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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantville%20station | Grantville station is a station on San Diego Trolley's Green Line in the middle class residential Grantville neighborhood of San Diego, California. It is one of the San Diego Trolley network's newer stations, having opened in 2005.
The station is elevated and has side platforms with two railroad tracks passing between them. The station is located in the middle of a long, tall viaduct taking the trolley line over the Interstate 8 freeway. The station is located on Alvarado Canyon Road near Fairmount Avenue.
Station layout
There are two tracks, each served by a side platform.
See also
List of San Diego Trolley stations
References
External links
Grantville Trolley Station / Alvarado Creek Revitalization Plan
Green Line (San Diego Trolley)
San Diego Trolley stations in San Diego
Railway stations in the United States opened in 2005
2005 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube-connected%20cycles | In graph theory, the cube-connected cycles is an undirected cubic graph, formed by replacing each vertex of a hypercube graph by a cycle. It was introduced by for use as a network topology in parallel computing.
Definition
The cube-connected cycles of order n (denoted CCCn) can be defined as a graph formed from a set of n2n nodes, indexed by pairs of numbers (x, y) where 0 ≤ x < 2n and 0 ≤ y < n. Each such node is connected to three neighbors: , , and , where "⊕" denotes the bitwise exclusive or operation on binary numbers.
This graph can also be interpreted as the result of replacing each vertex of an n-dimensional hypercube graph by an n-vertex cycle. The hypercube graph vertices are indexed by the numbers x, and the positions within each cycle by the numbers y.
Properties
The cube-connected cycles of order n is the Cayley graph of a
group that acts on binary words of length n by rotation and flipping bits of the word. The generators used to form this Cayley graph from the group are the group elements that act by rotating the word one position left, rotating it one position right, or flipping its first bit. Because it is a Cayley graph, it is vertex-transitive: there is a symmetry of the graph mapping any vertex to any other vertex.
The diameter of the cube-connected cycles of order n is for any n ≥ 4; the farthest point from (x, y) is (2n − x − 1, (y + n/2) mod n). showed that the crossing number of CCCn is ((1/20) + o(1)) 4n.
According to the Lovász conjecture, the cube-connected cycle graph should always contain a Hamiltonian cycle, and this is now known to be true. More generally, although these graphs are not pancyclic, they contain cycles of all but a bounded number of possible even lengths, and when n is odd they also contain many of the possible odd lengths of cycles.
Parallel processing application
Cube-connected cycles were investigated by , who applied these graphs as the interconnection pattern of a network connecting the processors in a parallel computer. In this application, cube-connected cycles have the connectivity advantages of hypercubes while only requiring three connections per processor. Preparata and Vuillemin showed that a planar layout based on this network has optimal area × time2 complexity for many parallel processing tasks.
Notes
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Network topology
Parametric families of graphs
Regular graphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOSH | WOSH (1490 AM) is a radio station serving the Oshkosh, Wisconsin area with a news/talk format including the ABC News Radio network. This station is under ownership of Cumulus Media.
The station began broadcasting on December 31, 1941. During the late 1960s until 1975, WOSH was the leading Top 40 radio station in the Appleton-Oshkosh market, with Jonathon Brandmeier as the station's star disc jockey.
On August 1, 1975, AM 1490's callsign was changed from WOSH to WYTL, and its format changed from top 40 to modern country. This change was advertised as a "frequency swap" to listeners, where WYTL-FM "moved" along with its country format to AM 1490, and WOSH-AM "moved" to FM 103.9 with its top 40 format.
In 1984, the call sign WOSH was reinstated to 1490 and the current news/talk format established.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WOSH
WOSH NewsTalk 93.9 1490 - Official website
News and talk radio stations in the United States
OSH
Radio stations established in 1980
Cumulus Media radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuppari%20Wars | is an action video game for the Family Computer. The object is to acquire all of the enemies' territory and defeat the evil gang leaders. Even though this game was only released in Japan, the gangsters fight without any weapons and the violence level is mild compared to later gang-related games.
Gameplay
Strategy
Once the main gang leader is defeated in either or mode, the remaining members of the gang switch membership to become a gray-colored gang that does not have a leader. Consequently, all territory that belonged to leader that was killed in combat becomes neutral territory with a number describing the strength of the "neutral gangs." These "neutral gangs" will attempt to defend their turf. In order for a gang with colors (red, blue, or green) to use the land as their own, they must eliminate all the gangsters in that territory. However, invasions can be canceled before they can begin by saying "no" when asked to .
Neutral gangs, fortunately, do not have ability to invade the territories of the red, blue, or green colored gangs. There are three difficulty levels for computer opponents and games are possible with two or three colors (but never with only one color). After naming the character (using the Japanese alphabet), the player selects a face to represent the gang's leader. The two gang leaders involved will use a special fighting game engine to settle their differences while individual gang members will fight each other through a special battle screen. The battle screen allows players to use special effects against the opponent, like a motorcycle, a thunderstorm, or even a quick call to the police's riot squad.
All brawls are timed by a timer which is never seen in the game. That means if there is no determined winner in a certain amount of time, the brawl ends with a stalemate and no territory gains or losses are made. The brawl can be re-initiated either during the player's next turn or during the opponent's turn. There are eight different maps to choose from that depict the world in a manner similar to the board game Risk. There are islands with land bridges and bodies of water to them. Between combat, players can either their gang members from territory to territory or immediately end their turn. It is possible for players to transfer all of their gang members out of a territory, turning it into a blank grey territory without a number.
Fighting
In addition to the strategy mode, there is also a variation of the game that focus exclusively on street fighting using either the or the mode. With a cast of 20 characters, it was considered to be one of largest line-ups for an 8-bit fighting game compared to Nekketsu Kakutō Densetsu with 22 characters, Tenkaichi Bushi Keru Nagūru having 16 characters in 1989, and Joy Mech Fight which has 36 characters. Out of the 20 available characters, the player must pick five and the computer must do the same. When a fighter is defeated, he is eliminated and is forced to play against the ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tread%20mark | Tread mark may refer to:
Skid mark, a mark left by the skidding of an object, often a tire
Tread Marks, a tank combat computer game
TreadMarks, distributed shared computer memory system
See also
Footprint |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Educational%20Television | Community Educational Television, Inc. (CET) is a subsidiary of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) which owns six TBN-affiliated television stations in Texas and Florida, all on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting as mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). CET's general offices, along with its flagship station KETH-TV, are located in the Alief section of Houston.
All CET stations broadcast generally the same schedule as other TBN stations, with some local programs and educational programming (other than the FCC-mandated E/I shows) to satisfy the educational license.
Stations
KETH-TV, Houston, Texas (flagship)
KITU-TV, Beaumont, Texas
KLUJ-TV, Harlingen, Texas
KHCE-TV, San Antonio, Texas
WJEB-TV, Jacksonville, Florida
WTCE-TV, Fort Pierce, Florida
External links
Community Educational Television
Trinity Broadcasting Network
Religious television stations in the United States
Television broadcasting companies of the United States
Companies based in Houston |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Space%20forum | Computer Space forum is a yearly computer art festival, organized by the Student Computer Art Society (SCAS) in Sofia, Bulgaria. It's one of the oldest digital art festivals in Bulgaria, founded in 1989.
Description
An international non-commercial event and platform joining young artists, students and producers of computer graphics, computer animation, off-line multimedia, electronic music and web design. Computer Space includes contest and festival part and all the events are free and open to the public especially encouraging the participation of students and young artists. Every year more than 200 projects in the sphere of computer arts have been presented by their authors and discussed. The creative idea, the transformation of the idea to project, the combination of technology and art in the implementation, the society impact of computers have been always a main focus of the symposia in the frame of Computer Space.
History
Starting as an electronic music festival in 1989 Computer Space included graphics and animation sections next few years. Web design and mobile applications have been one of the fast-growing sections last years.
During the 1980s Bulgaria specialized in producing microcomputers in the former communist bloc countries and the Soviet Union specialized in producing big machines and supercomputers. The Eastern bloc countries had the so-called Economic Inter-support Council and in the frame of that Council each country has been developing some economic area. At that time it was not so clear the microcomputers will be the future and some experts believe that the microcomputers are mainly for games and home usage. It happened that in 1981 the first microcomputer in Eastern Europe called Imko II then (in 1982) called Pravetz 82 (with 8 bit processor) has been released in Bulgaria. This was Apple II compatible microcomputer and it came to life just after Apple II.
This situation placed Bulgaria in the leadership role in microcomputers production not only in Eastern Europe but also in the Middle East and even in the Central Europe. A huge plants have been built exporting thousands of Pravetz 82 and later Pravetz 16 (with 8086/88 processor) to all Eastern bloc countries and to Arabic countries. The development of computer industry in that time strongly influenced the development of software and also the development of computer arts. In the beginning of 80's the first analogue synthesiser (produced in Paris and occupying almost one big hall) has been installed in the Bulgarian National Radio and thus giving a strong tool to the electronic music composers from the Balkan region. The own production of EGA and VGA displays in the middle and late 80s pushed the computer graphics and visualization to a new level.
Being a barometer of electronic and computer arts in Sough-Eastern Europe Computer Space forum often offers the artists possibility to debate such fundamental issues as relations between computer arts and other contemporary arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snostorm | Snostorm (Snostorm3) is a version of the SNOBOL4 language with structured programming constructs added. It compensates for the near absence of structured programming constructs in SNOBOL4 by providing IF, ELSEIF, ELSE, LOOP, CASE, and PROCEDURE statements, among others. It was originally designed and implemented by Fred G. Swartz as a preprocessor for SPITBOL running under the Michigan Terminal System (MTS) at the University of Michigan Computing Center during the 1970s.
Features added
Added features include logical operators, control structures including procedures, initialization blocks, enhanced comments, and listing control.
The grammar includes these added constructs:
Logical operators
AND, OR, and NOT logical operators.
Control structures
IF, ELSEIF, ELSE, and ENDIF statements.
LOOP, LOOP WHILE, LOOP UNTIL, LOOP FOR, EXITLOOP, NEXTLOOP, ENDLOOP, and ENDLOOP REPEAT statements.
DOCASE, CASE, ELSECASE, and ENDCASE statements.
PROCEDURE (PROC), EXITPROCEDURE (EDITPROC), and ENDPROCEDURE (ENDPROC) statements.
Initialization
INITIAL and ENDINITIAL statements.
Enhanced comments
Comments starting with an asterisk (*) in columns other than column 1.
Blank lines treated as comments.
Listing control
EJECT, TITLE, SUBTITLE, SPACE, LIST ON, LIST OFF, LIST PUSHON, LIST PUSHOFF, and LIST POP statements.
In addition MTS Snostorm provided options for prettyprinting and for debugging with the Spitbol compiler.
The syntax of Snostorm is largely insensitive to spaces and newlines, but not entirely so because of its dependence upon SNOBOL4 for execution.
Example
A SNOBOL4 program as given in The SNOBOL4 Programming Language by Griswold, Poage, and Polonsky followed by the same program rewritten in Snostorm.
The original SNOBOL4 program.
...
READ OUTPUT = INPUT :F(DISPLAY)
TEXT = OUTPUT
NEXT TEXT CHAR = :F(READ)
COUNT<CH> = COUNT<CH> + 1 :(NEXT)
DISPLAY OUTPUT =
LOOP LETTERS CHAR = :F(END)
OUTPUT = NE(COUNT<CH>) CH ' OCCURS ' COUNT<CH> ' TIMES'
+ :(LOOP)
END
The same program, rewritten in Snostorm.
...
LOOP WHILE TEXT = INPUT
OUTPUT = TEXT
LOOP WHILE TEXT CHAR =
COUNT<CH> = COUNT<CH> + 1
ENDLOOP
ENDLOOP
OUTPUT =
LOOP WHILE LETTERS CHAR =
IF NE(COUNT<CH>)
OUTPUT = CH ’ OCCURS ’ COUNT<CH> ’ TIMES’
ENDIF
ENDLOOP
END
Use
In addition to its use at the eight to fifteen sites that ran the Michigan Terminal System, a Snostorm3 compiler existed at University College London (UCL) from 1982 to 1984 and worked by compiling Snostorm3 into SNOBOL4, which could then be executed using the SNOBOL4 interpreter or by using a SPITBOL compiler to create an executable.
References
External links
Fred Swartz's description of Snostorm, 2010.
"The SNOSTORM Returneth", s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBCUniversal%20International%20Networks | NBCUniversal International Networks & Direct-to-Consumer, formerly NBC Universal Global Networks, Universal Networks International and NBCUniversal International Networks, is a part of NBCUniversal, owned by Comcast.
History
When NBCUniversal was formed in 2004, it owned many entertainment television channels in Europe and Latin America. These were mostly a few international versions of the Sci Fi Channel, three action and suspense series channels in Europe, the Italian Studio Universal channel and the Latin American version of the USA Network.
In 2007, NBC Universal acquired Sparrowhawk Media Group, which at the time was a British private equity-backed media company managing a collection of digital television channels, and integrated it into NBC Universal Global Networks. The purchase more than doubled the number of international channels in NBC Universal's portfolio. Sparrowhawk's crown jewel was an international network of drama channels available on most continents under the Hallmark Channel brand, but Diva TV, Movies 24, and KidsCo channels were also available.
Altogether, the company broadcast about 70 different channels by 2009. On 5 October 2009, it was announced that the venture would be renamed Universal Networks International and focus its attention on five channel brands, all with "Universal" in their name:
Universal Channel
13th Street Universal
Syfy Universal
Diva Universal
Studio Universal
The overhaul started in late 2009 and progressed during 2010. Most of the international Sci Fi channels were rebranded as Syfy. The Hallmark Channel brand was also phased out in most markets during 2010. Typically, it was replaced by the Universal Channel brand in markets where that brand was not available before. In many markets where Universal Channel was already present, Hallmark Channel was replaced by Diva Universal with one each replaced by Studio Universal or 13th Street Universal.
Following the merger of NBCUniversal and Comcast in 2011, the following channels are also operated and distributed by NBCUniversal:
E! Entertainment Television
Style Network
The Golf Channel
The DreamWorks Channel was placed under the NBCU International executive vice president, lifestyle and kids Duccio Donati in August 2017. This paired the channel with E! international channels and NBCU lifestyle channel content. On 1 January 2018, NBCUniversal International Networks took over HBO Asia's role with DreamWorks Channel in Southeast Asia.
Following NBCU parent company, Comcast acquisition of Sky Group in 2018, NBCUniversal International Networks took over the sales, marketing and distribution rights to Sky News outside UK and Ireland from Fox Networks Group International.
Channels
Australia and New Zealand
7Bravo (Australia only)
Bravo (New Zealand only)
CNBC
MSNBC International (Australia only)
Universal TV
Australia
New Zealand
DreamWorks Channel (Australia only)
Oxygen
Former:
E!
Euronews
KidsCo
13th Street
Style Network
SYFY
Europe
13th St |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Networks%20Group | Fox Networks Group (FNG) is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company that oversees the international television assets that were acquired from former 21st Century Fox in March 2019. The division overseed the production and broadcasting of the Fox brands in the United States and internationally. These brands included Fox, Fox Sports, National Geographic, and BabyTV, as well producing and distributing more than 300 entertainment, film, sports and factual channels in 45 languages across Europe, Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, using several brands in those regions. Among their non-linear brands were Fox Play and Fox Plus. These brands reached over 1.725 billion households around the world
Prior to March 2019, the group included the U.S. unit which consisted of Fox Television Group, Fox Cable Networks, Fox Sports Media Group, Fox News Group, National Geographic Partners, and Fox Networks Digital Consumer Group. Following Disney's acquisition of 21CF, FNG's U.S. unit was dispersed between the Murdoch's Fox Corporation and Walt Disney Television, while the non-U.S. units (previously known as Fox International Channels, a unit previously operated jointly with 21CF's U.S. domestic broadcast units until 2016, when the units were merged into Fox Networks Group) were integrated into Disney's direct-to-consumer and international unit later phased out with its properties being dispersed into various Disney units with its channels rebranding to either Star or FX brands.
History
Formation and expansion
Fox International Channels was formed in 1993 to serve as the unit for the international multi-media business owned at the time by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation after the purchase of Star TV with the purpose to serve its international channels.
In 1997, Fox International Channels purchased NHNZ, a producer of documentaries. NHNZ had a stake in Singapore-based Beach House Pictures.
In 2001, Fox International Channels entered the Spanish market with Fox and National Geographic Channel adding Fox Crime later on.
In January 2004, the FX289 channel for UK and Ireland was launched, later rebranded as FX as it moved to Sky EPG in April 2005. The channel was rebranded as Fox on January 11, 2013.
In early 2006, Fox International Channels formed a production company called Fox Toma 1 with Argentine content producer Ernesto Sandler. FIC purchased a majority interest in Telecolombia, renaming the production company Fox Telecolombia in June 2007. This was to boost Spanish-language original shows for Latin American and the US. Fox Telecolombia would still provide Telefutura and RCN Colombian network with programming. In September 2007, FIC purchased a majority share in the international operations of BabyTV with the founders retaining the original Israel business.
In 2007, the Argentinian Utilisima lifestyle channel, which launched in 1996, was sold to Fox International Channels. The channel went global in 2008, with the addition of a Portuguese feed, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty%20map | A poverty map is a map which provides a detailed description of the spatial distribution of poverty and inequality within a country. It combines individual and household (micro) survey data and population (macro) census data with the objective of estimating welfare indicators for specific geographic area as small as village or hamlet.
Recent advances in geographic information systems (GIS), databases and computer aided software engineering make poverty mapping possible, where data can be presented in the form of maps and overlaying interfaces for cross-comparisons. Spatial analysis and benchmarking are also applied to assess the relationships between the two sets of micro and macro data according to their geographic location.
