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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIPASS | The H I Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) is a large survey for neutral atomic hydrogen (H I). Most of the data was taken between 1997 and 2002 using CSIRO's 64 m Parkes Telescope. HIPASS covered 71% of the sky and identified more than 5000 galaxies; the major galaxy catalogs are: the "HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog" (HIPASS BGC), the southern HIPASS catalog (HICAT), and the northern HIPASS catalog (NHICAT) Discoveries include over 5000 galaxies (incl. several new galaxies), the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream and a few gas clouds devoid of stars.
Survey
HIPASS covers a velocity range of −1,280 to 12,700 km/s. It was the first blind HI survey to cover the entire southern sky and the northern sky up to +25°. Technical overview, calibration and imaging (Barnes et al. 2001).
Southern Sky observations
Observations of the southern sky started in February 1997, and were completed in March 2000, consisting of 23,020 eight-degree scans of each of 9 minutes duration. HIPASS scanned the entire southern sky five times. The southern HIPASS galaxy catalog (HICAT) contains 4315 HI sources.
Northern Sky observations
Northern HIPASS extended the survey into the northern sky. The entire Virgo Cluster region was observed in Northern HIPASS. NHICAT, the catalogue of the northern extension of HIPASS contains 1,002 H I sources.
CHIPASS
Archival data from HIPASS and the HI Zone of Avoidance (HIZOA) survey were reprocessed to make a new 20cm confusion-limited continuum map of the sky south of declination +25°. Its relatively high sensitivity and resolution (compared to other single-dish surveys) and low level of artefacts has made this survey invaluable, particularly for merging with interferometric data such as WALLABY to improve the coverage of extended structure.
Multibeam Receiver
Observations for HIPASS were taken using the Parkes 21-cm Multibeam Receiver. The instrument consists of a focal-plane array of 13 individual receivers arranged in a hexagonal pattern. Built in a collaboration between numerous institutions, it was funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) to undertake the HIPASS and ZOA surveys.
Discoveries
Leading arm of Magellanic Stream
HIPASS discovered the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream. This is an extension of the Magellanic Stream beyond the Magellanic clouds. The existence of the Leading Arm is predicted by models of a tidal interaction between the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way.
HIPASS J0731-69
HIPASS J0731-69 is a cloud of gas devoid of any stars. It is associated with the asymmetric spiral galaxy NGC 2442. It is likely that HIPASS J0731-69 was torn loose from NGC 2442 by a companion.
HIPASS J1712-64
HIPASS J1712-64 is an isolated extragalactic cloud of neutral hydrogen with no associated stars. The cloud is a binary system and is not dense enough to form stars. HIPASS J1712-64 was probably ejected during an interaction between the Magellanic clouds and the Milky w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20de%20l%27Assembl%C3%A9e%20nationale | The Canal de l'Assemblée nationale is a Quebec television network, which broadcasts the proceedings of the National Assembly of Quebec on cable television. The channel launched October 3, 1978.
External links
Canal de l'Assemblée nationale
References
Commercial-free television networks
Quebec government departments and agencies
Legislature broadcasters in Canada
Quebec Legislature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20and%20motorways%20in%20Cyprus | Since the arrival of the first motor cars on the island in 1907, Cyprus has developed a modern road network. According to 2002 statistics, the road network in the Republic of Cyprus-administered areas of Cyprus consists of about 7,206 km of paved and 4,387 km of unpaved roads. Although the first motorway in Cyprus, A1, was completed as recently as October 1985, the country already has the most motorway km per capita (36.8 km /100,000 inhabitants) among all European Union members.
There are no toll paying roads in Cyprus to date.
Maintenance
The Public Works Department of the Ministry of Communications and Works is responsible for the maintenance, improvement and construction of motorways, the majority of rural and interurban road network and the main urban roads. The Municipalities are responsible for the secondary and local urban roads; the District Administration Authorities are responsible for the paved and unpaved district (tertiary) roads and village roads. The Forestry Department is responsible for most unpaved roads in forest areas, this is in order to accommodate the administration and protection of forests.
The Turkish invasion of 1974 radically changed the program of road development and created new priorities in order to cover the augmented needs in the government controlled areas, where 80% of the Cyprus population and the greatest portion of development had concentrated.
Under these circumstances New Road Development Schemes were promoted, which were partially financed by foreign Financing Organizations. Under these development projects new 4 lane motorways were constructed and more are on their way as follows:
Cyprus motorways list
The highway network is continuously developed. The first section of the A9 Nicosia - Astromeritis Motorway between Kokkinotrimithia and Akaki has been completed, whereas the rest is under study. Also the upgrading of the Limassol Junctions and the A1 Nicosia - Limassol Motorway to a 6 lane road between the Strovolos Junction and Alampra Interchange are completed.
The following are under design:
A7 Paphos - Polis Motorway is promoted through the D.B.F.O. method (Design, Build, Finance, Operate).
Preliminary and feasibility studies are conducted for the:
Nicosia Ring road
A8 Limassol - Saittas Motorway
Astromeritis - Evrychou Motorway
Nicosia - Klirou Motorway
Road network categories and numbering
Roads and Motorways in Cyprus can be classified into 5 main categories:
Motorways, 2 lanes per direction, free of any at-grade intersections. They are the most important road network on the island, and the letter "A" is used on their official numbering system. Motorways usually run parallel to the same-number "B class" intercity roads that they replaced and sometimes these roads are even transformed to Motorways (e.g. A3 Motorway and B3 road). While there is no formal announcement about the numbering of new motorways under construction and under planning, it's anticipated that they will have |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus%20virus%20X | Cactus virus X (CVX) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Alphaflexiviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Cactus virus X
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Cacti
Potexviruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation%20etched%20ring%20virus | Carnation etched ring virus (CERV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Caulimoviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Carnation etched ring virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Caulimoviridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation%20latent%20virus | Carnation latent virus (CLV, or Carlavirus) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Betaflexiviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Carnation latent virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Carlaviruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation%20mottle%20virus | Carnation mottle virus (CarMV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Tombusviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Carnation mottle virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Tombusviridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation%20ringspot%20virus | Carnation ringspot virus (CRSV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Tombusviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Carnation ringspot virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Tombusviridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation%20vein%20mottle%20virus | Carnation vein mottle virus (CVMoV, CVMV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Carnation vein mottle virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Potyviruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot%20latent%20virus | Carrot latent virus (CtLV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Rhabdoviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Carrot latent virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Nucleorhabdoviruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot%20red%20leaf%20virus | Carrot red leaf virus (CtRLV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Solemoviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Carrot red leaf virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot%20thin%20leaf%20virus | Carrot thin leaf virus (CTLV) is a pathogenic plant virus of the family Potyviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Carrot thin leaf virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Potyviruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Help | The Big Help is a community outreach program made famous in 1994 by Nickelodeon. Kids who volunteered in their community reached out to let Nickelodeon know what they were doing. The network contacted some of them to create commercials for Nickelodeon about various volunteer opportunities to inspire them to be BIG HELPERS IN ACTION.
It was also an event in which kids from around the country would call in to try to get one of their local parks refurbished by Nickelodeon, the ten with the most votes would get refurbished by Nickelodeon in an eight-hour special. There were special instances like the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack where they had unscheduled specials. In 2008, a sequel emerged called The Big Green Help, which was created to promote messages of environmentalism. The name “The Big Help” came back in 2010.
Stars
Lucas Cruikshank
Larisa Oleynik
Katelyn Tarver
Jake Weary
Matt Shively
David Del Rio
Nathan Kress
Jennette McCurdy
Keke Palmer
Lindsey Shaw
Drake Bell
Matt Bennett
Austin Butler
James Maslow
Skyler Day
Gia Mantegna
Avan Jogia
Gage Golightly
Isabella Castillo
Devon Werkheiser
Miranda Cosgrove
Matthew Underwood
Ciara Bravo
Malese Jow
Victoria Justice
Leon Thomas III
Spencer Locke
Erin Sanders
Grace Gummer
Carlos Pena Jr.
Drew Roy
Nick Purcell
Simon Curtis
Noah Munck
Tanya Chisholm
Logan Henderson
Matthew Moy
Kendré Berry
Elizabeth Gillies
Robbie Amell
Tyler James Williams
Ashley Argota
Jolene Purdy
Daniella Monet
Laura Marano
Ariana Grande
Annamarie Kenoyer
Shayna Rose
Teala Dunn
Tristin Mays
Valerie Tian
Taylor Parks
Amanda Bynes
Aaliyah
References
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kKZjKyTLnFg -
The Big Help, Big Helpers in Action, Hospital Volunteering
External links
The Big Help Preview Announcement at YouTube
American children's reality television series
1994 American television series debuts
2001 American television series endings
1990s American children's television series
2000s American children's television series
1990s American reality television series
2000s American reality television series
1990s Nickelodeon original programming
2000s Nickelodeon original programming
Golden CableACE award winners
American children's education television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYFU | WYFU (88.5 FM) is a Bible Broadcasting Network affiliated broadcast radio station licensed to Masontown, Pennsylvania, serving south-western Pennsylvania and northern North-Central West Virginia.
WYFU is owned and operated by the Bible Broadcasting Network.
External links
WYFU Online
Bible Broadcasting Network
Radio stations established in 1998
YFU |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawa%20%28Scheme%20implementation%29 | Kawa is a language framework written in the programming language Java that implements the programming language Scheme, a dialect of Lisp, and can be used to implement other languages to run on the Java virtual machine (JVM). It is a part of the GNU Project.
The name Kawa comes from the Polish word for coffee; a play on words, since Java is another familiar name for coffee.
Kawa is notable as one of the few programming languages with support for units of measure in the form of quantities.
Integration with Java
Besides using the language Scheme, Java object fields and methods can be accessed using code such as: . This will invoke a Java method, and does the same thing as in Java. An object's fields can be accessed with: or . Static (class) methods can be invoked with the function . Kawa can be extended with Java code (by creating scheme functions in Java), and combined with other JVM implementations.
See also
List of JVM languages
List of open-source programming languages
References
External links
GNU Project Lisp programming language implementations
Java platform software
JVM programming languages
Scheme (programming language) implementations
Scheme (programming language) interpreters
Programming languages supporting units of measure
Scripting languages
Software using the MIT license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-African%20Highway%20network | The Trans-African Highway network comprises transcontinental road projects in Africa being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (ADB), and the African Union in conjunction with regional international communities. They aim to promote trade and alleviate poverty in Africa through highway infrastructure development and the management of road-based trade corridors. The total length of the nine highways in the network is .
In some documents the highways are referred to as "Trans-African Corridors" or "Road Corridors" rather than highways. The name Trans-African Highway and its variants are not in wide common usage outside of planning and development circles, and as of 2014 one does not see them signposted as such or labelled on maps, except in Kenya and Uganda where the Mombasa–Nairobi–Kampala–Fort Portal section (or the Kampala–Kigali feeder road) of Trans-African Highway 8 is sometimes referred to as the "Trans-Africa Highway".
Background
Need for the highway system
Colonial powers and, later, competing superpowers and regional powers, generally did not encourage road links between their respective spheres except where absolutely necessary (i.e. trade), and in newly independent African states, border restrictions were often tightened rather than relaxed as a way of protecting internal trade, as a weapon in border disputes, and to increase the opportunities for official corruption.
Poverty affects development of international highways when scarce financial resources have to be directed towards internal rather than external priorities.
The agencies developing the highway network are influenced by the idea that road infrastructure stimulates trade and so alleviates poverty, as well as benefiting health and education since they allow medical and educational services to be distributed to previously inaccessible areas.
On 1 July 1971 Robert K. A. Gardiner, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), established the Trans-African Highway Bureau to oversee the development of a continental road network.
Wars and conflicts
As well as preventing progress in road construction, wars and conflicts have led to the destruction of roads and river crossings, have prevented maintenance and have often closed vital links. Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola are all in rebuilding phases after war. Wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo set back road infrastructure in that country by decades and cut the principal route between East and West Africa. In recent years, security considerations have restricted road travel in the southern parts of Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt as well as in northern Chad and much of Sudan.
Trans-African highways can only develop in times of peace and stability, and in 2007 the future looks brighter, with the southern Sudan conflict being the only one currently affecting development of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20nanokernel | The Mac OS nanokernel is an operating system kernel serving as the basis of most PowerPC based system software versions 7 through 9 of the classic Mac OS, predating Mac OS X.
The initial revision of this software is a single tasking system which delegates most tasks to an emulator running the Motorola 68000 series (68K) version of the operating system. The second major revision supports multitasking, multiprocessing, and message passing, and would be more properly called a microkernel. Unlike the 68K-derived Mac OS kernel running within it, the PowerPC kernel exists in a protected memory space and executes device drivers in user mode.
The nanokernel is very different from the Copland OS microkernel, although they were created in succession with similar goals.
System 7.1.2 – Mac OS 8.5.1
The original nanokernel, and the tightly integrated Mac 68k emulator, were written by emulation consultant Gary Davidian. Its main purpose is to allow the existing Motorola 68K version of the operating system to run on new hardware. As such, the normal state of the system is to be running 68K code. The operating system does little until activated by an interrupt, which is quickly mapped to its 68K equivalent within the virtual machine.
Other tasks may include switching back to PowerPC mode, if necessary, upon completion of the interrupt handler, and mapping the Macintosh virtual memory system to the PowerPC hardware. However, as the software is little documented, these might instead be handled by the emulator running in user mode.
This nanokernel is stored on the Mac OS ROM chip integrated into Old World ROM computers, or inside the Mac OS ROM file on disk on the New World ROM computers, rather than being installed in the familiar sense.
Interim development
Progress after 1994 demanded additional functionality. A forward-looking architecture was introduced for PCI card drivers in anticipation of the Copland microkernel called NuKernel, which supports memory protection. The Open Transport networking architecture introduced standardized PowerPC synchronization primitives. The DayStar Digital Genesis MP Macintosh clone requires kernel extensions to support multiprocessing. This evolution would later affect the overhaul to the nanokernel in Mac OS 8.6.
Mac OS 8.6 and later
Mac OS 8.6's nanokernel was rewritten by René A. Vega to add Multiprocessing Services 2.0 support. PowerMacInfo, distributed in the Multiprocessing SDK, is an application that displays statistics about the nanokernel's operation.
References
External links
René A. Vega's explanation of basic Mac OS architecture
supervisor mode
Question from a non-programmer
Nanokernels
Classic Mac OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Foord | Heather Foord (born 1965) is an Australian television journalist.
Foord was a news presenter for the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presenting the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige between 1995–2001, and again between 2004–2008. She also presented the weekend news with Mike London between 2001–2004, and then solo between 2009–2011 before retiring from television news in June 2011.
Career
Foord attended Brisbane State High School for her secondary education. After graduating from the University of Queensland, Foord worked with Good Morning Australia at Network Ten before joining Nine News as a reporter. She quickly made the transition to news reader, taking a weekend hosting position after 6 months.
For a duration of three weeks in October 2007, Foord also presented the news bulletins for the Nine Network's Today, an additional duty requiring her to fly between Sydney and Brisbane daily.
While her daughters India, Grace, Riley and Maya were young, Heather returned to the weekend news desk so she could spend more time with her family, but returned to the main desk in 2004 - a position she held until December 2008, when Foord announced her resignation from the news desk after 21 years. Melissa Downes was named her successor in 2009, by which point the strong ratings for Nine News Queensland had worn off.
