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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination%20New%20Zealand | Destination New Zealand is a tourism television programme that features major tourism locations in New Zealand. The programme is produced by Tourism Network, who work with Tourism New Zealand to promote tourists to travel and explore New Zealand.
About the programme
There are 14 episodes of Destination New Zealand, which takes viewers to:
Northland
Auckland
Coromandel
Rotorua
Gisborne
Hawkes Bay
Wellington
Nelson
Marlborough
Canterbury
West Coast
Queenstown
Destination New Zealand is hosted by New Zealand actress Miriama Smith and shows regional attractions including vineyards, accommodation, food, excursions and adventures.
International Broadcasters
References
External links
Official Website
New Zealand tourism site
New Zealand documentary television series
2000s New Zealand television series
Tourism in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20Futures | Higher Futures, established in 2006, is the Lifelong Learning Network (LLN) for South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire. It is one of many LLNs operating in each region across the country.
Higher Futures aims to help vocational and work-based learners in five priority sectors - early years education, engineering, health and social care, public wellbeing, and sustainable communities - to progress from further education to higher education.
Higher Futures' partner institutions are:
Sheffield Hallam University (lead partner)
University of Sheffield
Barnsley College
Chesterfield College
Dearne Valley College
Doncaster College
Longley Park Sixth Form
North Nottinghamshire College
Northern College
Rotherham College of Arts and Technology
The Sheffield College
Thomas Rotherham College
Aims and objectives
Through effective collaboration, Higher Futures aims to:
Enhance the supply of higher education provision and transform institutional cultures, processes and procedures;
Improve progression opportunities to higher education through vocational routes;
Increase demand from employers and vocational learners for higher level skills and education;
Improve access to information, advice and guidance (IAG) and transition support.
See also
Lifelong Learning Networks (LLNs)
External links
Higher Futures
Education in England
Sheffield Hallam University
Vocational education in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelong%20Learning%20Networks | Lifelong Learning Networks (LLNs) were a joint initiative in the UK between the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and the former Department for Education and Skills (DfES). They were created as a result of HEFCE/LSC Circular Letter 12/2004.
In June 2004, they invited Further Education Colleges (FECs) and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to forge partnerships, bringing together different types of learning provider in a single network. These networks would provide fresh opportunities for progression to higher education for vocational and work-based learners, supporting vocational education, learner development and lifelong learning.
Higher York, the country's first LLN, hosts the Lifelong Learning Network National Forum - an initiative designed to promote good practice and sharing ideas between the different LLNs across the country.
See also
Higher Futures - LLN for South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire
External links
HEFCE
LLN National Forum
Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance
Birmingham Black Country and Solihull LLN
Greater Merseyside and West Lancashire LLN
Hampshire and Isle of Wight LLN
Herefordshire and Worcestershire LLN
Higher Futures
Higher York
Leap Ahead
Linking London
MOVE
National Arts Learning Network
Skills for Sustainable Communities
South West LLN
Sussex Learning Network
The Creative Way
West London LLN
Western Vocational LLN
Yorkshire and Humber East LLN
Coventry and Warwickshire Lifelong Learning Network (CWLLN)
Vocational education in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20Sanitation%20Alliance | The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is a loose network of organizations who are "working along the same lines towards achieving sustainable sanitation". It began its work in 2007, one year before the United Nations International Year of Sanitation in 2008. The intention of creating SuSanA was to have a joint label for the planned activities for 2008 and to align the various organizations for further initiatives.
SuSanA has over 360 partner organizations and over 13,000 individual members (as of March 2021). SuSanA's vision document contains a definition of sustainable sanitation which was developed by SuSanA partners in 2007. The discussion forum that is hosted by SuSanA performs like a Community of Practice (CoP).
SuSanA is not a non-governmental organization (NGO). It has no legal structure and takes no membership fees. It encourages other organizations to join the network and to become active members in the thematic working groups.
The SuSanA secretariat is funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development which has commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for this task. Other SuSanA partners make contributions for example by paid time of their staff members. Between 2012 and 2018, co-funding for the online Discussion Forum, project database, Wikipedia editing and other improvements to the SuSanA website was provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Overview
SuSanA is dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and in particular SDG6 (Goal Number 6) which is "water and sanitation for all". This is done by promoting sustainable sanitation systems. These systems should be "economically viable, socially acceptable, technically and institutionally appropriate, and protect health, the environment and natural resources".
SuSanA is one of several knowledge management platform in the WASH sector such as the LinkedIn Discussion Group "Community of Practice on Sanitation and Hygiene in Developing Countries" by WSSCC (now defunct), Blue Planet, International Water Association (IWA), Akvopedia and others.
Activities
Since 2007, SuSanA has held 23 meetings in different locations around the world. Each year one meeting takes place before or after the World Water Week in Stockholm, and a further meeting usually takes place in the Global South, connected to another WASH event. SuSanA also organises side events, seminars and working group meetings in conjunction with other major WASH conferences.
SuSanA members are contributing to Wikipedia articles on WASH-related topics. They are particularly active just before two international observance days: World Water Day on 22 March and World Toilet Day on 19 November. They have also set up a list of "List of abbreviations used in sanitation".
Funding sources
SuSanA has no legal structure, budget nor income. Partners contribute time and resources from their own budgets. The SuSanA secretariat is funded by the Germ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11%3A%20The%20Twin%20Towers | 9/11: The Twin Towers (also billed as Inside the Twin Towers) is a movie based on the 9/11 attacks which uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to re-create a minute-by-minute account of what happened inside the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City during the September 11 attacks. In the United States it premiered on the Discovery Channel on 3 September 2006, narrated by Harry Pritchett. In the United Kingdom it premiered on BBC One on 7 September 2006, narrated by Terence Stamp.
The film won the 2007 British Academy Television Craft Award for Sound Factual, and was nominated (but did not win) for Editing as well. It was also nominated for the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Made For Television Movie.
Premise
The documentary revolves around several WTC workers/rescuers as they retell their experiences from the 9/11 attacks, beginning from the moment of when American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center to the aftermath of the collapse of both Twin Towers.
Synopsis
Frank De Martini and Rick Bryan
Frank De Martini was the construction manager of the World Trade Center, known for helping rebuild the building after the 1993 bomb attack. He was with his wife Nicole on the 88th floor when Flight 11 crashed a few floors above them. He told Nicole to escape and he and two other co-workers, Pablo Ortiz and Mak Hanna, began going up the North Tower to rescue trapped workers. They eventually came to the 89th floor where they rescued several trapped workers including Rick Bryan, a manager at MetLife, and secretary Dianne DeFontes. De Martini sends Hanna down the tower with an injured, elderly Port Authority worker on his back while Bryan and his co-workers begin to make their way downwards. Making their way towards the impact zone, De Martini and Ortiz report structural damage that could lead to catastrophic results. Bryan and his group are nearly out of the building when they feel the tremors caused by the South Tower's collapse. They manage to make it out alive along with Hanna. De Martini and Ortiz are both killed when the North Tower collapses. 77 people were saved thanks to their efforts, including Bryan and DeFontes.
Christine Olender
On the morning of the attacks, Christine Olender is in charge of a conference at Windows on the World, a restaurant on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower. She calls the PAPD for help several times as the smoke from the impact zone leaks onto their floor. She sends Melanie de Vere and two other delegates who are attending the conference up to the roof to try and evacuate from there, but the doors are locked and Port Authority employees in a command center on the 22nd floor of the building are unable to remotely unlock them due to damaged systems. Eventually, people begin jumping to their deaths to escape the flames. Christine makes three more calls for help afterwards, but neither she nor anyone else from Windows on the World is heard from again after 9:4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20FX | The following are programs broadcast by FX.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Anthology
Docuseries
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| The New York Times Presents
| Investigative journalism
| July 10, 2020
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| Pending
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| Welcome to Wrexham| Sports
| August 24, 2022
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| Season 2 ongoing
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|}
Syndicated repeatsFamily Guy (2021)Black-ish (2023)
Upcoming programming
Drama
Miniseries
Pilots
DramaThe AnswersThe Bends The Border Untitled David Chase & Hannah Fidell project
ComedyEnglish TeacherPeep ShowUntitled Lauren Ludwig project
AnimationThe TrenchesIn development
DramaThe Bobby Love StoryDrug SpiesThe Murder RuleThe Scent of Burnt FlowersThe SparrowThe Spook Who Sat by the DoorThe StonesThis Is How They Tell Me the World EndsUntitled David Chase series
Untitled Snowfall spin-offWyrdFormer programming
Original programming
DramaThe Shield (2002–08)Nip/Tuck (2003–10)Rescue Me (2004–11)Over There (2005)Dirt (2007–08)The Riches (2007–08)Damages (2007–10)Sons of Anarchy (2008–14)Justified (2010–15)Terriers (2010)Lights Out (2011)The Americans (2013–18)The Bridge (2013–14)Tyrant (2014–16)The Strain (2014–17)The Bastard Executioner (2015)Legion (2017–19)Snowfall (2017–23)Pose (2018–21)Mayans M.C. (2018–23)
ComedySon of the Beach (2000–02)Lucky (2003)It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–12)Starved (2005)Testees (2008–09)The League (2009–12)Louie (2010–15)Wilfred (2011–13)Anger Management (2012–14)Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell (2012–13)Legit (2013)Saint George (2014)You're the Worst (2014)Married (2014–15)Partners (2014)The Comedians (2015)Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2015–16)Baskets (2016–19)Atlanta (2016–22)Better Things (2016–22)
MiniseriesThief (2006)Trust (2018)Fosse/Verdon (2019)
Justified: City Primeval (2023)
AnimationThe Dick & Paula Celebrity Special (1999–2000)Archer (2009–16)Unsupervised (2012)Chozen (2014)
DocuseriesLost & Found (1995–98)Baseball, Minnesota (1996–98)The Weekly (2019)A Wilderness of Error (2020)Hip Hop Uncovered (2021)Pride (2021)Children of the Underground (2022)Dear Mama (2023)The Secrets of Hillsong (2023)
Co-productionsTaboo (2017)Mr Inbetween (2018–21)A Christmas Carol (2019)Black Narcissus (2020)Breeders (2020–23)
OtherNo Relation (1996–98)Bobcat's Big Ass Show (1998–99)American Baby (1998–2002)Healthy Kids (1998–2002)The X Show (1999–2001)The New Movie Show with Chris Gore (2000)Your Favorite Girl Next Door (2000–01)The Orlando Jones Show (2003)Todd TV (2004)NASCAR Drivers: 360 (2004–05)30 Days (2005–08)Black. White. (2006)Brand X with Russell Brand (2012–13)DVD on TV (2003–2014)FX Movie Download (2014–19)The Choe Show (2021)
Syndicated programmingHome and Away (June 1994–February 1995) (first U.S. broadcast)Dynasty (1994–95; 1997–98)The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1994–96)The Green Hornet (1994–96)W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langmaker | Langmaker was a website run by Jeffrey Henning that acted as a database of conlangs, neographies, and other resources related to conlanging and conworlding. Prominent articles and the conlang directory were collected published by Yannia Press as Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs, with an introduction by David J. Peterson. As of June 4, 2009, the site was offline. An unknown source has taken over the website, and hosts virus files.
History
Langmaker began as Model Languages, a newsletter published by Henning between 1995 and 1996, in which he attempted to better publicize the hobby of conlanging and to explore various issues and questions related to conlanging. Shortly, Henning moved to a website format. He began not only discussing and commenting on conlangs but also cataloguing them in a comprehensive database, with overviews of the languages and links to their respective websites. Henning ultimately began adding neologisms; babel texts; neographies; books on languages, linguistics, and conlanging; and other general resources to his database. Langmaker has been viewed by many as an information and activity hub in the online conlanging world.
In April 2007, Langmaker was converted to wiki format, allowing its many readers to themselves make contributions to the website. Henning has since left the maintenance of the site primarily to its casual contributors and administrators, who continued to contribute up until January 4, 2008, when the site was locked.
Mark Rosenfelder writes, "Jeffrey Henning writes and posts regularly on the process of creating model languages and reviews a number of projects." As of November 11, 2015, the domain name has been bought.
References
Inline
General
External links
Archive.org mirror of Homepage (18 June 2008)
Constructed languages resources
Defunct websites
Free-content websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona%20Kelleghan | Fiona Kelleghan (born April 21, 1965, in West Palm Beach, Florida) is an American academic and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy. She was a metadata librarian and a cataloguer at the University of Miami's Otto G. Richter Library. She left the university in 2011.
Career
Writing in The Washington Post, critic Michael Dirda called Kelleghan "an expert on humor in genre fiction," and she was listed on the University of Miami's website as its official expert on "Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror." She is also interested in film both inside and outside the science-fiction genre, and is an amateur ethologist.
She has identified a secular, satiric literary movement within the science-fiction genre that she calls "Savage Humanism." Her critical anthology The Savage Humanists (Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2008) begins with a 17,000-word essay by her describing the movement and its practitioners, and collects stories by Gregory Frost, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, James Morrow, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, Tim Sullivan, and Connie Willis, with introductions to each by Kelleghan. That essay, "A Definition of Savage Humanism, with Autobiographical Anecdotes," is reprinted as the cover story in the November 2008 edition of The New York Review of Science Fiction, and takes up most of that issue of the magazine.
Kelleghan's other books include Mike Resnick: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to His Work (Farthest Star, 2000), and, as editor, 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction (Salem Press, 2001, 2 volumes) and Magill's Choice: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (Salem Press, 2002).
Her scholarly work has appeared in Extrapolation, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nova Express, ParaDoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres, Science Fiction Studies, and SFRA Review (a publication of the Science Fiction Research Association, of which she is a member).
She has contributed to the reference books American Women Writers; Contemporary Novelists [7th Edition] (for which she is the authority on Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Lethem, and Connie Willis, among others); Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature; Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet, edited by Neil Barron; St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers; St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers; Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror; and Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary; and, with Daryl F. Mallett, to Genre and Ethnic Collections: Collected Essays, and she was largely responsible for assisting Mallett and Hal Hall with the completion of Pilgrims & Pioneers: The History and Speeches of the Science Fiction Research Association Award Winners (Borgo Press, 1999). Fiona's book reviews have appeared in The Washington Post and as official commissioned reviews for BarnesandNoble.com, and she ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imani%20Winds | Imani Winds is an American wind quintet based in New York City, United States. The group was founded by flutist Valerie Coleman in 1997 and is known for its adventurous and diverse programming, which includes both established and newly composed works. The word Imani means "faith" in Swahili. They are also active commissioners of new music with the intent of introducing more diverse composers to the wind quintet repertoire.
Overview
The name "Imani Winds" was chosen by Coleman before she formed the quintet. She viewed it as a vision of what the quintet could mean to African-American and other underrepresented communities. Coleman wanted to form a chamber group to highlight the work of underrepresented composers and performers. Therefore, the group's initial members were all of African American and Latino ancestry. The group first included Valerie Coleman on flute, Toyin Spellman-Diaz on oboe, Monica Ellis on bassoon, Mariam Adam on clarinet, and Jeff Scott on french horn. In 2016 Mark Dover replaced Mariam Adam, in 2018 Brandon Patrick George replaced Valerie Coleman, and in 2021, Kevin Newton replaced Jeff Scott.
The group has released four CDs. Their first CD on a major label, The Classical Underground (Koch Entertainment), was released in January 2005 and was nominated for a Grammy award in 2006.
In 2001 they won the Richard S. Weinert Award for Innovation in Classical Music from the Concert Artists Guild. In 2002, they won the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and the CMA/WQXR Recording Award for their first album Umoja. In 2007, they won the ASCAP Concert Music Award.
Imani Winds have toured throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, and participated in Chamber Music Society Two, a professional residency program of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In addition, Imani has toured internationally and recorded with saxophonist Steve Coleman, performed with pop recording artists Morley, and opened for Cassandra Wilson and Wynton Marsalis. They have performed with several notable jazz musicians such as Wayne Shorter, Steve Coleman, Paquito D'Rivera, and Steffon Harris. They have appeared on radio programs including Saint Paul Sunday, Performance Today, Performance Today, News & Notes, The Bob Edwards Show, and The World.
Legacy Commissioning Project
Imani Winds began the Legacy Commissioning Project in 2008 with the intention of commissioning and premiering ten new works for wind quintet by composers of color and diverse backgrounds over a five-year period. The group has continued to commission and premiered more works after the initial five-year time frame, and the group has continued their original intent to introduce more diverse composers to the standard wind quintet repertoire.
Commissions
Discography
With Steve Coleman
1999 – The Ascension to Light
With Brubeck Brothers Quartet
2008 – Classified
With Chick Corea
2012 - The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra
With Wayne Shor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmux | TRANSMUX (Transcode-Multiplexing) is a signaling format change in telecommunications signaling between synchronous optical network signals SONET and asynchronous DS3 signals. A DS3 signal is multiplexed from 28 individual DS1 signals in a bit-interleaved fashion, with framing and overhead at determined intervals. SONET differs from this approach by using a byte-interleaved, synchronous, multiplexing technique with several variations on payload types.
Usage
SONET payload can carry multiplexed lower rate streams (DS1, E1, DS3, etc.) as well as any octet-based format such as TCP/IP, ATM, frame relay, Ethernet, etc.
Variations
If cross-connect capability is to be maintained at the VT1.5 level, then the individual DS1 signals are extracted from a parent DS3 or electrical T1, and then transmuted individually into each VT1.5. If a complete DS3 signal is to be delivered to a SONET drop, then the entire DS3 is transmuted intact into an STS container and no subsequent cross-connect capability exists with the SONET payload at a VT1.5 level.
Industry application
White Rock Networks Description of a product with Transmux Support:
"For applications where conversion between DS3 and VT1.5 mapped STS-1s is required, transmux allows DS3 embedded within an STS-1 circuit to be adapted to a VT1.5 mapped STS-1 without physically terminating the circuit as a DS3 or EC-1."
External links
White Rock Networks ETS2 Product Description
References
vision2mobile.com - Transmuxing Article
Multiplexing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL%20Federated | Federated is a storage engine for the MySQL MariaDB relational database management system that allows creation of a table that is a local representation of a foreign (remote) table. It uses the MySQL client library API as a data transport, treating remote tables as if they were located on the local server.
Each Federated table that is defined there is one .frm (data definition file containing information such as the URL of the data source). The actual data can exist on a local or remote MySQL instance.
To create a Federated table, one has to specify a URL in the "CONNECTION" string:
create table t1 (
a int,
b varchar(32))
ENGINE=FEDERATED CONNECTION='mysql://user@hostname/test/t1'
The connection URL is in the format of:
scheme://user:pass@host:port/schema/tablename
Upon creation of a Federated table, the user must ensure that the remote data source does indeed exist or an error will be issued.
The MySQL Federated Storage Engine was authored by Patrick Galbraith and Brian Aker and is currently being maintained by Patrick Galbraith and Antony Curtis. It was introduced in 2005 with MySQL 5.0.
External links
MySQL Documentation on Federated Storage Engine
Database engines
MySQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWallet | KDE Wallet Manager (KWallet) is free and open-source password management software written in C++ for UNIX-style operating systems. KDE Wallet Manager runs on a Linux-based OS and Its main feature is storing encrypted passwords in KDE Wallets. The main feature of KDE wallet manager (KWallet) is to collect user's credentials such as passwords or IDs and encrypt them through Blowfish symmetric block cipher algorithm or GNU Privacy Guard encryption.
Installation
KDE Wallet Manager (KWallet) requires a Linux-based OS and the KDE Software Compilation desktop environment such as Kubuntu.
Browser extensions
KDE Wallet manager (KWallet) can be integrated with various web browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Edge.
To use KDE Wallet manager (KWallet) integration on Google Chrome or Chromium, user needs to run a program with argument --password-store=kwallet5 or --password-store=detect .
A standalone add-on is also available in Firefox. This addon allows users to store passwords internally through KDE Wallet manager (KWallet) instead of the default Firefox password manager.
