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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skistodiaptomus%20sinuatus | Skistodiaptomus sinuatus is a species of calanoid copepod in the family Diaptomidae.
The IUCN conservation status of Skistodiaptomus sinuatus is "DD", data deficient, risk undetermined. The IUCN status was reviewed in 1996.
References
Diaptomidae
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Crustaceans described in 1953 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabelle%20Media%20Network | Shabelle Media Network (SMN) is a radio and television news organization based in Mogadishu, Somalia.
History
The Shabelle Media Network was founded in 2002 in Merca, Somalia by a group of young Somali intellectuals. Its mission was to ensure that Somalis around the world remain abreast of developments within the Somali community and in touch with each other.
The network's first phase was focused on airing to Africa, Asia and Australia via Thaicom 3 satellite. In 2005, it expanded to include satellite broadcasts to North America and Europe.
SMN's Radio Shabelle slowly grew to become one of Somalia's most respected privately owned radio stations, airing from 6 a.m. to midnight. It later relocated its headquarters to the national capital, Mogadishu.
Prior to Mogadishu's pacification by the Somali National Army in mid-2011, the independent Radio Shabelle, among other Somali media outlets, was frequently targeted by Islamist militants. Among the casualties during this most volatile 2007-2011 period was Radio Shabelle's acting manager, Bashir Nur Gedi, who was killed on October 19, 2007. In 2009, the station's director Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe was also assassinated.
After their ouster, the insurgents resorted to issuing death threats and targeted assassinations in order to discourage reporting on their activities. Due to frustration at the increasing number of expatriate journalists returning to the capital after the relative improvement in security, the militants in 2012 intensified their anti-media campaign, killing four SMN reporters during the year, including director Hassan Osman Abdi.
Despite the attempted intimidation, journalists have persisted in covering the war beat. Through membership in the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), reporters are also spearheading a governmental initiative to reform the 2007 Somali media law.
Services
SMN broadcasts news, business, analysis, culture and sports items via its radio and television network. It airs its own programs and documentaries through both terrestrial and satellite transmissions. The organization also reports on domestic peace initiatives and conferences, provides a platform for the discussion of issues of interest to the Somali community, and offers call-in services wherein listeners and/or viewers can interact with program participants.
Shabelle Media Network's main target audience is the Somali community, both within the Horn of Africa and abroad. Its broadcasts are also geared toward local policy makers and international stakeholders.
Awards
In 2010, Radio Shabelle was awarded the Media of the Year prize by the Paris-based journalism organization, Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
See also
List of journalists killed during the Somali civil war
Media of Somalia
References
External links
Somali Shabelle Media Network official site
Mass media companies of Somalia
Mass media companies established in 2002
2002 establishments in Somalia
Television channels and stations estab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Feet%20%28series%204%29 | The fourth series of the British comedy drama television series Cold Feet was aired on the ITV network from 18 November to 10 December 2001. Eight episodes were broadcast over four weeks and the final episode was extended to 72 minutes. The plot of the series follows Adam (James Nesbitt) and Rachel (Helen Baxendale) trying to have children, the fallout between Karen (Hermione Norris) and David (Robert Bathurst) after his affair, and the departure of Jenny (Fay Ripley). Kimberley Joseph is introduced as Jo Ellison, the new woman in Pete's (John Thomson) life; their fast-developing romance leads to their marriage in the eighth episode, set in Sydney.
The series went through a series of schedule changes, as ITV attempted to rebrand its weekday output, and episodes were broadcast on two consecutive nights of the week. The final episode won Cold Feet the BAFTA for Best Drama Series.
Episodes
Production
The final episode of the third series drew 9.1 million viewers, the highest audience figure for the programme. By then the fourth series was already in pre-production, and it was decided by the production crew and the cast that the show should end after the fourth to stop it from "going stale". Fay Ripley left Cold Feet during this series, not wishing to spend months away from her home filming the series. She believed Jenny had nowhere left to go in terms of character development, having already given birth to a child and separated from Pete. During the development stage of this series, she encouraged Bullen to write Jenny out by severely maiming her, though they both came to the agreement that Jenny would take a job in New York, leaving open the possibility that she could return in the future. To fill Ripley's place in the cast, the producers scouted for a new actress. Spencer Campbell went to Los Angeles and auditioned former Home and Away actress Kimberley Joseph, who was looking for work in America. Campbell soon hired her as Jo Ellison. Bullen had originally planned for Jo to be a "big fat truck-driving lesbian type", but the character was toned down when he met Joseph. Victoria Smurfit reprised her role as Jane Fitzpatrick for two episodes, while Sean Pertwee joined the series in the recurring role of Mark Cubbit for the last four episodes. Baxendale did not appear in the sixth episode, filmed in July and August; she took time off filming during the late stage of her pregnancy. Rachel's absence was explained away by having her visiting Jenny in New York.
Despite it being established in the third series that Rachel was unable to conceive a child because of her abortion, Helen Baxendale's pregnancy meant a "twist" was needed in the plot, and the apparently miraculous conception was worked into the storyline. Initially, the pregnancy was to be revealed in the sixth episode, but when Baxendale began showing early, the plot was moved forward by two episodes. Bullen wrote a scene showing the social worker crying after turning down Adam and Rachel's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermomesochra | Thermomesochra reducta is a species of copepod in the family Canthocamptidae, and the only species in the genus Thermomesochra. It is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.
T. reducta was described in 1980 from a hot spring at Dusun Tua, Selangor, Malaysia, where it lives at temperatures of .
References
Harpacticoida
Endemic fauna of Selangor
Freshwater crustaceans of Asia
Thermophiles
Invertebrates of Malaysia
Monotypic copepod genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal%20%C3%93g%20Mac%20Maghnusa | Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa (February 1439 – March 1498) was an Irish historian. He was the principal compiler of the Annals of Ulster, along with the scribe Ruaidhrí Ó Luinín. He was also chief of the McManus clan from 1488 to 1498.
References
Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa and the Annals of Ulster, by Aubrey Gwynn, in Clougher Record, 2/2 (1958) pp. 230–43 and 2/3 (1959), pp. 370–84. Ed. Nollaig Ó Muraíle, Enniskillen, 1998.
Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa: His Time, Life and Legacy, by Nollaig Ó Muraíle, in Clougher Record, pp. 45–64, 1998
People from County Fermanagh
1439 births
1498 deaths
15th-century Irish historians
Irish-language writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropodiaptomus%20falcatus | Tropodiaptomus falcatus is a species of calanoid copepod in the family Diaptomidae.
The IUCN conservation status of Tropodiaptomus falcatus is "DD", data deficient, risk undetermined. The IUCN status was reviewed in 1996.
References
Diaptomidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Crustaceans described in 1933 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropodiaptomus%20madagascariensis | Tropodiaptomus madagascariensis is a species of calanoid copepod in the family Diaptomidae.
The IUCN conservation status of Tropodiaptomus madagascariensis is "DD", data deficient, risk undetermined. The IUCN status was reviewed in 1996.
Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species Tropodiaptomus madagascariensis:
Tropodiaptomus madagascariensis madagascariensis
Tropodiaptomus madagascariensis poseidon (Brehm, 1952)
References
Diaptomidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Crustaceans described in 1918 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropodiaptomus%20worthingtoni | Tropodiaptomus worthingtoni is a species of calanoid copepod in the family Diaptomidae.
The IUCN conservation status of Tropodiaptomus worthingtoni is "DD", data deficient, risk undetermined. The IUCN status was reviewed in 1996.
References
Diaptomidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Crustaceans described in 1936 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus%20CRS | Amadeus is a computer reservation system (or global distribution system, since it sells tickets for multiple airlines) owned by the Amadeus IT Group with headquarters in Madrid, Spain. The central database is located at Erding, Germany. The major development centres are located in Sophia Antipolis (France), Bangalore (India), London (UK), and Boston (United States). In addition to airlines, the CRS is also used to book train travel, cruises, car rental, ferry reservations, and hotel rooms. Amadeus also provides New Generation departure control systems to airlines. Amadeus IT Group is a transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry. The company is structured around two key related areas—its global distribution system and its "IT Solutions" business area.
Amadeus is a member of IATA, OTA and SITA. Its IATA airline designator code is 1A.
Other major reservation systems
AirCore
Galileo
iFlyRes
Navitaire (also owned by Amadeus)
Sabre
TravelSky
Worldspan
See also
Amadeus IT Group
Code sharing
Passenger Name Record
References
Computer reservation systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Owens | Ryan Owens (born 1974) is an American journalist serving as a correspondent for ABC News, the news division of the American broadcast-television network ABC. He is the former anchor of World News Now.
Early life
He graduated from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, in 1995.
Career
From 1998 to 2001, Owens worked with WLWT, an NBC network affiliate in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as stations in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Evansville, Indiana.
From 2001 to 2006, he was a reporter and anchor at WHDH, an NBC-network affiliate in Boston, Massachusetts. During that time he reported on the 2005 child sexual-abuse trial (acquittal) of Michael Jackson; the 2002 Winter Olympics; the 2004 funeral of U.S. President Ronald Reagan; the Scott Peterson trial (conviction); and some Academy Awards ceremonies.
ABC News
Owens joined ABC News in August 2006 as an anchor and correspondent for ABC News Now, the network's twenty-four-hour news-and-information digital channel.
For most of 2007, he co-anchored — with Taina Hernandez — World News Now, ABC News' overnight news program. (He also occasionally anchored America This Morning, a 30-minute ABC News early-morning news program.) During his time on World News Now. Owens was involved in controversy when the two anchors inappropriately made light of Owen Wilson's suicide attempt on-air and they were reprimanded for this by ABC News. His departure from World News Now was announced during the program's February 29, 2008, broadcast indicating he had taken a job as a network correspondent.
His first on-air appearance in this new role was on March 10, 2008, covering the Ohio snow storms. He also occasionally anchored the World News Webcast podcast for ABC News at its homepage.
On October 20, 2008, Owens was named ABC News' Dallas, Texas, correspondent.
In May 2013, Owens interviewed Jodi Arias after she was found guilty by the jury.
Awards
Owens won a regional Emmy Award for coverage of special events and spot news reporting.
Notes
External links
Living people
ABC News personalities
American television reporters and correspondents
Television anchors from Boston
Illinois State University alumni
People from Louisiana
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
1974 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%2008 | NBA 08 is an NBA basketball video game developed by San Diego Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released on September 26, 2007 for PlayStation 3 and October 12, 2007 for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2.
Gameplay
In the main mode, a coach has had a rise in fame, but after last year's championship win, he announces he is retiring. It's up to the player to make his last year worthwhile.
Reception
The PSP version received "generally favorable reviews", while the PS2 and PS3 versions received "mixed" reviews, according to Metacritic.
References
External links
2007 video games
National Basketball Association video games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 2 games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
North America-exclusive video games
Video games developed in the United States
San Diego Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalisation%20by%20evaluation | In programming language semantics, normalisation by evaluation (NBE) is a method of obtaining the normal form of terms in the λ-calculus by appealing to their denotational semantics. A term is first interpreted into a denotational model of the λ-term structure, and then a canonical (β-normal and η-long) representative is extracted by reifying the denotation. Such an essentially semantic, reduction-free, approach differs from the more traditional syntactic, reduction-based, description of normalisation as reductions in a term rewrite system where β-reductions are allowed deep inside λ-terms.
NBE was first described for the simply typed lambda calculus. It has since been extended both to weaker type systems such as the untyped lambda calculus using a domain theoretic approach, and to richer type systems such as several variants of Martin-Löf type theory.
Outline
Consider the simply typed lambda calculus, where types τ can be basic types (α), function types (→), or products (×), given by the following Backus–Naur form grammar (→ associating to the right, as usual):
(Types) τ ::= α | τ1 → τ2 | τ1 × τ2
These can be implemented as a datatype in the meta-language; for example, for Standard ML, we might use:
datatype ty = Basic of string
| Arrow of ty * ty
| Prod of ty * ty
Terms are defined at two levels. The lower syntactic level (sometimes called the dynamic level) is the representation that one intends to normalise.
(Syntax Terms) s,t,… ::= var x | lam (x, t) | app (s, t) | pair (s, t) | fst t | snd t
Here lam/app (resp. pair/fst,snd) are the intro/elim forms for → (resp. ×), and x are variables. These terms are intended to be implemented as a first-order datatype in the meta-language:
datatype tm = var of string
| lam of string * tm | app of tm * tm
| pair of tm * tm | fst of tm | snd of tm
The denotational semantics of (closed) terms in the meta-language interprets the constructs of the syntax in terms of features of the meta-language; thus, lam is interpreted as abstraction, app as application, etc. The semantic objects constructed are as follows:
(Semantic Terms) S,T,… ::= LAM (λx. S x) | PAIR (S, T) | SYN t
Note that there are no variables or elimination forms in the semantics; they are represented simply as syntax. These semantic objects are represented by the following datatype:
datatype sem = LAM of (sem -> sem)
| PAIR of sem * sem
| SYN of tm
There are a pair of type-indexed functions that move back and forth between the syntactic and semantic layer. The first function, usually written ↑τ, reflects the term syntax into the semantics, while the second reifies the semantics as a syntactic term (written as ↓τ). Their definitions are mutually recursive as follows:
These definitions are easily implemented in the meta-language:
(* fresh_var : unit -> string *)
val variable_ctr = ref ~1
fun fresh_var () =
(variable_ctr := 1 + !variable_ctr; |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20on%20NBC%20Radio | From 1985–1986, the NBC Radio Network was the official, national radio provider for National Football League games. The program succeeded (and was itself, ultimately succeeded by) the CBS Radio Network's package.
Background
On March 6, 1985, NBC Radio and the National Football League entered into a two-year agreement granting NBC the radio rights to a 37-game package in each of the 1985–1986 seasons. The package included 27 regular season games and 10 postseason games.
Prior to 1985
NBC Radio, as early as 1934, had carried a handful of NFL games; it was particularly associated with carrying the Detroit Lions' annual Thanksgiving contests nationwide since their inception, helping to establish the Lions as a permanent part of the Thanksgiving tradition.
On April 5, 1961, NBC was awarded a two-year contract for radio and television rights to the NFL Championship Game for US$615,000 annually, $300,000 of which was to go directly into the NFL Player Benefit Plan.
From the 1966–1976 seasons, NBC Radio alternated with CBS Radio in coverage of the Super Bowl. After sharing coverage of Super Bowl I, NBC Radio would go on to broadcast only odd numbered Super Bowls. Jim Simpson served as the play-by-play man for all of NBC Radio's broadcasts (with the exceptions of Super Bowl III, which was called by Charlie Jones and Super Bowl V, which was called by Jay Randolph) during this era. Simpson, Jones and Randolph were joined on color commentary by George Ratterman (Super Bowls I and III), Pat Summerall (Super Bowl III), Al DeRogatis (Super Bowl V), Kyle Rote (Super Bowl VII), and John Brodie (Super Bowls IX and XI).
For their coverage of Super Bowl III at the end of the 1968 season, NBC used Pat Summerall (best known for his work for CBS and subsequently, Fox) to provide an "NFL prospective" on the coverage. This was due in part to the fact that NBC was at the time, the network television provider of the American Football League (whereas CBS was the network television provider for the pre-merger National Football League). In return, for CBS Radio's coverage of Super Bowls I, II and IV, they used Tom Hedrick, normally the radio voice of the Kansas City Chiefs, to provide an "AFL perspective" for their coverage.
Ratings
In January 1986, NBC Radio figures indicated an audience of 10 million for their coverage Super Bowl XX between the Chicago Bears and New England Patriots.
In 1987, NBC Radio's broadcast of Super Bowl XXI between the New York Giants and Denver Broncos was heard by a record 10.1 million people.
Announcers
Play-by-play
Don Criqui
Mel Proctor
Marty Glickman (1985)/Tom Davis (1986)
Color commentary
Bob Trumpy
Dave Rowe
Stan White
Bob Trumpy also hosted a national, postgame call-in show called NFL Live. NFL Live would officially become the name of the pregame show for the NFL on NBC television program.
As the lead broadcast team, Criqui and Trumpy were responsible for calling Monday Night Football and the Super Bowl. They performed these d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS/8 | TSS/8 is a discontinued time-sharing operating system co-written by Don Witcraft and John Everett at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1967. DEC also referred to it as Timeshared-8 and later the EduSystem 50.
The operating system runs on the 12-bit PDP-8 computer starting with the PDP-8I model and was released in 1968.
Authorship
TSS/8 was designed at Carnegie Mellon University with graduate student Adrian van de Goor, in reaction to the cost, performance, reliability, and complexity of IBM's TSS/360 (for their Model 67).
Don Witcraft wrote the TSS/8 scheduler, command decoder and UUO (Unimplemented User Operations) handler. John Everett wrote the disk handler, file system, TTY (teletypewriter) handler and 680-I service routine for TSS/8.
Roger Pyle and John Everett wrote the PDP-8 Disk Monitor System, and John Everett adapted PAL-III to make PAL-D for DMS. Bob Bowering, author of MACRO for the PDP-6 and PDP-10, wrote an expanded version, PAL-X, for TSS/8.
Architecture
This timesharing system is based on a protection architecture proposed by Adrian Van Der Goor, a grad student of Gordon Bell's at Carnegie-Mellon. It requires a minimum of 12K words of memory (8K for the operating system and 4K for the user swap area) and a swapping device; The standard swapping device, called a drum, was a disk drive with a head assigned to each track so there was no delay waiting for a read/write head to be repositioned on the drive. On a 24K word machine, it can give good support for its maximum of 16 users.
Each user gets a virtual 4K PDP-8; many of the utilities users run on these virtual machines are modified versions of utilities from the Disk Monitor System or paper-tape environments. Internally, TSS/8 consists of RMON, the resident monitor, DMON, the disk monitor (file system), and KMON, the keyboard monitor (command shell). BASIC is well supported, while restricted (4K) versions of FORTRAN D and Algol are available.
Like IBM's CALL/OS, it implements language variants:
FORTRAN-D can only access 2 data files at a time, and the entire program is MAIN: no subroutines.
BASIC-8 programs are limited to 350 lines, but "chaining" allows "programs of virtually any length." BASIC-8 is based on Dartmouth BASIC but lacks matrix operations, implicit declaration of small arrays, strings, ON-GOTO/GOSUB, TAB, and multiline DEF FN statements.
PAL-D (Program Assembly Language/Disk) allows the "full standard" but, like all TSS/8 programs, is restricted to 4K. Many programs designed to work on a stand-alone machine and manipulate hardware directly would still work on TSS-8 as it emulated many I/O requests internally.
ALGOL is implemented as a known standard subset, "IFIP Subset ALGOL 60."
It also supports DEC's FOCAL-8, which has been available from earlier PDP/8 models and it provides an algebraic language as well as a desk calculator mode.
Historical notes
TSS/8 sold more than 100 copies.
Operating costs were about 1/20 of TSS/360. TSS/8 is also designed to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diku | Diku might refer to:
Emperor Ku (Di Ku, Diku 帝嚳) of ancient China
DikuMUD, a video game
Department of Computer Science (University of Copenhagen) (DIKU) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar%20Networks | Radar Networks was a San Francisco–based company that aimed to develop Semantic Web applications for the general public. Its only public product was the website Twine. The company was founded in 2003 by Nova Spivack and Kristinn R. Thórisson. On March 11, 2010, Radar Networks was acquired by Evri Inc. On May 14, 2010, Twine was shut down, becoming a redirect to evri.com. On October 5, 2012, Evri laid off much of its staff and shut down its commercial offerings, including evri.com.
History
The company was founded in 2003 by web entrepreneur Nova Spivack, grandson of Peter Drucker, and AI researcher Kristinn R. Thórisson. They were soon joined by Jim Wissner, who became the company's Chief Architect. Thórisson was CTO of Radar Networks until 2004 when he joined Reykjavik University.
In February 2008 the company raised a Series B venture round led by Velocity Interactive Group, Vulcan Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
The company's only product, Twine, was an online, social web service that was opened to the public on October 21, 2008.
Twine
Twine was an online, social web service that combined features of forums, wikis, online databases and newsgroups. It was announced on October 19, 2007 and remained in private status, offering limited invitations only for beta testing, until October 21, 2008 when it was opened to the public. Twine is Radar Networks' first consumer product.