Foord was announced as the host of Nine Network Brisbane's Extra in January 2009 replacing Jillian Whiting. Extra was axed in late June, and Foord moved back to Nine News in July as the weekend presenter. She remained in this role before stepping down permanently in June 2011; she was replaced by Eva Milic.
Aside from working on with Nine Network, Foord is an advocate supporting sufferers of cerebral palsy, a condition which affects her nephew.
References
External links
Extra Bio
Article on CP
Nine News presenters
Living people
1965 births
People educated at Brisbane State High School
University of Queensland alumni
Australian women television journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo%E2%80%93Dakar%20Highway | The Cairo–Dakar Highway or TAH 1 is Trans-African Highway 1 in the transcontinental road network being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (ADB), and the African Union. The major part of the highway between Tripoli and Nouakchott has been constructed under a project of the Arab Maghreb Union.
The Cairo–Dakar Highway has a length of and runs along the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, continuing down the Atlantic coast of North-West Africa. It is substantially complete except for a few kilometres on the Western Sahara-Mauritania border where there is currently only a desert track. The Nouadhibou-Nouakchott section was paved in 2005 (:fr:Transport en Mauritanie). It joins with the Dakar-Lagos Highway () to form a north–south route between Rabat and Monrovia across the Sahara and around the western extremity of the continent.
Since 1994 the land border between Morocco and Algeria has been closed completely, so the Cairo–Dakar Highway cannot be used in its entirety. Construction in Tunisia continues.
See also
Maghreb highway
Trans-African Highway network
Trans–West African Coastal Highway
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rn%20Jensen | Jørn Jensen (1925 – 2007) was one of the earliest Danish computer programmers. Examined as a mechanical engineer, he had worked with electromechanical construction. In 1958, he was employed at the Danish Regnecentralen (RC), and very soon exhibited an extraordinary programming skill. He developed the main parts of the base programs to the Dansk Aritmetisk Sekvens Kalkulator (DASK, Danish Arithmetic Sequence Calculator), the first Danish computer. Among other programs, he designed a set of monitor programs to supervise the program running schedule on DASK. In tight collaboration with Peter Naur and others, he developed reliable, well documented compilers for the ALGOL 60 programming language. In this context, he invented Jensen's Device, an ingenious exploitation of the name parameters to compute numerical series without using procedure parameters, as is needed in all programming languages, except ALGOL 60 and Simula 67.
After some 20 years at Regnecentralen, he continued his career in systems programming, and other types, at the Brown, Boveri & Cie electrical engineering company.
References
Danish computer programmers
1925 births
2007 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27Djamena%E2%80%93Djibouti%20Highway | The Ndjamena-Djibouti Highway or TAH 6 is Trans-African Highway 6 in the transcontinental road network being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (ADB), and the African Union, connecting the Sahelian region to the Indian Ocean port of Djibouti in the country of Djibouti.
The road passes through Darfur in western Sudan and the town of Al-Fashir, scene of the Darfur conflict. Consequently, travel through that area and Sudan–Chad border region is unsafe and development of that road section is at a standstill.
The route has a length of crossing Chad, central Sudan and northern Ethiopia. Less than half of it is paved and a significant proportion of that is in poor condition. Mountainous terrain in Ethiopia presents challenges to highway engineers.
Between Wad Madani in Sudan and Werota in Ethiopia the highway shares the same route as Trans-Africa Highway 4, the Cairo-Cape Town Highway.
The highway is contiguous with the Dakar-Ndjamena Highway with which it will form a complete east–west crossing of the continent of . The approximate route of the two highways follows a route originally proposed in the French Empire of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and earlier French attempts to control the transcontinental crossing led to the Fashoda Incident.
See also
Trans-African Highway network
Trans-Sahelian Highway
References
African Development Bank/United Nations Economic Commission For Africa: "Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans African Highways and the Missing Links: Volume 2: Description of Corridors". August 14, 2003. Retrieved 14 July 2007.
Michelin Motoring and Tourist Map: "Africa North and West". Michelin Travel Publications, Paris, 2000.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Association%20for%20Medical%20Systems%20and%20Informatics | The American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI) was an organization created to encourage improvements in the state of medical care by encouraging the development of computer systems for that field.
On August 19, 1981, the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics was incorporated. This organization came into existence as a result of the efforts of two predecessor organizations, the Society for Computer Medicine (SCM), incorporated in November, 1972, and the Society for Advanced Medical Systems (SAMS), incorporated in November, 1975, to merge into one. Formal dissolution of SCM and SAMS occurred on April 30, 1982. AAMSI's main purpose was to support patient care, teaching, research, and health administration through the development and implementation of computer systems. To meet this goal, the association served as a clearinghouse for information on medical systems and informatics, supported committees which contributed to the advance of medical informatics and sponsored annual conferences on advances in medical information systems.
In 1989, AAMSI merged with the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC) and the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) to form the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
A collection of AAMSI's papers were donated to the National Library of Medicine in 1987.
See also
American Medical Informatics Association
Notes
External links
American Association for Medical Systems Informatics Records (1972-1984)—National Library of Medicine finding aid
Medical and health organizations based in the United States
Health informatics and eHealth associations
Organizations established in 1981
Defunct organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Feet%20%28series%205%29 | The fifth series of the British comedy drama television series Cold Feet was broadcast on the ITV network from 23 February to 16 March 2003. This was the final series of the drama and while the number of episodes was halved compared to the previous series, the running time was increased from 46 minutes to 72 minutes per episode, necessitating a 95-minute timeslot. The plot of the series follows three couples: Adam (James Nesbitt) and Rachel (Helen Baxendale) getting to grips with bringing up baby Matthew (born in the final episode of the previous series), the return of Pete (John Thomson) and Jo (Kimberley Joseph) from their honeymoon, and the subsequent breakdown of their marriage, and the divorce proceedings between Karen (Hermione Norris) and David (Robert Bathurst).
The producers had originally intended to end the programme in 2001 but pressure for another run meant it came back for one last series. Critics welcomed the decision to end the series and the final episode gained the highest viewing figure in the history of the programme, with 10.7 million people watching Rachel's funeral. Numerous accolades were endowed on the programme (particularly for the final episode, which rated highly in viewer polls) including the prestigious Best Comedy Award at the British Comedy Awards.
Episodes
Production
Mike Bullen vowed that he would not write a fifth series after the fourth ended so well in 2001, but was persuaded to write it when executive producer Andy Harries suggested he should kill off a character. James Nesbitt was not keen to return to do another series but Bullen persuaded him to by offering to have Adam's cancer return with fatal consequences (the character had recovered from a testicular cancer scare in the second series). Despite this, Bullen was unable to make Adam's death funny and, following a meeting with Harries, decided it should be Rachel who died. Harries scheduled a meeting with Helen Baxendale at the Groucho Club, where they discussed the development. The scenes where Adam talks to Rachel's spirit were inspired by Truly, Madly, Deeply and Ghost. Bullen co-wrote the script of episode three with Matt Greenhalgh.
Richard Armitage secured the role of Lee when he arrived at his audition wearing a pair of old boots, something that greatly impressed producer Spencer Campbell. In order to match the scripted description of his character, Armitage began a heavy workout regimen and took aqua-aerobics lessons to better understand Lee's profession. His first scene was a sex scene with Ramona. Despite leaving the series in 2001, Fay Ripley was persuaded to return to the programme for one last appearance as Jenny in the final episode. To make sure the rest of the cast agreed to return, their salaries were increased to £75,000 per episode, a 50% increase on their pay for the fourth series (though Joseph earned less).
Episodes one and two were directed by Ciaran Donnelly, episode three by Simon Delaney and episode four by Tim Sullivan. R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC%20Series%2063 | The GEC Series 63 was a 32-bit minicomputer produced by GEC Computers Limited of the UK during the 1980s in conjunction with A. B. Dick in USA. During development, the computer was known as the R Project. The hardware development (under Dick Ruth and Ed Mack) was done in Scottsdale, Arizona whilst the software was the responsibility of GEC in Dunstable, UK. The hardware made early use of pipeline concepts, processing one instruction whilst completing the preceding one.
Announced in 1983, two operating systems were to be offered: UX63 and OS6000. UX63 was a Unix port derived from UNIX System III, whereas OS6000 was a port of the OS4000 operating system from the GEC 4000 series (under pressure from the marketing department, concerned about compatibility with its existing user base). Subsequently a version of UNIX System V Release 2 was added - largely to compete with VAX machines which were becoming the fashionable computer of choice amongst academics, concerned about being able to access software from US colleagues. The C compiler, necessary to effect the implementation, was first produced for OS4000 and cross-compiled.
The Unix product was one of the first ports to a different processor architecture undertaken in the UK, with large chunks of the GEC 63 Unix port done at the University of Edinburgh. (Other comparable early Unix ports included that of the High Level Hardware Orion system which launched with 4.1BSD Unix in 1984, ICL's PNX for the PERQ workstation in 1983, and a reported port to a Bleasdale Computer Systems product by Root Computer in early 1983. These ports were likely to have been fully operational before GEC 63 Unix was.)
There were plans for six models, but only two models of the GEC Series 63 were ever produced: the 63/30 and the 63/40. The 63/40 added an embedded GEC 4160 minicomputer running OS4000 to provide additional communications features (such as X.25 and X.29 access).
The Series 63 was used by several UK universities, also being procured with some controversy as part of the Alvey Project, having been chosen as a British-made alternative (along with Systime-produced VAX machines) to the DEC VAX, with DEC's machine being the only one available at the time that was capable of running the specified Berkeley Unix operating system. One of the first student-run university computing facilities in the UK, The Tardis Project, was established in 1988 in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Edinburgh using a Series 63. The name came from the resemblance of the Series 63's large blue cabinet to Doctor Who's time machine.
The Series 63 was discontinued in August 1987 after disappointing sales. Approximately 22 systems were sold during the lifetime of the system.
See also
GEC Computers
References
External links
Computing at Chilton, GEC Series 63
Minicomputers
GEC Computers
32-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto%20clicker | An auto clicker is a type of software or macro that can be used to automate the clicking of a mouse on a computer screen element. Some clickers can be triggered to repeat recorded input.
Auto clickers can be as simple as a program that simulates mouse clicking. This type of auto clicker is fairly generic and will often work alongside any other computer program running at the time and acting as though a physical mouse button is pressed.
More complex auto clickers can similarly be as general, but often are custom-made for use with one particular program and involve memory reading. Such auto clickers may allow the user to automate most or all mouse functions, as well as simulate a full set of keyboard inputs. Custom-made auto clickers may have a narrower scope than a generic auto clicker. Sometimes, an auto clicker may not deliver the amount of clicks as entered because of the limitations of the software it is being used on.
Auto clickers are also called automation software programs, and may have features enabling response conditional reactions, as well as a keyboard.
Applications
An auto clicker has different applications depending upon the type of task required to be automated. Following are a few examples where auto clickers are used.
Software testing: Software testing can be tedious for a human when there are many UI elements that have to be tested repeatedly. In such cases, specialized macros can be created and auto clickers that test the software elements.
Data entry automation: For repetitive data entry operations, an auto clicker can be used to replicate the sequence of operations and automating the process, saving time and with minimal chance of error. More complex data entry operations cannot be automated using an auto clicker.
Gaming: Some gamers use auto clickers to perform game actions such as attacking or shooting automatically, or to accelerate their clicking speed in games like Minecraft, Roblox and various idle games. In some multiplayer games where an auto clicker would give a player an unfair advantage, the software is able to detect the use of an auto clicker and ban the user from playing competitively.
Hardware
Whilst an auto clicker is software that is emulating mouse clicks, there is hardware that can do this for itself. Some computer mice marketed as "gaming mice" sometimes have an autoclicker built-in which will click on a user determined rate. Similarly, some computer joysticks come with an auto-fire function which can usually be adjusted by a further control which sets the rate of fire and also will improve your clicking speed.
List of auto-clicker development tools
Windows
AutoIt
Macro Express
iMacros
thinBasic
Expect
AutoHotkey
macOS
Automator
Linux
AutoKey
Web-based
Bookmarklet
iMacros
See also
Incremental games, which this software may be applied to
Automation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declan%20Napier | Declan Napier is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by James Sorensen from 2007 to 2010, and Erin Mullally from 2010 to 2011. In January 2010 it was announced that Sorensen had quit the role of Declan and the decision to recast was taken, with Mullally making his first on-screen appearance on 3 May 2010. In October 2010, it was announced the character was to leave Neighbours and he made his final appearance on 15 March 2011.
The character was originally portrayed as a "teenage tearaway" but later settled down. He has been involved with some of the series' most controversial storylines including teenage pregnancy which caused an upset among conservative family groups, coping with his wife's death and a relationship with fellow character Kate Ramsay which was initially received as distasteful and unbelievable with Australian viewers. Declan has also been popularised whilst Sorensen played him for his 'good looks' and physical appearance, subsequently being branded as one of the show's most popular characters.
Character creation and casting
In 2007, Neighbours suffered a significant decline in ratings and plans were made to take the series into a 'back to basics' approach where storylines would become less controversial and return to the focus on relationships and family dynamics. It was at this point that the character of Declan was created and actress Jane Hall would play his on-screen mother Rebecca Napier. The characters were to create a family unit for then, already existing character Oliver Barnes (David Hoflin).
James Sorensen was cast as Declan in 2007 and his character appeared the same year. After he had played the character for nearly three years Sorensen decided to quit the series to pursue a career outside of acting. Instead of the character departing the series Five confirmed that a decision had been made to recast the role.
Erin Mullally was cast in the role and began filming immediately after Sorensen's departure from the production. In a statement from the press office at Five, they stated: "As the character of Declan is extremely popular, and with some sensational storylines planned, it was decided that the character would be recast" Sorensen expressed his delight that his character would continue as a part of the series saying: "I'm really happy the character's going to continue because the producers and writers have given Declan some fantastic storylines. I'm really proud he's become as popular as he has." At the time it was noted that recasts have occurred repeatedly throughout the history of the programme, creator of Neighbours, Reg Watson previously explained why he thought recasts were quintessential in the show saying: "I always believed it was a pity, when actors chose to leave a serial that the character should go as well. A lot of time and money is invested in the character so we decided to recast if the character was important to the future of the storyline and the sho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20and%20Internet%20Protocol%20Address%20Verifier | The Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier (CIPAV) is a data gathering tool that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to track and gather location data on suspects under electronic surveillance. The software operates on the target computer much like other forms of spyware, whereas it is unknown to the operator that the software has been installed and is monitoring and reporting on their activities.
The CIPAV captures location-related information, such as: IP address, MAC address, open ports, running programs, operating system and installed application registration and version information, default web browser, and last visited URL.
Once that initial inventory is conducted, the CIPAV slips into the background and silently monitors all outbound communication, logging every IP address to which the computer connects, and time and date stamping each.
The CIPAV made headlines in July, 2007, when its use was exposed in open court during an investigation of a teen who had made bomb threats against Timberline High School in Washington State.
The FBI also sought approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to use CIPAV in terrorism or spying investigations.
See also
Backdoor (computing)
Carnivore (software)
ECHELON
FinFisher
Magic Lantern (software)
MiniPanzer and MegaPanzer
Network Investigative Technique
Policeware
R2D2 (trojan)
Tailored Access Operations
Wiretapping
References
External links
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/fbi-spyware-pro.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20090422204155/http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131778&source=NLT_AM
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/new-fbi-documents-show-depth-government
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/33825/did-the-fbi-use-cipav-against-tor/
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Computer law
Surveillance
Spyware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Line%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Line is a Canadian television drama series, which debuted on Movie Central and The Movie Network on March 16, 2009. It centred on two morally ambiguous police officers in the Scarborough district of Toronto.