Konqueror, the official web browser of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) features KDE Wallet manager (KWallet) to store sensitive passwords encrypted.
API
KDE Wallet Manager’s APIs trigger authentication events when the application makes a request through Desktop Communications protocol (DCOP), which is KDE’s primary interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism, which causes a password dialog box to be displayed for the application. This causes the password dialog box to be launched by the KDE daemon process. Users can choose either to cancel the dialog box which will terminate the application or to fill the password box in. If the password box is filled, the Wallet will automatically open. KDE Wallet Manager’s Desktop communications protocol (DCOP) can only be accessed locally because it is an interprocess communication (IPC) protocol that is processed over UNIX local sockets.
GUI
On KDE Wallet Manager’s GUI, users can manage every wallet and password assigned to them.
KDE Wallet Manager allows users to save or delete Wallets and users can identify which wallet applications should look in when attempting to access a stored password.
These are the lists of actions that users can take on the GUI of KDE Wallet manager (KWallet):
Create new Wallet
Change the default Wallet
Lock the Wallet
Store passwords to a Wallet
Unlock the password of the Wallet
Update the information on a Wallet
View stored passwords in the Wallet
Wallets
The Wallet is a term for password storage used in KDE Wallet Manager software. Wallets can be created manually by the user or It is offered by dialogue when the user enters in a password on any KDE desktop environment or website. Once created, Wallet can store various passwords and It is controlled by one master password. This way users do not have to remember various passwords, instead, they can just manage them by memorizing one master p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunan%20Broadcasting%20System | Hunan Broadcasting System (HBS) () formerly known as Golden Eagle Broadcasting System (GBS), is China's second biggest state-owned television network after China Central Television (CCTV). The television network is owned by the Hunan provincial government. The network is based in Changsha in Hunan and Xining in Qinghai. On 20 May 2009, the television network expanded its service to Hong Kong and North America.
History
Hunan Broadcasting System first aired on 29 September 1970 as a local television station in Changsha, Hunan province, China. It expanded its network through nationwide satellite television on 1 January 1997.
Hunan Broadcasting System's nationwide channel Hunan Television created Happy Camp, one of China's first variety shows. Happy Camp remained as China's highest-rated TV show, until its ratings were overtaken in 2008 by Jiangsu TV's If You Are the One. Hunan TV was also known for launching national singing contests Super Girl and Super Boy fashioned after the British series Pop Idol. Hunan TV also aired many highly rated dramas including Palace and Scarlet Heart.
Hunan Broadcasting System took a 49% stake in Qinghai TV in 2009, increasing the number of satellite channels in its roster.
Hunan TV is currently China's second most-watched channel, second only to CCTV-1, owned by China Central Television.
In 2017, the Hunan provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party criticized Hunan TV as a "platform for gay entertainment" and for having "failed to fulfill the mission of being a mouthpiece of the Party."
Assets
TV channels
Online TV:
Mango Television
Qinghai Television (Qinghai TV, national broadcast, 49% owned by HBS)
Happigo (Pay digital channel)
Happy Fishing (Pay digital channel)
Channel Tea (Pay digital channel)
Table Tennis & Badminton Channel (Pay digital channel)
Radio Frequencies (Provincial broadcasts only):
Hunan News Radio (on MW 738, on FM 102.8, 93.0, 88.0, 93.7 etc., on SW 4990) (Frequencies on FM may vary in different cities)
Hunan Economic Radio (on MW 900, on FM 90.1, 91.0, 95.7, 94.6 etc.) (Frequencies on FM may vary in different cities)
Hunan Fine Arts Radio (on FM 97.5, 87,5, 90.8, 95.7) (Frequencies on FM may vary in different cities)
Hunan Traffic Radio (on FM 91.8, 100.3, 102.6,102.0,89.5) (Frequencies on FM may vary in different cities)
Hunan Travel Radio (on FM 106.9, 90.6)
Green 938 (on FM 93.8, 100.7)
Super 893 (on FM 89.3, 89.8, 102.1)
Golden Eagle 955 (on FM 95.5, 100.5, 91.3)
Other assets:
Mango Excellent Media
Hunantv.com Corporation
EE-Media
Happigo Co., Ltd.
Jin Yin Bao
Mango Pictorial
Xiaoxiang Films
Mango Films
Shineshow Media
Genstone International
Production
Hunan Broadcasting System has broadcast notable programming such as Super Girl, often referred to as the Chinese version of the United Kingdom's Pop Idol. , it is airing the Chinese version of Strictly Come Dancing, a co-production with TVB.
Hunan TV
Happy Camp
Day Day Up
Super Girl
Super Boy
S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%27%20WB%20Australia | Kids' WB (stylized as Kids' WB!) is an Australian children's television programme which aired on the Nine Network from 16 September 2006 to 29 November 2019. It is based on the US television block of the same name with the addition of hosted content, which was absent in its American counterpart. It was originally hosted by Georgia Sinclair and Shura Taft. The show is a television block which aired on weekend mornings and weekday afternoons, mainly consisting of cartoons and locally hosted variety-style segments, filmed at GTV-9 in Melbourne, itself owned by the Nine Network, and occasionally on location at Warner Bros. Movie World in Queensland. The show would not air over December and January. As of 2013, Kids' WB aired exclusively on 9Go!. Its final presenters were Lauren Phillips and Andy Sunderland.
Hosts
Notes
Tayla Johnston and Andy Sunderland joined the show as roving reporters on 17 February 2018.
History
On 20 August 2011, Kids' WB celebrated its 200th episode of the Saturday show on Nine.
In July 2013, the hosts travelled to Los Angeles, broadcasting from Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California.
Kids' WB celebrated the 75th anniversary of Batman on 23 July 2014 with a Batman-themed day.
2015 saw the show celebrate its 10th anniversary year, with the hosts visiting Los Angeles in July to represent Australia in the international Razor Cart Championships. The 2015 season also featured classic Looney Tunes shorts which hadn't aired on Nine since 1992.
On 21 November 2019, TV Tonight reported that Kids' WB had been axed and that production on the series would conclude within two weeks. It was stated that the cancellation of the series was due to the expiry of the Nine Network's long-running output deal with Warner Bros. The final episode aired on 29 November 2019, ending the show's 13-year run.
Time slot
Kids' WB premiered on 16 September 2006, in the time slot of Saturdays from 7:30 am to 10:00 am on Nine.
On 30 May 2009, the program moved to the later time slot of 9:00 am to 11:30 am to make way for Weekend Today.
With the launch of Nine's new multi-channel GO! (later renamed 9Go!) in 2009, extra Kids' WB content was added. From 9 August 2009, the show aired on Sundays from 7:00 am to 11:00 am as Kids' WB Sunday and Saturdays from 7:00 am to 9:00 am as Kids' WB Early Shift Saturday, before the main show on Nine.
On 6 March 2010, the main Kids’ WB Saturday show on Nine was moved to the later time slot of 10:00 am to 12:30 pm upon the premiere of Saturday Kerri-Anne. The Early Shift on GO! was extended to air from 7:00 am to 10:00 am.
Kids’ WB again moved to a later time slot on 30 April 2011, airing from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm, with Saturday Kerri-Anne being extended. The Early Shift on GO! was again extended to 7:00 am to 11:00 am, now branded as only Kids’ WB Saturday, to match Kids’ WB Sunday, also airing from 7:00 am to 11:00 am. This followed Kids’ WB Weekdays launching on 7 March 2011, airing from 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo%20station%20%28disambiguation%29 | London Waterloo station is a central London terminus on the National Rail network in the UK.
Waterloo station may also refer to:
Railway stations
United Kingdom
Aberdeen Waterloo railway station, a former station in Aberdeen, Scotland
Waterloo Halt railway station, a former station in Rudry, Caerphilly, Wales
Waterloo International railway station, a former Eurostar terminal in London, England
Waterloo railway station (Merseyside), in England
Waterloo tube station, a London Underground station below the mainline station
Elsewhere
Waterloo metro station (Charleroi), a light rail station in Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium
Waterloo railway station, Belgium, in Waterloo, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Waterloo (Hanover Stadtbahn station), in Lower Saxony, Germany
Waterloo railway station, Lower Hutt, in Greater Wellington, New Zealand
Waterloo railway station, Sydney, a rapid transit station in New South Wales, Australia
Waterloo station (Indiana), in the United States
Yau Ma Tei station, a rapid transit station, formerly named Waterloo station, in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Similar names
University of Waterloo station, a light rail station in Ontario, Canada
Waterloo East railway station, in London, England
Waterloo Road (NSR) railway station, in Staffordshire, England
Waterlooplein metro station, in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Other uses
Waterloo Station (TV series), an Australian television series
See also
Waterloo (disambiguation)
Waterloo & City line, a London Underground shuttle line between Waterloo and Bank
Waterloo Underground Depot
Waterloo and Whitehall Railway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Kids%27%20WB | This is a list of television shows formerly broadcast on the Kids' WB programming block in the United States. The block launched on September 9, 1995, on The WB and continued after the 2006 United States broadcast TV realignment on The CW until it aired for the final time on May 17, 2008. Kids' WB would be succeeded by The CW4Kids.
Much of the Kids' WB content today can be found on streaming services such as Max and Tubi.
Former programming
Original programming
Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Television
Programming from Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network Studios
Warner Bros. Animation
Programming from Fox Kids
Programming from Hanna-Barbera
Captain Planet (1997–1998)
The New Scooby-Doo Movies (2002)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (2002–2004)
The Scooby-Doo Show (2002–2003)
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (2002–2003)
The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (2002–2003)
Programming from 4Kids Entertainment
Pokémon (1999–2006) (first 8 seasons only dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment)
Pokémon: Indigo League (1999)
Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands (1999–2000)
Pokémon: The Johto Journeys (2000–2001)
Pokémon: Johto League Champions (2001–2002)
Pokémon: Master Quest (2002–2003)
Pokémon: Advanced (2003–2004)
Pokémon: Advanced Challenge (2004–2005)
Pokémon: Advanced Battle (2005–2006)
Yu-Gi-Oh! (2001–2006)
Cubix: Robots for Everyone (2001–2003)
Syndicated from Sony Pictures Television/Adelaide Productions
Channel Umptee-3 (1997–1998)
Men in Black: The Series (1997–2001)
Generation O! (2000–2001)
Jackie Chan Adventures (2000–2005)
Max Steel (2000–2001)
Phantom Investigators (2002)
Astro Boy (2004)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008; in conjunction with Marvel Entertainment)
Syndicated from WildBrain
Spider Riders (2006–2007; produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment)
Magi-Nation (2007–2008; produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment)
Will and Dewitt (2007–2008; produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment)
World of Quest (2008; produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment)
Acquired programming
Earthworm Jim (1995–1996; produced by Universal Animation Studios)
The Legend of Calamity Jane (1997)
Brats of the Lost Nebula (1998; in conjunction with Jim Henson's Creature Shop)
Invasion America (1998; produced by DreamWorks Television Animation)
X-Men: Evolution (2000–2003; in conjunction with Marvel Entertainment)
Cardcaptors (2000–2001; produced by Nelvana)
Dragon Ball Z (2001)
The Mummy (2001–2003; produced by Universal Animation Studios)
Rescue Heroes (2001–2003)
Sailor Moon (2001)
MegaMan NT Warrior (2003–2005)
Da Boom Crew (2004)
Transformers: Cybertron (2005)
Viewtiful Joe (2005–2006)
Monster Allergy (2006–2007)
Eon Kid (2007–2008)
Skunk Fu! (2007–2008)
Shorts
Thumb Wrestling Federation (2007–2008)
Notes
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20Engineering%20Students%27%20European%20Association | The Electrical Engineering STudents' European assoCiation (EESTEC) is a nonprofit apolitical and non-governmental student organization for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) students at universities, institutes and schools of technology in Europe awarding an engineering degree. As of March 2020, there were 48 current locations in EESTEC from 24 countries, although several other locations were active in EESTEC over the years.
As a pre-professional organization, EESTEC puts a strong emphasis on the development of a general skillset, with soft-skill growth added to the mastery of the academic and professional skillset of the field. The organization aims to promote and develop international contacts and the exchange of ideas among EECS students through professional workshops, cultural student exchanges and publications.
EESTEC was founded in 1986 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The official seat moved several times until finally returning in 2002 to Delft, its current location.
History
Pre-EESTEC
Discussions about the need for an international organization for electrical engineering students are dated back to 1958, when students from France and West Germany met in an attempt to form such a group. It was not, however, until five years later that a European association, called EURIELEC, was formed.
Despite the success in its early years, EURIELEC was dissolved in 1972. Various attempts were made over the next twelve years, but no organization was able to form a sustainable structure to reconnect electrical engineering students in Europe.
In 1984, the boards of three Dutch student guilds from ETV (Delft), Thor (Eindhoven) and Scintilla (Enschede), decided to try and reignite the interest of other European student associations in renewing the international student activities. They exchanged ideas with professional organizations such as IEEE, EUREL and SEFI, and in January 1985 wrote the first letter to all former EURIELEC member universities, inviting them to take part in a new international annual conference for electrical engineering students, which they later named EESTIC (Electrical Engineering STudents International Conference).
The early years
The inaugural gathering was held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, between April 27 and May 3, 1986, and was attended by 50 students from 33 different cities in 17 different countries (Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, England, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, West Germany and Yugoslavia).
A meeting during a visit to the Peace Palace in The Hague on the last day of the conference is considered to be the founding of EESTEC. The delegates agreed on a list of 14 clauses, describing the structure and function of the newly formed organization. The official seat was assigned to Ghent, Belgium, and the concept of NatComs (National Committees) was introduced, as a single point of contact for each country. The resolutions incl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABshingura%201/47 | is a 2001 Japanese historical film based on the kabuki tale of the Forty-seven Ronin. The film was made for the Fuji TV Network and was directed by Shunsaku Kawamo.
The story tells the true story of Asano Naganori who attacked Lord Kira Kozenosuke with his sword in the Edo Castle after Kira had coaxed the young lord in the late 18th century. Even though the wound was only superficial, Asano was ordered to commit suicide. The 47 Asano Ronin (former retainers of Asano) led by Oishi Kuranosuke (Asano's chief adviser) came back to revenge their fallen lord against Lord Kira and were victorious but the Ronin were ordered to commit seppuku later by the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The tale of the 47 ronin is a popular story in Japan and has become part of popular culture. References to the ronin can also be found in the recent movie Hana yori mo naho with Junichi Okada and Asano Tadanobu.
Cast
Takuya Kimura as Yasube Horibe
Kōichi Satō as Kuranosuke Oishi
Eri Fukatsu as Hori Horibe
Naoki Sugiura as Yahyoe Horibe
Satomi Kobayashi as Riku Oishi
Takako Matsu as Aguri (later Yozeiin)
Yasuko Matsuyuki as Fujimi
Junichi Okada as Chikara Oishi
Masahiko Tsugawa as Kozukenosuke Kira
Satoshi Tsumabuki as Gunbe Takada
Shin'ichi Tsutsumi as Asano Takumi-no-kami Naganori
Machiko Washio
Katsutoshi Arata as Hara Soemon
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Shigeru Kōyama
Yoshinori Okada
Ken Watanabe (cameo)
References
2001 films
Samurai films
Jidaigeki films
2000s Japanese films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Wade | Laura Wade is an English playwright.
Early life
Wade was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire. She grew up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, where her father worked for a computer company. After completing her secondary education at Lady Manners School in Bakewell, Derbyshire, she studied drama at Bristol University and was later a member of the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers' Programme.
Career
Laura Wade's first play, Limbo, was produced at the Sheffield Crucible Studio Theatre in 1996. 16 Winters was produced at the Bristol Old Vic Basement Theatre in 2000. After university she worked for the children's theatre company Playbox Theatre in Warwick. Wade's adaptation of W. H. Davies' Young Emma opened at the Finborough Theatre, London (where she was later Writer-in-Residence) in December 2003. Both Young Emma and 16 Winters were directed by Tamara Harvey, a contemporary from Bristol. In 2004, Wade was a writer on attachment at Soho Theatre and her play Colder Than Here was produced there in February 2005. Her next play Breathing Corpses played at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in March 2005. In March 2006, she returned to the Soho Theatre with Other Hands. 2010 marked her reappearance at the Sheffield Crucible with her reworking of Alice in Wonderland, entitled Alice.
Wade's first radio play, Otherkin, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 30 August 2007, a 45-minute play billed as episode 2 of the Looking for Angels series. Her second, Hum, about the Bristol Hum, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 20 May 2009. Between these two she also wrote Coughs and Sneezes for the Radio 4 series Fact to Fiction. In April 2010, her play Posh began a sell-out run at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, London. An article about Wade in the London Evening Standard at the time drew parallels between the Riot Club, the subject of Posh, and the Bullingdon Club, an exclusive Oxford University dining society. On 11 May 2012, an updated version of Posh opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, Wade's first play to appear in the West End. A film adaptation of the play, The Riot Club, directed by Lone Scherfig, was released in 2014. In February 2015, the regional premiere of Posh was co-produced by Nottingham Playhouse and Salisbury Playhouse.
In 2015, Wade adapted Sarah Waters novel Tipping the Velvet into a stage play of the same name. The play premiered at Lyric Hammersmith in September 2015, before transferring to the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.
On 4 July 2018, Wade's play Home, I'm Darling premiered at Theatr Clwyd. It was directed by Tamara Harvey, and starred Katherine Parkinson. The play transferred to the National Theatre for a summer 2018 run, to the Duke of York's Theatre in January 2019, and later won Best Comedy at the 2019 Laurence Olivier Awards.
Wade adapted the unfinished Jane Austen novel The Watsons into a play, which premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre on 3 November 2018, directed by Samuel West. It had a further run at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otomops | Otomops is a genus of bat in the family Molossidae. Molecular sequence data supports it as a monophyletic taxon, although not a number of other molossid genera.
Otomops contains the following species:
O. formosus, Javan mastiff bat
O. harrisoni, Harrison's large-eared giant mastiff bat
O. johnstonei, Johnstone's mastiff bat
O. madagascariensis, Madagascar free-tailed bat
O. martiensseni, large-eared free-tailed bat
O. papuensis, big-eared mastiff bat
O. secundus, mantled mastiff bat
O. wroughtoni, Wroughton's free-tailed bat
References
Bat genera
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHGB | WHGB (1400 AM) is a commercial radio station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a sports radio format. Most programming is supplied by the CBS Sports Radio Network, in which parent company Cumulus has a financial interest.
Programming is also heard on two FM translators, W237DE at 95.3 MHz and W243BR at 96.5 MHz.
History
On May 28, 1945, the station first signed on, owned by the Harrisburg Broadcasting Company. It was given the call sign WHGB and broadcast at 250 watts, as a network affiliate of ABC. In 1963, it became WFEC (for its owner Florida East Coast Broadcasting) featuring a Top 40 format. By 1977, it tried several unsuccessful formats, including country music, disco and urban contemporary.
In 1982, owned by Great Scott Broadcasting, it returned to Top 40, adopting Mike Joseph's Hot Hits format in response to that format's national success. Although WFEC featured the jingles and other high-energy basics of the Hot Hits format, it was not consulted by Joseph himself. During the Hot Hits era, the station was known as Fire 14.
By the last quarter of 1984, the station changed its call sign back to WHGB. For much of the 1980s it featured Al Ham's "The Music of Your Life" adult standards format along with substantial local sports play by play.
On October 31, 1990, the station changed its call sign to WNNK as "Wink 1400", a sister station to 104.1 WNNK-FM. On August 27, 1993, WNNK 1400 changed its call sign to WTCY and its format switched to Urban Adult Contemporary, branded as "1400 The Touch," using a satellite-delivered syndicated service known as "The Touch."
On July 24, 2008, WTCY began simulcasting "The Touch" programming on an FM translator, 95.3 W237DE.