See also
Life and Labour of the People in London
References
External links
Mapping poverty in America
Measurements and definitions of poverty
Economic geography
Map types |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHEVAB-FM | XHEVAB-FM is a radio station in Valle de Bravo, State of México. It broadcasts on 93.5 FM and forms part of the Super Stereo Miled network covering most of the State of Mexico.
History
XEVAB-AM 1580 received its concession on September 24, 1979. The 250-watt daytimer migrated to FM in 2011.
References
Regional Mexican radio stations
Radio stations in the State of Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISP%202 | LISP 2 was a programming language proposed in the 1960s as the successor to Lisp. It had largely Lisp-like semantics and Algol 60-like syntax. Today it is mostly remembered for its syntax, but in fact it had many features beyond those of early Lisps.
Early Lisps had many limitations, including limited data types and slow numerics. Its use of fully parenthesized notation was also considered a problem. The inventor of Lisp, John McCarthy, expected these issues to be addressed in a later version, called notionally Lisp 2. Hence the name Lisp 1.5 for the successor to the earliest Lisp.
Lisp 2 was a joint project of the System Development Corporation and Information International, Inc., and was intended for the IBM built AN/FSQ-32 military computer. Development later shifted to the IBM 360/67 and the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-6. The project was eventually abandoned.
Bibliography
References
External links
LISP 2 section of History of LISP at Software Preservation Group
Paul McJones. The LISP 2 Project. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, October-December 2017, pages 85-92.
Lisp programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trish%20Regan | Patricia Ann Regan (born December 13, 1972) is a conservative American television talk-show host and author. She hosted Trish Regan Primetime on the Fox Business Network from 2015 to 2020.
Regan was previously a television host on Bloomberg Television from 2012 to 2015, and a host at CNBC from 2007 to 2012. She was also a host on Fox Business and a contributor on Fox News until March of 2020.
Early life and education
She was Miss New Hampshire and represented her home state in the Miss America 1994 pageant. Regan went on to study voice in Graz, Austria, and at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston before enrolling at Columbia University. She attended and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, graduating in 1991. She graduated from Columbia with a bachelor of arts in history in 2000.
Career
CBS (2001–07)
Regan got her start in 2001 at CBS MarketWatch, then owned partially by CBS News, where she was a business correspondent reporting for the CBS Evening News through 2007. She also contributed to Face the Nation and 48 Hours. Her work on the terror connection between the Tri-Border region of South America and Islamic terrorist groups earned her an Emmy nomination for Investigative Reporting in 2007.
While working at CBS News, Regan was a correspondent for CBS MoneyWatch. In 2002, she earned the Most Outstanding Young Broadcast Journalist Award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists for her work there.
CNBC (2007–12)
During her tenure at CNBC, Regan hosted a daily-markets show and created documentary long-form programming for the network.
Regan was nominated for a Best Documentary Emmy Award while also earning a Gerald Loeb nomination for her documentary work on "Against the Tide: The Battle for New Orleans" – an investigative piece on the New Orleans levee system, after Hurricane Katrina.
Bloomberg Television (2012–15)
Prior to joining Fox, Regan was an anchor at Bloomberg Television, where she hosted the daily global market show, Street Smart with Trish Regan.
Fox Business and Fox News (2015–2020)
Regan joined Fox News and Fox Business in 2015, serving as anchor for The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan weekdays. She switched to a traditional conservative talk format for a new primetime show in 2018, titled Trish Regan Primetime.
Denmark comments
In August 2018, Regan likened Denmark to Venezuela. Regan said Denmark's economic model was unfeasible and argued, "there's something rotten in Denmark". During the segment, Regan sought to demonstrate that the economic model in Denmark was unfeasible. She made a number of misleading claims about Denmark, including: "everyone in Denmark is working for the government" and "no one wants to work". The segment stirred controversy in both Denmark and the U.S., with news outlets, politicians, experts, and the Danish government noting that, relative to the United States, Denmark is ranked higher on indicators of economic freedom, ease |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap | In computing, a bitmap is a mapping from some domain (for example, a range of integers) to bits. It is also called a bit array or bitmap index.
As a noun, the term "bitmap" is very often used to refer to a particular bitmapping application: the pix-map, which refers to a map of pixels, where each one may store more than two colors, thus using more than one bit per pixel. In such a case, the domain in question is the array of pixels which constitute a digital graphic output device (a screen or monitor). In some contexts, the term bitmap implies one bit per pixel, whereas pixmap is used for images with multiple bits per pixel.
A bitmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits. Now, along with pixmap, it commonly refers to the similar concept of a spatially mapped array of pixels. Raster images in general may be referred to as bitmaps or pixmaps, whether synthetic or photographic, in files or memory.
Many graphical user interfaces use bitmaps in their built-in graphics subsystems; for example, the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 platforms' GDI subsystem, where the specific format used is the Windows and OS/2 bitmap file format, usually named with the file extension of .BMP (or .DIB for device-independent bitmap). Besides BMP, other file formats that store literal bitmaps include InterLeaved Bitmap (ILBM), Portable Bitmap (PBM), X Bitmap (XBM), and Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap (WBMP). Similarly, most other image file formats, such as JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and GIF, also store bitmap images (as opposed to vector graphics), but they are not usually referred to as bitmaps, since they use compressed formats internally.
Pixel storage
In typical uncompressed bitmaps, image pixels are generally stored with a variable number of bits per pixel which identify its color, the color depth. Pixels of 8 bits and fewer can represent either grayscale or indexed color. An alpha channel (for transparency) may be stored in a separate bitmap, where it is similar to a grayscale bitmap, or in a fourth channel that, for example, converts 24-bit images to 32 bits per pixel.
The bits representing the bitmap pixels may be packed or unpacked (spaced out to byte or word boundaries), depending on the format or device requirements. Depending on the color depth, a pixel in the picture will occupy at least n/8 bytes, where n is the bit depth.
For an uncompressed, packed within rows, bitmap, such as is stored in Microsoft DIB or BMP file format, or in uncompressed TIFF format, a lower bound on storage size for a n-bit-per-pixel (2n colors) bitmap, in bytes, can be calculated as:
where width and height are given in pixels.
In the formula above, header size and color palette size, if any, are not included. Due to effects of row padding to align each row start to a storage unit boundary such as a word, additional by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedbox | A seedbox is a high-bandwidth remote server for uploading and downloading of digital files from a P2P network. The bandwidth ranges generally from 100 Mbit/s to 20 Gbit/s. After the seedbox has acquired the files, people with access to the seedbox can download the file to their personal computers.
Function
Seedboxes generally use the BitTorrent protocol, although they have also been used on the eDonkey2000 network. Seedboxes are usually connected to a high-speed network, often with a throughput of 100 Mbit/s or even 1 Gbit/s. Some providers are testing and offering 10 Gbit/s shared servers, while others are developing other systems that will allow users to scale their needs on the fly. Once the seedbox has a full copy of the files, they can be downloaded at high speeds to a user's personal computer via the HTTP, FTP, SFTP, or rsync protocols. This allows for anonymity and, usually, removes the need to worry about share ratio. More expensive seedboxes may support VNC or Remote Desktop Protocol, allowing many popular clients to be run remotely. Other seedboxes are special-purpose and run a variety of torrent-specific software including web interfaces of popular clients like Transmission, rTorrent, Deluge, and μTorrent, as well as the TorrentFlux web interface clients. Mobile interface support is also offered by clients such as Transmission.
Seedboxes on high-speed networks are typically able to download large files within minutes, provided that the swarm can actually handle such a high upload bandwidth. Seedboxes generally have download and upload speeds of 100 Mbit/s. This means that a 1 GB file can finish downloading in under half a minute. That same 1 GB file can be uploaded to other users in the same amount of time, creating a 1:1 share ratio for that individual file. The ability to transfer files so quickly makes them very attractive to the P2P communities. Because of the mentioned high speeds, seedboxes tend to be popular when using private torrent trackers, where maintaining an share ratio above 1 can be very important.
Seedboxes are also used to circumvent bandwidth throttling by Internet service providers or to evade laws such as the HADOPI law in France.
References
File sharing networks
File sharing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC%20826 | ARINC 826 is a protocol for avionic data loading over the Controller Area Network (CAN) as internationally standardized in ISO 11898-1. It allows Loadable Software Aircraft Parts to be loaded in a verifiable and secure manner to avionics Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) and Line Replaceable Modules (LRMs) using CAN.
Based on a subset of ARINC 615A features (the avionic data loading protocol for data loading over Ethernet), ARINC 826 provides basic features for avionics data loading.
References
Avionics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurm | Slurm may refer to:
Slurm Workload Manager, a free and open-source job scheduler for Linux and similar computers
Slurm (Futurama), a fictional soft drink in the Futurama universe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylosphaerium | Dactylosphaerium is a genus of green algae, in the class Trebouxiophyceae.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Trebouxiophyceae
Trebouxiophyceae genera
Enigmatic algae taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimorphococcopsis | Dimorphococcopsis is a genus of green algae, in the family Dictyosphaeriaceae. , the only species is Dimorphococcopsis fritschii.
References
External links
Scientific references
Scientific databases
AlgaTerra database
Index Nominum Genericorum
Trebouxiophyceae
Trebouxiophyceae genera
Monotypic algae genera
Enigmatic algae taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irata | Irata or IRATA may refer to:
Al Irata, a terrorist group
Irata, a fictitious planet in the early 1980s computer game, M.U.L.E.
IRATA, the Industrial Rope Access Trade Association.
Iratta, a 2023 Indian film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide%20Adventure%20MAGKID | is a 2007 video game published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS video game console. The title was developed by Nintendo NSD (Network Service Development, Nintendo Co.) with programming assistance by
Agenda.
Nintendo developed the tilt sliding technology hardware accessory, and then co-developed the actual software with Agenda doing most of the software programming and JOE DOWN STUDIO handling the audio. Long time Nintendo creator Kazunobu Shimizu was responsible for creating the MagKid character and coming up with the concept of the game. The retail SKU comes bundled with a new sliding controller that attaches to the DS, enabling it to slide on a surface as the input method. A localization outside Japan did not occur.
Slide Controller
The Slide Controller bundled with the game (and required to play) is attached to Slot 2, of the DS, which makes use of the technology of a computer's optical mouse, being that the pak emits red light from a LED light located at the bottom of the controller. In order to move the Mag Kid across the screen during the game, the player has to slide the whole Nintendo DS system with this controller (combined with a slant angle) on a table surface, thus given the name "Slide Controller".
References
External links
Official Nintendo Website
Official Nintendo Magazine
Official Agenda Website
2007 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo DS games
Nintendo DS-only games
Nintendo games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20National%20Route%2036 | is a national highway connecting Sapporo and Muroran in Hokkaidō, Japan.
Route data
Length: 133.0 km (82.7 mi)
Origin: Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Sapporo (originates at the origins of Routes 12 and 230)
Terminus: Muroran, Hokkaido
Major cities: Chitose, Tomakomai, Noboribetsu
History
1952-12-04 - First Class National Highway 36 (from Sapporo to Muroran)
1965-04-01 - General National Highway 36 (from Sapporo to Muroran)
Municipalities passed through
Ishikari Subprefecture
Sapporo - Kitahiroshima - Eniwa - Chitose
Iburi Subprefecture
Tomakomai - Shiraoi - Noboribetsu - Muroran
Intersects with
Ishikari Subprefecture
Routes 12 and 230; at the origin, in Chuo-ku, Sapporo
Route 453; at Toyohira-ku, Sapporo
Route 337; at Chitose City
Iburi subprefecture
Route 234; at Numanohata, Tomakomai City
Route 276; at Motonakano-cho, Tomakomai City
Route 37; at Muroran City
References
036
Roads in Hokkaido |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKAF | UKAF may refer to:
Ukrainian Air Force, the aerial warfare service branch of the armed forces of Ukraine
United Kingdom Accreditation Forum, a British network of healthcare accreditation organizations
See also
Royal Air Force, United Kingdom's air force |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whammy%21%20Push%20Your%20Luck | Whammy! Push Your Luck is a Philippine television game show broadcast by GMA Network. The show is based on American game shows Second Chance and Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck. Hosted by Paolo Bediones and Rufa Mae Quinto, it premiered on October 8, 2007. The show concluded on February 29, 2008, with a total of 105 episodes.
Gameplay
Round 1
Each contestant starts with PHP 1,000 to start the round.
The first round has cash amounts ranging from PHP 1,000 to PHP 5,000, and prizes typically worth several thousand pesos.
Special spaces
Directional Squares: "Go Back Two Spaces" and "Advance Two Spaces" (the contestant would earn whatever was at that space on the board, as if they had landed on that space in the first place), plus "Pick A Space" (the contestant could choose to move to either of the adjacent board spaces and take whatever was displayed there).
Whammy Bank: Known in the 2003 season episodes of the original US version as the "Big Bank," any Whammies hit placed all cash and prizes into the said space. A contestant had to hit the Big Bank space and answer a question correctly to take all cash and prizes in the bank.
Round 2
There are four questions in the question round, which is faithful to the 2002-03 US game. A player can earn a maximum of twelve spins in a question round (by being the first to buzz in on all four questions, and answering all four correctly), and the maximum for all three would be 20.
Round 3
The second and final round board has much higher values ranging from P1,250 to P125,000, and is also added with special prizes by the sponsors of the show. Their value is PHP60,000 - P50,000 cash and P10,000 worth of the sponsor's product (now P100,000 to P150,000).
If two or all three players were tied, the player with the fewest spins went first; if they were tied for that as well, the player to the hosts' left went first.
The Double Whammy space is marked with two Whammies. A player who hit the Double Whammy space would also have mischief on the player, although this version had more slime and pies rather than various objects related to United States version. A player who hits the Double Whammy space is only charged one Whammy.
As is the case with the franchise, four Whammies eliminates a player from the game.
The contestant that has the highest money earned will be the winner. Only this contestant will get the money (s)he earned.
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine game shows
Television series by Fremantle (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indic%20computing | Indic Computing means "computing in Indic", i.e., Indian Scripts and Languages. It involves developing software in Indic Scripts/languages, Input methods, Localization of computer applications, web development, Database Management, Spell checkers, Speech to Text and Text to Speech applications and OCR in Indian languages.
Unicode standard version 15.0 specifies codes for 9 Indic scripts in Chapter 12 titled "South and Central Asia-I, Official Scripts of India". The 9 scripts are Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam,Oriya, Tamil and Telugu.
A lot of Indic Computing projects are going on. They involve some government sector companies, some volunteer groups and individual people.
Government sector
Indian Union Government made it mandatory for Mobile phone companies whose handsets manufactured, stored, sold and distributed in India to have support for displaying and typing text using fonts for all 22 languages. This move has seen rise in use of Indian languages by millions of users.
TDIL
The Department of Electronics and Information Technology, India initiated the TDIL (Technology Development for Indian Languages) with the objective of developing Information Processing Tools and Techniques to facilitate human-machine interaction without language barrier; creating and accessing multilingual knowledge resources; and integrating them to develop innovative user products and services.
In 2005, it started distributing language software tools developed by Government/Academic/Private companies in the form of CD for non commercial use.
Some of the outcome of TDIL program deployed on Indian Language Technology Proliferation & Deployment Centre. This Centre disseminate all the linguistic resources, tools & applications which have been developed under TDIL funding. This programme took to exponential expansion under the leadership of Dr. Swaran Lata who also created international foot-print of the programme. She has now retired.
C-DAC
C-DAC is an India based government software company which is involved in developing language related software. It is best known for developing InScript Keyboard, the standard keyboard for Indian languages. It has also developed lot of Indic language solutions including Word Processors, typing tools, text to speech software, OCR in Indian languages etc.
BharateeyaOO.org
The work developed out of CDAC, Bangalore (earlier known as NCST, Bangalore) became BharateeyaOO. OpenOffice 2.1 had support for over 10 Indian languages.
BOSS
BOSS linux was developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) to promote use of open-source software in India.
NGO and Volunteer groups
Indlinux
Indlinux organisation helped organise the individual volunteers working on different indic language versions of Linux and its applications.
Sarovar
Sarovar.org is India's first portal to host projects under Free/Open source licenses. It is located in Trivandrum, India and hosted at Asianet data center. Sarov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Clarus may refer to:
A common Ancient Roman cognomen
Claros or Klaros, a cult center in ancient Greece
Giulio Claro (1525–1575), an Italian jurist
Clarus the dogcow, an Apple Computer icon
Saint Clarus, an English missionary martyred in about 894 at Livery Dole near the River Epte, Normandy
Clair of Nantes, or Clarus, a 3rd century bishop of Nantes, France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amparo%20and%20habeas%20data%20in%20the%20Philippines | In the Philippines, amparo and habeas data are prerogative writs to supplement the inefficacy of the writ of habeas corpus (Rule 102, Revised Rules of Court). Amparo means 'protection,' while habeas data is 'access to information.' Both writs were conceived to solve the extensive Philippine extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances since 1999.
On July 16, 2007, Philippine Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno and Justice Adolfo Azcuna officially declared the legal conception of the Philippine Writ of Amparo ("Recurso de Amparo"), at the historic Manila Hotel National Summit on Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances.
On August 25, 2007, Reynato Puno declared the legal conception of amparo's twin, the supplemental Philippine Habeas Data. Puno by judicial fiat proclaimed the legal birth of these twin peremptory writs on October, 2007, as his legacy to the Filipino nation. Puno admitted the inefficacy of Habeas Corpus, under Rule 102, Rules of Court, since government officers repeatedly failed to produce the body upon mere submission of the defense of alibi.