The series, an expansion of George F. Walker's theatrical play Adult Entertainment, was originally announced under the working title The Weight. It was created Walker and Dani Romain, produced by The Nightingale Company, and shot by Richmond Street Films. It was originally shot as two distinct seasons of seven and eight episodes respectively, but aired as one continuous 15-episode run.
The show was commonly compared by Canadian television critics to the American crime drama series Brotherhood and The Wire.
Characters
Max (Ron White) and Donny (Daniel Kash) are police officers dealing with the drug network in their precinct. Frustrated by the limitations and regulations of conventional police work, Max regularly steps outside the bounds of legality by pursuing his own tactics, while Donny has been so torn apart by the job that he spends most of his time drunk and lounging around a seedy motel, only occasionally going out on — and usually messing up — the actual police duties given to him by Max.
Carlos (Clé Bennett) is a drug dealer recently paroled from prison, struggling to rebuild his life but caught in a turf war between rival drug kingpins Andre (Wes Williams) and Eddie (Von Flores). He suffers from stress-induced migraines and stomach pains.
Lucie (Sarah Manninen) is Carlos' ex-girlfriend. A former addict who's gone clean and intends to stay that way, she and her daughter Jamie (Laytrel McMullen) want nothing to do with Carlos after he's released from prison, but they eventually attempt to reconcile.
Giles (Dwain Murphy) is Carlos' brother, who works as a security guard at the store where Lucie works as a cashier. Although uninvolved in Carlos' criminal activity, he is gunned down and killed by Eddie's crime network as a warning to Carlos — but Carlos continues to see and have conversations with him after his death.
Karen (Yanna McIntosh) is Max's wife, whom he married after investigating the murder of her first husband. They have a tense relationship marked by Karen's belief that Max only married her as a "social work" project to save her and her children from Being Black. When married to her first husband, she lived in the same building as Carlos and Lucie.
Jayne (Sharon Lawrence) is a burned-out legal aid lawyer, and Max's mistress with whom he has regular sex dates at the motel.
Pam (Tasha Lawrence) is Donny's ex-wife. Since leaving Donny, she and her daughter Emma (Vivien Endicott-Douglas) are living with Jayne.
Hermie (Milton Barnes) and Philippe (Shawn Singleton) are Carlos' dimwitted cousins, who invariably mess up anything Carlos asks them to do.
Andre (Wes Williams) Drug boss with anger management issues. Hands-on, efficient businessman.
Eddie (Von Flores) Stubborn, volatile dealer with unknown connections.
Jo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis%20Project | The Metropolis Project is an international network of researchers, policy-makers, international organizations and civil society organizations for the development of comparative research and policy-relevant knowledge on migration, diversity, and immigrant integration in cities in Canada and around the world.
The Metropolis Project's principal decision-making body is an International Steering Committee of representatives from over 40 countries. The Project is managed by a Secretariat with offices in Ottawa, Amsterdam and in Asia with functions distributed across organizations in Seoul, Manila and Beijing. The Ottawa Secretariat is responsible for establishing the Project's strategic directions. Howard Duncan is the Project's Executive Head.
Metropolis Professional Development
The Metropolis Project launched in April 2014 a new training program for senior policy-makers, senior managers of settlement agencies, officials of international organizations and the private sector. The programme is intended to provide participants with information, analysis and tools on the management of migration and integration. A pilot training will be offered in June 2014. Metropolis Professional Development has been developed in collaboration with worldwide renowned experts such as Graeme Hugo (University of Adelaide), Jan Niessen (Migration Policy Group), Imelda Nicolas (Commission on Filipinos Overseas) and Peter Schatzer (IOM) among many others.
Publications
The Metropolis Project partners with Springer in the publication of an academic journal, the Journal of International Migration and Integration (Revue de l'intégration et de la migration internationale). It is published quarterly, in both English and French; its first issue was in Winter, 2000. The managing editor for the 2013-2014 issue is Lori Wilkinson of the University of Manitoba.
Annual Conference
The project has hosted an international conference concerning research and policy on human migration annually since 1996. The 2015 meeting will be held in Mexico City, Mexico in September 2015 (Metropolis 2015 site) with the slogan "Migrants: Key Players in the 21st Century".
Previous conference locations have been:
2014 - Milan, Italy
2013 - Tampere, Finland
2012 - Auckland, New Zealand
2011 - Ponte Delgada, Azores, Portugal
2009 – Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 – Bonn, Germany
2007 – Melbourne, Australia
2006 – Lisbon, Portugal
2005 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2004 – Geneva, Switzerland
2003 – Vienna, Austria
2002 – Oslo, Norway
2001 – Rotterdam, Netherlands
2000 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1999 – Washington D.C., United States
1998 – Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel
1997 – Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 – Milan, Italy
References
External links
Metropolis Project Website
Journal of International Migration and Integration
Human migration
Social sciences organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20MacLellan | Jon MacLellan is an English computer game level designer. He is best known for his time while working in England for Epic Games' sales, webmaster and technical support office where he was an active part of the game communities surrounding the game studio's games Jazz Jackrabbit 2, and Unreal. He is also credited as a level designer for the titles Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Jazz Jackrabbit 2: The Secret Files, and Jazz Jackrabbit 2: Holiday Hare '98.
Even after his time at Epic Games, Jon continued to be a part of the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 online community, releasing several unofficial custom-made levels to the community. He was also a founder of the level design group concept within the Jazz 2 community, forming the level design group Mystic Legends; a Jazz 2 community level design group where all members would release their levels under this group-name.
When Epic Games decided to shift its focus away from the shareware model and concentrate solely on game design, Jon moved to the United States and for a time worked with MPath Interactive's Xtreme Network and GameSpy Industries on some of their high-profile gaming news websites.
Jon currently resides with his family in Sacramento, CA.
References
Living people
English video game designers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation%20of%20protection%20and%20security | In computer sciences, the separation of protection and security is a design choice. Wulf et al. identified protection as a mechanism and security as a policy, therefore making the protection-security distinction a particular case of the separation of mechanism and policy principle. Many frameworks consider both as security controls of varying types. For example, protection mechanisms would be considered technical controls, while a policy would be considered an administrative control.
Overview
The adoption of this distinction in a computer architecture usually means that protection is provided as a fault tolerance mechanism by hardware/firmware and kernel, whereas the operating system and applications implement their security policies. In this design, security policies rely therefore on the protection mechanisms and on additional cryptography techniques.
The major hardware approach for security or protection is the use of hierarchical protection domains. A prominent example of this approach is the ring architecture with "supervisor mode" and "user mode". Such an approach adopts a policy already at the lower levels (hardware/firmware/kernel), restricting the rest of the system to rely on it. Therefore, the choice to distinguish between protection and security in the overall architecture design implies rejection of the hierarchical approach in favour of another one, the capability-based addressing.
Examples of models with protection and security separation include access matrix, UCLA Data Secure Unix, take-grant and filter. Such separation is not found in models like high-water mark, Bell–LaPadula (original and revisited), information flow, strong dependency and constraints.
See also
Capability-based addressing
Computer security policy
Notes
References
Houdek, M. E., Soltis, F. G., and Hoffman, R. L. 1981. IBM System/38 support for capability-based addressing. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture. ACM/IEEE, pp. 341–348.
Intel Corporation (2002) The IA-32 Architecture Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 1: Basic Architecture
Carl E. Landwehr Formal Models for Computer Security Volume 13, Issue 3 (September 1981) pp. 247 – 278
Swift, Michael M; Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy, Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), v.23 n.1, p. 77-110, February 2005
Computer security
Dichotomies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Nigeria | Railways in Nigeria consist of a 3,505 km Cape gauge national railway network and 669 km of standard gauge. The Cape gauge network is in poor condition due to lack of maintenance. In 2019, the single operational standard gauge line from Abuja to Kaduna generated as much revenue as the entire Cape gauge railway network combined. The Nigerian government plans to extend the standard gauge to replace most of the Western Line, while the Eastern Line will be rehabilitated as a Cape gauge line. All trains in Nigeria are operated by the Nigerian Railway Corporation.
In 2022, Nigerian Railway Corporation transported 3.21 million passengers, an increase of 18.36% from the previous year. However, revenues fell by 20% to 4.55 billion naira.
Railway network
Cape gauge
80% of the current Nigerian railways were originally built by the colonial power, Great Britain. The railways were built to the Cape gauge, the same track gauge used in most other British colonies in Africa.
The country has two major Cape gauge rail lines:
The Western Line connects Lagos on the Bight of Benin to Nguru in the northern state of Yobe, over a distance of .
The Eastern Line connects Port Harcourt in the Southeast to Maiduguri in the northeastern state of Borno, near the border with Chad.
There are also several branch lines:
The Linking Line connects Kaduna on the Western Line to Kafanchan on the Eastern Line.
Ifaw–Ilaro (Western Line),
Minna–Baro (Western Line),
Zaria–Kaura Namoda (Western Line), .
Kuru–Jos (Eastern Line),
Baro-Kano Railway Station (Northern Line), .
The NRC network does not yet connect to the rail network of neighbouring states. However, in February 2021, construction began on a cape-gauge link from Kano to Maradi, the second-largest city in Niger, under the auspices of Portugal's Mota-Engil SGPS SA, with planned inauguration in 2023, which will be one of the first rail lines in Niger.
Standard gauge lines
In 2006, the government contracted with the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) to build the Lagos–Kano Standard Gauge Railway. It was later decided to complete the project in segments due to a lack of funds. After many delays, the segment from Abuja to Kaduna (187 km) opened officially on 26 July 2016. The total cost was US$870 million. The line, which begins in Idu, 20 kilometers west of central Abuja, requires two hours of travel time for trains with a maximum speed of 100 km/h. In August 2020, NRC reported that about 50% of the revenue of its entire rail network (about 4,000 km) would be generated by the standard gauge Abuja–Kaduna line. Nigerians like to take the train between the capital Abuja and the next largest city Kaduna because the highway between the two cities is a constant target for muggers. A train journey is thus the safer alternative to a car for residents of both cities.
The Warri–Itakpe Railway was begun in 1987 as Nigeria's first standard gauge railway, but was only completed in 2020 – after the A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETEN | ETEN or Eten may refer to:
ETEN operation system, a Chinese OS
European Teacher Education Network
Eten Island, an island to the south-east of Tonowas, Micronesia
E-TEN, an electronics manufacturing company based in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zev%20Hirsch%20Bernstein | Zev Hirsch Bernstein (1847 in Władysławów, Augustów Governorate, Congress Poland – 1907 in Tannersville, New York) was the author and compiler of the Hatsofe B'Erez Hachadosho, the first Hebrew periodical in the United States.
Bernstein emigrated to the United States in 1870. That summer he tried publishing two newspapers with no success. In 1871, he commenced the Hatsofe, which ran for five years. After the publication ceased he became a banker. Bernstein was also the organizer of the Hebrew Encyclopedia Co.
References
Goldman, Yosef. Hebrew Printing in America, (YGBooks 2006).
1847 births
1907 deaths
People from Kudirkos Naumiestis
People from Augustów Governorate
Lithuanian Jews
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Finn | Jeffrey Finn is an American theatrical producer. He is the Vice President of Theater Producing and Programming at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Artistic Director of Broadway Center Stage. He received the Commercial Theater Institute's 2013 Robert Whitehead Award for outstanding achievement in commercial theatre producing. Finn is the President of Jeffrey Finn Productions and Hot On Broadway. He attended Connecticut College, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1992. He attended Beaver Country Day School from 1984 to 1988. Finn is a member of The Broadway League and The Independent Presenters Network, and is also a Tony Award voter.
Broadway
Spamalot, the 2005 musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Spamalot is the first musical from the popular Broadway Center Stage series to transfer from the Kennedy Center to Broadway. Opening night is set for November 16, 2023 at the St. James Theatre,
Macbeth, a classic Shakespeare tragedy starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga. Macbeth opened on April 28, 2022, and ran on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre until July 10, 2022 for a total of 79 performance. Amber Grey and Asia Kate Dillon also starred. The production was directed by Sam Gold.
Company, a 1970 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. The Broadway transfer of the 2018 West End revival was schedule to open at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on March 22, 2020, with previews beginning on March 2. The production starred Patti LuPone as Joanne, and Katrina Lenk as Bobbie. The production also featured Jennifer Simard, Matt Doyle, Christopher Fitzgerald, Nikki Renee Daniels, and Christopher Sieber, with direction by Marianne Elliott. The production featured choreography by Liam Steel, music supervision and direction by Joel Fram, scenic and costume designs by Bunny Christie, lighting design by Neil Austin, sound design by Ian Dickinson (for Autograph Sound), and illusions by Chris Fisher. After COVID-related delays, the musical officially opened on Broadway December 9, 2021 and ran for 265 performances before closing on July 10, 2022. The revival was nominated for nine Tony awards, winning Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress for Patti Lupone, best Performance for a Featured Actor for Matt Doyle, Best Direction of a Musical for Marianne Elliott, and Best Scenic Design of a Musical for Bunny Christie.
Plaza Suite, a comedy play by Neil Simon. The revival played at the Hudson Theatre beginning in previews on February 25, 2022, and officially opened on March 28, 2022, following a brief pre-Broadway run at the Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston in February 2020, two years prior to its opening. The production starred Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker and was directed by John Benjamin Hickey. The production ran for 110 performances and closed on July 10, 2022.
Ain't Too Proud, book by Dominique Moris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio%20PB-1000 | The Casio PB-1000 is a handheld computer released by Casio in 1987. It featured a touchscreen display which consisted of 16 keys built into the screen, arranged in fixed positions on a four by four matrix.
The computer itself included 8Kb of RAM and it was possible to install a 32Kb memory expansion card.
The PB-1000 was programmable in both a custom version of the BASIC language and an assembly language. A ROM card could be added for CASL assembly for the educational COMET simulator.
See also
Casio calculator character sets
External links
Casio PB-1000 J.Roa blog projects
Casio PB-1000 Home Page
PB-1000 emulator for Windows
Pocket Computing: PB-1000
Love-Love PB-1000 homepage
Obsolete Computer Museum: Casio PB-1000
Casio PB-1000 page at www.old-computers.com
PB-1000
Pocket computers
Products introduced in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVNB | TVNB, or Television New Brunswick, was the brand of a group of cable television community channels in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, active in the late 1990s. The network was created by uniting the various local community channels of the province's cable television provider, Fundy Cable. Network master control located in Moncton provided two provincial feeds (English and French) of programs produced around New Brunswick, including sporting events and provincial political coverage of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, while local programming inserts were made for local content like TV bingo games, high school sports, city council meetings and municipal election debates.
TVNB English service was available in the majority of the province, except the Edmundston area which provided the French TV service. English and French TVNB service could be seen on two separate channels in Moncton, Miramichi, Bathurst, Campbellton and Dalhousie.
The TVNB network was re-branded Rogers Television in February 2002, after a series of acquisitions made Rogers Cable the dominant cable provider in the province.
References
Television stations in New Brunswick
Canadian community channels
Defunct television networks in Canada
1998 establishments in New Brunswick
2002 disestablishments in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20E.%20Laird | John E. Laird (born March 16, 1954, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a computer scientist who, with Paul Rosenbloom and Allen Newell, created the Soar cognitive architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Laird is a Professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Division of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of Michigan.
Education and career
John Laird received a BS in Communication and Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1975 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1983. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Allen Newell. Laird was a researcher at Xerox PARC in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory from 1984 to 1986; in 1986 he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan.