On August 20, 2008, WTCY changed back to its original call letters, WHGB, which it had used in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and again from 1984 until 1990. The station changed format to sports radio as an ESPN Radio affiliate, while the Urban AC format was moved to the HD2 subchannel of sister station WNNK-FM, which allowed W237DE to continue to simulcast "The Touch." On September 1, 2011, the translator's simulcast was switched back to WHGB, bringing ESPN Radio to FM in Harrisburg, and ending "The Touch."
On January 2, 2013, the station switched to the CBS Sports Radio network.
On March 2, 2015 WHGB changed its format from sports to country, branded as "95.3 Nash Icon." Nash Icon is heard on dozens of Cumulus-owned stations, featuring country artists who first achieved fame in the 1980s, 90s and early 2000s. Then, about a year later, the sports format returned, once again using CBS Sports Radio as its primary programming source.
Translators
WHGB programming is broadcast on the following translators:
Previous logos
References
External links
Official website
HGB
Radio stations established in 1963
1963 establishments in Pennsylvania
Cumulus Media radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MadCap%20Software | MadCap Software is an American computer software firm headquartered in San Diego, California that creates help authoring tools and solutions for technical writers and documentation teams. Several principal managers, software engineers, and support personnel were recruited from rival firms, such as Adobe Systems and Macromedia, to found MadCap Software. MadCap's authoring tools are all based on xHTML.
Origins
Some of MadCap Software's founders were associated with eHelp and its core product, RoboHelp, a help authoring tool. After it was bought by Macromedia in 2003, the eHelp developers were laid off. MadCap co-founder Bjorn Backlund had headed the RoboHelp development team. He saw an opportunity to compete with RoboHelp by rewriting the program using XML and expanding the software. MadCap's founding CEO, Anthony Olivier, had been eHelp's CEO.
Products
MadCap Flare, a content authoring tool that generates output in various formats, including HTML5, Eclipse Help, Microsoft Compiled HTML Help, Microsoft Word, PDF, EPUB, and WebHelp
MadCap Central, a cloud-based solution for hosting, project management, build automation, and task management
MadCap Doc-To-Help, an authoring and publishing tool for users who want to create and manage content in a familiar Microsoft® Word environment
MadCap Capture, a screen capture tool
MadCap Contributor, content review for subject matter experts, managers
MadCap Lingo, a CAT tool used with Flare, Word, PowerPoint
MadCap Mimic, a tool for recording tutorials and software simulations
MadCap Pulse, analytic and social collaboration tool
MadCap Flare
The key concept behind MadCap Flare is single-source publishing. This is a method of content management which allows content to be used more than once across different media. Flare supports topic-based authoring and content management. Topic-based authoring means content is written in modular topics that can stand alone and be mixed or reused as needed.
Content creators can produce online help systems, eLearning modules, knowledge bases, document portals, and various guides and manuals, for use online or in print. Flare has streamlined content production.
There are many ways in Flare to reuse content, which saves time maintaining or updating topics.
Create content from scratch or import existing legacy documentation from a variety of sources. Add or edit content in the XML Editor, or edit the source code manually in the Text Editor. Share projects for team collaboration and feedback. Author content in other languages and perform translations with ease. Publish content to one of several different output types. Use built-in analytics to monitor user interaction and improve overall user satisfaction.
MadCap Flare Plugins
The Kaizen Plugin is a free productivity plugin for MadCap Flare, developed by Improvementsoft, based in Sweden.
The Mad Bot plugin is an AI-based plugin for MadCap Flare that helps improve the clarity, simplicity, and readability of your technical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFXY | WFXY (1490 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format to the Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States, area. The station is currently owned by Penelope, Inc. and features programming from ABC News Radio.
History
WFXY signed on in 1969, with the call letters WAFI at 1560 kHz. Programming included a full-service format with pop and country music. In the late 1970s, the station moved to a full-time Top 40 format and changed to the current frequency to add nighttime service. Currently, WFXY broadcasts from a tower site on Bloomsbury Avenue in Middlesboro, 24 hours per day.
The 1490 kHz frequency was originally occupied by station WMIK in Middlesboro from its sign-on date in 1948. WMIK, now a Southern Gospel station, moved to its present frequency at 560 kHz after the station's owners purchased Middlesboro station WCPM in May 1950. When WMIK changed frequencies, the 1490 kHz frequency remained unused until 1977. During that year, the station's frequency and call letters were changed; WAFI at 1560 kHz became WFXY at 1490 kHz. A few months later, WFXY moved its tower and transmitter from a location off US-25E to its present location.
In late 2005, WFXY and its parent company, Countrywide Broadcasters, Inc., were acquired by Joshua Wilkey, a North Carolina businessman who moved to Middlesboro to run WFXY and sister station WANO. The station has since dropped the satellite format it was airing (Westwood One/Dial Global's "Bright AC") in favor of local DJs and automation.
In 2009, the station was sold to Penelope, Inc. During a studio move and upgrading of equipment, the station simulcasted the sister station's programming until June 1, 2013.
On June 1, 2013, WFXY changed their format from country (simulcasting WANO 1230 AM) to classic hits, branded as "Foxy 1490". Bringing back the original sound of FOXY Radio that dominated the local market since 1969.
On October 14, 2018, the station went discontinued because a local man crashed his truck into the station's transmitter tower in an apparent act of vandalism. Joshua Lee was arrested the next day. Station owner Frank Smith said it may take 2–3 months to repair the transmitter and get the station back playing.
References
External links
FXY
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1969
1969 establishments in Kentucky
Middlesboro, Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20quantum%20chemistry%20and%20solid-state%20physics%20software | Quantum chemistry computer programs are used in computational chemistry to implement the methods of quantum chemistry. Most include the Hartree–Fock (HF) and some post-Hartree–Fock methods. They may also include density functional theory (DFT), molecular mechanics or semi-empirical quantum chemistry methods. The programs include both open source and commercial software. Most of them are large, often containing several separate programs, and have been developed over many years.
Overview
The following tables illustrates some of the main capabilities of notable packages:
Numerical details
Quantum chemistry and solid-state physics characteristics
Post processing packages in quantum chemistry and solid-state physics
See also
Footnotes
† "Academic": academic (no cost) license possible upon request; "Commercial": commercially distributed.
‡ Support for periodic systems (3d-crystals, 2d-slabs, 1d-rods and isolated molecules): 3d-periodic codes always allow simulating systems with lower dimensionality within a supercell. Specified here is the ability for simulating within lower periodicity.
2 QuanPol is a full spectrum and seamless (HF, MCSCF, GVB, MP2, DFT, TDDFT, CHARMM, AMBER, OPLSAA) QM/MM package integrated in GAMESS-US.
10 Through CRYSCOR program.
References
Further reading
Density functional theory software
Computational chemistry software
Molecular modelling software
Physics software
Lists of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely%20functional%20data%20structure | In computer science, a purely functional data structure is a data structure that can be directly implemented in a purely functional language. The main difference between an arbitrary data structure and a purely functional one is that the latter is (strongly) immutable. This restriction ensures the data structure possesses the advantages of immutable objects: (full) persistency, quick copy of objects, and thread safety. Efficient purely functional data structures may require the use of lazy evaluation and memoization.
Definition
Persistent data structures have the property of keeping previous versions of themselves unmodified. On the other hand, structures such as arrays admit a destructive update, that is, an update which cannot be reversed. Once a program writes a value in some index of the array, its previous value can not be retrieved anymore.
Formally, a purely functional data structure is a data structure which can be implemented in a purely functional language, such as Haskell. In practice, it means that the data structures must be built using only persistent data structures such as tuples, sum types, product types, and basic types such as integers, characters, strings. Such a data structure is necessarily persistent. However, not all persistent data structures are purely functional. For example, a persistent array is a data-structure which is persistent and which is implemented using an array, thus is not purely functional.
In the book Purely functional data structures, Okasaki compares destructive updates to master chef's knives. Destructive updates cannot be undone, and thus they should not be used unless it is certain that the previous value is not required anymore. However, destructive updates can also allow efficiency that can not be obtained using other techniques. For example, a data structure using an array and destructive updates may be replaced by a similar data structure where the array is replaced by a map, a random access list, or a balanced tree, which admits a purely functional implementation. But the access cost may increase from constant time to logarithmic time.
Ensuring that a data structure is purely functional
A data structure is never inherently functional. For example, a stack can be implemented as a singly-linked list. This implementation is purely functional as long as the only operations on the stack return a new stack without altering the old stack. However, if the language is not purely functional, the run-time system may be unable to guarantee immutability. This is illustrated by Okasaki, where he shows the concatenation of two singly-linked lists can still be done using an imperative setting.
In order to ensure that a data structure is used in a purely functional way in an impure functional language, modules or classes can be used to ensure manipulation via authorized functions only.
Using purely functional data structures
One of the central challenges in adapting existing code to use purely functional d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vardi | Vardi may refer to:
People
Emanuel Vardi (1915–2011), Israeli-born American violist and composer
Arie Vardi (born 1937), Israeli classical pianist
Moshe Vardi (born 1954), Israeli computer scientist
Yossi Vardi (born 1942), Israeli tech entrepreneur
Places
Vardi, Estonia, village in Pärsti Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia
Arts Entertainment and Media
Vardi (film), a 1989 Bollywood film
See also
Wardi (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonshine%20Media%20Network%20International | Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI), also known by its legal operating name Swara Sug Media Corporation (SSMC), is a Filipino broadcast media arm of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) led by the Filipino televangelist Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy. Based in Davao City and Makati, it operates a network of radio and television broadcasting stations.
It currently owns and operates a sister channel (SMNI News Channel), the broadcasting network is available over terrestrial broadcast in the Philippines, and on cable, satellite, and online streaming worldwide. The network now owns and operates two television networks, where the main flagship station, based in Davao City, maintains an uninterrupted 24-hour service through regular repetition of a dozen self-produced Kingdom Programs in English, Filipino, and dozens of foreign languages along with news, public affairs, public service, infotainment, sports and entertainment programs. On the other hand, the network's sister channel SMNI News Channel, based in Makati, primarily provides rolling news coverage and public affairs programs, which broadcasts exclusively in Digital TV format in Metro Manila, Metro Davao, Benguet and Cagayan de Oro. It also maintains a network of radio stations under the "Sonshine Radio" brand of the Swara Sug Media Corporation.
The broadcasting network was licensed in late 2003 by the Philippine government to operate seven analog free-to-air television channels in key cities across the country. It also has two digital terrestrial channels in Metro Manila and Metro Davao.
History
The Kingdom of Jesus Christ's Media Ministry, known today as SMNI, traced its roots on the radio, with the program "Pagsusi sa Kamatuoran" (Searching for Truth/Paghahanap ng Katotohanan) on radio stations DXDC and DXUM. The television ministry began in 1991, when they launched their first television program, "The Hour of Truth" aired nationally on IBC and ABS-CBN stations in Visayas and Mindanao, followed by "Powerline" in 1995.
In July 2000, The Kingdom of Jesus Christ officially launched its 24-hour cable network, "The Q Channel" (then also known as "ACQ–TV, Q Channel"), bringing the Gospel of the Kingdom from Davao City to key cities around the Philippines, which was carried by Sky Cable in Davao City, General Santos, Bacolod, Iloilo, Cebu, Tagum and Baguio.
On April 25, 2003, The Q Channel successfully metamorphosed as the "ACQ–Kingdom Broadcasting Network (ACQ-KBN)", with an expanded reach across the Asia-Pacific region and the United States via satellite, using its own Satellite Uplink Broadcast Station located at Davao Central, also carrying the new slogan "Delivering the Good news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week". During also in the same year, ACQ-KBN launched its first TV station Sonshine TV-43 Davao, and introduced new religious programs such as Give Us This Day, Sounds of Worship, Batang Kaharian (lit. Kingdom Child), Way Ahead, Highest Praise, Quiet Moments and many more.
In 2004, ACQ-KB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran%20Hermano%20%28Ecuadorian%20TV%20series%29 | Gran Hermano was the Ecuadorian version of the reality show based on the international Big Brother format produced in the Netherlands by Endemol. Gran Hermano was broadcast by Ecuavisa network and 24 hours a day by its paid television company Univisa obtaining the highest ratings of the last years.
The reality show was filmed in the house of Argentine version, owned by the television Network Telefe and it began on 16 March 2003 and finished on 13 July 2003 with a total duration of 120 days.
The winner of the first season was David Burbano, a 21-year-old student born in the city of Cuenca.
First season (2003)
Contestants
Nominations table
Housemates nominate for two points (top of the box) and one point (bottom of the box) and the two or more Housemates with the most nomination points face the public vote.
Notes
External links
Ecuador
Ecuadorian reality television series
2003 Ecuadorian television series debuts
2003 Ecuadorian television series endings
2000s Ecuadorian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev%20Null | Dev Null was an animated virtual reality character created in 1996 by Leo Laporte for MSNBC's computer and technology TV series The Site. Espresso barista Dev talked with host Soledad O'Brien each weeknight in a five-minute segment. Laporte was awarded a 1997 Northern California Emmy for his nightly performances as cyber character Dev Null.
Background and history
Dev was animated in real time on a million-dollar Silicon Graphics Onyx computer. Laporte generated both the voice and actions while wearing a VR motion capture suit. When O'Brien sat at the espresso bar to read email from viewers, Dev flirted with her while answering her computer questions. She recalled, "One of the reasons that segment of the show worked is that I could not see him as I was talking to him, and the segment was unscripted. He was funny, and his jokes were not gags."
While O'Brien looked at a piece of tape on the wall indicating Dev's virtual position, the VR suit captured Laporte's actions, and a computer program translated his body movements to create the character, while other human operators controlled facial expressions and accentuated movements of his hair. The control room juxtaposed O'Brien and Dev on the same set using a switcher.
Laporte recalled arriving at NBC with a 90-page treatment:
I'll never forget pitching it to NBC at 30 Rock just before Christmas 1995. Then NBC News Director Andrew Lack came in in a three-piece suit and cowboy boots. He propped his booted feet up on the table and said, "Okay, let's hear it." It was like something out of Seinfeld... I had hoped to be the lead reporter on the show, but the NBC executives told me I had no chance of getting on camera, so they stuck me in a VR suit and the character Dev Null was born. I won an Emmy for it, but the only other competition was a sock puppet character on the local Spanish language station, so it wasn't exactly a competitive category... The Site was a major network's idea of what a technology TV show should look like: big on production values, light on content, but it was an important moment in the mainstreaming of the Internet. I still run into people now and then who remember me as "the guy in the suit."
Producer David Bohrman remembered, "She would do real-time Q&A with this cartoon character who was the smartest person in the world when it came to technology issues. It was great."
See also
/dev/null is a special file in Unix-like operating systems that discards all data written to it
References
Watch
Dev Null and Soledad O'Brien on The Site (June 10, 1997)
External links
"Soledad O'Brien: Goddess to the Geeks" by David Futrelle, Salon, January 24, 1997
Null, Dev
Television characters introduced in 1996
Baristas
Fictional bartenders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20tiger | The fat tiger (Parantica rotundata) is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.
References
Parantica
Lepidoptera of Papua New Guinea
Butterflies described in 1890
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon%20tiger | The Ceylon tiger (Parantica taprobana) is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
References
External links
Sri Lanka Wild Life Information Database
Parantica
Butterflies of Sri Lanka
Butterflies described in 1865
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka
Taxa named by Baron Cajetan von Felder
Taxa named by Rudolf Felder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway%20In%20Chicago | Broadway In Chicago is a theatrical production company. It was formed in July 2000 by the Nederlander Organization to present touring Broadway productions in Chicago and currently manages programming at five historic theaters. Occasionally, it presents tryouts and world premieres.
Theaters
Broadway In Chicago operates five venues in downtown Chicago: the CIBC Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.), James M. Nederlander Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.), Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.), the Auditorium Theatre (50 E. Ida B. Wells Dr.), and the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut St.)
Economic impact
Since 2001, Broadway In Chicago has had an attendance of over 6.5 million people. Broadway In Chicago is located in Chicago's Theater District and is currently the fifth-largest tourist attraction in Chicago. Approximately 42% of audiences are from out-of-state, and of these out-of-town patrons, 82% attribute the production as the main reason for their visit to Chicago. Broadway In Chicago provides over 7,500 jobs and has an economic impact of over $635 million each year. In addition, Broadway In Chicago audiences spend more than $75 million at local restaurants and account for 500,000 hotel room occupancies each year, which is 6% of Chicago's annual total of hotel rooms used.
Broadway In Chicago also contributes to various public benefits throughout the City of Chicago by providing complimentary tickets to many charitable organizations and to the Chicago Public Schools. Other public benefits include a field trip reward program, special access programs for seniors, and discounted programs for many of Chicago's youth groups.
Notable productions
Broadway in Chicago has hosted multiple pre-broadway productions. These productions include The Pirate Queen, The Producers, Movin' Out, Mamma Mia!, Aida, All Shook Up, Sweet Smell of Success, Tallulah, A Thousand Clowns, Sweet Charity, Spamalot, Blast!, The Addams Family, Kinky Boots, Big Fish, The Last Ship, Amazing Grace, Gotta Dance, The SpongeBob Musical, Pretty Woman: The Musical and Tootsie. Broadway In Chicago was also responsible for bringing many long-running productions to the city including Wicked, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Disney's The Lion King, Jersey Boys, Ragtime, The Book of Mormon and Hamilton.
References
External links
Broadway In Chicago
Theatre companies in Chicago
Companies based in Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20device%20management | Mobile device management (MDM) is the administration of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and laptops. MDM is usually implemented with the use of a third-party product that has management features for particular vendors of mobile devices. Though closely related to Enterprise Mobility Management and Unified Endpoint Management, MDM differs slightly from both: unlike MDM, EMM includes mobile information management, BYOD, mobile application management and mobile content management, whereas UEM provides device management for endpoints like desktops, printers, IoT devices, and wearables as well.
Overview
MDM is typically a deployment of a combination of on-device applications and configurations, corporate policies and certificates, and backend infrastructure, for the purpose of simplifying and enhancing the IT management of end user devices. In modern corporate IT environments, the sheer number and diversity of managed devices (and user behavior) has motivated MDM solutions that allow the management of devices and users in a consistent and scalable way. The overall role of MDM is to increase device supportability, security, and corporate functionality while maintaining some user flexibility.
Many organizations administer devices and applications using MDM products/services. MDM primarily deals with corporate data segregation, securing emails, securing corporate documents on devices, enforcing corporate policies, and integrating and managing mobile devices including laptops and handhelds of various categories. MDM implementations may be either on-premises or cloud-based.
Some of the core functions of MDM include:
Ensuring that diverse user equipment is configured to a consistent standard / supported set of applications, functions, or corporate policies
Updating equipment, applications, functions, or policies in a scalable manner
Ensuring that users use applications in a consistent and supportable manner
Ensuring that equipment performs consistently
Monitoring and tracking equipment (e.g. location, status, ownership, activity)
Being able to efficiently diagnose and troubleshoot equipment remotely
MDM functionality can include over-the-air distribution of applications, data and configuration settings for all types of mobile devices, including mobile phones, smartphones, tablet computers, ruggedized mobile computers, mobile printers, mobile POS devices, etc. Most recently laptops and desktops have been added to the list of systems supported as MDM becomes more about basic device management and less about the mobile platform itself. MDM tools are leveraged for both company-owned and employee-owned (BYOD) devices across the enterprise or mobile devices owned by consumers. Consumer Demand for BYOD is now requiring a greater effort for MDM and increased security for both the devices and the enterprise they connect to, especially since employers and employees have different expectations concerning the types of restrictions tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff | Biff or BIFF may refer to:
People
Biff (name), a given name or nickname
Biff (cartoon), British cartoon strip
Computer-related terms
biff (Unix), a UNIX mail notification program.
