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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIJ | AIJ, Aij, or aij could refer to:
Artificial Intelligence (journal), a scholarly journal about artificial intelligence
, the notation for the entry in the i-th row and j-th column of a matrix (mathematics)
Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic, a Judeo-Aramaic dialect spoken in Israel and Iraq, by ISO 639 code
Architectural Institute of Japan, a Japanese institute for people in architecture
Interjet, a defunct low-cost airline based in Mexico from 2005 to 2020, by ICAO code
, an organization that proposed a way of making new Swiss cantons in 2007; see Jura separatism
Air Jet, a defunct airline based in France from 1974 to 2003, by ICAO code; see List of defunct airlines of France
Artificial Intelligence Journalist, a type of AI-based journalism software created by the NewsRx company in 1999
See also
, a company that lost in 2012 due to trading in volatility options; see List of trading losses
Age (disambiguation), several things |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSNC | WSNC (90.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting jazz, gospel, and talk programming. Licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, it serves the Piedmont Triad area. The station is currently owned by Winston-Salem State University. The founding General Manager of WSNC FM was Dr. Clarence W. Thomas.
In November 2017, WSNC replaced a transmitter installed in the 1990s which failed in June, causing the station to operate at a tenth of normal power using rented equipment for several months.
See also
List of jazz radio stations in the United States
References
External links
official site
SNC
NPR member stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLFA | WLFA (91.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a contemporary Christian music format to Asheville, North Carolina and the surrounding area. The station is currently owned by Radio Training Network, Inc. and is part of its "His Radio" network. The station mostly simulcasts programming from flagship WLFJ-FM in Greenville, South Carolina; which operates translators in nearby Hendersonville, Weaverville and Black Mountain.
Programming includes music by such artists as MercyMe, Michael W. Smith, Point of Grace, Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, Avalon, Toby Mac, and Mark Schultz, as well as family ministries such as those of Dr. James Dobson and Charles Stanley.
History
Jim Robinson started WBMU ("Where Black Means Unity") on April 7, 1975 as Asheville's first nonprofit radio station, primarily serving an African-American audience. Programming included jazz, reggae, funk and talk. As of November 1987 it had been off the air for six months, with plans to sell to minister Kenneth Brantley, who planned talk programming.
In January 1988 the station returned to the air as Contemporary Christian WKDB but was not successful. A switch to black gospel music in June, with artists such as James Cleveland and Mighty Clouds of Joy appeared likely to improve the station's popularity, though the signal needed improving and stereo broadcasting was planned. A call-in talk show was added in August, airing six nights a week.
On September 1, 1992, WLFJ-FM, which obtained the broadcast rights to WKDB, began programming the station with the new letters WLFA.
References
External links
Official website
LFA
LFA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient%20Information%20Systems | Sentient Information Systems BV is a Dutch software provider specialized in data mining. The company was founded in 2001 out of the former Sentient Machine Research (SMR) and is located in Amsterdam.
Sentient's flagship product is DataDetective, a data mining platform capable of analyzing information from various domains. Users of this tool include several Dutch police departments, hospitals, insurance and media companies.
External links
Sentient.nl
DoelgroepDetector.nl
Business intelligence companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NativityMiguel%20Network%20of%20Schools | The NativityMiguel Network of Schools was a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization providing a middle school education to low-income families across the nation. The Network operated 64 schools that served over 5,000 middle school age boys and girls across 27 states. It closed in June 2012.
Though the Nativity Miguel Network Central Office formally dissolved in June 2012, there are still over fifty former network schools in operation around the United States and Canada.
Background
In 1971, a group of Jesuits opened a middle school in the Lower East Side of Manhattan to serve the waves of Dominican and Puerto Rican immigrants settling in the area. The Nativity Mission Center provided their middle school-aged boys with an educational program in which they could excel academically, socially, and spiritually.
The extended school day almost doubled that of the local public school, a low student-to-teacher ratio ensured time for one-on-one instruction, and a summer academic program extended learning year round. They made a commitment to support their graduates through high school and guide them on to college.
The Nativity Mission Center flourished, and by the 1980s had attracted the attention of Catholic educators nationwide. Replications followed creating the Nativity Network of Schools. In 1993, the Christian Brothers opened the first San Miguel School in Providence, Rhode Island. Its replication led to the formation of the Lasallian Association of Miguel Schools. In 2006, these two networks merged to form the NativityMiguel Network of Schools, allowing for a more efficient way to lead member schools to excellence in education for the underserved.
Overview and Mission
The Mission of the NativityMiguel Network was to empower middle schools to provide a unique, faith-based education that breaks the cycle of poverty in underserved communities across America. The NativityMiguel model included an extended day averaging 9.6 hours and an extended year of up to 11 months. The average total enrollment at a member school was 71 students with an average class size of 19 students.
See also
Jesuits
Serviam Girls Academy
Notre Dame Mission Volunteers - AmeriCorps
External links
Nativity Prep of Wilmington
References
Catholic schools in the United States
Associations of schools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCSO%20Nameserver | A CCSO name-server or Ph protocol was an early form of database search on the Internet. In its most common form, it was used to look up information such as telephone numbers and email addresses. Today, this service has been largely replaced by LDAP. It was used mainly in the early-to-middle 1990s. The name-server was developed by Steve Dorner at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, at the university's Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO).
There also exists an Outlook plugin and standalone application known as OutlookPH.
Overview
The name-server directories were frequently organized in Gopher hierarchies. The tools "Ph" and "Qi" were the two components of the system: Ph was a client that queried the Qi server.
The Ph protocol was formally defined by in September 1998. However, the memo issued at this time references its prior use for an unspecified period of time before this date (work on the protocol started around 1988, and it was in use from around 1991). It defines sixteen keywords that can be used on the server side to define record properties. It also defines how clients should access records on the server and what responses the server should give. Ph server communication takes place on TCP port 105.
Command structure
All commands and response are initially assumed to be in US-ASCII encoding for historical reasons, unless the client explicitly asks for 8-bit (ISO-8859-1) encoding. As a result, only characters between 0x20 and 0x7E are initially sent by the server in raw form. Other characters, if present in entries, will be escaped using the defined "Quoted-Printable" encoding. The initial request from the client is a text base keyword optionally followed by one or more parameters as defined in the . The server then responds to the request. The following example response to a status request is provided by the RFC memo.
C: status
S: 100:Qi server $Revision: 1.6 $
S: 100:Ph passwords may be obtained at CCSO Accounting,
S: 100:1420 Digital Computer Lab, between 8:30 and 5 Monday-Friday.
S: 100:Be sure to bring your U of I ID card.
S: 200:Database ready
Each command defined by the memo consists of a keyword followed as needed by one or more parameters or key words. They can be separated by spaces tabs or the end of the line. Each line must be terminated in CR+LF style.
The following are a few of the commands:
status
This command takes no parameters and simply asks the server to report its status as above.
siteinfo
Returns information such as server version mail domain and whom to contact about password issues and authentication methods.
fields [field ...]
List all available entry fields on the server or only those of the specified name or names.
id information
Causes the server to log the specified information as the current user id without login.
set [option[=value] ...]
Sets the specified option on the server to value. If used without parameters it lists the current server settings.
login [alias]
logo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20W.%20Black | Alan W Black is a Scottish computer scientist, known for his research on speech synthesis. He is a professor in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Black did his undergraduate studies at Coventry University, graduating in 1984. He earned a master's degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1986 and a Ph.D. from the same university in 1993. After working at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kansai Science City, Japan and at the University of Edinburgh, he took a research faculty position at Carnegie Mellon in 1999. In 2008 he became a regular faculty member with tenure at CMU.
Black wrote the Festival Speech Synthesis System at Edinburgh, and continues to develop it at Carnegie Mellon. He has also worked on machine translation of speech at CMU, and is the co-founder and was chief scientist at Cepstral, a Pittsburgh-based speech translation technology company.
References
External links
Faculty web page at CMU
Living people
Scottish computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20Applications%20Institute | The Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh was a non-profit technology transfer organisation that promoted Artificial Intelligence research.
History
AIAI was created in July 1983, and received its formal charter from the University of Edinburgh in July 1984. It joined the School of Informatics when the School was created from a number of departments and research institutes in 1998. The Director of AIAI was Austin Tate. In 2019 it became part of a larger research institute named the Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute within the School of Informatics.
References
External links
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) website (1983-2019)
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute (AIAI) website (2019-)
Artificial intelligence associations
Applications of artificial intelligence
University of Edinburgh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIAI | AIAI or Aiai may refer to:
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, a non-profit technology transfer organisation at the University of Edinburgh, 1983-2019
Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute, a research institute in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, 2019-
al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, a Somali Islamist group
AiAi, a character in the Super Monkey Ball video game series
See also
AIA (disambiguation)
AI (disambiguation)
Aye-aye, a species of lemur
Film
Aye-Aye (2002) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Lifestyle | BBC Lifestyle is an international television channel wholly owned by BBC Studios. The channel provides six programming strands: Food, Home & Design, Fashion & Style, Health, Parenting, and Personal Development.
On 1 August 2019, BBC Lifestyle along with BBC Earth rebranded.
Launch dates
BBC Lifestyle first launched in Singapore on mio TV in July 2007 (it is now on Singtel TV). It is also available in Hong Kong on now TV, in Poland on the Cyfrowy Polsat digital satellite platform, where it launched in December 2007, and in Romania on Digi TV digital cable television, where it launched on 31 December 2010. It has been available on DStv in South Africa and on OSN in the Middle East and North Africa since September 2008. Since then, it has also launched in the Scandinavian countries in November 2008, where it replaced BBC Prime on Canal Digital, Com Hem, Telia Digital-TV and FastTV.
In June 2009, hollywoodreporter.com cited the lack of viewership on SingTel's mio TV as the reason that the British Broadcasting Corporation terminated the right to air BBC Lifestyle, CBeebies and BBC Knowledge under permission registered BBC from 19 March 2009 to 15 December 2009. The BBC has since sourced StarHub TV as an alternative offering. Thus BBC Lifestyle is now on channel 432 on StarHub TV. However, as of 1 December 2021, BBC Lifestyle together with CBeebies made its return to Singtel TV along with the launch of BBC World News, BBC Earth and BBC First onto the platform.
BBC Lifestyle ceased broadcast in the Nordic region on 6 January 2016.
On September 14, 2021, BBC Lifestyle HD launched on Malaysian satellite TV service Astro.
BBC Lifestyle launched in the Philippines via Cignal on October 1, 2023. Prior to that date, it can only be found in select provincial cable operators.
Programming
See also
BBC World News
BBC Knowledge
BBC Entertainment
CBeebies
BBC First
BBC HD
BBC Earth
References
External links
BBC Lifestyle official website
International BBC television channels
BBC Worldwide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydsg%C3%A5rd%20Runestone | The Rydsgård Runestone, designated as DR 277 under Rundata, is located in the woods just outside the park at Rydsgård manor, which is near Skurup, Skåne, Sweden.
Description
The Rydsgård Runestone is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK. Similar to the Velanda Runestone, the inscription describes the deceased as being a good þegn, or thegn. The exact role of thegns in southern Sweden is a matter of debate, but the most common view is that these persons constituted a Nordic elite somehow connected to Danish power. It is thought that thegn-stones point to areas where they came from. From such power centres they could be sent forth to rule border areas in so-called tegnebyar.
Inscription
Transliteration into Latin characters
× kata × karþi × kuml × þausi × iftiʀ × suin × baluks ¶ sun × bunta × sin × saʀ × uas × þiakna × furstr
Transcription into Old Norse
Káta gerði kuml þessi eptir Svein Bôllungs son, bónda sinn. Sá var þegna fyrstr.
Translation in English
Káta made this monument in memory of Sveinn Bôllungr's son, her husbandman. He was first among þegns.
References
Runestones in Scania
10th-century inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrlo%20e%20Romengo | Khrlo e Romengo is a radio station, transmitting by satellite from Belgrade, Serbia, run by the Voice of Roma NGO, featuring programming in the Romani language.
References
Radio stations in Serbia
Romani in Serbia
Romani-language mass media
Romani mass media
Mass media in Belgrade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Chiba%20Stearns | Jeff Chiba Stearns is a Canadian independent animation and documentary filmmaker who works in traditional and computer-based techniques.
Biography
Chiba Stearns was born in Kelowna, British Columbia, of European and Japanese heritage. He is a distant cousin of renowned historian Sir Peter Stearns. After graduating from the Emily Carr Institute with a Bachelor of Media Arts majoring in Film animation, he went on to obtain a Bachelor of Education from University of British Columbia.
Filmmaking
In 2001, Chiba Stearns founded Meditating Bunny Studio Inc., now based in Vancouver and formally in Kelowna.
His short animated films, The Horror of Kindergarten (2001) and Kip and Kyle (2000) were screened at film festivals and were bought and aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for their show ZeD. His 2005 autobiographical animated short, What Are You Anyway? was created on a pre-license fee from the CBC and explores issues of growing up half-Japanese and half-Caucasian in a small Canadian town. It has screened at over 40 international film festivals, and won the award for Best Animated Short Subject at the Canadian Awards for the Electronic & Animated Arts.
Chiba Stearns also writes and lectures about Hapa and mixed-race identity, cultural awareness, and the animation process. He coined the term "Hapanimation" to describe his unique blend of North American and Japanese animation styles. In 2011, he co-founded Hapa-palooza, a Vancouver cultural festival celebrating mixed-roots arts and ideas. For the festival, he curates, Mixed Flicks, a showcase of films made by multiethnic filmmakers and panel with mixed-race actors and media makers.
His 2007 animated short film, Yellow Sticky Notes, won the Prix du Public at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Best Animated Short Film at the Calgary International Film Festival. It was animated with just a black pen on over 2,300 sticky notes, and is a reflection on the filmmaker's tendency to become overwhelmed with "to do" lists made up of yellow sticky notes. The film has screened in over 80 International Film Festivals and won 10 awards. After the film's international premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, Yellow Sticky Notes, became one of the first films acquired by YouTube's Screening Room. Yellow Sticky Notes was nominated for a 2012 Emmy® Award for Best Human Interest Feature/Segment after it aired as part of the KCTS program Reel Northwest.
Chiba Stearns's first feature-length documentary and animation hybrid, One Big Hapa Family, released September 2010, explores the lives of children of all ages from interracial marriages and how they perceive their mixed-race identities at a young age. The documentary begins after a realization that Chiba Stearns has at a family reunion which sets him on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married inter-racially after his grandparents’ generation. The film has since |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.8261 | ITU-T Recommendation G.8261/Y.1361 (formerly G.pactiming) "Timing and Synchronization Aspects in Packet Networks" specifies the upper limits of allowable network jitter and wander, the minimum requirements that network equipment at the TDM interfaces at the boundary of these packet networks can tolerate, and the minimum requirements for the synchronization function of network equipment.
Usage
Packet networks have been inherently asynchronous. However, as the communications industry moves toward an all IP core and edge network, there is a need to provide synchronization functionality to traditional TDM-based applications. This is essential for the interworking with PSTN. The goal is provide a Primary Reference Clock (PRC) traceable clock for the TDM applications.
External links
ITU-T G.8261 recommendation publication
Electronics standards
Synchronization
Packets (information technology) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnstile%20%28disambiguation%29 | A turnstile is a pedestrian gate.
Turnstile may also refer to:
Turnstile (symbol), symbol used in mathematics, logic, and computer science
Turnstiles (album), a 1976 studio album by Billy Joel
Turnstile antenna, set of two dipole antennas
Optical turnstile, physical security device
TURNSTILE, a codename for the UK's Central Government War Headquarters
Turnstile (band), a hardcore punk band
The Turnstile, a 1912 novel by A. E. W. Mason
in the fiction movie Tenet (film), a device that inverts entropy
See also
Turn Style, retail store
Turnstyle (band), a band from Perth, Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS%20%28software%29 | MUMPS (MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver) is a software application for the solution of large sparse systems of linear algebraic equations on distributed memory parallel computers. It was developed in European project PARASOL (1996–1999) by CERFACS, IRIT-ENSEEIHT and RAL. The software implements the multifrontal method, which is a version of Gaussian elimination for large sparse systems of equations, especially those arising from the finite element method. It is written in Fortran 90 with parallelism by MPI and it uses BLAS and ScaLAPACK kernels for dense matrix computations.
Since 1999, MUMPS has been supported by CERFACS, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, and INRIA.
The importance of MUMPS lies in the fact that it is a supported free implementation of the multifrontal method.
References
External links
WinMUMPS, files for compiling MUMPS on Windows
Free software programmed in Fortran
Numerical software
Public-domain software with source code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbold%20College%20of%20Higher%20Education | Newbold College of Higher Education is a member of the worldwide network of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities and attracts students from over 60 countries. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.
Founded in 1901 as Duncombe Hall College in London, in 1945 it moved to Binfield in Berkshire, approximately west of London, with the purchase of Moor Close, around which the main campus has grown. The college offers courses in Theology, Business Management and Humanities for students pursuing a combination of studies in Business Studies, English Literature, History, Media Studies, Fine Arts, Psychology and/or Religion. A range of one year programmes are available, including Gap Year, University Year in England, and a British Heritage suite of modules as part of the Adventist Colleges Abroad (ACA) programme. The college offers an English programme for speakers of other Languages (ESOL).
The college is an international member of the Council of Independent Colleges and an international affiliate of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
History
Newbold College of Higher Education opened in 1901 as Duncombe Hall College in Holloway, North London to train church workers and ministers. It has undergone a number of name changes. The Newbold name was taken from its Newbold Revel location to the east of Rugby, Warwickshire, during World War II. Another wartime Warwickshire location was Packwood Haugh, between Solihull and Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire. In 1945 the college purchased Moor Close, which expanded to the present-day campus. One factor for this choice was its proximity to Oxford and London. The existing campus is located near Heathrow Airport.
Moor Close
Moor Close is a Grade II listed redbrick Jacobethan house built in 1881. It was extended and altered c. 1914, with a complete Jacobethan interior, by architect and garden designer Oliver Hill for financier Charles Birch Crisp, to complement the terraces and gardens which Hill created over 1910–13. These are listed Grade II* in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Extending to the south and east of the house, the grounds contain a number of terraces on different levels, many linked by circular steps. There are courts, pergolas, staircases, balustrades and lily pools. Hill also built a stone bridge over a ravine, leading to Sylvia's Garden, named after Crisp's daughter. Moor Close was Hill's first major project, and was influenced by the work of garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.
