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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Abalos | Jason Joel Jimenez Abalos (born January 14, 1985) is a Filipino actor, host, model, endorser and politician. Abalos is currently an exclusive actor of GMA Network.
Acting career
Abalos is a former member of Star Magic talents until 2017. He was discovered after joining Star Circle Quest, a reality show in search of new actors. On August 7, 2008, he won Best Performance by Male or Female, Adult or Child, Individual or Ensemble in Leading or Supporting Role award in the Young Critics Circle Annual Citation held at the Faculty Center Conference (Pulungang Recto, Bulwagang Rizal) Hall of the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City. The award was for his role in the indie film Adela, directed by Adolfo Alix, Jr. and starring Anita Linda (in the 2008 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival).
On October 1, 2008, he won the Best Actor in the 2008 Gawad Urian Awards for Endo.
He is a celebrity endorser of Aficionado Germany Perfume with his own product Jason EDT (Eau de Toilette). He was relaunched as endorser on January 8, 2011, during the grand "1@11" event at the SM Mall of Asia Concert Grounds attended by 85,000 people.
On October 3, 2017, Abalos transferred to GMA Network and signed an exclusive contract at GMA Artist Center after 13 years as a talent of Star Magic of ABS-CBN.
Political career
His father, Popoy Abalos, is a former board member of the Second District of Nueva Ecija.
In the 2016 elections, Abalos, ran under Liberal Party, but failed in his attempt to obtain a membership in the municipal council of Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija.
In the 2022 elections, ran under PDP–Laban to "pursue what [his] father had started", he was elected board member of the province's Second District.
Personal life
In his early years, Abalos studied in his hometown, Pantabangan. He later obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology.
His engagement in 2021 with his long-time partner, actress and Binibining Pilipinas 2018 runner-up Vickie Rushton, was revealed in June 2022. They were married in a church wedding ceremony in Batangas on September 1 of the same year. And on September 1, 2023, coinciding with their first wedding anniversary, they both have their first child name Knoa.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
Jason Abalos on Star Magic
Jason Abalos on GMA Artist Center
1985 births
Living people
21st-century Filipino male actors
ABS-CBN personalities
GMA Network personalities
Filipino male comedians
Filipino male models
Filipino male television actors
Ilocano people
Male actors from Nueva Ecija
Star Circle Quest participants
Star Magic personalities
Filipino male film actors
Filipino actor-politicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCCS | PCCS may refer to:
Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, a public virtual charter school based out of Midland, Pennsylvania, USA
Prairie Creek Community School, a K-5 charter school in Castle Rock Township, Minnesota, USA
Pocatello Community Charter School, a public K-8 charter school in Pocatello, Idaho, USA
Practical Color Coordinate System, a color model developed by the Japan Color Research Institute
Pearson correlation coefficients, a measure of linear correlation in mathematics
Plymouth Canton Community Schools, a public K-12 school system, Michigan, USA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction%20software | Auction software is application software, that can either be deployed on a desktop, on a web server or as a smart contract on a blockchain virtual machine. This software is used by auctioneers and participants of online auctions such as eBay. Smart contracts replace an auctioneer's server, if the auctioneer is not trusted.
Online Auction companies have opened up their applications to third party application developers to extend the capabilities and increase revenue. API interfaces were developed using XML which enable third party developers to build applications that use the back-end of the online auction.
Economic experiments
Economists use special software to study human behavior in auctions by running auctions in a lab. There are diverse software tools for laboratory economic experiments, which allow fast programming of auctions. For instance, z-Tree programming language allows programming an experimental double auction in less than a day. This practise led to appearance of multiple scientific publications exposing results for generalized second price auctions, Dutch auctions, all-pay auctions and other auction types.
Auction websites
Auction websites reside in three categories according to the business model. These are B2B (Business to Business), B2C (Business to Customer), and C2C (Customer to Customer). eBay website serves all three business models. SAP Ariba website is dedicated to B2B. Ariba patented its auction software technology and won a case worth over $6M against Emptoris Inc. in 2009.
Smart-contract based auction
Blockchains with smart contract like Ethereum functionality allow definition, execution and enforcement of auctions between untrusted parties without the involvement of a trusted third party. A smart contract is code that is executed on top of the blockchain. Blockchain auction ensure transparency and prevent cheating by auctioneers and collusion by bidders.