BIFF, also B1FF or B1ff, a pseudonym used on Usenet and Internet
BIFF, the Binary Interchange File Format, used by Microsoft Excel
Film festivals
Bakersfield Independent Film Festival
Bahamas International Film Festival
Beijing International Film Festival
Beloit International Film Festival
Bergen International Film Festival
Berkshire International Film Festival
Berlin Independent Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Bogota International Film Festival
Boston International Film Festival
Boulder International Film Festival
Brisbane International Film Festival
Brooklyn International Film Festival, former name of the Brooklyn Film Festival
Brussels International Film Festival (disambiguation), various film festivals in Brussels
Busan International Film Festival, previously "Pusan International Film Festival"
Other uses
The Bristol F.2 Fighter of World War I
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters an Islamic militant group based in the Southern Philippines
WBFH, also known as The Biff, a community radio station in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
See also
Biff Burger, an American fast food franchise
Elysian Fields, Texas, once known as Biff Springs
BIF (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberExtension | CyberExtension is a managed virtual learning environment built by Right Reason Technologies (RRT) that is designed to be used as an online extension of a school district in the USA. The system is currently used for homebound students, credit recovery and supplemental coursework, and has been successfully deployed to help students with "school phobia" and students undergoing medical treatment.
In addition to being a Virtual Learning Environment, CyberExtension is a "Managed Learning Environment" in that one or more RRT employees are assigned as liaison to the client school district. Liaison responsibilities include training staff and students, helping teachers enter coursework, and assisting in day-to-day running of the system.
CyberExtension maps every lesson in the system to at least one educational standard. The system includes content creation tools, content management, chat, internal email system, gradebooks and assessments.
Background
CyberExtension developed from a successful distance learning experiment, the Virtual Education Academy (VEA), which was funded from a Federal Grant sponsored by East Stroudsburg University for the creation and deployment of a distance learning platform aimed primarily at the homebound student population. VEA beta-testing ran in three school districts from September 2003 to June 2004. Subsequent enhancements included content creation tools, gradebooks, chat, internal email, calendar, and the addition of on-site support staff liaisons from RRT to assist with the day-to-day operations.
See also
Virtual learning environment
External links
Right Reason Technologies Home Page
References
Online schools in the United States
Virtual learning environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Women%27s%20Democracy%20Center | The International Women's Democracy Center is a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., United States, established in 1995 to strengthen women's global leadership through education, networking and research with a focus on increasing the role of women in politics, policy and decision-making within their own governments.
The organization is headed by President and Founder Barbara Ferris, a former Peace Corps Women in Development Director. IWDC qualified for Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in 2001, thus providing IWDC with up to 5 passes to any UN Conference around the world.
Projects
IWDC's projects include the United Nations Youth Delegate Program, political advocacy workshops for Israeli and Palestinian women, and the Pipeline Project.
The United Nations Youth Delegate Program (UNYDP) is a youth leadership program that mentors young women from Cuyahoga County, Ohio and prepares them for careers in global public service, international trade, foreign affairs and diplomacy through experiential learning at the United Nations. Since 2002, the program has been implemented on a bi-annual basis. Three high-school seniors from Magnificat High School in Cleveland attend the UN Commission on the Status of Women in the spring and the UN Department of Public Information - Non-Governmental Organization Briefing in the fall. The students pay their own expenses and are chaperoned to New York by a teacher from Magnificat.
IWDC hosts the Pipeline Project which trains women ages 18–35 across the United States to become leaders in their own communities. 2-day Pipeline workshops have been held in Philadelphia (2005), Cleveland (2006), Dallas (2006) and Raleigh-Durham (2008).
IWDC facilitates the Community Advocate Mentor Program which trains women peace activists from regions moving from conflict to co-existence. For five years, IWDC trained women from Northern Ireland in partnership with the Northern Ireland Women's European Union in an effort to strengthen the public policy, lobbying and advocacy skills of 100 leaders from all sectors of the community. Based on the success of the CAMP – NI program which began in Belfast with pre-departure training from NIWEU and culminated with two weeks of intensive hands-on training in Washington, DC, IWDC reorganized the program for Israel and Palestine. THE CAMP - ME program initiated in 2007. However, due to organizational difficulties, funding troubles and the dissolution of an original partnership with an Israeli/Palestinian non-profit, the program downsized to only 10 women in DC for one week in late 2008.
In 2004, IWDC hosted a two-week program in Botswana called the Southern Africa Women's Leaders Project (SAWLP). The Emang Basadi Women's Association, a local women's organization, worked with IWDC to train women in community outreach to address local issues.
Media coverage
IWDC has been featured in Newsday, The University of Connecticut's The Daily Campus, Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdoc | Pdoc is a software package for generating API documentation for Python programming language. Built as a successor to Epydoc, Pdoc uses introspection to extract documentation from source code docstrings and allows programmers to generate HTML documentation for chosen Python modules. It is thus functionally similar to Pydoc, Perldoc and Javadoc. It supports identifier cross-linking and Markdown for its doc string format.
Forks
A lack of original project activity in 2018-2019 spurred several forks, such as pdoc3 and pdocs, part of the portray suite.
As of 2021, the original pdoc project is active again.
See also
Comparison of documentation generators
References
External links
Official website
Software package on PyPI
Python (programming language) development tools
Free documentation generators
Free software programmed in Python |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Belgium | This is a list of town tramway systems in Belgium by region and province. It tables all tram systems, both past (including vicinal tramways) and present. Cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. Known tram systems that operated on tracks other than standard gauge are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
Brussels
Flanders
Antwerp Province
East Flanders
Flemish Brabant
Limburg
West Flanders
Wallonia
Hainaut
Liège Province
Namur
See also
Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (STIB/MIVB)
Flemish Transport Company "De Lijn"
List of metro systems
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of trolleybus systems
Opérateur de transport de Wallonie
References
Bibliography
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Tramways
Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20France | This is a list of town tramway systems in France by région. It includes all tram systems, past and present. Cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Brittany (Bretagne)
Centre-Val de Loire
Corsica (Corse)
Grand Est
Hauts-de-France
Île-de-France
Normandie
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Occitanie
Pays de la Loire
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
See also
Trams in France
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
List of trolleybus systems in France
References
Inline citations
Bibliography
Sources, references and external links:
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Tramway systems
France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Germany | This is a list of town tramway systems in Germany by Land. It includes all tram systems, past and present. Cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria (Bayern)
Berlin
Brandenburg
Bremen
Hamburg
Hessen
Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Rhine-Ruhr (Rhein-Ruhr)
Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr Area) towns in geographic order, west to east:Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Region) and Bezirksregierung Arnsberg (Arnsberg Region) towns not tabulated above, in geographic order, west to east:Note for Rheydt: Amalgamated with Mönchengladbach from 29 July 1929 to 31 July 1933, and again from 1 January 1975.Note for Mettmann: Line extended Düsseldorf (Auf der Hardt) – Mettmann (closed 9 December 1936) – Wülfrath (closed 14 May 1938) – Tönisheide (closed 14 May 1938), and Mettmann – Wieden (closed 17 May 1952). Separate undertaking to 1 April 1937.Note for Wuppertal: Town tramway system ranked as fifth-largest in Germany, with peak system length of , c.1948.Bezirksregierung Köln (Cologne Region) towns in geographic order, north to south:
Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz)
Saarland
Saxony (Sachsen)
Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt)
Schleswig-Holstein
Light railway (kleinbahn) operating under tramway (straßenbahn'') concession (from 1952–1953):
Thuringia (Thüringen)
See also
Trams in Germany
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
List of trolleybus systems in Germany
References
Inline citations
Bibliography
Sources, references and external links:
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Tramways
Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Italy | This is a list of town tramway systems in Italy by region. It includes all tram systems in Italy, past and present; cities with current operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
History of the openings of Italian tramways
History of currently existing tramway systems in Italy
Abruzzo
Apulia (Puglia)
Calabria
Campania
Emilia-Romagna
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Lazio
Liguria
Lombardy (Lombardia)
The Marches (Marche)
Piedmont (Piemonte)
Sardinia (Sardegna)
Sicily (Sicilia)
Tuscany (Toscana)
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Umbria
Veneto
See also
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of trolleybus systems in Italy
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Bibliography
Books and periodicals shown in List of town tramway systems
Tramways
Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Switzerland | This is a list of town tramway systems in Switzerland. It includes all tram systems, past and present. Cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
Riffelalptram
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
List of trolleybus systems in Switzerland
References
Bibliography
External links
Tramways
Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Ukraine | This is a list of town tramway systems in Ukraine by oblast. It includes all tram systems, past and present; cities with currently operating systems are indicated in bold. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
Chernihiv Oblast
Chernivtsi Oblast
Autonomous Republic of Crimea
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Donetsk Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast
Kirovohrad Oblast
Kyiv Municipality
Luhansk Oblast
Lviv Oblast
Mykolaiv Oblast
Odesa Oblast
Poltava Oblast
Sevastopol
Sumy Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast
Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Zhytomyr Oblast
See also
List of trolleybus systems in Ukraine
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Tramways
Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptology%20Research%20Society%20of%20India | Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI) is a scientific organisation that supports research in India on cryptography, data security, and related fields. The organisation was founded in 2001. CRSI organises workshops and conferences about cryptology.
Activities
CRSI organises several annual workshops and conferences about cryptology. More specifically, CRSI organises the annual events INDOCRYPT, an international conference on cryptography,
and the Indian national workshop on cryptology. It also arranged the International Association for Cryptologic Research's (IACR) workshop on Fast Software Encryption in 2003 at New Delhi and IACR's conference Asiacrypt in 2013 and in 2005 at Chennai.
Organizational structure
The main office of CRSI is located in Kolkata. CRSI was founded by the current general secretary Prof. Bimal Roy, former Director of the Indian Statistical Institute. Padmashree R. Balasubramaniam, , is the organization's president.
References
External links
www.crsind.com - former official website (now dead)
Cryptography organizations
Scientific organisations based in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe%20dream | Pipe dream, a phrase describing a wild or unattainable plan, may refer to:
Computing
Pipedream (toolkit), a hacking toolkit targeting programmable logic controllers
PipeDream, a built-in applications package for the Cambridge Z88 portable computer
Film and television
Pipe Dream (film), a 2002 American romantic comedy
Pipe Dream, a 1938 Disney cartoon written by Ralph Wright
Pipe Dream, a 2001 animated short made by Animusic
Pipe Dreams (1916 film), an American comedy short starring Oliver Hardy
Pipe Dreams (1976 film), an American romantic comedy
"Pipe Dreams" (The Loud House), a 2018 TV episode
"Pipe Dreams" (Rocko's Modern Life), a 1994 TV episode
Music
Pipe Dream (musical), a 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical
Pipedreams, an American radio program featuring organ music
Albums
Pipe Dream (John Williamson album) or the title song, 1997
Pipedream (Alan Hull album), 1973
Pipe Dreams (Murray Head album), 1995
Pipe Dreams (Potluck album), 2009
Pipe Dreams (Whirr album), 2012
Pipe Dreams, by Mark Salling, 2010
Pipedreams, by Davy Spillane, 1991
Songs
"Pipe Dreams" (Nelly Furtado song), 2016
"Pipe Dream", by the Blues Magoos from Electric Comic Book, 1967
"Pipe Dream", by Jeff Watson from Lone Ranger, 1992
"Pipe-Dream", by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard from Oddments, 2014
"Pipe Dream", by Project 86 from Project 86, 1998
"Pipe Dreams", by Travis from The Invisible Band, 2001
Video games
Pipe Dream (video game), or Pipe Mania, a 1989 puzzle game
Pipedream, an unlockable track in the 2001 snowboarding game SSX Tricky
Other uses
Pipe Dream (newspaper), a student newspaper at Binghamton University in New York
Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, a 2002 book by Robert Bryce
Operation Pipe Dreams, a 2003 U.S. investigation of businesses selling drug paraphernalia
"Pipe Dream", a 1959 short story by Fritz Leiber |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally%20Cross%20%28video%20game%29 | Rally Cross is a racing video game developed by Sony Interactive Studios America and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. A sequel was released in 1998 titled Rally Cross 2.
Gameplay
The game supports up to four players via a split screen.
Reception
Critics typically compared the game to Sega Rally Championship, identifying the major difference from the Sega game as the more dramatic consequences of driving over unfavorable terrain, which results in an emphasis on careful driving rather than speed. Opinions on this aspect of the game varied. Kraig Kujawa, who reviewed Rally Cross in both Electronic Gaming Monthly and GamePro, hailed it as a major innovation for the racing genre, assessing that it makes the game more realistic and creates a more intelligent challenge. Kujawa's EGM co-reviewer Dean Hager noted that it results in slower racing, but agreed that the overall experience is more challenging and overall better than Sega Rally Championship. A reviewer for Next Generation echoed Hager to an extent: "What the game lacks in outright speed, however, is more than made up for by the strategy that is required to select the best line through the undulating tracks." However, he argued that the ease with which cars are flipped over is unrealistic and results in a frustratingly steep learning curve, and concluded the gameplay to ultimately fall second to that of Sega Rally Championship. GamePros Dr. Zombie took a fairly neutral position, noting that the unique racing style can be mastered but might be disappointing to players who like high-speed racing.
Critics almost unanimously praised the detailed graphics and the high level of replayability resulting from the large number of tracks, variety of vehicles, numerous modes, and four-player capability.
References
External links
1997 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Off-road racing video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Sony Interactive Entertainment franchises
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20contour%20model | Active contour model, also called snakes, is a framework in computer vision introduced by Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, and Demetri Terzopoulos for delineating an object outline from a possibly noisy 2D image. The snakes model is popular in computer vision, and snakes are widely used in applications like object tracking, shape recognition, segmentation, edge detection and stereo matching.
A snake is an energy minimizing, deformable spline influenced by constraint and image forces that pull it towards object contours and internal forces that resist deformation. Snakes may be understood as a special case of the general technique of matching a deformable model to an image by means of energy minimization. In two dimensions, the active shape model represents a discrete version of this approach, taking advantage of the point distribution model to restrict the shape range to an explicit domain learnt from a training set.
Snakes do not solve the entire problem of finding contours in images, since the method requires knowledge of the desired contour shape beforehand. Rather, they depend on other mechanisms such as interaction with a user, interaction with some higher level image understanding process, or information from image data adjacent in time or space.
Motivation
In computer vision, contour models describe the boundaries of shapes in an image. Snakes in particular are designed to solve problems where the approximate shape of the boundary is known. By being a deformable model, snakes can adapt to differences and noise in stereo matching and motion tracking. Additionally, the method can find Illusory contours in the image by ignoring missing boundary information.
Compared to classical feature extraction techniques, snakes have multiple advantages:
They autonomously and adaptively search for the minimum state.
External image forces act upon the snake in an intuitive manner.
Incorporating Gaussian smoothing in the image energy function introduces scale sensitivity.
They can be used to track dynamic objects.
The key drawbacks of the traditional snakes are
They are sensitive to local minima states, which can be counteracted by simulated annealing techniques.
Minute features are often ignored during energy minimization over the entire contour.
Their accuracy depends on the convergence policy.
Energy formulation
A simple elastic snake is defined by a set of n points for , the internal elastic energy term , and the external edge-based energy term . The purpose of the internal energy term is to control the deformations made to the snake, and the purpose of the external energy term is to control the fitting of the contour onto the image. The external energy is usually a combination of the forces due to the image itself and the constraint forces introduced by the user
The energy function of the snake is the sum of its external energy and internal energy, or
Internal energy
The internal energy of the snake is composed of the continuity o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Front | Danish Front (Dansk Front in Danish) was an extreme right, nationalist network in Denmark, whose goal was to "keep Denmark for the Danish people", thus they were also against multiculturalism and "alien religions" such as Islam.
The phenomenon known as Dansk Front consisted of:
An organization that united many extreme right radicals.
A homepage that consisted of nationalistic messages and propaganda. The homepage also functioned as an online forum.
A slogan ("Danish Front!") that was used in graffiti, t-shirts, stickers and such, both for Dansk Front and other extreme right radicals.
Their homepage tried to portray the Danish Front as a new, popular racist concept, but many saw them as neo-nazis. The leaders of Danish Front discouraged members from using swastikas and other traditional nazi symbols to express their views.
Members of this organization also used violence to further their goals.
A number of members of Danish Front had previously been members of Dansk Folkeparti or Dansk Folkepartis Ungdom but had been expelled from those political parties.
Controversial surroundings
In their yearly review the Danish Security Intelligence Service (Politiets Efterretningstjeneste) found that Danish Front had cooperated with groups such as Blood & Honour and the English terrorist group Combat 18.
Danish Front had collaborated with Combat 18 and Blood & Honour, as well as with Swedish radical nationalist groups, and marched with them in Salem during 2005.
Dissolution
The organization was dissolved on 19 July 2007.
References
External links
Official Homepage
The PET yearly review.
Danish websites
European political websites
Politics of Denmark
Far-right politics
Neo-Nazism in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety%20%28radio%29 | Variety is a radio format that plays music across numerous genres. Free-form variety is associated with a wide range of programming including talk, sports, and music from a wide spectrum. This format is usually found on smaller, non-commercial public broadcasting stations such as college radio, community radio or high school radio stations. If a variety-formatted station has a program director, that person exerts little if any influence on the music or other programming choices beyond the normal regulatory control required by that country's licensing regulations.
Variety is also associated with full-service radio. This format is primarily found in the rural United States, on commercial AM stations, and on a few FM public radio stations (usually those that play jazz). These stations tend to favor older listeners and play a mix of music that focuses more on older mainstream music, although much broader than the typical suburban oldies or classic hits station; a full-service station will often play music from the adult standards, classic country, adult contemporary or ethnic formats as well. Full-service radio also regularly includes room for local news and talk.
Hot Adult Contemporary and similarly formatted stations often brand with "mix" and "variety" to demonstrate the fact that they play music from several decades (usually from the 1980s to the present). However, these stations have much more restrictive playlists than true variety stations such as those in the freeform and full-service categories. An example is WBNW-FM in Binghamton, New York or www.varietyradio.co.uk. The phrase "variety hits" is a synonym for the adult hits format (typified by the "Male First Name FM" branding), which indeed usually has a larger variety than a typical hot AC station.
Radio formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91st%20Cyberspace%20Operations%20Squadron | The 91st Cyberspace Operations Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit, currently assigned to the 67th Cyberspace Wing at Kelly Annex, part of Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
The 91st delivers cyber warfare capabilities to combatant commanders. It provides the Air Force with manpower.
History
World War I
Established as 91st Aero Squadron in the summer of 1917 at Kelly Field, near San Antonio, Texas, the unit was sent to France during World War I as one of the initial American Expeditionary Force aero squadrons. The 91st served on the Western Front in France as an observation squadron with the French Eighth Army and United States First Army, 3 June – 10 November 1918. The primary mission of the 91st Squadron was to gather information and immediately return to base to report it. After the November 1918 Armistice with Germany, the 91st Aero Squadron remained in Europe, as part of the occupation forces in Germany with the Third Army (United States) until April 1919.
Intra-War period
see also: United States Army Border Air Patrol
After returning to the United States, the squadron was reorganized and assigned to Rockwell Field, near San Diego in September 1919. In California, its duties consisted of patrolling the southwestern U.S./Mexican border between California and Arizona, performing forest fire patrols and flying training flights over forested areas along the coast of California while assigned to Crissy Field, near San Francisco. Between 1919 and 1922 the squadron frequently moved between bases in California and Oregon with detachments deployed locally to meet operational needs.
When Crissy Field closed in 1936 for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, the 91st moved to Gray Field, near Fort Lewis, Washington. At Fort Lewis, the squadron continued flying forest fire patrols over the forests of the Pacific Northwest until the late 1930s.
The 91st was reassigned to Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield in upstate New York in September 1941, where it became an observation squadron for the 4th Armored Division. It engaged in overvaluation duties during various maneuvers in New York and Tennessee during buildup of American forces prior to their engagement in World War II.