Campus
Campus facilities include Salisbury Hall, Murdoch Hall, Roy Graham Library and Egremont which are the main academic and administration buildings. Moor Close, Keough House and Schuil House are student residence halls, and family housing is located north of the campus at Ashgrove, Beechwood and Ceder Close. Sports facilities include a gym equipped for basketball, volleyball, floorball, football, badm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIO | JIO or Jio may refer to:
Joint Intelligence Organisation (Australia)
Joint Intelligence Organisation (United Kingdom)
Jio, a 4G data services company in India, owned by Reliance Industries
jio, ISO 639 code for the Jiamao language
See also
J10 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland%20Motorways | Queensland Motorways was the company that managed the 70-kilometre-long Linkt (formerly go via) network of tolled roads in Brisbane which includes the: Clem Jones Tunnel (CLEM7), Go Between Bridge, Gateway Motorway (including Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges and the Gateway Extension) and Logan Motorway. It had its headquarters at Eight Mile Plains.
In July 2014, it was acquired by Transurban Queensland, a consortium comprising Transurban, AustralianSuper and Tawreed Investments. It was rebranded Transurban the following year.
Ownership
The company began operating in 1980 as the Gateway Bridge Company.
On 2 June 2009, the Queensland Government announced the 'Renewing Queensland Plan' that would sell assets to raise $15 billion, and avoid a further $12 billion required in future capital investment. Queensland Motorways was included in this process.
In 2011, the Queensland Government transferred ownership of Queensland Motorways to the Queensland Government’s Defined Benefit Fund (a superannuation scheme for Queensland public servants) managed by the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC). Queensland Motorways now operates under a 40–year Road Franchise Agreement with the state. This meant that tolls on the Logan and Gateway Motorways were extended to 2051. This transfer set out that the Queensland Government would continue to own the road and bridge infrastructure on the Gateway and Logan Motorways, while QIC would own the QML business and the right to toll the motorways. It also limited toll increases to not exceed CPI increases.
In December 2013, Queensland Motorways acquired the rights to manage and toll the CLEM7 tunnel in a $618 million deal with RiverCity Motorway's receivers. On 12 December 2013, QIC announced that Queensland Motorways, with an estimated value of more than $5 billion, would be auctioned off. It was claimed that a change of ownership would not have any impact on existing tolls. Indicative bids will be made by the end of January, and then shortlisted bidders will then be requested submit binding bids, with the process scheduled for completion in April 2014. On 2 July 2014, a consortium comprising Transurban, AustralianSuper and Tawreed Investments completed financial close on the acquisition of Queensland Motorways for $7 billion. The consortium was later known as Transurban Queensland. The consortium was later known as Transurban Queensland.
In late January 2015, the Queensland Motorways corporate brand was replaced by the Transurban brand and logo.
Tolling system
Queensland Motorways launched its toll payment brand, go via (now known as Linkt) in 2009 to support the introduction of a non-stop, electronic tolling system on its toll road network and on other Australian toll roads.
Vehicles are detected as they travel through a toll point and tolled in two ways. Firstly, with an in-vehicle tag device. Alternatively with video sensors identify the vehicle and registration plate number as it passes through a toll point. Motor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outage%20management%20system | An outage management system (OMS) is a computer system used by operators of electric distribution systems to assist in restoration of power.
Major functions of an OMS
Major functions usually found in an OMS include:
Prediction of location of transformer, fuse, recloser or breaker that opened upon failure.
Prioritizing restoration efforts and managing resources based upon criteria such as locations of emergency facilities, size of outages, and duration of outages.
Providing information on extent of outages and number of customers impacted to management, media and regulators.
Calculation of estimation of restoration times.
Management of crews assisting in restoration.
Calculation of crews required for restoration.
OMS principles and integration requirements
At the core of a modern outage management system is a detailed network model of the distribution system. The utility's geographic information system (GIS) is usually the source of this network model. By combining the locations of outage calls from customers, a rules engine is used to predict the locations of outages. For instance, since the distribution system is primarily tree-like or radial in design, all calls in particular area downstream of a fuse could be inferred to be caused by a single fuse or circuit breaker upstream of the calls.
The outage calls are usually taken by call takers in a call center utilizing a customer information system (CIS). Another common way for outage calls to enter into the CIS (and thus the OMS) is by integration with an interactive voice response (IVR) system. The CIS is also the source for all the customer records which are linked to the network model. Customers are typically linked to the transformer serving their residence or business. It is important that every customer be linked to a device in the model so that accurate statistics are derived on each outage. Customers not linked to a device in the model are referred to as "fuzzies".
More advanced automatic meter reading (AMR) systems can provide outage detection and restoration capability and thus serve as virtual calls indicating customers who are without power. However, unique characteristics of AMR systems such as the additional system loading and the potential for false positives requires that additional rules and filter logic must be added to the OMS to support this integration.
Outage management systems are also commonly integrated with SCADA systems which can automatically report the operation of monitored circuit breakers and other intelligent devices such as SCADA reclosers.
Another system that is commonly integrated with an outage management system is a mobile data system. This integration provides the ability for outage predictions to automatically be sent to crews in the field and for the crews to be able to update the OMS with information such as estimated restoration times without requiring radio communication with the control center. Crews also transmit details about what they |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Sports%20Boston | NBC Sports Boston is an American regional sports network owned by the NBC Sports Group unit of NBCUniversal, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. The channel broadcasts regional coverage of professional sports events throughout New England with a major focus on Boston area teams, as well as several original analysis, magazine and entertainment programs. It is available on cable providers throughout Massachusetts, eastern and central Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
NBC Sports Boston, along with NBC owned and operated WBTS-CD (channel 15), Telemundo O&O WNEU (channel 60), and New England Cable News (NECN), are all based at the NBCU Boston Media Center on B Street in Needham.
History
Early history
NBC Sports Boston originally launched on November 6, 1981, as PRISM New England. A spin-off of the Philadelphia-based film and sports-oriented premium service PRISM, it was founded by that channel's parent company, Spectacor. Along with carrying entertainment programming, the network also served as the cable television home for the NHL's Hartford Whalers and the NBA's Boston Celtics, as well as various college sports teams.
In late 1982, Spectacor sold PRISM New England to Cablevision Systems Corporation. On January 1, 1983, the network was rebranded as SportsChannel New England, becoming the second network of what would become the SportsChannel group (after SportsChannel New York). In addition, to the Celtics and Whalers, Cablevision added select New York area sports telecasts to the network which were produced by SportsChannel New York.
As a Fox Sports Net outlet
On June 30, 1997, News Corporation and Liberty Media – which had created a new group of regional sports networks, branded as Fox Sports Net, in November 1996, through News Corporation's partial acquisition of the Liberty-owned Prime Network – purchased a 40% interest in Cablevision's sports properties including the SportsChannel networks (as part of a deal that included partial ownership of Madison Square Garden and its NBA and NHL team tenants, the New York Knicks and New York Rangers). Cablevision, News Corporation and Liberty Media formed the venture National Sports Partners to run the owned-and-operated regional networks.
As part of a gradual rebranding of most of the SportsChannel networks that began that month (the lone exception being SportsChannel Florida, which did not become an owned-and-operated outlet until 2000), SportsChannel New England officially rebranding as Fox Sports New England on January 28, 1998. That month, MediaOne acquired a 50% interest in the network. However, despite the new name, it did not become an FSN affiliate at that time. The competing New England Sports Network had been an affiliate of FSN since it launched and still had two years left in its affiliation agreement, blocking Fox Sports New England from actually carrying any FSN programming. Whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage%20%28software%29 | Bricolage was a content management system (CMS) written in the Perl programming language.
Bricolage was described as an Enterprise Class CMS, competitive in features and capability to high end, high cost proprietary products. Examples of organizations whose web sites use Bricolage include the World Health Organization, Rand Corporation, Macworld, and The Tyee.
Originally authored by David Wheeler to manage content for Salon.com, Bricolage is now maintained by a small group of core developers. Released under the revised BSD license, Bricolage is free and open source software.
Design
Bricolage ran on the Apache web server on the Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Solaris platforms. It can use either the PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle database management system and mod_perl.
Bricolage was inherently a multi user CMS, designed to manage workflow for large websites with many contributors. Bricolage uses a template development model and completely separates presentation from management of content. The CMS did reside on a different server than the web site or other data store being managed.
Native PHP support was added in Bricolage 1.10, that embeds a PHP 5 interpreter inside a Perl 5 interpreter. As a result, PHP code runs in a native PHP 5 environment, but can also transparently make use of any and all Perl libraries, including the complete Bricolage API.
Etymology
The name is probably based on the noun bricolage, meaning "Something constructed using whatever was available at the time".
See also
List of content management systems
References
External links
Project home page
Free content management systems
Free software programmed in Perl
Perl software
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And%20Everything%20Nice | And Everything Nice is an American fashion-theme television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1949 to 1950. The program was hosted by Maxine Barrat (born February 28, 1915), who appeared as herself in MGM's 1943 film Thousands Cheer.
Overview
Barrat chatted with guests and presented fashion tips for women of the 1940s. The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired live:
Tuesdays at 7 pm ET on most DuMont affiliates during the 1948-1949 television season;
Mondays at 8:30 pm ET in July and August 1949;
Mondays at 9 pm ET from September 1949 to January 1950.
The series was cancelled in early 1950, and was one of several low-budget fashion programs, such as Fashions on Parade, broadcast by the DuMont network.
Episode status
A single kinescope of this series survives at the Paley Center for Media in New York City.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1949-50 United States network television schedule
Fashions on Parade
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1949 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
1940s American documentary television series
1950s American documentary television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Fashion-themed television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20the%20Ghost | , also known in Japan as The Ghost Holly, is a Japanese anime television series directed by Minoru Okazaki. The series first aired in Japan on the NHK network between January 28, 1991, and April 6, 1993, spanning 200 episodes.
Story
Holly the Ghost is about Holly (Chocola) who wants to be a "holly ghost". "Holly ghost" is a group of "monsters" who spread fear. Their leader is a witch called Majoline. Together with his 4 new friends (Candy, Toreppaa, etc.) he learns to be a real "holly ghost".
Main characters
Holly
Piiton
Majoline
Toreppaa
Kakarasu
Candy
External links
1991 anime television series debuts
Children's manga
Comedy anime and manga
Fictional ghosts
NHK original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20School%20House | The School House is an early American television program broadcast on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 PM Eastern by the DuMont Television Network for a few months in 1949.
Premise
The series was a Vaudeville-inspired variety show/comedy in a school setting, starring Kenny Delmar as the teacher (an earlier version, School Days, had Happy Felton in the role), with such notable actors as Arnold Stang, Wally Cox, and Buddy Hackett playing the students.
Episode status
The March 22, 1949, episode exists, and can be viewed online at the Internet Archive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
Episode of School House at the Internet Archive
DuMont Television Network original programming
1949 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
1940s American variety television series
1940s American comedy television series
1940s American school television series
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Underground%20Digest | The Computer Underground Digest (CuD) was a weekly online newsletter on early Internet cultural, social, and legal issues published by Gordon Meyer and Jim Thomas from March 1990 to March 2000.
History
Meyer and Thomas were Criminal Justice professors at Northern Illinois University, and intended the newsletter to cover topical social and legal issues generated during the rise of the telecommunications and the Internet. It existed primarily as an email mailing list and on USENET, though its archives were later provided on a website. The newsletter came to prominence when it published legal commentary and updates concerning the "hacker crackdowns" and federal indictments of Leonard Rose and Craig Neidorf of Phrack.
The CuD published commentary from its membership on subjects including the legal and social implications of the growing Internet (and later the web), book reviews of topical publications, and many off-topic postings by its readership. Overtaken by the growth of online forums on the web, it ceased publication in March, 2000.
See also
Phrack
Cult of the Dead Cow
References
External links
Computer Underground Digest
CuD on textfiles.com
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Weekly magazines published in the United States
Computer security procedures
Magazines established in 1990
Magazines disestablished in 2000
Professional and trade magazines
Safety engineering
Online magazines published in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Baroque%20Choir | The English Baroque Choir was formed in 1978 and has become one of London's finest amateur choirs, developing a reputation for musicality, imaginative programming and choral enthusiasm. As its name suggests, the choir's spiritual home is in the rich music of the Baroque period, with large-scale works by Bach, Handel and Monteverdi regularly appearing in its programmes. However, it is equally at ease with repertoire from the 15th century right through to the present day – commissioning and giving the world premiere of Psalm-Cantata by John McCabe CBE in 2013 – and frequently presents smaller-scale concerts with keyboard, harp, brass or completely a cappella.
Musical Director
Since 2022 the choir is led by prize-winning conductor and choral director Harry Bradford. Harry recently graduated, with distinction, from the Royal Academy of Music where he studied for an MMus Degree under Patrick Russill and was awarded both the Academy Alumni Scholarship and the prestigious DipRAM award for an outstanding final recital. He has also participated in masterclasses with Paul Brough (BBC Singers), Simon Halsey, David Hill, Neil Ferris, Mats Nilsson and Roland Börger. Alongside his commitments at the academy, Harry was the Genesis Sixteen Conducting Scholar 2018-19 receiving mentoring from Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan and the Alec Robertson Scholar at Westminster Cathedral. Recent career highlights include conducting the Swedish Radio Choir and winning the Second Prize in the prestigious ‘Eric Ericson Award’ 2021, working as Chorus Master at the St Endellion Easter Festival for the world premiere of Oliver Tarney's St Mark Passion and assisting Harry Christophers for the London premiere of Sir James McMillan's 5th Symphony.
Previous Musical Directors
The choir was founded in 1978 under the direction of conductor Leon Lovett, who remained musical director for 22 years.
Between 2000 and 2021 the choir was led by Jeremy Jackman, renowned choral director, composer, arranger, and former member of the King's Singers.
The choir performs mainly in London, in venues including St John's Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields and St James's Church, Piccadilly. It also travels throughout the home counties and Europe, having performed in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland.
External links
English Baroque Choir website
Early music choirs
English choirs
Musical groups established in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Family%20Business | A Family Business a 2011 compilation album released on Saguaro Road Records and Time–Life Music. Based on the American reality series Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business which aired on the VH1 network between the years of 2010 and 2011, it was released as a soundtrack accompanying the series' second and final season. Executive produced by the Norwood family, the show chronicled the backstage lives of singers Ray J and Brandy Norwood, while taking on larger roles in their family's management and production company, R&B Productions.
The album features previously unreleased content from both siblings and their parents Sonja and Willie Norwood as well as contribution from Brandy's daughter Sy'rai, her half-sister Rain Smith, and fellow singers such as Tasha Scott. Production on the compilation was handled by several producers, including Big Bert, Clinton Sparks, and The Jam. Upon release, critics such as The Washington Post declared it an "awkward and adorable and really, really wholesome collection."
Background and development
Collaborative efforts between Brandy Norwood and her brother, fellow R&B singer Ray J, had been in talks since 2005, when Brandy was firstly signed to Ray J's record company Knockout Entertainment. It was announced that the siblings along with rapper Shorty Mack and other performers, would form a supergroup called TKO (Tha Knock Out) and release a debut album of the same name in 2006. Plans eventually fell through though, also because Brandy was involved in a fatal car crash. It wasn't until late 2008 when further news surfaced about a collaboration project between Brandy and Ray J. Billboard reported that the singers considered releasing an album called R&B, "a nod to the siblings' respective first initials as well as their chosen style of music." Yet again after the commercial failure of Brandy's Human (2008) album, this project was postponed.
In early 2010, VH1 reality show Brandy & Ray J: A Family Business was announced and in addition to starring siblings Ray J and Brandy, their parents Willie Norwood and Sonja Bates-Norwood were also set to appear. In June, Ray J announced that the title of the collaborative album would be named TKO – Trust, Knowledge & Opportunity. The label Time-Life was announced as well as the fact that it was no longer going to be a duet album but more of a "spiritual, feel-good [family] album". By August 2010 the first studio footage of Brandy recording the album was released to the internet. While Billboard announced Brandy's song "Lifeguard" to be the project's lead single, it was the Brandy, Ray J and Willie Norwood collaboration "Talk to Me" which was eventually released as the album's first single on November 22, 2010. It failed to enter any Billboard chart. Even though the album was first announced to be released in March 2011 to coincide with the second season of Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business, it was not until June that the album was made available for purchase.
Critical reception
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deserving%20Design | Deserving Design is a half-hour show on the Home and Garden TV network, starring Vern Yip. In each episode an inspirational family or individual is visited by Yip, who show him two different rooms they would like to have redesigned. Yip will pick one of the rooms to do and have the person or family aid in its design. However, Yip always surprises them by secretly redoing the other room, usually while covertly having them offer input into it, or by giving them some other special gift.
Host
Formerly a designer on The Learning Channels's Trading Spaces, Vern Yip has acted as a judge on HGTV's "The Next Design Star" for the 2006 to 2012 competitions. Deserving Design is Yip's first solo show and he considers it to be his "best work yet." The idea for the show came to Yip after he made an appearance on Oprah where he helped do a home project for a waitress and her mother, and he hopes it will both entertain and inspire viewers.
Episode list
The first season's episodes are being aired out of order from their actual production numbers. This list presents them in the order of production.
References
External links
Deserving Design on HGTV
2007 American television series debuts
2000s American reality television series
2007 American television series endings
HGTV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-native%20speech%20database | A non-native speech database is a speech database of non-native pronunciations of English. Such databases are used in the development of: multilingual automatic speech recognition systems, text to speech systems, pronunciation trainers, and second language learning systems.
List
The actual table with information about the different databases is shown in Table 2.
Legend
In the table of non-native databases some abbreviations for language names are used. They are listed in Table 1. Table 2 gives the following information about each corpus: The name of the corpus, the institution where the corpus can be obtained, or at least further information should be available, the language which was actually spoken by the speakers, the number of speakers, the native language of the speakers, the total amount of non-native utterances the corpus contains, the duration in hours of the non-native part, the date of the first public reference to this corpus, some free text highlighting special aspects of this database and a reference to another publication. The reference in the last field is in most cases to the paper which is especially devoted to describe this corpus by the original collectors. In some cases it was not possible to identify such a paper. In these cases a paper is referenced which is using this corpus is.
Some entries are left blank and others are marked with unknown. The difference here is that blank entries refer to attributes where the value is just not known. Unknown entries, however, indicate that no information about this attribute is available in the database itself. As an example, in the Jupiter weather database no information about the origin of the speakers is given. Therefore this data would be less useful for verifying accent detection or similar issues.
