science
Computational Social Science
A combined bachelor and master of science program is also offered for students to complete both degrees in five years.
Master's degree programs
The Master of Science programs are offered in the following:
Computer Science (MS)
Information Science (MSIS)
Intelligent Systems (MS)
Library and Information Science (MLIS)
Telecommunications (MST)
The overall library and information studies program of the school is ranked 10th overall by U.S. News & World Report in the magazine's 2017t edition of "America’s Best Graduate Schools."
In addition, the masters programs were ranked among the best in the nation according to the 2017 edition of US |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet%20My%20Folks | Meet My Folks is a comedy reality television series which aired on NBC from 2002–2003 and aired in re-runs on MyNetworkTV from 2007–2008. Local versions of the show have aired in other countries since 2000.
The series was apparently inspired by, but has no direct connection to, the 2000 comedy film Meet the Parents, wherein a man must seek the approval of his girlfriend's demanding parents before proposing. One of the film's best-known elements, a lie detector test, also figures prominently in the series. The film's producers, Universal Studios (now under common ownership with NBC), had at one point considered legal action over the program, specifically the title and the lie detector segment, but this did not come to fruition.
Plot
On this show, three bachelors spend three days with the possible "woman or man of their dreams" and her or his family in their home, with conversations and interaction intended to reveal the bachelors' character and intentions. The winner gets a week in Hawaii with "Miss Right," if her or his family approves.
Episodes
Season 1 (2002)
Season 2 (2003)
References
External links
Official Website (via Internet Archive)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080507053430/http://www.mynetworktv.com/shows.php?show=30
http://www.sirlinksalot.net/meetmyfolks.html
2002 American television series debuts
2003 American television series endings
NBC original programming
MyNetworkTV original programming
2000s American reality television series
2000s American comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHVC | SHVC may refer to:
Save Happy Valley Coalition, a New Zealand environmental activist organization.
Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding
SHVC ("Super Home Video Computer"), the product code used by Nintendo for Super Famicom hardware and software in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urophlyctis%20leproides | Urophlyctis leproides is a fungus that is a plant pathogen infecting beet.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Food plant pathogens and diseases
Blastocladiomycota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peronospora%20farinosa%20f.sp.%20betae | Peronospora farinosa f.sp. betae is a forma specialis of Peronospora farinosa, attacking sugar beet.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Water mould plant pathogens and diseases
Food plant pathogens and diseases
Peronosporales
Forma specialis taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phomopsis%20elaeagni | Phomopsis elaeagni is a fungal plant pathogen infecting black walnuts.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal tree pathogens and diseases
Nut tree diseases
elaeagni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidiella%20dianthi | Davidiella dianthi is a fungal plant pathogen infecting carnations.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Ornamental plant pathogens and diseases
Davidiellaceae
Fungi described in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerotinia%20minor | Sclerotinia minor (white mold) is a plant pathogen infecting Chicory, Radicchio, carrots, tomatoes, sunflowers, peanuts and lettuce.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Carrot diseases
Tomato diseases
Lettuce diseases
Sclerotiniaceae
Fungi described in 1920 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwao | Iwao (written: 巖, 巌, 岩夫, 岩尾, 岩生, 岩男 or 岩雄) is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
Emma Haruka Iwao, Japanese computer scientist and cloud developer advocate
, Japanese voice actress and singer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese field hockey player
, Japanese academic, historian and writer
, Japanese psychologist, magazine editor and academic
Given name
, Japanese cross-country skier
, Japanese printmaker
, Japanese diplomat
, Japanese boxer
, Japanese sport wrestler
, Japanese politician
, Japanese general
, Japanese ice hockey player
, Japanese field marshal
, Japanese academic
Iwao Takamoto (1925–2007), Japanese-American animator, television producer and film director
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese photographer
Fictional characters
, a character in the manga series Kinnikuman
Japanese-language surnames
Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NameBase | NameBase is a web-based cross-indexed database of names that focuses on individuals involved in the international intelligence community, U.S. foreign policy, crime, and business. The focus is on the post-World War II era and on left of center, conspiracy theory, and espionage activities up to 2008.
Overview
Founder Daniel Brandt began collecting clippings and citations pertaining to influential people and intelligence agents in the 1960s. He did so especially in the 1970s after becoming a member of Students for a Democratic Society, an organization that opposed US foreign policy. With the advent of personal computing, he developed a database which allowed subscribers to access the names of US intelligence agents.
In the 1980s, through his company Micro Associates, he sold subscriptions to this computerized database under its original name, Public Information Research Inc. (PIR). At PIR's onset, Brandt was President of the newly formed non-profit corporation, and investigative researcher Peggy Adler served as its Vice President. The material was described as "information on all sorts of spooks, military officials, political operators and other cloak-and-dagger types". He told The New York Times at the time that "many of these sources are fairly obscure so it's a very effective way to retrieve information on U.S. intelligence that no one else indexes." One research librarian calls it "a unique part of the 'Deep Web'", equally useful to investigative journalists and students.
By 1992, private citizens, news organizations, and universities were all using NameBase. With the advent of public access to the Internet and World Wide Web in the 1990s these efforts became the basis of the NameBase website starting in 1995. , the database contained "over 100,000 names with over 260,000 citations drawn from books and serials with a few documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act." The website utilizes hyperlinks to allow users to both visualize relationships in a social network diagram and access diagrams and links of those who appear on it. These linkages, diagrams, and hyperlinked footnoted information allow users to uncover potential relationships or connections between individuals and groups. NameBase was described by information scientist Paul B. Kantor as being the "only web-based tool readily available for visualizing social networks of terrorism researchers."
Similar projects
In the 1980s Daniel Brandt taught former CIA employee Philip Agee how to use computers and computer databases for his research. Former CIA analyst Ralph McGehee developed a similar database he called CIABASE, a website containing information on events, people, and programs concerning the CIA or American intelligence, including links to other texts available to the public.
The Notable Names Database (NNDB) is an online database and self-described "intelligence aggregator" bringing together the biographical details of over 40,000 people.
See also
Social networ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontron | Kontron AG is a German-based multinational company which designs and manufactures embedded computer modules, boards and systems.
Kontron AG serves original equipment manufacturers, system integrators and application providers of different market segments (amongst others: Industrial automation, communications, transportation, energy, avionics, medical, infotainment, and military). Kontron develops, manufactures and sells its products worldwide. Kontron is a premier member of the Intel Embedded Alliance.
The corporate group is headquartered in Augsburg and consists of the Kontron Europe GmbH (Ismaning, Augsburg, Deggendorf, and Saarbrücken). Other locations are in San Diego, Fremont, California, Montreal, Plzeň, Toulon, Bangalore, Taipei, Tokyo and Beijing. Kontron acquired Dolch in 2005.
At a trade show called Embedded World in 2007, Kontron introduced a product called the UGM-M72 using a "Universal Graphics Module".
The card used the M72S from ATI Technologies, and was 84 x 95 mm.
A version 1.1 of UGM was published in July 2008,
and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD, the parent company of ATI) announced it would support the UGM in August 2008.
A web site promoting the module was co-sponsored by XGI Technology until the Great Recession in 2009.
In August 2017 Kontron was merged into Austria-based S&T Group.
In September 2023, it was announced Kontron had acquired the Bucharest-headquartered software producer, Altimate. The company specialises in urban and interurban mobility solutions involving urban traffic control, automated fare collection, tolling solutions, and traffic violations.
References
External links
Computer hardware companies of Germany
Companies based in Augsburg
Computer companies established in 1959
Electronics companies established in 1959
Multinational companies headquartered in Germany
German brands
Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lose%20Control%20%28TV%20programming%20block%29 | Lose Control was an Indian television programming block, which aired over four hours daily on Disney Channel India.
The program features a competition in which viewers must guess which series a featured clip is from. Weekly winners are awarded a Disney-branded scooter, and have the chance to win a trip to Hong Kong Disneyland.
Shows
Recess
Akkad Bakkad Bambey Bo
Art Attack
Dhoom Machaao Dhoom
Hanuman
Hannah Montana
Vicky & Vetaal
References
Television programming blocks in Asia
Disney Channel (Indian TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Weber%20%28radio%20personality%29 | George Weber (March 23, 1961 – March 20, 2009) was an American radio personality on the ABC Radio Network doing hourly news updates. For several years he was on the WABC 77 morning show, with Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby in New York City. He did periodic news updates throughout the morning, as well as joining in conversation with the hosts about those news stories. He was found stabbed to death in his home on March 20, 2009, at the age of 47.