Auction sniping software
Auction sniping can be done by software on the bidder's computer, or by an online sniping service. eBay Germany banned automated sniping services in 2002, but the ban was declared illegal by Berlin's County Court, and revoked.
General game playing
General game playing was also proposed for trading agents in supply chain management thereunder price negotiation in online auctions from 2003 on. Hereby, an auction can be described in a game description language.
References
External links
Online Auction Research Report (1999)
Best2Bid leading auction system for Asia market |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEGA%20Cosmos%20%28Canada%29 | MEGA Cosmos is a Canadian exempt Category B Greek language specialty channel owned by Odyssey Television Network. It features Greek content with different commercials and scheduling compared to the original channel MEGA Channel, which is the largest private TV channel in Greece.
MEGA Cosmos broadcasts programming primarily from the library of the homonymous pan-hellenic channel. Programming includes news, television dramas, game shows and more.
History
On 12 August 2011, Greek National Television Network (Canada) Inc., a subsidiary of Odyssey Television Network, was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called OTN 3, described as "a national, general interest, third-language, ethnic speciality Category B service devoted to the Greek-speaking community in Canada."
Previous to OTN 3 launching, the MEGA Cosmos brand existed in Canada from 2007 to June 2012 through Ethnic Channels Group, who owned the channel and licensed its name and programming from MEGA Cosmos' parent owners in Greece. In June 2012, the channel was shut down.
In June 2012, Odyssey Television Network acquired the channel rights and subsequently launched its own version on 28 June 2012 using the OTN 3 licence. Odyssey Television Network owned much of the rights to MEGA Cosmos in Canada from 2001 to 2003, when it aired on the then-named Odyssey II channel. Programming was lost in 2003, subsequently, the channel was then renamed ERT Sat (now known as ERT World) as Odyssey reached an agreement with the parent Greek public broadcaster.
On September 14, 2018, the CRTC approved Odyssey Television Network's request to convert MEGA Cosmos (OTN3) from a licensed Category B speciality service to an exempted third language service.
In October 2022, MEGA Cosmos re-launched in Canada, available via Bell Satellite TV, Bell Fibe TV and Rogers Cable.
Logos
2007-September 14, 2018
2022-Today
Notable shows
A list of notable shows that air on MEGA Cosmos, as of October 2022:
MEGA Gegonota(Facts) – nightly newscast
Koinonia Ora Mega – morning show, airs Monday – Friday
Mega Kalimera – infotainment show, airs Monday – Friday
I Gi Tis Elias – drama, airs Monday - Friday
Mayro Rodo – drama, airs Saturday & Sunday
Eleni – lifestyle / talk show, airs weekday afternoons
Live News – famous afternoon news magazine with Nikos Evaggelatos
The Chase– afternoon game show with Maria Mpekatorou
References
External links
MEGA Cosmos Canada
MEGA Cosmos
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Greek-Canadian culture
Greek-language television stations
Canada–Greece relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan%20roundleaf%20bat | The Malayan roundleaf bat (Hipposideros nequam) is a horseshoe bat found only in Malaysia. It is listed as a data deficient species.
Taxonomy
It was described as a new species in 1918 by Danish mammalogist Knud Andersen. The holotype had been collected in 1879 by W. Davison in Klang, Malaysia. It was presented to Andersen by Allan Octavian Hume.
It is considered a member of the bicolor species group within Hipposideros based on its morphology. The holotype is the only known specimen of this species. As it was damaged, it is uncertain if the Malayan roundleaf bat is truly a distinct species. Its species name "nequam" is Latin for "worthless."
Description
The forearm length of the holotype was . It had a large nose-leaf of in length and in width. Its first premolar is small and its nasal septum is very thin.
Range and status
The Malayan roundleaf bat is only known from the type locality of Klang, Malaysia. As of 2016, it was evaluated as a data deficient species by the IUCN.
References
Endemic fauna of Malaysia
Mammals described in 1918
Bats of Malaysia
Hipposideros
Taxa named by Knud Andersen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit101.3%20Central%20Coast | Hit101.3 (call sign: 2CFM) is an Australian radio station located on the New South Wales Central Coast, part of Southern Cross Austereo's Hit Network. Hit101.3 broadcasts from the Central Coast Radio Centre on Henry Parry Drive, in Gosford, along with sister station 107.7 Triple M Central Coast. Its broadcast area is the Central Coast, however the station can be heard on FM at points as far as Newcastle, Sydney and parts of the Blue Mountains. The station was first broadcast from studios located in Mann Street, Gosford, where it was known on-air as Coast Rock FM, and is now broadcast from Henry Parry Drive, Gosford.