Where possible, the name is a standard name of the corpus, for some of the smaller corpora, however, there was no established name and hence an identifier had to be created. In such cases, a combination of the institution and the collector of the database is used.
In the case where the databases contain native and non-native speech, only attributes of the non-native part of the corpus are listed. Most of the corpora are collections of read speech. If the corpus instead consists either partly or completely of spontaneous utterances, this is mentioned in the Specials column.
References
English as a second or foreign language
Speech recognition
Types of databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManagemenTV | ManagemenTV was a Latin-American television network owned by the HSM Group with programming of analysis and entertainment concerning businesses and management.
The channel
ManagemenTV had 24-hour programming with documentaries, realities, talk shows and series from all over the world related to the business world, the history of brands, entrepreneurs and the economy.
It was launched April 1, 2007 in Argentina as part of Cablevisión Digital and Multicanal Digital. On August 1, 2007 it started airing in Brazil through the digital operator SKY. Since then it has initiated its plans to expand to all of Latin America. As a part of it, on its first birthday it was launched in Mexico.
The Sections
The programming is divided into different sections:
Markets & Clients: Shows how new ideas are born, why trends are spread and the different consuming habits of each continent.
Advertising & Marketing: Takes an in-depth look at the mysterious world of this field that moves the economy.
Leaders: The experiences, the challenges and the secrets of those who accomplish what they set out to do: Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Terry Semel, Al Gore and Nicolas Sarkozy.
Future & Trends: A deep analysis of the trends that are being born today and are still to be named.
Industries: The reason why different industries exists and the machinery that makes them work.
Entrepreneurs: The dreamers that continuously change the world with their innovating ideas.
SMB: Useful advice, success stories and first hand tales of those who dared to realize their own projects.
Businesses: What defines the successes and the failures of the biggest companies: Coca-Cola, Google, Starbucks, Nike, Cartier, BMW, Chanel, IKEA and Motorola.
Sports and Management: Stories of sportsmen, teams, professionals and the science behind their performance.
Programs
Some of the programs are:
Selling Yourself
The Restaurant
Buffett & Gates Go Back to School
Boss Women
Ad Persuasion
CEO Exchange
Wall Street Warriors
The Office
Inside Google
Cirque du Soleil Fire Within
The Charlie Rose Show
Airbus vs. Boeing
Lemonade Stories
The Secret of your Success
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
How to Start Your Own Country
No Experience Required
Design: E2
External links
ManagemenTV
HSM Group
Business-related television channels
Latin American cable television networks
Defunct television channels
Spanish-language television stations
Portuguese-language television stations in Brazil
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Defunct television channels in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Replacement%20Character%20Set | The National Replacement Character Set (NRCS) was a feature supported by later models of Digital's (DEC) computer terminal systems, starting with the VT200 series in 1983. NRCS allowed individual characters from one character set to be replaced by one from another set, allowing the construction of different character sets on the fly. It was used to customize the character set to different local languages, without having to change the terminal's ROM for different countries, or alternately, include many different sets in a larger ROM. Many 3rd party terminals and terminal emulators supporting VT200 codes also supported NRCS.
Description
ASCII is a 7-bit standard, allowing a total of 128 characters in the character set. Some of these are reserved as control characters, leaving 96 printable characters. This set of 96 printable characters includes upper and lower case letters, numbers, and basic math and punctuation.
ASCII does not have enough room to include other common characters such as multi-national currency symbols or the various accented letters common in European languages. This led to a number of country-specific varieties of 7-bit ASCII with certain characters replaced. For instance, the UK standard simply replaced ASCII's hash mark, #, with the pound symbol, £. This normally led to different models of a given computer terminal or printer, differing only in the glyphs stored in ROM. Some of these were standardized as part of ISO/IEC 646.
On an 8-bit clean serial link, ASCII can be expanded to support a total of 256 characters. In this case, instead of replacing the characters in the original printable characters range from 32 to 127, new characters are added in the 128 to 255 range. This offers enough room for a single character set to include all the variety of characters used in North America and western Europe. This capability led to the introduction of the ISO/IEC 8859-1 standard character set containing 191 characters of what it calls the "Latin alphabet no. 1", but normally referred to as "ISO Latin". Windows-1252 is a slightly expanded superset of ISO Latin.
NRCS was introduced to solve the problem of requiring different terminals for each country by allowing characters in the basic 7-bit ASCII set to be re-defined by copying the glyph from the DEC's version of ISO Latin, the Multinational Character Set (MCS). This meant that the ROM had to store only two character sets, standard ASCII and MCS, and could build any required local ASCII variant on the fly. For instance, instead of having a separate "UK ASCII" version of the terminal with a modified glyph in ROM, the terminal included an NRCS with instructions to replace the hash mark glyph with the pound. When used in the UK, typing Shift 3 produced the pound, the same keys pressed on a US terminal produced hash.
The NRCS could be set through a setup command, or more commonly, by replacing the keyboard with a model that sent back a code when first booted. That way simply plugging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumper | Lumper may refer to:
Lumpers and splitters, slang for one who takes a gestalt view of a definition in various fields such as history, linguistics, software engineering, taxonomy, or liturgical studies
A stevedore who unloads fish at British fishing ports, or formerly in Australia anyone engaged in loading and unloading ships' cargo
Slang for a person who loads/unloads a semi-trailer
As a proper noun, Lumper may refer to:
Gottfried Lumper (1747–1800), German Benedictine patristic writer
An Irish Lumper, a waxy potato whose vulnerability to blight resulted in mid-19th century famines
See also
Lumpenproletariat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Bear%20Sports%20Network | Black Bear Sports Network is the radio and television name for University of Maine sports. The radio affiliates broadcast football, men's and women's basketball, men's ice hockey and select baseball and softball games. The current network formed in the summer of 2007 when Learfield Sports took over the marketing for the Maine Black Bears. Previous to this the radio network was known as The Sports Zone Black Bear Network and was heard on Bangor, Maine ESPN Radio affiliate WZON, at times including WLOB and WEGP.
WABI-TV, Bangor's CBS affiliate was the long-time television home for Black Bear sports, including most home football games and men's and women's basketball games (also carried on Portland CW affiliate WPXT); WABI's relationship with UMaine, which dated to the station's founding in 1953 (outside of a period from 1989 through 1997 in which rival WLBZ-TV held the rights) ended in 2013, after the station was unable to reach a renewal deal with Learfield Sports. In July 2013, Learfield reached a deal to make WVII-TV and WFVX-LD, Bangor's ABC and Fox affiliates, the new flagship television stations for the Black Bear Sports Network. As part of the deal, Black Bear sports telecasts will also be seen on Fox College Sports, and production will be handled by Pack Network (WABI had produced its telecasts in-house). Select basketball games are carried on ESPN Plus and America East TV and picked up by NESN or carried locally on other Bangor-based television stations.
In 2013 new 5-year deals were announced, Blueberry Broadcasting's WVOM-FM/WVOM/WVQM will be the flagship for men's ice hockey and football, Waterfront Communications' WGUY will be the flagship for basketball and baseball.
Current radio affiliates
Past affiliates
References
Initial press release on movement of radio affiliates
UM Network adds WLOB
2010 Black Bear radio guide
Black Bear Sports Properties SecuresNew 5 Year Relationship with Blueberry Broadcasting & Waterfront Communications
University of Maine
Sports radio networks in the United States
College football on the radio
College basketball on the radio in the United States
Maine Black Bears football
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader%20Kings | Crusader Kings may refer to:
The leaders of the Crusades (most notably the Third Crusade), against Islam and other religions
Crusader Kings (video game), a computer game released by Paradox Interactive in 2004, and its sequels:
Crusader Kings II
Crusader Kings III |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20motor%20vehicle%20production | This is a list of countries by motor vehicle production based on Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (OICA) and other data from 2016 and earlier.Figures include passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, minibuses, trucks, buses and coaches.
By total production
EX denotes that the country's motor vehicle production rank is unknown.
See also
List of countries by motor vehicle production in the 2000s
List of countries by motor vehicle production in the 2010s
List of manufacturers by motor vehicle production
Automotive industry by country
List of countries by vehicles per capita
Automotive industry
References and notes
External links
Motor vehicle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1968–69 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1968 to August 1969.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC News
The New Beatles
Bewitched
The Bullwinkle Show
The Children's Doctor
Dark Shadows
The Dating Game
The Dick Cavett Show
Discovery
Dream House
The Fantastic Four Show
General Hospital
George of the Jungle
Issues and Answers
Filmation's Journey to the Center of the Earth
The King Kong Show
Let's Make a Deal (moved from NBC)
Linus the Lionhearted
It's Happening!
The New American Bandstand 1969
The New Casper Cartoon Show
The Newlywed Game
One Life to Live
Spider-Man
Treasure Isle
New series:
The Adventures of Gulliver
The Dudley Do-Right Show
Fantastic Voyage
Funny You Should Ask
Happening '69 (January 4-25) & Happening (from February 1 to September 20, 1969)
That Girl
Not returning from 1967-68:
The Baby Game
Dateline:Hollywood
The Dream Girl of '67
The Beagles
The Donna Reed Show
Everybody's Talking
The Family Game
The Fugitive
The Honeymoon Race
The Magilla Gorilla Show
How's Your Mother-In-Law?
The Milton the Monster Show
News with the Woman's Touch
Peter Jennings with the News
The Peter Potamus Show
Temptation
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (reruns)
This Morning with Dick Cavett
Wedding Party
CBS
Returning series:
The Andy Griffith Show
Aquaman
Art Linkletter's House Party
As the World Turns
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News
CBS News
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Edge of Night
Face the Nation
The Guiding Light
The Herculoids
Jonny Quest
Lamp Unto My Feet
The Linkletter Show
The Lone Ranger
Look Up and Live
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
Love of Life
Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor
The NFL Today
The Original Amateur Hour / The New Ted Mack & the Original Amateur Hour
Search for Tomorrow
The Secret Storm
Shazzan
Sunrise Semester
Tom and Jerry
New series:
The Archie Show
The Batman/Superman Hour
The Go Go Gophers Show
The Lucy Show
Wacky Races
Not returning from 1967-68:
Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles
The Road Runner Show (Combined into The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour)
Space Ghost and Dino Boy
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure
To Tell the Truth
Underdog (Returned to NBC)
NBC
Returning series:
Another World
Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
Concentration
Cool McCool
Days of Our Lives
The Doctors
Eye Guess
The Flintstones
The Frank McGee Report
Frontiers of Faith
Hollywood Squares
Jeopardy!
The Match Game
Meet the Press
NBC News
NBC Saturday Night News
NBC Sunday Nigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Film%20Market | The American Film Market (AFM) is a film industry event held annually in early November. Historically, more than 7,000 people attend the eight-day annual event to network and to sell, finance and acquire films. Participants come from more than 70 countries and include acquisition and development executives, agents, attorneys, directors, distributors, festival directors, financiers, film commissioners, producers, writers, etc. Founded in 1981, the AFM is a marketplace for the film business, where unlike a film festival, production and distribution deals are the main focus of the participants.
History
American Film Market was founded by the American Film Marketing Association, headed by film producer Andy Vajna. The American Film Market held its first event March 21–31, 1981. The AFM is held at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel since 1991. The AFM is produced by the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), a trade association representing the world's producers and distributors of independent motion pictures and television programs.
Screenings
The American Film Market utilizes 29 movie theater screens on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade and in the surrounding community to accommodate 700 screenings of over 400 films (often world or U.S. premieres). The films shown are ones seeking theatrical and television distribution. In order to keep up with demand for screenings, in 2017 the American Film Market launched AFM Screening on Demand, a video-on-demand platform provided by Shift72 that allowed buyers to watch films outside of the limited screening times. This also allowed the 2020 and 2021 editions to be held online-only in the first week of November due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
References
External links
Trade shows in the United States
Film distribution
Film markets
Film organizations in the United States
Organizations established in 1981
1981 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tephritid%20Workers%20Database | The Tephritid Workers Database is a web-based database for sharing information on tephritid fruit flies. Because these species are one of the most economically important group of insect species that threaten fruit and vegetable production and trade worldwide, a tremendous amount of information is made available each year: new technologies developed, new information on their biology and ecology; new control methods made available, new species identified, new outbreaks recorded and new operational control programmes launched. The TWD allows workers to keep up-to-date on the most recent developments and provides an easily accessible and always available resource.
History
A group of scientists involved in tephritid fruit fly research and management launched the Tephritid Workers Database in May 2004,
with the support of the Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre. The Tephritid Workers Database is self-maintained by the participants and its development depends on the active contribution of the members.
The TWD database has now more than 1000 members from more than 100 countries and is sponsoring or hosting websites of other regional fruit fly working groups:
The Tephritid Workers of Europe Africa and the Middle East (TEAM)
The Tephritid Workers of the Western Hemisphere (TWWH)
The Tephritid Workers of Asia Australia and Oceania (TAAO)
Fruit Fly News
In the past, an information service for the tephritid fruit fly workers called FRUIT FLY NEWS (FFN) was issued annually under the auspices of the International Biological Program and then under the International Organisation of Biological Control (IOBC). This newsletter publication was interrupted in 1992 and then resumed in an electronic format since 2009. The first issues tell all the story about the creation of FFN and the Working Group on Fruit Flies (WGFF).
International Biological Program (IBP) Fruit Fly News n°1 (1972)
Fruit Fly News n°2 (1973)
IBP Fruit Fly News n°3 (1974)
IOBC/WPRS WG Rhagoletis cerasi Fruit Fly News n°4 (1977)
IOBC/WPRS WG Fruit Flies of Economic Importance Fruit Fly News n°5 (1979)
IOBC/WPRS WG Fruit Flies of Economic Importance Fruit Fly News n°6 (1981)
FFN #7_1983
FFN #8_1985
FFN #9_1987
FFN #10_1989
FFN #11_1992
Follow the link to get all Fruit Fly News issues.
Insect Pest Control Newsletters
IPC newsletters
Tephritid Workers of Europe Africa and the Middle East Newsletters
TEAM newsletters
Tephritid Workers of Asia Australia and Oceania Newsletters
TAAO newsletters
Previous Symposia of the International Fruit Fly Workers
Initiated in 1982 at the First International Symposium held in Athens, the quadrennial fruit fly symposium for the international fruit fly workers is being well established now with a large number of scientists from all over the world attending the symposium.
The First International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, Athens, Greece, 16–19 November 1982Proceedings
The Second International Sympo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20repository | In information technology, an information repository or simply a repository is "a central place in which an aggregation of data is kept and maintained in an organized way, usually in computer storage." It "may be just the aggregation of data itself into some accessible place of storage or it may also imply some ability to selectively extract data."
Universal digital library
The concept of a universal digital library was described as "within reach" by a 2012 European Union Copyright Directive which told about Google's attempts to "mass-digitize" what are termed "orphan works" (i.e. out-of-print copyrighted works).
The U.S. Copyright Office and the European Union Copyright law have been working on this. Google has reached agreements in France which "lets the publisher choose which works can be scanned or sold." By contrast, Google has been trying in the USA for a "free to digitize and sell any works unless the copyright holders opted out" deal and is still unsuccessful.
Information repository
Attempts to develop what was called an information repository'' have been underway for decades:
In 1989, IBM tried to have OfficeVision combine mainframes and PCs to enable "an information repository."
In 2003, Microsoft introduced OneNote as an extension to Microsoft Office 2003; it would support "a personal information repository."
In 1996, an 1898-founded library obtained additional funding to expand its mission, and become a major "local resource center and regional information repository." The New York Times described them as "the second largest in the New York City region, second only to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue." Their services include "a computer information center devoted to outside-item requests."
Federated information repository
A federated information repository is an easy way to deploy a secondary tier of data storage that can comprise multiple, networked data storage technologies running on diverse operating systems, where data that no longer needs to be in primary storage is protected, classified according to captured metadata, processed, de-duplicated, and then purged, automatically, based on data service level objectives and requirements. In federated information repositories, data storage resources are virtualized as composite storage sets and operate as a federated environment.
Federated information repositories were developed to mitigate problems arising from data proliferation and eliminate the need for separately deployed data storage solutions because of the concurrent deployment of diverse storage technologies running diverse operating systems. They feature centralized management for all deployed data storage resources. They are self-contained, support heterogeneous storage resources, support resource management to add, maintain, recycle, and terminate media, track of off-line media, and operate autonomously.
Automated data management
Since one of the main reasons for the implementation of an federated inf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20academic%20computer%20science%20departments | List
Academic computer science departments
Computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20battle%20during%20the%20Iran%E2%80%93Iraq%20War | These are the orders of battle of the Iraqi and Iranian armies for the start of the Iran–Iraq War in 1980. The data is drawn from the Air Combat Information Group's Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf Database.
Iraq
Iraqi Armed Forces
Iraqi Army
1st Corps (Iraq), sector between Rawanduz and Marivan:
7th Infantry Division (HQ Sulaimaniyah, Iraq)
11th Infantry Division (HQ Sulaimaniyah, Iraq) (-) (113th Infantry Brigade)
Malovany (map p112) shows the 11th Infantry Division with elements north of the Rawanduz - Rayat road; the 7th Infantry Division advancing from its bases at Sulaimaniyah towards the border between Penjwin and Sayid Sadiq; and corps headquarters at Kirkuk.
2nd Army Corps (sector between Qasre-e-Shirin, Ilam, and Mehran, armor deployed between Mehran and Dezful)
1st Hammurabi Armoured Division (Baghdad, Iraq)
6th Armored Division (HQ Baqubah, Iraq) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1)
9th Armored Division (HQ Samavah, Iraq) 300 (T-62 and BMP-1)
?10th Armored Division (HQ Baghdad, Iraq) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1); Malovany shows the division between Baqubah and Tursaq, but notes it was moving to North Khuzestan.
2nd Infantry Division (HQ Kirkuk, Iraq)(Malovany map p112 shows the division deployed west of Badra, far to the south of Kirkuk.
4th Infantry Division (HQ Mosul, Iraq)(Malovany map p112 shows the division about half way between Baqubah and Mandali, south of the road between the two towns.)