Laird has continued to do research on architectures of the mind and to develop and evolve the Soar architecture since his time at CMU. He organizes the annual Soar workshop and participates in the international Soar Research Group. In 1998 he co-founded Soar Technology, a company that specializes in creating autonomous AI entities based on Soar; he currently serves on its board of directors. His particular research interests are cognitive architecture, problem solving, learning, reinforcement learning, episodic memory, semantic memory, and emotion-inspired processing. He is a Fellow of ACM, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Cognitive Science Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Publications
The Soar Cognitive Architecture, Laird, J. E., 2012, MIT Press.
The Soar Papers: Readings on Integrated Intelligence, Rosenbloom, Laird, and Newell (1993)
Soar: An Architecture for General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, 33: 1-64. Laird, Rosenbloom, Newell, John and Paul, Allen (1987)
References
Professional History on University of Michigan Website
Soar Technology
External links
Soar project home page
John E. Laird's Home Page
1954 births
Living people
American computer scientists
University of Michigan faculty
University of Michigan alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava%20common%20mosaic%20virus | Cassava common mosaic virus (CsCMV) is a plant pathogenic virus.
Distribution
Colombia, Brazil, isolated cases in Africa and Asia.
References
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Cassava common mosaic virus
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Potexviruses
Cassava diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava%20Ivorian%20bacilliform%20virus | Cassava Ivorian bacilliform virus (CsIBV) is a pathogenic plant virus.
Distribution
Found only in the Ivory Coast.
References
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Cassava Ivorian bacilliform virus
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Bromoviridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava%20vein%20mosaic%20virus | Cassava vein mosaic virus (CsVMV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Caulimoviridae.
External links
ICTVdB – The Universal Virus Database: Cassava vein mosaic virus
Family Groups – The Baltimore Method
Caulimoviridae
Viral plant pathogens and diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beira%E2%80%93Lobito%20Highway | The Beira–Lobito Highway or TAH 9 is Trans-African Highway 9 in the transcontinental road network being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (ADB), and the African Union. The route has a length of crossing Angola, the most southerly part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and central Mozambique.
The route links mining areas of DR Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe and agricultural production areas of Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe to the Atlantic port of Lobito and Indian Ocean port of Beira. Civil wars in Angola, DR Congo, Zimbabwe and Mozambique have affected development of the highway in the past, most recently in DR Congo and Angola, both still in a rebuilding phase.
The route is also served by a rail link running parallel to it for much of its length except between Kafue and Harare, though it too has been damaged in wars and its western half, the Benguela Railway, does not currently operate.
Between Kapiri Mposhi and Kafue in Zambia, the highway shares the route with the Cairo-Cape Town Highway.
When complete the highway will be the southernmost of the Trans-African network's east-west crossings of the continent. However regional highways developed by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) already offer well-functioning and fully paved alternative routes, particularly the Trans-Kalahari Corridor and Maputo Corridor from the port of Walvis Bay in Namibia via Botswana and South Africa to the port of Maputo in southern Mozambique.
Furthermore Zambia has completed the Barotse Floodplain causeway (the Mongu–Kalabo road), extending its Lusaka-Mongu Road, and has proposed to the Angolan government that it continue into that country to link up with its road network via Kalabo and Sikongo. Secondly, DR Congo has been offered a loan and construction assistance by China to develop a railway from Lubumbashi to its port of Matadi as its main trade route. Trans-African Highway 9 might then be relegated to a back-burner by Southern African regional developments.
Route
The entire route from Lobito to Beira is 3523 kilometres.
Angola
It starts in Lobito, Angola (north-east of Benguela), as part of the EN100 Route. After a few kilometres north-east, it becomes the EN250 Route eastwards. It is the EN250 Route for the remainder of the Angolan Section, through Cuíto, to Luau, Moxico Province, where it crosses the Kasai River Borderline into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and the town of Dilolo. At the junction with the EN120 in the town of Alto Hama, the Beira–Lobito Highway intersects with the Tripoli-Cape Town Highway (Trans-African Highway 3). The Angolan Section is 1160 kilometres.
DR Congo
From Dilolo, it goes eastwards as the N39 route, through Kolwezi, to the town of Guba (north of Likasi), where it becomes part of the N1 Route south-eastwards. It is the N1 Route for the remainder of the DR Congo Section, through Likasi and Lubumbashi, to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigel%20Township%2C%20Shelby%20County%2C%20Illinois |
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.96%) is land and (or 0.04%) is water.
Demographics
References
External links
City-data.com
Illinois State Archives
Townships in Shelby County, Illinois
Townships in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli%E2%80%93Cape%20Town%20Highway | The Tripoli–Cape Town Highway or TAH 3 is Trans-African Highway 3 in the transcontinental road network being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the African Union. The route has a length of and has the longest missing links and requires the most new road construction.
South Africa was not originally included in the route which was first planned in the Apartheid era, but it is now recognized that it would continue to Cape Town. It may still be referred to in documents as the Tripoli-Windhoek Highway because of this fact.
It is meant to be the second link between North and Southern Africa, with the Cairo-Cape Town Highway being the other route, passing through East Africa.
Route
The route passes through Libya, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Republic of the Congo (ROC), the western tip of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Angola, Namibia and South Africa. Only national paved roads in Libya, Cameroon, Angola, Namibia and South Africa can be used to any extent. Currently only desert tracks run from southern Libya to the vicinity of Ndjamena, a distance of more than 2000 km, and no track of any kind exists between Salo, CAR and Ouésso, ROC.
Northern section
The Tripoli–Cape Town Highway is not a high priority in its northern section across the Sahara between Tripoli and Ndjamena, for which the Trans-Sahara Highway further west would probably find more usage and which provides an alternative north–south route. Libya is said to be more interested in road links to Niger which would connect with the Trans-Sahara Highway. Coupled with lawlessness and the potential for instability in the Libya-Chad border regions, the northern section is likely to be the last to be developed and may be a couple of decades away from completion.
Central section
It is the central section between northern Angola and Cameroon which is most needed because it would provide the first paved link between the West African and Southern African regions, and it would do the most to stimulate trade which currently has to go by air or sea. The central section is however a 'missing link', and the planned alignment between CAR and ROC would pass through some of the most remote and difficult terrain and rainforests of the Sangha River basin. This alignment has the potential for an enormous environmental impact on relatively untouched forest within a number of nature reserves.
An alternative alignment for the road has been proposed between Yaoundé, Cameroon and Brazzaville, ROC, which would do more to facilitate transport between the south and west of the continent, and which would probably have less of an environmental impact. It would run via Lambaréné (Gabon), and Dolisie (ROC). From the south, traffic going to West Africa would branch off in Yaoundé onto the western section of the Lagos-Mombasa Highway, while traffic going east and north would share the paved road from Yaoundé to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Horton | Jennifer Horton is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network, currently played by actress Cady McClain. Jennifer was created by scriptwriter Pat Falken Smith, and executive producer Betty Corday. Melissa Reeves played the role of Jennifer on and off for over 35 years, premiering on October 9, 1985. The role has also been portrayed by Maren Stephenson, Jennifer Peterson, Stephanie Cameron, and Marci Miller.
Jennifer's storylines often focus on love and romance. The daughter of Bill and Laura Horton, she is a member of the original core family, the Hortons. Despite beginning as a rebellious teenager, she has transformed into a true soap heroine. Jennifer is known for her popular pairing with Jack Deveraux, most notably portrayed by Matthew Ashford. The pairing of Jack and Jennifer, known as "J&J" to soap fans, has become one of the soaps' most infamous supercouples.
McClain's performance in the role earned her the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 2021.
Development
Background
Jennifer Horton is one of the earliest characters to be invented by executive producer Betty Corday, and scriptwriter Pat Falken Smith. The character was brought on as part of the soap's core family, the Hortons. She is the daughter of established characters Bill and Laura Horton, and the mother of Abigail and JJ Deveraux
Casting
As Jennifer is introduced on February 9, 1976, the role was originated by child actress Maren Stephenson until August 8, 1977. For storyline purposes, the role is briefly taken over by Jennifer Peterson from December 1, 1977, to July 4, 1979, until the character was written out of the show when her mother, Laura Horton, was in a psychiatric facility, thus and would not be able to care for her.
On October 9, 1985, the character was re-introduced with Santa Barbara actress Melissa Reeves in the role. She proved to be a fan favorite and younger leading heroine. Her relationship with Jack Deveraux prompted the couple to be pronounced a supercouple for the daytime drama. Reeves stayed with the serial until she abruptly quit on December 15, 1995, at the insistence of her husband, Scott Reeves. To replace Reeves, the show brought on Stephanie Cameron as Jennifer on December 18, 1995. Cameron portrayed the character until she was written off the show on June 5, 1998.
In early 2000, rumors started swirling that Melissa Reeves would be returning to the show, due to the series crumbling to fill the void left by the departures of front-burner cast members Vivian Alamain, played by Louise Sorel and Eric Brady, played by Jensen Ackles. Her return was officially announced in April 2000. Reeves returned to work and began airing shortly after on October 6. After six years on the serial, Reeves departed again on September 21, 2006 to spend time with her family. The show's matriarch, Frances Reid who played Alice Horton died of old age on February 3, 2010. Reeves was invited back |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Kiriakis | Philip Kiriakis is a character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. Child actors portrayed the character of Philip until he was rapidly aged and returned under the portrayal of Brandon Tyler in October 1999. Tyler was quickly replaced by Jay Kenneth Johnson, who was in the role until leaving the show in December 2002. The character returned in May 2003 played by Kyle Brandt. After Brandt left the show in October 2006, Johnson returned to the role in January 2007 then left on April 20, 2011. In 2015, actor John-Paul Lavoisier was cast in the role; he was let go the following year, last appearing in December 2016. In 2019, Johnson reprised the role on the digital-only Last Blast Reunion series and returned to Days of Our Lives in August 2020; he later departed in December 2021. In August 2023, Lavoisier returned to the role before departing two months later.
Casting
Child actors Jonathan and Thomas Selstad and Shane Nicholas played Philip from the character's birth until the rapidly aged character returned in the form of Brandon Tyler from October 21, 1999, to December 24, 1999. He was then portrayed by Jay Kenneth Johnson from December 27, 1999, to December 25, 2002 and Kyle Brandt from May 14, 2003, to October 12, 2006. Johnson again portrayed Philip having returned to the role from January 12, 2007, to April 20, 2011.
In July 2015, it was announced former One Life to Live actor John-Paul Lavoisier has been cast as Philip, first appearing on December 10 of the same year, as part of the soap's fiftieth anniversary. In July 2016, it was announced that Lavoisier would vacate the role of Philip and would film his final scenes within the month. The actor's final appearance was slated for December 19, 2016. However, the date was pushed back to December 20, 2016. In November 2019, People announced that Johnson would reprise the role in the digital "Last Blast Reunion" series. In May 2020, it was revealed that Johnson would again reprise the role on Days of Our Lives; he returned during the August 18, 2020, episode. Johnson vacated the role on December 22, 2021.
On July 14, 2023, Soap Opera Digest exclusively announced Lavoisier would reprise the role in August of the same year; he returned during the August 28 episode. Months later, on October 6, 2023, it was reported that Lavoisier will depart the show along with Nadia Bjorlin; he last appeared on October 12, 2023.
Storylines
Philip is the biological son of Victor Kiriakis (John Aniston) and his fiancee Kate Roberts and the surrogate son of Vivian Alamain (Louise Sorel). He attends Salem High School before joining the military and marrying Belle Black. Later, he loses part of his left leg and has to wear a prosthetic. Philip and Belle separate when it is discovered that Claire Brady is not his biological daughter, but they eventually reunite and try to conceive their own child through in vitro fertilization. Philip's sperm is switched with Shawn-Douglas Brady's, resul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pati%20Ba%20Pintig%20ng%20Puso | (International title: Of Love and Lies / ) is a 2007 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1985 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the second instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Yasmien Kurdi and JC de Vera. It premiered on May 21, 2007 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Muli. The series concluded on September 7, 2007 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Pasan Ko ang Daigdig in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
JC de Vera as Aldrin Griego
Yasmien Kurdi as Jenna
Supporting cast
Eddie Gutierrez as Griego
Chynna Ortaleza as Mabel
Karel Marquez as Agatha
Arci Muñoz as Claire
Jennifer Sevilla as Rosa
Marco Alcaraz as Bien
Pinky Amador as Nena
Kier Legaspi as Franco
Maureen Larrazabal as Betty
Marcus Madrigal as Jeffrey
Karen delos Reyes as Sosima
Sweet Ramos as Kaykay
Ramon Christopher Gutierrez as Ricardo
Guest cast
Bea Binene as young Jenna
Miguel Tanfelix as young Aldrin
Krystal Reyes as young Claire
Ella Guevara as young Betty
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QTV%20%28disambiguation%29 | QTV may refer to:
Television channels, stations and networks
TNQ – the former branding for Southern Cross Ten in regional Queensland, Australia was QTV
ARY Qtv, the Pakistani Islamic television network Quran TV
WDCQ-TV, the name of WDCQ-TV, a PBS member station, owned and operated by Delta College in Michigan
Q TV, a British music television channel based on and cobranded with the music magazine Q
Quality TeleVision or QTV, a defunct television network in the Philippines or Q television network
QTV, the former names of BTV a television network in Indonesia
Qatar Television, the national television channel of Qatar
QTV, a TV channel in the 2001 Indian film Nayak
Other
QTV, American subsidiary of Autocue, the UK manufacturer of teleprompting equipment
Little Joe II Qualification Test Vehicle, Qualification Test Vehicle known as the Little Joe Rocket
Q.T.V., a defunct collegiate fraternity in the Northeastern United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YES%20Prep%20Public%20Schools | YES Prep Public Schools, Inc. is a network of public, open-enrollment charter schools located in Greater Houston. Its headquarters are located at its Southside campus. The YES program is a university-preparatory program for grades K-12.
History
YES Prep (Youth Engaged in Service) began in 1995 as Project YES. The program was founded at Rusk Elementary School in the Houston Independent School District by Chris Barbic. Since 1998, YES Prep has been operating under a state charter.
Previously, the headquarters were in the Greater Sharpstown Management District.
District Partnerships
SKY Partnership
In 2011, YES Prep partnered with KIPP-Houston Public Schools and Spring Branch ISD, becoming the SKY Partnership. YES Prep Northbrook Middle School began in the 2012–2013 school year with only 6th graders. They added 7th graders in the 2013–2014 school year and added 8th graders in the 2014–2015 school year. It's co-located with Spring Branch ISD's Northbrook Middle School, which also has 6th through 8th graders. Along with KIPP-Courage, which has 5th through 8th graders, YES Prep Northbrook Middle School feeds into YES Prep Northbrook High School, located within Spring Branch's Northbrook High School, which has 9-12th graders. YES Prep Northbrook High School opened in the 2015–2016 school year with only 9th graders. They added 10th graders in the 2016–2017 school year, added 11th graders in the 2017–2018 school year, and added 12th graders in the 2018–2019 school year. KIPP Courage College Prep opened in the 2012–2013 school year with only 5th graders. They added 6th graders in the 2013–2014 school year, added 7th graders in the 2014–2015 school year, and added 8th graders in the 2015–2016 school year. KIPP Courage is located within Spring Branch ISD's Landrum Middle School, which has 6-8th graders .