Twine serviced information storage, authoring and discovery through its website and browser-based tools. The service, intended for regular web users, attempted to automate certain processes related to data categorization and keyword-association (tagging). The system employed natural language processing and machine learning to extract concepts from written text in user data and express it using RDF triples tied to a semantic taxonomy based on concepts mined from Wikipedia. This made it easier for machines to process the data and enabled specifying types of information to search for on the Twine website, such as "person" or "location". Twine could be classified as a social network as it also had features such as adding contacts, sending private messages and sharing information.
References
Companies based in San Francisco
Semantic Web companies
Companies established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20DTour | This is a list of television programs currently and formerly broadcast by the Canadian television channel DTour and its former incarnation as Prime and TVtropolis.
Current programming
This a list of programs currently being broadcast.
A–E
Airport 24/7: Miami
The Alaska Triangle
America Declassified
Baggage Battles
Best Daym Takeout
Beyond the Unknown
Border Security
Buried Worlds with Don Wildman
Canadian Pickers
The Dead Files
Disaster DIY
Extreme Miami Hotspots
Extreme RVs
Extreme Specials
Extreme Terror Rides: Mega Speed
F–J
Feed the Beast
Fish TV
Food Wars
Ghost Adventures
Great Taste, No Money
Hotel Impossible
Ice Road Truckers
K–O
Lost and Sold
Lost Secrets
Magic Man
Massive Moves
Money Moron
Monumental Mysteries
Murder In Paradise
Museum Secrets
Mysteries at the Museum Specials
P–T
Rust Valley Restorers
Rick and Steve
Ripley's Believe It or Not
Sand Masters
Sturgis Raw
These Woods Are Haunted
Treasures Decoded
U–Z
Ultimate Travel: Killer Beach Houses
World's Weirdest Restaurants
Xtreme Waterparks
Past
A–E
3rd Rock from the Sun
A Man Called Shenandoah
The A-Team
Ad Persuasion
Adam-12
Adventures of Superman
Alias Smith and Jones
All in the Family
The Andy Griffith Show
Bizarre Foods America
Automan
Batman
Battlestar Galactica
Baywatch
The Beverly Hillbillies
Beverly Hills, 90210
Bewitched
The Big Valley
The Bionic Woman
Blossom
The Bob Newhart Show
Bonanza
Bosom Buddies
Boy Meets World
Branded
The Brady Bunch
Brew Dogs
Bronco
Burger Land
Cagney and Lacey
Cannon
Car 54, Where Are You?
Charles in Charge
Cheers
Cheyenne
Coach
Columbo
The Cosby Show
The Cowboys
Crazy Like a Fox
Custer
The Dakotas
Dallas
Dark Shadows
Dawson's Creek
Dennis the Menace
Desperate Housewives
Diagnosis Murder
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Diff'rent Strokes
The Donna Reed Show
Doogie Howser, M.D.
The Doris Day Show
Dragnet
The Drew Carey Show
The Dukes of Hazzard
Eat St.
Ellen
Evening Shade
Everybody Loves Raymond
F–J
F-Troop
The Facts of Life
Falcon Crest
The Fame
Family Affair
Family Guy
Family Ties
Fantasy Island
Father Knows Best
Frasier
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Friday the 13th: The Series
Friends
The Fugitive
Full House
George Lopez
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gimme a Break!
Good Times
Going Places
The Golden Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
The Greatest American Hero
The Green Hornet
Growing Pains
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Hardcastle and McCormick
Have Gun, Will Travel
Hawaii Five-O
Hazel
Head of the Class
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Highlander
Highway to Heaven
Hill Street Blues
Hogan's Heroes
The Honeymooners
Hunter
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
The Incredible Hulk
The Invisible Man
Joanie Loves Chachi
K–O
Kate and Allie
The King of Queens
Kitchen Confidential
Knight Rider
Kodiak
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kung Fu
Land of the Giants
Laredo
Laverne & Shirley
Leave It To Beaver
The Legend of Jesse James
Lois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldhausen%20category | In mathematics, a Waldhausen category is a category C equipped with some additional data, which makes it possible to construct the K-theory spectrum of C using a so-called S-construction. It's named after Friedhelm Waldhausen, who introduced this notion (under the term category with cofibrations and weak equivalences) to extend the methods of algebraic K-theory to categories not necessarily of algebraic origin, for example the category of topological spaces.
Definition
Let C be a category, co(C) and we(C) two classes of morphisms in C, called cofibrations and weak equivalences respectively. The triple (C, co(C), we(C)) is called a Waldhausen category if it satisfies the following axioms, motivated by the similar properties for the notions of cofibrations and weak homotopy equivalences of topological spaces:
C has a zero object, denoted by 0;
isomorphisms are included in both co(C) and we(C);
co(C) and we(C) are closed under composition;
for each object A ∈ C the unique map 0 → A is a cofibration, i.e. is an element of co(C);
co(C) and we(C) are compatible with pushouts in a certain sense.
For example, if is a cofibration and is any map, then there must exist a pushout , and the natural map should be cofibration:
Relations with other notions
In algebraic K-theory and homotopy theory there are several notions of categories equipped with some specified classes of morphisms. If C has a structure of an exact category, then by defining we(C) to be isomorphisms, co(C) to be admissible monomorphisms, one obtains a structure of a Waldhausen category on C. Both kinds of structure may be used to define K-theory of C, using the Q-construction for an exact structure and S-construction for a Waldhausen structure. An important fact is that the resulting K-theory spaces are homotopy equivalent.
If C is a model category with a zero object, then the full subcategory of cofibrant objects in C may be given a Waldhausen structure.
S-construction
The Waldhausen S-construction produces from a Waldhausen category C a sequence of Kan complexes , which forms a spectrum. Let denote the loop space of the geometric realization of . Then the group
is the n-th K-group of C. Thus, it gives a way to define higher K-groups. Another approach for higher K-theory is Quillen's Q-construction.
The construction is due to Friedhelm Waldhausen.
biWaldhausen categories
A category C is equipped with bifibrations if it has cofibrations and its opposite category COP has so also. In that case, we denote the fibrations of COP by quot(C).
In that case, C is a biWaldhausen category if C has bifibrations and weak equivalences such that both (C, co(C), we) and (COP, quot(C), weOP) are Waldhausen categories.
Waldhausen and biWaldhausen categories are linked with algebraic K-theory. There, many interesting categories are complicial biWaldhausen categories. For example:
The category of bounded chain complexes on an exact category .
The category of functors when is so.
And |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaweb | Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Franciscobased company that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was co-founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook and John Giannandrea in 2005.
Metaweb was acquired by Google in 2010. Google shut down Freebase in 2016, transferring some of the data that met the required notability criteria to Wikidata.
Funding
On March 14, 2006, Metaweb received $15 million in funding. Investors included Benchmark Capital, Millennium Technology Ventures, and Omidyar Network. On January 15, 2008, Metaweb announced a $42.5 million Series B round led by Goldman Sachs and Benchmark Capital.
Kevin Harvey of Benchmark Capital was a member of Metaweb's board of directors.
Acquisition
On July 16, 2010, Google acquired Metaweb for an undisclosed sum.
References
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Online databases
Semantic Web companies
Companies established in 2005
Google acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneak%20Prevue | Sneak Prevue was an American pay television network that served as a barker channel to provide previews of pay-per-view films and events to cable television providers. The channel launched in 1991 and existed until 2002.
History
Sneak Prevue launched in 1991 as a service for promoting pay-per-view services, providing viewers with a listing and showcase of the events and movies that were showing in the next 30 minutes, up to previews of coming films and events. It was originally owned by the Prevue Networks subsidiary of United Video Satellite Group, and was spun off from the television listings service Prevue Channel (which would become TVGN, and is now known as Pop). In 1999, when the Prevue Channel transformed into the TV Guide Channel, Sneak Prevue remained under its respective name and format.
On June 11, 1998, United Video Satellite Group purchased TV Guide from News Corporation for $800 million and 60 million shares of stock worth an additional $1.2 billion (this followed an earlier merger attempt between the two companies in 1996 that eventually fell apart). This resulted in subsequent renaming of Prevue Channel to the TV Guide Channel on February 1. Following the purchase, a revamp of Sneak Prevue's software and on-air presentation was implemented after February 1, 1999, or whenever cable companies upgraded their equipment for TVGC's new presentation mode.
On October 5, 1999, Gemstar International Group Ltd. purchased United Video Satellite Group, which was renamed Gemstar-TV Guide International; the two companies had previously been involved in a legal battle over the intellectual property rights for their respective interactive program guide systems, VCR Plus+ and TV Guide On Screen, that began in 1994.
In December 1999, the new management planned another revamp for the network, with plans to rename the channel as Screen TV. These plans included more focus on other services from participating providers, such as digital cable and high-speed internet, and short-form programming relating to the types of programming seen on PPV, as well as celebrity interviews. However, these plans were eventually scrapped for various reasons (including the move to digital cable, as well as the lack of customization providers carrying Screen TV would have had, in comparison to Sneak Prevue). The channel quietly ceased operations in April 2002 as its content was merged within the scrolling listings grid of parent network TV Guide Channel, including pricing and ordering information. This was most likely due to the fact that dominant pay-per-view provider In Demand provided its own barker channel, and as a result of other cable systems deciding to advertise their film lineups on their own. The ending also coincided with the discontinuation of Laserdisc production by Imation.
Format
Like the Prevue Channel, Sneak Prevue was personalized for cable and satellite providers, featuring the individual provider's logos with advertisements and listings. The s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Food%20Network%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | This is a list of past and present programs airing on Food Network Canada. It includes original programming, programming from Food Network, and programming acquired from other networks around the world.
Current
#-0
A-E
Amy Schumer Learns to Cook
The Baker Sisters
Beat Bobby Flay
Barefoot Contessa
Brunch at Bobby's
Burgers, Brew & 'Que
Cake Hunters
Cake Wars
Cake Wars: Christmas
Carnival Eats
Chef at Home
Chef Dynasty: House of Fang
Clash of the Grandmas
Chopped
Chopped: Canada
Chopped Junior
Cooks vs. Cons
Cupcake Wars
Cutthroat Kitchen
David Rocco's Dolce Vita
Dessert Games
Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives
Donut Showdown
F-J
Fire Masters
Food's Greatest Hits
Food Factory
Food Network Star
Food Network Star Kids
Food Safari
Fresh with Anna Olson
Giada Entertains
Giada in Italy
Ginormous Food
Gordon Ramsay's Seasonal Specials
Great Chocolate Showdown
Great Food Truck Race
The Grill Dads
Guy's Big Bite
Guy's Grocery Games
Guy's Family Road Trip
Holiday Baking Championship
I Hart Food
Inspired with Anna Olson
Iron Chef America
Iron Chef Canada
Junior Chef Showdown
Just One Bite
K-O
Kids Sweet Showdown
Mystery Diners
Neighbourhood Eats
P-T
Patricia Heaton Parties
The Pioneer Woman
Project Bakeover
Restaurant: Impossible
Restaurant Stakeout
Sugar
Sugar Showdown
Top Chef: All-Stars L.A.
Top Chef Canada
U-Z
Valerie's Home Cooking
Vegas Cakes
Wall of Chefs
Wall of Bakers
Worst Bakers in America
Worst Cooks in America
You Gotta Eat Here!
Past
#-0
The 100 Mile Challenge
24 Hour Restaurant Battle
30 Minute Meals
$40 a Day
5 Ingredient Fix
A-E
Ace of Cakes
Around the World in 80 Plates
Ask Aida
At the Table With...
BBQ with Bobby Flay
Behind the Bash
The Best Thing I Ever Ate
The Best Thing I Ever Made
Big Daddy's House
Buddy's Family Vacation
Calling All Cooks
Canadian Living Cooks
Chef Academy
Chef Abroad
Chef at Home
Chef at Large
CheF*OFF
Chef School
Chefs vs. City
Chef Wild
Chefography
Chocolate with Jacques Torres
Christine Cushing: Cook With Me
Christine Cushing Live
Chuck's Day Off
Cooking for Real
Cook Like a Chef
Cooking Live
Cooking with Me
A Cook's Tour
Crash My Kitchen
Crave
Chef in Your Ear
The Delinquent Gourmet
Dinner: Impossible
Dinner Party Wars
Duff Till Dawn
East Meets West
Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello
Eat, Shrink, and Be Merry
Eat St.
Emeril Live
Essence of Emeril
Everyday Exotic
Everyday Italian
Extreme Cuisine with Jeff Corwin
F-J
The F Word
Family Cook Off
The Family Restaurant
Feasting on Asphalt
Fink
Fixing Dinner
Food Fighters
Food 911
Food Fantasy
Food Hunter
Food Jammers
Food Network Challenge
Forever Summer with Nigella
Fresh and Wild
French Food at Home
From Spain With Love with Annie Sibonney
Giada's Weekend Getaways
Good Deal with Dave Lieberman
Good Eats
Gordon Elliott's Door Knock Dinners
Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Home Cooking
The Great Canadian Cookbook
Great Canadian Food Show
Great Cocktails
Giada at Home
Glutton for Punishment
Ham on the Street
Heat Seekers
The Heat with Mark McEwan
Hell's Kitchen
Ho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIS%20online | The Transportation Research Information Services online (Tris online) was a bibliographic database funded by sponsors of the United States Transportation Research Board (TRB), primarily the USA state departments of transportation and selected US federal transportation agencies. TRIS Online was hosted by the National Transportation Library under a cooperative agreement between the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and TRB. TRIS provided access to over 300,000 bibliographic records covering transportation research published in books, journal articles, technical reports and the media.
Update January 2011
The TRIS Database returned to TRB in 2010; in 2011 the TRIS Database was integrated with other international transportation literature databases (such as the ITRD Database).
Update July 2020
More information about the integrated database and access to it is available at the TRID Transportation Research Database article.
References
External links
Transportation Research Board
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Transportation in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty%20bit | A dirty bit or modified bit is a bit that is associated with a block of computer memory and indicates whether the corresponding block of memory has been modified. The dirty bit is set when the processor writes to (modifies) this memory. The bit indicates that its associated block of memory has been modified and has not been saved to storage yet. When a block of memory is to be replaced, its corresponding dirty bit is checked to see if the block needs to be written back to secondary memory before being replaced or if it can simply be removed. Dirty bits are used by the CPU cache and in the page replacement algorithms of an operating system.
Dirty bits can also be used in Incremental computing by marking segments of data that need to be processed or have yet to be processed. This technique can be used with delayed computing to avoid unnecessary processing of objects or states that have not changed. When the model is updated (usually by multiple sources), only the segments that need to be reprocessed will be marked dirty. Afterwards, an algorithm will scan the model for dirty segments and process them, marking them as clean. This ensures the unchanged segments are not recalculated and saves processor time.
Page replacement
When speaking about page replacement, each page may have a modify bit associated with it in the hardware. The dirty bit for a page is set by the hardware whenever any word or byte in the page is written into, indicating that the page has been modified. When a page is selected for replacement, the modify bit is examined. If the bit is set, the page has been modified since it was read in from the disk. In this case, the page must be written to the disk. If the dirty bit is not set, however, the page has not been modified since it was read into memory. Therefore, if the copy of the page on the disk has not been overwritten (by some other page, for example), then there is no need to write the memory page to the disk: it is already there.
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Operating system technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Agricultural%20Safety%20Database | The National Ag Safety Database (NASD) was developed with funding from the United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the USDA Cooperative Extension Service (CES). The information contained in NASD was contributed by safety professionals and organizations from across the United States. Specifically, the objectives of the NASD project are: 1) to provide a national resource for the dissemination of information; 2) to educate workers and managers about occupational hazards associated with agriculture-related injuries, deaths and illnesses; 3) to provide prevention information; 4) to promote the consideration of safety and health issues in agricultural operations; and 5) to provide a convenient way for members of the agricultural safety and health community to share educational and research materials with their colleagues.
History
The original concept of NASD was a deliverable collection of safety materials contained within CD-ROMs, where the updates on CD would be periodically released. In October 1993, NIOSH provided funding through its Agricultural Health Promotion System (AHPS) grant program to develop the first CD-ROM NASD through the University of Florida's Cooperative Extension Service (CES). The first prototype of the CD-ROM collection was delivered to a select group of reviewers in October 1994, containing materials from institutions participating in the AHPS grant and from elsewhere. Reviewers provided their suggestions in a March 1995 workshop, and the general release occurred in June of the same year.
The Information Technology program associated with Florida CES was developing tools to deliver Extension publications electronically through the internet, and in October 1996, NIOSH funded a three-year program to update the database and convert the database into HTML format for delivery on the World-Wide Web. By October 1997, the entire database had been converted and a web-site was established. Expansion of the database continued, and CD-ROMs of the content were also produced during 1997 (NASD'97), 1998 (NASD '98), and 1999 (NASD '99). In 2001, NIOSH funded the program to expand and maintain NASD. In 2002, The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (USDA-CREES) added funding support for NASD.
In 2002–2006, NIOSH funded NASD through the Southern Coastal Ag Center (SCAC). Dr. Carol Lehtola directed the project. In 2007–2009, NIOSH funded NASD through the University of Florida – again, Lehtola directed the project. After a four-year hiatus, in 2013 NIOSH resumed support for NASD with funding through the Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (CSCASH), the Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention (SCAHIP), and the High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (HICAHS).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20H.%20Caldwell | Samuel Hawks Caldwell (January 15, 1904 – October 12, 1960) was an American electrical engineer, known for his contributions to the early computers.
Early life and education
Caldwell enrolled at MIT in 1921, where he completed his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering. His M.Sc. thesis was entitled Electrical characteristics and theory of operation of a dry electrolytic rectifier (1926). In his doctoral studies he worked on analog computers with Vannevar Bush, developing the Differential Analyzer. His Sc.D., advised by Bush, was entitled The Extension and Application of Differential Analyzer Technique in the Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations (1933).
In 1934, he joined the faculty of the electrical engineering department as an assistant professor.
World War II and Later Work
During World War II, Caldwell was a chief within the fire control section of the National Defense Research Committee. For his work during WWII, he earned a Medal for Merit, the Naval Ordnance Development Award, and the King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom from Great Britain. At the time, the Medal for Merit was the highest civilian honor granted by the United States.
After the war, he led the MIT Center of Analysis, where he reluctantly gave way to digital computing by initiating the Rockefeller Electronic Computer (RED) and supporting the Project Whirlwind. The centre closed around 1950, after which Caldwell continued as a faculty member, being the advisor to both David A. Huffman (1953) and Edward J. McCluskey (1956).
In 1959, Caldwell published a paper describing his work on the "Sinotype," which was one of the first efforts at typesetting and compositing the Chinese language with a computer. This program, which converted keystrokes into characters, has been described as the first instance of autocomplete.
Publications
William H. Timbie and Henry Harold Higbie and Caldwell, Essentials of alternating currents, Wiley, 1939
Electrical Engineering Research at M.I.T. : an appreciation MIT, 1948
Analog and special purpose computing machines 1949
(xviii+686 pages)
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MIT School of Engineering alumni
MIT School of Engineering faculty
1904 births
1960 deaths
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Medal_for_Merit_recipients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanoa%20Leahey | James Kanoa Leahey, known as Kanoa Leahey, is a play-by-play announcer for UH sports and high school sports on Spectrum Sports, and for college basketball on the ESPN networks. He was also a former sports reporter for KHON-TV, the Honolulu Fox affiliate; and a former co-host of Leahey & Leahey, a weekly talk show featured on PBS Hawaii with his father, Jim (Leahey & Leahey Live). Following the death of longtime commentator Robert Kekaula, Leahey became the TV voice of Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors football in 2021.
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Iolani School alum got his first job as a sports reporter at KITV, Honolulu's ABC affiliate. After several years as the weekend sports anchor, he took over as the sports director at KHON-TV in 2004. In 2012, he stepped down to make more time for his national play-by-play work. He was replaced by Rob DeMello.
Leahey is a third generation sportscaster in Hawaii, and earned a Hawaii Sportscaster of the Year award, like his father, Jim Leahey, and grandfather, Chuck Leahey.