6th Infantry Division (HQ Baqubah, Iraq)
8th Infantry Division (HQ Erbil, Iraq)
3rd Army Corps (HQ Qurnah, Iraq) (Sector between Dezful and Abadan)
3rd Armored Division (HQ Tikrit, Iraq) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1)(Malovany: east of Basra)
?10th Armored Division (HQ Baghdad, Iraq) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1)
12th Armored Division (HQ Dohuk, Iraq) (Held in Reserve) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1)
1st Mechanized Division (HQ Divaniyah, Iraq) 200 (T-55) (Czech OT-64 APC/BTR-50 APC)
5th Mechanized Division (HQ Basrah, Iraq) 200 (T-55) (Czech OT-64 APC/BTR-50 APC)(Malovany: east of Basra)
31st Independent Special Forces Brigade (-) (2 battalions) (one was attached to 5th MD, another to 3rd AD),
33rd Independent Special Forces Brigade
10th Independent Armored Brigade (T-72) (BMP-1)
12th Independent Armored Brigade (T-62) (BMP-1)
113th Infantry Brigade (Detachments) (From 11th Infantry Division)
Other forces
Sudan sent seven infantry brigades (53,000 men) to help Iraq against Iran. In addition, 20,000 Arab volunteers fought in the Iraqi army from five different countries, such as Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, North Yemen and Tunisia.
Iran
Iranian Armed Forces
Iranian Army
Units Garrisoned along the Iraqi Border
16th Armored Division (Qazvin), Iran) (M60A1, Chieftain Mk3/5, M113)
81st Armored Division (Kermanshah, Iran) (M60A1) (M113)
92nd Armored Division (Khuzestan, Iran) (M60A1, Chieftain Mk3/5) (M113)
21st Infantry Division (Tehran, Iran)
28th Infantry Division (Sanandaj, Saquez, and Marivan, Iran) (1 Armored Brigade) (M60A1) (M113)
64th Infantry Division (Orumiyeh, Iran)
77th Infantry Div |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet%20Your%20Navy | Meet Your Navy was a wartime radio programme broadcast Saturday nights on the Blue Network, originating from the U.S. Naval Training Center in Lake County, Illinois via WLS (AM). It was a half-hour show, which featured a cast of 275 naval personnel, of which 200 members formed a choir, and the rest formed an orchestra, and supplied soloists, actors and announcers.
Meet Your Navy
North Chicago, Illinois
Mass media in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Sasquatch | The Legend of Sasquatch is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure film released by Gorilla Pictures that stars William Hurt and John Rhys-Davies. It was released on September 12, 2006 and was the first computer-animated film released by Gorilla Pictures.
Plot
Ranger Steve (John Rhys-Davies) sits by a campfire, telling a story about the Davis family.
John Davis (William Hurt) is flying a water plane over a valley called Sasquatch Valley with his two daughters Khristy and Maggie. Khristy tells Maggie that a Sasquatch means Bigfoot and Maggie wonders if there are any Bigfoot in the valley. Khristy tells her that Bigfoot is a myth. They finally arrive at their new home and there are pine cones all over the house. At the end of the day everything is cleaned up and everyone goes to bed. Maggie hears something in the shed outside. She finds a small bigfoot in the shed. Maggie trips and falls and the small bigfoot runs away.
In the morning John, Maggie, and Khristy go to John's new job. They meet Dave (Joe Alaskey) the boss of the plant. A new dam is going to be built in a river that will provide power for the area. Meanwhile, Cletus McNabb and his sidekick Dawg the dog want to catch a bigfoot. That night Maggie goes outside again to look for the bigfoot. She finds him again and chases the bigfoot way out into the forest. She loses him and it starts to rain. The bigfoot comes back with his mother (June Foray) and takes her into a secret cave under a waterfall. Maggie finds out that the new dam will flood their home. The bigfoot takes Maggie home.
The next morning Maggie tries to tell John and Khristy but they don't believe her. Once John goes to work Maggie and Khristy meet Ranger Steve he says that John asked him to check up on them. Once he leaves Maggie tries to tell Khristy that bigfoot is real but Khristy does not believe her. Mad, Maggie runs to go find them. Khristy follows her and they finally come to the cave. Cletus McNabb and Dawg see them go into the cave and sets up a plan to catch one of the bigfoot.
John goes back to the house and looks everywhere for his daughters. When John goes out into the forest he runs into bigfoot and they take him to the cave. Now John knows that the bigfoot are in danger so they plan a way to stop the cave from flooding. They pile up all of the pine cones in the valley and grinding them up into pulp. They take the pulp into the cave and cover the cracks in the cave with it. Now they wonder if the walls will cave in so they have to move them out. They move them high up in the snowy mountains in another cave. Cletus and Dawg go into the cave to catch one of them but the caves close in and the cave floods and Cletus and Dawg get out. Up in the mountains the Davis family say goodbye to the bigfoot. At the end of the credits Dawg gets mad at Cletus and moves in with the Davises.
Cast
William Hurt as John Davis
John Rhys-Davies as Ranger Steve
Jewel Restaneo as Khristy Davis
Blair |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%2095LX | The HP 95LX Palmtop PC (F1000A, F1010A), also known as project Jaguar, was Hewlett Packard's first MS-DOS-based pocket computer, or personal digital assistant, introduced in April 1991 in collaboration with Lotus Development Corporation. It can be seen as successor to a series of larger portable PCs like the HP 110 and HP 110 Plus.
Hardware
HP 95LX had an Intel 8088-clone NEC V20 CPU running at 5.37 MHz with an Intel Corporation System on a chip (SoC) device. It cannot be considered completely PC-compatible because of its quarter-CGA (MDA)-resolution LCD screen.
The device also included a CR 2032 lithium coin cell for memory backup when the two AA main batteries ran out. For mass storage, HP 95LX had a single PCMCIA slot which could hold a static RAM card with its own CR 2025 back-up coin cell. An RS-232-compatible serial port was provided, as well as an infrared port for printing on compatible models of Hewlett Packard printers.
Display
In character mode, the display showed 16 lines of 40 characters, and had no backlight. While most IBM-compatible PCs work with a hardware code page 437, HP 95LX's text mode font was hard-wired to code page 850 instead. Lotus 1-2-3 internally used the Lotus International Character Set (LICS), but characters were translated to code page 850 for display and printing purposes.
Software
The palmtop ran Microsoft's MS-DOS version 3.22 and had a customized version of Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2.2 built in. Other software in read-only memory (ROM) included a calculator, an appointment calendar, a telecommunications program, and a simple text editor.
Successors
Successor models to HP 95LX include HP 100LX, HP Palmtop FX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX, and HP OmniGo 700LX.
See also
DIP Pocket PC
Atari Portfolio
Poqet PC
Poqet PC Prime
Poqet PC Plus
Sharp PC-3000
ZEOS Pocket PC
Yukyung Viliv N5
Sub-notebook
Netbook
Palmtop PC
Ultra-mobile PC
References
External links
Hewlett Packard Web site on HP 95LX
HP 95LX technical information (contains PCB photos)
Skolob's Hewlett Packard 95LX Palmtop Page (Information and FAQ on 95LX)
95LX
Computer-related introductions in 1991
IBM PC compatibles
NEC V20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat%20%28disambiguation%29 | A ziggurat is a pyramidal structure that first appeared during ancient times in the Middle East. It may also refer to:
A ziggurat algorithm, a number generating algorithm
The Ziggurat, the Chet Holifield Federal Building in Laguna Niguel, California
The Ziggurat, an office building in West Sacramento, California
Ziggurats (album), a 2007 album by The Beautiful Girls
Zigurat (company), a Spanish video game development company
Ziggurat (video game), a 2012 iOS video game by Action Button Entertainment
Ziggurat (2014 video game), a 2014 video game by Milkstone Studios released on PC, Xbox One and PS4
Ziggurat Pyramid, Dubai, a pyramid-shaped arcology that was conceived for Dubai
Norfolk Terrace and Suffolk Terrace - halls of residence at the University of East Anglia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke%20Logan | Brooke Logan is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. She has been portrayed by Katherine Kelly Lang since the series's debut in March 1987. The character is part of the original four central characters and actors (including her onscreen double-decade long love and husband, Ridge Forrester, and his parents Stephanie and Eric). Over the years, she has developed into a business woman working at Forrester Creations and a mother to five children: Rick, Bridget, Hope, R.J. and Jack. Her character is described as having "emerged as the show's quintessential vixen, always in turmoil and forever symbolic of true love and destiny prevailing." The character has also had long-time rivalries with Stephanie Forrester and Taylor Hayes. In addition to Ridge (whom she married eight times), Brooke has also had marriages with Eric Forrester Ridge's father, Ridge's two half-brothers, Thorne Forrester and Nick Marone, her brother-in-law Bill Spencer, Jr., and several others, including marriages to Whip Jones and Grant Chambers.
Casting
Katherine Kelly Lang debuted as the character in the soap's first episode on March 23, 1987, and continues to portray the role to this day. In 1987, she was briefly replaced by Catherine Hickland while Lang was on sick leave, with Hickland appearing on July 9 and 13 of that year. In 1997, Sandra Ferguson filled in for a small amount of time during Lang's maternity leave. In 2012, Lang announced that she had signed a two-year contract with the series, ensuring her stay until 2014.
Character development
Lang, who is known for her ready smile and engaging manner, has confessed to sometimes calling Ronn Moss (Ridge) his onscreen name, Ridge; "Sometimes I just call him Ridge out of habit" she has confessed to the Sydney Morning Herald. Lang said of the ongoing plots and twists in the relationship: "Ridge and Brooke will always be connected [but] the heart of the drama is what happens when true love is thwarted.". During an interview with Who! On January 29, 2008, actress Katherine Kelly Lang was asked "What do you like about your character Brooke Logan?", Lang stated "I like that she doesn't give up, no matter how depressed she may be or the bad things that she may be going through, she always bounces back", highlighting the continuing resilience within the character. She also said "I think she has a real grasp of things, even though she still doesn't have her love life under control but, hopefully, that will come together too," and at the end of the day she wants her character to be "Happy".
In mid-2010, Taylor's (Brooke Forrester's nemesis) daughter Steffy Forrester began going after Hope Logan (Brooke's now teen daughter)'s boyfriends. This re-ignited both Taylor and Brooke's rivalry and began a new generation rivalry. Bradley Bell stated on this: "is exciting to see Brooke and Taylor in the more maternal roles. Brooke has a daughter -- miraculously -- who is sweet and a vir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG%20%28disambiguation%29 | PNG most often refers to:
Papua New Guinea, a country in Oceania, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
Portable Network Graphics (.png), an image file format
PNG or Png may also refer to:
Organisations
Partidul Noua Generație, former name of a Romanian political party
Port Neches–Groves High School, in Port Neches, Texas
Philippine National Games, the national multi-sport tournament of the Philippines
P. N. G. Jewellers, Indian jewellery company
Science and technology
Piped natural gas, a gaseous fossil fuel delivered by pipeline
Planetary nebula presented in galactic coordinates
Other uses
Png (surname), a Min Nan Chinese surname
Persona non grata, a Latin term meaning "an unwelcome person", used for a diplomat being pressured to leave another country
Pongu language (ISO 639-3 code png), a Kainji language of Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamo | Yamo has multiple meanings.
Yamo, a musical project by Wolfgang Flür and Mouse on Mars
The Green Yamo, an enemy character in the computer game Bruce Lee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleu%20de%20France | Bleu de France stands for
Bleu de France (colour)
MS Bleu de France, a cruise ship
See also
France Bleu, radio network in France
Les Bleus (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%E2%80%9349%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
NOTE: This page is missing info on the DuMont Network, which started daytime transmission before any other United States television network.
Monday-Friday
There is some dispute as to the exact lineup on DuMont in the winter. The above listing is according to What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s (University of Texas Press, 2005) by Marsha Cassidy. This would create a conflict with some other sources that have TV Shopper still in the lineup at this time.
On Dumont, Okay, Mother was previously aired on New York based WABD channel, then the network flagship station.
By network
ABC
Returning Series
The Singing Lady
New Series
Cartoon Teletales
CBS
Returning Series
The U.N. in Action
New Series
The Adventures of Lucky Pup
The Chuck Wagon
Classifield Column
Here's Archer
Ladies Day
The Ted Steele Show
Not Returning From 1947-48
The Missus Goes a-Shopping
NBC
Returning Series
Howdy Doody
New Series
These Are My ChildrenVanity FairWestern BalladeerNot Returning From 1947-48Playtime
The Swift Home Service Club
DumontNew SeriesJohnny Olson's Rumpus RoomOkay, MotherTV Shopper'''
See also
1948-49 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
Notes
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070803174527/http://soapoperahistory.com/daytime/series/womantoremember/index.htm
United States weekday network television schedules
1948 in American television
1949 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprise%20Surprise%20Gotcha | Surprise Surprise Gotcha is an Australian hidden camera practical joke television series. Hosted by radio personalities Matt Tilley and Jackie O, the series commenced on the Nine Network on 18 September 2007.
Overview
The title incorporated "Gotcha" from Tilley's "gotcha calls" on his highly successful The Matt and Jo Show on FOX FM. The series sets up Australian celebrities to fall prey to elaborate practical jokes. Celebrity victims include Shane Crawford, Tara Moss, Dermott Brereton and Amanda Keller. The series was produced and directed by Marc Gracie.
Surprise Surprise, a series with the same premise hosted by Jay Laga'aia, had previously aired on Nine in 2000.
Performed gags
After ''Temptations Ed Phillips had co-host Livinia Nixon locked in a phone booth, she invites Ed to a wedding with bizarre cultural aspects.
AFL player Shane Crawford gets his own back on horse trainer David Hayes when he finds himself at lunch with a nine-year-old genius who astounds him with his knowledge of the racing industry.
Karl Stefanovic of Today has a very difficult interview with an Arab sheik who wants to turn Princes Park in Melbourne into a winter wonderland.
Author Tara Moss has car trouble which causes chaos in the streets.
Dermott Brereton goes to lunch with Getaway'''s Jules Lund where the food is not just fresh ... it's alive.
Billy Slater, of the Melbourne Storm, discovers he has his own web site.
Radio personality Amanda Keller comes into a lot of money ... but not for long, as she discovers.
Hi-5's Charli Delaney finds herself cruising Sydney Harbour with a bizarre charity.
Toni Pearen, of Australia's Funniest Home Videos, attends a charity function at Sydney's Luna Park, only to take a very, very long ride on the Ferris wheel.
Todays Gorgi Quill meets a guy who is having the unluckiest day of his life.
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts
2007 Australian television series endings
Hidden camera television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext%20caching%20protocol | Hypertext Caching Protocol (abbreviated to HTCP) is used for discovering HTTP caches and cached data, managing sets of HTTP caches and monitoring cache activity. It permits full request and response headers to be used in cache management and expands the domain of cache management to include monitoring a remote cache's additions and deletions, requesting immediate deletions and sending hints about web objects such as the third party locations of cacheable objects or unavailability of web objects.
Features
All multi-octet HTCP protocol elements are transmitted in network byte order. All reserved fields should be set to binary zero by senders and left unexamined by receivers. Headers must be presented with the CRLF line termination, as in HTTP.
Any hostnames specified should be compatible between sender and receiver, such that if a private naming scheme (such as HOSTS.TXT or NIS) is in use, names depending on such schemes will only be sent to HTCP neighbors who are known to participate in said schemes. Raw addresses (dotted quad IPv4, or colon-format IPv6) are universal, as are public DNS names. Use of private names or addresses will require special operational care.
UDP must be supported. HTCP agents must not be isolated from network failures and delays. An HTCP agent should be prepared to act in useful ways when no response is forthcoming, or when responses are delayed or reordered or damaged. TCP is optional and is expected to be used only for protocol debugging. The IANA has assigned port 4827 as the standard TCP and UDP port number for HTCP.
An HTCP Message has the following general format:
+---------------------+
| HEADER | tells message length and protocol versions
+---------------------+
| DATA | HTCP message (varies per major ver. number)
+---------------------+
| AUTH | optional authentication for transaction
+---------------------+
See also
Internet Cache Protocol
External links
- the Request for Comments on HTCP
Web caching protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%20Abort%20Guidance%20System | The Apollo Abort Guidance System (AGS, also known as Abort Guidance Section) was a backup computer system providing an abort capability in the event of failure of the Lunar Module's primary guidance system (Apollo PGNCS) during descent, ascent or rendezvous. As an abort system, it did not support guidance for a lunar landing.
The AGS was designed by TRW independently of the development of the Apollo Guidance Computer and PGNCS.
It was the first navigation system to use a strapdown Inertial Measurement Unit rather than a gimbaled gyrostabilized IMU (as used by PGNCS). Although not as accurate as the gimbaled IMU, it provided satisfactory accuracy with the help of the optical telescope and rendezvous radar. It was also lighter and smaller in size.
Description
The Abort Guidance System included the following components:
Abort Electronic Assembly (AEA): the AGS computer
Abort Sensor Assembly (ASA): a simple strapdown IMU
Data Entry and Display Assembly (DEDA): the astronaut interface, similar to DSKY
The computer used was MARCO 4418 (MARCO stands for Man Rated Computer) whose dimensions were 5 by 8 by 23.75 inches (12.7 by 20.3 by 60.33 centimeters); it weighed 32.7 pounds (14.83 kg) and required 90 watts of power. Because the memory had a serial access it was slower than AGC, although some operations on AEA were performed as fast or faster than on AGC.
The computer had the following characteristics:
It had 4096 words of memory. Lower 2048 words were erasable memory (RAM), higher 2048 words served as fixed memory (ROM). The fixed and erasable memory were constructed similarly so the ratio between fixed and erasable memory was variable.
It was an 18-bit machine, with 17 magnitude bits and a sign bit. The addresses were 13 bits long; MSB indicated index addressing.
Data words were two's complement and in fixed-point form.
Registers
The AEA has the following registers:
A: Accumulator (18 bit)
M: Memory Register (18 bit), holds data that are being transferred between the central computer and memory
Q: Multiplier-Quotient Register (18 bit), stores the least significant half of result after multiplication and division. It can be also used as extension of Accumulator
Index Register (3 bit): used for index addressing
Other less-important registers are:
Address Register (12 bit): holds the memory address requested by central computer
Operation Code Register (5 bit): holds 5-bit instruction code during its execution
Program Counter (12 bit)
Cycle Counter (5 bit): controls shift instructions
Timers (2 registers): produce the control timing signals
Input Registers: 13 registers
Instruction set
The AEA instruction format consisted of five-bit instruction code, index bit and a 12-bit address.