Aldine and YES Prep Partnership
In 2013, YES Prep partnered with Aldine ISD. YES Prep Hoffman opened in the 2013–2014 school year with 6th graders. It's located within Aldine ISD's Hoffman Middle School, which has 7th and 8th graders. YES Prep Hoffman students feed into YES Prep Eisenhower, which is located within Aldine's Eisenhower High School, which has 10th through 12th graders. YES Prep Hoffman added 7th graders in the 2014–2015 school year and added 8th graders in the 2015–2016 school year. YES Prep Eisenhower opened in the 2016–2017 school year with only 9th graders. They added 10th graders in the 2017–2018 school year, added 11th graders in the 2018–2019 school year, and added 12th graders in the 2019–2020 school year.
Schools
As of the 2022–2023 school year, YES Prep operates twenty-three schools in Houston:
Bray Oaks, home of the Cavaliers (2009;6-12th)
East End, home of the Explorers (2006; 6-12th)
Eisenhower, home of the Eagles (2016; 9-12th)
Fifth Ward, home of the Titans (2011;6-12th)
Gulfton, home of the Force (2007;6-12th)
Hobby, home of the Aviators (2019;6-8th)
Hoffman, home of the Hornets (2013;6-8th)
North Central Secondary, h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20N.%20Prahlada%20Rao | A. N. Prahlada Rao (born 24 July 1953) is an Indian author and Kannada-language crossword compiler/ Constructor.
Career
A. N. Prahlada Rao was born at Abbani in the Kolar district of Karnataka, India. He started his career as a journalist and was the founder editor of Honnudi.
Rao's involvement in crossword compilation is a hobby that developed from an interest in solving both Kannada and English crosswords while a student in the mid-1970s. He joined the Karnataka Information Department in 1983 in a public relations role and it was at that time he began to compile seriously. He now works as Media Coordinator to Minister for RDPR and IT BT, Government of Karnataka and compiles daily puzzles, sometimes with assistance from his wife. He specialises in themed puzzles and has a particular fondness for cinema. They have appeared in daily, weekly and fortnightly publications such as Prajavani, Samyukta Karnataka, Shakthi, Mangala, Vijaya Karnataka and Ee Sanje. Now he is creating daily Crosswords for Vijaya Karnataka, Samyukta Karnataka andPrajavani (Sahapati). By the end of 2018 July he has composed 42,000 Crosswords and quiz puzzles. Compilation initially took him around two hours but he had reduced that to no more than 20 minutes.
Aside from producing crosswords, Rao also sets quizzes for several publications, drawing on the same trivia and reference books that he has amassed for his compilation efforts. The front wall of his house includes a crossword grid of black and white tiles.
He has contributed his crosswords to more than 40 Kannada periodicals in the 25 years to 2016.
Crossword books
The first volumes of Kannada crossword puzzles compiled by Rao were launched on 14 February 2008. Three of the five Kannada crossword books are based on general knowledge, one on Kannada cinema, and another one for children.
To mark the centenary of the first crossword, in 2013 Rao wrote two Kannada crossword books, titled Pada Kreede and Pada Looka. Each contained 160 crosswords.
5 More Kannada Crossword books has released on 15.01.2017, titled Padajala, Padajaga, Padaranga, Padasampada and Padavyuha. Prof. Doddarangegowda, Poet released the books.
6 One more Crossword book containg of 180 crossword published in 2021. Book has been published by Vasanta Prakashana (https://www.flipkart.com/padahaasu/p/itm9099917badc0a)
Limca Book of Record
As of 2016, Rao is noted in the Limca Book of Records for creating the greatest number of crosswords in a regional language.
Kalam Book of World Record
His name has included in Kalam Book of World Records in 2019.
ASIAN Record
A.N.Prahlada Rao's name has included in Asian Record Academy in 2021.
Other works
Bangarada Manushya (2005), a biography of Dr. Rajakumar, a popular Kannada film actor. Also translated into English as Dr. Rajkumar: The Inimitable Actor With A Golden Voice (2008).
Belliterey Belagidavaru (Gems of the Silver Screen) (2007), contains profiles of 115 film stars of Kannada cinema
Vasanta Mallika ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallock%20machine | The Mallock machine is an electrical analog computer built in 1933 to solve simultaneous linear differential equations. It uses coupled transformers, with numbers of turns digitally set up to +/-1000 and solved sets of up to 10 linear differential equations. It was built by Rawlyn Richard Manconchy Mallock of Cambridge University. The Mallock machine was contemporary with the mechanical differential analyser, which was also used at Cambridge during the late 1930s and 1940s.
References
1930s computers
Analog computers
Computer-related introductions in 1933 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th%20Gear%20%28video%20game%29 | 5th Gear is a computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64, released on the Rack-It budget label. The original Commodore 64 version was programmed by Jeroen Leijten, with music by Theo and Renier Hongens. It was largely inspired by previous arcade games Steer and Go and Spy Hunter.
Gameplay
The player controls a white car that travels up (and then down) a tricky landscape filled with water, bumps, trees, and enemy vehicles. Cash is earned by completing levels, with an initial $10,000 available. These funds are spent at garages to buy extra fuel, repair the car's armour, and put add-ons for the car. These include a turbo-jump (allowing the car to get airborne unassisted, rather than relying on jumps) and waterproofing.
Sources
1988 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Hewson Consultants games
Single-player video games
Vehicular combat games
Video games developed in the Netherlands
Video games scored by Jochen Hippel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20View%20to%20a%20Kill%20%28video%20game%29 | A View to a Kill are two separate video games released in 1985 and based on the James Bond film A View to a Kill. The first, an action game titled A View to a Kill: The Computer Game, was developed and published by Domark. It was available for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, and Oric. The second game, James Bond 007: A View to a Kill, is a text-based adventure for MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Apple II. It was developed by Angelsoft, and published by Mindscape.
A View to a Kill: The Computer Game
Domark created an action game split into three separate sections, inspired by scenes from the film. The game starts with the famous movie intro sequence of the moving gunsight and Bond shooting towards the camera. The MSX version omitted the first two sections.
In the first section set in Paris, James Bond commandeers a taxi to follow May Day who has parachuted from the Eiffel Tower. Roadblocks and police cars are out to stop Bond, who can shoot his pistol at them to get them out of the way. The display is in three sections - an overhead map of Paris, a small 3D view from the car's point of view, and a scanner showing May Day's height. James must arrive at the right location to catch her as she lands.
In the second section, James must help Stacey Sutton escape from San Francisco City Hall, which is on fire. Each room is displayed from a side-on perspective. James must collect useful objects to get through the floors of the building, such as keys to open doors and buckets of water to stop the progress of the fire.
In the third and final section, James must collect the code numbers to stop the detonation of Zorin's bomb. Bond runs around the mine, avoiding rockfalls and long drops. Among the objects he can pick up are a grapnel gun (to fire ropes upward which he can climb to safety) and a plank of wood to bridge gaps. May Day is also somewhere in the mine.
A password system lets the user play the second or third levels on their own without completing the first.
Music
The music for the Commodore 64 version was written by Antony (Tony) Crowther, and consists of two covers. One is the "James Bond Theme" by Monty Norman. The second is the Duran Duran theme for the film.
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill
Mindscape published the text adventure game by Angelsoft Inc for DOS, Macintosh and Apple II computers with the full title James Bond 007: A View to a Kill. Future Bond novelist Raymond Benson worked on the development of the game. It spawned a follow-up game, James Bond 007: Goldfinger.
Reception
A View to a Kill: The Computer Game
Sinclair User gave the ZX Spectrum version four stars out of five. Commodore User called the Commodore 64 version, "Certainly one of the better 'game of the film' implementations around." Your Commodore gave the Commodore 64 version two stars out of five and criticized some of the gameplay concepts, writing, "Sometimes programmers can go overboard with special effects at the expense of what could otherwise be a sup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest%20Program%20on%20Airborne%20Television%20Instruction | The Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI) was a special broadcasting initiative designed to broadcast educational television programming to schools, especially in areas where local educational television stations are either difficult to receive or unavailable.
From 1961 through 1968, MPATI's programming broadcast from two DC-6AB aircraft based at the Purdue University Airport in West Lafayette, Indiana, using a broadcasting technique known as Stratovision.
History
The undertaking began as a three-year experiment in 1960, with MPATI organizing, producing, and broadcasting instructional television with seed money from the Ford Foundation. This was a nonprofit organization of educators and television producers that pioneered instructional television for enriching education in public schools throughout the midwest. This was prior to the advent of satellite television transmission. By 1963, MPATI moved into its second phase where it relied entirely on membership fees, but was never financially stable. MPATI found it difficult to get enough member schools to finance the organization. In its third reorganization, MPATI, unable to meet expenses through membership fees, ceased producing and broadcasting courses in 1968 and became a tape library.
One of the two aircraft would go aloft for six to eight hours at a time. They orbited a 20-minute figure-eight station centered over Montpelier, Indiana (35 miles north of Muncie, Indiana) at an altitude of 23,000 feet. From this position the range of transmission was approximately 200 miles in diameter. Station transmissions included both Chicago and Detroit metropolitan areas. When on station the plane would reduce speed, and then lower a 40-foot antenna mast which was gyroscopically stabilized so that the antenna always aligned from the aircraft to the center of the Earth. This stabilization feature helped to maintain polarization of the signals from the planes. Beam characteristics of the antenna were sharp and reception was optimized by placing the reception antenna as near as practical to the ground and pointing it toward the Montpelier location to minimize multipath canceling and interference.
Programming from the planes was pre-recorded. Program slates, taped classroom instruction and test patterns with canned music were all that was aired from the MPATI planes. Frequently snowy pictures were what students saw from the low-power transmitters of KS2XGA or KS2XGD channels 72 and 76 UHF respectively.
The television equipment and transmitters were powered by a gas-turbine electrical power plant in the aft of the DC-6; equipment similar to auxiliary power units in later jet transport aircraft for engine starting.
References
External links
Chicagotelevision.com: "MPATI: The Flying Classroom"
"Flying Classrooms in the Midwest"
Educational television
Purdue University
Experimental television stations
History of television in the United States
Television channels and stations establi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS4FN | CS4FN (Computer Science for Fun) is a UK-based magazine on computer science aimed at school students, posted free to subscribing schools in the UK. It is produced by Paul Curzon, Peter McOwan and staff from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Queen Mary University of London, England, with initial support from the EPSRC. The magazine is also supported by the British Computer Society, Microsoft, ARM and Intel as well as EECS. It is printed twice a year and has an associated website with additional articles.
ISSN information
(print edition)
(electronic edition)
External links
CS4FN website
Computer science education in the United Kingdom
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Magazines established in 2005
Computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Queen Mary University of London
Bi-monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines published in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection%20mechanism | In computer science, protection mechanisms are built into a computer architecture to support the enforcement of security policies. A simple definition of a security policy is "to set who may use what information in a computer system".
The access matrix model, first introduced in 1971, is a generalized description of operating system protection mechanisms.
The separation of protection and security is a special case of the separation of mechanism and policy.
Notes
References
Anita K. Jones, Richard J. Lipton The enforcement of security policies for computation ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. Proceedings of the fifth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles. Austin, Texas, United States. pp. 197–206. 1975
Carl E. Landwehr Formal Models for Computer Security Volume 13, Issue 3 (September 1981) pp. 247–278
Computer security models
Computer security procedures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%20Underground | Paris Underground may refer to:
Paris Métro, the rail network of Paris
The Parisian branch of the French Resistance during the Second World War
Paris Underground (book), 1943 memoir by Etta Shiber
Paris Underground (film), a 1945 war film starring Constance Bennett and Gracie Fields
Paris Underground: The Maps, Stations, and Design of the Metro, a book by Mark Ovenden
Sous-Sols de Paris (Paris Underground), a documentary film by Gordon Matta-Clark
Paris Underground, the pseudonymous author of a 1978 mathematics paper concerning Fleischner's theorem
Paris Underground, a musical group whose members included Colm Farrelly
Mines of Paris, a 280km network of abandoned mines under the city of Paris
Catacombs of Paris, an ossuary in part of the Mines of Paris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Series%20System | The Australian Series System is an archival control or metadata system, used primarily to describe records in the custody of archival institutions. It was developed at the Australian Archives and forms the basis for the Australian Society of Archivists' committee on descriptive standards guide ″Describing archives in context″.
In 1966, Peter Scott of the Commonwealth Archives Office (predecessor to the National Archives of Australia) developed the system (in practice, referred to as the Commonwealth Records Series System by the National Archives) in his paper "The Record Group Concept: A Case for Abandonment". This approach represented a change in traditional archival theories of provenance that groups records by the more flexible record series rather than the record group which required all records to be filed under only one creating agency (business, government agency, individual, etc.).
The new system recognises that creating agencies change names, split and dissolve over time and provides a flexible framework to arrange their records across the different agencies which all share the same organizational content. These record series are relational in that they are linked to their historical creating agencies in their various forms to reflect changes in organizational structure over time.
The system is noted for its separation of data about record-keeping and context, by structuring an archive's organisation through individually describing separate "Context entities" for:
Records (the bunch of documents);
Agents (the persons or organisations that create and manage the Records); and/or,
Functional Provenance (the business the Agents do).
In this the traditional Respect des fonds and original order are both incorporated and extended, particularly useful where an original function is maintained by differing agents through time.
References
Archival science
National Archives of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine%20Great%20Western%20Railway | The Argentine Great Western Railway (AGWR) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Gran Oeste Argentino) was a British-owned railway company, founded in 1887, that operated a broad gauge, , railway network in the Argentine provinces of San Luis, San Juan and Mendoza. In 1907 it was taken over on a lease by the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway (BA&P).
The AGWR was founded in 1887, and in the same year bought the 518 km line connecting Villa Mercedes in San Luis Province with Mendoza and San Juan in the rich wine-producing districts at the foot of the Andes. This line had been built by the State-owned company Ferrocarril Andino between 1878 and 1885 as the middle section of a planned transcontinental route from Buenos Aires to the border with Chile.
Next the AGW embarked upon the building of branch lines and feeders in northern San Luis Province and southwards through Mendoza Province, transforming the network into a regional system geared to the needs of this wine-producing region. As a result, the company saw its traffic returns increase dramatically between 1895 and 1905, although there was always fierce competition from the BA&P.
In 1903 the AGW took over a lease on the working and management of the Transandine Railway which was under construction and in financial difficulties. In 1905 the AGW, together with the BA&P, agreed to guarantee the stock of the Transandine, thereby enabling them to raise additional funds. Two years later the AGW was taken over on a lease by the BA&P who at the same time took over the working of the Transandine.
See also
Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway
San Martín Railway
Bibliography
External links
Defunct railway companies of Argentina
Railway companies established in 1887
Railway companies disestablished in 1907
5 ft 6 in gauge railways in Argentina
Transport in Mendoza Province
Transport in San Luis Province
Transport in San Juan Province, Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20conjunctive%20query | In the theory of relational databases, a Boolean conjunctive query is a conjunctive query without distinguished predicates, i.e., a query in the form , where each is a relation symbol and each is a tuple of variables and constants; the number of elements in is equal to the arity of . Such a query evaluates to either true or false depending on whether the relations in the database contain the appropriate tuples of values, i.e. the conjunction is valid according to the facts in the database.
As an example, if a database schema contains the relation symbols (binary, who's the father of whom) and (unary, who is employed), a conjunctive query could be . This query evaluates to true if there exists an individual who is a child of Mark and employed. In other words, this query expresses the question: "does Mark have an employed child?"