Career
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Weber began his radio career at WBUX (AM) in Doylestown. He then went on to WAEB in Allentown, where he worked for two and a half years as a reporter and news anchor. After contacting Phil Boyce, then news director at Denver station KIMN, he received an offer to be a street reporter and anchor with that station. Two and a half years later (after KIMN's demise) Weber went to crosstown rival KOA, where he began a new career as the host of a night-time talk show. Some other important stops on his way to a full-time job with WABC were KGO, KOGO, KTLK, and KMPC. As a former tobacco user, he has been featured in radio advertisements for KickTheHabitNow.com.
Weber was fired by WABC at the same time as John R. Gambling in February 2008. Financial problems at ABC, coupled with the fact that ABC's new morning show Imus in the Morning had its own newsman, Charles McCord, led to his dismissal. In April 2008, Weber obtained a new assignment doing news updates for the ABC Radio Network.
Personal life
A number of Weber's stories and investigations were based around experiences in his private life. He often reported about his neighborhood in New York and his two dogs featured in some of his stories. The last story on his website was published on the same day he died, March 20, 2009, and described an outbreak of bed bugs around his Carroll Gardens neighborhood.
Murder
On Friday, March 20, 2009, George Weber was killed in his Brooklyn apartment on Henry Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. A co-worker became concerned when he didn't show up for work on Saturday, so police were dispatched to Weber's apartment on Sunday at 12:30am, but they noticed nothing amiss, and left. When the co-worker called again at 8:30 a.m., cops returned to the building, where a neighbor said he heard water running in the newsman's apartment all night. Police entered the apartment and discovered Weber's body, with his hands and feet bound. Weber had been stabbed more than 50 times in the neck, chest and arms, and his guest bedroom had been ransacked. The water was still running in the apartment's bathtub and kitchen sink, and investigators believe Weber's killer used the water to clean himself after the murder. Authorities said there was no sign of forced entry.
On March 25 police arrested 16-year-old student John Katehis of East Elmhurst, Queens, New York for the murder. He was lured to a rendezvous with detectives by his father, who promised to give him $300, and was arrested without incident. Katehis co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCP | SNCP may refer to:
Storage Networking Certification Program
Subnetwork Connection Protection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOP | XOP may refer to:
XML-binary Optimized Packaging, a W3C recommendation for embedding binary data in XML
External Operations in IGOR Pro, used to add data acquisition, manipulation and analysis features
X-ray Oriented Programs, a widget-based driver software that is used as front-end interface optical simulations
XOP instruction set, a computer instruction set introduced by AMD in 2009
A touhou-like game, but without the Japanese. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACET | ACET may refer to:
ACET (AIDS charity)
the Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies (ACET) at University of Reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest%20%28CLI%29 | In the .NET Framework, an assembly manifest is a text file containing metadata about the code within a CLI assembly. It describes the relationship and dependencies of the components in the assembly, versioning information, scope information and the security permissions required by the assembly.
The manifest information embedded within an assembly can be viewed using IL Disassembler (ILDASM.exe) which is available as part of Microsoft Windows SDK.
External links
Assembly Manifest at MSDN
Common Language Infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwrecked%3A%20Battle%20of%20the%20Islands%202008 | Shipwrecked: Battle Of The Islands 2008 is a United Kingdom reality television series which aired in 2008 on Channel 4's youth programming label T4. The 2008 series is the sixth series of Shipwrecked, and the third series to use the "Battle Of The Islands" format.
This series used a different process to determine the winning team. A third secret island known as Hawk Island was revealed to the other two islands in the final week when they returned to evaluate and vote for the team they felt had done a better job of welcoming them back. All the residents of Hawk (save for one) had been exiled from either the Sharks or the Tigers when they lost out to the other person in their new arrival pair.
The Game
Shipwrecked is a reality programme in which a number of people from the UK live on one of two islands (Shark Island and Tiger Island) for a period of several months. Each week, new arrivals come to the islands, spend equal time on each island and must decide at the weekly beach party which island they wish to live on for the remainder of the competition. At the end of the series, the island with the most castaways wins, with the winning islanders sharing a cash prize of £100,000. The winning island with 21 members was the Tigers; the Sharks had 14 members.
For Shipwrecked 2008, a new twist was introduced. Each week two new arrivals to the competition spend an equal amount of time on each island and make their decision on which island they wish to permanently live on. However, the chosen island could only select one new arrival to keep and make an official Tiger or Shark, with the other new arrival "sent home". Contrary to what the islanders believe, the "rejected" new arrival is sent to a secret third island hidden away from Shark and Tiger islands. The third island acts as a survival island, whereby those who decide to stay must survive on basic conditions, with no luxuries, no protein (except for the island's wildlife), with no knowledge of the role they would later play in the competition.
Television programmes
In addition to the main programme, two companion shows were broadcast for the 2008 series. Shipwrecked: The Third Island followed the week's events on Hawk Island, including the arrival of the newly rejected castaway from Tiger and Shark Islands, and the goings-on on "Hawk Island". Shipwrecked: The Hutcam Diaries supplemented the events of the main programme by focusing on the castaway's daily lives, and tribulations, from the point of view of the islands' hutcam.
Main Islands
In Week One, six castaways (Danny, Faith, Barrie, Katie, James and Lara) set foot on Shark island, who, two days later, were joined by another six castaways (Tom, Carly, Jack, Char, Marvyn and Susan). Although initially confused by the arrival of more people onto their island, the original islanders and their guests quickly settled into island life. However, only a matter of days into the competition, Katie, one of the original six, decided to leave the comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronet | Micronet may refer to:
MicroNet, the original name of the CompuServe Information Service when it was released in 1979
Micronet, a Meso-gamma to microscale network of surface weather observation stations spaced closer than a mesonet; typically covering metropolitan areas
Micronet 800, an information provider (IP) on Prestel
Micronet Co., Ltd., a computer graphics and video game developer
Enciclopedia Universal Micronet, a Spanish encyclopedia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20vehicular%20ad%20hoc%20network |
Intelligent vehicular ad hoc networks (InVANETs) use WiFi IEEE 802.11p (WAVE standard) and effective communication between vehicles with dynamic mobility. Effective measures such as media communication between vehicles can be enabled as well methods to track automotive vehicles. InVANET is not foreseen to replace current mobile (cellular phone) communication standards.
"Older" designs within the IEEE 802.11 scope may refer just to IEEE 802.11b/g. More recent designs refer to the latest issues of IEEE 802.11p (WAVE, draft status). Due to inherent lag times, only the latter one in the IEEE 802.11 scope is capable of coping with the typical dynamics of vehicle operation.
Automotive vehicular information can be viewed on electronic maps using the Internet or specialized software. The advantage of WiFi based navigation system function is that it can effectively locate a vehicle which is inside big campuses like universities, airports, and tunnels.
InVANET can be used as part of automotive electronics, which has to identify an optimally minimal path for navigation with minimal traffic intensity. The system can also be used as a city guide to locate and identify landmarks in a new city.
Communication capabilities in vehicles are the basis of an envisioned InVANET or intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Vehicles are enabled to communicate among themselves (vehicle-to-vehicle, V2V) and via roadside access points (vehicle-to-roadside, V2R) also called as Road Side Units (RSUs). Vehicular communication is expected to contribute to safer and more efficient roads by providing timely information to drivers, and also to make travel more convenient. The integration of V2V and V2R communication is beneficial because V2R provides better service sparse networks and long-distance communication, whereas V2V enables direct communication for small to medium distances/areas and at locations where roadside access points are not available.
Providing vehicle–vehicle and vehicle–roadside communication can considerably improve traffic safety and comfort of driving and traveling. For communication in vehicular ad hoc networks, position-based routing has emerged as a promising candidate.
For Internet access, Mobile IPv6 is a widely accepted solution to provide session continuity and reachability to the Internet for mobile nodes. While integrated solutions for usage of Mobile IPv6 in (non-vehicular) mobile ad hoc networks exist, a solution has been proposed that, built upon a Mobile IPv6 proxy-based architecture, selects the optimal communication mode (direct in-vehicle, vehicle–vehicle, and vehicle–roadside communication) and provides dynamic switching between vehicle–vehicle and vehicle–roadside communication mode during a communication session in case that more than one communication mode is simultaneously available.