The station
Hit101.3 primarily plays a Hot Adult contemporary music format with a range of music from the 1990s to current hits, in alignment with most of SCA's regional Hit Network stations.
Its current weekday lineup consists locally of Maz Compton & Matt Baseley from 5-9am, broadcast across Hit Network's NSW regional stations from Gosford. Nic Kelly hosts a local Mornings program from 9am-12pm. Harry Boucher hosts 12-3pm across Hit's regional network stations including the Central Coast, before Carrie & Tommy from 3-6pm, Hughesy, Ed & Erin from 6-7pm, Jimmy & Nath 7-9pm, before music runs 12am-1am, and best bits from the network's two drive programs run 1am-5am.
History
Gosford Communications first submitted an application for a broadcast licence in August 1987. The Australian Broadcasting Tribunal(ABT) granted a commercial FM broadcast licence to Gosford Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of Country Television Services; a private company owned by Ted and Miriam Rodgers, in August 1988. Within a month of being awarded the broadcast licence, Wesgo (who owned the only other commercial station in the market at the time - AM station 2GO) launched an appeal against the ABT for granting a second commercial licence, and their appeal was upheld. A second appeal was launched by the ABT against the judge's decision to uphold Wesgo's appeal. After time in front of the Full Bench of the Federal Court, Gosford Communications were finally given the go-ahead. Initially, Gosford Communications owned 60% of the station, the other 40% was publicly floated; with shares offered to the local community and employees.
On 1 November 1989 Country Television Services was delisted from the ASX when it was taken over by Roslyndale Securities.
Coast Rock FM was first broadcast from newly constructed studios located in Mann Street, Gosford on 15 September 1990. The first song officially broadcast was Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones.
Sometime in the early 1990s, Coast Rock FM was purchased by Queensland TV operators, and owners of rival station 2GOFM; The Sunshine Television Network/STQ. In 1995 STQ was purchased by the Seven Network. Due to broadcast regulations at the time, Channel 7 was restricted to owning just one "type" of media outlet in any given area. As the Central Coast is considered part of the Sydney Metropolitan area, controversially |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chthoniidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the pseudoscorpion family Chthoniidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Afrochthonius Beier, 1930
Afrochthonius brincki Beier, 1955 — Lesotho
Afrochthonius ceylonicus Beier, 1973 — Sri Lanka
Afrochthonius godfreyi (Ellingsen, 1912) — Southern Africa
Afrochthonius inaequalis Beier, 1958 — Southern Africa
Afrochthonius natalensis Beier, 1931 — Southern Africa
Afrochthonius reductus Beier, 1973 — Sri Lanka
Afrochthonius similis Beier, 1930 — Namibia
Allochthonius J.C. Chamberlin, 1929
Allochthonius borealis Sato, 1984 — Japan
Allochthonius buanensis W.K.Lee, 1982 — Korea
Allochthonius kinkaiensis Sakayori, 2002 — Japan
Allochthonius montanus Sakayori, 2000 — Honshu, Tochigi, Mount Kohshin, Japan
Allochthonius opticus (Ellingsen, 1907) — Japan
Allochthonius opticus opticus (Ellingsen, 1907) — Japan
Allochthonius opticus coreanus Morikawa, 1970 — Korea
Allochthonius opticus troglophilus Morikawa, 1956 — Japan
Allochthonius shintoisticus J.C. Chamberlin, 1929 — Japan
Allochthonius tamurai Sakayori, 1999 — Japan
Allochthonius biocularis (Morikawa, 1956) — Japan
Allochthonius ishikawai (Morikawa, 1954) — Japan
Allochthonius ishikawai ishikawai (Morikawa, 1954) — Japan
Allochthonius ishikawai deciclavatus (Morikawa, 1956) — Japan
Allochthonius ishikawai kyushuensis (Morikawa, 1960) — Japan
Allochthonius ishikawai shiragatakiensis (Morikawa, 1954) — Japan
Allochthonius ishikawai uenoi (Morikawa, 1956) — Japan
Allochthonius uyamadensis (Morikawa, 1954) — Japan
Aphrastochthonius J.C. Chamberlin, 1962
Aphrastochthonius alteriae Muchmore, 1977 — Mexico
Aphrastochthonius cubanus Dumitresco & Orghidan, 1977 — Cuba
Aphrastochthonius grubbsi Muchmore, 1984 — California
Aphrastochthonius major Muchmore, 1973 — Mexico
Aphrastochthonius pachysetus Muchmore, 1976 — New Mexico