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1977 births
American television personalities
ʻIolani School alumni
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia%20Flash | Macromedia Flash may refer to:
Adobe Animate, a multimedia authoring and computer animation program formerly known as Macromedia Flash
Adobe Flash, a multimedia software platform formerly known as Macromedia Flash |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCBX | KCBX (90.1 FM) is a non-commercial radio station that is licensed to San Luis Obispo, California. The public radio station is a member station of NPR and airs a wide variety of programming, including All Things Considered, Democracy Now!, and jazz and classical music.
KCBX has a network of repeaters and translators that enable the station to be heard throughout the Central Coast of California. Full-power repeater is KNBX (91.7 FM), licensed to San Ardo, California.
KCBX itself broadcasts in HD Radio.
History
KCBX first signed on July 27, 1975 and began airing a variety of NPR programming, plus jazz, classical music, and foreign-language shows.
KSBX, a full-power repeater of KCBX in Santa Barbara, began broadcasting April 1, 2003.
From the 1970s through the end of 2012, KCBX broadcast live meetings of the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors. In its decision to drop coverage of meetings, the station cited a lack of interest in the radio broadcast as county residents can stream meetings online.
Repeaters
KCBX operates two full-power repeater stations: KSBX on 89.5 MHz in Santa Barbara, California and KNBX on 91.7 MHz in Monterey County. The station also operates several low-power FM translators scattered throughout the Central Coast. KSBX was shut down on December 31, 2022, with KCBX citing that tropospheric ducting had brought in unacceptable interference from KPBS-FM in San Diego, an issue it had tried and failed to address through a failed relocation to 89.9 FM. The KSBX license was surrendered and cancelled on February 13, 2023.
Translators
KPBS-FM interference problem in Santa Barbara
In parts of the Santa Barbara area, sometimes during atmospheric ducting, co-channel KPBS-FM in San Diego can override or interfere with the KSBX signal. At one time, KSBX was a 9-watt translator on 89.9 MHz; later, another station began using that translator. Eventually a deal was reached that would vacate that frequency. In 2006, KCBX applied for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) construction permit to move back to 89.9 MHz and increase the effective radiated power from 50 watts to 350 watts. As part of the application, the station enclosed copies of numerous letters and emails from listeners complaining about the signal override or interference from KPBS. In support of the frequency change, a consulting broadcast engineer was hired to analyze the situation, make signal strength measurements during ducting, and fully explain the technical causes of the problem to the FCC. Making the interference problem worse is the fact that the KPBS signal travels completely over water.
In 2010, KPBS-FM was granted a construction permit to increase its effective radiated power from 2,700 watts to 26,000 watts. The consulting engineer explained to the FCC that if KSBX's frequency change was not granted, this would worsen the interference problem. In February 2012, the FCC dismissed the construction permit application from KCBX. KPBS started broadcasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolanet | Rolanet (Robotron Local Area Network) was a networking standard, developed in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) and introduced in 1987 by the computer manufacturer Robotron. It enabled computer networking over coax cable and glass fiber with a range of . Networking speed was 500 kBd, comparable to other standards of the day. A maximum of 253 computers could be connected using Rolanet.
Two variants of Rolanet existed:
Rolanet 1, introduced in 1987, saw limited deployment;
Rolanet 2 was planned as a successor to Rolanet 1, but presumably never got beyond the prototype stage.
A scaled-down version of Rolanet, BICNet, was used for educational purposes.
It is no longer possible to assemble a functioning Rolanet system today, due to lack of software and working hardware.
External links
More information about Robotron networking technologies on Robotrontechnik.de
Computer networking
Science and technology in East Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona%20Nagy | Ilona Nagy (born January 21, 1951, in Budapest) is a former Hungarian handball player, Olympic Games and World Championship bronze medalist.
References
External links
Profile on Database Olympics
1951 births
Living people
Handball players from Budapest
Hungarian female handball players
Handball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic handball players for Hungary
Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary
Olympic medalists in handball
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
20th-century Hungarian women
21st-century Hungarian women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89va%20Angyal | Éva Angyal (born 18 April 1955 in Budapest) is a former Hungarian handball player, World Championship silver medalist and Olympic Games bronze medalist.
References
External links
Profile on Database Olympics
1955 births
Living people
Hungarian female handball players
Handball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic handball players for Hungary
Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary
Olympic medalists in handball
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Handball players from Budapest
20th-century Hungarian women
21st-century Hungarian women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%20Programming%20Centre | The NATO Programming Centre (NPC) is part of the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA). The NPC is responsible for system support and maintenance of the Air Command and Control Systems (Air C2).
The centre is located in Glons, a village close to the cities of Tongeren and Liège, Belgium. It employs nearly 200 people. It is an integral part of the NCIA's Air C2 Programme Office and Services, previously known as NATO ACCS Management Agency (NACMA) for the ACCS Programme and with the NATO Support Agency (NSPA) for the maintenance of various Air Command and Control systems.
References
External links
NPC official site
NCI Agency
NSPA
NATO structure
Bassenge
Information operations units and formations of NATO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent%20binding | Host-based zoning can include WWN or LUN masking, and is typically known as “persistent binding.”
In storage networking, ”persistent binding” is an option of zoning.
Host-based zoning is usually referred to as persistent binding or LUN, and is perhaps the least implemented form of zoning. Because it requires the host configuration to be correct in order to avoid zoning conflicts, this form of zoning creates a greater opportunity for administrative errors and conflicting access to targets. Moreover, zoning interfaces vary among different host operating systems and HBA's — increasing the possibility for administrative errors. If a host is not configured with the zoning software, it can access all devices in the fabric and create an even higher probability of data corruption. Host-based zoning is often used when clusters are implemented to control the mapping of devices to specific target IDs. However, it should never be the only form of zoning. Augmenting host-based zoning with storage- and fabric-based zoning is the only acceptable method to reliably control device access and data security.
Basically, A given LUN has it SCSI id assigned by its RAID device (typically a SAN ). But for some purposes it's useful to have the SCSI id assigned by the host itself: that's persistent binding.
What is Persistent binding for ?
Without persistent binding, after every reboot, the SCSI id of a LUN may change. For Example, under Linux, a LUN bound on /dev/sda could migrate to /dev/sdb after a reboot. The risks augments with multipathing. Based on that, it is obvious that many software may crash without persistent binding.
from http://www.storagesearch.com/datalink-art1.html
Operating systems and upper-level applications (such as backup software) typically require a static or predictable SCSI target ID for their storage reliability and persistent binding affords that happening.
Types of zoning
A zone can include host and LUNS. The LUNS are exported by the DISK ARRAY, the hosts are the clients (servers, computers). Each host in a zone can access each LUNS in the same zone. That's zoning. The zone is usually set on the central point of connection of the hosts and the DISK ARRAY: the FC switch.
LUN masking
from Fibre Channel zoning
Zoning is sometimes confused with LUN masking, because it serves the same goals. LUN masking, however, works on Fibre channel level 4 (i.e. on SCSI level), while zoning works on level 2. This allows zoning to be implemented on switches, whereas LUN masking is performed on endpoint devices - host adapters or disk array controllers.
Some fibre channel switches allow zoning at the LUN level, effectively implementing LUN masking at the switch.
Here, we are talking about level 4.
This form of zoning has to be augmented by another zoning : RAID ARRAY based or fabric-based(FC switch) to improve security and avoid any errors. Otherwise two hosts may access the same data(LUNS) at the same time and it will result in data corruption.
Persis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive%20Peeters | Clive Peeters was an Australian electrical, computers, kitchens and whitegoods retailer with stores in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. Under the original owners, the first stores opened in Melbourne in 1973 and Brisbane in 2001.
In 2005, Clive Peeters bought the Rick Hart chain of retail stores in Western Australia, however the stores continue to trade under the Rick Hart name. Clive Peeters stores carried more than 140 brands and over 20,000 individual models.
Certain locations were acquired by Harvey Norman (The Derni Group) in July 2010, who will continue to operate both retailers independent of their other major retail brands, Harvey Norman, Joyce Mayne and Domayne.
Internal fraud
In 2009 it was discovered that the Clive Peeters payroll manager, Sonya Denise Causer, had defrauded the company by falsely inflating the company payroll expense and then using her company online banking access to transfer the difference between the actual and reported expense to bank accounts she controlled. Causer had stolen over A$20 million during the period November 2007 to June 2009 and used the money to purchase 43 properties and 3 cars. The company took civil action to have Causers' assets transferred to Clive Peeters.
Administration
Clive Peeters shares ceased trading in the Australian Securities Exchange on Wednesday, 19 May 2010, after the company brought in McGrathNicol as voluntary administrators to try and sell off the business.
New management
Nik Papa was appointed General Manager in July 2010. Papa had previously been a Harvey Norman franchisee.
On 11 August 2011, Harvey Norman Executive Chairman Gerry Harvey announced that the Clive Peeters brand was "stuffed" and tainted beyond repair, admitting that it was a bad business decision for Harvey Norman to take over Clive Peeters in the first place. As a result, 13 Clive Peeters stores and 5 Rick Hart stores will be converted to Harvey Norman stores (with the exception of two stores, which will be converted to Joyce Mayne stores), with the remaining four Clive Peeters stores and three Rick Hart stores being closed down and sold off, because of proximity to existing Harvey Norman stores in those areas.
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Consumer electronics retailers of Australia
Retail companies established in 1973
Retail companies disestablished in 2011
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2011 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melioration%20theory | Melioration theory in behavioral psychology is a theoretical algorithm that predicts the matching law. Melioration theory is used as an explanation for why an organism makes choices based on the rewards or reinforcers it receives. The principle of melioration states that animals will invest increasing amounts of time and/or effort into whichever alternative is better. To meliorate essentially means to "make better".
Melioration theory accounts for many of the choices that organisms make when presented with two variable interval schedules. Melioration is a form of matching where the subject is constantly shifting its behavior from the poorer reinforcement schedule to the richer reinforcement schedule, until it is spending most of its time at the richest variable interval schedule. By matching, the subject is equalizing the price of the reinforcer they are working for. This is also called hyperbolic discounting. In making a choice between options, living organisms need not maximize expected payoff as classical economic theory posits. Rather than being aggregated, the options compete against one another based on differences in their local reinforcement rate. The organism continuously shifts from one alternative to the other, if one is better than the other, until the other is better than the first one, regardless of the effect on overall rate of reinforcement. Melioration is capable of accounting for behavior on both concurrent ratio and concurrent interval schedules.
Melioration Equation
R1/B1 = R2/B2
If this ratio is not equal, the animal will shift its behavior to the alternative that currently has the higher response ratio. When the ratio is equal, the "cost" of each reinforcer is the same for both alternatives.
Melioration theory grew out of an impersonal anonymous interest in how the matching law comes to hold on. Richard J. Herrnstein (1961) reported that on concurrent VIVIVI reinforcement schedules, the proportion of responses to one alternative was approximately equal to the proportion of reinforcer received there. This finding is summarized in the matching law, which generated a great deal of both matching research and matching theorizing. Herrnstein (1970) suggested that matching may be a basic behavioral process, whereas Rachlin et al. (1976) suggested that matching comes about because it maximizes rate of matching reinforcement.
William Vaughan, Jr. (1976) suggested that the local rate of matching reinforcement on each reinforcement matching schedule is evaluated, and if those local rates differ, the distribution of time on a schedule is shifted from the poorer to the better schedule. On concurrent VIVIVI reinforcement schedules this process gives rise to matching, whereas on concurrent VRVRVR reinforcement schedules it gives rise to exclusive preferences for the better alternative and not the worse alternative. This rule was subsequently named Melioration (Herrnstein & Vaughan, 1980). See also Herrnstein, 1982, Vaughan, 1981; Vaug |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive%20logic%20programming | Abductive logic programming (ALP) is a high-level knowledge-representation framework that can be used to solve problems declaratively, based on abductive reasoning. It extends normal logic programming by allowing some predicates to be incompletely defined, declared as abducible predicates. Problem solving is effected by deriving hypotheses on these abducible predicates (abductive hypotheses) as solutions of problems to be solved. These problems can be either observations that need to be explained (as in classical abduction) or goals to be achieved (as in normal logic programming). It can be used to solve problems in diagnosis, planning, natural language and machine learning. It has also been used to interpret negation as failure as a form of abductive reasoning.
Syntax
Abductive logic programs have three components, where:
P is a logic program of exactly the same form as in logic programming
A is a set of predicate names, called the abducible predicates
IC is a set of first-order classical formulae.
Normally, the logic program P does not contain any clauses whose head (or conclusion) refers to an abducible predicate. (This restriction can be made without loss of generality.) Also in practice, many times, the integrity constraints in IC are often restricted to the form of denials, i.e. clauses of the form:
false:- A1,...,An, not B1, ..., not Bm.
Such a constraint means that it is not possible for all A1,...,An to be true and at the same time all of B1,...,Bm to be false.
Informal meaning and problem solving
The clauses in P define a set of non-abducible predicates and through this they provide a description (or model) of the problem domain. The integrity constraints in IC specify general properties of the problem domain that need to be respected in any solution of a problem.
A problem, G, which expresses either an observation that needs to be explained or a goal that is desired, is represented by a conjunction of positive and negative (NAF) literals. Such problems are solved by computing "abductive explanations" of G.
An abductive explanation of a problem G is a set of positive (and sometimes also negative) ground instances of the abducible predicates, such that, when these are added to the logic program P, the problem G and the integrity constraints IC both hold. Thus abductive explanations extend the logic program P by the addition of full or partial definitions of the abducible predicates. In this way, abductive explanations form solutions of the problem according to the description of the problem domain in P and IC. The extension or completion of the problem description given by the abductive explanations provides new information, hitherto not contained in the solution to the problem. Quality criteria to prefer one solution over another, often expressed via integrity constraints, can be applied to select specific abductive explanations of the problem G.
Computation in ALP combines the backwards reasoning of normal logic program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaume%20I%20%28Barcelona%20Metro%29 | Jaume I is a station in the Barcelona Metro network, located under Via Laietana, an important avenue in Ciutat Vella, right between Plaça de Ramon Berenguer el Gran and Plaça d'Emili Vilanova. It can be accessed from Plaça de l'Àngel and Carrer d'Argenteria, on the other side of Via Laietana.
The station serves Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona-operated L4. It began in as part of the L3 service; later, a section of the L3 became the L4. The other L3 stations (Correos and Banco) that were located in Via Laietana are now closed.
Atypical of downtown Barcelona metro stations, its two platforms are on the same level, and divide the station into two parts. Each platform is long.
On December 28, 2018, the station became accessible for wheelchair users.
Services
See also
James I of Aragon, its namesake.
List of Barcelona Metro stations
List of disused Barcelona Metro stations
External links
Jaume I at Trenscat.com
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1926
Transport in Ciutat Vella
Barcelona Metro line 4 stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau%20Reial%20station | Palau Reial is a station in the Barcelona Metro and Trambaix networks, in the Les Corts district of Barcelona. It is served by metro line L3 and tram lines T1, T2 and T3. The station draws its name from the nearby minor royal palace in Pedralbes built for Alfonso XIII in 1924, part of which nowadays hosts a Museum of Decorative Arts.
The metro station is located under Avinguda Diagonal, between Carrer del Tinent Coronel Valenzuela and the biology faculty of the University of Barcelona. It has two long side platforms. The tram station is located in the Avinguda Diagonal, immediately above the metro station.
The metro station opened in 1975, along with the other stations of the section of L3 between Zona Universitària and Sants Estació stations. This section was originally operated separately from L3, and known as L3b, until the two sections were joined in 1982.
See also
List of Barcelona Metro stations
List of tram stations in Barcelona
References
External links
Palau Reial at Trenscat.com
Barcelona Metro line 3 stations
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1975
Trambaix stops
Transport in Les Corts (district) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Edelstein | Michael Edelstein (born February 20, 1968) began his career in episodic television working CBS Entertainment. There he worked on a number of series on the network's primetime schedule such as CSI. He then went on to work for NBC Universal
Together with Marc Cherry and Tom Spezialy, Edelstein was one of the original executive producers for Desperate Housewives. The show won two Golden Globes for best comedy series and other nominations.
Edelstein has been executive producer for the thriller series Threat Matrix, and sitcom Hope & Faith, as well as telefilms Haunting Sarah, and Him and Us.
Edelstein worked on the 2009 space drama, Defying Gravity,
During his 7 years at NBC he worked with in-house production labels included Carnival which produced Downton Abbey, and Monkey Kingdom, which produced Made in Chelsea. Also Chocolate Media, a factual/entertainment label, and Lucky Giant, which specialises in comedy, notably Chris Guest's HBO/BBC television series Family Tree starring Chris O’Dowd.
Edelstein played a key role in identifying Matchbox Pictures, an Australian production company responsible for The Slap. Matchbox was acquired by NBCUniversal International Television Productions in 2013.
Edelstein was also involved in securing an equity stake in Canadian company Lark Productions, the producers responsible for Real Housewives of Vancouver.
On 13 April 2015, NBCUniversal, Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland and TF1 announced they had entered into an international co-production partnership to produce original US-style TV procedural dramas, including up to three new dramas over two years.
Edelstein was on the board of Working Title which produced drama and comedy programming for both UK and US broadcasters.
Edelstein left NBC Universal in 2017 with the end of his contract.
References
External links
American television producers
Living people
1968 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Intel%20Itanium%20processors | The Itanium from Intel is a high-end server and supercomputer microprocessor.
Itanium (2001)
Merced (180 nm)
Steppings: C0, C1 and C2. CPUID: 0007000604h (stepping C0), 0007000704h (stepping C1) or 0007000804h (stepping C2). Transistor count: 25.4 million for CPU, 295 million for the external L3 cache. The FSB data bus is 64 bits wide, not 128 like in Itanium 2.
Itanium 2 (2002-2007)
Itanium 2 uses socket PAC611 with a 128 bit wide FSB. The 90 nm CPUs (9000 and 9100 series) bring dual-core chips and an updated microarchitecture adding multithreading and splitting the L2 cache into a 256 KB data cache and 1 MB instruction cache per core (the pre-9000 series L2 cache being a 256 KB common cache). All Itaniums except some 130 nm models are capable of >2-socket SMP.
McKinley (180 nm)
Stepping: B3. Die size: 421 mm². Transistor count: 221 million. CPUID: 001F000704h
Madison (130 nm)
Stepping: B1. Die size: 374 mm². Transistor count: 410 million. CPUID: 001F010504h. The Madison 9M table contains the 4MB and 6MB successors of the first Madisons.
Deerfield
The same chip as Madison, but at a lower voltage.
Madison 9M (130 nm)
Steppings: A1 and A2. Die size: 432 mm². Transistor count: 592 million. CPUID: 001F020104h (stepping A1) or 001F020204h (stepping A2). 9M is the chip of all the third generation Itanium 2s, irrespective of the amount of enabled cache.
Fanwood
The same chip as Madison 9M, but restricted to 2-socket and uniprocessor systems.
HP mx2 MCM (130 nm)
This multi-chip module codenamed Hondo is not an Intel product, but a separate project of Hewlett-Packard to pack two CPUs onto one PAC611 socket. The S-Spec SL75Z was assigned to the chips that Intel sent to HP for use in mx2.
Montecito (90 nm)
Steppings: C1 and C2. Die size: 596 mm². Transistor count: 1720 million. CPUID: 0020000504h (stepping C1) or 0020000704h (stepping C2). All processors can support the legacy 400 MT/s FSB. From Montecito onwards all Itaniums are MP-capable.
Montvale (90 nm)
The chip is similar to Montecito, but the stepping is A1 and the CPUID is 0020010104h. The models with 533 MT/s FSB also support 400 MT/s FSB operation. The processors with the Core level Lock-Step error correction feature were released only in 2008. Even though Intel does not use the "Itanium 2" branding for the 9100-series, it's still grouped with Itanium 2 processors because it uses the same platform and is a minor update on the 9000-series.
Itanium (2007–2019)
These later generations of Itanium use socket LGA 1248, the QuickPath Interconnect and Scalable Memory Interconnect having replaced the Front-Side Bus used by Itanium 2.
Tukwila (65 nm)
Stepping: E0. Die size: 699 mm². Transistor count: 2046 million. CPUID: 0020020404.All models support: XD bit (an NX bit implementation), Hyper-threading, Turbo Boost, VT-i2 (Itanium Virtualization technology), Intel VT-d, RAS with Advanced Machine Check Architecture, Cache Safe technology, Enhanced Demand Based Switching, ECC, two memory contro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMAC%20%28disambiguation%29 | CMAC is the Cipher-based Message Authentication Code, a cryptographic algorithm.