The computer had 27 instructions:
ADD: The contents of memory location are added to Accumulator A. The contents of the memory location remain unchanged.
ADZ (Add and Zero): The contents of memory are added to Accumulator A. The contents of me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanix | Lanix Internacional, S.A. de C.V. is a multinational computer and mobile phone manufacturer company based in Hermosillo, Mexico. Lanix primarily markets and sells its products in Mexico and the Latin American export market.
History
Lanix was founded in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico in 1990, and released its first computer, the PC 286 the same year.
Throughout the 1990s Lanix expanded into the development and production of more sophisticated electronics components such as optical drives, servers, memory drives and flash memory. In 2002 Lanix opened its first factory outside of Mexico in Santiago, Chile to cater to the South American market.
By 2006 Lanix had gained a market share of 5% of Mexico's electronics market and began diversifying its product line to include LCD televisions and monitors and in 2007 began manufacturing mobile phones. Currently Lanix offers products in the consumer, professional and government markets throughout Latin America.
In 2010 Lanix announced an ambitious plan to gain market share in the Latin American computer market and expanded operations to include every country in Latin America
Lanix has production facilities at its original headquarters in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico and international facilities in Santiago, Chile and Bogota, Colombia.
At the 2009 Intel Solutions Summit hosted by Intel, Lanix won an award in the "mobile solution" category.
In March 2011, Lanix began offering a system where buyers can custom build their own computer, choosing different types of chipsets, memory, and other components.
In 2012 Lanix expanded its product portfolio by integrating its first Smartphone, Ilium S100, and positioned itself as one of the bestselling brands in the Mexican market.
In 2015 announces the first smartphone with Windows Phone of the company.
In June 2017 Lanix image is renewed by updating its logo, launching new high-end smartphones, and updating its webpage.
Products
, Lanix manufactures desktops, laptops, tablets, servers, netbooks, monitors, optical disc drives, smartphones flash memory and random-access memory.
As of 2010, it made one of the most powerful production Windows desktops in the world, the Lanix Titan Magnum Extreme.
Smartphones and tablet computers
In 2007, Lanix announced a mobile division specializing in developing smartphones and tablets. In 2010, it showed a smartphone named the Illium running the Android operating system. Lanix smartphones are offered by Telcel, a subsidiary of América Móvil.
In 2010, Lanix unveiled a tablet computer named the W10 running Windows 7. An Android version will be available through Telcel.
In 2017, Lanix announces its new portfolio of innovative smartphones with competitive features in the current market.
Mexican government contracts
Lanix has won several major contracts to provide electronics to government entities in Mexico which has been a key part of the company's success including a contract from the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education to s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20C.%20Dorf | Richard C. Dorf (born December 27, 1933, in the Bronx, New York City, died October 22, 2020) was a professor emeritus of management and electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. Dorf was a Life Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to engineering education and control theory, and was a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Career
Research and academia
Dorf researched and taught control systems, robotics, energy systems, technology management, entrepreneurship, innovation management, non-profit management, new venture management, venture capital management, and technology policy. He was also a consultant in engineering business development, and taught classes in the area as well.
Author and editor
Dorf was a prolific author and editor. He has authored 30 books, including several standard handbooks and textbooks of engineering. His latest book is called Technology Ventures: From Ideas to Enterprise and is co-authored with Professor Thomas Byers of Stanford University; the textbook is the first to thoroughly examine a global phenomenon known as "technology entrepreneurship".
Works
Books authored by Dorf include:
Technology Ventures: From Ideas to Enterprise. McGraw Hill, 2004 (1st ed), 2008 (2nd ed), 2011 (3rd ed)
Modern Control Systems. Addison-Wesley, 1967 (1st ed.); current edition Pearson, 2016 (13th ed.)
Computers and Man
Pocket Book of Electrical Engineering Formulas
Introduction to Electric Circuits
Circuits Electrics
The New Mutual Fund Investment Adviser
Robotics and Automated Manufacturing
Books edited by Dorf include:
Electrical Engineering Handbook
References
1933 births
2020 deaths
People from the Bronx
University of California, Davis faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Society for Engineering Education
Naval Postgraduate School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSLM%20%28AM%29 | WSLM (1220 AM) is a full service radio station licensed to serve the community of Salem, Indiana. Programming consists of news and sports. The station is owned and operated by Rebecca L. White. WSLM 1220 AM is a Kentuckiana Affiliate for Purdue Sports and the Cincinnati Reds. There is a sister station, WSLM-FM. Rebecca L. White holds the license to the FM station as well. On June 2, 2014, WSLM 1220 AM became the new Kentuckiana home of the Rick and Bubba radio morning show. The station is also a member of the Country Music Association as well as the Indiana Broadcasters Association.
AM 1220 celebrated its Diamond Anniversary in 2013. On February 14, White held a Birthday Party on the radio by giving away $60 per hour in honor of the 60th anniversary of the station, as well as playing archival audio of station founder Don Martin, old WSLM commercials, programming and clips from Broomsage Ballet, recorded from 1972.
WSLM began broadcasting in C-QUAM AM stereo in September 2012.
Programming
WSLM AM came on the air in 1953, after a minor glitch—the station was broken into Christmas Eve 1952 and thieves cleaned it out. When station owner Don Martin came in on Christmas morning to turn on the station for all of Southern Indiana to enjoy—he couldn't. The equipment was gone.
"It was nice of them to make us tracks into the station," he later said.
In describing the story to the local press, Martin quipped that the station had equipment "most preferred by thieves." This comment along with the story made headlines distributed by the Associated Press.
Authorities tracked the equipment to near Cincinnati, Ohio where the young men were operating a pirate radio station. They were set up in a quonset hut.
Once the equipment was returned (in good shape), Martin restored the station to full capacity and was able to begin broadcasting on Valentine's Day 1953.
Consequently, the Associated Press carried the story naming the station "The Sweetheart Station of the Nation."
Notable local programming on WSLM-FM and WRLW-CD TV which is simulcast on WSLM AM, is Coffee Club, Blue Sky Church, four daily newscasts, Ag and market reports, Swap Shop, a trading program airing twice daily and Texas Ed's bluegrass show on weekday afternoons. The station also airs, by default, IU and Purdue broadcasts, as well as local high school football and basketball games.
Another local program called "Trivia" which is actually the Saturday edition of Coffee Club, airs on Saturday mornings offering listeners a chance to call in and win either a WSLM T-shirt or a Christian music CD by answering a trivia question on secular items and from the Bible.
References
External links
SLM
Washington County, Indiana
Full service radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1953
1953 establishments in Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarilla%20%28genus%29 | Jarilla is a genus in the family Caricaceae of Brassicales.
Species
The genus Jarilla has four plant species native to Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Jarilla caudata- Mexico (Baja California Sur, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa)
Jarilla chocola- Mexico (Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Sonora), Guatemala, El Salvador
Jarilla heterophylla- Mexico (Colima, Ciudad de Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas)
Jarilla nana- Mexico (Ciudad de Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Nayarit, Queretaro, Zacatecas)
References
Caricaceae
Flora of Southern America
Flora of Central America
Flora of Northern America
Brassicales genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Hamel%27s%20Comedy%20Bag | Alan Hamel's Comedy Bag was a Canadian variety-comedy television series which aired on CBC Television for one programming season from 23 September 1972 to 9 June 1973.
The Montreal-produced half-hour program aired on Saturdays and featured American guest appearances. Alan Hamel, the titular series host, was previously a regular on the 1960s Canadian series Razzle Dazzle and a game show host on American television in 1969.
External links
1972 Canadian television series debuts
1973 Canadian television series endings
CBC Television original programming
1970s Canadian sketch comedy television series
1970s Canadian variety television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Laff-In | Super Laff-In is a Philippine sketch comedy television show that originally aired on ABS-CBN network from February 1, 1969 to September 16, 1972 and patterned after the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In television series from the United States. The show was revived by the same network from May 25, 1996 to August 28, 1999 with an entirely new cast. The 1996 to 1999 season re-airs on Kapamilya Channel.
Cast
First incarnation
Air date: February 1, 1969 to September 16, 1972
Bert de Leon
Balot
Frankie Evangelista
June Keithley
Mitch Valdez (formerly Maya Valdez)
Ramon Zamora
Rey Javier
Bayani Casimiro
Tintoy
Rose Javier
Nova Villa
Tange
Babalu
Babalina
Second incarnation
Air date: May 25, 1996, to August 28, 1999
Redford White
Glydel Mercado
Wowie de Guzman
Guila Alvarez
Regine Tolentino
Diether Ocampo
Mylene Dizon
Bayani Agbayani
Norman Mitchell
Vhong Navarro
Trisha Salvador
Bojo Molina
Blue de Leon
Rufa Mae Quinto
Farrah Florer
John Prats
John Lloyd Cruz
Daniel Pasia
Dominic Ochoa
Rommel Montano
Julia Clarete
Miong (a cartoon character of Super Laff-In and logo)
See also
Banana Sundae
Bubble Gang
Tropang Trumpo
Wow Mali
List of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN
References
External links
Super Laff-In on Kapamilya Channel
Youtube - Bubble Gang Tribute To Super Laff-In
ABS-CBN original programming
Philippine comedy television series
1960s Philippine television series
1970s Philippine television series
1990s Philippine television series
1969 Philippine television series debuts
1972 Philippine television series endings
1996 Philippine television series debuts
1999 Philippine television series endings
Philippine television series based on American television series
Filipino-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulated%20body%20pose%20estimation | Articulated body pose estimation in computer vision is the study of algorithms and systems that recover the pose of an articulated body, which consists of joints and rigid parts using image-based observations. It is one of the longest-lasting problems in computer vision because of the complexity of the models that relate observation with pose, and because of the variety of situations in which it would be useful.
Description
Perception of human beings in their neighboring environment is an important capability that robots must possess. If a person uses gestures to point to a particular object, then the interacting machine should be able to understand the situation in real world context. Thus pose estimation is an important and challenging problem in computer vision, and many algorithms have been deployed in solving this problem over the last two decades. Many solutions involve training complex models with large data sets.
Pose estimation is a difficult problem and an active subject of research because the human body has 244 degrees of freedom with 230 joints. Although not all movements between joints are evident, the human body is composed of 10 large parts with 20 degrees of freedom. Algorithms must account for large variability introduced by differences in appearance due to clothing, body shape, size, and hairstyles. Additionally, the results may be ambiguous due to partial occlusions from self-articulation, such as a person's hand covering their face, or occlusions from external objects. Finally, most algorithms estimate pose from monocular (two-dimensional) images, taken from a normal camera. Other issues include varying lighting and camera configurations. The difficulties are compounded if there are additional performance requirements. These images lack the three-dimensional information of an actual body pose, leading to further ambiguities. There is recent work in this area wherein images from RGBD cameras provide information about color and depth.
Sensors
The typical articulated body pose estimation system involves a model-based approach, in which the pose estimation is achieved by maximizing/minimizing a similarity/dissimilarity between an observation (input) and a template model. Different kinds of sensors have been explored for use in making the observation, including the following:
Visible wavelength imagery,
Long-wave thermal infrared imagery,
Time-of-flight imagery, and
Laser range scanner imagery.
These sensors produce intermediate representations that are directly used by the model. The representations include the following:
Image appearance,
Voxel (volume element) reconstruction,
3D point clouds, and sum of Gaussian kernels
3D surface meshes.
Classical models
Part models
The basic idea of part based model can be attributed to the human skeleton. Any object having the property of articulation can be broken down into smaller parts wherein each part can take different orientations, resulting in different articulations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20Television | Phoenix Television is a majority state-owned television network that offers Mandarin and Cantonese-language channels that serve mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and other markets with substantial Chinese-language viewers. It is headquartered in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. It is also registered in Cayman Islands.
The founder of Phoenix TV, Liu Changle (), was an officer and political instructor in the People's Liberation Army in its 40th Group Army. He later became a journalist for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled China National Radio after the Cultural Revolution and remains well-connected to the CCP's leadership. Liu is a standing member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Phoenix Television calls itself a Hong Kong media outlet but holds a non-domestic television programme services license in Hong Kong. Most of the company's customers and non-current assets come from mainland China. Bauhinia Culture, a company wholly owned by the Chinese government, is its largest shareholder. Freedom House describes Phoenix Television as pro-Beijing. Stephen McDonell of BBC News described the outlet as "sometimes more liberal than its mainland counterparts".
The company's head offices are located in Shenzhen, Guangdong and Tai Po, Hong Kong and it also has correspondent offices in Beijing and Shanghai. The Shenzhen office is said to produce half its TV output.
History
What eventually became Phoenix Television started as a joint venture between Star TV in Hong Kong, one private company in China, and China Central Television.
Phoenix Chinese Channel was launched on 31 March 1996. It replaced Star Chinese Channel in Hong Kong and mainland China.
The Phoenix CNE channel broadcasts in Europe, while the Phoenix North America Chinese Channel goes out in the Americas. In 2005, a California-based broadcast and engineering director for the channel, Tai Wang Mak, was arrested for conspiring with his brother, Chi Mak, to act as an intelligence agent for China. A 10-year prison sentence was announced in 2008.
On 28 March 2011, Phoenix Television launched Phoenix Hong Kong Channel, broadcasting exclusively in Cantonese.
On 31 March 2011, Phoenix InfoNews Channel was announced as a Peabody Award winner for its "Report on a New Generation of Migrant Workers in China."
In 2011, Phoenix New Media formed a partnership with the BBC to offer the British broadcaster's programming on Phoenix's digital media platforms. This was followed by a similar partnership with the National Film Board of Canada in 2012, under which 130 NFB animated shorts and documentary films would be offered digitally in China.
In October 2013, the 12.15% of shares in Phoenix Television held by 21st Century Fox (through Star) were sold to TPG Capital for HK$1.66 billion (about US$213 million).
In February 2016, Phoenix Television broadcast forced confessions of kidnapped Hong Kong booksellers.
In April 2020, Senator Ted Cruz announced that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberstar | Things commonly known as cyberstar or cyberstars include:
Internet celebrity
virtual actor, a computer-generated human-like entity in a film
Cyberstar, the animatronic and video controller for Chuck E. Cheese's and Showbiz Pizza Place |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting%20software | Accounting software is a computer program that maintains account books on computers, including recording transactions and account balances. It may depends on virtual thinking. Depending on the purpose, the software can manage budgets, perform accounting tasks for multiple currencies, perform payroll and customer relationship management, and prepare financial reporting. Work to have accounting functions be implemented on computers goes back to the earliest days of electronic data processing. Over time, accounting software has revolutionized from supporting basic accounting operations to performing real-time accounting and supporting financial processing and reporting. Cloud accounting software was first introduced in 2011, and it allowed the performance of all accounting functions through the internet.
Modules
Accounting software is typically composed of various modules, with different sections dealing with particular areas of accounting. Among the most common are:
Core modules
Accounts receivable—where the company enters money received
Accounts payable—where the company enters its bills and pays money it owes
General ledger—the company's "books"
Billing—where the company produces invoices to clients/customers
Stock/inventory—where the company keeps control of its inventory
Purchase order—where the company orders inventory
Sales order—where the company records customer orders for the supply of inventory
Bookkeeping—where the company records collection and payment
Financial close management — where accounting teams verify and adjust account balances at the end of a designated time period
Non-core modules
Debt collection—where the company tracks attempts to collect overdue bills (sometimes part of accounts receivable)
Electronic payment processing
Expense—where employee business-related expenses are entered
Inquiries—where the company looks up information on screen without any edits or additions
Payroll—where the company tracks salary, wages, and related taxes
Reports—where the company prints out data
Timesheet—where professionals (such as attorneys and consultants) record time worked so that it can be billed to clients
Purchase requisition—where requests for purchase orders are made, approved and tracked
Reconciliation—compares records from parties at both sides of transactions for consistency
Drill down
Journals
Departmental accounting
Support for value added taxation
Calculation of statutory holdback
Late payment reminders
Bank feed integration
Document attachment system
Document/Journal approval system
Note that vendors may use differing names for these modules.
Implementation
In many cases, implementation (i.e. the installation and configuration of the system at the client) can be a bigger consideration than the actual software chosen when it comes down to the total cost of ownership for the business. Most mid-market and larger applications are sold exclusively through resellers, developers, and consultants. Those organizations generall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20Pluribus%20Wiggum | "E Pluribus Wiggum" is the tenth episode of the nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 6, 2008. It was written by Michael Price and directed by Mike Frank Polcino, and it guest starred Jon Stewart and Dan Rather as themselves. This episode became controversial in Argentina for a joke made about the government of Juan Perón.
Mike Frank Polcino was nominated for Writers Guild of America Award in the animation category for directing the episode.
Plot
Homer leaves work, and when he is reminded that his diet is starting on the first day of the month (which is that day), he decides to have one last binge at Springfield's Fast-Food Boulevard. After filling up, he decides to throw away his wrappers and the contents of his car in a trash can in the shape of Sideshow Mel's head outside of a Krusty Burger, tossing away a leaky battery and a lit match. The acid from the leaky battery eats a hole in a gas main, with the lit match igniting the gas and starting a fire which soon causes nearby gas pipes to explode, completely destroying Fast-Food Boulevard.
At a town hall meeting, the enraged residents of Springfield demand that Fast-Food Boulevard be rebuilt immediately. To fund the reconstruction, a bond measure is proposed. As the next election is not until June the next year, Mayor Quimby moves it to the upcoming Tuesday, making Springfield's presidential primary the first in the nation. Candidates and reporters head to Springfield when they hear the news.
The candidates flock to the Simpsons, who are undecided. Their home is filled with people and their yard is covered with reporters; helicopters and news vans surround the lot. When voting day arrives, an angry Homer and other citizens hold a meeting in Moe's Tavern. Homer suggests the people vote for the most ridiculous candidate, whom they choose after Chief Wiggum suggests himself. The same night, Kent Brockman announces an unexpected turn of events; Springfield has rejected all the leading candidates and voted for 8-year-old Ralph Wiggum. He wins the primary, much to the shock of Lisa Simpson.