World War II
U.S. civilian and military leaders were concerned with Nazi Germany's preoccupation with South and Central America. In order to prepare for possible hostilities in its own backyard, the military planners needed accurate charts and maps of all of these regions. Millions of square miles were virtually unexplored and uncharted. The 91st was given the tremendous task of getting this job done through aerial photography.
Elements of the 91st Photographic Mapping Squadron were deployed to the Antilles Air Command in April 1943 until June 1945. Flight "B" of the 91st flew throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean. Staging from Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, aircraft and crews were deployed throughout the area.
Aircraft of Flight "B" saw extensive fl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counternull | In statistics, and especially in the statistical analysis of psychological data, the counternull is a statistic used to aid the understanding and presentation of research results. It revolves around the effect size, which is the mean magnitude of some effect divided by the standard deviation.
The counternull value is the effect size that is just as well supported by the data as the null hypothesis. In particular, when results are drawn from a distribution that is symmetrical about its mean, the counternull value is exactly twice the observed effect size.
The null hypothesis is a hypothesis set up to be tested against an alternative. Thus the counternull is an alternative hypothesis that, when used to replace the null hypothesis, generates the same p-value as had the original null hypothesis of “no difference.”
Some researchers contend that reporting the counternull, in addition to the p-value, serves to counter two common errors of judgment:
assuming that failure to reject the null hypothesis at the chosen level of statistical significance means that the observed size of the "effect" is zero; and
assuming that rejection of the null hypothesis at a particular p-value means that the measured "effect" is not only statistically significant, but also scientifically important.
These arbitrary statistical thresholds create a discontinuity, causing unnecessary confusion and artificial controversy.
Other researchers prefer confidence intervals as a means of countering these common errors.
See also
File drawer problem
Publication bias
References
Further reading
Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (1996). Computing contrasts, effect sizes, and counternulls on other people's published data: General procedures for research consumers. Psychological Methods, 1, 331-340
Psychometrics
Statistical hypothesis testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido%20Television%20Broadcasting | is a TV station in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is affiliated with All-Nippon News Network (ANN) and TV Asahi Network.
History
Head office: Sapporo Sosei Square, 1-chōme-6, Kita 1 Jōnishi, Chuō-ku, Sapporo, Japan
Date and year founded: December 1, 1967
Date and year started broadcasting: November 3, 1968
Callsign for analog television broadcasting: JOHH-TV
Callsign for digital television broadcasting: JOHH-DTV
Mascot: →
Stations
Analog Stations (as of July 24, 2011 end date)
Sapporo - Channel 35
Asahikawa - Channel 39
Hakodate - Channel 35
Muroran - Channel 39
Obihiro - Channel 34
Abashiri - Channel 35
Kitami - Channel 61
Kushiro - Channel 39
Analog shutdown controversy
On July 24, 2011, this station gained local attention when it played the song Time to Say Goodbye repeatedly after analog broadcasts ended at noon. The MIC usually blocks vocal music to be played on most stations' analog shutdown warnings.
Digital Stations
Button: 6
Sapporo - Channel 23
Asahikawa - Channel 14
Hakodate - Channel 23
Muroran - Channel 20
Obihiro - Channel 23
Abashiri - Channel 20
Kitami - Channel 31
Kushiro - Channel 36
Programs
AKB0048 (formerly)
Rival stations
Hokkaido Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (HBC)
the Sapporo Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (STV)
Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (uhb)
TV Hokkaido Co., Ltd. (TVh)
External links
the official website of HTB in Japanese
HTB corporate profile in English
All-Nippon News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1968
Toyohira-ku, Sapporo
Mass media in Sapporo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20Canada%20Barndance | Cross Canada Barndance was a Canadian television variety show, which aired on CTV during that network's inaugural season in 1961–62.
Produced by Sydney Banks and hosted by Evan Kemp, the show aired live performances by country musicians taped at various CTV affiliate stations. The show aired Saturday nights at 11 p.m. beginning October 1961 as one of CTV's inaugural series.
References
External links
Cross Canada Barndance at Canadian Communications Foundation
1960s Canadian music television series
1960s Canadian variety television series
CTV Television Network original programming
1961 Canadian television series debuts
1962 Canadian television series endings
Country music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showdown%20%28Canadian%20game%20show%29 | Showdown is a Canadian television game show, which aired on CTV in the network's inaugural 1961–62 season.
Hosted by Hamilton radio broadcaster Paul Hanover, the program featured contestants competing to answer general knowledge questions on music. Showdown was produced for CTV by Screen Gems (now Sony Pictures Television) and CFCF-TV (one of several co-productions between the network and Screen Gems) and was broadcast each Thursday at 7:30 PM beginning 5 October 1961.
References
External links
Showdown at the Canadian Communications Foundation
Showdown at TVarchive.ca
1960s Canadian game shows
CTV Television Network original programming
1961 Canadian television series debuts
1962 Canadian television series endings
Television shows filmed in Montreal
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Television series by Screen Gems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Cybernetics%20%28Gordon%20Pask%29 | New Cybernetics, as used by cybernetician Gordon Pask, is the meaningful transfer of information between coherences in all media in terms of attractions and repulsions between clockwise and anti-clockwise spins. This is a possibly defining paradigm of the new cybernetics or second-order cybernetics.
Outline
Unfoldment of coherences of recursively packed concepts by the repulsive "carapace" forces of like concepts and coalescence by the attraction of unlike concepts is a further feature. Pask's approach involves a psychodynamic and panpsychic element. He achieved this by placing co-ordinates on a participant rather than claiming non-participant observer status. Stafford Beer similarly regarded his Viable System Model as a model of the observer. Pask was liberal in his approach (he eschewed "flag waving" claims). He advocated that students and practitioners use his tools if they found them applicable. His introduction to Graham Barnes' 1994 collection of essays on psychotherapy and second-order cybernetics Justice, Love and Wisdom stated:
I may claim some fundamental expertise both in the "old" and the congruent but significantly advanced "new" cybernetics. It is on the "new", rather than the "old" (of black boxes and input/output relations), that Graham Barnes explicates this illuminating, relevantly informative, insightful and highly innovative book.
Barnes regarded himself as a participant therapist. At the time Pask had completed work on his first draft of "Interactions of Actors (IA) Theory and Some Applications" and was working on his final paper "Heinz von Foerster's Self-Organization, the Progenitor of Conversation and Interaction Theories". There he introduced spin-spin forces as the agents of self-organization, learning and evolution.
The old cybernetics has been elaborated ad infinitum.
The new cybernetics (some call it second-order cybernetics in contrast to the first order of classical black boxes and negative feedback) is burgeoning well beyond the bounds of respectability which were imposed by the establishment. If interaction, albeit interrupted by a phone call or a business trip, is unfettered in intellectual flow, I call it a conversation which leads to an exchange of concepts, not necessarily of the topic, but of the participants. It may or may not be about whatever is the alleged topic of conversation. Later we consider interaction of a broader kind, the interaction of actors. Conversations are events which have a beginning and have an end and may be subdivided into kinematic portions, in contrast to interactions of actors which cannot.
For some years in talks with his research students he had mentioned the "hard carapace" (see Gordon Pask for diagram). He defined this carapace as a stability criterion for concepts (persisting countably infinite packed recursive spins that produce relations in any medium). He further claimed that there were "No Doppelgangers". The small differences between coherences were later seen as pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPICOM | CAPICOM is a discontinued ActiveX control created by Microsoft to help expose a select set of Microsoft Cryptographic Application Programming Interface (CryptoAPI) functions through Microsoft Component Object Model (COM). It was intended to enable every environment that supports ActiveX to use Microsoft Cryptographic technologies, including web pages that are opened with Microsoft Internet Explorer or any other web browser that supports ActiveX.
CAPICOM can be used to digitally sign data, inspect, verify and display their digital signature or digital certificate, add or remove certificates to or from the certificate stores, and finally, to encrypt or decrypt data.
CAPICOM Version 2.1.0.3, the latest and last version of CAPICOM, is officially supported on Windows Vista. However, Microsoft has announced that CAPICOM is discontinued and is no longer being developed. Microsoft suggests replacing CAPICOM with .NET Framework's X509 Cryptographic Classes and a number of other alternatives.
CAPICOM was not included in Windows 7. The linked Microsoft article goes into detail.
References
Cryptographic software
Microsoft application programming interfaces
Microsoft Windows security technology
Discontinued Windows components |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20symbiosis | Industrial symbiosis a subset of industrial ecology. It describes how a network of diverse organizations can foster eco-innovation and long-term culture change, create and share mutually profitable transactions—and improve business and technical processes.
Although geographic proximity is often associated with industrial symbiosis, it is neither necessary nor sufficient—nor is a singular focus on physical resource exchange. Strategic planning is required to optimize the synergies of co-location. In practice, using industrial symbiosis as an approach to commercial operations—using, recovering and redirecting resources for reuse—results in resources remaining in productive use in the economy for longer. This in turn creates business opportunities, reduces demands on the earth's resources, and provides a stepping-stone towards creating a circular economy.
Industrial symbiosis is a subset of industrial ecology, with a particular focus on material and energy exchange. Industrial ecology is a relatively new field that is based on a natural paradigm, claiming that an industrial ecosystem may behave in a similar way to the natural ecosystem wherein everything gets recycled, albeit the simplicity and applicability of this paradigm has been questioned.
Introduction
Eco-industrial development is one of the ways in which industrial ecology contributes to the integration of economic growth and environmental protection. Some of the examples of eco-industrial development are:
Circular economy (single material and/or energy exchange)
Greenfield eco-industrial development (geographically confined space)
Brownfield eco-industrial development (geographically confined space)
Eco-industrial network (no strict requirement of geographical proximity)
Virtual eco-industrial network (networks spread in large areas e.g. regional network)
Networked Eco-industrial System (macro level developments with links across regions)
Industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries in a collective approach to competitive advantage involving physical exchange of materials, energy, water, and/or by-products. The keys to industrial symbiosis are collaboration and the synergistic possibilities offered by geographic proximity". Notably, this definition and the stated key aspects of industrial symbiosis, i.e., the role of collaboration and geographic proximity, in its variety of forms, has been explored and empirically tested in the UK through the research and published activities of the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme.
Industrial symbiosis systems collectively optimize material and energy use at efficiencies beyond those achievable by any individual process alone. IS systems such as the web of materials and energy exchanges among companies in Kalundborg, Denmark have spontaneously evolved from a series of micro innovations over a long time scale; however, the engineered design and implementation of such systems from a macro planner's perspective, on a rel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20the%20Netherlands | This is a list of town tramway systems in the Netherlands by province. It includes all tram systems, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
Gelderland
Groningen
Limburg
North Brabant
North Holland
Overijssel
South Holland
Utrecht
Zeeland
See also
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
List of trolleybus systems
References
Bibliography
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Tramways
Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBoss%20Seam | Seam was a web application framework developed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat.
Seam 3
Seam 3 provides a modular set of extensions to the CDI programming model. Seam's mission is to provide a fully integrated development platform for building rich, standards-based Internet applications tailored for traditional and cloud deployments. Seam 3 is intended to be a more scalable, feature rich set of extensions than Seam 2, which is under maintenance development only.
Seam sources on GitHub have not been updated since September 2012. Active development of Seam 3 has been halted by Red Hat.
Seam 2
Seam 2 combines the two frameworks Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB3) and JavaServer Faces (JSF). However, simple POJOs can be used at the back end. One can turn any EJB3 object or any simple POJO object into a seam component by just using annotations. Once a component becomes a seam component, it can be accessed through JSF or through other business-logic components in a unified manner. Thus, one can access any back-end EJB component from the front-end by addressing it by its Seam component name. This Java web framework incorporates identity management features.
Seam 2 introduces the concept of bijection, taken from Spring's dependency injection feature, where objects can be in-jected or out-jected to/from assigned variables using the @In and @Out annotations.
The framework also expands the concept of contexts. Each seam component exists within a context. The default Seam context, a conversation, can span multiple pages and usually spans the whole business flow, from start to finish. The session context captures all actions of a user until he/she logs out or closes the browser - even across multiple uses of the browser back-button.
One can automatically generate a CRUD (create-read-update-delete) web-application from an existing database using the command-line tool seam-gen supplied with the framework.
Seam facilitates WYSIWYG development through the use of JBoss Tools, a set of plug-ins targeted at the open-source Eclipse integrated development environment.
Seam integrates out of the box with the RichFaces and ICEfaces Ajax libraries, as well as with many other Ajax libraries - without the need to write JavaScript code.
Seam also includes creator modules for PDF documents, e-mail, graphs, and Microsoft Excel worksheets.
See also
List of JBoss software
Comparison of web frameworks
Bibliography
References
External links
Red Hat software
Java enterprise platform
Web frameworks
Cross-platform software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Russia | This is a list of town tramway systems in Russia by federal district. It includes all tram systems, past and present. Cities with currently operating systems are indicated in bold. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard-gauge railway track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
Central Federal District
Far Eastern Federal District
Siberian Federal District
Northwestern Federal District
Southern Federal District
Ural Federal District
Volga Federal District
See also
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of trolleybus systems in Russia
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Bibliography
Books, Periodicals and External Links
External links
World Tram and Trolleybus Systems
Tramways
Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Spain | This is a list of town tramway systems in Spain by the autonomous community. It includes all tram systems, past and present. Cities with current operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
Andalucia
Aragon
Asturias
Balearic Islands
Basque Country
Canary Islands
Cantabria
Castile and León
Catalonia
Extremadura
Galicia
Madrid
Region of Murcia
Navarre
Valencian Community
See also
Trams in Spain
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
List of trolleybus systems in Spain
References
Bibliography
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Spain
Tramways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch%20tramway%20system | The Christchurch tramway system was an extensive network in Christchurch, New Zealand, with steam and horse trams from 1882. Electric trams ran from 1905 to 1954, when the last line from Cashmere to Papanui was replaced by buses.
In 1995, a central city loop heritage tram was reopened in the central city as a tourist attraction. This has now been is extended with a loop down to High Street which was opened in February 2015.
The tram museum at the Ferrymead Heritage Park overhauls and restores the trams used on the Christchurch Tramway, and itself also runs operating trams on its site.
History
Background
The difficulty experienced by Christchurch's early residents in conveying them and their export goods to Lyttelton brought about the first proposal for a tramway at a meeting held on 26 September 1855. The merits of both wooden and iron-based tramways were discussed and a resolution was passed in support of the construction of either a tramway or a railway.
The issue arose again at a Provincial Council meeting on 16 October 1855 at which it was proposed that a line be built to Sumner and goods could then be transported to Lyttelton by boat. A couple of leading and influential figures spoke out against the proposal and it was voted down.
It was not until 1858 that the matter once again gained attention in official circles. Despite a general belief that the idea itself was good, the Provincial Engineer's estimate of £6,000 was enough to ensure that the idea was not acted upon. The Provincial Council eventually opted to construct a railway line; the first section between Christchurch and Ferrymead opened in 1863, and the Ferrymead to Lyttelton section opened in 1867.
A meeting of prominent local citizens on 20 September 1872 discussed the matter of a tramway and concluded that it would be desirable to construct a line between Papanui and Christchurch railway stations, especially in light of the north railway having opened to Rangiora earlier that year. Estimates had been prepared and it was suggested that the company be called "The Christchurch and Papanui Junction Tramway Company". The city council, however, was opposed to the idea and declined to support it, saying, "That in the opinion of this meeting a tramway … is objectionable … for the following reasons: (1) A tramway is not required, (2) The streets are not wide enough, (3) A tramway would retard the railway station being brought into a more convenient place for the citizens".
White’s Little River tramway: 1861–1872
A partnership was formed in 1861, including well-known bridge engineer William White, with the aim of constructing a wooden tramway from Christchurch to Little River. The goal was to make it cheaper to cart timber from Little River and other building materials from the Halswell Quarry to Christchurch. The plan was for a line of approximately in length, starting in what is now Moorhouse Avenue, travelling to Birdlings Flat where it would roughly follow the p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loft%20Story%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29 | Loft Story is a Quebec television series broadcast on the TQS television network, and was an adaptation of the show Loft Story in France, which itself was an adaptation of the Big Brother franchise. TQS became V and replaced Loft Story with a new Big Brother series for Quebec in 2010.
During the first season (2003), the show had TVA's Occupation Double as its main competitor, and was a success in terms of viewership, but was not as financially successful as the French version. Therefore, the program was discontinued the following season but was resurrected three years later in January 2006. In response to criticism of year 1, year 2 toned down the sexual content and replaced it with daily games and truth/dare events. The loft was also changed to include a "stunt room" the size of a basketball court, which serves for games and entertainment. A third season started in September 2006, a fourth on September 26, 2007, a fifth in Fall 2008, and an All-Star season subtitled La Revanche in Spring 2009.
Concept and rules
Unlike many other versions, the housemates are able to discuss openly about the nominations.
Season 1
Start Date: October 5, 2003
End Date: December 7, 2003
Duration: 64 days
Contestants
Nominations table
Each week one sex was Immune, alternating each week. In the first week only the men were eligible for Nomination, and the next week only the women were eligible for Nomination. This continued to alternate. In the finale two winners were crowned – one male, and one female.
Nicolas and Sébastien entered the House to replace David & Yanick who voluntarily left the House the week before. The girls had to choose one of them to evict, and they chose Sébastien.
The winners of the first season were Julie Lemay and Samuel Tissot and the finalists were Brigitte Bourdeau and Hugues Dubé. Lemay subsequently published two books: "Un automne au Loft: Le journal de la gagnante de Loft Story" and "L'envers de la téléréalité".
Season 2
Start date: January 29, 2006
End date: April 2, 2006
Duration: 64 days
Season 2 was hosted by Isabelle Maréchal and Virginie Coossa, and was produced by Groupe Tele-Vision, under licence from Endemol.
Nominations table
In alternate weeks the men will nominate the women, and the women will nominate the men, until there are two of each gender left – there will then be a winner of each gender.
On Day one six females and seven males entered – this meant that the gender balances were unequal, and the women were asked to Evict one of the men. They chose Mathieu and he secretly moved into a Secret Room. After three days he returned and, in return, won $1,000 and immunity from the first Nominations.
As survivor of the eviction, Steve was allowed to give Immunity o a female Housemate – he chose Isabella and she was Immune this Week.
Survivor Elisabetta gave Immunity to Alexandre.
This week all the men automatically faced the Public Vote to evict. Jean-François was evicted with the most Public Votes.
Ben |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Chlorine%20Council | The World Chlorine Council (WCC) is an international network of national and regional trade associations representing the chlorine and chlorinated products industries in more than 27 countries. Members include chloralkali process associations such as Euro Chlor, Japan Soda Industry Association, Alkali Manufacturers' Association of India, and RusChlor (Russian Federation). Members from the product sector include five vinyl producer associations, and the Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance (United States).
References
External links
Chemistry organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Dalton | Lt. Philip Dalton (April 1, 1903 – July 25, 1941) was a United States military scientist, pilot and engineer. Dalton is best known for his invention of several slide-rule analog flight computers, the most famous being the E6B.
Early life and education
Dalton was born in Scotia, New York to William and Ida Dalton, and studied engineering at Cornell University's College of Engineering where he joined the ROTC. Upon graduation he received a commission as a Lieutenant of Field Artillery in the United States Army Reserve . He continued his studies at Princeton University, where he received a Masters in Physics and Harvard after which he resigned his Army commission and joined the United States Naval Reserve. He received his wings at NAS Pensacola, and flew scout planes on the cruiser Northampton.
Invention
While serving as US Naval Reserve Pilot, Dalton took an interest in slide-rule flight computers. His first models were designed in the early 1930s but it was not until 1932 that the first revision of the E-6B, originally known as the "Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer", came into existence.
Death
On October 30, 1940, Dalton was recalled to active duty and assigned to Naval Air Station Anacostia, across the river from Washington, DC to help train naval aviators. On July 24, 1941, Dalton and Harry Lee Rogers, Jr., a student pilot, were killed when their aircraft crashed near Hybla Valley, Virginia. By this time, Dalton's devices were in widespread use by all aviation branches of the US and British military services.