CMAC may also refer to:
Science and technology
Cerebellar model articulation controller, type of neural network
Continuous monitoring and adaptive control (stormwater management), a type of stormwater BMP
Organizations
Cambodian Mine Action Centre, see Land mines in Cambodia
Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation (CMAC), at Texas A&M University, US
Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada
Other uses
Constellation Brands – Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center, an outdoor concert venue in Canadaigua, New York, US
See also
C-MAC, a European television standard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun%20Channel | Fun Channel is a Bahraini television channel owned by the Orbit Network. Fun Channel contains cartoons for children from early morning to evening such as The Why Why Family and Dennis the Menace. From late night to early morning, it contains shows for pre-teens and older such as California Dreams and Hang Time.
Between 2005 and 2010, it used to simulcast Jetix Play.
History
Launched in 1994, Fun Channel broadcasts family-friendly entertainment, including animated and live action shows. On April 14, 2004 Fun Channel changed its logo and added more animated shows to its lineup. Fun Channel primarily airs in Bahrain, although it was also available in Chile with the network and programming dubbed into Spanish. The Chilean version of the Fun Channel was launched on June 18, 1995 and closed down in 2000.
See also
Metro Kids
References
External links
Official Site (Wayback Machine archive)
Orbit's Official Site (Wayback Machine archive)
Arab mass media
Children's television networks
Defunct television channels
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2000
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2010
Television stations in Chile
Television in Bahrain
Mass media in Chile
Television networks in Chile
1995 establishments in Chile
2000 disestablishments in Chile
Spanish-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLBS | KLBS (1330 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Los Banos, California, United States. The station, established in 1961, is currently owned by Ethnic Radio of Los Banos, Inc.
Programming
KLBS broadcasts a Portuguese-language world music format featuring Portuguese-language news and community information as part of The Portuguese Radio Network. KLBS and its sister station, KSQQ(FM), serve the large Portuguese community of California's San Joaquin Valley.
History
The beginning
This station began licensed broadcasting on May 1, 1961, with 500 watts of power on the frequency 1330 kHz, restricted to daytime-only operation. The station was assigned the KLBS call sign by the Federal Communications Commission.
Under the leadership of company president James Rose, license holder Los Banos Broadcasting Company served the diverse local population by including eight hours of farm programming, five hours of Spanish language programming, and seven hours of Portuguese language programming each week. The Portuguese programming included a weekday morning show from 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. and a Sunday afternoon block from noon to 2:00 p.m.
New ownership
John R. McAdam acquired Los Banos Broadcasting Company in 1963. McAdam expanded the ethnic programming to as much as 12 hours of Spanish language and 16 hours of Portuguese language programming each week throughout the 1970s.
In April 1982, McAdam and Los Banos Broadcasting Company reached an agreement to transfer ownership of KLBS to a new company called Ethnic Radio, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on May 25, 1982.
24-hour broadcasting
KLBS filed an application with the FCC in November 1985 to begin operating around the clock by adding nighttime service with 5,000 watts of power. The FCC granted authorization for this major change on February 24, 1986, and tower installation began in June 1986. Construction was completed in November 1986 and the station was issued a license to cover the changes on December 3, 1987.
KLBS today
Ethnic Radio, Inc., applied in June 1987 to assign the KLBS broadcast license to the Vieira family's Ethnic Radio of Los Banos, Inc. The transfer was approved by the FCC on July 2, 1987, and the transaction was consummated the same day. Broadcasting 90% of its programming in Portuguese, KLBS was then the only radio station in California broadcasting predominantly in the Portuguese language. That would change in 1990 when sister station KSQQ signed on with a multi-ethnic format, broadcasting in a dozen languages but with Portuguese language programming taking the bulk of the station's time.
References
External links
KLBS official website
LBS
Los Banos, California
Mass media in Merced County, California
LBS
Portuguese-American culture in California
Portuguese-language radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1961
1961 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20Raitt | Bay Leaf Raitt is an American digital modeler and animator. He has worked for Image Comics, providing computer-image modeling for Steve Oliff to use with "Spawn", "The Pitt", and "The Maxx". He later worked at Protozoa, providing 3D animation computer effects. In 1999 Raitt emigrated to New Zealand to work for Weta Digital. In that post he was responsible for creating the computer-generated face for Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. In video games, he is a modeler, animator, and level designer for the videogame Squeezils.
Raitt and his colleagues, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Ken McGaugh, won the Visual Effects Society Award for Best Character Animation in a Live Action Motion Picture for their work on The Lord of the Rings.
He worked for Valve for 9 years until he departed on February 13, 2013. He worked on the Source Filmmaker, The TF2 Meet the Team animated shorts, TF2 Hats, and the video games Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Portal 1 and 2.
He is the nephew of singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, and the grandson of musical theater actor John Raitt
References
External links
Bay Raitt using the modeling program Mirai to create texture, rig and animate a character in one afternoon
Squeezils at Home of the Underdogs
Bay Raitt at Artstation
Living people
New Zealand animators
Valve Corporation people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20Sektor | Omega Sektor was a computer gaming centre brand, which previously owned two venues in the UK. One smaller venue was based in Harrow, the other on Corporation Street in Birmingham. The Birmingham venue claimed to be the largest of its kind in the Europe.
The centre cost approximately £4 million and opened its doors to the public on Saturday 11 August 2007, with a VIP opening day on the 10th. The building was previously occupied by Virgin Megastores.
The centre occupied and contained consoles including one PlayStation 3 (which is mainly used for tournaments) and Xbox 360s in addition to over 250 high-spec PCs. The centre also included an internet café, a VIP room for private events, large plasma screens and projectors scattered around the centre and a sound-proof room where music videos were displayed.
Administration
As of Thursday 9 October 2008, the company behind the British venues of Omega Sektor - Clearmist Consultants Ltd - went into administration, with debts in excess of £330,000. Both the Birmingham and Harrow venues were closed, and no buyer or investment was found.
References
Buildings and structures in Birmingham, West Midlands
Internet cafés |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGOMSL | NGOMSL (Natural GOMS Language) is a variation of the GOMS technique in human computer interaction.
Overview
Natural GOMS Language technique was developed by David Kieras in 1988. The motivation was to make GOMS/CCT (cognitive complexity theory) simple to use, and still keep the power and flexibility of standard GOMS. This was necessary because GOMS did not have very well defined semantics. This lack of definition meant that two equally competent evaluators could do evaluations on the same system and come up with very different results. Kieras's result was the development of high-level (natural language) syntax for GOMS representation with directions for doing a GOMS evaluation. The recipe is referred to as a "top-down, breadth-first" expansion. The user's high-level goals are unfolded until only operators remain. Generally operators are considered to be keystroke-level operations, but that is not a rigid requirement.
Since NGOMSL is based on CCT, it has certain properties that make it unique. NGOMSL inherits the ability to not only give estimations for execution times but it can also estimate the time taken to learn how to use the system. It also, however, shares one of the major disadvantages all of the previous methods. NGOMSL models user interaction as a serial operation. One operation occupies the user completely, there is no multitasking, which makes NGOMSL inappropriate for analyzing tasks where the users are under time pressure, highly practiced and, in reality, do act in a parallel fashion.
See also
Human information processor model
CPM-GOMS
KLM-GOMS
CMN-GOMS
References
Notations
This article incorporates text from Dr. G. Abowd: GOMS Analysis Techniques - Final Essay, which has been released into GFDL by its author (see ).
Judith Reitman Olson, Gary M. Olson: The Growth of Cognitive Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction Since GOMS, in: R. M. Baecker, J. Grudin, W. A. S. Buxton, S. Greenberg: Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Towards the Year 2000. 1995, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
Footnotes
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciutadella%20%E2%80%93%20Vila%20Ol%C3%ADmpica%20%28Barcelona%20Metro%29 | Ciutadella Vila Olímpica () is the name of a station in the Barcelona Metro network, as well of a nearby Trambesòs station in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona. It's named after one of Barcelona's major parks, Parc de la Ciutadella, and La Vila Olímpica del Poblenou, a neighbourhood in the immediate vicinities. It's served by L4 (yellow line), and tram route T4, of which it is a terminus. It was built in under Parc de Carles I. It was closed between 1991 and 1992 because of infrastructure improvement with the occasion of the 1992 Olympic Games, and again as of mid-2007 due to improvement of L4.
Within two blocks stands the Ciutadella campus of Pompeu Fabra University and the station is often crowded with university students. In summer it's also common to spot tourists heading to the Barceloneta beach. The nearest metro stations are Barceloneta and Bogatell.
Before 1982 it was known as Ribera (named after the neighbourhood), and from then to 1992, simply as Ciutadella.
Services
See also
Parc de la Ciutadella
La Vila Olímpica del Poblenou
External links
Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica at Trenscat.com
Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica Trambesòs station at Trenscat.com
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1977
Barcelona Metro line 4 stations
Trambesòs stops
Transport in Ciutat Vella |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly%20linked%20face%20list | In applied mathematics, a doubly linked face list (DLFL) is an efficient data structure for storing 2-manifold mesh data. The structure stores linked lists for a 3D mesh's faces, edges, vertices, and corners. The structure guarantees the preservation of the manifold property.
References
3D imaging
Applied mathematics
Linked lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukasa%20Kotobuki | is a Japanese character designer for various games and anime series such as Saber Marionette J, VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fire, Cyber Team in Akihabara and Battle Arena Toshinden. He also did the art for Sword of the Dark Ones. His real name is unknown; his title name is rather a pen name, majorly derived from animator Tsukasa Dokite.
In 2003, he attended Otakon as a guest.
Biography
Around the age of nine and attending fourth grade, Tsukasa was introduced to anime with the initial series of Mobile Suit Gundam, and was further inspired to go into anime upon the release of Mobile Suit Z Gundam in his second year of middle school. After going to his first Comiket, by the time of 1985, Tsukasa began his career as a manga artist through dojinshi circles, particularly through junior high and high school fanzine anthologies under the initial pseudonym . His current pseudonym is derived from the pronunciations of the individual kanji that make up the compound for the Japanese word for "sushi." His talents and connections with editors during his high school career allowed him to land work with illustrations for commercial design and general staff work for anime studios and manga circles; by the age of twenty, he became an apprentice of Kenichi Sonoda. After his apprenticeship in 1994, his friend Masami Obari, whose then current projects were that of the Fatal Fury OVA movies, let him work on staff as the off action wardrobe and character designer for Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture.
Inspiration and Style
His art style is largely influenced particularly from series Mobile Suit Gundam and Megazone 23, and fellow superiors in the industry, such as Tsukasa Dokite, Masamune Shirow, Masakazu Katsura, Kenichi Sonoda, and Masami Obari. Tsukasa's 1990s anime style works are defined as wild, making the use of vivid colors and soft but stark contrasting shades, and somewhat exaggerated features of human anatomy along with realistic features, including that of puffed up cheeks, which he helped launch into popularity as they were in style at the time for defining cute characters and aesthetics. Into the current day, his style is defined by more subdued but more flowing coloring and an emphasis on darker and thicker lining work.
Personal life
Outside of work in the anime industry, Tsukasa is a lifelong fan of Gundam and video games, particularly of King of Fighters and Pokémon. He occasionally does doujinshi in his spare time, sometimes of adult oriented parodies, under different pseudonyms, such as Noriharu or Gym Leader.
Works
Manga
Go! Go! Bokurano V Gundam!! (Go! Go! Our Victory Gundam!!)
Mechanical Man Blues (overseas exclusive manga series, 1994, unfinished)
Cyber Team in Akihabara pattern Pi!
Ragnarok/Sword of the Dark Ones
Mobile Suit Gundam Z: The Day After Tomorrow: Kai's Reports
Mobile Suit Gundam Z: Kai's Memories
Anime
Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture
Battle Arena Toshinden
VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fire'''Saber Marionette JGodannarDante's InfernoSuper Robot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volleyball%20%28video%20game%29 | is a volleyball video game developed by Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo. It was released for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan in 1986, and for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe in 1987. It was originally released in 1986, and was re-released for the Wii Virtual Console in Europe and North America in August 2007.
Gameplay
Volleyball is a sports video game that follows the rules of volleyball. The player controls a team of six players, three at the net and three in back. The player serves the ball into play by pressing the same button twice.
The game is a six player-a-side volleyball simulation. Players can select teams to compete in either a men's or women's competition from the following countries: United States, Japan, China, Korea, Brazil, Soviet Union, Cuba, and Tunisia.
Development
Volleyball is based on an arcade game, developed by Pax Soft Nica and Nintendo R&D1 and published by Nintendo. It was released in March 1987.
Reception
Christopher Michael Baker of AllGame rated the game two out of five and said that it showed the developer's inexperience at creating volleyball games. He could not figure out which character he controlled at any given point nor the ball's location as poorly anticipated by its shadow. He criticized the "annoying" sound effects. He said that Nintendo had made games for all other sports and likely was obliged to make a volleyball game. He ultimately recommended Kings of the Beach and Super Spike V'Ball instead.
Lucas M. Thomas of IGN said that Volleyball could be Nintendo's worst sports game, worse than even NES Soccer. He said the controls were automatically frustrating.
Notes
References
1986 video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Research & Development 1 games
Pax Softnica games
PlayChoice-10 games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Koji Kondo
Virtual Console games
Virtual Console games for Wii U
Volleyball video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Nintendo arcade games
Nintendo games
Nintendo Switch Online games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Karnaugh | Maurice Karnaugh (; October 4, 1924 – November 8, 2022) was an American physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and inventor known for the Karnaugh map used in Boolean algebra.
Career
Karnaugh studied mathematics and physics at City College of New York (1944 to 1948) and transferred to Yale University to complete his B.Sc. (1949), M.Sc. (1950) and Ph.D. in physics with a thesis on The Theory of Magnetic Resonance and Lambda-Type Doubling in Nitric-Oxide (1952).
Karnaugh worked at Bell Labs (1952 to 1966), developing the Karnaugh map (1954) as well as patents for PCM encoding and magnetic logic circuits and coding. He later worked at IBM's Federal Systems Division in Gaithersburg (1966 to 1970) and at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1970 to 1994), studying multistage interconnection networks.
Karnaugh was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1976, and held an adjunct position at Polytechnic University of New York (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering) at the Westchester campus from 1980 to 1999.
Personal life and death
Karnaugh was married to the former Linn Blank Weil from 1970 until his death in 2022. He had two sons, Robert Victor Karnaugh and Paul Joseph Karnaugh, from his first marriage.
Karnaugh died in The Bronx on November 8, 2022, at the age of 98.
Publications
(61 pages)
See also
List of pioneers in computer science
References
External links
Publications at DBLP
1924 births
2022 deaths
21st-century American physicists
American telecommunications engineers
Scientists at Bell Labs
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Yale University alumni
IBM employees
Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
Scientists from New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20Canteen | Student Canteen is a Philippine television variety show regarded as the first afternoon variety show on Philippine television. Over a 32-year period, it was broadcast through three different networks: ABS-CBN (1958 to 1965), GMA Network (1975 to 1986) and Radio Philippines Network (1989 to 1990).
History
DZXL
Student Canteen was originally a radio show on DZXL hosted by Eddie Ilarde, Bobby Ledesma, Bobby de Veyra and Leila Benitez entitled CBN Canteen. The noontime show was aired on the canteen of the old Manila Chronicle Building in Aduana, Manila. It was later renamed Student Canteen after it became a hit with students.
Chronicle Broadcasting Network (1958–65)
In July 1958, DZXL Channel 9, then owned by the Chronicle Broadcasting Network (a precursor of ABS-CBN) started broadcast operations. Student Canteen was brought to television that same year.
The noontime show ended in 1965 when Eddie Ilarde went into politics. Prior to that however, the set of hosts for the show were replaced after main hosts Bobby Ledesma and Leila Benitez walked out of the program along with Eddie following a dispute. Pete Roa, then production manager of ABS-CBN, handpicked his wife Boots Anson-Roa, Ben Aniceto, Pepe Pimentel and Nelda Navarro as replacements.
Noontime show successors
Magandang Tanghali, a musical variety show hosted by Pancho Magalona, and Stop Look and Listen, a former noontime variety show hosted by Eddie Mesa, took over the Student Canteen timeslot in 1965. After Mesa left for the United States, Twelve O'Clock High, a show hosted by Ariel Ureta and Tina Revilla, premiered and aired until 1972 when martial law was declared. The show moved to RBS (now GMA Network) as Ariel con Tina, through a blocktimer company headed by Romy Jalosjos from 1972 to 1974. Lunch Break also gained ground on the same channel before Student Canteen was eventually revived.
GMA Network (1975–86)
In 1975, the triumvirate of Menardo Jimenez, Felipe Gozon and Gilberto Duavit Sr. took over Republic Broadcasting System (RBS) and changed its name to GMA Radio-Television Arts. Looking for a show that can serve as a gateway to daytime dominance, the new management conducted negotiations with Eddie Ilarde who readily agreed to revive Student Canteen under his production company Program Philippines Inc.
In January 1975, Student Canteen was revived, with Helen Vela and Coney Reyes joining original hosts Pepe Pimentel, Bobby Ledesma and Eddie Ilarde. Ramon Ramano was the original director of the show. Ariston "Aris" Bautista was the floor director, and later the show's director.
The show had a segment called "Search for the Student Canteener" which was a singing contest. This segment attracted a lot of high quality contestants and many of former "Canteeners", including Marco Sison, became successful professional singers. Many other singing contest segments within the show produced some of the country's top singers. Bert Nievera, for example, was the champion of the segment cal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiS%20%28talk%20show%29 | SiS, formerly SiS: Janice & Gelli is a Philippine television talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally hosted by Gelli de Belen and Janice de Belen, it premiered on August 27, 2001. The show is the longest running morning talk show in Philippine television. The show concluded on January 1, 2010 with a total of 2,250 episodes. Gelli de Belen, Janice de Belen and Carmina Villarroel served as the final hosts. It was replaced by Kapuso Movie Festival in its timeslot.
Hosts
Gelli de Belen
Janice de Belen
Carmina Villarroel
Recurring hosts
Marites "Tessbomb" Marañon
Eva Papaya
Guest hosts
Carmina Villarroel
Iza Calzado
Lucy Torres
Arnell Ignacio
Christine Jacob
Eugene Domingo
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode of SiS scored a 5.6% rating.
Accolades
PMPC Star Awards for Television
2001–2006 Nominee, Best Celebrity Talk Show
Catholic Mass Media Awards
2001–2006 Nominee, Best Talk Show
References
External links
2001 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%20Kruskal | Clyde P. Kruskal (born May 25, 1954) is an American computer scientist, working on parallel computing architectures, models, and algorithms. As part of the ultracomputer project, he was one of the inventors of the read–modify–write concept in parallel and distributed computing. He is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Early life, education, and career
Kruskal is the son of mathematician Martin Kruskal.
He graduated from Brandeis University in 1976, and went to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1978 and completing his Ph.D. in 1981. His dissertation, Upper and Lower Bounds on the Performance of Parallel Algorithms, was supervised by Jack Schwartz.
He became an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign before moving to Maryland.
Selected publications
With William Gasarch, Kruskal is the author of the book Problems With A Point: Exploring Math And Computer Science (World Scientific, 2019).