By invoking the truth, Habeas Data will not only compel military and government agents to release information about the desaparecidos but require access to military and police files. Reynato Puno's writ of amparo—Spanish for 'protection'—will bar military officers in judicial proceedings to issue denial answers regarding petitions on disappearances or extrajudicial executions, which were legally permitted in Habeas corpus proceedings.
The Supreme Court of the Philippines announced that the draft guidelines (Committee on Revision of Rules) for the writ of amparo were approved on September 23, to be deliberated by the En Banc Court on September 25.
Origin
Mexican amparo
Chief Justice Reynato Puno noted that the model for amparo was borrowed from Mexico: the right of amparo is a Mexican legal procedure to protect human rights. Of Mexican origin, thus, “amparo” literally means “protection” in Spanish. de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" had been available in Mexico, in 1837 and its description of judicial review practice in the U.S. appealed to many Mexican jurists. Mexican justice Manuel Crescencio Rejón, drafted a constitutional provision for his native state, Yucatan, which empowered jurists to protect all persons in the enjoyment of their constitutional and legal rights. This was incorporated into the 1847 national constitution. The great right proliferated in the Western Hemisphere, slowly evolving into various fora. Amparo became, in the words of a Mexican Federal Supreme Court Justice, Mexico's “task of conveying to the world’s legal heritage that institution which, as a shield of human dignity, her own painful history conceived.”
Amparo's evolution and metamorphosis had been witnessed, for several purposes: "(1) amparo libertad for the protection of personal freedom, equivalent to the habeas corpus right; (2) amparo contra leyes for the judicial review of the constitu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myarc%20Disk%20Operating%20System | MDOS (short for Myarc Disk Operating System) is an operating system commercialized by Myarc. It was designed and implemented specifically for the Geneve 9640 by Paul Charlton. MDOS was designed to fully emulate the TI-99/4A computer while providing an advanced (for its time) virtual memory operating environment with full support for mouse, GUI, and complex mathematical applications.
In 1993, Beery Miller the publisher of 9640 News, organized a group of Geneve 9640 owners and was able to purchase all rights to the source code for MDOS, Advanced Basic, the PSYSTEM runtime module, and the GPL Interpreter from Myarc and Paul Charlton.
Over the years, MDOS has been updated by individuals including T. Tesch, Clint Pulley, Alan Beard, John Johnson, James Schroeder, Mike Maksimik, James Uzzell, Tony Knerr, Beery Miller, and others. Support adding SCSI, IDE, and larger ramdisks were added in the earlier years from the buyout. In late 2020 and early 2021 with the release of the TIPI for the TI-99/4A, the Geneve was interfaced with the TIPI and a Raspberry Pi providing TCP socket access and nearly unlimited high speed hard-drive like file access.
A small but active base of users still exist on www.Atariage.com as of 2021 where T. Tesch, Beery Miller, and others provide support.
MDOS was written specifically for the TMS9995 16-bit CPU and the Yamaha V9938 video display processor.
All source code for the Geneve 9640 is in the public domain.
External links
Myarc Geneve 9640 Family Computer
Myarc Geneve 9640 Software
9640News Software
Geneve 9640 - a close look at the system board and sales flyer
Geneve 9640 at the Home Computer Museum
Geneve items @ Richard Bell's Company
Photo of Geneve 9640 booting - HD-based vertical PEB system belonging to Gregory McGill
Photo of Geneve showing swan image - from Mainbyte
1988 Dallas TI Fair - mixed Geneve 9640 and TI-99/4A photos
Geneve 9640 - at old-computers.com
Heatwave BBS - Telnet BBS operating on a Myarc Geneve 9640 under MDOS.
TI-99/4A
Products introduced in 1987
Proprietary operating systems
Disk operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Connection | Game Connection is a business convention of the video games industry. It is an international marketplace for game developers, service providers and publishers looking to expand their network and find the right business partners.
History
The Game Connection history began in 2001, when Pierre Carde, former Director of Lyon Game and now CEO of Connection Events, decided to set up a convention for the gaming industry with the objective of doing business.
The first convention took place in Lyon in December 2001 and attracted 27 French developers and 20 international publishers. From that moment on, Game Connection Europe brought together an increasing number of companies, representing today a total of about 45 countries. This success led Game Connection to sign a partnership with the Game Developers Conference in 2004, a deal which brought the convention to the Silicon Valley, giving birth to Game Connection America. Since then, California became the second location of Game Connection, at first welcoming the event in San Jose and then in San Francisco.
Today Game Connection is no longer affiliated with GDC for its American edition, but it continues to grow in terms of participants. This pushed Connection Events, the event organizer, to expand its offer by adding to its traditional B2B formula a full set of conferences and master classes.
Locations
Game Connection takes place in two different locations at two different times of the year.
Game Connection Europe is held in Paris (France) during the fall, after having been set in Lyon for 10 years.
Game Connection America is held in San Francisco (USA) during the spring.
The Online Meeting System
Before the event, all attendees register on the Game Connection website. Through the online meeting system, participants can learn about each other's company projects and interests; search through the database, ask questions, send meeting requests and much more. This means meetings are only scheduled when both parties are interested, thus increasing the efficiency of the event and the probability that the right business partners will be found. On the website, developers can display their projects to give publishers an idea of what they will be presenting at the convention.
During the event, each exhibitor (game seller or service provider) has a closed booth in which to make presentations to buyers during half-hour meetings. Depending on individual schedules, companies can feasibly conduct up to 40 meetings in three days.
The Selected Projects program
The Selected Projects program is designed to shed light on the most innovative and creative projects that the industry offers and gives additional exposure to its nominees.
The program started in 2008 under the name of "Level-up" and it was an exclusive of Game Connection Europe. In 2010 it was renamed Selected Projects and today is part of Game Connection America, as well.
Developers are invited to submit console, mobile and online games at any s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find | Find, FIND or Finding may refer to:
Computing
find (Unix), a command on UNIX platforms
find (Windows), a command on DOS/Windows platforms
Books
The Find (2010), by Kathy Page
The Find (2014), by William Hope Hodgson
Film and television
"The Find", an episode of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
"The Find", an episode of reality TV show The Curse of Oak Island
Music
Find (Hidden in Plain View EP), 2001
Find (SS501 EP)
The Find, a 2005 hip hop album by Ohmega Watts
People
Áed Find (died 778), king of Dál Riata (modern-day Scotland)
Caittil Find, Norse-Gaelic warrior contingent leader
Cumméne Find (died 669), seventh abbot of Iona, Scotland
Other uses
Find, in archaeology
Finding (jewelcrafting), jewellery components
Meteorite find, a found meteorite not observed to have fallen
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, a not-for-profit organisation
Facial Images National Database
See also
Discovery (observation)
Finder (disambiguation)
Locate (disambiguation)
Searching (disambiguation)
Result (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domine%20Database | DOMINE is a database of known and predicted protein domain interactions (or domain-domain interactions). It contains interactions observed in PDB crystal structures, and those predicted by several computational approaches. DOMINE uses Pfam HMM profiles for protein domain definitions. The DOMINE database contains 26,219 interactions among 5,410 domains), which includes 6,634 known interactions inferred from PDB structure data.
References
See also
DOMINE database
Biological databases
Protein structure
Protein domains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon%20year%20rankings | The following table shows the yearly rankings in the marathon since 1921 (men) and 1970 (women), based on the best performance in the classic distance race of 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards).
The data for the women's marathon from 1970 to 1979 is compiled from the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races.
All other data is compiled from the Association of Road Racing Statisticians.
Men's year rankings
Key:
Women's year rankings
Key:
See also
National records in the marathon
Marathon world record progression
Masters M35 marathon world record progression
Masters M40 marathon world record progression
Masters M45 marathon world record progression
Masters M50 marathon world record progression
Masters M55 marathon world record progression
Masters M60 marathon world record progression
Masters M65 marathon world record progression
Masters M70 marathon world record progression
Masters M75 marathon world record progression
Masters M80 marathon world record progression
Masters M85 marathon world record progression
Masters W35 marathon world record progression
Masters W40 marathon world record progression
Masters W45 marathon world record progression
Masters W50 marathon world record progression
Masters W55 marathon world record progression
Masters W60 marathon world record progression
Masters W65 marathon world record progression
Masters W70 marathon world record progression
Masters W75 marathon world record progression
Masters W80 marathon world record progression
Masters W85 marathon world record progression
References
Year rankings
Sport of athletics records |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej%20Ehrenfeucht | Andrzej Ehrenfeucht (, born 8 August 1932) is a Polish-American mathematician and computer scientist.
Life
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht formulated the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game, using the back-and-forth method given in Roland Fraïssé's PhD thesis. Also named for Ehrenfeucht is the Ehrenfeucht–Mycielski sequence.
In 1971 Ehrenfeucht was a founding member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He currently teaches and does research at the University, where he runs a project, "breaking away", with Patricia Baggett; the project, using hands-on activities, aims at raising high-school students' interest in mathematics and technology.
Two of Ehrenfeucht's students, Eugene Myers and David Haussler, contributed to the sequencing of the human genome. They, with Harold Gabow, Ross McConnell, and Grzegorz Rozenberg, spoke at a 2012 University of Colorado two-day symposium honoring Ehrenfeucht's 80th birthday.
Two journal issues have come out in his honor, one at his 65th birthday in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and one at his 80th in Theoretical Computer Science.
Private life
Ehrenfeucht married Alfred Tarski's daughter Ina Tarski.
Bibliography
Books
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Tero Harju, Ion Petre, David M. Prescott, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Computation in Living Cells: Gene Assembly in Ciliates, Springer, 2004,
Patricia Baggett, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Breaking Away from the Math Book: Creative Projects for Grades K-6,
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Tero Harju, Grzegorz Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-Structures: A Framework for Decomposition and Transformation of Graphs, World Scientific, 1999,
Papers
(accessible through Wirtualna Biblioteka Nauki)
Chen Chung Chang, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, "A Characterization of Abelian Groups", Fundamenta Mathematicae, vol. 51, no. 2, 1962, pp. 141-147.
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, "An Application of Games to the Completeness Problem for Formalized Theories", Fundamenta Mathematicae, vol. 49, no. 2, 1960, pp. 129-141.
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, "On Theories Categorical in Power", Fundamenta Mathematicae, vol. 44, no. 2, 1957, pp. 241-248.
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Andrzej Mostowski, "Models of Axiomatic Theories Admitting Automorphisms", Fundamenta Mathematicae, 1956, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 50-68.
See also
List of Poles – Mathematics
References
External links
Ehrenfeucht's website at the University of Colorado
Breaking away from the mathbook website
1932 births
Living people
Scientists from Vilnius
People from Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939)
20th-century American mathematicians
American computer scientists
Polish emigrants to the United States
Polish computer scientists
University of Warsaw alumni
University of Colorado faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Murphy%20%28sportscaster%29 | John Murphy (born March 14, 1955) is an American sportscaster from Buffalo, New York. He is best known as the voice of the Buffalo Bills Radio Network and host of One Bills Live (formerly The John Murphy Show) on WGR and MSG Western New York. In addition to the Bills, he also served as commentator for the Buffalo Bisons, Canisius College Golden Griffins, Buffalo Bulls and Niagara University Purple Eagles in the 1980s.
Early life and education
Murphy grew up in Lockport, New York. His father, Matthew Murphy, was a member of the New York State Assembly; his brother Paul Murphy served as general manager of the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center until his death in December 2020.
Murphy received a degree in broadcasting from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 1978.
Broadcast career
Murphy spent some of his early career at WLVL in his hometown of Lockport, calling high school sports contests. His broadcast partner at WLVL, Frank Williams, would go on to a long career as a play-by-play announcer himself, spending over 30 years at WESB in Bradford, Pennsylvania, though Williams never advanced beyond high school sports.
In November 1984, Stan Barron, the longtime sports director at WBEN, died from thyroid cancer, shortly after calling the Bills' last preseason game of the year. Barron's short-notice death led to Murphy's immediate hiring; Murphy initially served in all of the same capacities that Barron did.
Murphy served as sports director at WBEN from 1984 to 1992 and hosted a talk show on the station until 1995. In 1989, Murphy succeeded Rick Azar as WKBW-TV's 6 PM sports anchor, joining Irv Weinstein and Tom Jolls in Western New York's most popular (at the time) newscast. Murphy was named sports director in 1992, one year after the departure of sports director Bob Koshinski. He held the position for eighteen years, until September 2007, when Murphy balked at taking a twenty-percent pay cut, as other employees had done because of Granite Broadcasting's financial problems.
Murphy remained off television until his non-compete contract clause expired, after which he joined WIVB-TV, WKBW's crosstown rival, in March 2008, to become that station's sports director. He replaced longtime sports director Dennis Williams in the position. Murphy left WIVB in June 2012 to focus full-time on his Bills duties.
During his time at WKBW, he made a cameo in the film Bruce Almighty, the only WKBW anchor to do so.
Buffalo Bills
Murphy serves as the play-by-play voice of the Buffalo Bills radio network, a position he has held since the retirement of Van Miller following the 2003 season. Murphy is best known for his association with the Buffalo Bills. From 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 to 2003, Murphy served as the Bills' color analyst, alongside Miller. From 2012-2020, he hosted The John Murphy Show, (later re-named One Bills Live), a Bills-themed talk show on WGR in Buffalo.
In May 2019, Murphy was announced as an induc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN | FRACTRAN is a Turing-complete esoteric programming language invented by the mathematician John Conway. A FRACTRAN program is an ordered list of positive fractions together with an initial positive integer input n. The program is run by updating the integer n as follows:
for the first fraction f in the list for which nf is an integer, replace n by nf
repeat this rule until no fraction in the list produces an integer when multiplied by n, then halt.
gives the following FRACTRAN program, called PRIMEGAME, which finds successive prime numbers:
Starting with n=2, this FRACTRAN program generates the following sequence of integers:
2, 15, 825, 725, 1925, 2275, 425, 390, 330, 290, 770, ...
After 2, this sequence contains the following powers of 2:
The exponent part of these powers of two are primes, 2, 3, 5, etc.
Understanding a FRACTRAN program
A FRACTRAN program can be seen as a type of register machine where the registers are stored in prime exponents in the argument n.
Using Gödel numbering, a positive integer n can encode an arbitrary number of arbitrarily large positive integer variables. The value of each variable is encoded as the exponent of a prime number in the prime factorization of the integer. For example, the integer
represents a register state in which one variable (which we will call v2) holds the value 2 and two other variables (v3 and v5) hold the value 1. All other variables hold the value 0.
A FRACTRAN program is an ordered list of positive fractions. Each fraction represents an instruction that tests one or more variables, represented by the prime factors of its denominator. For example:
tests v2 and v5. If and , then it subtracts 2 from v2 and 1 from v5 and adds 1 to v3 and 1 to v7. For example:
Since the FRACTRAN program is just a list of fractions, these test-decrement-increment instructions are the only allowed instructions in the FRACTRAN language. In addition the following restrictions apply:
Each time an instruction is executed, the variables that are tested are also decremented.
The same variable cannot be both decremented and incremented in a single instruction (otherwise the fraction representing that instruction would not be in its lowest terms). Therefore each FRACTRAN instruction consumes variables as it tests them.
It is not possible for a FRACTRAN instruction to directly test if a variable is 0 (However, an indirect test can be implemented by creating a default instruction that is placed after other instructions that test a particular variable.).
Creating simple programs
Addition
The simplest FRACTRAN program is a single instruction such as
This program can be represented as a (very simple) algorithm as follows:
Given an initial input of the form , this program will compute the sequence , , etc., until eventually, after steps, no factors of 2 remain and the product with no longer yields an integer; the machine then stops with a final output of . It therefore adds two integers together.
Mult |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MotorStorm%3A%20Pacific%20Rift | MotorStorm: Pacific Rift is a racing video game by Evolution Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the sequel to MotorStorm and is followed by MotorStorm: Arctic Edge for the PlayStation 2 and PSP, and MotorStorm: Apocalypse. The game was announced by Sony after their acquisition of Evolution Studios and it was released on 28 October 2008 in North America. The game has sold over one million copies as of 9 December 2008. As of 1 October 2012, the online servers for the game have been permanently shut down.
MotorStorm: 3D Rift is a 3D mini re-release of Pacific Rift, containing 10 tracks as well as a selection of off-road vehicles from Pacific Rift. It is only single-player and has no trophies. The game was released on the PlayStation Network on 24 August 2010.
Gameplay
The game moves away from the desert environments of the original title and relocates itself in "a lush island environment, full of interactive vegetation"; and also includes monster trucks and four-player split-screen capability. Monster trucks are able to ride over cars (except big rigs), break most vegetation, and destroy structures. Bikes also have new capabilities so they can bunny hop and the driver can duck. Custom music tracks using a player's own music stored on their PS3 hard drive are available, as are trophies (to unlock more Drivers and Vehicles) and camera angles are improved for crashes; vehicle damage is also improved. Users can select drivers from the Garage menu, thus not having to rely on picking the vehicles, depending on the Driver's gender. "Speed" events are firstly introduced in the game, which consists numerous checkpoints in each tracks that users must pass through to achieve extra times before the timer runs out. Any class that isn't the ATV or Bikes can ram their vehicles left or right. The ATV and Bike ram by their driver throwing punches at the other drivers.
Tracks
The 16 original tracks are set around volcanic mountainsides, beaches, jungle, caves and a run-down sugar factory. Another new feature in Motorstorm: Pacific Rift is the presence of water in the form of rivers, pools and waterfalls. Water also cools down car's engines, which presents a whole line of new tactics; vehicles will slow down as they go through deep water, with buoyancy featuring for vehicles that venture into water too deep for that vehicle type.