See also
Mobile ad hoc network
Vehicular ad hoc network
Simulation of VANETs
Wireless mesh network
Research fora
Google Groups – InADVENC
C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QDOS | QDOS may refer to:
QDOS (Qasar DOS), the Motorola 6800-based operating system of the Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer series, based on the MDOS (Motorola DOS)
Seattle Computer Products QDOS, SCP's Quick and Dirty Operating System in 1980, later renamed to 86-DOS (predecessor of MS-DOS)
Sinclair QDOS, the Sinclair QL operating system written in Motorola 68000 assembly language
Atari QDOS, the production codename of Disk Operating System 4.0 for Atari 8-bit computers
Qdos Entertainment, the UK-based entertainment company who is the world's largest pantomime producer
Q:Dos, a recording name for trance musicians Scott Bond, Darren Hodson, John Purser, Nick Rose
Qdos, range of no-valve metering pumps
See also
DOS (disambiguation)
Quality of service (QOS) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernfs | kernfs may refer to:
kernfs (BSD), a pseudo file system in BSD-based operating systems
kernfs (Linux), a set of functions in the Linux kernel that aid in creation of pseudo file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Journalism%20Observatory | The European Journalism Observatory (EJO) is a network of media research institutes sharing a common goal: to serve as a bridge between media researchers and practising journalists, to make the results of research accessible to a wider audience, and to promote “best practices” in journalism. The EJO aims to contribute to a richer understanding of different journalism cultures, to facilitate collaboration between media researchers and practitioners in Europe and the United States, and to foster press freedom.
History
The European Journalism Observatory was established in 2004 at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, by Stephan Russ-Mohl, then Professor of Journalism and Media Management at USI. Though one of the aims of the EJO was to encourage cooperation and the sharing of knowledge between media researchers and journalists in western Europe and their counterparts in the former Eastern bloc countries that joined the European Union in 2004, at first its publications were available only in English, German and Italian. A Polish website was launched in 2007, and in 2011/12 six more Eastern European languages were added. The EJO currently consists of a network of websites in 13 different languages (Albanian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian). In addition, it has a partnership with the Arab Journalism Observatory, based in Tunisia, which runs websites in Arabic and French., and collaborates with journalism scholars in Canada.
From 2013 to 2020, the English-language site was hosted by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ), a UK-based research centre and think tank.
In September 2020, the Department of Journalism at City, University of London took over the hosting of the English-language site from the Reuters Institute.
Over the years, the EJO has received financial assistance from a variety of sources, including the foundation of Corriere del Ticino, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Stiftung Presse-Haus NRZ and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in addition to being supported by the academic institutions that host the various language websites.
Awards
In 2005 the EJO won the Swiss Association for Quality in Journalism award for outstanding achievement and dedication to the promotion of high-quality journalism.
In 2019 the EJO received the Günter Wallraff Prize for the critical analysis of journalism.
Languages
EJO content is currently available online in:
• Albanian
• Czech
• French
• English
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Latvian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Ukrainian
References
External links
European Journalism Observatory
Università della svizzera italiana - Institute of Media and Journalism
Erich-Brost-Institut
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
City, University of London
Department of Journalism, City, University of London
Journalism 2020
Media analysis organiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada%20in%20computing | The Kannada language has come a long way in the computing field starting from initial software related to desktop publishing to portals and internet applications in the current age. Kannada is the official language of the state of Karnataka in India whose capital city of Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley of India. Kannada also entered the Wikipedia world when Kannada Wikipedia was started in September 2004.
History
In the mid-1980s, software development in Kannada was started mainly to meet the needs of desktop publishing in Kannada. In those days, the Kannada keyboard was non-existent and existing English keyboard was used to enter Kannada characters. Shabdaratna, Venus, Prakashak, and Sediyapu were some of the Kannada editing software that were developed in those days. They started the era where computers started to replace typewriters and typesettings for Kannada publications. These were joined by more advanced software like Srilipi and Akruti which were Windows compatible. Shabdaratna was released with an advanced version called Winkey and another editing software called Surabhi was also released.
In the mid-1990s, Windows started to replace DOS as the operating system of choice as Kannada software began being developed for Windows. The biggest customer for these Kannada software was the Government of Karnataka. Each of this Kannada software was developed using a specific format and hence portability of data across applications proved to be difficult. A Kannada document written and saved using one application could not be opened in the other. Some other issues that needed attention was the standardisation of a keyboard for entering Kannada characters and also to see how Kannada can be used in other software apart from the then existing desktop publishing applications. A group of researchers got together and started to discuss about these problems and brought them to the notice of the Government. In order to address these issues, a conference known as Kannada and computers was convened by the Government. The people invited to this conference included members of the Adivesha Co-operative Bank in Shimoga who had computerised all the bank's transactions in Kannada by using a software called as Gistcard which was developed by CDAC. Members of the bank made a presentation to the delegates on the advantages of using Kannada for its day-to-day computer transactions. The conference was influential in making the Government understand the usefulness and the need of standardising Kannada for computing. Meanwhile, a group of interested people formed an organisation called Ganaka Parishath who followed these developments and started to bring pressure on the Government to address the issues of standardisation.
Growth
A pioneer who standardised Kannada keyboard was K. P. Rao who modified the existing English QWERTY keyboard layout to suit the needs of the Kannada language. The entire set of Kannada characters could now be printed using the 26 alpha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Wilmington%2C%20Delaware | Israel Acrelius (1714–1800), Lutheran clergyman
John Backus (1924–2007), computer scientist, Fortran inventor, Turing Award laureate
Bertice Berry, comedian, sociologist, author, and former talk show host
Valerie Bertinelli (born 1960), actress
Ashley Biden (born 1981), fashion designer, social worker, daughter of President Joe Biden
Beau Biden (1969–2015), former attorney general of Delaware; first son of President Joe Biden
Hunter Biden (born 1970), lawyer, second son of President Joe Biden
Jill Biden (born 1951), First Lady of the United States (2021–present), Second Lady of the United States (2009–2017), wife of President Joe Biden
Joe Biden (born 1942), 46th President of the United States (2021–present), 47th Vice President of the United States (2009–2017), and U.S. Senator from Delaware (1973–2009)
John Biggs Jr (1895–1979), Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit (1937–1965), Senior Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit (1965–1979), and Judge for the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit (1937–1965)
David S. Breslow (1916–1995), industrial chemist
David Bromberg (born 1945), musician
Clifford Brown (1930–1956), jazz trumpeter
Cab Calloway (1907–1994), musician, bandleader
Henry Seidel Canby (1878–1961), critic, editor, Yale University professor
John Carney (born 1956), Governor of Delaware since 2017
Thomas J. Capano (1949–2011), prominent city lawyer convicted of murder
Charles I. Carpenter (1906–1994), first Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force
Kathleen Cassello (1958–2017), opera singer
Christopher Castellani (born 1972), writer
Edwin Hyland Cooper (1881–1948), news reporter and official cameraman with the U.S. Signal Corps in World War I
William Coyne, DuPont Company executive
Victor DelCampo (born 1977), bodybuilding champion
Laura M. Dickey, US Coast Guard Rear Admiral
Elena Delle Donne (born 1989), professional basketball player
John Dossett (born 1958), stage and film actor
William C. Drinkard (1929–2008), scientist, inventor
Sara Dylan (born 1939), former actress and model who was the first wife of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan
Mark Eaton (born 1977), professional hockey player
Herbert S. Eleuterio (1927–2022), scientist, inventor
Raul Esparza (born 1970), actor
Bill Fleischman (1939–2019), sports journalist and professor
John Gallagher Jr. (born 1984), musician, performer, actor
James Garretson (1828–1895), "father of oral surgery"
Andrew Gemmell (born 1991), open water swimmer
Charles Gilpin (1809–1891), mayor of Philadelphia (1851–1854)
Barbara Gittings (1932–2007), prominent activist for LGBT equality
Paul Goldschmidt (born 1987), baseball player
Joan Goodfellow (born 1950), film, TV, and stage actress; mezzo-soprano
Joey Graham (born 1982), power forward for Denver Nuggets
Stephen Graham (born 1982), small forward for Charlotte Bobcats
Dallas Green (1934–2017), baseball player, manager, executive
Niem Green (born 1982), businessperson
Dionna Harris (born 1968), softball player, 1996 Ol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20Factor | Forensic Factor is a Canadian true crime docuseries, which airs on Discovery Channel Canada, Sun TV, and the Justice Network. The series, which utilizes an anthology format, features forensic techniques and their application in crime-solving by examining notable cases.
Episodes
Season 1 (2003)
Season 2 (2004)
Season 3 (2005)
Season 4 (2007)
Season 5 (2008–09)
Season 6 (2010)
References
2000s Canadian documentary television series
Discovery Channel (Canada) original programming
2003 Canadian television series debuts
2010 Canadian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20VH1 | This is a list of programs currently broadcast or will air soon or formerly aired on VH1.