References
1903 births
1941 deaths
20th-century American naval officers
American aerospace engineers
Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
Engineers from New York (state)
American navigators
Princeton University alumni
People from Schenectady County, New York
United States Army reservists
United States Naval Aviators
20th-century American engineers
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1941
United States Army officers
United States Navy reservists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%20service | The "Y" service was a network of British signals intelligence collection sites, the Y-stations. The service was established during the First World War and used again during the Second World War. The sites were operated by a range of agencies including the Army, Navy and RAF plus the Foreign Office (MI6 and MI5), General Post Office and Marconi Company receiving stations ashore and afloat. There were more than 600 receiving sets in use at Y-stations during the Second World War.
Background
The "Y" stations tended to be one of two types, for intercepting the signals and for identifying where they were coming from. Sometimes both functions were operated at the same site, with the direction finding (D/F) hut being a few hundred metres from the main interception building, because of the need to minimise interference. The sites collected radio traffic which was then either analysed locally or if encrypted, passed for processing initially to the Admiralty Room 40 in London and during World War II to the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. In the Second World War a large house called "Arkley View" on the outskirts of Barnet (now part of the London Borough of Barnet) acted as a data collection centre, where traffic was collated and passed to Bletchley Park and it also acted as a Y station.
Many amateur radio (ham) operators supported the work of the Y stations, being enrolled as "Voluntary Interceptors". Much of the traffic intercepted by the Y stations was recorded by hand and sent to Bletchley by motorcycle couriers, and later by teleprinter over post office land lines. The name derived from Wireless Interception (WI). The term was also used for similar stations attached to the India outpost of the Intelligence Corps, the Wireless Experimental Centre (WEC) outside Delhi.
Direction-finding Y stations
Specially constructed Y stations undertook High-frequency direction finding of wireless transmissions. This became particularly important in the Battle of the Atlantic where locating U-boats was vital. Admiral Dönitz told his commanders that they could not be located if they limited their wireless transmissions to under 30 seconds but skilled D/F operators were able to locate the origin of their signals in as few as six seconds. The design of land-based D/F stations preferred by the Allies during the Second World War was the U-Adcock system, which consisted of a small, central operators' hut that was surrounded by four vertical aerial poles, usually placed at the points of the compass. Aerial feeders ran underground, surfaced in the centre of the hut and were connected to a direction finding goniometer and a wireless receiver, that allowed the bearing of the signal source to be measured. In the UK some operators were located in an underground metal tank. These stations were usually in remote places, often in the middle of farmers' fields. Traces of Second World War D/F stations can be seen as circles in the fields surr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVCN | WVCN (104.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a religious format owned by VCY America. Licensed to Baraga, Michigan, it first began broadcasting under its current format in 1999.
Programming
WVCN's programming includes Christian Talk and Teaching programming including; Crosstalk, Worldview Weekend with Brannon Howse, Grace to You with John MacArthur, In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley, Love Worth Finding with Adrian Rogers, Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, The Alternative with Tony Evans, Liberty Council's Faith and Freedom Report, Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, Joni and Friends, Unshackled!, and Moody Radio's Stories of Great Christians.
WVCN also airs a variety of vocal and instrumental traditional Christian Music, as well as children's programming such as Ranger Bill.
References
External links
Moody Radio affiliate stations
Radio stations established in 1997
VCN-FM
VCY America stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated%20Tape%20Association | The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) oversees the Securities Information Processor that disseminates real-time trade and quote information (market data) in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX) listed securities (stocks and bonds). It is currently chaired by Emily Kasparov of the Chicago Stock Exchange, the first woman and the youngest chair elected to the position.
CTA manages two Plans to govern the collection, processing and dissemination of trade and quote data: the Consolidated Tape Plan, which governs trades, and the Consolidated Quotation Plan, which governs quotes. The Plans were filed with and approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in accordance with Section 11A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Since the late 1970s, all SEC-registered exchanges and market centers that trade NYSE or AMEX-listed securities send their trades and quotes to a central consolidator where the Consolidated Tape System (CTS) and Consolidated Quotation System (CQS) data streams are produced and distributed worldwide. The CTA is the operating authority for CQS and CTS.
Participant exchanges
The current Participants include:
Cboe BZX Exchange (BZX)
Cboe BYX Exchange (BYX)
Cboe EDGX Exchange (EDGX)
Cboe EDGA Exchange (EDGA)
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
Nasdaq ISE (ISE)
Nasdaq OMX BX (BSE)
Nasdaq OMX PHLX (PHLX)
Nasdaq Stock Market (NASDAQ)
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
NYSE Arca (ARCA)
NYSE American (AMEX)
NYSE Chicago (CHX)
NYSE National (NSX)
Acquisition and distribution of market data
The New York Stock Exchange is the Administrator of Network A, which includes NYSE-listed securities, and the American Stock Exchange is the Administrator of Network B, which includes AMEX-listed securities.
CTS and CQS receive trade and quote information, respectively from NYSE, AMEX, and the other regional market centers using a standard message format. Each system validates its respective message format, verifies the information against its databases (e.g., valid symbol, etc.), consolidates the information with the other market centers' information, and disseminates the information to the data recipients in its respective common standard message format via the IP multicast network. Included in every trade and quote message is a timestamp which represents the time that the message is disseminated.
Every trade and quote is stored in the system for both on-line and after hours processing. Each system maintains a master database by symbol. CTS maintains in its database, by symbol, a consolidated high, low, last price and volume; and for each market center that trades that symbol, the market’s last sale and volume information. This information is updated with each trade.
Market centers are required, as authorizing self-regulatory organizations (SROs) per the CTA Plan, to report their trade activity within 90 seconds of execution time to CTS; otherwise the trade report must be designated as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugata%20Mitra | Sugata Mitra (born 12 February 1952) is an Indian computer scientist and educational theorist. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India. A Ph.D. in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as visiting professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He won the TED Prize 2013.
Background
Mitra was born in a Bengali family in Calcutta, India on 12 February 1952.
Early scientific work
After earning a PhD in Solid State Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, during which time he published several papers on organic semiconductors, he went on to research battery technology at the Centre for Energy Studies in the IIT, and later at the Technische Universität, Vienna. He published a paper on a zinc-chlorine battery and a speculative paper on why the human sense organs are located where they are.
He then worked setting up networked computers and created the "Yellow Pages" industry in India and Bangladesh.
Education and cognitive science studies
Mitra is a leading proponent of Minimally invasive education. He has a PhD in Physics but is credited with more than 25 inventions in the area of cognitive science and education technology. He was conferred the Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in Information Technology in the year 2005. In September 2012 Mitra won the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award in the "Crossing Border" category. He argued that broken connections in simulated neural networks are a model for Alzheimer's disease (The effect of synaptic disconnection on bi-directional associative recall. S. Mitra, Proc. IEEE/SMC Conf., Vol.1, 989, 1994 USA).
Mitra's work at NIIT created the first curricula and pedagogy for that organisation, followed by years of research on learning styles, learning devices, several of them now patented, multimedia and new methods of learning. Since the 1970s, Professor Mitra's publications and work has resulted in training and development of perhaps a million young Indians, amongst them some of the poorest children in the world. Some of this work culminated in an interest in early literacy, and the Hole in the Wall experiments.
TED Talk
On 3 May 2013, Mitra's TED Talk "Build a School in the Cloud" was featured in NPR's TED Radio hour on "Unstoppable Learning". In the program, Mitra discusses the "Hole in the Wall" experiment. Mitra claimed that children in the rural slums of India, many of whom had never seen a computer in their lives had, when left with computers in kiosks, taught themselves everything from "character mapping" to advanced topics such as "DNA replication" on their own, without adult assistance. He suggested this would lead to "unstoppable learning" through a "worldwide cloud" – where children would pool their kn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Toonami | This is a list of programs that have been broadcast on Adult Swim's (formerly Cartoon Network's) Toonami programming block. Broadcast times and ranges shown are with respect to the United States' Eastern Time Zone based on Adult Swim's headquarters being located in this time zone. The broadcast times and ranges can also be used in conjunction with the Pacific Time Zone based on the network's West Coast feed.
Animated series
Cartoon Network and Adult Swim have licensed a number of animated series for broadcast on the Toonami programming blocks over the years.
Anime
Domestic and other animation
Movies and specials
Microseries
Specials
Animated movies
Live-action movies
Giant Robot Week
From February 24–28, 2003, Toonami broadcast mecha shows that were licensed by ADV Films, some of which were picked up by Adult Swim. Besides Robotech, the following shows were featured:
Adult Swim April Fools' Day 2012
These shows have only aired during the Toonami April Fools' Day broadcast on Adult Swim, April 1, 2012.
Programs featured by block
A list of the lineups and programs featured in Toonami blocks. The schedule occasionally features "Toonami In Flight" blocks which contain movies or special presentations, as well as marathons and other scheduled programming that would occupy some of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim's regular programming.
Weekday Toonami on Cartoon Network
Weekday Toonami (1997–2004)
Moltar's block (1997–'99)
Moltar from Space Ghost: Coast to Coast was the original host of Toonami, which ran on Cartoon Network from 4–6 pm weekdays from to . Programs included:
Beast Wars: Transformers
Cartoon Roulette
Dragon Ball Z
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
ReBoot
Robotech
Sailor Moon
Super Friends
ThunderCats
Voltron
TOM's blocks (1999–2004)
TOM took over Toonami's hosting duties starting . Toonami went from a 4–6 pm schedule to a 4–7 pm schedule starting . On September 1, 2000, DBZ: Garlic Jr. Saga Mini-Marathon, preempting of Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing for a day. On November 17, the film World's Finest aired from 5:00 to 6:30 pm. The regularly scheduled Dragon Ball Z, Tenchi Universe, Gundam Wing were preempted for the day and Superman: The Animated Series aired at 6:30 pm. It included the following programs:
Batman: The Animated Series
Dragon Ball Z
Gundam Wing
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
ReBoot
Ronin Warriors
Sailor Moon
Tenchi in Tokyo
Tenchi Muyo!
Tenchi Universe
ThunderCats
TOM was given a new look and introduction on . On , the schedule was changed to 5–7 pm. On , the schedule went back to 4–7 pm. On , the schedule went back to 5–7 pm. The programs under TOM 2.0's run include:
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond
The Big O
Blue Submarine No. 6
Cardcaptors
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Z
G-Gundam
Gundam Wing
Hamtaro
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Mobile Suit Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
Outlaw Star
The Powerpuff Girls
ReBoot
Ronin Warriors
Sailor Moon
Sup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIBI | WIBI (91.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian adult contemporary format, relaying the programming of 91.7 WBGL in Champaign, Illinois. Licensed to Carlinville, Illinois, United States, the station is currently owned by the University of Northwestern – St. Paul, and is part of the New Life Media network of Christian Radio Stations.
History
WIBI began broadcasting in September 1975 and was the first of the Illinois Bible Institute's radio stations. Over the years, it extended its signal across southern Illinois via full-power satellite WSCT in Springfield and a network of low-power translators.
In a cost-cutting move, the Illinois Bible Institute announced in early 2013 that it would end WIBI's separate operation, with its transmitters and translators to be divided between WBGL in Champaign and WCIC in Peoria. The switch took effect on February 15, 2013. WIBI and all but one of its translators became full-time satellites of WBGL, while WSCT and the translator in Jacksonville became satellites of WCIC.
In August 2019, the Illinois Bible Institute reached an agreement to sell the entire WBGL/WCIC New Life Media Network (including WIBI) to the University of Northwestern – St. Paul, which owns and operates a network of contemporary Christian stations and a network of Christian talk and teaching stations, for $9,901,558.34.
References
Former Logo
External links
New Life Media Home Page
Illinois District Council, Assemblies of God
Macoupin County, Illinois
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1975
Northwestern Media
IBI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Tempest | Marco Tempest (born December 3, 1964) is a Swiss magician based in New York City. He is known for his multimedia magic and use of interactive technology and computer graphics in his illusions and presentations. He stars in the eight-part television series The Virtual Magician which has been broadcast in over 50 countries.
Career
Marco Tempest is best known as a magician/performance artist who combines video, computer graphics and other technology of the moment with the ideas and technology of magic. His television series The Virtual Magician has aired in some 49 markets worldwide.
A native of Zurich, Switzerland, Tempest won numerous awards as a youngster for his use of illusion with contemporary choreography. While still in his teens, he became one of Europe's top professional magicians as part of the duo United Artists. Collaborating with Martin Cottet, Tempest presented an unusual four-hands "flash act" in showrooms and on television throughout Europe and Asia.
Style
In 1989, Tempest began developing his own style with visual and conceptual "dance magic". His show "Key of the Imagination" incorporated a distinctive Eastern style including fans, origami, Kabuki streamers and boomerangs. Tempest was soon touring worldwide, picking up such honors as New York's World Cup of Magic and Madrid's World Championship of Magic Award.
Tempest's interest in digital technologies generated his unusual performance style, in which an exploration of illusion arts merged with interactive high-tech animation. The result was his "NeXT Wave of Magic," which premiered in Zurich in December 1991. Tempest's use of a 32-screen video wall and the latest in techno-music earned him star spots in television variety shows, commercials, performing arts centers and corporate events in the U.S., Japan, France, Monte Carlo, Germany, Spain, and the UK. His ability to transform logos and products into 3-D animatronics put him much in demand on the corporate market, which became a major focus of his work for the next 15 years.
Performances
Tempest’s act has been featured in casino shows in the U.S. and around the world, including Dreamstore at Monte Carlo Sporting Club, Magiquest at Harrah's Casino in Atlantic City in 1990, and The Good Time Variety Show at The Showboat Casino Hotel, Atlantic City in 1992. In the corporate realm, he has made numerous appearances on behalf of Panasonic, Apple, Lucent Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, I.B.M., Toyota, Silicon Graphics, Pfizer, Cisco, Microsoft and many others at corporate events and trade shows since 1991 all around the world.
Tempest created his first full-evening touring show, The Magic of Marco Tempest, which completed a 12-week touring engagement traveling to major theatres throughout Switzerland, Belgium and Holland in the fall of 1995. The show combined traditional illusion techniques with the latest virtual reality and computer animation techniques, bringing technical special effects to live performance which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%20Cooper%20%28mathematician%29 | Curtis Niles Cooper is an American mathematician who is currently a professor at the University of Central Missouri, in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
GIMPS
Using software from the GIMPS project, Cooper and Steven Boone found the 43rd known Mersenne prime on their 700 PC cluster on December 15, 2005. The prime, 230,402,457 − 1, is 9,152,052 digits long and is the ninth Mersenne prime for GIMPS.
Cooper and Boone became the first GIMPS contributors to find two primes when they also found the 44th known Mersenne prime, 232,582,657 − 1 (or M32,582,657), which has 9,808,358 digits . This prime was discovered on September 4, 2006 using a PC cluster of over 850 machines. This is the tenth Mersenne prime for GIMPS.
On January 25, 2013, Cooper found his third Mersenne prime of 257,885,161 − 1.
On September 17, 2015, Cooper's computer reported yet another Mersenne prime, 274,207,281 - 1, which was the largest known prime number at 22,338,618 decimal digits. The report was, however, unnoticed until January 7, 2016.
Areas of research
Cooper's own work has mainly been in elementary number theory, especially work related to digital representations of numbers. He collaborated extensively with Robert E. Kennedy. They have worked with Niven numbers, among other results, showing that no 21 consecutive integers can all be Niven numbers, and introduced the notion of tau numbers, numbers whose total number of divisors are itself a divisor of the number. Independent of Kennedy, Cooper has also done work about generalizations of geometric series, and their application to probability.
Cooper is also the editor of the publication Fibonacci Quarterly.
Notes
External links
Curtis Cooper's homepage
Living people
Iowa State University alumni
University of Central Missouri faculty
21st-century American mathematicians
Number theorists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Mathematicians from Missouri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Collaborative%20Rain%2C%20Hail%20and%20Snow%20Network | The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, is a network of volunteer weather observers in the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas that take daily readings of precipitation and report them to a central data store over the internet. The program is an example of citizen science.
History
The network was started in 1997 in Larimer County, Colorado, after a flash flood in Spring Creek killed five people and damaged structures in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, including hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to the Colorado State University campus.
The severity of the flood and its widespread spatial variability surprised meteorologists, and former assistant state climatologist for the state of Colorado, Nolan Doesken, asked for precipitation measurements from private citizens in the area. About 300 responded to his emergency request for data. Said Doesken later, "The results of the data showed that more than 14 in. (36 cm) of rain fell over southwest Fort Collins, the area where the flood waters originated, while less than 2 in. (5 cm) of rain fell only 3–4 mi (5–6 km) east. The enthusiastic interest shown by volunteers and the great value of the data verified the need for such a service, and CoCoRaHS was born." The program was originally confined to Colorado (the first "Co" in "CoCoRaHS" stood for "Colorado" instead of "Community"), but began expanding to other states during the 2000s.
Users
CoCoRaHS is used by a wide variety of organizations and individuals. The National Weather Service (NWS), other meteorologists, hydrologists, emergency managers, city utilities (water supply, water conservation, storm water), transportation departments, insurance adjusters, the USDA, engineers, mosquito control, ranchers and farmers, outdoor & recreation interests, teachers, students, and neighbors in the community are examples of people who use CoCoRaHS data.
Other programs
A similar program, the Significant Weather Observing Program (SWOP), was begun independently in around the year 2000 by the National Weather Service Lincoln, Illinois. CoCoRaHS data supplements the more rigorous data from the national program with increased spatial and temporal resolution. Real-time data is also provided by the Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP), whose users operate weather stations that automatically report over the internet, and which supplements the more rigorous data reported by formal surface weather observation stations. The earliest and thus critically important for its long-term historical record from respective locations is the Cooperative Observer program of manually recorded daily summaries.
Sponsors
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are major sponsors of CoCoRaHS and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is also a partner. Other organizations have contributed either financially, and/or with supplies and equipment. Many other organizations and individuals h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive%20Assault | Massive Assault is a turn-based, computer wargame by Wargaming. Despite featuring 3D graphics, the game is similar to tabletop wargames in that its gameplay is governed by simple rules and takes place on a hexagonal grid. The game's opposing forces are made up of largely equivalent units. Gameplay is made somewhat more complex by the addition of "secret allies," the disclosure of which can change the course of a game.
Playable sides
The game's factions include two main opposing forces: the heroic Free Nations Union, comparable to the UN, and the villainous Phantom League, a group of military organizations and corporations working together in secret. The units employed by each side are equivalent, without significant tactical differences. However, though both sides may select from a similar pool of units, the game's rules permit a wide range of strategies and opponents need not select similar strategies.
Planets, Countries, and Alliances
Players may select any of six geography types, varying from frozen, snowbound landscapes to tropical paradises. Each map features at least ten countries, with at least four allies for each of the two opponents. Countries are divided up into three categories: Undisclosed (secret) Ally, Disclosed Ally, and True Neutral. Since neither side discloses all their allies at once, players face the challenge of deciding where to place troops in a shifting geopolitical battlefield.
Massive Assault series
Other games in the Massive Assault line include:
Massive Assault Network (2004)
Domination (AKA Massive Assault: Phantom Renaissance) (2005)
Massive Assault Network 2 (2006)
References
External links
Official Website
Massive Assault A Tough Nut to Crack
2003 video games
Computer wargames
MacOS games
Naval video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Windows games
Video games developed in Belarus
Wargaming.net games
Matrix Games games
Virtual Programming (company) games
Military science fiction video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenware | Greenware may refer to:
Greenware or Celadon, Chinese pottery in a range of jade-like green colours
Greenware (pottery), unfired clay pottery
Greenware (computing), software distributed under the condition that the user does something to help the environment
Greenware, the brand name of a 100% corn based cup produced by Fabri-Kal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20SIM | Some mobile phones support use of two SIM cards, described as dual SIM operation. When a second SIM card is installed, the phone may allow users to switch between two separate mobile network services manually, have hardware support for keeping both connections in a "standby" state for automatic switching, or have two transceivers to maintain both network connections at once.