Ralph is immediately embraced as the leading candidate, and Homer and Bart become his fans. Lisa, however, is miserable, as she knows how slow Ralph is. A news report (called Headbutt) shows Ralph has no idea of which party's nomination he is seeking. Both the Democratic and Republican parties contend to secure Ralph as their candidate. The leaders of both parties break into Ralph's home, wanting to fight for him. Lisa confronts Ralph amongst the media frenzy, attempting to convince him not to run. Ralph tells Lisa he wants to run so he can bring peace between warring parties and his earnest kind heartedness wins her support. He is proven to be a formidable candidate, and both the Republicans and the Democrats support Ralph for president. The episode ends with a political commercial for Ralph, sponsored by bo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Debarted | "The Debarted" is the thirteenth episode of the nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 2, 2008, and features Topher Grace as guest star and a cameo by radio host Terry Gross. A new troublesome student named Donny arrives at Springfield Elementary School, prompting a gleeful Bart to befriend him as his partner in pranks. Meanwhile, Marge wrecks the family car, and Homer gets a new luxury vehicle as a loaner car, which he grows attached to. The episode is a parody of the 2006 film The Departed.
Plot
Marge is driving Bart and Lisa to school, when the children begin fighting. Tired and exhausted from moderating the kids, Marge inadvertently crashes into Hans Moleman's car. Bart manages to escape unhurt and attends class. He is shocked to find that his seat has been taken by a new student, named Donny, who was recently kicked out of his former school. Donny soon gets Milhouse and Nelson to awe him. After Donny throws massive amounts of garbage at the school wall, Bart begins to feel he is losing popularity. While trying to imitate Donny, Bart ends up humiliating himself. Feeling his social rank amongst his peers slipping, Bart plays a prank on Principal Skinner, employing magnets and metal sole pads in Skinner's shoes. While on the school stage, the magnets cause Skinner to dance uncontrollably and ultimately be hurled outside of the school into a container filled with old and lost mouth retainers. Bart regains the respect and admiration of his peers, but when Skinner attempts to find who is responsible, Donny takes the blame for Bart's prank. Skinner takes Donny to his office, whereupon Donny is revealed to be in fact a snitch hired by Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers to get Bart suspended.
Bart invites Donny into his clique alongside Nelson and Milhouse, and they plot school pranks. To signify Donny's entrance in the group, Bart rewards him with illegal Blue Vine licorice sticks from Europe, which turn the eater's tongue blue. At the school, Bart is perplexed when Skinner repeatedly anticipates and foils his pranks. Groundskeeper Willie informs Bart that a snitch is amongst them, but Bart wrongly suspects Milhouse. With the aid of Nelson and Donny, Bart imprisons Milhouse in a locker. Bart plans a final prank on Skinner involving egging his house with an ostrich egg. While helping Skinner hang up a banner, Bart notices that Skinner's tongue is blue. Bart figures out that the snitch is Donny, who had given Skinner the Blue Vines. Bart and Nelson ambush Donny and announce that they are going to force him to ingest enormous quantities of Diet Coke and Mentos. They are interrupted by the arrival of Chalmers, Skinner, and Willie, who has snitched on Bart in turn. Donny ultimately saves Bart, as he was the only person who ever cared for him. The two boys escape as Skinner, Chalmers, and Willie are caught in the Diet Coke/Mentos explosion. Before hittin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%2C%20Springfieldian%20Style | "Love, Springfieldian Style" is the twelfth episode of the nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 17, 2008, three days after Valentine's Day. It includes three self-contained stories about romance. The three tales are parodies of Bonnie and Clyde, Lady and the Tramp and Sid and Nancy.
Plot
The episode begins on a Valentine's Day afternoon. As a Valentine's Day treat, Homer takes Marge to a carnival, where they leave the kids in order to spend the day with one another in the Tunnel of Love. Inside, the two enjoy each other's company; however, Bart attempts to spoil his parents' happiness by filling the water with Jell-O, causing Homer and Marge's boat to stop. Trapped, Homer decides to pass time by telling Marge the story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Bonnie and Clyde
In 1933, during the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker (Marge) rejects a man trying to get her attention (Cletus), saying she is looking for someone exciting. Clyde Barrow (Homer) then arrives, and after robbing a store (which he ironically co-owns with his father), the two run off. Clyde discovers Bonnie's passion is violence, and the two go on a crime spree by robbing banks.
After tricking a citizen (Flanders) into helping them, the two garner intense popularity across the country. The citizen they tricked soon realizes what had happened and betrays them to the police after learning they are an unmarried couple. The Texas officers soon arrive, and the police gun Bonnie and Clyde down. While being shot, Bonnie tells Clyde that she is looking for a man with more excitement, and that they would never have been together.
Back at the Tunnel of love, Bart and Lisa arrive at Homer and Marge's boat and want them to tell a child-friendly story. Marge tells the story of Shady and the Vamp.
Shady and the Vamp
Vamp (Marge) is a royal and luxurious female dog. Shady (Homer) is in love with Vamp and eyes her from a distance, vowing that he will win her. After Shady is trampled by a mob of children, Vamp comforts him, and he asks her out for dinner. The two go to Luigi's, where, after a romantic pasta dinner (Except for the part were Shady nearly swallows Vamp over a string of spaghetti), the two run off onto a hill when the health inspector comes. In the morning, Vamp wakes up with nauseous feelings, and Shady leaves her, claiming that a fox hunter is near, knowing she is actually pregnant.
In a musical number entitled "Any Minute Now" (featuring canine versions of Lenny, Carl and Barney backing up for Shady), the two dogs await for one another's return, though the cats living with a now-pregnant Vamp (Patty and Selma) convince her that Shady would never come back, whilst the dog who is friends with Shady (Moe) convinces him that he should stay with them rather than be "stuck" with Vamp and their puppies. Two of her puppies (Bart and Lisa) decide to go look for their father, and after being kidnapped |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20Chinese%20writers | Classical Chinese writers were trained as compilers rather than as originators composing information. These writers in Classical Chinese were trained by memorizing extensive tracts in the classics and histories. Their method of constructing their own work was to extensively cut and paste passages and fragments from these sources. Today this would be called plagiarism. However, these early Chinese writers considered themselves not as creators, but as preservers of the record. The continuing controversy over the meaning of Chinese text is best understood by examining the classical scholar's way of writing. Zhu Xi was a great editor and commentator but his prime aim was moral learning, considered far more important than art or literature. Zhu Xi cemented Confucian moral righteousness into the Chinese methods of evaluation. Joseph Needham has said, Chinese writers made careful note of observable concrete phenomena but they made little use of categorical analysis or the building of logical systems.
Footnotes
Chinese culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20City | Broadcast City was the headquarters and broadcast complex of the television and radio networks owned by Roberto Benedicto, namely - Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Radio Philippines Network (RPN) and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC). It was located at Old Balara, Capitol Hills, Diliman, Quezon City and served as the three network's main television and radio production center and main transmission facility. It was inaugurated in July 1978 and was the most modern broadcast facility at that time.
After the 1986 People Power Revolution toppled the government of Ferdinand Marcos, Broadcast City and the three networks were sequestered by the new government and placed under the management of a Board of Administrators tasked to operate and manage its business and affairs subject to the control and supervision of Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).
BBC ended its operations on March 20, 1986, and its radio (101.9 FM) and television frequencies and one frequency from RPN (630 AM) were awarded back to ABS-CBN in July 1986.
In 2011, IBC entered into a joint venture agreement with Prime Realty, an affiliate of R-II Builders Group of Reghis Romero Jr. The agreement called for the development of 3.5 hectares of Broadcast City.
In October 2012, RPN was acquired by the Solar TV Network and discontinued use of the Broadcast City facilities.
IBC has discontinued the use of Broadcast City since December 2018. Broadcast City was demolished on 2020 to give way for the Larossa Condominium project of Primehomes Real Estate Development Inc.
Radio stations located in Broadcast City
BBC/City 2
DWWA 1160/DWAN 1206 - Defunct in 2010.
DWWK/DWOK-FM 101.9 - Frequency returned to ABS-CBN Corporation in 1986.
RPN
DWWW 630 - Frequency returned to ABS-CBN Corporation in 1986 as DZMM. Now known as DWPM.
IBC
DWKW 1280/DZTV-AM 1386 - Defunct in 1999.
89 DMZ (Danz Music Zone) - Sold in 2001 to Blockbuster Broadcasting System. Now known as Wave 89.1.
References
See also
Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation
Radio Philippines Network
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
Buildings and structures completed in 1976
Buildings and structures demolished in 2020
1976 establishments in the Philippines
2018 disestablishments in the Philippines
Television studios in the Philippines
Demolished buildings and structures in the Philippines
Radio Philippines Network
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
Buildings and structures in Quezon City
Mass media in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleste | Teleste Oyj is an international technology group in broadband, security and information technologies and related services. The company's customer base consists of data communications operators, train manufacturers, public transport operators, and public sector organisations.
Teleste was established in 1954 in Finland and is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock market since 1999.
Teleste has its own manufacturing in Littoinen and Forssa, Finland and product development units in Finland, Poland, Germany, and Belgium.
Organization
Since January 2022, the president and CEO of Teleste is Esa Harju.
Teleste has around 850 employees located in over 20 countries. The company is arranged into two business units: Networks and Video Security and Information.
Teleste Networks
Teleste Networks business unit offers broadband network and video headend technologies for telecommunications and cable operators. Its most significant customer base consists of data communications operators, but the customers can also include retailers that use Teleste's products for their end-to-end deliveries. The Networks unit's main market is Europe, but it also has customer business in North America.
The Networks unit develops, designs and manufactures a large part of its products. Its product development units operate in Finland and Belgium and the in-house manufacturing activities mainly take place in Finland. The product range also includes third-party products that complement Teleste's offering.
The Networks unit also offers services for access network design, construction and maintenance. The customer base for the unit's services mainly consists of large European cable network operators and new fibre network operators. The Networks unit's services are focused on England, Switzerland, Finland and Poland.
Video Security and Information Solutions
Teleste Video Security and Information Solutions business unit provides professional video and information management applications, systems and services for public safety authorities and operators as well as public transport operators and rolling stock manufacturers. The unit's main market is Europe, but it also operates in North America and the Middle East.
The unit develops, designs and manufactures a large part of its products. Its product development units operate in Finland, Germany and Poland, and the in-house manufacturing activities mainly take place in Finland.
References
Electronics companies of Finland
Companies listed on Nasdaq Helsinki
Electronics companies established in 1954
Finnish companies established in 1954
Turku |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomo | Gomo may refer to:
Chief Gomo, Pottawatomie chieftain
GoMo, Irish mobile virtual network operator owned by Eir
Gomo (musician), Portuguese Indie musician
Gomo, Tibet
Gomo (video game), a video game developed by Fishcow Games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/AL | C/AL (Client/server Application Language) was the programming language used within C/SIDE the Client/Server Integrated Development Environment in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Formerly known as Navision Attain) and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central up until (and including) version 14. It has been replaced by AL. C/AL is a Database specific programming language, and is primarily used for retrieving, inserting and modifying records in a Navision database. C/AL resembles the Pascal language on which it is based. The original C/AL compiler was written by Michael Nielsen.
Examples
Hello World
This is the classic Hello World example. Since the C/SIDE (Client/Server Integrated Development Environment) does not have a console to output text, this example is made using a dialog box as the visual interface.
MESSAGE('hello, world!');
Filtering and retrieving record
Variables in C/AL are not defined through code, but are defined via the variable declaration menu in the C/AL editor. In this example Item is assumed to be a variable of type Record.
IF Item.GET('31260210') THEN
MESSAGE(STRSUBSTNO('Item name is: %1',Item.Description));
Item.RESET;
Item.SETRANGE("No.",FromItem,ToItem);
Item.FINDLAST;
.
Looping and data manipulation
Looping over a recordset and modifying the individual records is achieved with only a few lines of code.
Item.RESET;
Item.SETRANGE("Blocked",TRUE);
IF Item.FINDSET THEN
REPEAT
IF Item."Profit %" < 20 THEN BEGIN
Item."Profit %" := 20;
Item.MODIFY(TRUE);
END;
UNTIL Item.NEXT = 0;
Item.MODIFYALL("Blocked",FALSE);
See also
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
References
External links
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Official Site
Pascal programming language family
Query languages
Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Tech%20Sports%20Network | The Virginia Tech Sports Network is the radio network broadcasting athletic events of the Virginia Tech Hokies games, primarily football and men's basketball. The radio network was managed by ISP Sports until that company merged into IMG (now known as Learfield IMG College) in 2010.
Stations
References
College basketball on the radio in the United States
College football on the radio
Sports radio in the United States
Virginia Tech Hokies
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21%20Mash | Yahoo! Mash was a social networking service by Yahoo!
Yahoo! Mash pages were composed of modules, such as photos or common friends, that could be added by their users or their contacts.
Unless the feature was disabled, users were able to edit other users' pages.
History
The platform was launched by Yahoo! in September 2007.
On August 28, 2008, Yahoo! announced that the platform would be shut down on September 28, 2008.
References
Mash
Yahoo! community websites
Internet properties disestablished in 2008
Internet properties established in 2007
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmfront | Filmfront is a Norwegian website for films and television series similar to Internet Movie Database. Filmfront also covers various news on movie and celebrity material from both within and outside Norway. It has information on over 28,000 films, 3,000 short films, 220,000 actors and 6,500 TV shows. A community website with the option for users to share their information in a profile, it is modeled after Facebook.
Filmfront is owned by Filmfront AS, a Norwegian company owned Pål Frostad and Omega Media AS.
References
External links
Online film databases
Norwegian film websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%27s%20method%20of%20characteristic%20set | Wenjun Wu's method is an algorithm for solving multivariate polynomial equations introduced in the late 1970s by the Chinese mathematician Wen-Tsun Wu. This method is based on the mathematical concept of characteristic set introduced in the late 1940s by J.F. Ritt. It is fully independent of the Gröbner basis method, introduced by Bruno Buchberger (1965), even if Gröbner bases may be used to compute characteristic sets.
Wu's method is powerful for mechanical theorem proving in elementary geometry, and provides a complete decision process for certain classes of problem. It has been used in research in his laboratory (KLMM, Key Laboratory of Mathematics Mechanization in Chinese Academy of Science) and around the world. The main trends of research on Wu's method concern systems of polynomial equations of positive dimension and differential algebra where Ritt's results have been made effective. Wu's method has been applied in various scientific fields, like biology, computer vision, robot kinematics and especially automatic proofs in geometry.
Informal description
Wu's method uses polynomial division to solve problems of the form:
where f is a polynomial equation and I is a conjunction of polynomial equations. The algorithm is complete for such problems over the complex domain.
The core idea of the algorithm is that you can divide one polynomial by another to give a remainder. Repeated division results in either the remainder vanishing (in which case the I implies f statement is true), or an irreducible remainder is left behind (in which case the statement is false).
More specifically, for an ideal I in the ring k[x1, ..., xn] over a field k, a (Ritt) characteristic set C of I is composed of a set of polynomials in I, which is in triangular shape: polynomials in C have distinct main variables (see the formal definition below). Given a characteristic set C of I, one can decide if a polynomial f is zero modulo I. That is, the membership test is checkable for I, provided a characteristic set of I.
Ritt characteristic set
A Ritt characteristic set is a finite set of polynomials in triangular form of an ideal. This triangular set satisfies
certain minimal condition with respect to the Ritt ordering, and it preserves many interesting geometrical properties
of the ideal. However it may not be its system of generators.
Notation
Let R be the multivariate polynomial ring k[x1, ..., xn] over a field k.
The variables are ordered linearly according to their subscript: x1 < ... < xn.
For a non-constant polynomial p in R, the greatest variable effectively presenting in p, called main variable or class, plays a particular role:
p can be naturally regarded as a univariate polynomial in its main variable xk with coefficients in k[x1, ..., xk−1].
The degree of p as a univariate polynomial in its main variable is also called its main degree.
Triangular set
A set T of non-constant polynomials is called a triangular set if all polynomials in T have distinct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lule%C3%A5%20algorithm | The Luleå algorithm of computer science, designed by , is a technique for storing and searching internet routing tables efficiently. It is named after the Luleå University of Technology, the home institute/university of the technique's authors. The name of the algorithm does not appear in the original paper describing it, but was used in a message from Craig Partridge to the Internet Engineering Task Force describing that paper prior to its publication.
The key task to be performed in internet routing is to match a given IPv4 address (viewed as a sequence of 32 bits) to the longest prefix of the address for which routing information is available. This prefix matching problem may be solved by a trie, but trie structures use a significant amount of space (a node for each bit of each address) and searching them requires traversing a sequence of nodes with length proportional to the number of bits in the address. The Luleå algorithm shortcuts this process by storing only the nodes at three levels of the trie structure, rather than storing the entire trie.
Before building the Luleå trie, the routing table entries need to be preprocessed. Any bigger prefix that overlaps a smaller prefix must be repeatedly split into smaller prefixes, and only the split prefixes which does not overlap the smaller prefix is kept. It is also required that the prefix tree is complete. If there is no routing table entries for the entire address space, it must be completed by adding dummy entries, which only carries the information that no route is present for that range. This enables the simplified lookup in the Luleå trie ().
The main advantage of the Luleå algorithm for the routing task is that it uses very little memory, averaging 4–5 bytes per entry for large routing tables. This small memory footprint often allows the entire data structure to fit into the routing processor's cache, speeding operations. However, it has the disadvantage that it cannot be modified easily: small changes to the routing table may require most or all of the data structure to be reconstructed.
A modern home-computer (PC) has enough hardware/memory to perform the algorithm.
First level
The first level of the data structure consists of
A bit vector consisting of 216 = 65,536 bits, with one entry for each 16-bit prefix of an IPv4 address. A bit in this table is set to one if there is routing information associated with that prefix or with a longer sequence beginning with that prefix, or if the given prefix is the first one associated with routing information at some higher level of the trie; otherwise it is set to zero.
An array of 16-bit words for each nonzero bit in the bit vector. Each datum either supplies an index that points to the second-level data structure object for the corresponding prefix, or supplies the routing information for that prefix directly.
An array of "base indexes", one for each consecutive subsequence of 64 bits in the bit vector, pointing to the first datum ass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJLS%20%28AM%29 | WJLS (560 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Beckley, West Virginia, serving Southeastern West Virginia with talk radio programming during the daytime and country music in evenings and overnights. The sister station to WJLS-FM, it is owned and operated by WVRC Media, who bought both stations in the 2010s from First Media Radio, LLC. The station began broadcasting in 1939, the first radio station in Beckley, and was a CBS affiliate from 1943 to 1990.