Current
Acquired programming
48 Hours
Cheaters
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Jamie Foxx Show
Living Single
Martin
Former
Scripted programming
Single Ladies
Hit The Floor
Hindsight
The Breaks
Daytime Divas
Strange Frequency
Acquired programming
8-Track Flashback
America's Next Top Model
American Bandstand
Armed & Famous
Bands on the Run
Beauty and the Geek
Beavis and Butt-Head
Behind the Music
Black to the Future
Bridal Bootcamp
Bye Felicia
Can't Get a Date
Celebrity Eye Candy
Chappelle's Show
The Cher Show
The Cho Show
The Cleveland Show
Click!
Confessions of a Teen Idol
Cover Wars
Dance Cam Slam
Darcy's Music
Don't Forget the Lyrics
Driven
Entertainment Tonight
Eve
The Fabulous Life of...
Free Radio
Gene Simmons' Rock School
Girlfriends
The Great Debate
The Greatest...
Happy Endings
Hard Rock Live
Hip Hop Honors
Hollywood Snappers
Hot Grits
I Know My Kid's a Star
I Love the 2000s
I Love the '70s
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
I Love the '80s
I Love the '80s 3-D
I Love the '80s Strikes Back
I Love the '90s
I Love the '90s: Part Deux
I Love the Holidays
I Love the New Millennium
I Love Toys
In Living Color
In Search of The Partridge Family
The Jackson 5ive
John Mayer Has a TV Show
Jump Start
Kept
Key & Peele
LeAnn & Eddie
Legends
The List
Lords of the Revolution
Love Monkey
Luke's Parental Advisory
Make or Break: The Linda Perry Project
Making Mr. Right
Mario Lopez: Saved by the Baby
Masters of the Mix
Matzo and Metal
Maxim Hot 100
Miami Vice
The Midnight Special
The Mindy Project
Model Employee
Money Hungry
Most Awesomely Bad
My Antonio
My Big Friggin' Wedding
My Generation
My Wife and Kids
My VH1 Music Awards
Name That Video
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
New Girl
Nocturnal State
Off Pitch
Old Skool with Terry and Gita
The Partridge Family (remake)
Really Rich Real Estate
Red Hot Red Carpet
Redlight, Greenlight
The Ren & Stimpy Show
Retrosexual: The '80s
Rock & Roll Jeopardy!
Rock Bodies
Rock Honors
Rotten TV
Rumor Has It
RuPaul's Drag Race
Saddle Ranch
Saturday Night Live
Saved by the Bell
Scream Queens
Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew
The Shot
Sister, Sister
Sober House
Solid Gold
Sorority Sisters
SoundClash
South of Sunset
Stand-Up Spotlight
Strange Love
Strip Search
Suave Says
Supergroup
Surviving Nugent
That '70s Show
The Neighborhood
The Surreal Life
The T.O. Show
The Wayans Bros.
This Is Hot 97
Tiny & Shekinah's Weave Trip
Ton of Cash
Tool Academy
Totally Awesome
Totally Gay!
Totally Obsessed
Tough Love
Trapped in the Closet
TV's Illest Minority Moments
Undatable
VH1 All Access
VH1 Dance Machine
VH1 Divas
VH1 Goes Inside...
VH1 Storytellers
VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown
VH1 Unplugged
VH1 Video Music Awards
Vibe Awards
Web Junk 20
Wedding Wars
The Wendy Williams Experience
When __ Ruled the World
The X-Life
Ultimate Albums
References
VH1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PS/ValuePoint | The PS/ValuePoint (or just ValuePoint) personal computer was IBM's answer to the PC clone market, where the IBM PS/2 could not compete due to price and proprietary interfaces. Announced in October 1992 and withdrawn in July 1995, it was replaced by the IBM PC Series 300.
Specifications and history
These systems used standard Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus, SVGA graphics and IDE hard disks. Later models introduced VESA Local Bus and PCI.
Processors range from the 386SLC-25, 486SX-25, 486DX-33, and 486DX2-66 to the Pentium 60.
IBM PS/ValuePoints were shipped in the following form factors:
Space saving desktop introductory: IBM 6381 model #: /Si (3 expansion card slots & 3 drive bays)
Space saving desktop: IBM 6382 model #: /S (3 expansion card slots & 3 drive bays)
Desktop: IBM 6384 model #: /D (5 expansion card slots & 5 drive bays)
Mini Tower: IBM 8387 model #: /T (8 expansion slots & 6 drive bays)
Predecessor
The IBM PS/ValuePoint series was preceded by these series:
IBM PS/1
IBM PS/2
Internal concurrents
The IBM PS/ValuePoint series was sold concurrently with these series:
IBM Aptiva and official Aptiva clones by AMBRA Computer Corporation
Successor
The IBM PS/ValuePoint series was succeeded by these series:
IBM PC Series
Models
Main line
Performance line
Budget line
Monitor
The PS/ValuePoint was shipped with the following monitors:
PS/2 8511, color (S)VGA (shipped with 325T)
6312, color (S)VGA
6314, color (S)VGA
6317, color (S)VGA
6319, color (S)VGA
Timeline
References
External links
IBM ValuePoint Personal Systems Reference Guide
German dealer listing with detailed model configuration info
PS ValuePoint
Computer-related introductions in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoma%20draconis | Phoma draconis is a fungal plant pathogen.
See also
List of foliage plant diseases (Agavaceae)
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
draconis
Fungi described in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeosphaeriopsis%20obtusispora | Phaeosphaeriopsis obtusispora is a fungal plant pathogen.
See also
List of foliage plant diseases (Agavaceae)
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Pleosporales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllosticta%20concentrica | Phyllosticta concentrica is a fungal plant pathogen.
See also
List of foliage plant diseases (Araliaceae)
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
concentrica
Fungi described in 1876 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pucciniastrum%20epilobii | Pucciniastrum epilobii is a plant pathogen infecting fuchsias.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Ornamental plant pathogens and diseases
Pucciniales
Fungi described in 1861 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20fischerianus | Aspergillus fischerianus is a BSL-1 plant pathogen, mostly found in canned foods.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
fischerianus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guignardia%20bidwellii%20f.%20muscadinii | Guignardia bidwellii f. muscadinii is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Botryosphaeriales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isariopsis%20clavispora | Isariopsis clavispora is a fungal plant pathogen that causes leaf spot on grape.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Mycosphaerellaceae
Fungi described in 1886
Leaf diseases
Fungal grape diseases
Taxa named by Miles Joseph Berkeley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PC%20Series | The Personal Computer Series, or PC Series, was IBM's follow-up to the Personal System/2 and PS/ValuePoint. Announced in October 1994 and withdrawn in October 2000, it was replaced by the IBM NetVista, apart from the Pentium Pro-based PC360 and PC365, which were replaced by the IBM IntelliStation.
Models
x86-based
PC 100
The PC 100 was a budget model, available only in selected markets.
PC 140
The PC 140 was a budget model, available only in selected markets.
PC Series 300
Industry standard ISA/PCI architecture, first IBM machines with USB. Processors ranged from the 486DX2-50, 486SX-25, 486DX4-100 to the Pentium 200 and in case of the Models 360 and 365 the Pentium Pro. 486 models had a selectable bus architecture (SelectaBus) through a replaceable riser-card, offering the choice of either VESA Local Bus/ISA or PCI/ISA.
Within the 300 series the following models appeared:
PC 330
Its last sub-model used the Pentium P54C processor clocked at 100, 133, 166, or 200 MHz. It had, depending on the sub-model, up to 4 ISA and/or 3 PCI expansion slots and four (2 external 5.25", 1 external and 1 internal 3.5") drive bays. It had in its latest version, the 6577, one DIMM-168 and 4 SIMM-72 memory slots, and featured an IBM SurePath BIOS. This PC has 2 USB 1.0 slots in the back. The latest version of Windows which can be installed on this PC is Windows XP, though Windows 2000 and Windows ME are optimal choices.
The DIMM-168 memory slot takes 5V EDO DRAM and is incompatible with the more commonly used 3.3V SDRAM. The slot looks the same at first glance, but the keying is different. Trying to force a 3.3V SDRAM module into the slot could damage both it and the memory module.
Submodels were:
PC 340
The PC 340, introduced in 1996, was a budget model. It used the Pentium processor clocked at 100, 133 or 166 MHz. It had 4 ISA and 3 PCI expansion slots and four (2 external 5.25 inch, 1 external and 1 internal 3.5 inch) drive bays. It had 4 SIMM-72 RAM slots, and featured an IBM SurePath BIOS.