He has many highly-cited research publications, including:
Clyde P. Kruskal, "Searching, Merging, and Sorting in Parallel Computation", IEEE Trans. Comput. 32 942-946 (1983)
Clyde P. Kruskal and Marc Snir, "The Performance of Multistage Interconnection Networks for Multiprocessors", IEEE Trans. Comput. 32 1091-1098 (1983)
Clyde P. Kruskal, Larry Rudolph and Marc Snir, "The Power of Parallel Prefix", IEEE Trans. Comput. 34 965-968 (1985)
Clyde P. Kruskal and Alan Weiss, "Allocating Independent Subtasks on Parallel Processors", IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 11 1001-1016 (1985)
Clyde P. Kruskal and Marc Snir, "A Unified Theory of Interconnection Network Structure", Theor. Comput. Sci. 48 75-94 (1986)
Clyde P. Kruskal, Larry Rudolph and Marc Snir, "Efficient Synchronization on Multiprocessors with Shared Memory". ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. 10 579-601 (1988)
Clyde P. Kruskal, Marc Snir and Alan Weiss, "The Distribution of Waiting Times in Clocked Multistage Interconnection Networks", IEEE Trans. Comput. 37 1337-1352 (1988)
Clyde P. Kruskal, Larry Rudolph and Marc Snir, "Techniques for Parallel Manipulation of Sparse Matrices", Theor. Comput. Sci. 64 135-157 (1989)
Clyde P. Kruskal, Larry Rudolph and Marc Snir, "A Complexity Theory of Efficient Parallel Algorithms", Theor. Comput. Sci. 71 95-132 (1990)
Clyde P. Kruskal and Marc Snir, "Cost-Performance Tradeoffs for Interconnection Networks", Discrete Applied Mathematics 37/38 359-385 (1992)
References
External links
Personal Website
1954 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Brandeis University alumni
New York University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Maryland, College Park faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CandyFab | The CandyFab is a method of producing physical objects out of a computer representation of the structure. It differs from some other 3D printing methods in the following aspects:
It is optimized for relatively large pieces using low to medium print resolution.
To reduce the hazards of working with large amounts of media, non-toxic materials (ideally, food-grade) are used. The prototype CandyFab 4000 unit uses granulated sugar as its print medium, giving rise to its name, but other materials with low melting temperatures and low toxicities are still under consideration.
It uses low cost parts and construction to make it easier for others to design or build their own, with plans available as open source.
Technology
The CandyFab uses a heat source mounted on a computer-controlled X-Y positioning head to fuse the surface of a granular bed of the print media. The only thing which comes into contact with the media is heated air, which is turned on and off by the software synchronously with the motion of the positioning head. Fabrication of the shape of the part being produced progresses in layers; after each complete pass, the bed is lowered and a fresh layer of granular media is applied on top. The unfused media serves to support overhangs and thin walls in the part being produced, reducing the need for auxiliary temporary supports for the workpiece. The movable bed is of a size suitable for producing finished parts several kilograms in weight.
The resolution of features produced correspond to a smallest volume element of 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.7 mm or less. Pieces produced from ordinary granular sugar have fairly good strength and feature an amber to brown surface color owing to caramelization of the sugar. Special attention has been paid to the selection of all materials coming into contact with the sugar bed or with the hot air stream to make it possible to fabricate food-grade pieces if desired.
There is an effort to encourage further work on improving the technology in the following areas:
Hardware
3D modeling software
CNC software
In addition, the inventors Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman of candyfab.org have organized teams to explore applications, gastronomy, and post processing.
Fabricated pieces
Several large pieces of sculpture have been produced using the CandyFab, including one of a mathematical object designed by sculptor Bathsheba Grossman. This and other pieces were shown by inventors Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman of candyfab.org at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2007.
See also
Rapid prototyping
Solid freeform fabrication
Digital fabricator
References
External links
The CandyFab Project
Computer printers
3D printing processes
Food technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20%28radio%20and%20television%29 | In television and radio programming, a serial is a show that has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the complete run of the series, and sometimes spinoffs, which distinguishes them from episodic television that relies on more stand-alone episodes. Worldwide, the soap opera is the most prominent form of serial dramatic programming. In the UK the first serials were direct adaptations of well known literary works, usually consisting of a small number of episodes.
Serials rely on keeping the full nature of the story hidden and revealing elements episode by episode, to encourage spectators to tune in to every episode to follow the plot. Often these shows employ recapping segments at the beginning and cliffhangers at the end of each episode.
The invention of recording devices such as VCRs and DVRs along with the growing popularity of streaming services has made following this type of show easier, which has resulted in increased success and popularity. Prior to the advent of DVRs, television networks shunned serials in prime time as they made broadcast programming reruns more difficult and television producers shunned them because they were tougher to go into broadcast syndication years down the road.
Serials contrast with episodic television, with plots relying on a more independent stand-alone format. Procedural drama television programs are commonly episodic, sometimes including a serial subplot.
Shorter serial programs known as telenovelas (and earlier, radionovelas), originating and often produced in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin America, have become popular worldwide.
Terminology
The term "serial" refers to the intrinsic property of a seriesnamely its order. In literature, the term is used as a noun to refer to a format (within a genre) by which a story is told in contiguous (typically chronological) installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication.
More generally, "serial" is applied in library and information science to materials "in any medium issued under the same title in a succession of discrete parts, usually numbered (or dated) and appearing at regular or irregular intervals with no predetermined conclusion."
The term has been used for a radio or television production with a continuously evolving, unified plot and set of characters, spread over multiple episodes. In the United States, daytime soap operas have long had a serial structure. Television mini-series also commonly come in a serial form. Starting in the mid-1970s, series with soap opera-like stories began to be aired in prime time (e.g. Dallas, Dynasty). In the 1990s, shows like The X-Files and The Sopranos began to use a more serial structure, and now there are a much wider range of shows in serial form.
History
The serial began with the advent of
movie serials of the early 20th century. With the emergence of televis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTN%20Family | LTN Family is a 24-hour Urdu General Entertainment channel owned by Leo Television Network, which is based in Lahore, Pakistan. It broadcasts local and different multinational shows including Turkish and Korean content. The channel began its transmission on April 19, 2019.
Current programmes
Children's block
Fix And Foxy
Masha And The Bear
Ninja Hattori
Grizzy And The Lemmings
Superheroes
Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures
Dramas
Agar Tum Mere Hote
Thori Si Wafa
Zameer
Talaash
Anjaam
Pehchaan
Sandy Mandy
Pyaar Lafzon Mein Kahan
Shows
The Zain Ul Abadin Show
Former programs
Original
Comedy
Sandy Mandy
Dramas
Ajnabi Lage Zindagi
Barish Main Aag
Emaan
Ishq Zaat
Maahi
Mujhe Rang De
Tum Saath Nibha Letay Agar
Yeh Meri Zindagi
Acquired
Indian
Beyhadh
Chandrakanta
Dil Se Dil Tak
Ek Deewaana Tha
Kasam Tere Pyaar Ki
Ishq Mein Marjawan
May I Come In! Madam
Meri Aashiqui Tumse Hi
Naagin
Roop - Mard Ka Naya Swaroop
Korean
Tum Hi Ho (Korean)
Turkish
Armaan
Pyaar Lafzon Mein Kahan
Russian
Ishq Aatish
Katherine
Films
Production House
Leo Television Network Production
See also
List of Pakistani television stations
References
Lollywood
Television stations in Pakistan
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Television networks in Pakistan
Movie channels in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Shklar | Leon Shklar had been a part time lecturer in the computer science department at Rutgers University, where he taught a senior level course in advanced web application development. He is also the co-author (with Rich Rosen) of the popular textbook Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols, and Practices. He was formerly Head of Technology at Thomson Reuters Media. Prior to that he was the director of software development at Dow Jones.
Shklar was one of the people at Bell Communications Research responsible for InfoHarness, one of the earliest (1995) metadata-driven web application systems. He also led the team that developed Metaphoria, one of the first commercially available Java-based server-side web frameworks. Shklar has served on the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and was actively involved in the development of the RDF standard.
Publications
External links
Leon Shklar's web site at Rutgers University
Web site for ''Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols & Practices
InfoHarness paper at ACM
Metaphoria
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer science educators
Rutgers University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping%20Server%20Function | A Bootstrapping Server Function (BSF) is an intermediary element in Cellular networks which provides application-independent functions for mutual authentication of user equipment and servers unknown to each other and for 'bootstrapping' the exchange of secret session keys afterwards. This allows the use of additional services like Mobile TV and PKI, which need authentication and secured communication.
GBA/GAA Setup
The setup and function to deploy a generic security relation as described is called Generic Bootstrapping Architecture (GBA) or Generic Authentication Architecture (GAA). In short, it consists of the following elements.
user equipment (UE), e. g. a mobile cellular telephone; needs access to a specific service
application server (NAF: Network Application Function), e. g. for mobile TV; provides the service
BSF (Bootstrapping Server Function); arranges security relation between UE and NAF
mobile network operator's Home Subscriber Server (HSS); hosts user profiles.
In this case, the term 'bootstrapping' is related to building a security relation with a previously unknown device first and to allow installing security elements (keys) in the device and the BSF afterwards.
Workflow
The BSF is introduced by the application server (NAF), after an unknown UE device is trying to get service access: the NAF refers the UE to the BSF. UE and BSF mutually authenticate via 3GPP protocol AKA (Authentication and Key Agreement); additionally, the BSF sends related queries to the Home Subscriber Server (HSS).
Afterwards, UE and BSF agree on a session key to be used for encrypted data exchange with the application server (NAF). When the UE again connects to the NAF, the NAF is able to obtain the session key as well as user-specific data from the BSF and can start data exchange with the end device (UE), using the related session keys for encryption.
Standards
BSF is standardised in recent versions of 3GPP Standards: GAA (Generic Authentication Architecture) and GBA (Generic Bootstrapping Architecture), and 3GPP TS 33.919, 33.220 24.109, 29.109
External links
DVB-H News
BMCO forum
Open Mobile Alliance
3GPP
BSF in LTE network
castLabs (commercial BSF supplier)
Nexcom Systems (OEM commercial BSF supplier)
3GPP TS 24.109 version 8.3.0 Release 8
Mobile telecommunications standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20Metro%20line%2013 | Line 13 is the name of a proposed service in the Barcelona Metro network which would join La Morera (neighborhood) in Badalona, a municipality of Barcelonès to the north of Barcelona, with the hilly area around Can Ruti Hospital. The line, which will be a short hybrid light rail-metro addition to the main subway lines which will cover a poorly communicated area, similar to L11 and L8, was announced in 2002 by Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan government). It was also made public the line will be displayed in maps using a shade of pink (Pantone 232C).
In the future Morera, L13 will join L2, and will not be too far from the new terminus of L1, which are currently being extended into this area of Badalona, in what will be Badalona Centre. The chosen colour for L13 is intended to suggest a mixture of the L1 and L2 colours. As of 2019, the Generalitat de Catalunya hasn't stated when construction will start.
Stations in the original project
Morera
Canyet
Can Ruti
References
Proposed Barcelona Metro lines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thief%20Takers | Thief Takers is a British television crime drama series, created by Roy Mitchell, and produced by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. The series depicts the work of a team of officers based in the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad, which Reece Dinsdale, Brendan Coyle, Grant Masters and Nicholas Ball appearing in the principal roles. The series was Carlton's attempt to rival Thames Television's The Bill, after the producer unexpectedly retained the series despite a major take-over by Carlton. A total of three series were broadcast between 1 February 1995 and 18 December 1997, with a total of twenty-five episodes broadcast. Each episode features a stand-alone case, with the exception of a small number of two-part episodes. However, the personal lives of each of the officers in the team provide the backdrop for a continuing story arc throughout all three series.
Reception for the third and final series was mixed, and a major shake-up in the main cast was cited as the main reason for declining viewing figures. Subsequently, the series was axed in 1998 shortly before a fourth series was set to go into production. All three series, plus the pilot episode, were released on VHS on 26 January 2000. An official book, entitled "The Inside Story", written by Geoff Tibballs, was also published to coincide with the first series. An official novelisation, written by Lee O'Keefe, was also published on 11 January 1996. Notably, the series has yet to be released on DVD.
Cast
Reece Dinsdale as DI Charlie Scott (Series 1–2)
Grant Masters as DI Glenn Mateo (Series 3)
Brendan Coyle as DS Bob 'Bingo' Tate (Series 1–2)
Lynda Steadman as DS Helen Ash (Series 1)
Amanda Pays as DS Anna Dryden (Series 2–3)
Robert Willox as DC Ted Donachie (Series 1–3)
Gary McDonald as DC Alan Oxford (Series 1–3)
Pooky Quesnel as DC Grace Harris (Series 1–2)
Simone Lahbib as DC Lucy McCarthy (Series 3)
David Sterne as DCI Frank Utley (Series 1–3)
Nicholas Ball as DCI Nick Hall (Series 3)
Robert Reynolds as DI Micky Dawes (Pilot)
Lennie James as DC Alan Oxford (Pilot)
Sophie Dix as DC Angela Prudhoe (Pilot)
Episodes
Pilot (1995)
Series 1 (1996)
Series 2 (1996)
Series 3 (1997)
See also
Thief-taker
References
External links
Thief Takers entry at the British Film Institute
1995 British television series debuts
1997 British television series endings
1990s British crime television series
British crime drama television series
English-language television shows
ITV television dramas
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows set in London
Television shows produced by Central Independent Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZLL-FM | DZLL (107.1 FM), broadcasting as 107.1 MemoRieS FM, is a radio station owned and operated by Primax Broadcasting Network. Its studio and transmitter are located at Primax Compound, Diplomat Rd., Dominican Hill, Baguio.
Profile
The station was established in 1992 as Mellow Touch, airing a soft adult contemporary format. In 1997, when FBS Radio Network sold the station to Primax, the station underwent transition under the Smooth Jazz branding, airing a smooth jazz format. Months later, it added soul and R&B to its playlist.
The following year, it was rebranded as City Lite with the tagline "Take it Easy". It was home of Beatbox, which airs only hip hop and R&B. Its notable morning program was The Breakfast Club. The station was an affiliate of Manila-based Raven Broadcasting Corporation, which owns a station with the same name. In 2002, the station cut ties with Raven and rebranded as Smooth FM with the tagline "Your Stress-Free Radio".
In March 2017, Smooth FM 107.1 became an affiliate of the Radio Mindanao Network and rebranded as MemoRies FM 107.1 with a classic hits format.
References
Radio stations in Baguio
Radio stations established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars%20and%20Choosers%20%28TV%20series%29 | Beggars and Choosers is an American comedy-drama series broadcast by Showtime. Developed by Peter Lefcourt and Brandon Tartikoff, the series was a comedic, behind-the-scenes look at network television. Its 42 episodes aired between June 19, 1999, and February 6, 2001.
Synopsis
The tongue-in-cheek series centered on Rob Malone, President of LGT, and his efforts to boost the network's sagging ratings with Lori Volpone, the scheming vice-president of Development, and Malcolm Laffley, a gay man who came out of the closet to clear himself of sexual harassment charges levied against him by a woman. Each episode provided amusing insight into how a network runs, from how its executives deal with temperamental stars to how they make big budget deals while trying to keep the network financially stable.
Characters
Rob Malone (Brian Kerwin)
Lori Volpone (Charlotte Ross): The ambitious Vice President of Development for LGT
Malcolm Laffley (Tuc Watkins)
Kelly Kramer (Christina Hendricks)
Cecile Malone (Isabella Hofmann): Rob's wife
Brad Advail (William McNamara): An agent who is a thorn in Rob's side
Parker Meridian (Paul Provenza): The egomaniacal star of the hit LGT show Parker's Pals who is romantically involved with Rob's daughter Audrey
Audrey Malone (Keegan Connor Tracy): Rob and Cecile's slightly flaky 21-year-old daughter
Emory "E.L." Luddin (Bill Morey): The frequently comatose founder and former CEO of LGT
Lydia "L.L." Luddin (Carol Kane): E.L.'s wife, whose plans for an eponymous variety show are thwarted when Dan Falco buys the network
Casey Lenox (Sherri Saum): A young ambitious new hire at LGT that Lori Volpone fears could threaten her career path
Dan Falco (Beau Bridges): A Buddhist who acquires ownership of LGT after obtaining 53% of the company's stock during a power struggle between the Luddins
Wayne (Alex Zahara)
Episodes
Season 1: 1999–2000
Season 2: 2000–01
Production notes
The series was created by former NBC television executive Brandon Tartikoff who based the series on his own experiences. Tartikoff, whose wife Lily served as a producer on the series, died of Hodgkin's Disease two years before the series debuted.
Filmed in Vancouver, Beggars and Choosers was produced for Showtime by Granada Entertainment
USA and distributor by Buena Vista Television.
Reception and cancellation
Beggars and Choosers garnered very positive reviews from critics and, according to Showtime executive vice president of original programming Gary Levine, had a loyal audience, but ratings for the series remained low. Showtime canceled the series after two seasons in December 2000.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1990s American comedy-drama television series
1990s Canadian comedy-drama television series
2000s American comedy-drama television series
2000s Canadian comedy-drama television series
1999 American television series debuts
1999 Canadian television series debuts
2001 American television series endings
2001 C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinderbox%20%28application%20software%29 | Tinderbox is a personal content management system and personal knowledge base.
It is a tool for storing, arranging, exploring, and publishing data.
Developer
Tinderbox was developed for Mac OS and Mac OS X by Mark Bernstein, Chief Engineer of Eastgate Systems.
Features
Its functions include storing and organizing notes, plans, and ideas, and sharing ideas through blogs.
It also offers functionality similar to that of outliner and spatial hypertext/mind mapping tools, in addition to knowledge management, database and agent (persistent search) tools.
Tinderbox is used for a wide variety of tasks:
As a personal web publishing system, with good support for blog creation and management
Personal information management
Outlining and mind mapping
Concept mapping
Note-taking
Plot and story construction and writing
Creating hypertexts
References
Further reading
Review by Nathan Matias, SitePoint, 2004 February 27.
Giles Foden, The Guardian, 2003 October 16.
Deep Tinderbox, About This Particular Outliner, Ted Goranson
The Best IA Tool You Never Heard Of, Sean Carton, ClickZ, 2002 October 7.
Innovation Extreme Makeover, Robert Ouellette, Boxes and Arrows, 2004 June 21.
Tinderboxing Engelbart Revisited, Gordon Meyer, Wet Behind the Years, 2003 May 29.
External links
Content management systems
Personal information managers
Outliners
Note-taking software
Hypertext |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersea%20Super%20Train%3A%20Marine%20Express | is an anime television film created for the Nippon Television Network's annual 24-hour charity program, Ai wa Chikyū o Suku, which roughly translates to "Love Saves the Earth". The movie contained a veritable "Who's Who" of Tezuka's notable characters. Each one had an important role, and many of them had individual, intertwining stories which would overlap with the ones of others. To coincide with the central theme of the charity program, the movie emphasized on the dangers of environmental destruction, and that such disasters can be overcome by banding together.
For the previous charity special in 1978, Osamu Tezuka and Tezuka Productions created One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book. The year after, when the special was held again in 1980, Tezuka and Tezuka Productions created another film, Fumoon, based on Tezuka's manga Nextworld.
Plot
The plot of Marine Express can be described in two parts. The first and longer part focuses on the people boarding the train and the problems they encounter on it. The second part takes place after the train has stopped at its half-way point, an island that used to be home to an ancient civilization millennia ago and has its fair share of secrets.
Trouble on the Train
The story takes place in the year 2002.
Construction has finished on an amazing piece of engineering and technology: the Marine Express. Traveling on a rail through large glass tunnels, the train is capable of taking passengers from Los Angeles, California to Japan. To celebrate its completion, a test-run has been arranged with many of the train's founders and family on board. The train was designed by Doctor Narzenkopf, whose oldest, and adopted, son, Rock, is the train's pilot. Also with Doctor Narzonkopf is his youngest son, Adam. Funding the train's construction is Director Credit, who is on the train with his daughter Milly.
In addition to the train's staff, others have boarded the train without permission. One of them is Shunsaku Ban, a detective on the trail of a criminal who he suspects is on board the train. Originally, he had been hired by the Chief Engineer of the Marine Express to investigate a possibility that someone was going to try and use the train for illicit means. Upon arriving at the engineer's home, Shunsaku was shocked to find his client murdered. Furthermore, the murderer hadn't left the premises yet, and when Shunsaku caught a glimpse of the culprit's face, he was shot. After recovering and seeing TV coverage of the train's test-run, Shunsaku now has reason to believe the man he's after is on the train.
In addition to Shunsaku, others who had boarded the train without position include Black Jack, a surgeon who treated Shunsaku Ban and has followed him onto the train in order to receive payment for his medical bill, and also Skunk Kusai, a criminal who intends to use the train as a means to smuggle illegal weapons and is the one responsible for murdering Shunsaku's client and shooting Shunsaku.
On the train, many di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%20%28disambiguation%29 | 1942 is a year.