Two expansion packs were released in July 2009 and add a total of six new tracks. The 'Speed' expansion adds three tracks and it also adds three new track variants and new paint jobs. The 'Adrenaline' pack also adds three new tracks but five new track variants, four new vehicles and six new characters. With it there are five track variants, which contains a red partially burnt card, under the name "Volcanic". Variations of the same tracks are turned into a post-apocalyptic volcanic activity, such as lava bombs that are present throughout the race and driving through it will instantly wreck a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidule | Bidule is a commercial software application for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia produced by the Canadian company Plogue Arts and Technology. It runs on both Windows and Mac computers.
Bidule uses a modular structure based on a patch cord metaphor much like AudioMulch, Reaktor, Pure Data, and Max/MSP. Individual modules are called bidules (the Plogue web site states that the word "Bidule" is French for "thingy" or "gadget"). A set of bidules and connections is called a layout, and sub-patches called groups can be built within layouts and saved for use elsewhere. The program features real time audio, MIDI, Open Sound Control (OSC), and spectral processing. With other audio DAW software ReWire, Bidule can run as a ReWire mixer or device. Bidule can run standalone or as a VST, VSTi or AU plugin, and can host the same. ASIO/CoreAudio is supported for low latency audio. Bidule can use multithread processing, and there is a beta build for discrete processing. Parameters can be linked to MIDI or OSC input or to other module parameters. Over one hundred modules and groups come with the software, including modules that can perform high-level math on signals.
References
External links
Audio programming languages
Electronic music software
Visual programming languages
Software synthesizers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn%20It%20Up%21 | Turn It Up! is a musical game show that aired on MTV from June 30 to December 7, 1990. It was the second game show to be produced and broadcast on the network after Remote Control, produced by Albie Hecht, Alan Goodman, and Fred Seibert, of Chauncey Street Productions in New York City.
The series was hosted by Jordan Brady with Stuffy Shmitt as co-host and announcer.
Gameplay
The show, co-hosted by comedian Jordan Brady and musician Stuffy Shmitt, features contestants competing to answer trivia questions about music.
Rounds 1 and 2
In each round, four categories each with three point values (10, 20 & 30 points) were displayed on a video wall. The player in control selected a category, then host Brady asked a question. The first player to ring-in had a chance to answer. A correct answer added the chosen points to the score, and chose another category, but an incorrect answer gave the opponents a chance to answer.
Round one was played with normal music questions, while round two was played with audio/video clips using the video wall.
Regular categories in round 2 include:
Total Recall: Contestants are shown thirty seconds of a music video. After the clip was played, the players were asked questions about the video.
Sing This: Contestants must sing the next verse after a music video stopped.
Say What?: Contestants have to repeat the lyrics the singer sang in the music video.
Talk Radio: An audio clip of an interview was played (the video featured a VU meter). Contestants must identify the artist.
Spare Parts: A portion of a photograph of an artist was shown and Brady reads a clue about the artist.
Pick a Player: A member of the band asks a question about musicians who play the same instrument as he/she does.
Scratch 'N Lick: DJ Jazzy Joyce scratches a song on her turntable, the contestant must identify the name of the song.
During the round, a horn playing the Charge fanfare would sound, indicating one minute of gameplay remained for the round. The round ended when all 12 questions were asked or if time ran out (the band would play the theme song, signaling the round's end).
The two high-scorers at the end of round two went on to play the final round, "Add-A-Track."
Add-A-Track (Final round)
In the final round, the two surviving players listened to four songs for two minutes (30 seconds per song). On each song, only one musical instrument played the song, with a new one added every five seconds. The player rang in once he/she thought they could identify the song. If correct, that player earned the points plus a prize; if wrong, the opposing player got a chance to answer.
Each song had a different point value:
1st song - 25 points
2nd song - 50 points
3rd song - 75 points
4th song - 100 points
The scores from the previous two rounds were not carried over until after the round was over, at which point the scores from the Add-A-Track round were added to the scores from the other two rounds. The player with a most points won the game an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20access | Physical access is a term in computer security that refers to the ability of people to physically gain access to a computer system. According to Gregory White, "Given physical access to an office, the knowledgeable attacker will quickly be able to find the information needed to gain access to the organization's computer systems and network."
Attacks and countermeasures
Attacks
Physical access opens up a variety of avenues for hacking. Michael Meyers notes that "the best network software security measures can be rendered useless if you fail to physically protect your systems," since an intruder could simply walk off with a server and crack the password at his leisure. Physical access also allows hardware keyloggers to be installed. An intruder may be able to boot from a CD or other external media and then read unencrypted data on the hard drive. They may also exploit a lack of access control in the boot loader; for instance, pressing F8 while certain versions of Microsoft Windows are booting, specifying 'init=/bin/sh' as a boot parameter to Linux (usually done by editing the command line in GRUB), etc. One could also use a rogue device to access a poorly secured wireless network; if the signal were sufficiently strong, one might not even need to breach the perimeter.
Countermeasures
IT security standards in the United States typically call for physical access to be limited by locked server rooms, sign-in sheets, etc. Physical access systems and IT security systems have historically been administered by separate departments of organizations, but are increasingly being seen as having interdependent functions needing a single, converged security policy. An IT department could, for instance, check security log entries for suspicious logons occurring after business hours, and then use keycard swipe records from a building access control system to narrow down the list of suspects to those who were in the building at that time. Surveillance cameras might also be used to deter or detect unauthorized access.
References
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed%20voice%20and%20data%20link | High-speed voice and data link (HVDL) is a high speed voice and data provisioning method that allows telcos and ISPs to provide up to three voice channels and data (up to 1Mbit/s) on a copper pair over extremely long local loops.
Most DSL technologies (Etherloop in particular) work well up to about 18,000 feet (5.5 km) on a 24 AWG copper pair. Reach DSL supports lengths up to approximately 32,800 feet (10 km). HVDL has a theoretical maximum loop length of approximately 112,000 feet (approximately 34 km). Such a distance would require repeater(s) and would probably only support a connection of 128 kbit/s. The ideal speed for this service is 512 kbit/s or 384 kbit/s. This is programmed directly from the COT line card.
The signal is sent from the telco's central office as an Ethernet style signal and is demuxed at the customer's premises by a POTS/Ethernet splitter. The box itself contains all the circuitry needed to split the data and voice channels. An Ethernet cable is run directly to the customer's PC or router, and the POTS lines within the home are connected to the POTS terminals inside the customer-premises equipment (CPE) unit. The CPE unit is powered from the telco's central office, and will continue to work during a power outage, and supports failover-to-POTS.
External links
HVDL vendor Charles
Communication circuits
Digital subscriber line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling%20Reality | Wrestling Reality was a documentary television series created by independent filmmaker Greg Hemmings, airing on The Fight Network. It followed the lives of a group of independent professional wrestlers in the Maritime provinces of Canada. The series consisted of a half-hour documentary portion, as well as an hour of televised matches and shoot interviews. A sneak peek of the premiere episode aired September 25, 2007, with the full series then airing in early November. The series tackled many behind-the-scenes issues in professional wrestling including drugs, steroids, and sex. The colour commentary and play-by-play was provided by 89.3 K-Rock announcer/Eastlink host Darrin Harvey. The show also airs in the United Kingdom on TWC Fight!.
Cast
Main participants
Other participants
See also
Professional wrestling in Canada
List of professional wrestling television series
References
External links
The official website of Wrestling Reality
MaritimeWrestling.com
The Fight Network
Wildman Academy
2000s Canadian reality television series
2000s Canadian documentary television series
Professional wrestling in Canada
Professional wrestling television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s%20Tennis | Everybody's Tennis, known as Hot Shots Tennis in North America and in Japan as , is a sports video game developed by Clap Hanz and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the sixth game in the Everybody's Golf series and the third released for PlayStation 2.
In September 2016, the game was ported to PlayStation 4 via the PS2 Classics service.
Gameplay
The game has 14 characters, 5 umpires, and 11 tennis courts. There are 3 different modes to choose from, which are Challenge Mode, Tennis with Everybody, and Training Mode. In Challenge, you play against computer-controlled opponents in order to unlock things like alternate costumes for characters and more courts to play on. In Tennis with Everybody, you can play matches with 1 to 4 players. The training mode lets you practice positioning and timing shots. You can choose from service, volley, smash and general practices in this mode.
Few of the characters from the previous games of the series (both American and Japanese) make cameo appearances on the courts (usually only in Singles matches). Suzuki and Gloria return as being playable characters.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 32 out of 40.
References
External links
2006 video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Tennis video games
Everybody's Golf
Video games developed in Japan
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN-Asian%20Radio | ATN-Asian Radio is an SiriusXM Satellite Radio channel featuring programming dedicated South Asian community in North America. This channel's content is produced by Asian Television Network. The channel features: talk and phone-in shows, music and poetry, news and current affairs, and live cricket commentary. The channel was in preview mode from 2007-09-24 until 2007-10-29 at 6 PM ET, at which point it was formally launched. The majority of the talk shows are in English with substantial coverage in Punjabi, Hindi, and other South Asian languages.
On April 18, 2008, ATN-Asian Radio started broadcasting live Indian Premier League matches on the channel as a part of Asian Television Network International Limited broadcasting rights It was initially available on XM Satellite Radio, but then just Sirius as part of Multicultural Radio. ATN Asian Radio airs every evening from 6 PM Eastern - 3 AM Eastern, and the remainder of the airtime is dedicated to Aboriginal Canadian programming from Voices Radio.
References
External links
Official ATN-Asian Radio website
ATN-Asian Radio page on Sirius XM
ATN-Asian Radio Schedule
XM Satellite Radio channels
Sirius XM Radio channels
Satellite radio stations in Canada
Multicultural and ethnic radio stations in Canada
South Asian Canadian culture
Radio stations established in 2007
Indo-Canadian culture
Indian diaspora mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20F.%20O%27Brien | James F. O'Brien is a computer graphics researcher and professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also co-founder and chief science officer at Avametric, a company developing software for virtual clothing try on. In 2015, he received an award for Scientific and Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Education
O'Brien received a Bachelor of Science in 1992 from Florida International University. He then did his graduate work under the supervision of Dr. Jessica Hodgins at Georgia Tech's GVU Center. He received his doctorate in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing in 2000 for a thesis entitled Graphical Modeling and Animation of Fracture.
Research and professional activities
O'Brien has published an extensive collection of research papers on topics such as surface reconstruction, human figure animation, mesh generation, physically based animation, surgical simulation, computational fluid dynamics, and fracture propagation.
O'Brien served as a consultant on the development of the game physics engine Digital Molecular Matter (DMM). To date, this game engine has been used in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and an off-line version of it was used for special effects in the film Avatar, Sucker Punch, Source Code, X-Men: First Class, and more than 60 other feature films.
In 2015, his work on developing DMM was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a Technical Achievement award. The citation reads:
"To Ben Cole for the design of the Kali Destruction System, to Eric Parker for the development of the Digital Molecular Matter toolkit, and to James O’Brien for his influential research on the finite element methods that served as a foundation for these tools. The combined innovations in Kali and DMM provide artists with an intuitive, art-directable system for the creation of scalable and realistic fracture and deformation simulations. These tools established finite element methods as a new reference point for believable on-screen destruction."
Photo forensics and fake media detection
Prof O'Brien is a noted expert on detection and analysis of fake images and video.
He has frequently worked with news organizations on exposing fake or altered photographs, as well as images created by generative artificial intelligence software. His methods have been used to expose fabrication of medical research records prosecute child pornographers, validate evidentiary videos, and rule out conspiracy theories relating to photographs of the Moon landing. In response to their work debunking assertions that the shadows in photos of the 1969 Moon Landing and of Lee Harvey Oswald, coauthor Hany Farid has been accused by conspiracy theorists of being a time-traveling CIA operative.
In addition to developing methods for detecting fake images and video, O'Brien's has studied the impact of fake media on vie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20You%20Go | Down You Go is an American television game show originally broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. The Emmy Award-nominated series ran from 1951 to 1956 as a prime time series primarily hosted by Dr. Bergen Evans. The program aired in eleven different timeslots during its five-year run.
Down You Go is one of only six series — along with The Arthur Murray Party, Pantomime Quiz, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, The Ernie Kovacs Show, and The Original Amateur Hour — shown on all four major television networks of the Golden Age of Television (ABC, NBC, CBS, and DuMont).
Gameplay
Down You Go was similar to "Hangman", with a group of four celebrity panelists who were asked to guess a word or phrase submitted by a home viewer. The host would give a wordplay-laden clue to the panel, who could then ask a question of any sort about the phrase, for which the host would have to ad lib an answer. After two questions, the second panelist would begin calling out a letter. Guessing a letter in the puzzle kept the panelist alive; if the panelist guessed a letter not in the puzzle, they would be eliminated and would pull down a lever on their lectern replacing their name with the phrase "DOWN YOU GO." Once two of the four panelists went down, the remaining panelists could ask another clue. At any time, a panelist could solve the puzzle and, if correct, end the game. The panel and host would then lightheartedly discuss the phrase for a minute or so before the next round began.
Home viewers received a $5 wire transfer and an encyclopedia set valued at $25 if their puzzle was used on-air, plus an additional $50 bonus if the puzzle was sent in along with a boxtop from one of the show's presenting sponsors and an additional $5 for each panelist they eliminated.
Among the regular panelists were comedian Fran Allison, journalist Phyllis Cerf, editor Francis Coughlin, actress Patricia Cutts, actress Carmelita Pope, actor Boris Karloff, author Jean Kerr, and athlete Phil Rizzuto.
Broadcast history
On DuMont:
The series debuted on May 30, 1951, on DuMont, airing on Wednesday nights from 9 to 9:30pm ET until July, when it moved to Thursdays.
The program was moved to Friday at the start of the 1951–1952 television season.
During the summer of 1952, it aired on Fridays at 8pm ET.
In October 1952, it would be moved back to a 10:30pm time slot.
The series was shuffled around DuMont's schedule (Wednesdays at 9:30pm, then 10pm, and finally Fridays at 10:30pm) until May 20, 1955.
Down You Go has been described as "one of the wittiest, most intelligent panel shows on television". The popular series was nominated for a "Best Audience Participation, Quiz, or Panel Program" Emmy in 1953.
After Western Union canceled Down You Go on DuMont, the show moved to CBS as the summer replacement for My Favorite Husband in 1955. Whitehall Pharmacal and Procter & Gamble were alternate sponsors. Host Bergen Evans and some of the panelists stayed for the new version, which aired from June 11 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatar | Apatar is an open source ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) and data integration software application.
History
Apatar open source project was founded in 2005. The first version of the tool was released under the GPLv2 license at www.sourceforge.net in February 2007. In April 2007, Apatar alpha version was demonstrated to its strategic partners, including MySQL and BlackDuck. Apatar, Inc., a commercial company that provides support for the Apatar open source software, was founded in 2007 as a branch of Altoros.
Products
The company’s main product is Apatar, a cross-platform open source desktop data integration tool that provides connectivity to a variety of databases, applications, protocols, files, and many more.
Users and customers
Apatar’s user and customer base ranges from small companies and individuals to large organizations such as the World Bank Group, Thomson Reuters, John Wiley & Sons, R.R. Donnelley, Autodesk. and more.
References
External links
Apatar Web site
Apatar project page on SourceForge.Net
Apatar Community Web site
Apatar Overview Demo
Software companies of Belarus
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Extract, transform, load tools
Data warehousing products
Free software companies
Enterprise application integration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected%20Earth | Connected Earth is a UK network of organizations, primarily museums, that preserve the history of telecommunications in the UK.
Heritage artifacts are physically sent to Connected Earth partners and other institutions as appropriate, and are brought together again online through virtual galleries, searchable catalogues and educational resources at its website.
Background
Connected Earth was founded by British Telecom in 2001 and grew from its commitment to the UK's telecommunications heritage. By working with institutional partners the network aimed to ensure that the UK's telecommunications heritage should be both accessible and assured for future generations.
Partners
The Connected Earth partners were Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bawdsey Radar, BT Archives, Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, Milton Keynes Museum, Museum of London, Museum of Science and Industry Manchester (MoSI), Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, National Museums of Scotland, the Science Museum, the University of Salford, the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals. Partners will receive funding from BT for 10 years to help with hosting and management. Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station was a previous partner.
Each partner focused on a different aspect of telecommunications history. Five partners – Amberley, Avoncroft, Goonhilly, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester and National Museum of Scotland – have hosted dedicated Connected Earth galleries, while others incorporate Connected Earth artefacts into their existing galleries.
Collections
Together the Connected Earth partners aimed to tell the history of communications in the UK and from the UK to overseas. Through Connected Earth, artefacts as diverse as Hughes printing telegraph, electrophone table, the tuning coil from Rugby Radio Station, telephone kiosks, the first transatlantic telegraph cable, are preserved and accessible for visitors.
Partners continue to collect contemporary communications artefacts and work with other organisations to ensure that the history of communications is preserved.
Through People's Connected Earth, partners also collected stories and memories from the general public and people who worked in the industry.
See also
BT Museum
References
Further reading
British Telecommunications plc (2003), Project Profile and Review: Connected Earth The BT Heritage Project 2001–2003.
External links
Connected Earth website on Archive.org
2001 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 2001
Museum associations and consortia
Connected Earth
History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom
BT Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJkdijk | The IJkdijk is a facility in the Netherlands to test dikes and to develop sensor network technologies for early warning systems. Furthermore, the sensor network will be able to detect many water-related environmental factors that affect the health of humans such as pollution and biological changes. Disasters on rivers and coastal waters are also detected.