Dual SIM phones are mainstream in many countries where phones are normally sold unlocked. Dual SIMs are popular for separating personal and business calls, in locations where lower prices apply to calls between clients of the same provider, where a single network may lack comprehensive coverage, and for travel across national and regional borders. In countries where dual SIM phones are the norm, people who require only one SIM leave the second SIM slot empty. Dual SIM phones usually have two unique IMEI numbers, one for each SIM slot.
Devices that use more than two SIM cards have also been developed and released, notably the LG A290 triple SIM phone, and even handsets that support four SIMs, such as the Cherry Mobile Quad Q70.
History
The first phone to include dual SIM functionality was the Benefon Twin, released by Benefon in 2000. More dual SIM phones were introduced in about 2007, most of them coming from small Chinese firms producing phones using Mediatek systems-on-a-chip. They started to attract mainstream attention.
Such phones were initially eschewed by major manufacturers due to potential pressure from telecommunications companies, but from about 2010 Nokia, Samsung, Sony and several others followed suit, with the Nokia C2-00, Nokia C1-00 and Nokia C2-03 and most notably the Nokia X, phones from Samsung's Duos series, and the Sony Xperia Z3 Dual, Sony Xperia C and tipo dual. Apple added dual SIM support in its 2018 iPhone XS models, with models sold in China containing two physical SIM slots, and models sold elsewhere supporting dual SIM by means of (Embedded) eSIM alongside a single physical SIM.
Which SIM to use?
For originating communications via the mobile phone network, the way to choose which SIM is used may vary on different phones. For example, one can be selected as primary or default for making calls, and one (which could be the same one) for data. Apple phones supporting dual SIMs can be set up to automatically use a specific SIM for each contact or the same one used for the last call to the contact, for iMessage, and for FaceTime. Typically when dialling or sending a message an option to select a SIM is displayed.
Types
It is necessary to check a phone's specification to find out what switching method is used, and whether both slots accept SIMs of the same generation.
Adapters
Prior to the introduction of dual SIM phones, adapters that fit in the SIM card slot and hold two SIMs, with provision to switch between them when required.
Passive
In dual SIM phones, such as the Nokia C1-00, only one SIM, selected by the user, is active at any time; it i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%20Plus | MBC Plus () is a South Korean company under MBC, producing media, broadcast and telecommunication products for non free-to-air networks, including Skylife and 'Cable TV' (KCTA) service providers. Corporate slogan is "Let's plus!".
Television networks
MBC Dramanet (Also Known As MBC Drama) - for Drama and Entertainment programs.
MBC Sports+ - for sports (both professionals and amateurs).
MBC every1 - Entertainment channel for both Variety Programs. (Formerly MBC Movies)
MBC M - for Music. (Formerly MBC Game and MBC Music)
MBC On - for Classic MBC Shows. (Formerly MBC Sports+ 2)
Former networks
MBC Game - for E-sport (online game, especially for youth). (Formerly LOOK TV and GEMBC)
MBC Life - Documentary channel for life cultures. (Formerly Alice TV)
MBC QueeN - mostly organizes program for women. (Formerly MBC Life)
MBC Sports+ 2 - for sports (both professionals and amateurs). (Formerly MBC QueeN)
See also
Economy of South Korea
List of South Korean companies
Communications in South Korea
Programs with MBC & MBC plus media
Real Man () - MBC
Dad! Where are you going? () - MBC
We Got Married - MBC
External links
MBC Plus Media (Korean)
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation subsidiaries
Broadcasting companies of South Korea
Companies based in Seoul
Mass media companies established in 1993
1993 establishments in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookwell%20McNamara%20Entertainment | Brookwell McNamara Entertainment, Inc. is a production company formed by David Brookwell and Sean McNamara. It has made television shows for Disney Channel, CBS, Cartoon Network, The N, and Nickelodeon. It is one of the largest out-sourced vendors of production for Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, among others.
Films
Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)
Casper Meets Wendy (1998)
Treehouse Hostage (1999)
Race to Space (2001)
The Even Stevens Movie (2003)
Raise Your Voice (2004)
The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006)
McKids Adventures: Get Up and Go with Ronald (2006)
McKids Adventures: Treasure Hunt with Ronald (2006)
Legally Blondes (2009)
Soul Surfer (2011)
Baby Geniuses and the Mystery of the Crown Jewels (2013)
Field of Lost Shoes (2014)
Baby Geniuses and the Treasures of Egypt (2014)
Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk (2019)
Mighty Oak (2020)
The King's Daughter (2022)
Television series
Even Stevens (2000–03)
That's So Raven (2003–06)
Beyond the Break (2006–09)
Just for Kicks (2006)
Dance Revolution (2006–07)
Cake (2006)
Out of Jimmy's Head (2007–08)
References
External links
Brookwell McNamara Entertainment
Television production companies of the United States
Film production companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20Games%20XIII | X Games XIII (13) took place from August 2–5, 2007 in Los Angeles, California at the Staples Center and the Home Depot Center. It was broadcast on the ESPN networks, EXPN.com and ABC.
Events included:
Motocross (Racing, Step Up, Supermoto, Freestyle and Best Trick)
Skateboarding (Big Air, Vert, Street and Street Best Trick)
BMX (Big Air, Park, Vert)
Surfing (Men and Women)
Rallying
Highlights and results
Day 1 – Thursday, August 2
Jake Brown lost his board on his way up the quarterpipe during a skateboard run in the Big Air contest, falling over 40 feet to the floor. Incredibly, he managed to walk away from the fall, but suffered a bruised liver, fractured wrist and bruised lung. In replays, it was shown that he changed direction at the last second which forced his back foot to push the board away from him. This allowed him and his board to follow in different directions. Jake Brown would be released from the hospital on August 4 and was at the Moto X Freestyle preliminaries though he was walking with a cane.
Men's Skateboard Big Air
Moto X Best Trick
In the Moto X Best Trick competition, Scott Murray attempted the double backflip on his motorcycle, but came up short. The bike was damaged beyond repair for a second run.
Kyle Loza wins the Best Trick competition with a body varial trick he calls "The Volt".
Day 2 – Friday, August 3
Men's Skateboard Street
Women's Skateboard Vert
Women's Skateboard Street
Kevin Robinson wins Gold in the BMX Big Air competition, reaching a height above the vert ramp of at least 20 feet. Mat Hoffman returned to compete in Big Air after a 5-year hiatus.
BMX Big Air
Moto X Step Up
Note: This was the first year that competitors had to win to get a medal.
Day 3 – Saturday, August 4
BMX Park
BMX Vert
Moto X Racing
Moto X Freestyle
Moto X Super Moto
Day 4 – Sunday, August 5
Men's Skateboard Vert
This year introduced a new rule that stated that once a rider "bailed" or had fallen, their run was over, reinforcing the medal contention.
Rallying
Pastrana/Edström were disqualified in the semifinals after crossing into their competitors' lane just before the finish against Foust/Beavis. Pastrana defeated Ramana Lagemann for the bronze medal. Lagemann replaced Colin McRae in the bronze race because McRae's car was too heavily damaged.
External links
EXPN.com
X Games in Los Angeles
2007 in American sports
2007 in rallying
2007 in multi-sport events |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20gapping | Call Gapping is a load control method for restricting telephone traffic on a telephone network to particular destinations. It is used to protect switches against call processing overload. There are a number of algorithms available to achieve this.
Crawford gapping works by blocking calls for a determined period of time (the gap size). After the period of time passes, another call is allowed through. Another gap is then started and the process repeats until the overload condition is resolved.
Leaky Bucket gapping creates a queue into which new call attempts are placed. Calls are handled from this queue at a pre-defined rate. Any new calls arriving at a full queue are rejected.
Proportional Bidding rejects a pre-defined percentage of call attempts.
For a rejected call, an announcement may be played.
Call gapping is not to be confused with Silence suppression.
External links
Comparison of call gapping and percent blocking for overloadcontrol in distributed switching systems and telecommunications networks (abstract)
Teletraffic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Ballarat | ABC Ballarat, callsign 3CRR, is an ABC Local Radio station in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. ABC Ballarat is one of the newest stations in the network, opened on 30 June 2003. The station is the largest regional ABC station in Victoria and is home to a team of broadcasters, journalists, program-makers and online producers, providing news, programs and online content primarily about serves Ballarat, Ararat and Daylesford, as well as parts of south-west Victoria including Hamilton, Port Fairy, and Warrnambool through ABC South West Victoria.
Starting with a staff of just nine in 2003, ABC Ballarat now has a total of 16 full-time employees. A breakfast program is presented by Steve Martin from 6.15 am to 10.00 am weekdays. A mornings program is presented by Gavin McGrath from 10.00 am to 11.00 am weekdays.
The regional Statewide Drive program (3.00 pm to 6.00 pm weekdays) is also broadcast from the Ballarat studios. It is presented by Nicole Chvastek and covers Victoria, southern New South Wales and a small part of eastern South Australia. It does not broadcast into the Melbourne metro area.
References
See also
List of radio stations in Australia
Ballarat
Radio stations in Ballarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20debugger | A kernel debugger is a debugger present in some operating system kernels to ease debugging and kernel development by the kernel developers. A kernel debugger might be a stub implementing low-level operations, with a full-blown debugger such as GNU Debugger (gdb), running on another machine, sending commands to the stub over a serial line or a network connection, or it might provide a command line that can be used directly on the machine being debugged.
Operating systems and operating system kernels that contain a kernel debugger:
The Windows NT family includes a kernel debugger named KD, which can act as a local debugger with limited capabilities (reading and writing kernel memory, and setting breakpoints) and can attach to a remote machine over a serial line, IEEE 1394 connection, USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 connection. The WinDbg GUI debugger can also be used to debug kernels on local and remote machines.
BeOS and Haiku include a kernel debugger usable with either an on-screen console or over a serial line. It features various commands to inspect memory, threads, and other kernel structures.
DragonFly BSD
Linux kernel; No kernel debugger was included in the mainline Linux tree prior to version 2.6.26-rc1 because Linus Torvalds didn't want a kernel debugger in the kernel.
KDB (local)
KGDB (remote)
MDB (local/remote)
NetBSD (DDB for local, KGDB for remote)
macOS - ddb for local, kdp for remote
OpenBSD includes ddb which has a syntax is similar to GNU Debugger.
References
Debuggers
Operating system kernels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteomedia%20AG | Meteomedia is a company founded by Jörg Kachelmann, which operates a large network of Weather stations in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The company's services include weather forecasts, severe weather warnings and meteorological consultancy. In 2013, MeteoGroup acquired Meteomedia. Since March 2014 Meteomedia trades under name and brand of MeteoGroup.
References
External links
MeteoGroup
meteocentrale
severe weather centrale Germany
Mass media companies of Switzerland
Meteorological companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSPnano%20RTOS | DSPnano is an embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) which is compatible with POSIX and embedded Linux. It was first created in 1996 and was one of the first pthread based real-time kernels. Its entire focus was on tiny real-time digital signal processing systems and has been optimized to deliver high performance DSP on embedded digital signal controllers and digital signal processors . Its parent was the Unison Operating System.
Today DSPnano claims full POSIX capabilities for threads, communication, synchronization and I/O. A full complement of I/O is included as is a full complement of DSP optimized features including: DSP libraries, fix size buffer management, software pipelines and more. It has also been moved to FPGA platforms to accelerate DSP applications.
Typical processors that DSPnano runs on today include: Microchip PIC microcontroller (24, 30, 33 and 32), Renesas M16C, ARM and more.
Licensing
While RoweBots claims that DSPnano is an open source product, its license is not certified by the Open Source Initiative and the license agreement explicitly prohibits redistribution of the source code. It is currently proprietarily licensed as a result of this.
References
Real-time operating systems
Embedded operating systems
Embedded Linux
ARM operating systems
Hobbyist operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions%20%26%20Generation%20Resource%20Integrated%20Database | The Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) is a comprehensive source of data on the environmental characteristics of almost all electric power generated in the United States. eGRID is issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
As of January 2023, the available editions of eGRID contain data for years 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2004, and 1996 through 2000. eGRID is unique in that it links air emissions data with electric generation data for United States power plants.
History
eGRID2021 was released by EPA on January 30, 2023. It contains year 2021 data.
eGRID2020 was released by EPA on January 27, 2022. It contains year 2020 data.
eGRID2019 was released by EPA on February 23, 2021. It contains year 2019 data.
eGRID2018 was released by EPA on January 28, 2020 and eGRID2018v2 was released on March 9, 2020. It contains year 2018 data.
eGRID2016 was released by EPA on February 15, 2018. It contains year 2016 data.
eGRID2014 was released by EPA on January 13, 2017. It contains year 2014 data.
eGRID2012 was released by EPA on October 8, 2015. It is the 10th edition and contains year 2012 data.
eGRID2010 Version 1.0 with year 2010 data was released on February 24, 2014.
eGRID2009 Version 1.0, with year 2009 data was released on May 10, 2012.
eGRID2007 Version 1.0 was released on February 23, 2011 and Version 1.1 was released May 20, 2011.
eGRID2005 Version 1.0 was released in October 2008 and Version 1.1 was released in January 2009.
eGRID2004 Version 1.0 was released in December 2006; Version 2.0 was released in early April 2007; and Version 2.1, was released in late April 2007 and updated for typos in May 2007.
eGRID2000 Version 1.0 was released in December 2002; Version 2.0 was released in April 2003; and Version 2.01 was released in May 2003. (eGRID2000 replaced eGRID versions 1996 through 1998).
eGRID1998 was released in March and September 2001.
eGRID1997 was released in December 1999.
eGRID1996 was first released in December 1998.
Data summary
eGRID data include emissions, different types of emission rates, electricity generation, resource mix, and heat input. eGRID data also include plant identification, location, and structural information. The emissions information in eGRID include carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2), mercury (Hg), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O),and carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). CO2, CH4, and N2O are greenhouse gases (GHG) that contribute to global warming or climate change. NOx and SO2 contribute to unhealthy air quality and acid rain in many parts of the country. eGRID's resource mix information includes the following fossil fuel resources: coal, oil, gas, other fossil; nuclear resources; and the following renewable resources: hydroelectric (water), biomass (including biogas, landfill gas and digester gas), wind, solar, and geothermal.
eGRID data is presented as an Excel work |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Gutmann%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Peter Claus Gutmann is a computer scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Auckland. His Ph.D. thesis and a book based on the thesis were about a cryptographic security architecture. He is interested in computer security issues, including security architecture, security usability (or more usually the lack thereof), and hardware security; he has discovered several flaws in publicly released cryptosystems and protocols. He is the developer of the cryptlib open source software security library and contributed to PGP version 2. In 1994 he developed the Secure FileSystem (SFS). He is also known for his analysis of data deletion on electronic memory media, magnetic and otherwise, and devised the Gutmann method for erasing data from a hard drive more or less securely. Having lived in New Zealand for some time, he has written on such subjects as weta (a group of insects endemic to New Zealand), and the Auckland power crisis of 1998, during which the electrical power system failed completely in the central city for five weeks, which he has blogged about. He has also written on his career as an "arms courier" for New Zealand, detailing the difficulties faced in complying with customs control regulations with respect to cryptographic products, which were once classed as "munitions" by various jurisdictions including the United States.
Criticism of Windows Vista
His white paper "Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection", in which he described the content protection specification as "the longest suicide note in history", generated considerable public interest since it was first posted in 2006. He discussed this with Steve Gibson in episode #74 of the Security Now! podcast on 2007-01-11.
See also
Criticism of Windows Vista
Data privacy
Gutmann method
Information privacy
Plaintext
Bibliography
References
Further reading
External links
Auckland: Your Y2K beta test site
Computer security academics
Living people
Modern cryptographers
New Zealand computer scientists
University of Auckland alumni
Cypherpunks
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POPLINE | POPLINE (or Population Information Online) was a reproductive health database, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and reproductive health issues. POPLINE was maintained by the K4Health Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs, and it was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
History
The original database consisted of citations from Popinform, a database maintained from 1973 to 1978 by the Population Information Program (PIP) at George Washington University. In 1978, the database, along with Population Information Program, moved to the Johns Hopkins University. Between 1980 and 2001, renamed POPLINE, the database became part of the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) along with MEDLINE and other NLM databases.
Since 2001, POPLINE had been maintained by the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project, formerly PIP then INFO, based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs. Access to POPLINE was available free of charge at its website. Other organizations contributed to POPLINE throughout its history, such as the Center for Population and Family Health (CPFH) Library/Information Program at Columbia University, Population Index at Princeton University, and the Carolina Population Center (CPC) at the University of North Carolina.
On September 1, 2019, POPLINE was officially retired along with the rest of the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project which closed a few days later.
Coverage
POPLINE provided more than 370,000 records citing worldwide literature in the area of reproductive health. The majority of items were published from 1970 to the present, but there were selected citations dating back to 1827. The database added 12 thousand records annually and was updated weekly.
The database consisted of bibliographic citations and abstracts to a variety of materials including journal articles, monographs, technical reports, and unpublished literature.
Subjects covered internationally included family planning methods and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. Additional subjects covered in reference to developing countries include adolescent reproductive health, demography, environmental health, gender and health, health communication, sexually transmitted infections, maternal and child health, population and environment, and women in development.
Services
POPLINE had both basic and advanced searches and offered customized searches provided on request to persons or institutions in developing countries. Full-text copies for most of the documents cited in POPLINE could be requested from users in low-income countries free of charge via mail or sent by email. In addition to free text searching, the database could be searc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20District%20Library | The Kent District Library is a public library system located in Kent County, Michigan. With twenty branch locations and an annual circulation of more than 8.2 million items (2016 circulation data), the Kent District Library is one of the largest and busiest library systems in all of Michigan.
The KDL Service Center, the library system headquarters, are in Plainfield Township, near the Comstock Park CDP.
History
The beginnings of the library are in 1927 as a library extension work project of the Kent County Federation of Women's Clubs. The Kent County Library Association was established in 1936 and functioned as a department of Kent County until 1994 when it became Kent District Library.
In summer 2013, Kent District Library invited local Wikipedians to use library space and resources for Meetups, and offered Wikipedia editing classes to the community.
Branch locations
The library has 20 branches throughout the county and one bookmobile.
References
External links
Kent District Library Homepage
Education in Kent County, Michigan
Public libraries in Michigan
Libraries established in 1927 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockworks | First developed in 1985 by RockWare Inc, RockWorks is used by the mining, petroleum, and environmental industry for subsurface visualization, borehole database management as well as the creation of grids, solid models, calculating volumetric analysis, etc.
RockWorks background
Computer modeling in RockWorks provides a means for tailoring a mine, environmental, petroleum, etc. plan based on the end-user specifications. The basic strategy involves the creation of a borehole database that includes analytical results for various physical and chemical properties as a function of depth. Once the database has been created, visualizations such as cross-sections, fence diagrams, and block diagrams are generated to check the validity and geological reasonability of the modeling. The next steps can involve the calculation of volumetrics and optimal pit-designs for example, in mining, based on a series of user-defined parameters.
The foundation of these analyses involve the creation of imaginary block models in which a site is subdivided into a series of three-dimensional cells called a voxel (volumetric element). Values are estimated for these voxels based on their proximity relative to downhole data. For example, a clay deposit may involve the creation of separate models representing shrinkage, brightness, and slip. These models are then filtered and combined into a final model that shows where all of the parameters (models) meet a set of user-defined criteria. The net result is high-grade, or “surgical” mining in which the quarry is designed to maximize profitability rather than simply mining the entire lease and relying on the sorting/milling process to separate the ore and the non-ore.