The submodels were:
PC 300 Series Model 340 (Model 6560-1xx)
PC 300 Series Model 340 (Model 6560-4xx)
PC 300 Series Model 340 (Model 6560-5xx)
PC 300 Series Model 340 (Model 6560-6xx)
PC 300 Series Model 340 (Model 6560-7xx)
PC 350
The PC 350, introduced over 1994 to 1995, was a middle-class model, having the same motherboard as the PC 330 in a much roomier case with additional drive bays. Processors ranged from the 486DX2-50, 486SX-25, 486DX4-100 to the Pentium 200. It had, depending on the sub-model up to 5 ISA and/or 3 PCI expansion slots and five (2 external 5.25", 1 external and 1 internal 3.5") drive bays. Like its smaller cousin, in its latest version it had 1 DIMM-168 and 4 SIMM-72 RAM slots, and featured an IBM SurePath BIOS.
Submodels were:
PC 360
The PC 360 was an ISA/PCI-based system with six expansion slots that uses the Pentium Pro CPU clocked at 150 or 200 MHz. It is packaged in a mini-tower with six drive bays. It had 4 SIMM-72 slots for a t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monostichella%20coryli | Monostichella coryli is a plant pathogen infecting hazelnuts.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Hazelnut tree diseases
Dermateaceae
Taxa named by John Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrella%20coryli | Labrella coryli is an ascomycete fungus. It is a plant pathogen that causes anthracnose on hazelnut.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal tree pathogens and diseases
Hazelnut tree diseases
Enigmatic Ascomycota taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puccinia%20extensicola%20var.%20hieraciata | Puccinia extensicola var. hieraciata is a pathogenic fungus which is known to infect lettuce plants.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Lettuce diseases
extensicola var. hieraciata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meliola%20mangiferae | Meliola mangiferae, also described as black mildew, is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Meliolaceae
Fungi described in 1905 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalospora%20disrupta | Physalospora disrupta is a plant pathogen infecting mangoes.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Mango tree diseases
Xylariales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20allocation%20vector | The network allocation vector (NAV) is a virtual carrier-sensing mechanism used with wireless network protocols such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and IEEE 802.16 (WiMax). The virtual carrier-sensing is a logical abstraction which limits the need for physical carrier-sensing at the air interface in order to save power. The MAC layer frame headers contain a duration field that specifies the transmission time required for the frame, in which time the medium will be busy. The stations listening on the wireless medium read the Duration field and set their NAV, which is an indicator for a station on how long it must defer from accessing the medium.
The NAV may be thought of as a counter, which counts down to zero at a uniform rate. When the counter is zero, the virtual carrier-sensing indication is that the medium is idle; when nonzero, the indication is busy. The medium shall be determined to be busy when the station (STA) is transmitting. In IEEE 802.11, the NAV represents the number of microseconds the sending STA intends to hold the medium busy (maximum of 32,767 microseconds). When the sender sends a Request to Send the receiver waits one SIFS before sending Clear to Send. Then the sender will wait again one SIFS before sending all the data. Again the receiver will wait a SIFS before sending ACK. So NAV is the duration from the first SIFS to the ending of ACK. During this time the medium is considered busy.
Wireless stations are often battery-powered, so to conserve power the stations may enter a power-saving mode. A station decrements its NAV counter until it becomes zero, at which time it is awakened to sense the medium again.
The NAV virtual carrier sensing mechanism is a prominent part of the CSMA/CA MAC protocol used with IEEE 802.11 WLANs. NAV is used in DCF, PCF and HCF.
Media access control
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verticillium%20albo-atrum%20var.%20menthae | Verticillium albo-atrum var. menthae is a plant pathogen infecting mint.
See also
List of mint diseases
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Mint diseases
Enigmatic Hypocreales taxa
Fungi described in 1950 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20March | Fat March is an American reality television series on the ABC network, based on the UK Channel Four series Too Big To Walk. It premiered on August 6, 2007 and ended on September 10, 2007.
The show had received mixed reactions from fitness experts. Experts such as cardiologist James Rippe are critical of ABC's Fat March. Even the name "suggests that these people are being punished for being heavy, but this show sends a message that walking is painful, you get blisters, you get hurt and it's humiliating. They've made a spectacle of people who did this with all good intentions," he says.
Synopsis
The show focused on twelve individuals walking from the starting line of the Boston Marathon, over 550 miles to Washington, D.C., for a prize of US$1.2 million.
The show focused on teamwork by starting with the initial prize of 1.2 million dollars, meaning each contestant will receive $100,000 upon completion. However, at the end of each episode, contestants have the opportunity to nominate any of their team for removal from the walk. Any time someone is voted out, is physically unable to continue, or chooses to stop, each remaining individual's share is cut by $10,000. Participants can choose to vote for no one. It only takes one vote for a person to be ejected; thus if 11 people vote for no one, but one person votes for someone, that one person who received one vote is eliminated.
Participants
Wendy, 40, 5'6", 234 pounds, professional singer and author: A construction company owner who resides in La Canada, California. She is married with a seven-year-old stepdaughter and wants to return to the stage as a singer and songwriter, but needs to lose weight first. Wendy had four top 40 hits in Europe in the nineties.
Wendy was injured in week one with bone spurs and chronic Plantar Fasciitis, which forced her to leave the march during Stage 3 in Greenwich, Connecticut after walking 205 miles in 5 weeks.
Chantal, 35, 5'2", 250 pounds, comedian: A student who resides in Brookline, Massachusetts. She dreams of one day owning a pair of slim designer jeans.
She completed Fat March, weighing in at 199 pounds, losing a total of 51 pounds.
Jami Lyn, 30, 5'9", 236 pounds, military wife: A housewife who resides in Daleville, Alabama. She is the mother of three children and finds it difficult to be so much larger than her husband and the only big person in the family.
Jami Lyn completed Fat March weighing 186 pounds, losing a total of 50 pounds. 2008.
Kimberly, 39, 5'5", 274 pounds, former rap diva: A real estate investor who resides in Duluth, Georgia. She was once known as the rap artist Tempest with a top 20 album in Europe. She was in the group Sweetbox. Her mother and father died four months apart due to weight-related issues when Kim was 15 years old. Prior to this show, she was a contestant on season 1 of I Want to Work for Diddy, using her nickname, Poprah.
Kim quit the march in Stage 1.
Loralie, 30, 5'3", 233 pounds, wants to have a baby |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascochyta%20caricae | Ascochyta caricae is a fungal plant pathogen that causes dry rot on papaya.
See also
List of Ascochyta species
References
Ascochyta
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Papaya tree diseases
caricae
Fungi described in 1851
Taxa named by Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripe%20Digital%20Entertainment | Ripe Digital Entertainment (RDE) was an on-demand digital entertainment company with video on demand components on several platforms. RDE was founded by CEO Ryan Magnussen.
Networks
Ripe's 'networks', which consisted of Ripe TV, Octane TV and Flow TV were delivered over multiple platform. Ripe TV, launched in October 2005, focused on male content such as sports, comedy and content usually seen in the lad mag format of men's magazines such as FHM. Octane TV, which launched in August 2006, mainly involved automotive content. Flow TV launched in April 2007 and focused mainly on hip-hop music. All three services ended in June 2009 with the company's shutdown.
Distribution
The services were mainly distributed through cable video on demand services such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and FiOS, along with syndication through the AOL, Google and Yahoo ad networks. Sprint and MVNO Helio provided RDE's content via mobile.
References
Defunct online companies of the United States
Video on demand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20sulfate%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on sodium sulfate.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for this chemical from the manufacturer and follow its directions.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC%20XO | The OLPC XO (formerly known as $100 Laptop, Children's Machine, 2B1) is a low cost laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning). The XO was developed by Nicholas Negroponte, a co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, and designed by Yves Behar's Fuseproject company. The laptop is manufactured by Quanta Computer and developed by One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
The subnotebooks were designed for sale to government-education systems which then would give each primary school child their own laptop. Pricing was set to start at US$188 in 2006, with a stated goal to reach the $100 mark in 2008 and the 50-dollar mark by 2010. When offered for sale in the Give One Get One campaigns of Q4 2006 and Q4 2007, the laptop was sold at $199.