1942 may also refer to:
1942 (video game), video game made by Capcom
1942: Joint Strike, downloadable game for Xbox Live Arcade & PlayStation Network
1942 (board game), a 1978 board wargame about the World War II Pacific Theatre
1942: A Love Story, 1994 Indian period romance film by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
1942 (EP), a 2001 EP release from Soul-Junk
1942 (novel), an alternate history novel written by Robert Conroy
"1942" (song), a 2018 song by G-Eazy
"1942", a song by PartyNextDoor from PartyNextDoor 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4D%20Sports%20Tennis | 4D Sports Tennis (also known as World Tour Tennis, World Tennis Championships and Compaq Grand Slam Cup) is a 3D Tennis computer game with motion capture animation of the 4D Sports series. The game uses untextured 3D polygon graphics.
See also
4D Sports Boxing
4D Sports Driving - also known as Stunts
Notes
External links
1990 video games
DOS games
FM Towns games
NEC PC-9801 games
Tennis video games
Video games developed in Canada
Distinctive Software games
Single-player video games
Mindscape games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad%3A%20Beyond%20the%20Veil%20of%20Mists | Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists is a 2000 Indian-American animated film. It is the first feature-length computer animation film created exclusively using motion capture. While many animators worked on the project, the human characters were entirely animated using motion capture. It was filmed at Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles, over a three-month period in 1997. The film was produced by Pentafour Software, now known as Pentamedia Graphics.
Along with Pandavas: The Five Warriors (2000), this was one of the first full-length computer-graphics-based features made in India.
Plot
Sinbad discovers a mysterious island ruled by King Chandra and his daughter, Princess Serena. Serena is on her voyage beyond the "Veil of Mists". She seeks the help of Sinbad and his crew as they set out in search of the magic potion to save King Chandra from the evil clutches of the mysterious sorcerer Baraka. Their adventures with deep-sea monsters, pre-historic bats and the fish people in the land beyond the Veil of Mists, fills this action packed adventure film.
Cast
Brendan Fraser as Sinbad
John Rhys-Davies as King Chandra
Jennifer Hale as Princess Serena
Leonard Nimoy as Baraka
Mark Hamill as Captain of the Guards
Robert Allen Mukes as King's guard / Executioner
Harry Zinn as Lead guard
K.W. Miller as Babu
Clint Carmichael as Guard
Alice Amter as Bar wench
Jeff Wolverton as Miscellaneous crew
Allan Lurie as Baraka's brother
Jim Cummings as Calico Jack
Nick Jameson as Mook
Kevin Michael Richardson as Mustafa
Production
Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists was billed as "the first full-length animated feature using the 3-D animated motion capture process". The film used different actors for the motion caption of the main characters based on their particular size and body shape, as well as another set of actors for the facial movements. A couple of hundred animators in Madras, India, worked on the animation, as well as a smaller group in Los Angeles.
Produced by Pentamedia Graphics and Improvision Corporation with assistance of Pentafour Software and Madras. It was purchased by Trimark Pictures for television distribution and had a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. The motion capture technology was provided by the House of Moves Motion Capture Studios in Los Angeles.
Box office
The film grossed $29,245 domestically.
See also
List of computer-animated films
References
External links
Animated films based on Sinbad the Sailor
2000 films
2000 animated films
2000s fantasy adventure films
Animated adventure films
American animated fantasy films
American children's animated films
American children's fantasy films
American fantasy adventure films
Indian animated fantasy films
Indian computer-animated films
2000s English-language films
Films directed by Alan Jacobs
2000 computer-animated films
Films using motion capture
2000s American animated films
Trimark Pictures films
English-language Indian films
2000s children's ani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace%20Technology | Rackspace Technology, Inc. is an American cloud computing company based in Windcrest, Texas, an inner suburb of San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Austin, Texas, as well as in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Dubai, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, Mexico, and Hong Kong. Its data centers are located in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Virginia (USA), Chicago (USA), Dallas (USA), London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Hong Kong (China), Kansas City (USA), New York City (USA), San Jose (USA), Shanghai (China), Queenstown (Singapore), and Sydney (Australia).
History
Although the founders began as application developers for end-users, they found that most companies did not either know how or want to host their applications. The founders wanted to focus on application development–not hosting–but they were unable to find an opportunity to outsource the hosting work. Eventually, the founders realized that it would be better to create a product to serve the hosting need and launch it as a company. Rackspace was launched in October 1998 with Richard Yoo as its CEO. Although most hosting companies focused on the technology end of hosting, Rackspace created its "Fanatical Support" offering to focus on service and support. On March 28, 2000, Rackspace received funding through lead investor Norwest Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. George J. Still, Jr., Managing Partner at Norwest, subsequently joined the Board of Directors.
In 2008, Rackspace moved its headquarters from a building once occupied by Datapoint Corporation to the then-unoccupied Windsor Park Mall in Windcrest, Texas. Rackspace's Chairman, Graham Weston, owned the Montgomery Ward building in the mall until 2006 when it was sold to a developer. The city of Windcrest purchased south of the mall to create a residential and retail complex. The facility is located next to Roosevelt High School, and many Roosevelt students intern at Rackspace.
Fortunes "Top 100 Best Companies to Work For 2008" placed Rackspace as the first year that Rackspace applied for consideration. The company was praised for its transparency. Regular "Open Book" meetings are held where the top level leaders share in-depth financial information with all employees. In 2011 and 2013, the company was named as one of the top 100 places to work by Fortune.
On August 8, 2008, Rackspace opened for trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "RAX" after its initial public offering (IPO) in which it raised $187.5 million. The initial public offering included 15,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $12.50 per share. The IPO did not do well in the public market and lost about 20% of its initial price almost immediately.
At around 3:45 PM CST December 18, 2009, Rackspace experienced an outage for customers using their Dallas–Fort Worth data center – including those of Rackspace Cloud.
On September 8, 2010, Rackspace received national attenti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20NFL%20Network | The following is a list of programs broadcast by the NFL Network.
Current
America's Game: The Missing Rings
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Around the League (formerly Team Cam)
The Coaches Show
First on the Field (now NFL GameDay First)
A Football Life
Good Morning Football
NFL Classics
NFL Fantasy Live
NFL Films Presents
NFL Follies
NFL GameDay
NFL GameDay Morning
NFL RedZone Replay
NFL Replay
NFL Scoreboard
NFL Top 10
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack%20buffer%20overflow | In software, a stack buffer overflow or stack buffer overrun occurs when a program writes to a memory address on the program's call stack outside of the intended data structure, which is usually a fixed-length buffer.
Stack buffer overflow bugs are caused when a program writes more data to a buffer located on the stack than what is actually allocated for that buffer. This almost always results in corruption of adjacent data on the stack, and in cases where the overflow was triggered by mistake, will often cause the program to crash or operate incorrectly. Stack buffer overflow is a type of the more general programming malfunction known as buffer overflow (or buffer overrun). Overfilling a buffer on the stack is more likely to derail program execution than overfilling a buffer on the heap because the stack contains the return addresses for all active function calls.
A stack buffer overflow can be caused deliberately as part of an attack known as stack smashing. If the affected program is running with special privileges, or accepts data from untrusted network hosts (e.g. a webserver) then the bug is a potential security vulnerability. If the stack buffer is filled with data supplied from an untrusted user then that user can corrupt the stack in such a way as to inject executable code into the running program and take control of the process. This is one of the oldest and more reliable methods for attackers to gain unauthorized access to a computer.
Exploiting stack buffer overflows
The canonical method for exploiting a stack-based buffer overflow is to overwrite the function return address with a pointer to attacker-controlled data (usually on the stack itself). This is illustrated with strcpy() in the following example:
#include <string.h>
void foo(char *bar)
{
char c[12];
strcpy(c, bar); // no bounds checking
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
foo(argv[1]);
return 0;
}
This code takes an argument from the command line and copies it to a local stack variable c. This works fine for command-line arguments smaller than 12 characters (as can be seen in figure B below). Any arguments larger than 11 characters long will result in corruption of the stack. (The maximum number of characters that is safe is one less than the size of the buffer here because in the C programming language, strings are terminated by a null byte character. A twelve-character input thus requires thirteen bytes to store, the input followed by the sentinel zero byte. The zero byte then ends up overwriting a memory location that's one byte beyond the end of the buffer.)
The program stack in foo() with various inputs:
In figure C above, when an argument larger than 11 bytes is supplied on the command line foo() overwrites local stack data, the saved frame pointer, and most importantly, the return address. When foo() returns it pops the return address off the stack and jumps to that address (i.e. starts executing instructions from that address). Thus, the attacke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Steel%3A%20Countdown | Max Steel: Countdown is a 2006 computer-animated science fiction action film based on the TV series and action figure line of the same name. It is the sequel to Max Steel: Forces of Nature (2005) and the third film overall in the Max Steel direct-to-video film series.
A sequel, titled Max Steel: Dark Rival, was released in October 2007.
Plot
Max Steel and Dr. Roberto "'Berto" Martinez, working for the global anti-terrorist organization N-Tek, have finally managed to locate their former enemy Psycho's base. Once inside, Max finds a device called the "Imploder": A machine that condenses all surrounding matter into a miniature black hole. Before Max can retrieve the machine, he's ambushed by hundreds of androids. A battle ensues, but 'Berto manages to remotely shut the androids down, saving Max's life.
After returning to N-Tek's new base, 'Berto tells Max of his new nano-probes he's working on, which are stronger and more durable. However, he hasn't been able to find a sustainable energy source. Later, Max takes a small leave and goes for some fun sporting with his former partner, Kat Ryan. During this, 'Berto finds a possible way to complete his nano-probe project by using Max's natural adrenaline to power his nano-probes.
Overnight, Elementor, now only able to survive in a gas-like form, invades N-Tek and possesses the body of the base's boss and Max's adoptive father, Jefferson Smith. In an attempt to reconstitute his physical form, he plans to use a transfasik generator. Max and Kat arrive at N-Tek during this, and they, along with 'Berto, head to the transfasik generator and discover what is happening. 'Berto reverses the power, hoping to reverse the process and break up the elements. However, it forces Elementor to copy and divide himself into five bodies: Fire, Earth, Water, Air, and Metal. During this, Max is accidentally hit by some of the negative energy, shorting out his nano-probes, while Kat is hit by a piece of Elementium, leaving her poisoned. The Elementors attack and severely injure Max before escaping. 'Berto uses his new nano-probes in an attempt to save Max's life, which works, leaving Max much stronger than he was before.
The Elementors, each with a mind of their own, begin an attempt to take over the Earth by merging with the planet, which will kill every single living being in hours. Max tricks Elementor into following him, managing to reunite the Elementors in a desert wasteland, where 'Berto has reconstructed the Imploder to only affect Elementium. The process combines the Elementors and nukes the creature, stripping him of all the isotopes in his body, leaving him in his original Bio-Con clone state. The explosion also takes the Elementium out of Kat's body, saving her life. With Elementor weakened, the team manage to capture and imprison him.
Cast
Christian Campbell as Max Steel
Scott McNeil as Elementor and Jefferson Smith
Alessandro Juliani as 'Berto
Lisa Ann Beley as Kat and the N-Tek computer voice
Michael D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Blue%20Heelers%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes from the Australian police-drama, Blue Heelers, which premiered on 10 September 1993 and concluded on 4 June 2006, due to its cancellation by the Seven Network. Blue Heelers, which was created by Hal McElroy and Tony Morphett and produced by Southern Star, ran for thirteen season and a total of 510 episodes of the hit programme were produced. Blue Heelers won a total of 25 Logie Awards, five of which were the Gold Logie, 3 AFI Awards, 3 People's Choice Awards, and 1 AWGIE Awards.
Series overview
Season 1 (1993/1994)
Season 2 (1995)
Season 3 (1996)
Season 4 (1997)
Season 5 (1998)
Season 6 (1999)
Season 7 (2000)
Season 8 (2001)
Season 9 (2002)
Season 10 (2003)
Season 11 (2004)
Season 12 (2005)
Season 13 (2006)
Blue Heelers Specials
Blue Heelers: Wheel of Fortune
References
General
Zuk, T. Blue Heelers: Episode guide, Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
TV.com editors. Blue Heelers Episode Guide, TV.com. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
Specific
Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREN | BREN (Bulgarian Research and Education Network) is both the name of the Bulgarian National research and education network as well as the name of the Association that plans, deploys and maintains it.
BREN provides high-speed network that interconnects Bulgarian universities and other research and educational institutions in Bulgaria.
BREN network is connected to the pan-European research and education network GEANT via 1Gbit link.
BREN participates in international projects like 6Deploy, GEANT2, GEANT3
and is a member of TERENA, CEENet
References
See also
National research and education network
GEANT
GEANT2
DANTE (pan-European research network)
TERENA
Internet in Bulgaria
National research and education networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIFF | DIFF or diff may refer to:
, a file comparison tool
Data comparison, methods and implementations to compare texts or files
Dubai International Film Festival
Dublin International Film Festival
Dharamshala International Film Festival
a motor vehicle's differential (mechanical device)
White blood cell differential, a medical test enumerating each type of white blood cell
See also
Help:Diff, for information on diffs of pages in Wikipedia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanistic%20remnants%20in%20Hungarian%20folklore | Hungarian shamanism is discovered through comparative methods in ethnology, designed to analyse and search ethnographic data of Hungarian folktales, songs, language, comparative cultures, and historical sources.
Research
Studies of files of witch trials reveal that some features of Hungarian folklore are remnants of shamanistic beliefs, maintained from the deep past, or possibly borrowed from Turkic peoples with whom Hungarians lived before wandering to the Pannonian Basin; or maybe is an effect of Eastern influence thereafter (Cuman immigration).
These remnants are partly conserved as fragments by some features of customs and beliefs, for example
refrains of certain folksongs accompanying some customs;
certain motifs of folktales, e.g. sky-reaching tree, which was a specific belief among several central Eurasian peoples, having some resemblances to the world tree concept, but it was also related to the shaman's tree and had some other peculiarities as well.
Characteristics
There were also people who filled similar roles to those performed by shamans among other peoples: fortune-telling, weather magic, finding lost objects. These people are related to shamanism (in contrast to the cunning folk of non-shamanistic cultures), because the former are recorded to go through similar experiences to those of many shamans: being born with physical anomalies such as a surplus amount of bones or teeth, illness, dismemberment by a mythological being and recovering with greater or increased capabilities, or struggle with other shamans or beings.
Related features can be recognized in several examples of shamanism in Siberia. As the Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic family, we can expect to find them among other peoples who speak Uralic languages. Some of them maintained shamanism until modern times; the isolated location of Nganasan people made it possible that shamanism was a living phenomenon among them even at the beginning of 20th century. The last notable Nganasan shaman's seances were recorded on film in the 1970s.
The original location of the Proto-Uralic peoples (and its extent) is debated. The combined results of several sciences suggest that this area was north of Central Ural Mountains and on lower and middle parts of the Ob River. This approach combined ecological, namely phytogeographical and paleobotanic (including palynological) data together with linguistic (phytonymic and comparative) considerations: the distribution of various tree species in Siberia and Eastern Europe (changing over time) was matched against the distribution of the respective tree-names in various Uralic languages (filtered with comparative methods, so that only names of Proto-Uralic relevance be taken into account).
Artifacts
Some artifacts, see online available pictures and descriptions:
Sky-reaching tree standing on a hill, with a celestial body top left, and cattle on both lower and upper levels. Aso, Diószegi Vilmos identified a shamanic ladder on the im |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Wallace%20McDowell%20Award | The W. Wallace McDowell Award is awarded by the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding theoretical, design, educational, practical, or related innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest. This is the highest technical award made solely by the IEEE Computer Society where selection of the awardee is based on the "highest level of technical accomplishment and achievement". The IEEE Computer Society (with over 85000 members from every field of computing) is "dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing technology." Another award considered to be the "most prestigious technical award in computing" is the A. M. Turing Award awarded by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This is popularly referred to as the "computer science's equivalent of the Nobel Prize". The W. Wallace McDowell Award is sometimes popularly referred to as the "IT Nobel".
The award is named after W. Wallace McDowell who was director of engineering at IBM, during the development of the landmark product IBM 701. Mr. McDowell was responsible for the transition from electro-mechanical techniques to electronics, and the subsequent transition to solid state devices.
The first recipient, in 1966, was Fernando J. Corbató who was a prominent American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems, then of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The second recipient, in 1967, was John Backus who was awarded the Mcdowell Award for the development of FORTRAN and the syntactical forms incorporated in ALGOL. John Backus was the developer of FORTRAN, for years one of the best known and most used programming systems in the world.
W. Wallace McDowell Award recipients
See also
List of computer-related awards
List of computer science awards
Notes
Further reading
External links
Computer-related awards
IEEE society and council awards
Computer science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Computer%20Security%20Association | ICSA Labs (International Computer Security Association) began as NCSA (National Computer Security Association). Its mission was to increase awareness of the need for computer security and to provide education about various security products and technologies.
In its early days, NCSA focused almost solely on the certification of anti-virus software. Using the Consortia model, NCSA worked together with anti-virus software vendors to develop one of the first anti-virus software certification schemes. Over the past decade, the organization added certification programs for other security-related products and changed its name to ICSA Labs.
Operating as an independent division of Verizon, ICSA Labs provides resources for research, intelligence, certification and testing of products, including anti-virus, firewall, IPsec VPN, cryptography, SSL VPN, network IPS, anti-spyware and PC firewall products.
ICSA Labs temporarily ceased operation in April 2017, restoring operations a year later.
ICSA Labs ceased operation in 2022, following closure by its parent company Verizon. This in turn heralded the end of The WildList, a curated collection of computer virus samples, which ICSA Labs managed and distributed within the security industry for testing purposes.
External links
International Crime Syndicate Association? (Phrack Magazine, Issue 52)
Computer security organizations
Verizon Communications
Advanced Threat Defense Certification Testing Report. Executed by: Kaspersky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter%20graph | A filter graph is used in multimedia processing - for example, to capture video from a webcam. Filters take input, process it (or change the input), and then output the processed data. For example: a video codec takes raw uncompressed video and compresses it using a video standard such as H.264. To compress a multimedia stream a filter graph could have two inputs:
Audio
Video
Usually these are expressed as file sources. The file sources would feed compression filters, the output of the compression filters would feed into a multiplexer that would combine the two inputs and produce a single output. (An example of a multiplexer would be an MPEG transport stream creator.) Finally the multiplexer output feeds into a file sink, which would create a file from the output.
A filter graph in multimedia processing is a directed graph. Edges represent one-way data flow and nodes represent a data-processing step. Pins or pads identify the connection points between nodes and edges.
Example of programs that use filter graphs
GStreamer - Linux based multimedia framework. In Gstreamer a filter is called an element. Filter graphs can be built with the GStreamer Editor.
GraphEdit - Microsoft tool for building filter graphs
GraphStudioNext - an open source tool to build and debug DirectShow filter graphs, replacement for GraphEdit
DirectShow - Windows based multimedia framework.
GraphEditPlus - a free tool for building DirectShow filter graphs and generating C++ source code for them.
Harpia - a graphic interface for learning, implementation and management of vision systems
See also
Explanation of filter graph in DirectShow article: DirectShow#Architecture
External links
DirectShow
Explanation of filter graph manager
Filters what they are
Example of filter graph usage
Data Flow in the Filter Graph
Graphics software
Multimedia frameworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiScanner | WikiScanner (also known as Wikipedia Scanner) was a publicly searchable database that linked anonymous edits on Wikipedia to the organizations where those edits apparently originated. It did this by cross-referencing the edits with data on the owners of the associated block of IP addresses, though it did not investigate edits made under a username. It was created by Virgil Griffith and released on August 13, 2007.
In his "WikiScanner FAQ" Griffith stated his belief that WikiScanner could help make Wikipedia more reliable for controversial topics. He also indicated that he had never been employed by the Wikimedia Foundation and claimed his work on WikiScanner was "100% noncommercial".
On December 21, 2012, a research group from released an open-source clone of WikiScanner called WikiWatchdog.
By April 2013, attempts to run "WikiScanner Classic" from wikiscanner.virgil.gr returned to the WikiScanner home page, which identified itself as "WIKIWATCHER.COM"; and invoking "WikiScanner2 PreviewNew!" led to a "failure to load the page due to timeout" error.