In studies of dike stability, about eighty dikes will be destroyed and establish, ultimately, a relation between the sensor readings and the future of the dike. Hence the (in Dutch) good-sounding name IJkdijk: dijk=dike and ijk is from the Dutch word ijken=to calibrate (models). Clearly the most urgent goal here is to forecast dike failures. In contrast to popular belief, most disasters with dikes occur because they are too wet and not because they are too low. Another major source of dike failures are streams of water flowing through the dike, ultimately destroying, through erosion, the dike from the inside. A detection system for these failure mechanisms might be cheaper and safer than the alternative: over-dimensioning by adding more clay. As dike improvements are very costly, e.g. 500 euros per meter, there is ample financial room to pay for the sensor system. The IJkdijk will also increase the geophysical understanding of dike behavior. A better understanding of dikes, expressed in a sensor-based early warning system in dikes, prevents unnecessary and costly over-dimensioning. That is good news for the owners of millions of kilometers of dikes that exist nowadays and the developers of millions of kilometers of dikes that will be constructed in the future.
Driving forces
Dike innovations are no luxury. With the expected climate changes, the land subsidence, the increased economic value of the low-lying areas as a result of economic prosperity, and the declining acceptance of calamities by the general public, many countries of world need to invest substantially in flood protection to keep the risk of flooding at an acceptable level. Especially developing countries seek new lands for housing and industry which are frequently found close(r) to rivers. Here building dikes is equivalent to economic growth. As investments in dikes are in the same order of magnitude as investments in economic development, developing countries will benefit most from smarter, cheaper and safer dikes.
Developments in communication and sensor technology have advanced so far that it seems possible to utilize this new technology to effectively support the management and monitoring of flood protection works in an economically efficient manner. This seems to open up ways to offer cheaper and better alternatives for the traditional methods of embankment monitoring, maintenance and improvement. However, most of the recently developed sensor technology still needs to be tested under field circumstances, to prove its applicability and suitability. Recently, prototypes of dike conditioning systems have been constructed that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Aker | Brian Aker, born August 4, 1972, in Lexington, Kentucky, US, is an open-source hacker who has worked on various Apache modules, the Slash system, and numerous storage engines for the MySQL database. Aker was Director of Architecture at MySQL AB until it was acquired by Sun Microsystems. He led Sun's web scaling research group, where he worked on the Drizzle database project. He later became a Distinguished Engineer for Sun Microsystems. After leaving Sun when Oracle acquired it, he became the CTO of Data Differential and provided support to open source projects such as libmemcached, Gearman and the Drizzle database project. Aker is currently a Fellow and VP at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
After graduating with triple majors in environmental science, computing and mathematics, from Antioch College, Aker contributed to his first open source project, the 386BSD operating system. He then moved to work on Slashdot, where his initial task was to rewrite the database back-end to use Oracle. However, he extended the system to ensure it allowed multiple database back-ends, and became a published author along the way, writing Running Weblogs with Slash () with chromatic and Dave Krieger. From 2001 to 2007 he posted stories on Slashdot under the Author name of "Krow".
Aker first involved himself with the MySQL project in 1998. In 2001 he released an early prototype of MySQL with Perl-based functions and later went from VA Linux Systems to MySQL to lead development of the 4.1 and 5.0 versions of the MySQL Database Server. He has presented projects integrating MySQL with a number of technologies, including a working version of MySQL with Java-based functions with Eric Herman in 2004
Aker has been known to offer a Perl Certification Course at the University of Washington. He has also worked on the Virtual Hospital project, providing the Internet's first medical website, while at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics.
While not traveling and presenting at about six open source related conferences a year, he resides in Seattle, Washington. Some of the conferences Aker has presented at are OSCON, LinuxFest Northwest, Southern California Linux Expo, and the MySQL Users Conference & Expo. He is also the maintainer of the C client library for the Memcached server. He also maintains the current version of Gearman.
He is a commentator on the prolific creation of NoSQL databases giving Ignite talks on its evolution.
A list of MySQL projects Brian Aker has created:
The Drizzle Database server
MySQL Archive Storage Engine
MySQL Federated Storage Engine
Memcached Storage Engine
CSV Storage Engine
Blackhole Storage Engine
WebMethods (HTTP) Storage Engine
References
External links
Portrait: Brian Aker, database strategist
Interview with Brian Aker
Slashdot Interview with Brian Aker
Brian Aker's Blog
Audio Interview with Brian Aker on the Future of Databases
Interview with Brian Aker on how to get a job as an open source developer
Public Open Source Sof |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarragona%20metro%20station | Tarragona is a station in the Barcelona Metro network in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. It is served by line L3 (green line).
The station is located under Carrer de Tarragona between Carrer de València and Carrer d'Aragó, not far from Barcelona Sants railway station. Station entrances are situated at the junctions of the Carrer de Tarragona with Carrer de València, Carrer d'Aragó, Carrer de l'Elisi and Carrer de Sant Nicolau. In the vestibule served by the southern entrance is the artwork Tres Boles by José Luis Carcedo Vidal. At the lower level, the station has two tracks served by two side platforms.
The station opened in 1975, along with the other stations of the section of L3 between Paral·lel and Sants Estació stations. This section was originally operated separately from L3, and known as L3b, until the two sections were joined in 1982.
References
External links
Barcelona Metro line 3 stations
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1975
Transport in Sants-Montjuïc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanitidae | Stephanitidae is an extinct family of cephalopod belonging to the ammonite superfamily Noritoidea.
References
The Paleobiology Database
Noritoidea
Ceratitida families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inyoitidae | Inyoitidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite order Ceratitida and superfamily Noritoidea.
References
The Paleobiology Database
Noritoidea
Ceratitida families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanceolitidae | Lanceolitidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite order Ceratitida and superfamily Noritoidea.
References
The Paleobiology Database
Noritoidea
Ceratitida families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophioceratidae | Ophioceratidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite order Ceratitida and superfamily Noritoidea.
References
The Paleobiology Database accessed 9/24/07
Noritoidea
Ceratitida families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussuriidae | Ussuriidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite order Ceratitida and superfamily Noritoidea.
References
The Paleobiology Database accessed 9/24/07
Noritoidea
Ceratitida families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E1 | European route E1 is a series of roads in Europe, part of the United Nations International E-road network, running from Larne, Northern Ireland to Seville, Spain. There is a sea crossing between Rosslare Harbour, in Ireland, and Ferrol, but no ferry service. The road also passes through Portugal – past the city of Porto, through the capital, Lisbon, and then south to the Algarve, passing Faro before reaching the Spanish border west of Huelva.
United Kingdom
Larne ()(Start of concurrency with )
: Larne – Newtownabbey
Corr's Corner ()
: Newtownabbey
Sandyknowes Roundabout ()
: Newtownabbey – Belfast(Concurrency with )
York Street ()
: Belfast
Broadway ()
: Belfast – Lisburn
Sprucefield ()(End of concurrency with )
: Lisburn – Newry
Killean ()
As with all E-roads in the United Kingdom, the E1 is not signed. It begins in Larne, County Antrim as the A8. A short section of the A8 at Newtownabbey is under motorway regulations and is signed as the A8(M) motorway. This motorway joins the much longer M2 motorway to Belfast. At Belfast, the road becomes the A12 Westlink, a dual carriageway which links to the M1 motorway. The A1 leaves the motorway near Lisburn and continues south as a dual carriageway. This takes the road over the border into Ireland near Newry.
Ireland
Jonesborough ()
: Border – Dundalk
Ballymascanlan Interchange ()
: Dundalk – Dublin
M1 Turnapin ()(Start of concurrency with )
: Dublin(End of concurrency with : )
()
: Dublin – Wexford
()
: Wexford - Rosslare(Concurrency with )
Rosslare Europort ()
The dual carriageway continues in Ireland as the N1, which from Ballymascanlon in County Louth onwards is under motorway regulations and signed as the M1 motorway. The road follows the M1 south to Dublin, where, in the northern suburbs, it meets Dublin's ring road, the M50 motorway. It follows the M50 through the outer suburbs of Dublin until it meets the short M11 motorway near Shankill. The M11 continues as a dual carriageway, the N11, south of Bray in County Wicklow. This section passes through the Glen of the Downs Nature Reserve. This section of the road is dual carriageway or motorway to south of Gorey in County Wexford. Following this, the remainder of the route in Ireland is single carriageway and passes through several towns and villages. The N11 continues to Wexford, where at a junction outside the town it meets the N25 road from Cork. The route follows the N25 to its final destination in Ireland of Rosslare Europort.
All remaining sections of the N11 (and therefore E1) outside of Dublin are due to be replaced by motorways or dual carriageways.
Spain
Ferrol ()
: Ferrol
()
: Ferrol - AP-9
()
: A Coruña - Vigo
()
: Vigo - Tui
Tui ()
The E1 has two sections in Spain. The northern section is between Ferrol and Tui at the Portuguese border. It follows the motorway AP-9, a.k.a. The Atlantic Axis, which connects the Galician cities of Ferrol, A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra and Vigo, continuing south towards Tui. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2062379 | IEC 62379 is a control engineering standard for the common control interface for networked digital audio and video products. IEC 62379 uses Simple Network Management Protocol to communicate control and monitoring information.
It is a family of standards that specifies a control framework for networked audio and video equipment and is published by the International Electrotechnical Commission. It has been designed to provide a means for entering a common set of management commands to control the transmission across the network as well as other functions within the interfaced equipment.
Organization
The parts within this standard include:
Part 1: General,
Part 2: Audio,
Part 3: Video,
Part 4: Data,
Part 5: Transmission over networks,
Part 6: Packet transfer service,
Part 7: Measurement (for EBU ECN-IPM Group)
Part one is common to all equipment that conforms to IEC 62379 and a preview of the published document can be downloaded from the IEC web store here, a section of the International Electrotechnical Commission web site. More information is available at the project group web site.
History
2 October 2008
Part 2, Audio has now been published and a preview can be downloaded from the IEC web store, a section the International Electrotechnical Commission web site.
31 August 2011
A first edition of Part 3, Video has been submitted to the IEC International Electrotechnical Commission technical committee for the commencement of the standardization process for this part.
It contains the video MIB required by Part 7.
Part 7, Measurement, has been submitted to the IEC International Electrotechnical Commission technical committee for the commencement of the standardization process for this part.
This part specifies those aspects that are specific to the measurement requirements of the EBU ECN-IPM Group, a member of the Expert Communities Networks. An associated document EBU TECH 3345 has recently been published by the EBU European Broadcasting Union.
16 December 2011
Part 3 (Document 100/1896/NP) and Part 7 (Document 100/1897/NP) have been approved by IEC TC 100.
3 April 2014
Part 5.2, Transmission over Networks - Signalling, has now been published and can be downloaded from the IEC web store,
5 June 2015
IEC 62379-3:2015 Common control interface for networked digital audio and video products - Part 3: Video has now been published and can be downloaded from the IEC web store.
16 June 2015
IEC 62379-7:2015 Common control interface for networked digital audio and video products - Part 7: Measurements has now been published and can be downloaded from the IEC web store.
IEC 62379-7:2015 is the standardised (and extended) version of EBU TECH 3345 - End-to-End IP Network Measurement - MIB & Parameters, which can be obtained from here: published by the EBU European Broadcasting Union.
References
External links
Audio engineering
Networking standards
Broadcast engineering
62379
Control engineering
Systems engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohit%20Khare | Rohit Khare is an Indian American computer scientist and entrepreneur who has been active in many aspects of the development of the World Wide Web. He is the founder of Ångströ, the co-founder of KnowNow, a former director of CommerceNet Labs and a key player in the microformats community. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine and bachelor's degree from Caltech, both in Computer Science. He previously worked on Internet security for the W3C. He is active in the Representational State Transfer (ReST) community, and in August 2007 wrote the ARRESTED paper on syndication-oriented architecture, a variant of service-oriented architecture.
References
External links
Rohit Khare's profile at ångströ.com
Rohit Khare's Biography on the CommerceNet wiki
Rohit Khare's homepage at UCI
4K Associates, a collection point for Rohit's online activities, including the FoRK mailing list
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Silicon Valley people
University of California, Irvine alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
American computer scientists
American businesspeople
Computer security specialists
People from Sunnyvale, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFNW%20%28AM%29 | KFNW, known on-air as Faith 1200 KFNW, or by the network name Faith Radio, is a radio station in Fargo, North Dakota (licensed to serve adjacent West Fargo), owned and operated by University of Northwestern - St. Paul and is a non-profit, listener-supported radio station relying on donations from the local community throughout the year. It broadcasts on 1200 AM, covering Fargo-Moorhead and surrounding areas in North Dakota.
KFNW AM moved from their studios, offices and transmitter array on 52nd Avenue South in Fargo to new sites.
They moved to their new studios and offices in May 2021 on 53rd Ave South in Fargo to a building that was purchased and remodeled.
The transmitter array moved to a new site in Aug 2021 that was purchased and prepared near the towns of Davenport, ND and Kindred, ND.
Programming is nearly 100 percent satellite delivered and produced by Northwestern Media.
The format is mainly Christian talk and teaching, with programs such as Turning Point with David Jeremiah; Focus on the Family; Family Life Today with Dennis Rainey; Insight for Living with Chuck Swindoll; Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram; In Touch with Charles Stanley; and others.
History
KFNW was built by Northwestern and came to air October 25, 1955.
It broadcast on 900 kHz with daytime-only operation. In 1974, it was allowed to move to 1170 kHz and broadcast full-time; the next year, it applied for its first power increase, to 10,000 watts. In 1982, it was approved to relocate again, to 1200 kHz.
Translators
References
External links
Northwestern Media
FCC History Cards for KFNW
FNW
West Fargo, North Dakota
Radio stations established in 1955
1955 establishments in North Dakota
Northwestern Media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.11a-1999 | IEEE 802.11a-1999 or 802.11a was an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 wireless local network specifications that defined requirements for an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system. It was originally designed to support wireless communication in the unlicensed national information infrastructure (U-NII) bands (in the 5–6 GHz frequency range) as regulated in the United States by the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Section 15.407.
Originally described as clause 17 of the 1999 specification, it is now defined in clause 18 of the 2012 specification and provides protocols that allow transmission and reception of data at rates of 1.5 to 54Mbit/s. It has seen widespread worldwide implementation, particularly within the corporate workspace. While the original amendment is no longer valid, the term "802.11a" is still used by wireless access point (cards and routers) manufacturers to describe interoperability of their systems at 5.8 GHz, 54 Mbit/s (54 x 106 bits per second).
802.11 is a set of IEEE standards that govern wireless networking transmission methods. They are commonly used today in their 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac and 802.11ax versions to provide wireless connectivity in the home, office and some commercial establishments.
Description
IEEE802.11a is the first wireless standard to employ packet based OFDM, based on a proposal from Richard van Nee from Lucent Technologies in Nieuwegein. OFDM was adopted as a draft 802.11a standard in July 1998 after merging with an NTT proposal. It was ratified in 1999. The 802.11a standard uses the same core protocol as the original standard, operates in 5 GHz band, and uses a 52-subcarrier orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) with a maximum raw data rate of 54 Mbit/s, which yields realistic net achievable throughput in the mid-20 Mbit/s. The data rate is reduced to 48, 36, 24, 18, 12, 9 then 6 Mbit/s if required. 802.11a originally had 12/13 non-overlapping channels, 12 that can be used indoor and 4/5 of the 12 that can be used in outdoor point to point configurations. Recently many countries of the world are allowing operation in the 5.47 to 5.725 GHz Band as a secondary user using a sharing method derived in 802.11h. This will add another 12/13 Channels to the overall 5 GHz band enabling significant overall wireless network capacity enabling the possibility of 24+ channels in some countries. 802.11a is not interoperable with 802.11b as they operate on separate bands. Most enterprise class Access Points have dual band capability.
Using the 5 GHz band gives 802.11a a significant advantage, since the 2.4 GHz band is heavily used to the point of being crowded. Degradation caused by such conflicts can cause frequent dropped connections and degradation of service. However, this high carrier frequency also brings a slight disadvantage: The effective overall range of 802.11a is slightly less than that of 802.11b/g; 802.11a signals cannot penetrate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.11b-1999 | IEEE 802.11b-1999 or 802.11b is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking specification that extends throughout up to 11 Mbit/s using the same 2.4 GHz band. A related amendment was incorporated into the IEEE 802.11-2007 standard.
802.11 is a set of IEEE standards that govern wireless networking transmission methods. They are commonly used today in their 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac and 802.11ax versions to provide wireless connectivity in the home, office and some commercial establishments.
Description
802.11b has a maximum raw data rate of 11 Mbit/s and uses the same CSMA/CA media access method defined in the original standard. Due to the CSMA/CA protocol overhead, in practice the maximum 802.11b throughput that an application can achieve is about 5.9 Mbit/s using TCP and 7.1 Mbit/s using UDP.
802.11b products appeared on the market in mid-1999, since 802.11b is a direct extension of the DSSS (Direct-sequence spread spectrum) modulation technique defined in the original standard. The Apple iBook was the first mainstream computer sold with optional 802.11b networking. Technically, the 802.11b standard uses complementary code keying (CCK) as its modulation technique, which uses a specific set of length 8 complementary codes that was originally designed for OFDM but was also suitable for use in 802.11b because of its low autocorrelation properties. The dramatic increase in throughput of 802.11b (compared to the original standard) along with simultaneous substantial price reductions led to the rapid acceptance of 802.11b as the definitive wireless LAN technology as well as to the formation of the Wi-Fi Alliance.
802.11b devices suffer interference from other products operating in the 2.4 GHz band. Devices operating in the 2.4 GHz range include: microwave ovens, Bluetooth devices, baby monitors and cordless telephones. Interference issues and user density problems within the 2.4 GHz band have become a major concern and frustration for users.