The rugged, low-power computers use flash memory instead of a hard disk drive (HDD), and come with a pre-installed operating system derived from Fedora Linux, with the Sugar graphical user interface (GUI). Mobile ad hoc networking via 802.11s Wi-Fi mesh networking, to allow many machines to share Internet access as long as at least one of them could connect to an access point, was initially announced, but quickly abandoned after proving unreliable.
The latest version of the OLPC XO is the XO-4 Touch, introduced in 2012.
History
The first early prototype was unveiled by the project's founder Nicholas Negroponte and then-United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on November 16, 2005, at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. The device shown was a rough prototype using a standard development board. Negroponte estimated that the screen alone required three more months of development. The first working prototype was demonstrated at the project's Country Task Force Meeting on May 23, 2006.
In 2006, there was a major controversy because Microsoft had suddenly developed an interest in the XO project and wanted the formerly open source effort to run Windows. Negroponte agreed to provide engineer assistance to Microsoft to facilitate their efforts. During this time, the project mission statement changed to remove mentions of "open source". A number of developers, such as Ivan Krstić and Walter Bender, resigned because of these changes in strategy.
Approximately 400 developer boards (Alpha-1) were distributed in mid-2006; 875 working prototypes (Beta 1) were delivered in late 2006; 2400 Beta-2 machines were distributed at the end of February 2007; full-scale production started November 6, 2007. Quanta Computer, the project's contract manufacturer, said in February 2007 that it had confirmed orders for one million units. Quanta indicated that it could ship five million to ten million units that year because seven nations had committed to buy the XO-1 for their schoolchildren: Argentina, Br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20appliance | A security appliance is any form of server appliance that is designed to protect computer networks from unwanted traffic.
Types of security appliances
Active devices block unwanted traffic. Examples of such devices are firewalls, anti virus scanning devices, and content filtering devices.
Passive devices detect and report on unwanted traffic, such as intrusion detection appliances.
Preventative devices scan networks and identify potential security problems (such as penetration testing and vulnerability assessment appliances).
Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances combine features together into one system, such as some firewalls, content filtering, web caching etc.
References
Server appliance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXWT | DXWT (92.3 FM), broadcasting as 92.3 Wild FM, is a radio station owned and operated by the UM Broadcasting Network. It serves as the flagship station of the Wild FM network. The station's studio is located at the UMBN Media Center, C. Bangoy cor. Palma Gil St., Davao City, and its transmitter is located along Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City.
History
1949–1988: DXMC
In 1949, businessman Atty. Guillermo Torres founded the first radio station in Mindanao and in Davao City under the callsign DXMC, named after Mindanao Colleges and was originally broadcast at 740 kilocycles. Back then, it broadcasts news and music programming.
In 1957, Torres founded the University of Mindanao Broadcasting Network after its Congressional franchise was amended. The station was shut down during Martial Law, but resumed its operations alongside DXUM but not DXMM.
In November 1978, due to the switch of the Philippine AM dial from the NARBA-mandated 10 kHz spacing to the 9 kHz rule implemented by the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975, the station's frequency was transferred to 819 kHz.
1988–present: DXWT
In July 1988, about 2 years after the "EDSA People Power Revolution", DXMC migrated into the FM frequency under the callsign DXWT and became known as 92.3 WT. After a few years, UMBN launched a new FM brand now known as Wild FM.
Under the leadership of Willie Torres, DXWT was formatted as dance-leaning Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR), capitalizing on Dance Re-Mixes and the so-called EPs (Extended Play), normally played only in Disco Clubs. Wild FM transformed radio programming by putting these re-mixes and EPs in 20-minute un-interrupted non-stop sweeps over the airwaves. Wild FM also revolutionized radio promotions and events by organizing Street Discos and Disco sa Barangays. In less than a year, Wild FM became no. 1 in Davao City, and a by-word in the industry.
During the early 2000s, it slowly shifted to masa market. In 2009, the station changed its branding to Wild 92.3 WT. In 2010, it became the first radio station in Mindanao to begin broadcasting via its HD Radio technology. Today, Wild FM remains a vital force in the industry, enjoying the steady support of both the listeners and advertisers, as Mindanao's dance outlet.
In July 2018, as part of their 30th anniversary, the station reverted to its Wild FM brand.
References
External links
Wild 92.3 WT Website
Wild FM Davao
Rhythmic contemporary radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXFM | DXFM (101.9 FM), broadcasting as 101.9 Radyo5 News FM, is a radio station owned by the Nation Broadcasting Corporation and operated by TV5 Network Inc. The station's studio is located at TV5 Heights, Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City, while its transmitter is located at Brgy. San Pedro, Davao City. This station operates daily from 4:00 AM to 12:00 MN.
History
The station was established in 1975 as MRS 101.9 Most Requested Song. It carried an adult contemporary format.
On September 1, 1998, after NBC was acquired by PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund's broadcasting division MediaQuest Holdings from the consortium of the Yabut family and then House Speaker Manny Villar, the station rebranded as Danni @ Rhythms 101.9 and switched to an urban contemporary format. On August 1, 2005, the "Rhythms" tag was dropped.
On October 1, 2009, Audiowav Media (WAV Atmospheric) took over the station's operations, along with NBC's stations in Visayas and Mindanao, and relaunched it as WAV FM. It carried a Top 40 format with the slogan "Philippines' Hit Music Station".
On December 1, 2011, TV5 took over the station's operations and relaunched it under the Radyo5 network. Initially a relay of Manila-based 92.3 News FM, the station launched its local programming on December 3, 2012.
On October 5, 2020, Davao-based local media company KAMM Media Network took over the station's weekday morning slot under a blocktime agreement. To date, this is the only Radyo5 station that does not simulcast Ted Failon at DJ Chacha sa Radyo5.
References
DXFM
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1975 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYCD | DYCD (103.5 FM), broadcasting as 103.5 Retro Cebu, is a radio station owned and operated by Ditan Communications, a subsidiary of UM Broadcasting Network. The station's studio and offices are located at Room 309, 3rd Floor, Doña Luisa Bldg., Fuente Osmeña, Cebu City, and its transmitter is located at Brgy. Kalunasan, Cebu City. This station operates 24/7.
History
1995-2002: Kiss FM
This station was established in 1995 as Kiss FM 103.5, carrying a Top 40 format. It was then located at the 4th level of Ayala Center Cebu.
2002-2015: Wild FM
Wild FM Cebu used to be on 105.9 MHz under the call letters DYWC from 1994 to 2000. In August 2002, UMBN acquired the station from Ditan Communications and relaunched the station as 103.5 Wild FM with its first site at the University of San Carlos main campus along Pelaez St. Wild FM's unique Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR-Dance) format with 20-minute nonstop re-mix every hour soon got Cebuanos shaking and dancing. This not-so-secret formula is the key to Wild FM's air dominance in every area that it operates in, a driving, pulsating beat partnered with a dynamic deejay and spinner.
On March 27, 2005, Wild FM moved to a new site at Doña Luisa Bldg., Fuente Osmeña, uptown Cebu to get closer to the listeners and clients.
On late January 2015, after almost 12 years on the air, Wild FM quietly ended its broadcast and went off the air for a month.
2015-present: Retro Cebu
On March 16, 2015, the station resumed its broadcast as 103.5 Retro Cebu, this time playing classic hits. In a span of a few months, this station's format change became hugely successful to retro music fanatics and it became a hit. A year later, the Retro was adapted by its Davao station.
At the evening of December 16, 2021, the station went off the air for the second time following the aftermath of Typhoon Odette. On January 14, 2022, it resumed operations after power was restored in Doña Luisa Bldg.
References
Radio stations in Metro Cebu
Radio stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Wolff%20%28television%20executive%29 | Billy Johnny Wolff (born March 4, 1966) is an American television producer. He was most recently the executive producer of The View. He has served as the vice president of prime-time programming for the cable news channel MSNBC, as well as the executive producer of The Rachel Maddow Show.
Biography
Wolff was born to a Jewish family and is a graduate of Clayton High School in Clayton, Missouri and Harvard College, where he was a history major and member of the varsity water polo team.
At MSNBC, he was previously the executive producer of The Situation with Tucker Carlson, later called Tucker, before his promotion in 2005. Wolff was also seen on Tucker filling in for Willie Geist and reporting on entertainment news. He left MSNBC in August 2014 to become a part of The View.
Before joining MSNBC, Wolff produced ESPN's Around the Horn (where he was also the "disembodied voice") and Fox Sports Net's I, Max, two sports commentary shows hosted by Max Kellerman, and served as a "judge" for the latter program. At ESPN, he helped produce SportsCenter and Sunday NFL Countdown.