In 2007, Virgil Griffith said he had to take WikiScanner down, as it was costing him "several thousand USD per month." He added below this on his WikiScanner webpage that as a grad student at Caltech in 2008 he developed with the aid of several undergraduates "a suite of Wikipedia-related tools known collectively as "WikiWatcher" which included: WikiScanner2 (Daniel), Wikiganda (Rishi), Poor Man's Checkuser, and BeaverScope," which he launched at the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference that year. They used used "high-quality data" from Quova, and among them WikiWatcher "had some media successes, but when the summer was over there was no one to maintain the tools and they fell into disrepair."
Design
The tool's database contained 34 million entries on anonymous edits (those by users who were not logged in to Wikipedia) between February 7, 2002, and August 4, 2007. Griffith stated that the database was constructed by compiling the anonymous edits included amongst the monthly public database dumps of Wikipedia. He claimed to have connected the organizations to their IP address with the assistance of the IP2Location database, and through comparison had found "187,529 different organizations with at least one anonymous Wikipedia edit."
WikiScanner only worked on anonymous edits, which are made under an IP address, not edits by anyone logged in under a username. It could not distinguish between edits made by authorized users of an organization, unauthorized intruders, or users of public-access computers that may have been using an organization's network. In discussing edits made from computers in the Vatican, computer expert Kevin Curran was quoted by the BBC as saying that it was "difficult to determine if the person was an employee or if they had maliciously hacked into the Vatican system and were 'spoofing' the IP address."
The WikiScanner FAQ noted that edits could not be positively attr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHCode | A Helical Hyperspatial Code, also known as an HHCode, is a data storage format for very large spatio-temporal datasets.
The development of HHCode can be traced to efforts by scientists working for the Canadian Hydrographic Service's Atlantic regional offices at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. CHS was facing a problem with storing very large spatial datasets acquired during hydrographic surveys (thus having a temporal element) and was seeking a method to store the datasets in a relational database structure.
CHS scientists reportedly conceptualized a spatio-temporal indexing system during a hydrographic survey onboard CCGS Hudson on Georges Bank during the summer of 1989. The indexing system involved an adaptation of a Riemannian hypercube data structure, invoking a helical spiral through 3-dimensional space, which allowed for n-size of features.
The actual implementation of the proposed indexing system was termed a helical hyperspatial code and it was first used by modifying an installation of the Oracle database version 4. The HHCode indexing system permitted a highly efficient compression of not only spatial data but other data types as well, while improving search and retrieval times. The HHCode comprises a form of space filling curve and the concept was published by the CHS scientists in the International Hydrographic Review.
Oracle Corporation subsequently learned of the innovation which led to an agreement with the Government of Canada which saw the CHS scientists working with a team of Oracle programmers at an office in Hull, Quebec during the early 1990s to redevelop the Oracle database kernel. The resulting software was the Oracle database version 7, with the Spatial Data Option (SDO). Subsequent development of the SDO has resulted in the Oracle Spatial extension to current Oracle databases.
With the HHCode being an open-source data format, several spatial data and software companies have adopted it in various products targeted at very large corporate data users, namely Helical Systems Inc. and CubeWerx.
References
Varma, H. et al. A Data Structure for Spatio-Temporal Databases (1990). International Hydrographic Review, Monaco, LXVII(1), January.
Science and technology in Canada
GIS file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosm%20Ltd | Microcosm Ltd is a UK company established in 1979. Its early claims to fame included Silicon Disk System in 1981 and Microcache (the world's first disk cache for microcomputers) in 1982.
Since 1989, it has concentrated on computer security, firstly with CopyControl (a software-based copy protection system), then Dinkey Dongle (small hardware copy protection keys that connect to parallel or USB ports). In 2005, it produced CopyMinder (software-based copy protection that uses the Internet where possible to provide an 'intelligent' copy protection system). More recently, it has expanded its security products by producing SmartSign, a multi-factor authentication system that supports using mobile devices to control access to web pages.
History
1979 – Microcosm Limited was established in London (UK)
1981 – Silicon Disk System (the world's first RAM disk for microcomputers) released
1982 – Microcache (the world's first disk cache for microcomputers) released
1989 – CopyControl floppy disk protection released
1989 – Microcosm moved to Bristol (UK)
1994 – CopyControl UnLock-It software based protection released
1995 – Microcosm receives Ziff-Davis Europe award (finalist, best UK product) for CopyControl 1.65
1995 – Parallel port Dinkey Dongle released
2000 – USB port Dinkey Dongle released
2004 – CopyMinder internet-based software protection released
2008 – The world's first driverless combined Flash Drive and software protection dongle released
2014 – SmartSign released, providing multi-factor authentication
References
External links
Microcosm Ltd official website
SmartSign official website
Computer companies established in 1979
Computer companies of the United Kingdom
Computer hardware companies
1979 establishments in England
British brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Computing%20Services | Research Computing Services (separated in August 2007 from the former Manchester Computing at the University of Manchester), provides the focus for the University of Manchester's activities in supercomputing or high-performance computing, grid computing or e-science and computational science. Research Computing Services activities include services, training and research & development.
Supercomputers
The University of Manchester has been home to many supercomputers, starting from the 1948 Manchester Baby - the world's first stored program computer. Others have included CDC7600 (1972, and a second in 1977), a CDC Cyber 205, VP1200, VPX and 240/10. The CSAR service (see below) supercomputers included a 576 PE Cray T3E-1200E (1998, upgraded to 816PE in 2000), and SGI Origin 3000 (2001) and Altix (2003) systems. More recently some large clusters (e.g., the 200 processor Dell EM64T cluster) have been installed.
National Computing Services
Research Computing Services and its predecessors (Manchester Computing etc.) have been providing (high performance) computing services nationally in the UK since the 1970s. Manchester Computing operated the UK's 1998-2006 national supercomputer service CSAR with SGI and CSC Ltd. It currently operates other national computer services in the UK, including the Access Grid Support Centre (AGSC) and, as part of consortia, the UK National Grid Service (NGS) and North West Grid.
Research Centres
Research Computing Services is a part of several research centres including E-Science North West (ESNW), and the UK's National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS).
References
External links
Research Computing Services web site
CSAR
National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS)
Access Grid Support Centre (AGSC)
UK National Grid Service (NGS)
North West Grid
Computational science
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Research institutes in Manchester
Supercomputer sites
University of Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force10 | Dell Force10 (formerly nCore Networks, Force10 Networks), was a United States company that developed and marketed 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switches for computer networking to corporate, educational, and governmental customers. It had offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
In August 2011, Dell completed the acquisition of Force10 and changed the name to Dell Force10.
In mid 2013, the Force10 designation was dropped from the products in favor of the data center networking line of the Dell Networking brand, and some of the other product lines were sold.
History
Founding
The company was founded by PK Dubey, Naresh Nigam and Som Sikdar. It was named by founder Som Sikdar, an avid sailor, after Beaufort Force 10 (Storm, Whole gale) on the Beaufort scale for wind speeds, indicating a storm with high speed winds, and matched their focus on 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching and routing products.
Acquisition
In January 2009, Force10 was acquired by Turin Networks (Founded by Philip Yim), which had previously purchased Carrier Access Corporation and White Rock Networks. Carrier Access Corporation itself had previously purchased Mangrove Systems and White Rock Networks had previously purchased Seranoa Networks.
On July 20, 2011 Dell announced it intended to fully acquire Force10 for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition, Dell offered products for the data center where Dell focuses on the Ethernet switches. Dell Force10 continued to offer their non-Ethernet backhaul and metro-access platforms as well.
Telmar Network Technology of Plano, Texas, announced the acquisition of the Force10 Turin transport product lines from Dell in May, 2013, and has resumed support and development of the Traverse, TraverseEdge, TransAccess, TransNav, MasterSeries, Adit, Wide Bank, and Broadmore products. Telmar Network Technology, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jabil Circuit, Inc. of St. Petersburg, FL.
iQor of St. Petersburg, FL, announced, in December 2013, the acquisition of the Jabil/Telmar Network Technology Aftermarket Services business, including the extended life products (from Alcatel, DECS, Force10/Turin, Transport Access products) and all of Telmar Network Technology. It continued support and development of the Traverse, TraverseEdge, TransAccess, TransNav, Adit, WideBank, and Broadmore products supporting Telecommunications companies worldwide in all applications from Digital cross connect system (DCS), SONET/SDH Optical transport to network access.
Products
Force10 Networks has several product lines: Ethernet switches are marketed in four series, and other networking equipment for telecommunication providers and metropolitan networks:
Ethernet switches
Traverse series: Multiservice transport switches: Chassis based multi service platform offering SDH/SONET services, carrier ethernet and Digital cross connect system, or cellular services. The chassis range from 6 to 20 slots with up to 95 Gbps per shelf,
Master se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines%20of%20Paris | The mines of Paris ( – "quarries of Paris") comprise a number of abandoned, subterranean mines under Paris, France, connected together by galleries. Three main networks exist; the largest, known as the ("large south network"), lies under the 5th, 6th, 14th and 15th arrondissements, a second under the 13th arrondissement, and a third under the 16th, though other minor networks are found under the 12th, 14th and 16th for instance. The commercial product was Lutetian limestone for use as a building material, as well as gypsum for use in "plaster of Paris".
Exploring the mines is prohibited by the prefecture and penalised with large fines. Despite restrictions, Paris's former mines are frequently toured by urban explorers known popularly as cataphiles.
A limited part of the network— in length—has been used as an underground ossuary, known as the catacombs of Paris, some of which can be toured legally. The catacombs were temporarily closed between September and 19 December 2009 due to vandalism, after which they could be legally visited again from the entrance on Place Denfert-Rochereau. The entire subterranean network is commonly but mistakenly referred to as "the catacombs".
Formation of the minerals mined in Paris
Paris lies within the Paris Basin, a geological bowl-like shape created by millennia of sea immersion and erosion. Much of north-western France spent much of its geological history as a submerged sea water coastline, but towards our era, and the formation of our continents as we know them, the then relatively flat area that would become the Paris region became increasingly elevated. The region was alternately invaded and sculpted by both sea water, inland sea water lagoons and fresh water, in addition to above-water air and river erosion. These cycles produced a rich and varied geological strata containing many minerals that would become a source of growth and wealth for the Paris region.
Mineral formation
The region of Paris has spent most of its geologic history under water, which is why it has such varied and important accumulations of sedimentary minerals, notably Lutetian Limestone.
The Paris area was a relatively flat sea-bottom during the early Cretaceous period: first in a deep-sea environment, then under a more agitated near-shoreline sea towards the end of the same period, Paris's largely silica-based sedimentary deposits became, under the action of pressure and the carbonic acid content of seawater, a thick deposit of clay. The invasion of calcium-rich seas then covered this with an even more important layer of chalk. Paris emerged from the sea towards the end of the Cretaceous Period, and later Palaeozoic-era continental shifts, particularly the Variscan orogeny geological upheavals, created a series of hills and valleys throughout the Parisian basin, creating conditions ideal for the mineral deposits that would appear during the next eras.
After a long period above sea level that ended towards the Cenozoic era, Par |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Player%20Soccer%20Manager | Multi-Player Soccer Manager is football management computer game released for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC in 1991.
Gameplay
The player begins the game managing a Division 4 team and plays a 30-game season where the team must finish in the top two to gain promotion. If they finish bottom, the player wins the "league joker" trophy. In higher leagues, the bottom two teams are relegated to the lower division. If the player performs well as a manager, they may be offered a new club at a higher-level club. Players also compete in League Cup and FA Cup matches as well. Other features include buying and selling players in the transfer market, organising training for your players and increase your ground's capacity and safety. If the player runs out of money, they will be sacked and offered the job of the bottom team of Division 4, if they choose not to take the job, the game will reset, the same occurs if the player resigns at any time. Up to four players can take part at the same time with all players starting at Division 4. The Amiga and PC versions had up to eight players.
A common bug in the game was the dreaded 'Sleigh Bogey', which appeared at seemingly random points during seasons. It would appear when you were viewing results for a game. If 'Sleigh Bogey' appeared, it was game over. You could then not continue the game. Also of note was that if you over loaded on midfielders your team would be more likely to win.
External links
1991 video games
ZX Spectrum games
Commodore 64 games
Amstrad CPC games
Association football management video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20differential%20analyzer%20%28graphics%20algorithm%29 | In computer graphics, a digital differential analyzer (DDA) is hardware or software used for interpolation of variables over an interval between start and end point. DDAs are used for rasterization of lines, triangles and polygons. They can be extended to non linear functions, such as perspective correct texture mapping, quadratic curves, and traversing voxels.
In its simplest implementation for linear cases such as lines, the DDA algorithm interpolates values in interval by computing for each xi the equations xi = xi−1 + 1, yi = yi−1 + m, where m is the slope of the line. This slope can be expressed in DDA as follows:
In fact any two consecutive points lying on this line segment should satisfy the equation.
Performance
The DDA method can be implemented using floating-point or integer arithmetic. The native floating-point implementation requires one addition and one rounding operation per interpolated value (e.g. coordinate x, y, depth, color component etc.) and output result. This process is only efficient when an FPU with fast add and rounding operation will be available.
The fixed-point integer operation requires two additions per output cycle, and in case of fractional part overflow, one additional increment and subtraction. The probability of fractional part overflows is proportional to the ratio m of the interpolated start/end values.
DDAs are well suited for hardware implementation and can be pipelined for maximized throughput.
Algorithm
A linear DDA starts by calculating the smaller of dy or dx for a unit increment of the other. A line is then sampled at unit intervals in one coordinate and corresponding integer values nearest the line path are determined for the other coordinate.
Considering a line with positive slope, if the slope is less than or equal to 1, we sample at unit x intervals (dx=1) and compute successive y values as
Subscript k takes integer values starting from 0, for the 1st point and increases by 1 until endpoint is reached.
y value is rounded off to nearest integer to correspond to a screen pixel.
For lines with slope greater than 1, we reverse the role of x and y i.e. we sample at dy=1 and calculate consecutive x values as
Similar calculations are carried out to determine pixel positions along a line with negative slope. Thus, if the absolute value of the slope is less than 1, we set dx=1 if i.e. the starting extreme point is at the left.
Program
DDA algorithm Program in Turbo C++:
#include <graphics.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <dos.h>
#include <conio.h>
void main( )
{
float x,
float y,
float x1, y1,
float x2, y2, dx, dy, step;
int i, gd = DETECT, gm;
initgraph(&gd, &gm, "C:\\TURBOC3\\BGI");
cout << "Enter the value of x1 and y1: ";
cin >> x1 >> y1;
cout << "Enter the value of x2 and y2: ";
cin >> x2 >> y2;
dx = (x2 - x1);
dy = (y2 - y1);
if (abs(dx) >= abs(dy))
step = abs(dx);
else
step = abs(dy);
dx = dx / step;
dy = dy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellebjerg%20station | Ellebjerg station is a former station on the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was in operation from 1972 until its closure in 2007. The former station is located where the Køge radial passes over Ellebjergvej. A new station, Ny Ellebjerg station (Ny meaning "New"), opened on 6 January 2007, a few hundred meters northeast of the former station.
The station was the first station ever to be closed on the S-train network.
References
History of Valby
S-train (Copenhagen) stations
Railway stations opened in 1972
Railway stations closed in 2007
Disused railway stations in Denmark
Abandoned rapid transit stations
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 1970s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20Peace%20Action%20Network | Student Peace Action Network or SPAN is the student wing of Peace Action. [1] It is also a coordinating committee member of the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC). [2] SPAN works to end U.S. militarism, nuclear weapons, weapons trafficking, and “the complex webs of corporate and military power that perpetuate racism, damage the environment, deprive people of basic needs, and violate human rights.” [3]It currently has over 130 chapters and affiliates.
Current campaigns
Flunk The War Machine
SPAN’s currently organizes around its “Flunk the War Machine" Campaign. The campaign originally started in 2004 and focused on opposition to the Patriot Act on Campuses, the No Child Left Behind Act’s military recruitment provisions, university financial ties to weapons manufactures. The campaign also seeks to encourage the promotion of peaceful studies. The campaign has been expanded to include counter-recruitment in general and war profiters[4]
Books Not Bombs
As member of NYSPC, SPAN is also involved in the Books Not Bombs Campaign. The Books not Bombs Campaign calls for funding education as opposed to war along with an end to on-campus military recruitment.[5] The campaign has included congressional call-in days, petitions, student strikes, contingents in national protest. As part of the Books Not Bombs Campaign SPAN also took part in a National Youth Convergence held to counter 2004 Republican National Convention as well as participating in the wider protest at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.
History
Student Peace Action Network was formed in 1995. Originally called the Peace Action Campus Network, it officially became the Student Peace Action Network in 1996. Its earliest actions included a campaign for Human Rights in Mexico with a concentration on the crisis in Chiapas and also a campaign to close the School of Americas.
SPAN was also active in the anti-globalization movement, offering nonviolence training for IMF/World Bank protesters, and organizing contingents in several IMF/World Bank protests. From 2000-2002, it participated in a joint march against both the IMF/World Bank and the then possibility of a US invasion of Iraq.
In 2001 after the September 11th attacks in the US SPAN was at the forefront of leading the anti-war charge looking at the intersections of oppression and ways in which war most gravely effects brown, black, poor and woman. The SPAN youth activist saw the broad effects of war and violence at home and abroad. A conference was held at the Claremont Colleges in Pamona CA which brought together a broad coalition of student leaders and youth organizers. The conference’s highlighted a panel of speakers who were survivors of the Hiroshima Nagasaki bombing as well as anti-racist trainings, direct action trainings, permaculture trainings and alternative to fossils fuel exhibits including; solar panel install information and a vegetable oil powered bus. [6][7]
In the response to the War |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalermek%20Intanagonwiwat | Chalermek Intanagonwiwat is a computer scientist best known for his work on directed diffusion under the supervision of Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, and John Heidemann. In 2013 he moved to San Jose, California to work at Cisco Systems, Inc.
Intanagonwiwat earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in Thailand and pursued his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at the University of Southern California, USA. He worked as postdoc researcher at Rutgers University, USA. His research interests include computer networks and distributed systems (particularly, large-scale wireless networks of distributed embedded systems, sensor networks, ad hoc networks, cooperative computing, mobile computing, pervasive computing, and ubiquitous computing). From 2003 - 2013, he taught in the Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn University.
According to Citeseer Research Index , Dr. Intanagonwiwat is among the top 0.73% most cited authors in Computer Science. Microsoft Academic Search has placed him among the 200 most-cited computer scientists in Networks and Communications.
References
External links
Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks" in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE MOBICOM 2000
List of Most Cited Authors in Computer Science
Microsoft Academic Search
Chalermek Intanagonwiwat
Living people
Chalermek Intanagonwiwat
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkfs | In computer operating systems, mkfs is a command used to format a block storage device with a specific file system. The command is part of Unix and Unix-like operating systems. In Unix, a block storage device must be formatted with a file system before it can be mounted and accessed through the operating system's filesystem hierarchy.
History
The command was originally implemented in the first version of Unix as a method to initialize either a DECtape (using the "t" argument) or an RK03 disk pack (using the "r" argument). The initialization process would write formatting data to the device so that it contained an empty file system. It created the super-block, i-list, and free list on the storage device and established the root directory with entries for "." and ".." (self and parent, respectively). The RK03 disk packs had 4872 available blocks after initialization, while the tapes had 578 blocks (at 512 bytes/block). The mkfs executable was kept in the /etc directory instead of a binary directory so it would not be inadvertently called and destroy information.
Later implementations of Unix-like operating systems included the mkfs command, including HP-UX, Minix, SunOS and Linux.