Range
802.11b is used in a point-to-multipoint configuration, wherein an access point communicates via an omnidirectional antenna with mobile clients within the range of the access point. Typical range depends on the radio frequency environment, output power and sensitivity of the receiver. Allowable bandwidth is shared across clients in discrete channels. A directional antenna focuses transmit and receive power into a smaller field which reduces interference and increases point-to-point range. Designers of such installations who wish to remain within the law must however be careful about legal limitations on effective radiated power.
Some 802.11b cards operate at 11 Mbit/s, but scale back to 5.5, then to 2, then to 1 Mbit/s (also known as Adaptive Rate Selection) in order to decrease the rate of re-broadcasts that result from errors.
Channels and frequencies
Note: Channel 14 is only allowed in Japan, Channels 12 & 13 are allowed in most parts of the world. More informatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverbed%20Technology | Riverbed Technology LLC is an American information technology company. Its products consist of software and hardware focused on Unified Observability, Network Visibility, End User Experience Management, network performance monitoring, application performance management, and wide area networks (WANs), including SD-WAN and WAN optimization.
Riverbed has its headquarters in San Francisco. Founded in 2002, the company was recapitalized in December 2021 and its majority shareholder was Apollo Global Management at the time. In 2023, it was acquired by private equity firm Vector Capital.
History
Jerry Kennelly, former CEO, and Steve McCanne, former CTO, founded a technology company in May, 2002, originally named NBT (Next Big Thing) Technology.
The company became Riverbed Technology in 2003. Kennelly and McCanne led internal development of the first SteelHead appliances, the 500, 1000, 2000, and 5000 models, and the first SteelHead shipped in April 2004 to Environment Canada.
Riverbed stock began trading on NASDAQ September 21, 2006.
Riverbed opened up an off-site location at Research Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before 2009.
In February 2014, the US hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation made a $3.36 billion offer to acquire Riverbed (after a bid of $3.08 was rejected).
In October 2014 NetApp acquired Riverbed's SteelStore line of data backup and protection products,
which NetApp later renamed as "AltaVault".
On December 15, 2014, Riverbed announced it would be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo, LLC and Teachers’ Private Capital, the private investor department of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The value was estimated at approximately $3.6 billion, and closed in April 2015.
On April 3, 2018, Riverbed announced the retirement of co-founder and CEO Jerry M. Kennelly and appointment of Paul Mountford as CEO.
On June 12, 2019 Riverbed announced it would resell Versa Networks SD-WAN products.
On August 8, 2019 Xirrus was sold to Cambium Networks.
On October 22, 2019 Rich McBee became president and CEO.
On June 9, 2021 Dan Smoot became president and CEO.
On December 7, 2021, Riverbed completed recapitalization, with Apollo Global Management as majority shareholder.
On July 11, 2023, Riverbed was acquired by private-equity firm Vector Capital, with Dave Donatelli named as new chief executive officer.
Acquisitions
On February 20, 2009, Riverbed completed the acquisition of Mazu Networks. The Mazu products, which were initially renamed Cascade (and in 2014 became part of Riverbed SteelCentral), analyze network traffic to provide information about the interactions of and dependencies between users, applications and systems.
On October 21, 2010, Riverbed acquired CACE Technologies, and folded its Shark network analysis product and Pilot interface product into the Riverbed Cascade product suite. CACE was also the corporate sponsor of the open source network protocol analyzer product Wireshark. Riverbed ass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%202%20%28Latin%20American%20TV%20channel%29 | ESPN 2 is a Latin American pay-television channel based in Buenos Aires broadcasting for Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. Its programming is mostly football-, tennis- and rugby union-related.
The channel was first launched in 1996 as ESPN 2 in Mexico and Central America and in 2002 as ESPN+ for South America. It consists on four different feeds available in the region according to its geographical location. On 1 September 2015, the network was rebranded as ESPN 2 in South America and launched its HD simulcasts for each feed. Moreover, in 2016 the ESPN 2 standard-definition feeds switched to air its programming in widescreen.
ESPN 2 shows live MotoGP races, and selected IndyCar Series races. It also complements ESPN's coverage of the four Grand Slam of tennis.
ESPN 2 coverage
As of March 2020, there are six feeds of the channel available throughout the region
South feed, originally serving Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, based on Buenos Aires.
Peru feed, covering Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. It was launched on 3 November 2014 and works as a simulcast channel mirroring the South feed (with exception of Argentine-exclusive events) with two additional time zones featured on promos.
Chile feed, covering that country. It was launched in June 2019 with original programming as a local spin-off from the South Andean feed (now the Peru feed).
Andean feed, covering Colombia and Venezuela. It used to be distributed on Chile, Peru and Bolivia until they switched to the South Andean feed on 3 November 2014 (currently, the Peru feed).
Mexico feed, serving that country. Originally launched in 1996 as the Mexican spin-off of American ESPN2, the feed used to be partnered with Mexico's National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (CONADE) for co-producing its programming. Initially, originally-produced ESPN2 Mexico's programming was also broadcast on American sister channel ESPN2 until the creation of ESPN Deportes in the US on 2004. In 2002, the South American branch of ESPN2 was launched in Buenos Aires as ESPN+, which offered sports programming primarily centred on European events. ESPN 2 was sold as an additional high-tier channel on South America for those who opted to watch American-centred programming until 1 September 2015, when it was pulled off the air due to the rebrand of ESPN+ as ESPN 2.
North feed, serving Central America and the Caribbean. It rebroadcasts the Mexico feed with local ads with the exception of some events licensed exclusively for that feed.
Programming
Football
Argentine Primera División (except ESPN 2 Argentina)
English Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, FA Community Shield
Spanish Primera Division – La Liga
Italian Serie A
French Ligue 1
CONCACAF Champions League
U.S. Major League Soccer
Other sports
Tennis: Australian Open
Rugby: Heineken Cup
Volleyball: Argentine League
NBA
Men's Hockey World Cup
IRB Junior World Championship
IRB Junior World Championship
Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
Major League Bas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed%20Thomas%20Holford%20Catholic%20College | Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College is a secondary school based in Altrincham, Greater Manchester. The school specialises in maths and computing, and is named after Blessed Thomas Holford, a 16th-century priest from Cheshire. The college has a Catholic identity, and all pupils are required to wear uniform.
Curriculum
The college puts emphasis on maths and computing, and follows the Key Stage process. At Key Stage 3 in year 7 & 8, the pupils take the following subjects:
English (3 hours)
Maths (4 hours)
Science (3 hours)
Religious Education (2.5 hours)
Design Technology (3 hours) - Woodwork, food technology, graphic design, art, music, PSHCE
Computer Science (1 hour)
French/Spanish (2 hours)
History (2 hours)
Geography (2 hours)
Physical Education (2 hours)
Drama (1 hour)
For GCSE, the pupils take core subjects including English language, English literature, Science, Mathematics, RE, computer science or BTEC and PE although not to complete as a GCSE. Pupils choose from a variety of additional subjects, including history, geography, art, health and social care, physical education, food technology, business studies, classics, music, Italian, drama, French, German, Japanese, Spanish. BTEC courses for sport are also available. Pupils have to take at least one, but not more than three, of History, Geography, Spanish and French. Out of all the other subjects a maximum of two can be chosen.
Academic performance and Ofsted judgements
In 2019, the school was above national average for Section 48.
It was judged Outstanding by Ofsted in 2012 and 2009. In 2022 its inspection rating was 'Requires Improvement'.
Football Academy
The school has a UEFA-standard FieldTurf artificial grass football pitch which was opened in April 2007 by Bobby Charlton. The pitch, which cost £1 million to install, was used by the England national football team for training prior to an away game against Russia at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, as it uses the same surface as the Russian pitch.
References
Secondary schools in Trafford
Catholic secondary schools in the Diocese of Shrewsbury
Altrincham
Voluntary aided schools in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Fleet%20I%3A%20The%20War%20Begins | Starfleet I: The War Begins is a 1984 strategy computer game designed by Trevor Sorensen and developed by Interstel (some versions by Cygnus Multimedia). It was released for Apple II, DOS and Commodore 64. Versions for the Commodore 128 (bundled together as Commodore 64/128, though it included a discrete version for the 128 with 80-column support), Atari ST and Atari 8-bit family were released in 1986 and versions for the Amiga and Macintosh were released in 1987. The game was successful enough to spawn sequels which are collectively known as the Star Fleet series.
Description
The game resembles the Star Trek text game. The player is a new graduate of Starfleet Academy in command of a starship. The United Galactic Alliance (UGA) is at war with the Krellans and Zaldrons, so the player has plenty of combatants to engage from the beginning.
Eschewing digital graphics, Star Fleet I presents all its information in color ASCII characters. Gameplay centers on two main activities: navigation and combat. Navigation takes place on the Main Computer GUI. It consists of a main star chart map, the player's current position, and visual displays. Other information may be accessed using appropriate commands. Navigation may be conducted manually or automatically.
Each area, or quadrant, on the map is displayed as a series of numbers representing asteroids, starbases, and enemy ships present. The ship's long-range sensors can detect entities in adjacent quadrants, while short-range sensors detect items in the current quadrant. The ship also has a limited number of probes for very long-range exploration.
Combat is the primary activity of Star Fleet I. Combat is initiated whenever the player's starship enters a hostile area. Each quadrant may contain a number of starbases, space marines, and Krellan (maximum of five) or Zaldron (often just one) enemy ships. The player may find hostile quadrants by chance or may be summoned by a starbase under attack.
Enemies automatically engage the player's ship with phasers. While the player's ship outmatches Krellan starships, several can prove dangerous. Zaldron ships may also be present, but cloaked. The Zaldron ships must de-cloak before engaging the player, also using phasers as a primary weapon.
The player may either destroy or disable enemy starships. Disabled starships can then be captured and delivered to friendly starbases.
The player has a lethal arsenal at their disposal with which to engage the enemy: phasers, torpedoes, and mines. Torpedoes destroy enemy ships (provided they strike the target), while the other weapons may disable (or ultimately destroy) enemy ships. When disabled, a ship may only be captured by ordering space marines to board the vessel. Automatic combat between the enemy's crew and the marines will then ensue. If victorious, the player receives some power and a number of prisoners. The captured ship may then be towed to a starbase.
During capture attempts, however, enemy spies or prisoners m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loet%20Leydesdorff | Louis André (Loet) Leydesdorff (21 August 1948, Batavia (Dutch East Indies - 11 March 2023, Amsterdam) was a Dutch sociologist, cyberneticist, communication scientist and Professor in the Dynamics of Scientific Communication and Technological Innovation at the University of Amsterdam. He is known for his work in the sociology of communication and innovation, especially for his Triple helix model of innovation developed with Henry Etzkowitz in the 1990s.
Biography
Leydesdorff was born in 1948 in Batavia (present-day Jakarta), then the capital of the Dutch East Indies. He received a B.Sc. in chemistry in 1969, a M.Sc. biochemistry in 1973, and an M.A. in philosophy in 1977. In 1984 he obtained his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Amsterdam.
In 1969 Leydesdorff started working as part-time professor for chemical technology at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 1972 he started his career at the University of Amsterdam as teaching assistant for "Science and Society" at the Philosophy Faculty. In 1980 he became Senior lecturer at the Department of Science & Technology Dynamics of the University of Amsterdam and from 2000 of the Amsterdam School of Communications Research as well, of which he remained a honorary fellow following his retirement as professor in 2013. Despite being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2014 he continued to be an active scholar until he had to resign from his remaining duties in the fall of 2022. He passed away in Amsterdam on 11 March 2023.
Leydesdorff was on editorial boards of several journals since 1987. He was on the editorial boards of Scientometrics since 1987, Social Science Information, since 1994, Industry and Higher Education since 1997, Cybermetrics since 1997, the Journal of Technology Transfer since 1999, the TripleC: e-journal for cognition • communication • co-operation since 2002, the Science & Public Policy since 2004, Science Forum since 2005, Informetrics since 2006, and the International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies since 2006. He further worked for the Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies journal 1999-2001, for Science, Technology and Society in 2001-02 and for the Journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics from 1995 to 1998. As contributing editor he also worked for Science, Technology, & Human Values 1988-1990 and for Science & Technology Studies 1987-1988.
He received the Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal for scientometrics in 2003. Since 2006 he was Honorary Research Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 2007 Honorary Fellow of SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research of the University of Sussex. He was president of the Dutch Systems Group society, the society that cofounded the International Federation for Systems Research in the early 1980s.
Work
Leydesdorff's research interests were in the fields of the philosophy of science, social network analysis, scie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Radio%20de%20Sudcalifornia | La Radio de Sudcalifornia is the state radio network of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. It broadcasts on seven FM and one AM transmitters in the state with most content originating from the state capital in La Paz. All of the FM transmitters are on 99.1 MHz.
History
The history of the BCS state radio network begins in 1983 with the state government obtaining an authorization for daytime-only XEBCS-AM 1050 (originally to be XEPAZ-AM).
In order to facilitate the expansion of the state network and its move to FM, the BCS state government, through the State Radio and Television Institute, obtained an AM-FM migration authorization for XEBCS, which awarded it XHEBCS-FM 99.9, authorized for 9.92 kW ERP. However, the state government also obtained a series of permits for radio stations on 99.1 MHz in Baja California Sur, including XHBCP-FM 99.1 in La Paz, which is currently an AM-FM combo with XEBCS.
In 2022, the Los Cabos transmitter began airing some separate programming for southern Baja California Sur.
Transmitters
Except for XEBCS-AM 1050 AM (10 kW day) and the unbuilt XHEBCS, all of the state radio transmitters broadcast on 99.1 MHz.
External links
Radio Locator information on XEBCS
References
Radio stations in Baja California Sur
Public radio in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20USA%20Network | This is a list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by USA Network.
Current programming
Original programming
Scripted
Drama
Chucky (2021)
Unscripted
Docuseries
Race for the Championship (2022)
The Big D (2023)
Reality
Miz & Mrs. (2018)
Temptation Island (2019)
Austin Dillon's Life in the Fast Lane (2022)
Barmageddon (2022)
Race to Survive Alaska (2023)
Sports
Golf on USA (1982-2007; 2009–2010; 2022)
College Basketball on USA (1982-1986; 2022)
Olympics on NBC (2004)
NASCAR on USA (2022)
Premier League on USA (2022)
IndyCar Series on USA (2022)
World Figure Skating Championship (2022)
USFL (2022)
Malaysian Cub Prix (2023)
WWE
WWE Raw (1993–2000; 2005)
WWE NXT (2019)
Syndicated
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
NCIS (2008)
NCIS: Los Angeles (2011)
Chicago P.D. (2017)
Dateline (2017)
Chicago Fire (2022)
9-1-1 (2022)
Upcoming programming
Original programming
Unscripted
Untitled social experiment series (TBA)
WWE
WWE SmackDown (October 2024; moved from Fox)
In development
Scripted
Walking Tall
Former programming
Original programming
Scripted
Check it Out! (1986–88)
Sanchez of Bel Air (1986)
The Ray Bradbury Theater (1987–92; seasons 3–6)
Airwolf (1987; season 4)
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1987–89; seasons 2–4)
The Hitchhiker (1989–91; seasons 5 & 6)
Silk Stalkings (1993–99; seasons 3–8)
TekWar (1994–96; four TV movies and series)
Duckman (1994–97)
Weird Science (1994–98)
Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills (1994–95)
Campus Cops (1996)
Pacific Blue (1996–2000)
The Big Easy (1996–97)
Johnnytime (1997)
Lost on Earth (1997)
La Femme Nikita (1997–2001)
USA High (1997-1999)
The Net (1998–99)
Sins of the City (1998)
G vs E (1999; moved to Sci Fi Channel)
Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family (2000–01)
Manhattan, AZ (2000)
The War Next Door (2000)
The Huntress (2000–01)
The Dead Zone (2002–07)
Monk (2002–09)
Peacemakers (2003)
Traffic (2004; miniseries)
Touching Evil (2004)
The 4400 (2004–07)
Kojak (2005)
Psych (2006–14)
Burn Notice (2007–13)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2007–11)
In Plain Sight (2008–12)
The Starter Wife (2008; TV series)
Royal Pains (2009–16)
White Collar (2009–14)
Covert Affairs (2010–14)
Fairly Legal (2011–12)
Suits (2011–19)
Necessary Roughness (2011–13)
Common Law (2012)
Political Animals (2012)
Graceland (2013–15)
Sirens (2014–15)
Playing House (2014–17)
Rush (2014)
Satisfaction (2014–15)
Benched (2014)
Dig (2015)
Complications (2015)
Mr. Robot (2015–19)
Donny! (2015)
Colony (2016–18)
Motive (2016; seasons 3–4; moved from ABC)
Queen of the South (2016–21)
Falling Water (2016–18)
Eyewitness (2016)
Shooter (2016–18)
The Sinner (2017–21)
Damnation (2017–18)
Unsolved (2018)
The Purge (2018–19)
Pearson (2019)
Treadstone (2019)
Dare Me (2019–20)
Briarpatch (2020)
Dirty John (2020)
Unscripted
Calliope (1978–93)
Black Entertainment Television (1980–83)
New Wave Theatre (1981–83)
Night Flight (1981–88)
Alive and Well! (1981–86)
You! Magazine (1981–84)
USA Cartoon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Nicktoons | This is a list of television programs currently and formerly broadcast by the children's cable television channel Nicktoons, a sister network to Nickelodeon in the United States.
Current programming
Acquired programming
Programming from Nickelodeon
An asterisk (*) indicates that the program has or had new episodes aired on Nicktoons.
Animated ("Nicktoons")
Live-action
Former programming
Original programming
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| scope="row" style="text-align:left; | Making Fiends || || || 2008–12, 14-16 ||
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| scope="row" style="text-align:left;" | Random! Cartoons || || || 2009–14 ||
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Acquired programming
Viacom licensed much of Nicktoons' programming from unrelated companies in temporary broadcast deals. Exceptions included 4Kids' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series (which Viacom purchased along with the rights to the TMNT franchise)
Anime
Animated
Live-action
Programming from Nickelodeon
An asterisk (*) indicates that the program had new episodes aired on Nicktoons.