Personal life
Wolff is divorced from Alison Stewart, currently the host of WNYC's afternoon show, All of It. Although of Jewish descent, Wolff is non-believing.
References
External links
1966 births
Living people
American television executives
20th-century American Jews
Harvard Crimson men's water polo players
Place of birth missing (living people)
MSNBC people
People from St. Louis County, Missouri
Harvard College alumni
21st-century American Jews
Jewish American television producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversicon | Diversicon is an annual speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy, or SF) convention held in July or August in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota area. Diversicon provides programming and social opportunities to encourage the multicultural, multimedia exploration and celebration of SF by those within and outside of the traditional SF community. Diversicon includes both live and posthumous guests. It is sponsored by SF Minnesota.
Programming
Diversicon's programming—typically three simultaneous tracks—focuses on literature but also includes items related to film, TV, comics, art, science, and other subjects. Science fiction, fantasy, horror, and slipstream/magic realism genres are all represented.
Programming topics are solicited from preregistered attendees. Programming items often focus on authors and/or fictional characters from underrepresented groups; how work deals with themes of race, ethnicity, class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, dis/ability, and other definitions of "difference"; and how contemporary issues around diversity influence the reading and writing of SF.
Most programming items are panel discussions. In addition, guests of honor are interviewed and participate in Q&A with the audience. Other formats include roundtable discussions, film screenings, informational presentations/workshops, and concerts.
The convention includes an Art Show; displaying artists are encouraged to attend and be available to discuss their work with attendees. It also includes a Dealers' Room where various jewelry, books, magazines, clothing/accessories, and other items are for sale. The ConSuite is a room with comfortable, informal seating and light food and drink. Parties are held each evening.
In addition, there is an auction of speculative fiction books, collectibles, and other items to raise money for SF Minnesota.
History
Diversicon is sponsored by SF Minnesota, a nonprofit organization. SF Minnesota was founded in February 1992 by a group that wanted to create a Twin Cities speculative fiction convention with a different tone and focus from what already existed. They decided that Diversicon would celebrate and explore the connections between speculative fiction (SF) and diversity, particularly in three areas:
Cultural diversity. Slightly more than two thirds of Diversicon's guest professionals have been women. A number of guests have been persons of color. A number of guests have been openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual and/or have written SF that explores issues of alternate sexuality.
Diversity of fan groups. Diversicon would be openly welcoming, friendly, and respectful to the wide range of SF-related organizations in the area, ranging from book clubs to writing groups, Star Trek and anime clubs, creative anachronists and futurist organizations, and anyone else who shared an interest in diversity and the imagination.
Diversity in media. Recognizing that different people come to SF through different paths, Divers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull%20Questar | In information technology, Questar computer terminals are a line of largely 3270-compatible text-only dumb terminals manufactured by Groupe Bull and widely used in France and some other markets. The terminals combine standard 3270 emulation with a number of Questar-specific features. The terminals have been most successful with users who already operate compatible Bull mainframe systems, and have achieved far less market penetration as plug-compatible replacements for IBM 3270 terminals.
The Bull Questar 400 was a licensed version of the Convergent Technologies NGEN.
However there was Bull Questar M, in fact Micral series 80. Z80 based microcomputer.
References
Block-oriented terminal
Groupe Bull |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine-Neckar%20S-Bahn | The Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn (S-Bahn RheinNeckar) forms the backbone of the urban rail transport network of the Rhine Neckar Area, including the cities of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Ludwigshafen.
The S-Bahn operates over of route in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, and in small sections in Saarland and Hesse. S-Bahn trains operate about 7.5 million kilometres per year, with 113 stations served by class 425 electric multiple units.
Network
The S-Bahn is about long and is one of the largest S-Bahn networks in Germany. The core area is in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg. At Homburg (Saar), it touches the Saarland and it has three stations in Hesse between Neckarsteinach and Hirschhorn. Four of the seven lines run together on the core Schifferstadt–Ludwigshafen–Mannheim–Heidelberg section. Beyond this main line, the S-Bahn operates over six lines with terminuses in Homburg, Osterburken, Karlsruhe, Germersheim, Bruchsal, Eppingen, Aglasterhausen, Mainz and Bensheim.
Services operate on weekdays at intervals of 30 or 60 minutes, except for the S7 and S8, which currently have only a few services. The lines are shared with the other passenger and freight traffic.
New lines
As part of the second expansion phase, the following line, which is currently still operating as a Regionalbahn service and is already operated by the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn, will be added to the S-Bahn network. After the completion of all works, the S-Bahn network will have a total length of . A total of 158 stations will be served.
Operating pattern
All lines have a 60-minute basic frequency. As a result of largely overlapping alignments in the core area services run at half-hourly frequency. On the core line between Schifferstadt and Heidelberg four lines run, each at hourly intervals, but due to problems of coordination may not provide a pure 15-minute interval schedule. Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim and Ludwigshafen-Mundenheim are not usually served by lines S1 and S3. Line S1 usually serves Mannheim Rangierbahnhof and Mannheim-Seckenheim. On Saturday afternoons and Sundays, S2 from Kaiserslautern terminates in Heidelberg and S4 runs only between Germersheim and Mannheim.
Although the lines run from 05:00 until 01:30, regular interval operations usually run only between about 08:00 and 21:00.
History
On 14 December 2003, the Rhine-Neckar area became the last large densely populated area in Germany with an S-Bahn system—planning had lasted decades and involved the cooperation of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. Following European-wide advertising for tenders, operation for 12 years from 2002 until 2015 was awarded to DB Regio.
First stage of development
Beginning in 2001, the lines and stations were prepared for S-Bahn operations. €260 million was invested for construction and €190 million for vehicles. An extra bridge was built over the Rhine between Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, urgently required to in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stott%20Parker | Douglass Stott Parker (December 31, 1952 – October 4, 2022) was a professor of computer science at UCLA from 1979 to his retirement in 2016, specializing in Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Database Management, Scientific Data Management and Modeling.
Parker was an investigator in the UCLA Center for Computational Biology (an NIH NCBC center), the UCLA Center for Cognitive Phenomics (an NIH project), and works with Chris Lee on bioinformatics databases.
Biography
Parker was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Haverly Hubert Parker and classics professor Douglass Stott Parker, Sr. He received the A.B. in Mathematics cum laude from Princeton University in 1974. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1978, respectively. Following a period of postdoctoral research at the Universite de Grenoble in France he joined the Faculty of the UCLA Computer Science Department in 1979.
References
Papers
Parker’s academic site lists his papers, under Directories with research results.
External links
UCLA Computer Science Department
1952 births
2022 deaths
Artificial intelligence researchers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
People from New Haven, Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Wilhite | Stephen Earl Wilhite (March 3, 1948 – March 14, 2022) was an American computer scientist who worked at CompuServe and was the engineering lead on the team that created the GIF image file format in 1987. GIF went on to become the de facto standard for 8-bit color images on the Internet until PNG (1996) became a widely supported alternative. The format later became the subject of a patent assertion by Unisys on its use of the LZW compression algorithm. Known as the inventor or creator of the GIF, Wilhite received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
Biography
Stephen Earl Wilhite was born in West Chester Township, Ohio, on March 3, 1948, the son of Anna Lou (Dorsey), a nurse, and Clarence Earl Wilhite, a factory worker. Wilhite's team at CompuServe developed the GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) in 1987. Its adoption by the earliest web browser in 1991 helped make it a few years later in 1995 the most popular image file format. Twenty years later in 2016, the format still had mainstream use in website design, social media posts, workflow documents and how-to guides.
Wilhite remained a CompuServe/AOL employee into the first decade of the 21st century, working on a variety of CompuServe systems. These included CompuServe's wire protocols, such as Host Micro Interface (HMI) and CompuServe B protocol for the CompuServe Information Manager (CIM); new service features in the early 1990s; Web chat software in the late 1990s; and investigating Web community models until his 2001 departure after suffering a stroke.
Wilhite's name comes up frequently in debate over the pronunciation of the GIF acronym. "The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations," Wilhite said. "They are wrong. It is a soft 'G', pronounced 'jif'. End of story." The intended pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand Jif.
Wilhite died at a hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, following complications from COVID-19, on March 14, 2022, aged 74.
References
1948 births
2022 deaths
Scientists from Ohio
CompuServe
American computer scientists
Computer graphics professionals
Webby Award winners
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio
People from West Chester, Butler County, Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceedo | Ceedo is a cybersecurity company based in Netanya, Israel. Ceedo uses software virtualization technologies to create application containers, claiming to eliminate or reduce endpoint security threats like viruses or ransomware.