Syntax
The basic syntax of the command, which is common to all modern implementations, is:
$ mkfs -t <fs type> <device>
where 'fs type' is the type of the filesystem and 'device' is the target UNIX device to write the filesystem data to. Usually the "device" is a drive partition. Often the command is simply a wrapper for another command that performs the formatting for a specific file system. For example,
$ mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1
would call the command mke2fs while passing along the appropriate arguments to format the device /dev/sda1 with the ext3 filesystem. The default options for the command are stored in the file mke2fs.conf, usually in the /etc directory. Depending on the implementation and the specific file system requested, the command may have many options that can be specified such as inode size, block size, volume label, and other features. (See file system for details)
The filesystem-specific commands that mkfs calls may be invoked directly by the user from the command line. In Linux, the convention has been to name the filesystem-specific commands as: mkfs.<fs-type>. Where <fs-type> is an abbreviation for the file system, e.g., mkfs.ext2, mkfs.msdos, mkfs.minix, etc. File systems supported by the command vary by implementation and include: MSDOS, SCO bfs, CPM, ext2, ext3, ext4, minix, fat (vfat), HFS, VXFS, RF disk, RK disk, DECtape, and NTFS.
See also
dd — convert and copy a file
e2fsprogs — a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems
fdisk — examine and write partition table
fsck — file system check
mkisofs — make an iso file system
mount — mount a file system
parted — partition manager
References
External links
mkfs manual
Unix file system-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto%20Computer%20Gakuin | Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG) is Japan's first private computer educational institution in Japan founded in 1963 by Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa. KCG is the main institution of the KCG Group. KCG’s Eki-mae is the main campus which is centrally located near the Kyoto Station. KCG also has other sites at the Kamogawa Campus which houses the Computer Graphics Art Department and the Rakuhoku Campus where the Computer Informatics Department is found. The KCG group is also composed of The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI), the Kyoto Japanese Language Training Center (KJLTC), KCG Career, Inc. and KCG Co., Ltd.--- all global education-related institutions. Over nearly half a century, KCG has developed a strong and growing alumni network of 37,000 members who are currently active in the Japanese information industry.
History
Kyoto Computer Gakuin was established by Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa in 1963. Yasuko Hasegawa, the first woman to be enrolled at Kyoto University's doctoral program in Astrophysics, formed a study group for IBM 709/7090 and started teaching to young faculty and graduate students at Kyoto University. They called the workshop as "the FORTRAN Research Seminar" which was later renamed as the "Kyoto Software Research Seminar". This workshop became Kyoto Computer Gakuin (Kyoto School of Computer Science) in 1969. Japan was then entering a period of economic growth and recovery in the post-war period and computers were still rare at that time. Only a handful of organizations like major banks, university research centers and airline companies possessed computer technology. At that time, people asked: "Why should the average person study computers? What is the computer for?" "What do we need computer education for at this time?" But Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa, both educators, had the foresight of the future society in the IT era.
Founders
Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa organized the "FORTRAN Research Seminar" in Kyoto in 1963. This became the roots of Kyoto Computer Gakuin and the KCG Group of institutions. There was an urgent need to have this kind of research group studying programming languages. However, there were neither accessible computer equipment nor books on computing in bookstores and FORTRAN could be used in Japan on a few computers which at that time were all imported. Under the ill-equipped environment of those times, Yasuko Hasegawa, the incumbent KCG president, struggled to develop a computer education system. In 1986, KCG co-founder Shigeo Hasegawa died at the age of 56.
From Kyoto’s FORTRAN Research Seminar to The Kyoto Software Research Seminar
The FORTRAN Research Seminar was started as the independent seminar which studied the uses and applications of FORTRAN. All the attendees were young research scientists from Kyoto University. "The FORTRAN Research Seminar" was renamed as the "Kyoto Software Research Seminar".
The uses of software was studied from a wider perspective, as the Kyoto Software Researc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetroFi | MetroFi was a provider of municipal wireless network service in several cities in the western United States.
History
MetroFi was founded in 2002 by Chuck Haas, who helped start Covad, and Pankaj Shah, in Mountain View, California.
Investors included Sevin Rosen Funds, August Capital, and Western Technology Investments.
Funding of $9 million was announced in April 2004, as well as an "Investors' Choice" award at the Dow Jones Wireless Ventures private equity conference.
MetroFi announced conventional Wi-Fi wireless Internet access to municipalities in September 2005 at the MuniWireless show in San Francisco.
It began offering free, advertising-supported, unencrypted, low-bandwidth wireless Internet access in December 2005 in parts of its local Silicon Valley area.
In most of its service areas it provided an unencrypted, advertising-supported "free" service as well as an encrypted (using Wi-Fi Protected Access), ad-free "premium" service for approximately $20 per month. During 2006, its data rate was restricted to 1 Mbit/s downstream and 256 kbit/s upstream. Coverage and performance of the premium and free service was otherwise identical. MetroFi also provided fixed-wireless service.
The company planned to use wireless mesh network technology from SkyPilot,
and the Webwise targeted advertising service from Phorm.
Cities covered, according to the MetroFi Web site, included:
California: Concord, Cupertino, Foster City, Riverside, San Jose, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale
Illinois: Aurora
Oregon: Portland
The Riverside announcement included a partnership with AT&T announced in July 2006.
A test of the ability to get a connection in outdoor areas within 500 feet of an access point in the Portland proof-of-concept network in the early spring of 2007 showed about a 58% probability using a standard 30 mW, low-gain client device. The report concluded that the probability the network was providing a connection to those devices in 90% of outdoor areas, as called for, was two in a billion.
The Portland network was less than 30% complete, and as of October 2007 further deployment halted.
The contract with Portland required MetroFi to complete the network by August 2009.
A group monitoring the Portland network estimated that the network provided a 90% probability of getting a connection outdoors in about 4% of the city in late 2007.
On May 15, 2008 MetroFi announced that it was seeking buyers for its networks.
Having failed to find a buyer, it scheduled and performed a shutdown of its network on June 20, 2008.
MetroFi offered to sell its Portland network to the city.
However, in October 2008, assets of the Portland network were seized by the city as abandoned.
Santa Clara acquired the MetroFi network in that city to support its Silicon Valley Power utility.
It redesigned and expanded service in 2012.
References
Wi-Fi providers
Companies based in Mountain View, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20McAllister | Sir Ian Gerald McAllister (born 17 August 1943) is a Scottish businessman. Formerly Chairman of Ford Motor Company UK, he was Chairman of Network Rail from 2002 to 2009.
Biography
McAllister was born in Glasgow to Ian Thomas and Margaret Mary McAllister. The family moved to Chorley, Lancashire when he was a child, and he received a Catholic education at Thornleigh Salesian College, Bolton. McAllister graduated from the University of London in 1964, where he gained a BSc in economics.
Ford
McAllister joined Ford as a finance trainee and progressed through various positions in sales and marketing in the UK and Germany before becoming the marketing director for Lincoln Mercury in the United States, returning to become managing director and latterly Chairman of the UK company which then encompassed just the Ford brand built at Dagenham. During his chairmanship, he returned the company to profitability from losses of £660Million in 1990, but transferred production of the new Mondeo to Genk, Belgium under Ford's global brand program; while retaining Escort estate production at Halewood and Fiesta production at Dagenham.
Outside Ford
While chairman of Ford, he held various industry positions, including becoming President of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. After retiring from Ford, McAllister has undertaken mainly Government orientated work, with his only non-executive post at Scottish and Newcastle.
McAllister was appointed Chairman of Network Rail in October 2002 following the acquisition of Railtrack. On 3 October 2008, he announced that he will not stand for re-election to continue as chairman of Network Rail. He has held this position for six years. In making the announcement, Sir Ian noted that as Network Rail moves to a "new phase in its development," it is appropriate that there be a new chairman to lead it there.
He was formerly: Deputy Chairman of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority; a member of the Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment; an Advisory Council member of The Management School, Imperial College; Chairman of the Carbon Trust (2001-2011); a member of the Energy saving trust; a member of the advisory board of Victim Support.
Personal life
He is married to Susan and they have four offspring.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1996 New Year Honours and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Loughborough University in July 1999.
A committed Christian, McAllister enjoys gardening and supports Manchester United.
References
1943 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Glasgow
Scottish Roman Catholics
Alumni of the University of London
Scottish businesspeople
Ford executives
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Bachelor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Thursday%20Night%20Football%20results%20%282006%E2%80%93present%29 | The following is a detailed list of results and scores from National Football League (NFL) games aired on Thursday Night Football. Starting with the 2006 NFL season, NFL Network was awarded the rights to air Thursday night games regularly (with some extra broadcasts on Saturday nights under the NFL Network Exclusive Game Series branding). Previously, games played on Thursdays and Saturdays were broadcast on TNT, ESPN and ABC. In 2014, CBS Sports shared rights with NFL Network for the package, with NBC Sports joining CBS and NFL Network in 2016. In 2017 until 2021, Amazon Prime Video acquired non-exclusive streaming rights to stream all of the broadcast portion of Thursday Night Football games. In 2018, Fox Sports began to share rights with the NFL Network. Starting in 2022, Amazon became the exclusive home of Thursday Night Football, with the NFL Network airing select late season Saturday games.
2000s
2006 season
Additional notes
According to Nielsen Media Research, the Broncos-Chiefs game that opened this package was the highest-rated program on cable/satellite TV in the United States on November 23, 2006, with a 6.8 rating (among available households) and an average of 4.2 million households. These numbers are especially remarkable, considering that millions of potential fans were unable to see the game due to their cable systems not making it available to them.
2007 season
2008 season
2009 season
The 2009 season featured a Friday night game on December 25, as the Thursday that week was Christmas Eve, and the NFL tried not to schedule games that night in deference to the holiday (a lone exception being a Monday Night Football game in 2007 due to scheduling conflicts caused by ESPN's broadcast contracts). Also, the start times were pushed back by five minutes, to 8:20 p.m. Eastern time (except for the December 25 game, starting at 7:30 PM EST/6:30 CST).
2010s
2010 season
2011 season
2012 season
Starting with this season, the NFL expanded to a full season Thursday Night Football schedule. However, there were some changes with the biggest being that every team was guaranteed a prime-time appearance. In addition to the season opener, the prime-time Thanksgiving game also aired on NBC.
2013 season
2014 season
Starting with the 2014 season, the NFL and CBS signed a deal that would put part of the Thursday Night Football package on national prime-time. CBS, with an NFL Network simulcast, would air eight games (mostly the first half), while the NFL Network would air the other eight games (mostly the second half) exclusively. The deal was for one year with the option of a second year in 2015, which the NFL chose to exercise.
2015 season
2016 season
For the 2016 and 2017 seasons, a new Thursday Night Football deal took effect. Thursday Night Football was now an 18-game schedule with CBS broadcasting 5 games, NBC broadcasting 5 games, and the NFL Network simulcasting the whole season with 8 games exclusively. CBS Sports and NBC Sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20of%20categoricity | The axiom of categoricity is a term coined by J. K. Chambers in 1995 to refer to the once-widespread tenet of linguistic theory that in order to properly study language, linguistic data should be removed or abstracted from all real-world context so as to be free of any inconsistencies or variability. This principle was, for different theorists and schools of thought, taken as a prerequisite for linguistic theory, or as a self-evident falsehood to be rejected. It remains an influential idea in linguistics.
History
Ferdinand de Saussure divided language into two categories, langue (the abstract grammatical system a language uses) and parole (language as it is used in real-life circumstances). Historically, the range of language study had been limited to langue, since the data could easily be found in the linguist's own intuitions about language and there was no need to look at the often inconsistent and chaotic language patterns found in everyday society.
In the 20th century, scholars began to further embrace the assumption that linguistic data should be removed from its social, real-life context. Martin Joos stated the axiom this way in 1950:
"We must make our 'linguistics' a kind of mathematics within which inconsistency is by definition impossible." (Joos 1950: 701–2)
In 1965, Noam Chomsky offered a more substantial definition, incorporating his concepts of linguistic competence and linguistic performance, terms that closely parallel Saussure's langue and parole.
"Linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech-community, who knows its language perfectly and is unaffected by such grammatically irrelevant conditions as memory limitations, distractions, shifts of attention and interest, and errors (random or characteristic) in applying his knowledge of the language in actual performance." (Chomsky 1965: 3)
Around this time, several linguistic studies began to acknowledge not only the presence, but importance of variability found in speaker data. Instead of dismissing this variability on the grounds that the variants either belonged to different coexisting linguistic systems or demonstrated unpredictable free variation as had been done before, they recognized that it might be influenced by the speaker's circumstances. Sociologist John L. Fischer conducted one of the first systematic studies of language variation in 1958 to address variation in the speech of New England schoolchildren. Finding free variation to be an unsatisfactory explanation, he wrote:
"...Another sort of explanation is possible in terms of current factors which lead a given child in given circumstances to produce one of the variants rather than another." (Fischer 1958: 47–8)
Fischer eventually discovered a correlation between the linguistic variants and independent social variables such as class and sex. By gathering variable data and analyzing it, he proved that the inconsistencies were indeed manageable, resis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Rebooted | Rebooted is the third season of the computer-animated television series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (titled Ninjago from the eleventh season onward). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired from 29 January to 26 November 2014, following the second season titled Legacy of the Green Ninja. It is succeeded by the fourth season, titled Tournament of Elements.
The second season was originally intended to be the final season of the series due to the show and its associated Lego Ninjago product line having been planned as a three-year project. However, due to the strong performance of the television series and feedback from fans within online forums, it was continued with the release of Rebooted.
Although the season is titled Rebooted, it is a continuation of the storyline from the previous seasons, rather than a reboot. The season reintroduces Ninjago City with new advanced technology and features the return of the Overlord in digital form as the season's main antagonist. Rebooted is also the first season to introduce the nindroid character P.I.X.A.L. into the series.
Voice cast
Main
Jillian Michaels as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the teacher of the ninja
Mark Oliver as Sensei Garmadon
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Scott McNeil as the Digital Overlord/The Golden Master
Supporting
Lee Tockar as Cyrus Borg
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Colin Murdock as Ed
Michael Dobson as Pythor P. Chumsworth
Richard Newman as General Cryptor
Ian James Corlett as Skales
Kathleen Barr as Brad
Alyssa Swales as Skales Jr.
Michael Adamthwaite as Mindroid/Mailman
Jillian Michaels as Fitz Donnegan
Production
Direction
The Rebooted episodes were directed by Jens Møller, Martin Skov, Michael Helmuth Hansen, Peter Hausner and Trylle Vilstrup.
Animation
The animation for the third season was produced at Wil Film ApS in Denmark.
Release
The first two episodes of the season titled The Surge and The Art of the Silent Fist were released on Cartoon Network on 29 January 2014. The third and fourth episodes titled Blackout and The Curse of the Golden Master were not released until 16 April 2014. The second half of the season was released in July and November 2014. The episodes were also released in pairs with Enter the Digiverse and Codename: Arcturus being released on 13 July 2014, and The Void and The Titanium Ninja being released on 26 November of the same year.
Plot
Since the defeat of the Overlord, Ninjago has been rebuilt into a futuristic metropolis, and renamed New Ninjago City. Cyrus Borg, founder and CEO of Borg Industries, has rebuilt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathis%20Wackernagel | Mathis Wackernagel is a Swiss-born sustainability advocate. He is President of Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability think tank with offices in Oakland, California, and Geneva, Switzerland. The think-tank is a non-profit that focuses on developing and promoting metrics for sustainability.
After earning a degree in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he completed his Ph.D. in community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in 1994. There, in his doctoral dissertation under Professor William Rees, he worked with Rees in creating the ecological footprint concept and developed the accounting methodology for it.
He has worked on sustainability issues for organizations in Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia and Australia. Wackernagel previously served as the director of the Sustainability Program at Redefining Progress in Oakland, California (1999 - 2003), and directed the Centre for Sustainability Studies / Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad in Mexico (1995-2001). In 2004, he was also adjunct faculty at SAGE of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2010, he was appointed Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Visiting Professor at Cornell University (1 July 2011 – 30 June 2013).
Wackernagel has said that "Overshoot will ultimately liquidate the planet's ecological assets." He also noted that "We look at all the problems in separate ways – climate change or biodiversity loss or food shortage – as if they were occurring independently. But they’re all symptoms of the same underlying theme: that our collective metabolism, the amount of things that humanity uses, has become very big compared to what Earth can renew."
Awards and honors
In November 2022, the University of Stirling bestowed Wackernagel with an honorary doctorate. In his address, he proposed a "question with which to start everything – whether you design a policy or develop any new strategy [...]: do you love people?"
In 2018, Wackernagel and Zhifu Mi were the joint recipients of the second World Sustainability Award. Wackernagel, along with Susan Burns, received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation in 2007. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in 2007, a 2006 World Wide Fund for Nature Award for Conservation Merit, and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of the US Society for Ecological Economics. With Global Footprint Network, he received the International Prize Calouste Gulbenkian 2008 (Lisbon, Portugal) “dedicated to the respect for biodiversity and defense of the environment in man’s relationship with nature.”
In 2013, Wackernagel received the Prix Nature Swisscanto. Prior, he received the 2012 Binding-Prize for Nature Conservation, the bi-annual Kenneth Boulding Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and the Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi Glass Foundation (the latter two with William E. Rees). He also r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Backhouse | Lisa Backhouse is a female Australian television journalist for the Nine Network.
Career
Backhouse began her television career as a cadet at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Brisbane in 1988. She soon relocated to Townsville, remaining there for nearly two years. She then moved to Canberra, where she reported on national politics and events.
Backhouse returned to ABC in 1998, relocating to Brisbane to anchor the ABC weekend news. She retained this position until 2006, and in 2004 also began hosting the ABC program Stateline.
Backhouse left ABC in 2006, moving to the position of relief presenter on Nine News Queensland. As of January 2010 she remains in that post. Over the 2009-2010 summer, she filled in as Nine News Queensland Weekend anchor. She regularly fills in on the weekend news for news presenter Heather Foord or on the weather and she is also a senior reporter
Health issue
Backhouse departed the ABC under difficult circumstances. Diagnosed with breast cancer, and upset at what she believed was ABC Management's lack of concern over a possible cancer cluster at the Brisbane studios, she chose her health and departed in late 2006.
The ABC has since abandoned its Brisbane studios as a result of the cancer cases.
External links
NineMSN
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrekNation | TrekNation is a reference and community website for the Star Trek franchise. It also serves as a hub for its network websites: TrekToday, a news site updated nearly daily; The Trek BBS, which describes itself as the largest Star Trek community on the Internet; and Jammer's Reviews, a Star Trek review site.
TrekNation
History
TrekNation was established on June 27, 1999 by Christian Höhne Sparborth as a network site for Sparborth's sites TrekToday and TrekBBS after he left another network, the TrekZone Network, over disagreements with TrekZone's founder. Other websites included in TrekNation were Jamahl Epsicokhan's review site Star Trek: Hypertext and the now defunct Warp Eleven.
In addition to serving as a network site, TrekNation conducted a number of interviews with past and present Star Trek cast, crew, and contributors; published articles and columns on the Trek franchise; and posted reviews of Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. The site also maintained both an episode guide for the various Star Trek series and a now defunct section dedicated to the Wildstorm Star Trek comics.
After the cancellation of Enterprise, the articles and interviews began to slow down. As of 2009, TrekNation's main updates are "Retro Reviews" of the original Star Trek and The Next Generation.
TrekNation and its networked sites have been affiliated with the UGO Network since TrekNation's founding.
TrekNation Episode Guide
TrekNation still maintains an episode guide for all Trek series (including The Animated Series). Although information on the episodes themselves are not as detailed as that at Memory Alpha, all episode pages for Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise contain links to both TrekNation's review of the episode and reviews on other websites. Links are not provided to the Retro Reviews of Star Trek and The Next Generation. Most episodes from all six series also include a parody written by FiveMinute.net.
Trek BBS
History
The Trek BBS, founded in early 1999, is the largest and most active section of TrekNation, with over 20,000 registered users. Sparborth, the site's founder, was the first head administrator. In June 1999, TrekBBS became part of TrekNation, and was updated with a new layout, known to many posters as "Big Blue". The site also became affiliated with UGO at this time.
In December 2002, Sparborth decided to step down as head administrator, and turned the job over to the administrator Lisa, who had been the de facto head for several months. In September 2004, Lisa resigned as well, and Bonnie Malmat, known on the BBS as T'Bonz, replaced her as head administrator, a position she still holds. In 2005, Malmat was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times on her views of fandom in light of and about TrekBBS's stand on the contentious issues surrounding TrekUnited's "Save Enterprise" campaign. In 2007, the Los Angeles Times again interviewed Malmat for her opinion of fan reaction toward plans for a new Star Trek film by J. J. |
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