See also
Logical conjunction
Conjunctive query
References
Boolean algebra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA-Realizer | CA-Realizer was a BASIC-language software development product originally developed by Within Technologies, but first commercially released by Computer Associates, as CA-Realizer 1.0 in 1992. Several versions were released, that provided a version of the BASIC programming language, a Rapid application development tool, including forms building and some powerful built-in components, that was comparable to, and competitive with Microsoft Visual Basic, in its early days. It offered some functionality (like a fairly useful spreadsheet) and cross-platform capability. There were versions for 16-bit Windows 3.1, 32-bit Windows 95, and 32-bit IBM OS/2. The final version was CA-Realizer 3.0, released around 1996.
Starting with version 4.0, MS Visual Basic continued to advance in functionality, leaving CA-Realizer behind. Increasingly uncompetitive, CA-Realizer was quietly retired from CA's product offerings in the late 1990s.
In the 1996 to 1999 versions of Accpac ERP for Windows, CA Realizer was responsible for the dreaded "CarlZ Error" which would periodically hang up the software. This error disappeared in the 2000 version of the software when it underwent a rewrite in C.
References
External links
CA-Realizer - EDM2
BASIC programming language family
CA Technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20Unger | Seth Unger is a co-founder of NYC TV now called NYC Media, the network he and Arick Wierson launched in 2003 while working for Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Among Unger's most notable accomplishments at the network is the creation of "Blueprint | NYC", a documentary series that highlights local architectural and historical interests in New York City. In 2004, the series won five local New York Emmy Awards. Previous to joining NYC TV, Unger was an executive at Messenger Records, later leaving to work as a campaign aide to Michael Bloomberg in 2001. Unger retired from NYC TV in 2006 to spend more time with his daughters.
He is a 1997 graduate of Columbia University. He is married to wife Allison Jaffin, a top aide to Mayor Bloomberg who followed him into politics from Bloomberg's eponymous financial and media empire, Bloomberg, LP. Together they have twin daughters
References
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereogum%20Presents...%20OKX%3A%20A%20Tribute%20to%20OK%20Computer | Stereogum Presents... OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer is a free, downloadable tribute album to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Radiohead's OK Computer. The tribute album features songs by a variety of bands including the Cold War Kids, Vampire Weekend, My Brightest Diamond, and The Twilight Sad. It was made available in July 2007 online at Stereogum's music blog website.
Track listing
(All tracks written by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Phil Selway, Ed O'Brien, and Colin Greenwood.)
"Airbag", performed by Doveman – 5:50
"Paranoid Android", performed by Slaraffenland – 5:46
"Subterranean Homesick Alien", performed by Mobius Band – 4:12
"Exit Music (For a Film)", performed by Vampire Weekend – 3:55
"Let Down", performed by David Bazan's Black Cloud – 5:53
"Karma Police", performed by John Vanderslice – 4:00
"Fitter Happier", performed by Samson Dalonoga feat. The Found Sound Orchestra – 2:01
"Electioneering", performed by Cold War Kids – 3:20
"Climbing Up the Walls", performed by The Twilight Sad – 5:22
"No Surprises", performed by Marissa Nadler feat. Black Hole Infinity – 4:40
"Lucky", performed by My Brightest Diamond – 4:14
"The Tourist", performed by Flash Hawk Parlor Ensemble – 5:56
B-Sides
"No Surprises", performed by Northern State – 3:34
"Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)", performed by Chris Walla – 4:21
External links
Stereogum's original article for OKX, where the album is now available as a download only
OKX extended article, published in 2015
Stereogum's original sub-site for OKX, where the album was available to stream and download free-of-charge, now redirects to a b-sides article
Albums free for download by copyright owner
2007 compilation albums
Radiohead tribute albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWWW | MacWWW, also known as Samba, is an early minimalist web browser from 1992 meant to run on Macintosh computers. It was the first web browser for the classic Mac OS platform, and the first for any non-Unix operating system. MacWWW tries to emulate the design of WorldWideWeb. Unlike modern browsers it opens each link in a new window only after a double-click. It was a commercial product from CERN and cost 50 European Currency Units
The browser is no longer available from its original ftp location, but can still be downloaded from mirrors.
History
It was written at CERN by Robert Cailliau and later Nicola Pellow helped with the development. Pellow worked originally on the Line Mode Browser and both browsers shared some parts of the source code after her switching.
Pre-alpha version were available, but this version worked only on "coliur [sic] mac but not on big black and white ones it seems."
Version 1.00 was released on 12 May 1993 with the commentary: "We know there is much to be improved, but it works well on system 7 and system 6.0.5".
Features
The MacWWW which was a minimalist browser displayed only text, no images nor lists.
Implemented in THINK C using its human interface objects.
Uses much code in common with the Line Mode browser. This code later became libwww.
bookmarks
For the hypertext object, the THINK C text object was modified to allow multifont capability, and to allow anchors to be encoded in the styles.
According to critics, within a year the browser became obsolete because Mosaic and MacWeb had much more features, for example MacWWW showed no loading status. Without the mouse and MacOS support MacWWW would be a text-mode browser.
See also
List of old Macintosh software
Annotations
References
External links
MacWWW description and screenshot
evolt.org – This browser archive has version 1.03 for download
Classic Mac OS-only web browsers
1992 software
Discontinued web browsers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20Vegan | Go Vegan Radio is a one-hour talk radio program hosted by Bob Linden. The show airs in the United States on terrestrial radio via the Clear Channel network on Green 960 AM in San Francisco and K-TALK 1150 AM in Los Angeles, CA every Sunday between 3 pm and 4 pm Pacific Time (5 pm – 6 pm ET). The show is also accessible via download, live stream and free podcast at Go Vegan Radio's webpage. The show has been the subject of a full-page article written by Pulitzer Prize–winning Los Angeles Times media critic Howard Rosenberg and has been featured as "Radio Show of the Week" in the Los Angeles Daily News. Go Vegan is produced by GoVeganRadio.com, a project of 501(c)3 non-profit public charity the International Humanities Center.
Description
The show seeks to address a wide range of topics related to animal rights, diet, health, environment, world hunger, morality, civil liberties, free speech, justice, peace, product reviews, current events and vegan cooking recipes. It also features interviews with celebrity, expert and activist guests and community leaders.
History
Go Vegan debuted in its original form in January 2001. It was picked up by Air America and aired syndication across roughly 30 channels on June 30, 2007. While on Air America, the show aired Saturday afternoons from 2–3pm ET until January 2010 when Air America filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection and liquidation.
Prior to June 2007, the show aired on various stations including KTYM-AM-1460 in Los Angeles and KCEO-AM-1000 in San Diego. The show has also aired on CBS affiliates and mainstream media outlets.
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
Go Vegan Radio
Original press release announcing show (from Indybay.org)
Green 960 San Francisco
Vegetarians in Paradise Interview with Bob Linden
Abolitionist Online interview with Bob Linden
Alternative radio programs
American talk radio programs
Animal rights movement
Radio programs on XM Satellite Radio
Vegetarian-related mass media
Veganism in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected%20procedure | In computer science, the concept of protected procedure, first introduced as protected service routine in 1965, is necessary when two computations A and B use the same routine S; a protected procedure is such if makes not possible for a malfunction of one of the two computation to cause incorrect execution to the other.
One of the most important aspects of Dennis and Van Horn (hypothetical) system "supervisor" was the inclusion of a description of protected procedure.
In a global environment system (where there's some shared variable), the protected procedure mechanism allows the enforcement of the principle of least privilege and the avoidance of side effects in resources management (see Denning principles).
Footnotes
References
Dennis, J. B., and Glasee, E. The structure of on-line information processing systems. Information Systems Sciences: Proc. Second Cong., Spartan Books, Baltimore, 1965, pp. 1–11
J. B. Dennis and E. C. Van Horn. Programming Semantics for Multiprogrammed Computations. Communications of the ACM 9(3), March 1966.
Concurrent computing
Subroutines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Smart%20Woman%20Survival%20Guide | The Smart Woman Survival Guide is a Canadian situation comedy, filmed in Toronto, Ontario, that aired from September 4, 2006, to January 5, 2008. It aired on the W Network and CosmoTV. It was renewed for 26 further episodes before season one had finished shooting. The show was originally conceived as a two-act show that grew to four acts with a teaser and tag.
Premise
The Smart Woman Survival Guide is a half-hour hybrid that is part lifestyle and part comedy. Lifting the ‘Ironed Curtain’ on a Martha Stewart Living-type show, the series takes place behind the scenes of a fictional lifestyle program called Smart Woman and follows a group of women who bond over their work, lives and loves.
The series stars Tricia Braun as Lana Pearson, the demanding host of Smart Woman, and her trusty staff, producer Liz (Siobhan Murphy), associate producer Brooke (Joanne Alderson), and researcher Natalie (Laura McLean). As the women attempt to navigate the challenges of their personal and professional lives, the audience is presented with tips, how-tos and information for today's “smart woman”. When the Smart Women go into the real world to research segments for the show, they interact with real world experts who make guest appearances on the Smart Woman show. These include real-life Olympians, celebrity chefs and New York Times bestselling authors.
Cast
Tricia Braun – Lana Pearson, the host of Smart Woman
Siobhan Murphy – Liz Duncan, the producer
Laura McLean – Natalie Knowles, the researcher
Joanne Alderson – Brooke Patterson, the associate producer
Riley Gilchrist – Alistair, Lana's assistant
Ryan V. Hays – Phil, the IT guy
Adam Seybold – Reggie, the make-up artist
Notable guest-starring cast
Jean-Paul Saurine - Steve Duncan, Liz's husband
Megan Hutchins - Geneva, Lana's 19-year-old niece
Boomer Phillips – Pete Sharp, Lana's nemesis and host of a rival show
Brad Hampton - John Smith
Guest experts
Alexandra Robbins, New York Times bestselling author of Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis, The Overachievers, Pledged, and Secrets of the Tomb.
Conrad Leinemann, Beach Volleyball Olympian, finished 9th at the Sydney Olympic Games, and is a Pan Am Games Gold Medalist, with a 100+ km/h serve.
Mark Heese, Beach Volleyball Olympian. Mark brought home Canada's first medal in beach volleyball in the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996.
Marc Dunn, Beach Volleyball Olympian, finished 17th at the Atlanta Olympic Games.
Craig Kielburger, Founder and Chair of Free the Children, and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Barbara Coloroso, internationally recognized parenting expert and author of four best selling parental advice books: Kids are worth it; Parenting Through Crisis, Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief, and Inner Discipline; The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander; Just Because it’s not Wrong Doesn’t Make It Right.
Rick Gallop, Author of The G. I. Diet.
Rob Stewart, Director of award-winning environmental feature film documentary, Sharkwater.
Ep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders%20Parmstr%C3%B6m | Anders "Ankan" Parmström (born 16 February 1942) is a Swedish former ice hockey player and coach, who currently serves as an ice hockey expert analyst on the Canal Plus television network in Sweden.
Parmström served as coach of AIK in the Swedish Elitserien hockey league for eight seasons before coaching the Swedish national team between 1981-1984. As an active player, he represented AIK IF during the 1960-70 season.
"Ankan" (the Duck) Parmström is a familiar profile on Swedish TV, having worked as a hockey colour commentator for both Swedish Canal+ and SVT. He also provided Swedish language commentary for the computer game NHL 06.
References
External links
Parmström Consulting AB
1942 births
Living people
AIK IF players
Sweden men's national ice hockey team coaches
Swedish ice hockey coaches
Swedish ice hockey forwards
Ice hockey people from Stockholm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliographical%20Center%20for%20Research | Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) was a regional cooperative libraries network established in 1935, headquartered in Aurora, Colorado, and active through 2010.
BCR members included over 9000 libraries in an 11-state region of the western United States: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Before its merger with Lyrasis, BCR was the nation's oldest multi-state library cooperative, with services including assisting researchers and libraries with locating materials outside their local community, catalog creation, consulting, product and service discounts, and computer systems training. BCR also offered OCLC products and services. BCR membership was funded by state library agencies, offering statewide membership on behalf of all libraries in their states.
The nonprofit organization's records have been deposited at the University of Denver archives.
External links
Cooperatives in the United States
Library centers
Library consortia in Colorado
OCLC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20lockout | In multiprocessor computer systems, software lockout is the issue of performance degradation due to the idle wait times spent by the CPUs in kernel-level critical sections. Software lockout is the major cause of scalability degradation in a multiprocessor system, posing a limit on the maximum useful number of processors. To mitigate the phenomenon, the kernel must be designed to have its critical sections as short as possible, therefore decomposing each data structure in smaller substructures.
Kernel-level critical sections
In most multiprocessor systems, each processor schedules and controls itself, therefore there's no "supervisor" processor, and kernel data structures are globally shared; sections of code that access those shared data structures are critical sections. This design choice is made to improve scaling, reliability and modularity. Examples of such kernel data structure are ready list and communication channels.
A "conflict" happens when more than one processor is trying to access the same resource (a memory portion) at the same time. To prevent critical races and inconsistency, only one processor (CPU) at a given time is allowed to access a particular data structure (a memory portion), while other CPUs trying to access at the same time are locked-out, waiting in idle status.
Three cases can be distinguished when this idle wait is either necessary, convenient, or not convenient. The idle wait is necessary when the access is to a ready list for a low level scheduling operation. The idle wait is not necessary but convenient in the case of a critical section for synchronization/IPC operations, which require less time than a context switch (executing another process to avoid idle wait). Idle wait is instead not convenient in case of a kernel critical section for device management, present in monolithic kernels only. A microkernel instead falls on just the first two of the above cases.
In a multiprocessor system, most of the conflicts are kernel-level conflicts, due to the access to the kernel level critical sections, and thus the idle wait periods generated by them have a major impact in performance degradation. This idle wait time increases the average number of idle processors and thus decreases scalability and relative efficiency.
Analytical studies
Taking as parameters the average time interval spent by a processor in kernel level critical sections (L, for time in locked state), and the average time interval spent by a processor in tasks outside critical sections (E), the ratio L/E is crucial in evaluating software lockout.
Typical values for L/E range from 0.01 to 0.1. In a system with a L/E ratio of 0.05, for instance, if there are 15 CPUs, it is expected that on average 1 CPU will always be idle; with 21 CPUs, 2.8 will be idle; with 40 CPUs, 19 will be idle; with 41 CPUs, 20 will be idle. Therefore, adding more than 40 CPUs to that system would be useless. In general, for each L/E value, there's a threshold for the maximum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhill%20International%20List%20Company | Dunhill International List Company is a Boca Raton, Florida-based company, specializing in direct marketing lists, data file maintenance, opt-in email, telemarketing and creative services. It was developed by Herbert Odza after he purchased Dunhill Public Relations in 1937. In the late 1970s, Odza's son Robert Dunhill formally established the company under the Dunhill International List name.
Dunhill International List Company is a member of the Direct Marketing Association (United States) and was one of the pioneers in establishing the Florida Direct Marketing Association.
Family owned and operated, the company is now in its third generation of family members . . . Cindy Dunhill Corrie, Vice President Sales; Candy Dunhill Hachenburg, Vice President Customer Service; Andy Dunhill, Vice President and Robert Dunhill, President, head the firm.
External links
Official website
Direct marketing
Companies based in Boca Raton, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu%20Professional%20Certification | Ubuntu Professional Certification which was introduced in May 2006, was a computer based examination about the Ubuntu operating system.
The test was administered by the LPI (Linux Professional Institute) and the certification was part of the LPIC (Linux Professional Institute Certification) as an added module/exam to LPI 117-101 and LPI 117-102 certs. The LPI UCP exam code was LPI 117-199. The testee needed to pass all three exams (117-101,117-102 and 117-199) in order to receive a UCP certification. The 101 and 102 exams could be taken before or after the UCP exam(199).