History
The station was founded in 1939 by Joe L. Smith Jr., the first radio station in Beckley. It used the tag "The Personality Station". When it became a CBS affiliate during World War II, Beckley was the smallest community with an affiliate station. It became a country music station in 1969, and a religious station in 1990, when it swapped formats with WJLS-FM. After being acquired by West Virginia Radio Company in the 2010s, it became a news/talk station in 2017. Simulcasting on 104.1 FM began in 2018; later that year the station was rebranded as WJLS News Network and simulcasting on 95.7 FM in Summersville was added. In 2016, WJLS moved from its original building in Beckley to occupy a floor in a building across the street.
References
External links
JLS
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1939
1939 establishments in West Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morzhovets%20Island | Morzhovets Island () is an island located in Mezen Bay of the White Sea.
Morzhovets island lies from mainland Russia.
Geographical data
Morzhovets lies only a few km above the Arctic Circle. This island has an area of .
The area where this island is located belongs to the Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Federation. Administratively, the island is part of Mezensky District.
The island is flat and grassy (covered by tundra) and it has many lakes. The biggest one is Lake Morzhovets. There is a settlement on Morzhovets, Severny Gorodok, which serves the lighthouse and the meteorological station. The population of the settlement is 12.
History
Historically, the Pomors who populated the coast of the Mezen Bay, were fishing along the coast. A sudden change of the weather could drive them off-shore. In this case, Morzhovets island was the last land before they got driven off to the Barents Sea and perish, and thus was considered to be the last resort. In particular, the father of the Russian polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, Vasily Lomonosov, died in the sea, and his body was found on the island. Pomor fishermen built a chapel on the island, which did not survive.
Bibliography
B. Wwedenski et al. Bolschaja sowetskaja enziklopedija: Tom 28. Isd-wo Bolschaja sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1954, p. 302
G. Gilbo Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR. Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, pp. 217-218.
References
Islands of Arkhangelsk Oblast
Populated places of Arctic Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karine%20Bakhoum | Karine Bakhoum is a restaurant public relations consultant.
Career
Karine Bakhoum is an active NAACP member specialized in lifestyle, hospitality public relations, consulting and media networking.
References
External links
American women chefs
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American businesswomen
21st-century American businesspeople
Reality cooking competition contestants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Flash%20Storage | Universal Flash Storage (UFS) is a flash storage specification for digital cameras, mobile phones and consumer electronic devices. It was designed to bring higher data transfer speed and increased reliability to flash memory storage, while reducing market confusion and removing the need for different adapters for different types of cards. The standard encompasses both packages permanently attached (embedded) within a device (), and removable UFS memory cards.
Overview
UFS uses NAND flash. It may use multiple stacked 3D TLC NAND flash dies (integrated circuits) with an integrated controller.
The proposed flash memory specification is supported by consumer electronics companies such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix. UFS is positioned as a replacement for and SD cards. The electrical interface for UFS uses the M-PHY, developed by the MIPI Alliance, a high-speed serial interface targeting 2.9 Gbit/s per lane with up-scalability to 5.8 Gbit/s per lane. UFS implements a full-duplex serial LVDS interface that scales better to higher bandwidths than the 8-lane parallel and half-duplex interface of . Unlike eMMC, Universal Flash Storage is based on the SCSI architectural model and supports SCSI Tagged Command Queuing. The standard is developed by, and available from, the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association.
Software support
The Linux kernel supports UFS.
History
In 2010, the Universal Flash Storage Association (UFSA) was founded as an open trade association to promote the UFS standard.
In September 2013, JEDEC published JESD220B UFS 2.0 (update to UFS v1.1 standard published in June 2012). JESD220B Universal Flash Storage v2.0 offers increased link bandwidth for performance improvement, a security features extension and additional power saving features over the UFS v1.1.
On 30 January 2018 JEDEC published version 3.0 of the UFS standard, with a higher 11.6 Gbit/s data rate per lane (1450 MB/s) with the use of MIPI M-PHY v4.1 and UniProSM v1.8. At the MWC 2018, Samsung unveiled embedded UFS () v3.0 and uMCP (UFS-based multi-chip package) solutions.
On 30 January 2020 JEDEC published version 3.1 of the UFS standard. UFS 3.1 introduces Write Booster, Deep Sleep, Performance Throttling Notification and Host Performance Booster for faster, more power efficient and cheaper UFS solutions. The Host Performance Booster feature is optional.
In 2022 Samsung announced version 4.0 doubling from 11.6 Gbit/s to 23.2 Gbit/s with the use of MIPI M-PHY v5.0 and UniPro v2.0.
Notable devices
In February 2013, semiconductor company Toshiba Memory (now Kioxia) started shipping samples of a 64GB NAND flash chip, the first chip to support the then new UFS standard.
In April 2015, Samsung's Galaxy S6 family was the first phone to ship with storage using the UFS 2.0 standard.
On 7 July 2016, Samsung announced its first UFS cards, in 32, 64, 128, and 256 GB storage capacities. The cards were based on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saan%20Darating%20ang%20Umaga%3F | (International title: Morning Awaits / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1983 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the eleventh instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes, it stars Yasmien Kurdi. It premiered on November 10, 2008 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan. The series concluded on February 27, 2009 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin? in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Yasmien Kurdi as Shayne Rodrigo
Supporting cast
Lani Mercado as Lorrie Rodrigo
Joel Torre as Ruben Rodrigo
Jacob Rica as Joel Rodrigo
Dion Ignacio as Raul Agoncillo
Andrea del Rosario as Ms. Patricia Bernales
Gary Estrada as Dindo Rodrigo
Pinky Amador as Agatha Rodrigo
Charlie Davao as Leonardo Rodrigo
Shirley Fuentes as Marinel "Mylene" Medina Michikawa / Yaya Rose
Arci Muñoz as Bianca
Luz Valdez as Yaya Sabel
Vaness del Moral as Donna
Guest cast
Deborah Sun as Melody Valera / Bea Torralba
Nicole Dulalia as young Shayne
Gay Balignasay as Acy
Lui Manansala as Olive
Joseph Bitangcol as Mark
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 22.3% rating. While the final episode scored a 23.4% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20C%C3%A2mara | TV Câmara () is a Brazilian public television network responsible for broadcasting activities from the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. Created in 1998, it broadcasts 24 hours a day from the Chamber.
Censorship
In March 2009, Chamber President Michel Temer, at the request of Renato Parente, head of the Supreme Federal Court's press service, ordered the removal from TV Câmara's website of a debate in which CartaCapital journalist Leandro Fortes criticized Gilmar Mendes' tenure as Court President. Many viewed this episode as political censorship and the video was soon posted on YouTube. After being denounced of censorship by the country's main bodies representative of journalists, TV Câmara put the debate back on its website.
References
External links
Legislature broadcasters
Television networks in Brazil
Portuguese-language television stations in Brazil
Television channels and stations established in 1998
1998 establishments in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytics%20in%20higher%20education | Academic analytics is defined as the process of evaluating and analyzing organizational data received from university systems for reporting and decision making reasons (Campbell, & Oblinger, 2007). Academic analytics will help student and faculty to track their career and professional paths. According to Campbell & Oblinger (2007), accrediting agencies, governments, parents and students are all calling for the adoption of new modern and efficient ways of improving and monitoring student success. This has ushered the higher education system into an era characterized by increased scrutiny from the various stakeholders. For instance, the Bradley review acknowledges that benchmarking activities such as student engagement serve as indicators for gauging the institution's quality (Commonwealth Government of Australia, 2008).
Increased competition, accreditation, assessment and regulation are the major factors encouraging the adoption of analytics in higher education. Although institutions of higher learning gather much vital data that can significantly aid in solving problems like attrition and retention, the collected data is not being analysed adequately and hence translated into useful data (Goldstein, 2005).
Subsequently, higher education leadership are forced to make critical and vital decisions based on inadequate information that could be achieved by properly utilising and analysing the available data (Norris, Leonard, & strategic Initiatives Inc., 2008). This gives rise to strategic problems. This setback also depicts itself at the tactical level. Learning and teaching at institutions of higher education if often a diverse and complex experience. Each and every teacher, student or course is quite different.
However, LMS is tasked with taking care of them all. LMS is at the centre of academic analytics. It records each and every student and staff's information and results in a click within the system. When this crucial information is added, compared and contrasted with different enterprise information systems provides the institution with a vast array of useful information that can be harvested to gain a competitive edge (Dawson & McWilliam, 2008; Goldstein, 2005; Heathcoate & Dawson, 2005).
In order to retrieve meaningful information from institution sources i.e. LMS, the information has to be correctly interpreted against a basis of educational efficiency, and this action requires analysis from people with learning and teaching skills. Therefore, a collaborative approach is required from both the people guarding the data and those who will interpret it, otherwise the data will remain to be a total waste (Baepler & Murdoch, 2010). Decision making at its most basic level is based on presumption or intuition (a person can make conclusions and decisions based on experience without having to do data analysis) (Siemens & Long, 2011). However, a lot of decisions made at institutions of higher learning are too vital to be based on anecdote, pres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDENT1 | IDENT1 is the United Kingdom's central national database for holding, searching and comparing biometric information on those who come into contact with the police as detainees after being arrested. Information held includes fingerprints, palm prints and scene of crime marks.
It replaced the old system known as the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS), and works in partnership with Livescan technology.
According to the National Policing Improvement Agency, IDENT1 currently contains the fingerprints of 7.1 million people and makes 85,000 matches with data recovered from crime scenes per year. Verified over 1.5 Million arrestee identifications per year. Checks more than 2,000 identities from Lantern mobile devices per month. Checks 40,000 identities per week for UK Visas and Immigration.
IDENT1 was developed by US defence company Northrop Grumman, who were awarded the £122m contract in December 2004. The deal was expected to last for eight years, with an additional three "option" years.
See also
United Kingdom National DNA Database
References
Biometric databases
Fingerprints
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Law enforcement in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%20Pali | Na Pali can refer to:
Nā Pali Coast State Park (a portion of the Nā Pali coast) in Kaua'i
Return to Na Pali expansion pack for the computer game Unreal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberocracy | In futurology, cyberocracy describes a hypothetical form of government that rules by the effective use of information. The exact nature of a cyberocracy is largely speculative as currently there have been no cyberocratic governments; however, a growing number of cyberocratic elements can be found in many developed nations. Cyberocracy theory is largely the work of David Ronfeldt, who published several papers on the theory. Some sources equate cyberocracy with algorithmic governance, although algorithms are not the only means of processing information.
Overview
Cyberocracy, from the roots 'cyber-' and '-cracy' signifies rule by way of information, especially when using interconnected computer networks. The concept involves information and its control as the source of power and is viewed as the next stage of the political evolution.
The fundamental feature of a cyberocracy would be the rapid transmission of relevant information from the source of a problem to the people in a position able to fix said problem, most likely via a system of interconnected computer networks and automated information sorting software, with human decision makers only being called into use in the case of unusual problems, problem trends, or through an appeal process pursued by an individual. Cyberocracy is the functional antithesis of traditional bureaucracies which sometimes notoriously suffer from fiefdomism, slowness, and a list of other unfortunate qualities. A bureaucracy forces and limits the flow of information through defined channels that connect discrete points while cyberocracy transmits volumes of information accessible to many different parties. In addition, bureaucracy deploys brittle practices such as programs and budgets whereas cyberocracy is more adaptive with its focus on management and cultural contexts. Ultimately a cyberocracy may use administrative AIs if not an AI as head of state forming a machine rule government.
According to Ronfeldt and Valda, it is still too early to determine the exact form of cyberocracy but that it could lead to new forms of the traditional systems of governance such as democracy, totalitarianism, and hybrid governments. Some noted that cyberocracy is still speculative since there is currently no existing cybercratic government, although it is acknowledged that some of its components are already adopted by governments in a number of developed countries.
Examples
While the outcome or the results of cyberocracy is still challenging to identify, there are those who cite that it will lead to new forms of governmental and political systems, particularly amid the emergence of new sensory apparatuses, networked society, and modes of networked governance. There are, however, specific examples that could demonstrate this futuristic government. The Stasi of East Germany could be considered a prototype cybercratic organization. The Stasi collected files on six million people, or a little over a third of East Germany's total popula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNTP | The Genealogy Network Transfer Protocol (GNTP) is an unfinished protocol for a peer-to-peer genealogy network that was not completed because of resource constraints. The idea was to allow genealogists to share GEDCOM files in much the same way that music and other files are distributed on other peer-to-peer networks.
Literature
C. C. Albrecht, D. Dean, R. B. Jackson, S. W. Liddle, and R. D. Meservy. A Peer-To-Peer Network Protocol for Genealogical Data. In Proceedings of the First Family History Technology Workshop, pages 19–23, Provo, Utah, April 2001.
- E-Business Center - Brigham Young University (Protocol Version 0.75)Last Updated: February 6, 2002 Conan Albrecht
A Peer-To-Peer Network Protocol for Genealogical Data - Conan C. Albrecht, Douglas Dean, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen W. Liddle, and Raymond D. Meservy (E-Business Center Marriott School of Management) Brigham Young University
Enabling the Distributed Family Tree - by Hilton Campbell
Archived Website on Wayback
References
See also
growl (software)
Genealogy software
Internet protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Women%20in%20Sports%20Media | The Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM) is an American volunteer-managed, 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1987 as a support network and advocacy group for women who work in sports writing, editing, broadcast and production, and public and media relations. The membership of more than 700 men and women includes professionals in the industry and students aspiring to sports media careers.
AWSM was formed in 1987 by four California sportswriters, Nancy Cooney, Susan Fornoff, Michele Himmelberg and Kristin Huckshorn—to create a strong network and advocacy group for the few women who were working at the time in sports media. Forty people attended AWSM's first annual convention in 1988 in Oakland, California.
15 years prior to the creation of the Association for Women in Sports Media, the Title XI law was put into place. This law stated that discrimination would not be tolerated when it came to access and how women were treated whether playing a sport, or reporting on a sport.
Studies involving members of the Association for Women in Sports Media
Several studies were conducted, involving members of the Association for Women in Sports Media, such as one conducted by Indiana University students. That study found that majority of the women within the sports field, that were also members of the association felt as though they were treated fairly. The study also concluded that some women still felt as though they were given the short end of the stick when it came to the amount of assignments they received working with male athletes. (Hardin, Marie; Shain, Stacie (2005-12-01).
Another survey of 200 women, also members of the Association for Women in Sports Media was conducted. This survey found that more women working in the sports media field, resulted in women’s sports being broadcast more frequently. The study also concluded that women have grown accustom to males dominating the field, which has helped women accept their role, and strive to do the same work as men. (Smucker, Michael K.; Whisenant, Warren A.; Pedersen, Paul M. (2003-10-01))
70 additional members of the Association for Women in Sports Media was also conducted, finding the women felt as though the pay, assignments given, and treatment by the administration was fair, and they were unable to identify any gaps within the companies they worked for, primarily newspapers. (Miloch, Kimberly S.; Pedersen, Paul M.; Smucker, Michael K.; Whisenant, Warren A. (2005-09-01).
References
External links
Association for Women in Sports Media official website
An Organization of Their Own
Women Reporters in the Men's Locker Room
Melissa Ludtke and Time, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball
Sports professional associations based in the United States
American sports journalism organizations
Professional associations for women
Women's sports organizations in the United States
501(c)(3) organizations
Sports organizations established in 1987
1987 establishments in California
W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20compilation | In computer programming, conditional compilation is a compilation technique which results in an executable program that is able to be altered by changing specified parameters. This technique is commonly used when these alterations to the program are needed to run it on different platforms, or with different versions of required libraries or hardware.
Many programming languages support conditional compilation. Typically compiler directives define or "undefine" certain variables; other directives test these variables and modify compilation accordingly. For example, not using an actual language, the compiler may be set to define "Macintosh" and undefine "PC", and the code may contain:
(* System generic code *)
if mac != Null then
(* macOS specific code *)
else if pc != Null
(* Windows specific code *)
In C and some languages with a similar syntax, this is done using an '#ifdef' directive.
A similar procedure, using the name "conditional comment", is used by Microsoft Internet Explorer from version 5 to 9 to interpret HTML code. There is also a similar proprietary mechanism for adding conditional comments within JScript, known as conditional compilation.
Criticism
When conditional compilation depends on too many variables, it can make the code harder to reason about as the number of possible combinations of configuration increases exponentially. When conditional compilation is done via a preprocessor that does not guarantee syntactically correct output in the source language, such as the C preprocessor, this may lead to hard-to-debug compilation errors, which is sometimes called "#ifdef hell."
References
Programming language implementation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework-oriented%20design | Framework Oriented Design (FOD) is a programming paradigm that uses existing frameworks as the basis for an application design.
The framework can be thought of as fully functioning template application. The application development consists of modifying callback procedure behaviour and modifying object behaviour using inheritance.
This paradigm provides the patterns for understanding development with Rapid Application Development (RAD) systems such as Delphi, where the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides the template application and the programmer fills in the appropriate event handlers. The developer has the option of modifying existing objects via inheritance.
References
C++ Hierarchy Design Idioms by Stephen C. Dewhurst of www.semantics.org.
Software design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Next%20Iron%20Chef | The Next Iron Chef is a limited-run series on the Food Network that aired its fifth season in 2012. Each season is a stand-alone competition to select a chef to be designated an Iron Chef, who will appear on the Food Network program Iron Chef America.
In Season 1, eight chefs from around the United States battled to be the next Iron Chef. The show debuted Sunday, October 7, 2007, and the hosts were Alton Brown and "The Chairman", Mark Dacascos. Challenges one through five of the competition were held at the Culinary Institute of America. Challenges six and seven took place in Munich, Germany and Paris, France respectively. The final challenge took place at the Food Network studios in New York City, on the Iron Chef America set. The winner of The Next Iron Chef was Cleveland restaurant chef Michael Symon.
Season 2 premiered on October 4, 2009, and featured ten chefs battling to be the newest Iron Chef. The show was based in Los Angeles before traveling to Tokyo for two episodes, and again hosted by Alton Brown and "The Chairman" Mark Dacascos. Following a final battle in Kitchen Stadium, Chicago-born Ecuadorian-American chef Jose Garces, was selected the newest Iron Chef. Garces debuted as an Iron Chef on January 17, 2010, when he squared off against Seattle chef Rachel Yang.