Animated ("Nicktoons")
Puppetry
Live-action
Game shows
Preschool
Programming from Nick at Nite
Acquired programming from Nickelodeon
Animated
Live-action
See also
List of programs broadcast by Nickelodeon
List of programs broadcast by Nick at Nite
List of programs broadcast by the Nick Jr. Channel
List of programs broadcast by TeenNick
List of Nickelodeon original films
List of Nickelodeon short films
Nicktoons
Notes
References
Nicktoons (TV channel) original series
Nicktoons
Nickelodeon-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huananoceratidae | Huananoceratidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass in the order Ceratitida.
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 9/24/07
Xenodiscoidea
Ceratitida families
Permian first appearances
Permian extinctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuchengoceratidae | Liuchengoceratidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass in the order Ceratitida.
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 9/24/07
Xenodiscoidea
Ceratitida families
Permian first appearances
Permian extinctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleuronodoceratidae | Pleuronodoceratidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass in the order Ceratitida.
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 9/24/07
Xenodiscoidea
Ceratitida families
Permian first appearances
Permian extinctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotirolitidae | Pseudotirolitidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass in the order Ceratitida.
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 9/24/07
Xenodiscoidea
Ceratitida families
Permian first appearances
Permian extinctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapashanitidae | Tapashanitidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass in the order Ceratitida.
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 9/24/07
Xenodiscoidea
Ceratitida families
Permian first appearances
Permian extinctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoceratina | Otoceratina is an extinct suborder of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass in the order Ceratitida.
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 9/24/07
Mollusc suborders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoceratoidea | Otoceratoidea, formerly Otocerataceae, is an extinct superfamily of ammonite cephalopods in the order Ceratitida.
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 9/24/07
Otoceratina
Ceratitida superfamilies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderssonoceratidae | Anderssonoceratidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass in the order Ceratitida.
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 9/24/07
Otoceratina
Ceratitida families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoceratidae | Otoceratidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass in the order Ceratitida.
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 9/24/07
Otoceratina
Ceratitida families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20CouchDB | Apache CouchDB is an open-source document-oriented NoSQL database, implemented in Erlang.
CouchDB uses multiple formats and protocols to store, transfer, and process its data. It uses JSON to store data, JavaScript as its query language using MapReduce, and HTTP for an API.
CouchDB was first released in 2005 and later became an Apache Software Foundation project in 2008.
Unlike a relational database, a CouchDB database does not store data and relationships in tables. Instead, each database is a collection of independent documents. Each document maintains its own data and self-contained schema. An application may access multiple databases, such as one stored on a user's mobile phone and another on a server. Document metadata contains revision information, making it possible to merge any differences that may have occurred while the databases were disconnected.
CouchDB implements a form of multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) so it does not lock the database file during writes. Conflicts are left to the application to resolve. Resolving a conflict generally involves first merging data into one of the documents, then deleting the stale one.
Other features include document-level ACID semantics with eventual consistency, (incremental) MapReduce, and (incremental) replication. One of CouchDB's distinguishing features is multi-master replication, which allows it to scale across machines to build high-performance systems. A built-in Web application called Fauxton (formerly Futon) helps with administration.
History
Couch is an acronym for cluster of unreliable commodity hardware.
The CouchDB project was created in April 2005 by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer at IBM. He self-funded the project for almost two years and released it as an open-source project under the GNU General Public License.
In February 2008, it became an Apache Incubator project and was offered under the Apache License instead. A few months after, it graduated to a top-level project. This led to the first stable version being released in July 2010.
In early 2012, Katz left the project to focus on Couchbase Server.
Since Katz's departure, the Apache CouchDB project has continued, releasing 1.2 in April 2012 and 1.3 in April 2013. In July 2013, the CouchDB community merged the codebase for BigCouch, Cloudant's clustered version of CouchDB, into the Apache project. The BigCouch clustering framework is included in the current release of Apache CouchDB.
Native clustering is supported at version 2.0.0. And the new Mango Query Server provides a simple JSON-based way to perform CouchDB queries without JavaScript or MapReduce.
Main features
ACID Semantics
CouchDB provides ACID semantics. It does this by implementing a form of Multi-Version Concurrency Control, meaning that CouchDB can handle a high volume of concurrent readers and writers without conflict.
Built for Offline
CouchDB can replicate to devices (like smartphones) that can go offline and handle data sy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Goertzel | Ben Goertzel is a cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, CEO and founder of SingularityNET, leader of the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society, and chair of Humanity+. He helped popularize the term 'artificial general intelligence'.
Early life and education
Three of Goertzel's Jewish great-grandparents emigrated to New York from Lithuania and Poland. Goertzel's father is Ted Goertzel, a former professor of sociology at Rutgers University. Goertzel left high school after the tenth grade to attend Bard College at Simon's Rock, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Quantitative Studies. Goertzel graduated with a PhD in mathematics from Temple University under the supervision of Avi Lin in 1990, at age 23.
Career
Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a project combining artificial intelligence and blockchain to democratize access to artificial intelligence. He was a Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He is also chief scientist and chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC; chairman of the OpenCog Foundation; and advisor to Singularity University.
Goertzel was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created Sophia the Robot.
He was an associate professor of computer science at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York.
Views on AI
Goertzel is a leading developer of the OpenCog framework for artificial general intelligence. He has published many technical papers on the OpenCog architecture.
In May 2007, Goertzel spoke at a Google tech talk about his approach to creating artificial general intelligence. He defines intelligence as the ability to detect patterns in the world and in the agent itself, measurable in terms of emergent behavior of "achieving complex goals in complex environments". A "baby-like" artificial intelligence is initialized, then trained as an agent in a simulated or virtual world such as Second Life to produce a more powerful intelligence. Knowledge is represented in a network whose nodes and links carry probabilistic truth values as well as "attention values", with the attention values resembling the weights in a neural network. Several algorithms operate on this network, the central one being a combination of a probabilistic inference engine and a custom version of evolutionary programming.
The 2012 documentary The Singularity by independent filmmaker Doug Wolens showcased Goertzel's vision and understanding of making artificial general intelligence.
Bibliography
See also
Artificial general intelligence
Paraconsistent logic
References
External links
Ben Goertzel at arXiv.org
TEDxBerkeley – "Decentralized AI" (video:16min, March 2019)
SingularityNET
1966 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American agnostics
American roboticists
American technology company founders
American people of Brazilian-Jewish descent
Artificial intelligence researchers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provider%20router | In Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), a P router or provider router is a label switch router (LSR) that functions as a transit router of the core network. The P router is typically connected to one or more PE routers.
Here's one scenario: A customer who has facilities in LA and Atlanta wants to connect these sites over an MPLS VPN provided by AT&T. To do this, the customer would purchase a link from the on-site CE router to the PE router in AT&T's central office in LA and would also do the same thing in Atlanta. The PE routers would connect over AT&T's backbone routers (P routers) to enable the two CE routers in LA and Atlanta to communicate over the MPLS network.
See also
Customer edge router
Provider edge router
References
MPLS networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puts | Puts may refer to:
Put option, a stock market instrument
Naked put
People Under The Stairs, an American hip hop group
puts(), a simple function in the C programming language that writes a string to stdout
Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale, a measurement to assess urges in tic disorders
People with the surname
Jesse Puts (born 1994), Dutch competitive swimmer
Kevin Puts (born 1972), American composer
See also
fputs()
printf()
Put (disambiguation)
Putsch, a term for coup d'état |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20SQL%20Server%20Master%20Data%20Services | Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is a Master Data Management (MDM) product from Microsoft that ships as a part of the Microsoft SQL Server relational database management system. Master data management (MDM) allows an organization to discover and define non-transactional lists of data, and compile maintainable, reliable master lists. Master Data Services first shipped with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Microsoft SQL Server 2016 introduced enhancements to Master Data Services, such as improved performance and security, and the ability to clear transaction logs, create custom indexes, share entity data between different models, and support for many-to-many relationships.
Overview
In Master Data Services, the model is the highest level container in the structure of your master data. You create a model to manage groups of similar data. A model contains one or more entities, and entities contain members that are the data records. An entity is similar to a table.
Like other MDM products, Master Data Services aims to create a centralized data source and keep it synchronized, and thus reduce redundancies, across the applications which process the data.
Sharing the architectural core with Stratature +EDM, Master Data Services uses a Microsoft SQL Server database as the physical data store. It is a part of the Master Data Hub, which uses the database to store and manage data entities. It is a database with the software to validate and manage the data, and keep it synchronized with the systems that use the data. The master data hub has to extract the data from the source system, validate, sanitize and shape the data, remove duplicates, and update the hub repositories, as well as synchronize the external sources. The entity schemas, attributes, data hierarchies, validation rules and access control information are specified as metadata to the Master Data Services runtime. Master Data Services does not impose any limitation on the data model. Master Data Services also allows custom Business rules, used for validating and sanitizing the data entering the data hub, to be defined, which is then run against the data matching the specified criteria. All changes made to the data are validated against the rules, and a log of the transaction is stored persistently. Violations are logged separately, and optionally the owner is notified, automatically. All the data entities can be versioned.
Master Data Services allows the master data to be categorized by hierarchical relationships, such as employee data are a subtype of organization data. Hierarchies are generated by relating data attributes. Data can be automatically categorized using rules, and the categories are introspected programmatically. Master Data Services can also expose the data as Microsoft SQL Server views, which can be pulled by any SQL-compatible client. It uses a role-based access control system to restrict access to the data. The views are generated dynamically, so they contain th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20search%20engine | A distributed search engine is a search engine where there is no central server. Unlike traditional centralized search engines, work such as crawling, data mining, indexing, and query processing is distributed among several peers in a decentralized manner where there is no single point of control.
History
Presearch
Started in 2017, Presearch is an ERC20 powered (PRE) search engine powered by a distributed network of community operated nodes which aggregate results from a variety of sources. This powers the searches at presearch.com/
This is planned to be a precursor where each node collaborates on a global decentralised index.
Presearch averages 5 million searches per day and has 2.2 million registered users. On Sept 1, 2021, Presearch was added as a default option to the search engine list on Android for the EU. On May 27, 2022, Presearch officially transitioned from its Testnet to a Mainnet. This means all search traffic through the service now runs over Presearch’s decentralized network of volunteer-run nodes.
YaCy
On December 15, 2003 Michael Christen announced development of a P2P-based search engine, eventually named YaCy, on the heise online forums.
Dews
A theoretical design for a distributed search engine discussed in academic literature.
Seeks
Seeks was an open source websearch proxy and collaborative distributed tool for websearch. It ceased to have a usable release in 2016.
InfraSearch
In April 2000 several programmers (including Gene Kan, Steve Waterhouse) built a prototype P2P web search engine based on Gnutella called InfraSearch. The technology was later acquired by Sun Microsystems and incorporated into the JXTA project. It was meant to run inside the participating websites' databases creating a P2P network that could be accessed through the InfraSearch website.
Opencola
On May 31, 2000 Steelbridge Inc. announced development of OpenCOLA a collaborative distributive open source search engine. It runs on the user's computer and crawls the web pages and links the user puts in their opencola folder and shares resulting index over its P2P network.
Faroo
In February 2001 Wolf Garbe published an idea of a peer-to-peer search engine,
started the Faroo prototype in 2004, and released it in 2005.
Goals
The goals of building a distributed search engine include:
1. to create an independent search engine powered by the community;
2. to make the search operation open and transparent by relying on open-source software;
3. to distribute the advertising revenue to node maintainers, which may help create more robust web infrastructure;
4. to allow researchers to contribute to the development of open-source and publicly-maintainable ranking algorithms and to oversee the training of the algorithm parameters.
Challenges
1. The amount of data to be processed is enormous. The size of the visible web is estimated at 5PB spread around 10 billion pages.
2. The latency of the distributed operation must be competitive with the latenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20Network%20Liberty%20Alliance | 1984 Network Liberty Alliance is a loose group of software programmers, artists, social activists and militants, interested in computers and networks and considering them tools to empower and link the various actors of the social movement around the world. They are part of the hacktivism movement.
History
The group was formed in November 1984, during a "debriefing" workshop of the European Peace Marches on the Hartmannswillerkopf in Alsace, France, following the struggle against the installation of Pershing II and SS-20 nuclear missiles in Germany (Mutlangen). From 1978 to 1985, this European-wide peace movement had mobilized millions of citizens, protesting the arms race, the growth of military spending and joining in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
In reference to George Orwell's novel 1984 and to the Rebel Alliance of the movie Star Wars, the group chose the (ironic) name 1984 Network Liberty Alliance. Founders are André Gorz, French philosopher, Dov Lerner, MIT computer graduate and disciple of Saul Alinsky, as well as Gregoire Seither, free radio activist, Frauke Hahn who had led the woman's resistance ('Commons Women') at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, David Szwarc from the Israeli Peace movement and Adama Drasiweni, computer graduate from the University of London, future founder of N'DA, Africa's first independent telecom company.
Other members, like Australian co-founder of Indymedia Matthew Arnison, south-African anti-apartheid militant Peter Makema and Israeli peace activists Uri Avnery and Michel Warchawsky, joined later on. All were active in various social movements and peace initiatives in Europe and the USA.
When Richard Stallman published the GNU Manifesto in March 1985 and called for participation and support, Dov Lerner and Gregor Seither started organizing regular meetings and workshops in order to train activists in the use of information technology and gather support for the Free Software movement. Adama Drasiweni, owner of a computer business in London, set up similar workshops in Kibera, a giant slum outside of Nairobi, Kenya.
In France, the Alliance used the network of the Maisons de l'Informatique that had been set up under the presidency of François Mitterrand as well as the computer labs of Paris University, who access to academic networks and Billboard Systems. The group ran a number of BBS, among them 'Pom-Pom', devoted to the Apple Macintosh and 'PeaceNet', an "electronic pow-wow" to help social activists and community organizers exchange information around the world, offering free mail accounts and file hosting services.
Very soon the issues of free speech, software patents, civil rights and surveillance became some of the major topics addressed by the Alliance, the group being accused of hacking and forking software. One of the BBS run by the group 'Gaia rising', was accused by the German government of being a meeting point for radical environmental activists as well as anarchists.
The Liberty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Rust | Gregory Paul Rust (born 19 July 1970 in Sydney) is an Australian motor racing journalist and presenter. He has previously worked for Network Ten, the Nine Network and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) as a freelance commentator/reporter/presenter, mainly covering motor racing.
Early life
Rust was born in Sydney Australia on 19 July 1970. Rust has a brother and sister. Born into a family with a genuine love for all forms of motorsport, he was a regular at the Sydney Showground Speedway as a child and competed as an amateur racer in karts. After leaving high school, he worked on a cadetship program with ANZ specialising in home loans. In his late teens and early twenties, Rust enjoyed some class wins as a driver in rallysprints and khana-crosses after buying a modified Mitsubishi Galant with several close friends.
Radio career
Rust worked for three years with the Macquarie Radio Network stations 2GB and 2CH in Sydney initially as a sport reporter and later became a daytime news reader.
Television career
Early years
After cutting his teeth with SBS motorsport program Speedweek, Rust was drafted into Channel 9's commentary team for the final Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Eastern Creek Raceway in 1996. He called the support races with 1980 Formula One World Champion Alan Jones.
Network Ten
In 1997 he was hired by Ten to host the Australian Super Touring Championship for 2-litre Touring Cars - a position previously held by his close friend Leigh Diffey, who had moved on to Network Ten's V8 Supercar coverage. Rust commentated the Australian Super Touring Championship for 2 years before starting work as V8 pit reporter late in 1998. He was a part of Ten's V8 coverage for almost 10 years - even hosting and anchoring the commentary on occasions. During this period the station won numerous Logie Awards for its broadcast of the famous Bathurst 1000 and Rust developed a reputation as a pit specialist also working on the Gold Coast Indy 300 and the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. Despite an offer to join the Seven Network in 2007, Rust stayed with Ten to front the station's MotoGP and F1 broadcasts and its long running magazine motorsport show RPM. He also hosted and commentated Ten's coverage of the Red Bull Air Race series.
Outside of motorsport, Rust worked alongside Sandra Sully and former 2GB colleague Jason Morrison assisting in Channel 10's initial coverage of the September 11 attacks by logging footage and by writing and voicing a 5 minute snapshot story on what had unfolded for a special breakfast bulletin, working until sun up. Rust also worked on One's coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics. and the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
V8 Media and Fox Sports
In 2015, the V8 Supercars television rights moved to a shared broadcast between Fox Sports and Network Ten. The broadcast shared a common commentary team, produced by V8 Supercars Media and headed up by Rust and Neil Crompton. Rust also began hosting Fox Sports' new V8 Super |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRINTS | In molecular biology, the PRINTS database is a collection of so-called "fingerprints": it provides both a detailed annotation resource for protein families, and a diagnostic tool for newly determined sequences. A fingerprint is a group of conserved motifs taken from a multiple sequence alignment - together, the motifs form a characteristic signature for the aligned protein family. The motifs themselves are not necessarily contiguous in sequence, but may come together in 3D space to define molecular binding sites or interaction surfaces. The particular diagnostic strength of fingerprints lies in their ability to distinguish sequence differences at the clan, superfamily, family and subfamily levels. This allows fine-grained functional diagnoses of uncharacterised sequences, allowing, for example, discrimination between family members on the basis of the ligands they bind or the proteins with which they interact, and highlighting potential oligomerisation or allosteric sites.