This certification has been discontinued as of October 2010.
See also
Linux Professional Institute Certification
References
External links
Official Ubuntu Certified Professional Information
Ubuntu Certified Professional Course Objectives
Official Ubuntu Desktop Training Information
Google Ads Search Certification Answers
Information technology qualifications
Ubuntu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickpea%20distortion%20mosaic%20virus | Chickpea distortion mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Chickpea distortion mosaic virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Potyviruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickpea%20filiform%20virus | Chickpea filiform virus (CpFV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Chickpea filiform virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Potyviruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilli%20veinal%20mottle%20virus | Chilli veinal mottle virus (ChiVMV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Chilli veinal mottle virus (ChiVMV)
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Potyviruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chino%20del%20tomate%20virus | Chino del tomate virus (CdTV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Chino del tomate virus
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Begomovirus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloris%20striate%20mosaic%20virus | Chloris striate mosaic virus (CSMV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae.
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Chloris striate mosaic virus
Family Groups - The Baltimore Method
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
Geminiviridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRHT-LD | KRHT-LD (channel 41) is a low-powered television station in Redding, California, United States, it was affiliated with Spanish-language Azteca América network till New Years 2022-23. It was originally broadcasting on channel 58 until March 24, 2009. It is owned by Gary Hanson.
KRHT-LD is rebroadcast on Charter Cable on channel 276 in the Redding area and Comcast Cable in Chico on channel 390 & 621.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
RHT-LD
2007 establishments in California
Low-power television stations in California
Television channels and stations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol-20 | The Sol-20 was the first fully assembled microcomputer with a built-in keyboard and television output, what would later be known as a home computer. The design was the integration of an Intel 8080-based motherboard, a VDM-1 graphics card, the 3P+S I/O card to drive a keyboard, and circuitry to connect to a cassette deck for program storage. Additional expansion was available via five S-100 bus slots inside the machine. It also included swappable ROMs that the manufacturer called 'personality modules', containing a rudimentary operating system.
The design was originally suggested by Les Solomon, the editor of Popular Electronics. He asked Bob Marsh of Processor Technology if he could design a smart terminal for use with the Altair 8800. Lee Felsenstein, who shared a garage working space with Marsh, had previously designed such a terminal but never built it. Reconsidering the design using modern electronics, they agreed the best solution was to build a complete computer with a terminal program in ROM. Felsenstein suggested the name "Sol" because they were including "the wisdom of Solomon" in the box.
The Sol appeared on the cover of the July 1976 issue of Popular Electronics as a "high-quality intelligent terminal". It was initially offered in three versions; the Sol-PC motherboard in kit form, the Sol-10 without expansion slots, and the Sol-20 with five slots.
A Sol-20 was taken to the Personal Computing Show in Atlantic City in August 1976 where it was a hit, building an order backlog that took a year to fill. Systems began shipping late that year and were dominated by the expandable Sol-20, which sold for $1,495 in its most basic fully-assembled form. The company also offered schematics for the system for free for those interested in building their own.
The Sol-20 remained in production until 1979, by which point about 12,000 machines had been sold. By that time, the "1977 trinity" —the Apple II, Commodore PET and TRS-80— had begun to take over the market, and a series of failed new product introductions drove Processor Technology into bankruptcy. Felsenstein later developed the successful Osborne 1 computer, using much the same underlying design in a portable format.
History
Tom Swift Terminal
Lee Felsenstein was one of the sysops of Community Memory, the first public bulletin board system. Community Memory opened in 1973, running on a SDS 940 mainframe that was accessed through a Teletype Model 33, essentially a computer printer and keyboard, in a record store in Berkeley, California. The cost of running the system was untenable; the teletype normally cost (their first example was donated from Tymshare as junk), the modem another , and time on the SDS was expensive – in 1968, Tymshare charged per hour (). Even the reams of paper output from the terminal were too expensive to be practical and the system jammed all the time. The replacement of the Model 33 with a Hazeltine glass terminal helped, but it required constant repairs.
Since |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAFS%20%28AM%29 | WAFS (1190 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia that broadcasts Catholic talk programming, as an affiliate of Relevant Radio. The station is classified as a Class D AM broadcast station according to the Federal Communications Commission, with 25,000 watts of power during the daytime using a non-directional antenna. WAFS also operates pre-sunrise (PSRA) with 350 watts and post-sunset (PSSA) with power levels from 54 to 150 watts. (WNIV, AM 970 kHz, broadcasts from the same tower as WAFS using an antenna diplexing system.)
History
WGKA
The station was first licensed on January 24, 1956 as WGKA, transmitting on 1600 AM. In its earliest days, WGKA was owned by Glenkaren Associates, headed by Locke E. Glenn, hence the acronym. Glenkaren Associates also owned a hi-fi audio store adjoining the radio station. In 1967, the station moved to 1190 kHz under the supervision of Chief Engineer, Lewis Edge. Shortly afterward, the station's Chief Engineer installed a new stereo transmitter and a 150' tower erected on the roof of the Peachtree Center Building. Studios were also moved from the building housing the hi-fi audio store to the Peachtree Center Building.
Like WGKA AM, WGKA-FM 92.9 was a classical-music station in Atlanta from the 1950s to 1971. Although it existed in the days before NPR, it occasionally carried programs which were not locally produced, such as BBC Music Showcase, hosted by British composer/lecturer Antony Hopkins (not to be confused with film actor Anthony Hopkins). Several of the hosts who once worked at the station, such as Jonathan Phelps and David Jacobs, switched to working at WABE FM when WGKA-FM was sold and their program format changed. Lee Nance and Arthur Borgeson were also hosts. The station's call letters also changed to WZGC, which still exists on 92.9 today.
WGKA was later sold to Salem Communications.
WAFS
On March 24, 2004 the Moody Bible Institute sold their station, WAFS on 920 kHz, to Salem Communications. Salem next swapped the call letters between WGKA and WAFS, effective August 2, 2004, resulting in the WAFS call moving to 1190 kHz, and the WGKA call letters transferring to 920 kHz.
In July 2006, Salem entered a Local marketing agreement (LMA) that changed the station's format to Spanish Tropical under the brand of "Mega 1190". However, the arrangement was abruptly pulled by Salem in February 2007 due to a dispute with the LMA. WAFS then switched to a Spanish language Christian format with "Radio Luz" branding until April 2010.
On April 6, 2010, the format was changed again, to a business news and talk radio format with "Biz 1190" branding, carrying programming from the Bloomberg Radio network.
On August 15, 2019, Salem announced the sale of WAFS and eight other stations to Immaculate Heart Media for $8.7 million. The sale was consummated in November 2019, and it became an affiliate of Relevant Radio.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WAFS (covering 1955-1979 as W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mad%20Men%20episodes | Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and broadcast on the cable network AMC. The series premiered on July 19, 2007, and concluded on May 17, 2015, after seven seasons and 92 episodes. The show is set primarily in the 1960s and is centered on the private and professional life of Don Draper (Jon Hamm), an enigmatic advertising executive on Madison Avenue.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2007)
Season 2 (2008)
Season 3 (2009)
Season 4 (2010)
Season 5 (2012)
Season 6 (2013)
Season 7 (2014–15)
Ratings
References
External links
Lists of American drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20Files | Program Files is the directory name of a standard folder in Microsoft Windows operating systems in which applications that are not part of the operating system are conventionally installed. Typically, each application installed under the 'Program Files' directory will have a subdirectory for its application-specific resources. Shared resources, for example resources used by multiple applications from one company, are typically stored in the 'Common Files' directory.
Location
In a standard Windows installation, the 'Program Files' directory will be at %SystemDrive%\Program Files (or the localized equivalent thereof), and the 'Common Files' (or the localized equivalent thereof) will be a subdirectory under 'Program Files'. In Windows Vista and later, the paths to the 'Program Files' and 'Common Files' directories are not localized (translated) on disk. Instead, the localized names are NTFS junction points to the non-localized locations. Additionally, the Windows shell localizes the name of the Program Files folder depending on the system's user interface display language.
Both 'Program Files' and 'Common Files' can be moved. At system startup, the actual paths to 'Program Files' and 'Common Files' are loaded from the Windows registry, where they are stored in the ProgramFilesDir and CommonFilesDir values under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. They are then made accessible to the rest of the system via the volatile environment variables %ProgramFiles%, and %CommonProgramFiles%. Applications can also obtain the locations of these paths by querying the Setup API using dirids, or through Windows Management Instrumentation, or by querying the shell using CSIDLs, or ShellSpecialFolderConstants. These are all localization-independent methods.
x86-64 and IA-64 versions of Windows have two folders for application files: The Program Files folder serves as the default installation target for 64-bit programs, while the Program Files (x86) folder is the default installation target for 32-bit programs that need WoW64 emulation layer. While 64-bit Windows versions also have a %ProgramFiles(x86)% environment variable, the dirids and CSIDLs are not different between 32-bit and 64-bit environments; the APIs merely return different results, depending on whether the calling process is emulated or not.
To be backwards compatible with the 8.3 limitations of the old File Allocation Table filenames, the names 'Program Files', 'Program Files (x86)' and 'Common Program Files' are shortened by the system to progra~N and common~N, where N is a digit, a sequence number that on a clean install will be 1 (or 1 and 2 when both 'Program Files' and 'Program Files (x86)' are present).
Redirection
If Windows is installed on an NTFS volume, by default, the 'Program Files' folder can only be modified by members of the 'Administrators' user groups. This can be an issue for programs created for Windows 9x. Those operating systems had no file system secu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty%20Keough | William “Ty” Keough (born December 19, 1956 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American former professional soccer player and coach who has served as a soccer broadcaster for several networks. He earned eight caps with the U.S. national team in 1979 and 1980. He was a member of the U.S. Olympic soccer team which qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics. However, he did not attend the tournament as the U.S. boycotted those games.
Youth
Keough is the son of U.S. soccer legend Harry Keough, member of the U.S. team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. His father later entered coaching and Keough benefited from his father's instruction, developing into an excellent midfielder. Keough attended St. Louis University High School, graduating in 1975. After graduating from high school, he entered St. Louis University where he played on the men's soccer team, coached by his father from 1975 to 1978. During his four seasons with the Billikens, Keough was a four-time All American, first team in 1976 and 1978 and honorable mention (third team) in 1975 and 1977.
Playing career
The San Diego Sockers of the North American Soccer League (NASL) selected Keough in the 1979 draft and he spent four seasons with the Sockers. While still with the Sockers, Keough also played with the St. Louis Steamers in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) from 1980 to 1985. In 1985, the Steamers traded him to the Kansas City Comets where he spent a single season before retiring from playing professionally.
National and Olympic teams
In 1979, Keough entered the national team. His first cap came in a February 3, 1979 loss to the Soviet Union. He also began playing for the U.S. Olympic team as it began qualification for the 1980 Summer Olympics to be held in Moscow. Qualifications continued into 1980 and the U.S. ultimately qualified for the games, its first qualification since the 1972 Summer Olympics. However, President Jimmy Carter declared that the United States would boycott the games after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Despite this disappointment, Keough continued to play for the senior team through the rest of the year. His last game with the team came in a November 9, 1980 loss to Mexico. Over his two years with the national team, he earned eight caps.
Coaching
After retiring from playing, Keough entered the coaching ranks with Washington University in his home town of St. Louis. He succeeded Joe Carenza, Jr., in 1986. Over the next eleven seasons, he compiled a 136–47–17 record before resigning in 1997 to devote his time to his broadcast career. While no longer coaching at the university level, Keough remains in coaching as part of the staff of the Northwest Soccer Camp.
Broadcast career
While coaching with Washington University, Keough entered the broadcast career field. From 1990 until 2002, Keough covered four World Cups for TNT, ESPN and ABC.
External links
McCrath’s Soccer Camp bio
NASL/MISL stats
1956 births
Living people
Soccer players from St. Louis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeded%20up%20robust%20features | In computer vision, speeded up robust features (SURF) is a patented local feature detector and descriptor. It can be used for tasks such as object recognition, image registration, classification, or 3D reconstruction. It is partly inspired by the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) descriptor. The standard version of SURF is several times faster than SIFT and claimed by its authors to be more robust against different image transformations than SIFT.
To detect interest points, SURF uses an integer approximation of the determinant of Hessian blob detector, which can be computed with 3 integer operations using a precomputed integral image. Its feature descriptor is based on the sum of the Haar wavelet response around the point of interest. These can also be computed with the aid of the integral image.
SURF descriptors have been used to locate and recognize objects, people or faces, to reconstruct 3D scenes, to track objects and to extract points of interest.
SURF was first published by Herbert Bay, Tinne Tuytelaars, and Luc Van Gool, and presented at the 2006 European Conference on Computer Vision. An application of the algorithm is patented in the United States. An "upright" version of SURF (called U-SURF) is not invariant to image rotation and therefore faster to compute and better suited for application where the camera remains more or less horizontal.
The image is transformed into coordinates, using the multi-resolution pyramid technique, to copy the original image with Pyramidal Gaussian or Laplacian Pyramid shape to obtain an image with the same size but with reduced bandwidth. This achieves a special blurring effect on the original image, called Scale-Space and ensures that the points of interest are scale invariant.
Algorithm and features
The SURF algorithm is based on the same principles and steps as SIFT; but details in each step are different. The algorithm has three main parts: interest point detection, local neighborhood description, and matching.
Detection
SURF uses square-shaped filters as an approximation of Gaussian smoothing. (The SIFT approach uses cascaded filters to detect scale-invariant characteristic points, where the difference of Gaussians (DoG) is calculated on rescaled images progressively.) Filtering the image with a square is much faster if the integral image is used:
The sum of the original image within a rectangle can be evaluated quickly using the integral image, requiring evaluations at the rectangle's four corners.
SURF uses a blob detector based on the Hessian matrix to find points of interest. The determinant of the Hessian matrix is used as a measure of local change around the point and points are chosen where this determinant is maximal. In contrast to the Hessian-Laplacian detector by Mikolajczyk and Schmid, SURF also uses the determinant of the Hessian for selecting the scale, as is also done by Lindeberg. Given a point p=(x, y) in an image I, the Hessian matrix H(p, σ) at point p and scale σ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLOH | GLOH (Gradient Location and Orientation Histogram) is a robust image descriptor that can be used in computer vision tasks. It is a SIFT-like descriptor that considers more spatial regions for the histograms. An intermediate vector is computed from 17 location and 16 orientation bins, for a total of 272-dimensions. Principal components analysis (PCA) is then used to reduce the vector size to 128 (same size as SIFT descriptor vector).
See also
Scale-invariant feature transform
Speeded Up Robust Features
LESH – Local Energy-based Shape Histogram
Feature detection (computer vision)
References
Krystian Mikolajczyk and Cordelia Schmid "A performance evaluation of local descriptors", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 10, 27, pp 1615--1630, 2005.
Feature detection (computer vision) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20Emmy%20Awards | 2007 Emmy Awards may refer to:
59th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2007 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored primetime programming during June 2006 – May 2007
34th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2007 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored daytime programming during 2006
28th Sports Emmy Awards, the 2007 Emmy Awards ceremony that honored sports programming during 2006
35th International Emmy Awards, honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Comedy%20Central | This is a list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by Comedy Central in the United States and some other countries.