Food Network began airing commercials for the third season of The Next Iron Chef in July 2010. It was later announced in an internet press release that Alton Brown and judge Donatella Arpaia would return for season 3. Completing the judges panel are food writer and broadcaster Simon Majumdar and current Iron Chef Michael Symon. Season 3 began airing on October 3, 2010 on Food Network. The winner of season 3 was Marc Forgione. Chef Forgione engaged in his first battle on November 28, 2010. By November 30, 2010, Next Iron Chef's music composer Craig Marks released the soundtrack "Iron Chef America & The Next Iron Chef", which contains themes from all seasons of both shows.
During Season 4, the eliminated chefs were interviewed during the week following the episode airdate on ABC's The Chew. The first castoff was interviewed on November 1, 2011.
Season 5 aired from November 4, 2012 to December 23, 2012 and was called The Next Iron Chef: Redemption.
In 2017, the series was revived as Iron Chef Gauntlet.
Judges
Season 1: 2007
Contestants
John Besh (New Orleans, LA); defeated Mario Batali in Battle Andouille in Season 3 of Iron Chef America.
Chris Cosentino (San Francisco, CA); lost to Batali in Battle Garlic, in Season 4.
Jill Davie (Santa Monica, CA) Chef de Cuisine at Josie in Santa Monica, California, and co-host of Fine Living's Shopping with Chefs.
Traci Des Jardins (San Francisco, CA); defeated Batali in Battle Shrimp in Season 2.
Gavin Kaysen (San Diego, CA) Chef de Cuisine at El Bizcocho at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in California.
Morou Ouattara (Washington, D.C.) who lost to Bobby Flay in Battle Peas in Season 3.
Aarón Sanchez (New York, NY) who tied Masah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20stream | In a non-interactive computer system, particularly IBM mainframes, a job stream, jobstream, or simply job is the sequence of job control language statements (JCL) and data (called instream data) that comprise a single "unit of work for an operating system". The term job traditionally means a one-off piece of work, and is contrasted with a batch (executing the same steps over many inputs), but non-interactive computation has come to be called "batch processing", and thus a unit of batch processing is often called a job, or by the oxymoronic term batch job; see job for details. Performing a job consists of executing one or more programs. Each program execution, called a job step, jobstep, or step, is usually related in some way to the others in the job. Steps in a job are executed sequentially, possibly depending on the results of previous steps, particularly in batch processing.
The term "job stream" is particularly associated with mainframes; in the IBM z/OS operating system, a job is initiated by a // JOB and terminated by the next // JOB or // statement. Each job step consists of one // EXEC statement indicating the program to be executed and usually multiple // DD statements defining the files and devices to be used.
Example
A simple example of a job stream is a system to print payroll checks which might consist of the following steps, performed on a batch of inputs:
Read a file of data containing employee id numbers and hours worked for the current pay period (batch of input data). Validate the data to check that the employee numbers are valid and that the hours worked are reasonable.
Compute salary and deductions for the current pay period based on hours input and pay rate and deductions from the employee's master record. Update the employee master "year-to-date" figures and create a file of records containing information to be used in the following steps.
Print payroll checks using the data created in the previous step.
Update bank account balance to reflect check numbers and amounts written.
Each step depends on successful completion of the previous step. For example, if incorrect data is input to the first step the job might terminate without executing the subsequent steps to allow the payroll department to correct the data and rerun the edit. If there are no errors the job will run to completion with no manual intervention.
See also
Job queue
Job scheduler
References
IBM mainframe operating systems
Job scheduling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daintree%20Networks | Daintree Networks, Inc. was a building automation company that provided wireless control systems for commercial and industrial buildings. Founded in 2003, Daintree was headquartered in Los Altos, California, with an R&D lab in Melbourne, Australia.
Daintree's ControlScope wireless control includes switches, sensors, LED drivers, programmable thermostats, and plug load controllers. Wireless communication is achieved either by wireless adaptation to traditional wired devices (such as sensors), or by building wireless communications modules directly into the devices.
Daintree had produced a design verification and operational support tool, the Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA), which supports wireless embedded technologies including IEEE 802.15.4, Zigbee, Zigbee RF4CE, 6LoWPAN, JenNet (from Jennic Limited), SimpliciTI (from Texas Instruments), and Synkro (from Freescale Semiconductor).
History
Daintree was founded in 2003 by Bill Wood, who had previously worked as a General Manager for Agilent Technologies, and Hewlett-Packard.
Daintree managers have previously held roles within wireless standards bodies, including chair of several working groups within the Zigbee Alliance.
In 2003, when many wireless technologies were new, Daintree provided design verification and operational support tools for wireless embedded developers. In 2007 the company began developing and delivering wireless systems for specific purposes; by 2009 it had narrowed its focus to lighting and building control.
On April 21, 2016, Current Lighting Solutions, an energy management startup within GE, acquired Daintree Networks for US$77 million to combine its open-standard wireless network with GE's open source platform Predix to offer a new energy management system to businesses.
Products
ControlScope Manager (CSM): Software used to configure, manage, and maintain key energy loads in commercial buildings. It includes management of individual devices and "zones" of multiple devices. This includes calibration, scheduling, alarm notification, energy monitoring, occupancy and daylight control, demand response controls, and an automated commissioning tool.
Wireless Area Controller (WAC): A hardware that manages the wireless network, contains the control algorithms that converts sensing data into commands to ballasts and luminaires, tracks devices and stores their states, and detects issues and repairs the system.
Wireless Adapter: A hardware that enables traditional wired devices to communicate wirelessly within the network. It interfaces wireless signals to wired controls, and can be used in conjunction with devices such as wired sensors, LED drivers, ballasts and switches.
Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA): A discontinued software for the development, deployment and management of wireless hardware devices and embedded applications based technologies such as Zigbee, IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, SimpliciTI and Synkro. Carries out performance measurements and graphical network visualiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LU%20reduction | LU reduction is an algorithm related to LU decomposition. This term is usually used in the context of super computing and highly parallel computing. In this context it is used as a benchmarking algorithm, i.e. to provide a comparative measurement of speed for different computers. LU reduction is a special parallelized version of an LU decomposition algorithm, an example can be found in (Guitart 2001). The parallelized version usually distributes the work for a matrix row to a single processor and synchronizes the result with the whole matrix (Escribano 2000).
Sources
J. Oliver, J. Guitart, E. Ayguadé, N. Navarro and J. Torres. Strategies for Efficient Exploitation of Loop-level Parallelism in Java. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience(Java Grande 2000 Special Issue), Vol.13 (8-9), pp. 663–680. ISSN 1532-0634, July 2001, , last retrieved on Sept. 14 2007
J. Guitart, X. Martorell, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé, Improving Java Multithreading Facilities: the Java Nanos Environment, Research Report UPC-DAC-2001-8, Computer Architecture Department, Technical University of Catalonia, March 2001, .
Arturo González-Escribano, Arjan J. C. van Gemund, Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo et al., Measuring the Performance Impact of SP-Restricted Programming in Shared-Memory Machines, In Vector and Parallel Processing — VECPAR 2000, Springer Verlag, pp. 128–141, , 2000,
Numerical linear algebra
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset%20Network | Liberty Learn, formerly known as Mindset Network, is an African educational technology and media NGO nonprofit organization and a digital satellite television free-to air channel launched in 2003. Working across Africa. It was launched to educate and improve health in South Africa, uplift and empower communities with various Educational and Health initiatives and interventions. The organisation works with Government, international donors and blue-chip corporations to deliver sustainable and practical change to the developmental challenges that communities face. It develops, sources, distributes and uses digital content. Its multimedia content is distributed via broadcast television, IP based satellite datacast, the web, distributable media (hard drives, DVDs and CDs) and mobile networks. From 1 April 2020, MultiChoice launched a second channel Mindset Pop (Pop Primary) in South Africa and across Africa catering to Grade 4–9 with a lineup of programming for Grade R-3. As of 10 December 2020, the pop up channel will come to an end and no longer be available on its platform, but remained its original Mindset channel.
In June 2023, it was announced that the channel will rebrand into Liberty Learn which is a joint venture with Liberty.
Programmes
Mindset currently has programmes divided into six categories: Learn, Life, Play, Health, Connect and ECD. Mindset is developing a Livelihoods channel for developing the skills of out-of-school youth.
Learn
Mindset Learn, the original category, is for Grades 8 to 12 at South African high schools. Most programming is recorded played on the channel and readily available to stream on the Mindset App. Archive footage and show notes is available to watch and download on the Mindset Learn website. Schools which use the Smart Technologies's Smart Board have preloaded videos and show notes. The programs covers subjects like Mathematics, Physical Science, Life Science, Geography, Economics, Business Studies, Accounting, English, and Information Technology.
ECD
Early Childhood Development (previously Mindset Cabanga), with support from USAID, is a programme for preschoolers and primary school children covering numeracy, spelling, cartoons and story times, all under the title 'Big School', mathematics, natural science and technology.
Health
Mindset Health is about treating HIV/AIDS and other health issues with shows such as MTV Shuga. The programme reaches patients in clinic and hospitals providers, rooms, and health care providers.
Life
Mindset life displays content outside the curriculum and is mostly infotainment. Most of these shows are taken from the SABC archives.
Play
Showcases sport highlights and docu-series such as The Immortals.
Connect
Programming related to science and technology such as The Big Idea and Dream The Future.
Sister channels
In April 2020, MultiChoice partnered up with Mindset Network to launch a pop-up channel, Mindset Pop catered towards Grade 4-9 with programs from Grade 1-3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20brain | The global brain is a neuroscience-inspired and futurological vision of the planetary information and communications technology network that interconnects all humans and their technological artifacts. As this network stores ever more information, takes over ever more functions of coordination and communication from traditional organizations, and becomes increasingly intelligent, it increasingly plays the role of a brain for the planet Earth.
Basic ideas
Proponents of the global brain hypothesis claim that the Internet increasingly ties its users together into a single information processing system that functions as part of the collective nervous system of the planet. The intelligence of this network is collective or distributed: it is not centralized or localized in any particular individual, organization or computer system. Therefore, no one can command or control it. Rather, it self-organizes or emerges from the dynamic networks of interactions between its components. This is a property typical of complex adaptive systems.
The World Wide Web in particular resembles the organization of a brain with its web pages (playing a role similar to neurons) connected by hyperlinks (playing a role similar to synapses), together forming an associative network along which information propagates. This analogy becomes stronger with the rise of social media, such as Facebook, where links between personal pages represent relationships in a social network along which information propagates from person to person.
Such propagation is similar to the spreading activation that neural networks in the brain use to process information in a parallel, distributed manner.
History
Although some of the underlying ideas were already expressed by Nikola Tesla in the late 19th century and were written about by many others before him, the term "global brain" was coined in 1982 by Peter Russell in his book The Global Brain. How the Internet might be developed to achieve this was set out in 1986. The first peer-reviewed article on the subject was published by Gottfried Mayer-Kress in 1995, while the first algorithms that could turn the world-wide web into a collectively intelligent network were proposed by Francis Heylighen and Johan Bollen in 1996.
Reviewing the strands of intellectual history that contributed to the global brain hypothesis, Francis Heylighen distinguishes four perspectives: organicism, encyclopedism, emergentism and evolutionary cybernetics. He asserts that these developed in relative independence but now are converging in his own scientific re-formulation.
Organicism
In the 19th century, the sociologist Herbert Spencer saw society as a social organism and reflected about its need for a nervous system. Entomologist William Wheeler developed the concept of the ant colony as a spatially extended organism, and in the 1930s he coined the term superorganism to describe such an entity. This concept was later adopted by thinkers such as Joël de Rosnay in the book |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20M%20Adelaide | Triple M Adelaide is a radio station broadcasting in Adelaide, Australia. Its target demographic is the 30-54 age group. Triple M Adelaide is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Triple M network and broadcasts on the 104.7 MHz frequency.
Triple M Adelaide has in the past simply networked the majority of its shows from its Sydney and Melbourne counterpart stations, but since 2011 it has focussed more on local content.
History
Triple M Adelaide had its origins as an AM radio station, commencing broadcasting as 5KA on 25 March 1927 on the frequency 1200 kHz.
In 1941 the station and its repeater 5AU, along with interstate stations 2HD and 4AT, were closed by the Federal Government after allegations of fifth column activities. These stations were associated with the Jehovah's Witnesses, which opposed participation in the War, and had other doctrines seen as un-patriotic.
In 1943 5KA was reopened after purchase by the Methodist Church, and became attached to the Central Methodist Mission, largely organised by Reverend Samuel Forsyth. The station was locally notable as the only broadcaster operating through the night. The station changed frequency to 1197 kHz in 1978, as part of the change in channel spacing from 10 to 9 kHz on the AM broadcast band.
In 1982, 5KA adopted a country music format and re-branded itself 12K. This format lasted only eight months.
In 1983, Adelaide's number one breakfast duo 'Bazz & Pilko' defected from rival station 5AD, bringing much of their audience with them and giving 5KA a much needed ratings boost. Also in the mid 80s, 5KA converted to AM stereo and adopted a younger music format "All hits all the time", resulting in improved ratings.
In July 1986, 5KA was sold to Wesgo and mid 1987 changed to a "hits and memories" format, followed in late 1987 by a move to brand-new studios at 106 Currie Street in the Adelaide central business district.
On 1 January 1990, 5KA became the first of two commercial AM radio stations in Adelaide to convert to the FM band. The station bid $5.5 million in a priced based allocation process the previous year for the FM licence. 5KA moved to the frequency 104.7 MHz and the AM frequency was relinquished. With the FM conversion, the 5KA call-sign was changed to 5KKA and the station was branded on-air as KAFM. The AM frequency was re-purposed and allocated to a community broadcasting licence, 5RPH. The former transmission equipment which was co-located with competitor 5AD at the time was handed over to the operators contracted to provide transmission facilities to 5RPH, but the infrastructure was effectively abandoned.
In August 1993, Hoyts Media which owned the Triple M radio network in the eastern states bought KAFM but could not adopt the Triple M call-sign in Adelaide as a community radio station already had the call-sign 5MMM. Hoyts then paid 5MMM for the right to use the Triple M name. The community station 5MMM then converted to 5DDD, and KAFM was then free to change its call-sign t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3UA | M3UA is a communication protocol of the SIGTRAN family, used in telephone networks to carry signaling over Internet Protocol (IP). M3UA enables the SS7 protocol's User Parts (e.g. ISUP, SCCP and TUP) to run over virtually any network technology breaking its limitation to telephony equipment like T-carrier, E-carrier or Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), which highly improves scalability of the signaling networks.
M3UA stands for MTP Level 3 (MTP3) User Adaptation Layer as defined by the IETF SIGTRAN working group in (which replaces and supersedes ). Like other adaptation protocols, M3UA uses SCTP to transmit messages between its network elements.
Implementation scheme
Typical scheme
_ __
| | | | | MGC|
| SP |<----------------->| SGW |<---------------|-->(AS) |
|__| SS7 network |___| IP network ||
MTP3
point-code common point-code
PC1 PC2
Use SGW as STP
Several AS owns PC itself and uses SGW as STP (transit pointcode).
_ ___
| | | SGW | | MGC|
| | | | /-------------|-->(AS) | point-code PC3
| SP |<----------------|-->(STP)<--|- | |
| | | | \-------------|-->(AS) | point-code PC4
|__| SS7 network |___| IP network |_|
MTP3 point-code
point-code PC2
PC1
Protocol
M3UA uses a complex state machine to manage and indicate states it's running. Several M3UA messages are mandatory to make an M3UA association or peering fully functional (ASP UP, ASP UP Acknowledge, ASP Active, ASP Active Acknowledge), some others are recommended (Notify, Destination Audits (DAUD)).
Additional info
An open implementation of the M3UA standard can be found at OpenSS7's web site.
Wireshark is shipped with a dissector for M3UA, sample packets can be found in Wireshark's wiki page, which shows ISUP Packet samples (including M3UA).
References
Internet protocols
Internet Standards
Signaling System 7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20M%20Sydney | Triple M Sydney (callsign 2MMM) is a radio station broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. Triple M Sydney is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Triple M network and broadcasts on the 104.9 MHz frequency.
History
The Early Days
Triple M commenced broadcasting on 2 August 1980. Together with then rival station 2Day FM, it was one of the first two commercial FM radio stations in Sydney. The Government-owned Triple J began broadcasting on the FM band just one day earlier.
The station has always been primarily a rock music station. In the 80's, Triple M was one of the highest-rating radio stations in Sydney, spearheaded by its breakfast show presented by Doug Mulray and featuring the writing of and occasional appearances by Andrew Denton. From 1988 until the early nineties, Club Veg with Mal Lees and Vic Davies hosted the Night show before moving to Perth to host the breakfast show at 96FM/Triple M.
For all of this period and into the 1990s, Triple M's promotional campaign featured the character "Dr Dan", a guitar-playing satyr with wings, and a theme song that was an extended reworking of the Mike Batt track "Introduction (The Journey of a Fool)", from his 1979 album Tarot Suite.
1990s to Early 2000s
After the Departure of Doug Mulray at breakfast, 2MMM tried a variety of breakfast show hosts, including Rob Duckworth and Sammy Power, and the Richard Stubbs Breakfast Show (broadcast from 3MMM in Melbourne). It was not until the late 1990s when Andrew Denton, a previous contributor to Mulray's program took the chair and became the host of Triple M's breakfast slot, with Amanda Keller joining him as a co-host, that 2MMM once again enjoyed ratings success.
Club Veg with Mal Lees and Vic Davies also returned in 1998 and enjoyed instant ratings success in their morning slot of 9:00am–12:00pm before being moved to the Drive shift 4:00pm–7:00pm.
This was also the time that Keller would work with Brendan "Jonesy" Jones who was doing afternoons at the time. Denton called in unwell one day Jones was called in to fill in with Keller, five years later they are working at WSFM.
FM Talk was tinkered with via Talkback Host and journalist Brian Carlton, using the on air name of The Spoonman, derived from the Soundgarden song "Spoonman". This show got axed at the end of the 1990s.
Andrew Denton left the M's in the early 2000s, and many breakfast teams were tried out, with the likes of Peter Berner, Mikey Robins, and a return of Amanda Keller also during this period.
The Triple M Freq Club was discontinued nationally during 2004.
2006–2008
A new breakfast program, The Cage emerged on the Triple M network, which included talents such as James Brayshaw, Peter Berner, Fitzy, Brigitte Duclos, these hosts being in various Triple M studios across the network. This went on in Sydney until the end of 2006, with the popular drive show The Shebang taking up the breakfast slot in 2007, to a low degree of success. Brian Carlton Returned in 2005, once again doing nights, us |
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