A healthy level of skepticism must be employed when using computer software to compute resource volumetrics. The algorithms or methods used to create the volumetric models have limitations that may be acceptable for one type of deposit while being completely inappropriate for another. For example, a sand and gravel deposit requires an approach that is completely different from the methods used to evaluate a phosphate reserve. The best way to avoid misuse is to always compare “slices” through the models with borehole logs that show the original data. These cross-sections are used to make sure that the model “honors” the data. Just as importantly, cross-sections should be evaluated to make sure that the modeling conforms to the expected geology.
The raw dataset that are used for industrial mineral deposit modeling can be classified into two major types: borehole and non-borehole data. The management of borehole data is very different from non-borehole data. Specifically, borehole data requires a relational database management system (e.g. Access, FileMaker, SQL, Oracle,) whereas non-borehole data (with the exception of land ownership) can be handled with simple “flat” file managers (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3).
Modeling
“Modeling” refers to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRKY%20%28AM%29 | WRKY (1490 kHz, "Rocky 98.5") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Forever Media and simulcasts the classic rock programming of sister station 98.5 WYCR. WRKY is one of Pennsylvania's oldest radio stations.
WRKY is powered at 600 watts, using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is off Fruitville Pike in Lancaster. Programming is also heard on FM translator W223CH at 92.5 MHz.
History
The station first signed on the air in June 1922. It is one of Pennsylvania's earliest stations. The original call sign was WGAL. The station was once housed in the historic Jasper Yeates House.
WGAL was owned by the Steinman family, which also owned two local newspapers, the Intelligencer Journal and the Lancaster New Era. In 1947 an FM sister station went on the air, WGAL-FM, now WROZ. In 1949, the family added Pennsylvania's first television station outside Philadelphia. The TV station is now owned by The Hearst Corporation and still has the WGAL call sign. For most of its history, WGAL/WLPA was a full service radio station, airing middle of the road music, news, talk and sports. It was a long-time affiliate of the NBC Radio Network.
In the early 1990s, WLPA simulcast the audio of CNN Headline News and WGAL's local newscasts, before switching to One-on-One Sports, then Sporting News Radio (both forerunners of SportsMap). It also broadcast Philadelphia Phillies games.
In July 2005, WLPA changed to a sports radio format, first affiliating with Fox Sports Radio. On August 1, 2013, WLPA became an affiliate of ESPN Radio. The station had attempted to affiliate with ESPN Radio for some years beforehand, but was unable to do so due to its geographic proximity to another ESPN affiliate, WGLD in Manchester Township. However, that station joined CBS Sports Radio in early 2013, making the ESPN affiliation available to WLPA.
On April 1, 2015, WLPA changed format from ESPN sports to adult standards, supplied by Westwood One's America's Best Music service, returning the station to the music it once played decades ago.
On April 4, 2016, WLPA reverted back to a sports radio format, with a simulcast of the ESPN Radio programming of sister station WONN-FM, now WPPY. WLPA adopted that station's ESPN Radio 92.7 branding at that time.
On July 23, 2021, it was announced that Forever Media would purchase WLPA and its translator along with WONN-FM for a total of $400,000. This signals Hall Communications' withdrawal from the market, as the sale of 101.3 WROZ to religious broadcaster Educational Media Foundation was announced earlier that month.
The sale consummated on October 15, 2021. WLPA and its translator subsequently switched to a simulcast of the classic rock programming of sister station WYCR. The station’s call sign was changed to WRKY effective November 1, 2021.
Translator
WRKY programming is broadcast on the following translator:
References
External links
RKY (AM)
Radio stations established in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20K%20Peters | A K Peters, Ltd. was a publisher of scientific and technical books, specializing in mathematics and in computer graphics, robotics, and other fields of computer science. They published the journals Experimental Mathematics and the Journal of Graphics Tools, as well as mathematics books geared to children.
Background
Klaus Peters wrote a doctoral dissertation on complex manifolds at the University of Erlangen in 1962, supervised by Reinhold Remmert. He then joined Springer Verlag, becoming their first specialist mathematics editor. As a Springer director from 1971, he hired Alice Merker for Springer New York: they were married that year, and moved to Heidelberg. Leaving Springer, they founded Birkhäuser Boston in 1979; Birkhäuser ran into financial difficulties, and was taken over by Springer. Klaus and Alice then spent a period running a Boston office for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and their imprint Academic Press. With the takeover of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich by General Cinema Corporation, the couple then found funding from Elwyn Berlekamp to start their own company.
Company history
The company was founded in November 1992 by Alice and Klaus Peters, and maintained as a privately held corporation by the Peters. In 2006 William Randolph Hearst III and David Mumford joined the board. According to Robert J. Lang, who published with them a book on origami and mathematics, A K Peters "was a business, but first and foremost [Klaus] really wanted to create books that were works of art." The Encyclopedia of the Consumer Movement noted A K Peters as "a small publisher who enjoys a fine reputation in Mathematics".
In 2010, A K Peters was acquired by CRC Press, which is owned by Taylor & Francis. In January 2012, Taylor & Francis terminated the employment of Alice and Klaus Peters. On July 7, 2014, Klaus Peters died.
Topics
Experimental mathematics
In 1992 David Epstein, Klaus Peters and Silvio Levy set up the journal Experimental Mathematics, with scope the use of computers in pure mathematics. At the time the Notices of the American Mathematical Society was running a "Computers and Mathematics" section, launched in 1988. The particular focus of the "experimental mathematics" included in the journal was the computer-assisted development of mathematical conjectures.
The traditional context in pure mathematics was that "journals only publish theorems"; in this area A K Peters innovated. Klaus Peters had a particular interest in visualization for experimentation in low-dimensional geometry. The Journal of Graphics Tools was published by A K Peters from 1996, after an approach from Andrew Glassner, then with Microsoft Research. They also published the journal Internet Mathematics from its 2003 founding by Fan Chung until the acquisition of the publisher by Taylor & Francis.
A K Peters, with the participation of Jonathan Borwein, published as books three collective works on experimental mathematics: Mathematics by Experiment and Experimentation in Mathe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan%20Ye%20%28historian%29 | Fan Ye (398 – 23 January 446), courtesy name Weizong (蔚宗), was a Chinese historian and politician of the Liu Song dynasty during the Southern and Northern dynasties period. He was the compiler of the historical text Book of the Later Han. The fourth son of Fan Tai (范泰), Fan Ye was born in present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang, but his ancestral home was in Nanyang, Henan.
He was a noted atheist who heavily criticised Buddhism, Yin and Yang, and the concept of the Mandate of Heaven. To this end, he cited Zhang Heng's scientific studies as evidence.
Fan has a biography in the Book of Song (volume 69).
References
Sources
Tan, Jiajian, "Hou Hanshu" ("Book of Later Han"). Encyclopedia of China (Chinese Literature Edition), 1st ed.
Further reading
Yap, Joseph P. (2019). The Western Regions, Xiongnu and Han, from the Shiji, Hanshu and Hou Hanshu. .
398 births
445 deaths
5th-century executions
5th-century Chinese historians
Executed Liu Song people
Executed Northern and Southern dynasties people
Historians from Zhejiang
Jin dynasty (266–420) historians
Liu Song historians
Liu Song government officials
People executed by a Northern and Southern dynasties state by decapitation
People executed by Liu Song
Writers from Shaoxing
5th-century Chinese philosophers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan%20Ye | Fan Ye may refer to:
Fan Ye (Han Dynasty), Eastern Han Dynasty official
Fan Ye (historian) (398–445), Liu Song Dynasty historian and politician, compiler of Book of the Later Han
Fan Ye (gymnast) (born 1986), former Chinese gymnast
Fan Ye (translator) (born 1977), Chinese translator
Nickname for Fan Bingbing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20cryptography | Neural cryptography is a branch of cryptography dedicated to analyzing the application of stochastic algorithms, especially artificial neural network algorithms, for use in encryption and cryptanalysis.
Definition
Artificial neural networks are well known for their ability to selectively explore the solution space of a given problem. This feature finds a natural niche of application in the field of cryptanalysis. At the same time, neural networks offer a new approach to attack ciphering algorithms based on the principle that any function could be reproduced by a neural network, which is a powerful proven computational tool that can be used to find the inverse-function of any cryptographic algorithm.
The ideas of mutual learning, self learning, and stochastic behavior of neural networks and similar algorithms can be used for different aspects of cryptography, like public-key cryptography, solving the key distribution problem using neural network mutual synchronization, hashing or generation of pseudo-random numbers.
Another idea is the ability of a neural network to separate space in non-linear pieces using "bias". It gives different probabilities of activating the neural network or not. This is very useful in the case of Cryptanalysis.
Two names are used to design the same domain of research: Neuro-Cryptography and Neural Cryptography.
The first work that it is known on this topic can be traced back to 1995 in an IT Master Thesis.
Applications
In 1995, Sebastien Dourlens applied neural networks to cryptanalyze DES by allowing the networks to learn how to invert the S-tables of the DES. The bias in DES studied through Differential Cryptanalysis by Adi Shamir is highlighted. The experiment shows about 50% of the key bits can be found, allowing the complete key to be found in a short time. Hardware application with multi micro-controllers have been proposed due to the easy implementation of multilayer neural networks in hardware.
One example of a public-key protocol is given by Khalil Shihab. He describes the decryption scheme and the public key creation that are based on a backpropagation neural network. The encryption scheme and the private key creation process are based on Boolean algebra. This technique has the advantage of small time and memory complexities. A disadvantage is the property of backpropagation algorithms: because of huge training sets, the learning phase of a neural network is very long. Therefore, the use of this protocol is only theoretical so far.
Neural key exchange protocol
The most used protocol for key exchange between two parties and in the practice is Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol. Neural key exchange, which is based on the synchronization of two tree parity machines, should be a secure replacement for this method.
Synchronizing these two machines is similar to synchronizing two chaotic oscillators in chaos communications.
Tree parity machine
The tree parity machine is a special type of multi-lay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20sensing%20software | A remote sensing software is a software application that processes remote sensing data. Remote sensing applications are similar to graphics software, but they enable generating geographic information from satellite and airborne sensor data. Remote sensing applications read specialized file formats that contain sensor image data, georeferencing information, and sensor metadata. Some of the more popular remote sensing file formats include: GeoTIFF, NITF, JPEG 2000, ECW (file format), MrSID, HDF, and NetCDF.
Remote sensing applications perform many features including:
Change Detection — Determining the changes from images taken at different times of the same area
Orthorectification — Warping an image to its location on the earth
Spectral Analysis — For example, using non-visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to determine whether a forest is healthy
Image Classification — Categorizing pixels based upon reflectance into different land cover classes (e.g. Supervised classification, Unsupervised classification and Object Oriented classification)
Many remote sensing applications are built using common remote sensing toolkits.
Examples of remote sensing software
Geomatica, PCI Geomatics
SAGA GIS (Open Source)
TNTmips, MicroImages
ERDAS IMAGINE
ENVI
GRASS GIS
OpenEV (Open Source)
Opticks (Open Source)
Orfeo toolbox (Open Source)
RemoteView
SOCET SET
IDRISI
ECognition
ArcGIS
SNAP
See also
Remote sensing
Aerial photography
Geographic information system (GIS)
Radar
Hyperspectral imaging
Image analysis
Multispectral imaging
Further reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20League%20Baseball%20on%20regional%20sports%20networks | Major League Baseball games not broadcast exclusively by its media partners are televised by regional sports networks, which present sports programming of interest to their respective region. Most MLB broadcasters are members of chains such as NBC Sports Regional Networks and Bally Sports, although several teams are broadcast by regional networks that are independent of these chains. Some teams own partial or majority stakes in their regional broadcaster.
Regionally broadcast MLB games are subject to blackouts; games from outside of a viewer's designated market are blacked out to protect the local team. In addition, certain national regular season telecasts on ESPN, FS1, and TBS are non-exclusive, and may also air in tandem with telecasts of the game by local broadcasters. However, national telecasts of these games may be blacked out in the participating teams' markets to protect the local broadcaster.
American League
Baltimore Orioles
When the Montreal Expos were relocated to Washington, D.C. in 2004, the issue arose regarding television rights for the new franchise. Since at least 1981, Major League Baseball had designated the Baltimore Orioles television territory to extend from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Orioles agreed to share its territory with the Nationals in return for the ability to present the Nationals games on the Orioles television network, the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network. The Orioles have a 90 percent stake in MASN and MLB paid the Orioles $75 million for 10 percent of the regional sports network. When the Lerner family bought the Nationals in July 2006 they became part owners in MASN. Over the next 23 years, the Washington Nationals’ stake in the network will increase to 33 percent. Under the current arrangement, MASN paid the Nationals $20 million to broadcast their games in 2005.
Boston Red Sox
Boston Red Sox baseball coverage began in 1984 on the New England Sports Network, airing mostly road games on the newly formed pay cable channel. Former Sox second baseman Kent Derdivanis served as the play-by-play announcer and Mike Andrews provided color commentary. NESN periodically sent guest color commentators to the booth, with the likes of Rico Petrocelli, Bill Monbouquette, and Dick Radatz. The in-studio host was a young man just out of Syracuse University named Sean McDonough.
Fast-forwarding 24 years later, NESN now carries full coverage (minus some nationally broadcast games on FOX and ESPN) of Red Sox games as well as in-depth pre- and post-game shows. Unlike previous seasons where it split coverage with over-the-air stations, it now broadcasts all games not on national television, using the slogan "One Nation, One Network". In 2006, it became the first network to broadcast all its Major League Baseball team's games in high definition, available to cable providers throughout New England, DirecTV, AT&T U-Verse (in CT) and Verizon FIOS (in MA). Dish Network only provides NESN in HD during |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20SoCal | Bally Sports SoCal is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios, and operated as part of Bally Sports, along with its sister network Bally Sports West. The channel broadcasts regional coverage of professional and collegiate sports events in California, focusing primarily on teams based in the Greater Los Angeles area. Bally Sports SoCal is available on cable providers throughout Southern California, the Las Vegas Valley and Hawaii; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
The network holds the regional broadcast rights to the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association and the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League. The network also broadcast the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball until 2014, when broadcasts moved to Spectrum SportsNet LA.
History
Beginnings
The original Prime Ticket (currently Bally Sports West) was launched on October 19, 1985, and became one of the leading regional sports networks in the United States. Rival network SportsChannel Los Angeles ceased operations on December 31, 1992, which would eventually create a need for a new regional sports network. After SportsChannel's closure, Prime Ticket acquired the broadcast rights to the Los Angeles Angels and Los Angeles Clippers which had previously broadcast on SportsChannel. However, the Los Angeles Dodgers opted to not to make a deal with Prime Ticket, instead staying off cable for the next four seasons. The network would retain the Prime Ticket name until it was rebranded in 1994 as Prime Sports West and later then Fox Sports West in 1996 when it joined Fox Sports Net.
Fox Sports West 2
On January 27, 1997, Fox Sports Net launched an additional channel, Fox Sports West 2, to provide the broadcast of 40 Los Angeles Dodgers games. The Dodgers had not had any local cable broadcasts of their games since the 1992 season. Additionally, Los Angeles Clippers and Anaheim Ducks games were moved from Fox Sports West, as well as UCLA and USC basketball games that were not part of Fox's existing Pac-10 package. Other new programming included coverage of other college sports at UCLA and USC, high school basketball and football, and horse racing from Santa Anita and Hollywood Park Initially Fox Sports West 2 did not have widespread cable coverage, leading to many complaints and a failed lawsuit by the Ducks seeking to return their games back on Fox Sports West. Four months after it launched the new network had secured deals to reach 1.1 million subscribers, representing less than one-fourth the coverage of its parent network.
In 2000, Fox Sports West 2 was rebranded as Fox Sports Net West 2, as part of a collective brand modification of the FSN networks under the "Fox Sports Net" banner. In 2004, this was shortened to FSN West 2.
The Return of Prime Ticket
On April 3, 2006, FSN West 2 rebranded as FSN Prime Ticket (later shortened to simpl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20at%20Buffalo%20people | This is a list of people connected to the University at Buffalo. There are more than 260,000 living alumni of UB. Notable alumni include the CEO's of Paramount Pictures and A+E Networks, two NASA astronauts, a recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award, and a former prime minister. UB is one of the only two institutions of higher learning in the United States which were founded by a U.S. President (Millard Fillmore), with the other one being the University of Virginia.
Notable faculty
This list includes both present and former faculty members.
Nobel Laureates
Award recipients
Academia
Collegiate athletics
Notable alumni
Law, politics, and government
Science, technology, and engineering
Medicine
Business
News
Art, Film, theatre, and television
Academia
Literature
Music
Sports and athletics
Chancellors and presidents
From its inception until 1962, the private school was known as the University of Buffalo, and it was headed by a chancellor. Since it became the public State University of New York at Buffalo, it has been called the university at Buffalo, and the CEO is its president.
1846–1874: Millard Fillmore; 13th President of the United States and 12th Vice President of the United States
1882–1884: Orsamus H. Marshall
1885–1895: E. Carleton Sprague
1895–1902: James O. Putnam; New York State Senator and Postmaster General of Buffalo
1902–1903: Wilson S. Bissell; 36th United States Postmaster General
1905–1920: Charles Phelps Norton
1922–1950: Samuel P. Capen; former Director of the American Council on Education.
1950–1954: T. R. McConnell; former University of Minnesota Dean of the College of Sciences, Literature, and Arts.
1954–1966: Clifford C. Furnas; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for the United States.
1955–1957: Claude E. Puffer (acting)
1966–1970: Martin Meyerson; Interim Chancellor for the University of California Berkeley, President of the University of Pennsylvania
1970–1982: Robert L. Ketter
1982–1991: Steven Sample; 10th President of the University of Southern California
1991–2004: Bill Greiner
2004–2011: John B. Simpson; former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington
2011–present: Satish K. Tripathi
See also
University at Buffalo
References
External links
University at Buffalo – Official website
Books by UB alumni
University at Buffalo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20proxy | An anonymizer or an anonymous proxy is a tool that attempts to make activity on the Internet untraceable. It is a proxy server computer that acts as an intermediary and privacy shield between a client computer and the rest of the Internet. It accesses the Internet on the user's behalf, protecting personal information of the user by hiding the client computer's identifying information. Anonymous proxy is the opposite of transparent proxy, which sends user information in the connection request header.
Purposes
There are many reasons for using anonymizers, such as minimizing risk, prevention of identity theft, or protecting search histories from public disclosure.
Some countries apply heavy censorship on the internet. Anonymizers can help to allow free access to all of the internet content, but they cannot help against persecution for accessing the anonymizer website itself. Furthermore, as information itself about anonymizer websites are banned in those countries, users are wary that they may be falling into a government-set trap.
Anonymizers are also used by people who wish to receive objective information with the growing target marketing on the internet and targeted information. For example, large news outlets such as CNN target the viewers according to region and give different information to different populations. Websites such as YouTube obtain information about the last videos viewed on a computer, and they propose "recommended" videos accordingly, and most of the online targeted marketing is done by showing advertisements according to that region. Anonymizers are used for avoiding that kind of targeting and getting a more objective view of information.
For building a reliable anonymous system, anonymous proxy signatures are helpful. It can be used in anonymous voting or other authentication processes that value anonymity.
Types of anonymizers
Protocol-specific anonymizers
Sometimes anonymizers are implemented to work only with one particular protocol. The advantage is that no extra software is needed. The operation occurs in this manner: a connection is made by the user to the anonymizer. Commands to the anonymizer are included inside a typical message. The anonymizer then makes a connection to the resource specified by the inbound command and relays the message with the command stripped out.
An example of a protocol-specific anonymizer is an anonymous remailer for e-mail. Also of note are web proxies and bouncers for FTP and IRC. Potentially anonymity integrated with RFID tags could pose as an option.
Protocol-independent anonymizers
Protocol independence can be achieved by creating a tunnel to an anonymizer. There are various technologies to do so. Protocols used by anonymizer services may include SOCKS, PPTP, or OpenVPN.
In this case either the desired application must support the tunneling protocol, or a piece of software must be installed to force all connections through the tunnel. Web browsers, FTP and IRC clients often s |
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