History
Ceedo Technologies was originally founded as a software virtualization platform by Dror Wettenstein in 2005. Since then, Ceedo has been using virtualization technology to make productivity tools for individual and enterprise use. In recent years, the company has followed the rising global trend of employment of virtualization in cybersecurity and shifted its focus to that industry.
Ceedo Personal
Ceedo Personal was a portable operating system that allowed users to carry applications on portable media (such as USB flash drives and pocket hard drives), running them inside a virtual environment, while using resources from the host PC (screen, processing power, drives, internet connection, printers). Applications were launched in an independent environment, allowing them to run regardless of the specific settings of the host computer.
Ceedo Personal has been licensed by consumer storage vendors including Lexar, Seagate, Verbatim, Maxell, ExcelStor, Venzero and others. The product has been pre-bundled on millions of devices and sold worldwide.
Ceedo Personal has often been compared to another product, U3, similar in both appearance and functionality.
Ceedo Enterprise
Introduced in 2008, Ceedo Enterprise was a version of Ceedo platform designed for business use and included remote management capabilities. Ceedo Enterprise was designed to be carried primarily on encrypted hardware and could have been customized and pre-configured.
Ceedo and Citrix partnered in 2008 to create a portable version of the Citrix XenApp client.
Cybersecurity
After several years of hiatus, Ceedo resumed operations in 2016. The company continued developing virtualization technologies, with focus switched to cybersecurity.
Ceedo has several patents pending for its virtualization technology.
Technology
Ceedo claims to protect computers from being compromised (from both known and unknown malware threats, including zero-day attacks) by using application containers. Such application containers create isolation barrier between potentially vulnerable application (like web browsers) and the host system.
Application containers
Ceedo utilizes application containerization technology and context-based access controls to isolate web-facing applications and attempt to completely separate all untrusted content from the host. Potential malware execution is privilege-restricted that way and confined only to the isolated container created by Ceedo.
Ceedo's context-based approach determines context by looking at the security classification of the application/process requesting to operate on a file, the file on which it is requesting to operate, and the nature of the operation (i.e. read/write). From this context, Ceedo derives the permissions it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Central%20Cancer%20Treatment%20Group | The North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) is an international clinical research group sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. The NCCTG consists of a network of cancer specialists at community clinics, hospitals and medical centers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The research base for NCCTG is located at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
External links
North Central Cancer Treatment Group
References
Cancer organizations based in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20scorer | An automatic scorer is the computerized scoring system to keep track of scoring in ten-pin bowling. It was introduced en masse in bowling alleys in the 1970s and combined with mechanical pinsetters to detect overturned pins.
By eliminating the need for manual score-keeping, these systems have introduced new bowlers into the game who otherwise would not participate because they had to count the score themselves, as many do not understand the mathematical formula involved in bowler scoring. At first, people were skeptical about whether a computer could keep an accurate score. In the twenty-first century, automatic scorers are used in most bowling centers around the world. The three manufacturers of these specialty computers have been Brunswick Bowling, AMF Bowling (later QubicaAMF Worldwide), and RCA.
History
Automatic equipment is considered a cornerstone of the modern bowling center. The traditional bowling center of the early 20th century was advanced in automation when the pinsetter person ("pin boy"), who set back up by hand the bowled down pins, was replaced by a machine that automatically replaced the pins in their proper play positions. This machine came out in the 1950s. A detection system was developed from the pinsetter mechanism in the 1960s that could tell which pins had been knocked down, and that information could be transferred to a digital computer.
Automatic electronic scoring was first conceived by Robert Reynolds, who was described by a newspaper story at the time as "a West Coast electronics calculator expert." He worked with the technical staff of Brunswick Bowling to develop it. The goal was realized in the late 1960s when a specialized computer was designed for the purpose of automatic scorekeeping for bowling. The field test for the automatic scorer took place at Village Lanes bowling center, Chicago in 1967. The scoring machine received approval for official use by the American Bowling Congress in August of that year. They were first used in national official league gaming on October 10, 1967. In November, Brunswick announced that they were accepting orders for the new digital computer, which cost around $3,000 per bowling lane. Bowling centers that installed these new automatic scoring devices in the 1970s charged a ten cents extra per line of scoring for the convenience.
Description
Each Automatic Scorer computer unit kept score for four lanes. It had two bowler identification panels serving two lanes each. The bowler pushed it into his named position when his turn came up so the computer knew who was bowling and score accordingly. After the bowler rolled the bowling ball down the lane and knocked down pins, the pinsetter detected which pins were down and relayed this information back to the computer for scoring. The result was then printed on a scoresheet and projected overhead onto a large screen for all to see.
The Automatic Scorer digital computer was mathematically accurate, however the detection system at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoneda | is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
, gymnast
, Japanese-American activist and author
, mathematician and computer scientist
, Japanese footballer
, baseball pitcher
Japanese-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrosporium%20tingitaninum | Acrosporium tingitaninum is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Enigmatic Ascomycota taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosellinia%20subiculata | Rosellinia subiculata is a fungal plant pathogen infecting citruses.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal citrus diseases
Xylariales
Fungi described in 1882 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape%20%28Sirius%20XM%29 | Escape is a Sirius XM Satellite Radio music channel, available on XM channel 149, Sirius channel 149 and DISH Network channel 6069, as well as online and via a mobile app.
Escape features a beautiful music format, described as "Easy instrumental arrangements of the great melodies of the past 80 years with a touch of vocal", and plays a music from such instrumental artists as 101 Strings, Hollyridge Strings, Henry Mancini, Chet Atkins, Bert Kaempfert, Franck Pourcel, Richard Clayderman, Ferrante & Teicher, Geoff Love, Jackie Gleason, Andre Kostelanetz, Paul Mauriat, and Percy Faith, as well as vocalists such as Andy Williams, Anne Murray, Barry Manilow, Perry Como, Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand and The Carpenters.
XM had previously featured the beautiful music format on Sunny, channel 24. In early 2006, the Sunny channel, which was owned by Clear Channel Communications, changed formats and started airing commercial interruptions as the result of an arbitration settlement with Clear Channel. Due to the format change of Sunny and the commercial interruptions, XM created the Escape channel (channel 78, prior to the Sirius-XM merger, and channel 28 after) as a commercial-free beautiful music channel. After the merger with Sirius in 2008, Escape started incorporating more vocal tracks into its playlist (to compensate for the loss of Sirius' more soft-AC based Movin' Easy channel), but these were quickly reduced after complaints.
As of February 9, 2010, DirecTV dropped Sirius XM programming in favor of SonicTap.
Escape has occasionally been pre-empted in favor of special programming, as for a seasonal "Radio Hanukkah" format in 2009 and 2010, and a "Live Rock Labor Day Weekend" format in 2010.
On August 13, 2015, Escape was dropped from radios and DISH Network and became available only on channel 751, accessible to online users, and to users of the SiriusXM mobile application through a special subscription. The channel's creator, Marlin Taylor, veteran radio programmer for many stations and program syndicators such as Bonneville and known as "the father of the beautiful music format," retired shortly afterward. Escape was restored to Channel 69 on the satellite lineup on September 15, 2015 (on XM-based radios) and October 7, 2015 (on Sirius-based radios). It returned to the DISH Network lineup on November 12, 2015.
As of Wednesday, June 7th. 2023, Escape was moved to channel 149 on SiriusXM.
Core artists
Frank Chacksfield
101 Strings
Ronnie Aldrich
Percy Faith
Tommy Garrett
Franck Pourcel
Tony Mottola
References
External links
XM Escape Website
Sirius XM Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
Easy listening radio stations
Sirius Satellite Radio channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternaria%20alternata%20f.sp.%20lycopersici | Alternaria alternata f.sp. lycopersici is a plant pathogen.
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Alternaria
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Forma specialis taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoma%20destructiva | Phoma destructiva is a fungal plant pathogen infecting tomatoes and potatoes.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Potato diseases
Tomato diseases
destructiva
Fungi described in 1881 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenula%20affinis | Hymenula affinis is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Enigmatic Ascomycota taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloeosporium%20theae-sinensis | Gloeosporium theae-sinensis (syn. Colletotrichum theae-sinensis) is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Dermateaceae
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pestalotia%20longiseta | Pestalotia longiseta is a plant pathogen infecting tea.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Tea diseases
Xylariales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaceloma%20theae | Sphaceloma theae is a plant pathogen infecting tea.
References
External links
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Tea diseases
Myriangiales
Fungi described in 1939 |
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