Current programming
Original programming
Scripted
Animation
South Park (1997)
Digman! (2023)
Live-action
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020)
Unscripted
Variety
The Daily Show (1996)
Syndicated programming
Beavis and Butt-Head (2005–2008, 2011, 2022)
Futurama (2013–present) (seasons 1–7)
The Office (2018)
Parks and Recreation (2019)
Seinfeld (2021)
Reno 911! (2022)
Upcoming programming
Original programming
Live-action series
The New Kings & Queens of Comedy (TBA)
Animated series
Everybody Still Hates Chris (TBA; will also stream on Paramount+)
The Ren & Stimpy Show (TBA)
Animated films
Jodie (TBA)
Specials
John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch specials (TBA)
Former programming
Original programming
Scripted programming
Animation
Liquid Television (1991–95)
Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–11)
The Brothers Grunt (1994–95)
The Maxx (1995)
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (1995–02)
Daria (1997–02)
Cartoon Sushi (1997–98)
Celebrity Deathmatch (1998–02)
Super Adventure Team (1998)
Station Zero (1999)
Spy Groove (2000–02)
Undergrads (2001)
Crank Yankers (2002-22)
3 South (2002–03)
Clerks: The Animated Series (2002)
Clone High (2003)
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)
Kid Notorious (2003)
Shorties Watchin' Shorties (2004)
Drawn Together (2004–07)
Freak Show (2006)
Lil' Bush (2007–08)
Futurama (2008–13)
DJ & the Fro (2009)
Popzilla (2009)
Ugly Americans (2010–12)
Good Vibes (2011)
Brickleberry (2012–15)
TripTank (2014–16)
Moonbeam City (2015)
Greatest Party Story Ever (2016)
Legends of Chamberlain Heights (2016–17)
Jeff & Some Aliens (2017)
Fairview (2022)
Tooning Out the News (2022–23)
Live-action
The Higgins Boys and Gruber (1991)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1991–96)
Short Attention Span Theater (1991–94)
The Big Room (1991–92)
Random Acts of Variety (1991–94)
Access America (1991–92)
Afterdrive (1991)
Sports Monster (1991)
Limboland (1994)
Offsides with Dom Irrera (1994–97)
The Vacant Lot (1994)
The Clinic (1995)
Exit 57 (1995–96)
Canned Ham (1996–2002)
Pulp Comics (1996–2000)
Viva Variety (1997–98)
Upright Citizens Brigade (1998–2000)
Frank Leaves for the Orient (1999)
The Man Show (1999–2004)
Strangers with Candy (1999–2000)
Strip Mall (2000–01)
TV Funhouse (2000–01)
The Chris Wylde Show Starring Chris Wylde (2001)
Insomniac with Dave Attell (2001–04)
That's My Bush! (2001)
Contest Searchlight (2002)
Heroes of Black Comedy (2002)
Heroes of Jewish Comedy (2002)
The Sweet Spot (2002)
Chappelle's Show (2003–06)
Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust (2003)
I'm With Busey (2003)
Reno 911! (2003–09)
Trigger Happy TV (U.S. version) (2003)
Blue Collar TV (2004–06)
Crossballs (2004)
Jump Cuts (2004)
Last Laugh (2004–07) (specials)
Wanda Does It (2004)
Comedians of Comedy (2005)
The Hollow Men (2005)
Mind of Mencia (2005– |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clibadium%20subsessilifolium | Clibadium subsessilifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in Ecuador.
References
subsessilifolium
Endemic flora of Ecuador
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smosh | Smosh is an American YouTube sketch comedy-improv collective, independent production company, and former social networking site founded by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. In 2002, Padilla created a website named "smosh.com" for making Flash animations, and he was later joined by Hecox. They began to post videos on Smosh's YouTube channel in the fall of 2005 and quickly became one of the most popular channels on the site. , the Smosh channel has over 10 billion views and over 25 million subscribers.
Since 2012, the Smosh brand has expanded to consist of multiple channels, including a Spanish-language channel (ElSmosh), a channel focused on gaming content (Smosh Games), and a variety channel (Smosh Pit). The sketches have also included more actors. The Smosh channel has experienced three different spans as the most subscribed YouTube channel. The first period spanned from May to June 2006, the second from April 2007 to September 2008, and the third span from January to August 2013.
In 2017, Padilla left the channel to pursue independent ventures and focus on his own separate channel. On November 6, 2018, Smosh's parent company Defy Media abruptly closed without warning. Six days later, the Smosh cast released a video announcing that production of Smosh, Smosh Pit, and Smosh Games content was still ongoing, and that existing videos would be finished and other content would be released independently by Smosh on their YouTube channels. They subsequently joined Mythical Entertainment after their company was purchased by Rhett & Link on February 22, 2019. After four years of ownership under Mythical, it was announced in June 2023 that Padilla had returned to the channel, and that he, along with Hecox, had bought the company back from Mythical, re-establishing Smosh as an independent entity. the channel's regular cast consists of Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox who run the majority of its content.
History
Formation and lip sync videos (2002–2006)
The franchise began when Anthony Padilla built a website in 2002, smosh.com, and made several different Flash animations. He has stated that the name "Smosh" came from an incident where he mistook a friend explaining a mosh pit as a "smosh pit". Other content creators in the pre-YouTube era would also upload videos to smosh.com, including future YouTuber TomSka. Later, his friend, Ian Hecox, joined the venture; Padilla and Hecox first met in the sixth grade. They became friends, and quickly discovered their knack for comedy. In 2005, they joined YouTube and made several videos together, lip syncing the theme songs to Mortal Kombat, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers, the latter of which was their first video uploaded to the website.
At first, these videos were not intended to be posted online, but after they sent them to their friends, they started a YouTube channel.
One of Smosh's earliest videos, "Pokémon Theme Music Video", was released on November 28, 2005. It followed the same style as thei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Animal%20Planet%20original%20programming | The following is a list of television programs currently or formerly broadcast by Animal Planet.
Current programming
Puppy Bowl (2005–present)
North Woods Law (2012–present)
Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (2015–present)
Lone Star Law (2016–present)
The Aquarium (2019–present)
Coyote Peterson: Brave the Wild (2020–present)
Louisiana Law (2021–present)
Former programming
A
Animal Airport (2012)
Animal Armageddon (2009)
Animal Battlegrounds (2006)
Animal Cops: Detroit (2003–10)
Animal Cops: Houston (2003–15)
Animal Cops: Miami (2010–11)
Animal Cops: Philadelphia (2008–09)
Animal Cops: Phoenix (2007–09)
Animal Cops: San Francisco (2005–06)
Animal Cops: South Africa (2007–08)
Animal Face-Off (2004)
Animal Icons (2004–05)
Animal Miracles (2001–03)
Animal Nation with Anthony Anderson (2017)
Animal Planet Report (2005–06)
Animal Planet Zooventure (1997–2000)
Animal Precinct (2001–08)
Animal X (1997–2002)
Austin Stevens: Snakemaster (2004–09)
B
Backyard Habitat (2005–06)
Bad Dog! (2010–14)
Battleground: Rhino Wars (2013)
Beasts of the Bible (2010)
Beverly Hills Groomer (2009)
Beverly Hills Vet (2003)
Beware of Dog (2002)
Big Cat Diary (1996–2008)
Big Cat Tales (2018–20)
Blood Dolphins (2010)
Breed All About It (1998–2001)
Buggin' with Ruud (2005–06)
C
Call of the Wild (2000)
Call of the Wildman (2011–14)
Cats 101 (2008–12)
Caught in the Moment (2006)
Celebrity Animal Encounters (2019)
Cell Dogs (2004)
Champions of the Wild (1997–2001)
Chasing Nature (2005)
Confessions: Animal Hoarding (2010–14)
Corwin's Quest (2005)
Crikey! It's the Irwins (2018–22)
Croc Files (1999–2001)
The Crocodile Hunter (1996–2007)
The Crocodile Hunter Diaries (2002–04)
D
Dark Days in Monkey City (2009)
Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove (2016)
Dinosaur Planet (2015)
Divine Canine (2007)
Dr. Dee: Alaska Vet (2015–16)
Dogs 101 (2008–11)
Dog Days (2002)
Dogs vs. Cats (2010)
E
Eaten Alive (2009)
Emergency Vets (1998–2002)
Escape to Chimp Eden (2008)
E-Vet Interns (2007–09)
F
Fatal Attractions (2010–13)
Finding Bigfoot (2011–18)
Fooled By Nature (2007–10)
The Future Is Wild (2002)
G
Gator Boys (2012–15)
Get Out There! (2006)
Going Ape (2006)
Great Savannah Race (2005–06)
H
Hanging with the Hendersons (2019–20)
Hillbilly Handfishin' (2011–12)
Horse Power: Road to the Maclay (2006)
How Do Animals Do That? (2019–20)
Human Planet (2011)
I
Insane Pools Off The Deep End (2015–17)
I, Predator (2011)
I Was Bitten (2008)
I Shouldn't Be Alive (2010–13)
Into Alaska (2018)
Into the Lion's Den (2004)
Into the Pride (2009)
It's Me or the Dog (2007–10)
The Jeff Corwin Experience (2001–03)
J
Jeremy Wade's Dark Waters (2019)
Judge Wapner's Animal Court (1998–2000)
K
K9 Cops (2008–09)
K-9 to 5 (1999–2001)
Killer Elephants (2001)
Killer Jellyfish (2005)
Killer Outbreaks (2011)
Killer Squid (2004)
King of the Jungle (2003–04)
L
The Last Dragon (2004)
Lemur Street (2008)
The Little Zoo That C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCET | BCET may refer to:
Best-case execution time, a specific design parameter in real-time computing
BCET Gurdaspur, an engineering college in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitchia%20cordata | Fitchia cordata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the island of Bora Bora in the Society Islands of French Polynesia.
References
cordata
Bora Bora
Endemic flora of the Society Islands
Critically endangered flora of Oceania
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franko | Franko may refer to:
Franko (name), a given name and surname
Franko (bishop of Poznań), 11th-century Polish bishop
FranKo, a British pop rock band
Franko: The Crazy Revenge, a 1994 computer game
Franko Escarpment, Antarctica
See also
Franco (disambiguation)
ru:Франко
sl:Franko (priimek) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynoxys%20leiotheca | Gynoxys leiotheca is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in Ecuador. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
leiotheca
Flora of Ecuador
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helichrysum%20sp.%20nov.%20E | ''Helichrysum'' sp. nov. E is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in Yemen. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.
References
Sp Nov E
Data deficient plants
Undescribed plant species
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieracium%20sprucei | Hieracium sprucei is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is endemic to Ecuador.
References
sprucei
Endemic flora of Ecuador
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2%20Network | K2 Network, Inc. was an American producer and publisher of video games based in Irvine, California.
It pioneered the use of the free-to-play (or "freemium") business model among North American and European MMO game publishers in 2004.
On July 5, 2012, the company merged with Reloaded Games, and the merged entity ceased its K2 Network branded operations.
History
K2 Network was founded in 2001 on the belief that "the community experience of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG’s) will become one of the most significant forms of entertainment in the 21st century." The company initially licensed games created by Korean development studios, and localized and serviced those games in North America, South America and Europe via its portal GamersFirst.com. In 2007, the company raised $16m USD in a Series-B financing round led by Intel Capital.
Licensed MMOs
K2 Network's licensed titles included Knight Online World for which it acquired the Western territory rights in 2003 and began publishing operations in 2004, ceasing operations in May 2012. The game grew quickly to more than 40,000 concurrent players and proved especially popular in Turkey where K2 Network monetized the game using its network of ESN code resellers. K2 Network also licensed and published MU Online, War Rock and Sword 2.
Creation of Studio Subsidiary Reloaded Productions
In November 2010, K2 Network's subsidiary Reloaded Productions purchased the rights to APB: All Points Bulletin from Realtime Worlds during the latter company's administration proceedings for a fraction of the game's original 60 million GBP development cost, aiming to convert the game from a traditional subscription based business model as designed by Realtime Worlds, to a game called APB: Reloaded using the company's free-to-play model. In June 2011, Reloaded Productions acquired Fallen Earth from Icarus Studios planning to repeat the subscription-to-freemium business model conversion.
On March 16, 2015, Reloaded Productions purchased the rights to Hawken.
References
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game publishers
Companies based in Irvine, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olearia%20angulata | Olearia angulata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
It is found only in New Zealand.
References
angulata
Flora of New Zealand
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Alliance%20of%20Latin%20American%20and%20Caribbean%20Communities | The National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) is a network of approximately 75 community-based organizations led by Latin American and Caribbean immigrants. NALACC member organizations work to improve the quality of life in their communities, both in the United States and in their countries of origin. The NALACC also seeks to build transnational leadership capacity and increase immigrant civic participation, aiming to assist immigrants advocate effectively for public policies that address the root causes of migration, as well as addressing challenges faced by immigrants in the United States. To date, this latter work has focused on efforts to reform US immigration policies to make them more humane and effective.
External links
Official website of NALCC : www.nalcc.org
Caribbean-American organizations
Community organizing
Civil liberties advocacy groups in the United States
Hispanic and Latino American organizations
Organizations established in 2004
Immigrant rights organizations in the United States
Supraorganizations
Government watchdog groups in the United States
Legal advocacy organizations in the United States
Latin America and the Caribbean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton%20Lewis%20III | Fulton Lewis III (January 25, 1936 - September 6, 2017) was an American journalist, the only son of the late network American news commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. and Alice Huston Lewis.
Education and early career
Fulton Lewis III attended Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland and the University of Virginia, graduating from the latter in 1957. His first job was News Director of a small station in Jamestown, New York but soon afterwards (1959) he was hired by the House Un-American Activities Committee of the U.S. Congress as its Research Director. The following year, he produced and narrated the committee's documentary film of the May 1960 riots in San Francisco protesting the committee's hearings there. The script was written by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and showed evidence of involvement by members of the Communist Party USA in the incitement and leadership of the riots. In 1961, Lewis resigned from the committee to embark on a nationwide lecture/debate tour in defense of the validity of the film. He appeared on over 750 college and university campuses.
In 1963, Lewis was named National Field Director of Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative youth group inspired by publisher William F. Buckley Jr. He continued his lecturing and debating as a means of organizing YAF chapters on campuses and to recruit support for the presidential candidacy of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ). Lewis was later hired as a speechwriter for Goldwater and his running mate Rep. William E. Miller (R-NY) in their unsuccessful campaign of 1964. Following the election, he continued his lecture tour appearing on hundreds of campuses and at civic, business and political meetings.
After the death of his father on August 20, 1966, Lewis was asked by the Mutual Broadcasting System to continue the elder Lewis' nightly 15-minute broadcasts, which he did until 1979. His commentaries were heard on over 500 of the network's affiliates by an estimated 16 million people.
War correspondent
Lewis frequently traveled abroad as a war correspondent. Among other conflicts, he covered the 1967 Six-Day War in Israel, the war in Vietnam (six trips), the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the Biafran war for independence from Nigeria.
Rhodesian boycott
Lewis also travelled to Rhodesia to cover that country's efforts to survive a United Nations economic boycott. Lewis' interviews with Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith in the late 1960s are widely credited with bringing that issue to public attention in the U.S. Lewis argued that the boycott was instigated because Rhodesia had not perfected a "one-man, one-vote" system of government. However, as a result of the boycott the U.S. could no longer purchase metallurgical-grade chromium ore (a mineral needed for national defense) from Rhodesia, and was forced to import it from the Soviet Union—which, Lewis pointed out, had perfected a "no-man, no vote" system. Lewis was the author of legislation introduced by Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. (D-VA) in 1 |
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