PRINTS is a founding partner of the integrated resource, InterPro, a widely used database of protein families, domains and functional sites.
References
External links
PRINTS Database (University of Manchester Bioinformatics Education and Research)
Biological databases
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor%20positioning%20system | An indoor positioning system (IPS) is a network of devices used to locate people or objects where GPS and other satellite technologies lack precision or fail entirely, such as inside multistory buildings, airports, alleys, parking garages, and underground locations.
A large variety of techniques and devices are used to provide indoor positioning ranging from reconfigured devices already deployed such as smartphones, WiFi and Bluetooth antennas, digital cameras, and clocks; to purpose built installations with relays and beacons strategically placed throughout a defined space. Lights, radio waves, magnetic fields, acoustic signals, and behavioral analytics are all used in IPS networks. IPS can achieve position accuracy of 2 cm, which is on par with RTK enabled GNSS receivers that can achieve 2 cm accuracy outdoors.
IPS use different technologies, including distance measurement to nearby anchor nodes (nodes with known fixed positions, e.g. WiFi / LiFi access points, Bluetooth beacons or Ultra-Wideband beacons), magnetic positioning, dead reckoning. They either actively locate mobile devices and tags or provide ambient location or environmental context for devices to get sensed.
The localized nature of an IPS has resulted in design fragmentation, with systems making use of various optical, radio, or even acoustic
technologies.
IPS has broad applications in commercial, military, retail, and inventory tracking industries. There are several commercial systems on the market, but no standards for an IPS system. Instead each installation is tailored to spatial dimensions, building materials, accuracy needs, and budget constraints.
For smoothing to compensate for stochastic (unpredictable) errors there must be a sound method for reducing the error budget significantly. The system might include information from other systems to cope for physical ambiguity and to enable error compensation.
Detecting the device's orientation (often referred to as the compass direction in order to disambiguate it from smartphone vertical orientation) can be achieved either by detecting landmarks inside images taken in real time, or by using trilateration with beacons. There also exist technologies for detecting magnetometric information inside buildings or locations with steel structures or in iron ore mines.
Applicability and precision
Due to the signal attenuation caused by construction materials, the satellite based Global Positioning System (GPS) loses significant power indoors affecting the required coverage for receivers by at least four satellites. In addition, the multiple reflections at surfaces cause multi-path propagation serving for uncontrollable errors. These very same effects are degrading all known solutions for indoor locating which uses electromagnetic waves from indoor transmitters to indoor receivers. A bundle of physical and mathematical methods are applied to compensate for these problems. Promising direction radio frequency positioning error correct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu%20Titling | Ubuntu Titling or Ubuntu-Title is a rounded geometric sans-serif font. It was created by Andy Fitzsimon for use with the Ubuntu operating system and its derivatives. It is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Prior to the 10.04 release, the typeface was notably used in branding for the Ubuntu operating system and its related projects. Fitzsimon's design was created without any upper-case letters. A later release by Christian Robertson (who later created Roboto) added capitals and was released by Robertson at the "release candidate" stage. This was called Ubuntu Titling.
Ubuntu Titling was ultimately replaced for branding use with a variant from the Ubuntu Font Family.
References
External links
Homepage with the font of Andy Fitzsimon (doesn't have capital letters)
Version by Christian Robertson containing capital letters
Open-source typefaces
Ubuntu
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2004
Geometric sans-serif typefaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop%20%28software%29 | Hop is a Lisp-like programming language by Manuel Serrano for web 2.0 and also the name of the web broker (server and proxy) that implements this language. It is written in Bigloo Scheme. It is a project funded by INRIA.
Language design
Hop is a stratified language, which means that a single program file contains instructions for both the server and the client. The server executes CPU demanding computations and operations that require system privileges for accessing files or other resources. The clients (of which there may be many such as browsers, cell phones, etc.) are dedicated to executing actions related to the programming of the graphical user interfaces.
(define-service (server-date) ;1
(current-date)) ;2
(<HTML> ;4
(<BUTTON> ;5
:onclick ~(with-hop ($server-date) ;6
(lambda (h) (alert h))) ;7
"Server time")) ;8
The code snippet above illustrates a few concepts.
The 8 lines of code define a complete program. Lines 1 and 2 result in a service definition on the server. Lines 4 through 8 result in an HTML page complete with javascript functions. It instructs a client (browser) to display a button with the label "Server time" and to send a request to the server when the user clicks on the button. Hop automatically generates all the instructions needed for the communication between the client and the server.
Hop is based on Scheme. Therefore a Hop program is essentially a list of words and/or lists that start and end with parentheses. For example "(HTML content)". "HTML" is the function name and "content" is the function parameter.
Function names in Hop may contain characters other than letters and numbers. For example "<HTML>" is a valid name. Therefore the syntax of Hop looks very similar to HTML (by design). The Hop expression "(<HTML> content)" is similar to the HTML expression "content".
HTML parameters start with a colon; for example ":onclick".
The $ character in "$server-date" indicates that the server should substitute the variable name "server-date" with the variable's value before sending the HTML to the client. This is very similar to how ASP and JSP work.
The ~ character in ":onclick ~(...)" indicates that the client should process what is between the parentheses.
The "with-hop" function in "(with-hop (...) (...))" is a special function that delegates work to the server and takes two parameters. The first parameter contains the request the client should send to the server asynchronously. The second parameter contains the callback function that the client should invoke when the response arrives from the server. "(lambda (h) (alert h))" is an anonymous function that takes a single input parameter "(h)", which contains the server response when the function is called. "(alert h)" is the function body.
Issues
Given its recent introduction, Ho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad%20%28disambiguation%29 | A myriad is 10,000 or an indefinitely large number.
Myriad may also refer to:
Computing
Marconi Myriad, an early computer
Myriad Group, a Swiss software company
Myriad Search, a metasearch engine
Myriad, a processor by Movidius
Literature
Myriad Editions, a British publishing house
Myriad (Image Comics), a fictional character
Myriad (DC Comics), a character in the "Bloodlines" story arc
Myriad, an anthology comic book series published by Approbation Comics
Music
The Myriad, an American band
Myriads, a Gothic metal band from Norway
MYRIAD, a performance installation accompanying the 2018 album Age Of
Other uses
Myriad (area), a unit of area
Myriad (typeface)
"Myriad" (Supergirl), an episode of Supergirl
Myriad Botanical Gardens, in Oklahoma City, U.S.
Myriad CIWS, a close-in weapon system
Myriad Convention Center, now Cox Convention Center, in Oklahoma City, U.S.
Myriad Genetics, an American molecular diagnostic company
Myriad Islands, in Antarctica
Myriad Pictures, an American entertainment company
Myriad year clock, a universal clock
Myriad Games, publisher of the video game Caltron 6 in 1
See also
Myriade, a European miniaturized satellite platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20filter | In computer graphics, an Euler filter is a filter intended to prevent gimbal lock and related discontinuities in animation data sets in which rotation is expressed in terms of Euler angles.
These discontinuities are caused by the existence of many-to-one mappings between the Euler angle parameterization of the set of 3D rotations. This allows the data set to flip between different Euler angle combinations which correspond to a single 3D rotation, which, although remaining continuous in the space of rotation, are discontinuous in the Euler angle parameter space.
The Euler filter chooses on a sample-by-sample basis between the possible Euler angle representations of each 3D rotation in the data set in such a way as to preserve the continuity of the Euler angle time series, without changing the actual 3D rotations.
Euler filtering is available in a number of 3D animation packages.
See also
Charts on SO(3)
Rotation formalisms in three dimensions
References
External links
http://fliponline.blogspot.com/2007/04/quick-trick-gimbal-lock-just-ignore-it.html
http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=11;action=display;threadid=24434
http://sparks.discreet.com/knowledgebase/sdkdocs_v8/prog/main/sdk_trans_handling_sign_flips.html
Computer animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo%20Colleges%20District | The Alamo Colleges District (previously the Alamo Community College District, or ACCD, and The Alamo Colleges) is a network of five community colleges in San Antonio and Universal City, Texas, and serving the Greater San Antonio metropolitan area. The district was founded in 1945 as the San Antonio Union Junior College District before adopting the Alamo name in 1982.
Colleges in the district
The five colleges in the district operate with a high degree of autonomy, though the colleges' accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, placed three in a year-long warning period from January 2017 over issues of institutional autonomy. The board of trustees for the district voted to rename the district in January 2017 to reflect issues pertaining to accreditation.
San Antonio College (founded 1925)
St. Philip's College (founded 1898)
Palo Alto College (founded 1983)
Northwest Vista College (founded 1995)
Northeast Lakeview College (founded 2007)
All of the colleges are within San Antonio city limits except Northeast Lakeview, which is within the town limits of Universal City and Live Oak, just to the northeast of the City of San Antonio. The Alamo Colleges District Main Office is located at 2222 N. Alamo St. and was previously located in multiple offices throughout the city and in a portion of Universal City.
Education and programs
The district serves more than 100,000 students in academic and continuing-education programs and employs more than 6,000 faculty and staff. It had a budget of $503 million for the 2023 academic year.
The district offers over 300 degree and certificate programs. Most courses taken within the district are meant to apply to AA, AS, AAS, AAA, and AAT degrees, which help students apply for jobs or can be transferred to four-year institutions.
Service area
As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of the Alamo Colleges District is:
all of Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Kendall, Kerr and Wilson Counties
all of Atascosa County excluding the portion included within the Pleasanton Independent School District
all of Guadalupe County excluding the portion of the county included within the San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District
References
External links
Universities and colleges in San Antonio
Community colleges in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauner%20College%20Prep | Rauner College Prep is a public four-year charter high school located in the West Town in Chicago, Illinois. It is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. Rauner College Prep is named in honor of donors Diana and Bruce Rauner. It opened in 2006 and serves students in grades nine through twelve.
References
External links
Noble Network of Charter Schools
TheCharterSCALE: Rauner College Prep
Educational institutions established in 2006
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Public high schools in Chicago
2006 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Krippendorff | Klaus Krippendorff (March 21, 1932 – October 10, 2022) was a communication scholar, social science methodologist, and cyberneticist. and was the Gregory Bateson professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. He wrote an influential textbook on content analysis and is the creator of the widely used and eponymous measure of interrater reliability, Krippendorff's alpha. In 1984-1985, he served as the president of the International Communication Association, one of the two largest professional associations for scholars for communication.
Overview
Krippendorff was born in 1932 in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. His father was an engineer at Junkers. In 1954, he graduated with an engineering degree from the State Engineering School Hannover (now Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts). In 1961, he graduated as diplom-designer from the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm), Germany. And in 1967, he received his Ph.D. in communications from the pioneering Institute for Communication Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Krippendorff started to work as an engineer and during the last year of his graduate study of design he was a research assistant at the Institute for Visual Perception at the Ulm School of Design. In 1961 he came to the United States with a two-year Ford International Fellowship, first to Princeton University but completing his second graduate education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1964, he joined the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is or was a member of the editorial boards of multiple academic journals, such as Communication and Information Science, Communication Research, Constructivist Foundations, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, International Journal of Cultural Studies and the Journal of Communication.
In 1971, he was awarded an honorary MA from the University of Pennsylvania. In the same year, he received an award for "On Generating Data in Communication Research" as the most outstanding contribution to The Journal of Communication, published in 1970. In 1979, he became a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1982, fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA) in 1985, and fellow of the Japanese Society for Science and Design Studies in 1998.
In 1998, graduate students named him as the teacher of the best doctoral course taken at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2000, he became the Gregory Bateson professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the Annenberg School for Communication. In 2001 he was awarded the Norbert Wiener Medal in Cybernetics in gold by the American Society for Cybernetics. Also in 2001, he received the ICA Fellows Book Award for his influential text Content Analys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey%20%28human%20research%29 | In research of human subjects, a survey is a list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people. Surveys may be conducted by phone, mail, via the internet, and also at street corners or in malls. Surveys are used to gather or gain knowledge in fields such as social research and demography.
Survey research is often used to assess thoughts, opinions and feelings. Surveys can be specific and limited, or they can have more global, widespread goals. Psychologists and sociologists often use surveys to analyze behavior, while it is also used to meet the more pragmatic needs of the media, such as, in evaluating political candidates, public health officials, professional organizations, and advertising and marketing directors. Survey research has also been employed in various medical and surgical fields to gather information about healthcare personnel’s practice patterns and professional attitudes toward various clinical problems and diseases. Healthcare professionals that may be enrolled in survey studies in include physicians, nurses, and physical therapists among others. A survey consists of a predetermined set of questions that is given to a sample. With a representative sample, that is, one that is representative of the larger population of interest, one can describe the attitudes of the population from which the sample was drawn. Further, one can compare the attitudes of different populations as well as look for changes in attitudes over time. A good sample selection is key as it allows one to generalize the findings from the sample to the population, which is the whole purpose of survey research. In addition to this, it is important to ensure that survey questions are not biased such as using suggestive words. This prevents inaccurate results in a survey.
Types
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a specific given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses. The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years
Other household surveys
Other surveys than the census may explore characteristics in households, such as fertility, family structure, and demographics.
Household surveys with at least 10,000 participants include:
General Household Survey, conducted in private households in Great Britain. It is a repeated cross-sectional study, conducted annually, which uses a sample of 9,731 households in the 2006 survey.
Generations and Gender Survey, conducted in several countries in Europe as well as Australia and Japan. The programme has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20State%20Network | The Texas State Network is the largest of the 30 state radio networks in the United States. TSN mainly distributes news and agriculture business to more than 130 AM and FM radio affiliates across Texas.
History
The Texas State Network was founded in 1938 by presidential son Elliott Roosevelt, who was loaned money by the oil magnate Sid Richardson to eventually buy a dozen stations (many are still affiliates) that formed the Texas State Network.
TSN began transmitting five weeks after its incorporation date, with a broadcast originating from the old Casa Mañana in Fort Worth, and featured such personalities as Bob Hope and Texas Governor James V. Allred, along with a 300-voice choir.
The network’s original programming included soap operas such as Uncle Jeremiah and The Adventures of Gary and Jill. As is the case today, most of TSN's early programming was devoted to news and sports. Nearly 30 network announcers, production personnel and control room operators produced Highlights in the World News daily.
The first baseball broadcasts on TSN were of the Fort Worth Cats, with announcer Zack Hurt, calling the play-by-play.
Studios
TSN studios have moved around over the years. It began at 1308 Lancaster in Fort Worth. It moved in the mid-1950s to 4801 West Freeway (same as KFJZ AM/-TV/later -FM). TSN was sold to Metromedia and moved to 8585 Stemmons Freeway in Dallas. Later sites included periods where the network broadcast from facilities on John W. Carpenter Freeway in Dallas and at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas. In summer 2005, the station moved to a fifth floor office at the southwest corner of Fitzhugh and Central Expressway, in Dallas.
Today
Today, the focus of TSN is news, sports, business, weather, agriculture and talk programming to more than 100 affiliated radio stations in Texas, including the network’s flagship station KRLD which is located at the same facility north of downtown. Seven affiliates that carried TSN's premiere broadcast are still carrying the network’s programming.
The tradition of sports broadcasts continues into the present as the network is also known as the Texas Rangers Radio Network, uplinking both home and road broadcasts for the Major League Baseball team to affiliates in Texas and in other states.
Services
TSN News
TSN Agri-Business News
External links
Texas State Network - Official Site
American radio networks
1938 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarado%20Medical%20Center%20station | Alvarado Medical Center station is a station on San Diego Trolley's Green Line in the College Area. It is one of the San Diego Trolley network's newer stations, having opened in 2005.
The street-level station has side platforms. It is located near the intersection of Alvarado Rd. and Reservoir Dr. The station is located across the street from the Alvarado Medical Center. Besides the hospital and the College Area, portions of the residential neighborhood of Del Cerro are also accessible from the stop.
Station layout
There are two tracks, each served by a side platform.
Alvarado riddle
One of the most noticeable features of the station is a riddle, engraved into the tiles on the wall that separates the station from the freeway. This art installation was created by Roman De Salvo in 2005.
The riddle reads:
"Arteries, veins, and, capillaries.
For autos, rain, and, catenaries.
All three lines are side by side.
Above, below, and, stratified.
One is numbered less than nine.
Another was there at the dawn of time.
The last will be here after a wait.
Or, right away if you're not too late.
Look around to solve this riddle.
Name all three, top, bottom and middle.
If bewildered, feel the handrail.
The answer there is writ in Braille.”
See also
List of San Diego Trolley stations
References
Green Line (San Diego Trolley)
San Diego Trolley stations in San Diego
Railway stations in the United States opened in 2005
2005 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20contention | In computer science, resource contention is a conflict over access to a shared resource such as random access memory, disk storage, cache memory, internal buses or external network devices. A resource experiencing ongoing contention can be described as oversubscribed.
Resolving resource contention problems is one of the basic functions of operating systems. Various low-level mechanisms can be used to aid this, including locks, semaphores, mutexes and queues. The other techniques that can be applied by the operating systems include intelligent scheduling, application mapping decision, and page coloring.
Access to resources is also sometimes regulated by queuing; in the case of computing time on a CPU the controlling algorithm of the task queue is called a scheduler.
Failure to properly resolve resource contention problems may result in a number of problems, including deadlock, livelock, and thrashing.
Resource contention results when multiple processes attempt to use the same shared resource. Access to memory areas is often controlled by semaphores, which allows a pathological situation called a deadlock, when different threads or processes try to allocate resources already allocated by each other. A deadlock usually leads to a program becoming partially or completely unresponsive.
In recent years, research on the contention is more focused on the resources in the memory hierarchy, e.g., last-level caches, front-side bus, memory socket connection.
See also
Bus contention
Cache coherence
Collision avoidance (networking)
Resource allocation
References
Computational resources |
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