Aphrastochthonius palmitensis Muchmore, 1986 — Mexico
Aphrastochthonius parvus Muchmore, 1972 — Mexico
Aphrastochthonius patei Muchmore, 1982 — Mexico
Aphrastochthonius pecki Muchmore, 1968 — Alabama
Aphrastochthonius russelli Muchmore, 1972 — Mexico
Aphrastochthonius similis Muchmore, 1984 — California
Aphrastochthonius tenax J.C. Chamberlin, 1962
Aphrastochthonius verapazanus Muchmore, 1972 — Guatemala
Apochthonius J.C. Chamberlin, 1929
Apochthonius coecus (Packard, 1884) — Virginia
Apochthonius colecampi Muchmore, 1967 — Missouri
Apochthonius diabolus Muchmore, 1967 — Arkansas
Apochthonius forbesi Benedict, 1979 — Oregon
Apochthonius grubbsi Muchmore, 1980 — California
Apochthonius hobbsi Muchmore, 1994 — Ohio
Apochthonius holsingeri Muchmore, 1967 — Virginia
Apochthonius hypogeus Muchmore, 1976 — Virginia
Apochthonius indianensis Muchmore, 1967 — Indiana
Apochthonius intermedius J.C. Chamberlin, 1929 — Washington
Apochthonius irwini R.O. Schuster, 1966 — California
Apochthonius knowltoni Muchmore, 1980 — Wyoming
Apochthonius magnanimus Hoff, 1956 — New Mexico
Apochthoniu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail%20Week | Retail Week is a London-based news website, data service, events producer and magazine covering the retail industry, primarily in the United Kingdom.
History and profile
Founded in 1988 by financial journalist Patience Wheatcroft and her husband Tony Salter, Retail Week is now owned by the business information and events company William Reed.
Subscribers are primarily retail company board directors and senior managers, as well as suppliers to retailers and investment analysts.
Retail Week launched its website, Retail-week.com, in 2004. The site was redesigned and relaunched in 2007 and most recently in 2021. Retail-week.com has 192,000 monthly users.
Charlotte Hardie has been editor-in-chief of Retail Week since January 2023. The previous editors were Patience Wheatcroft (1988–1992), Ian McGarrigle (1992–1996), Kate Oppenheim (1996–1999), Neill Denny (1999–2004), Tim Danaher, (2005-2011) Chris Brook-Carter (2012-2020) and Luke Tugy (2020-2022).
Retail Week runs an annual conference in London called Retail Week Live for leaders of the retail industry and hosts the annual Retail Week Awards.
References
External links
Retail Week website
Retail Week Live website
1988 establishments in the United Kingdom
Ascential
Business magazines published in the United Kingdom
News magazines published in the United Kingdom
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1988
Professional and trade magazines
Retailing in the United Kingdom
Magazines published in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberes%20Feldatal | Oberes Feldatal is a former Verwaltungsgemeinschaft in the district Wartburgkreis in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft was in Kaltennordheim. It was disbanded on 31 December 2013.
The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Oberes Feldatal consisted of the following municipalities:
Andenhausen
Diedorf
Empfertshausen
Fischbach/Rhön
Kaltenlengsfeld
Kaltennordheim
Klings
Former Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Thuringia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivable%20Low%20Frequency%20Communications%20System | The AN/FRC-117 Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS) was a communications system designed to be able to operate, albeit at low data transfer rates, during and after a nuclear attack.
The system used both very low frequency (VLF), and low frequency (LF) radio bands.
Mission
SLFCS was used for United States nuclear forces' command and control communications for Emergency Action Message dissemination and force direction. Single channel, receive only capability was provided at ICBM launch control centers. The single channel operated between 14 kHz and 60 kHz to receive commands from remotely located Combat Operations Center – Transmit/Receive (T/R) sites; this low frequency range is only slightly affected by nuclear blasts. For example, the Silver Creek site typically transmitted at 34.5 kHz. The transmitter could be tuned to any designated frequency in the above mentioned range. Receivers could receive down to 14.0 kHz.
SLFCS' primary advantage was that it would experience minimal radio signal degradation as a result of nuclear detonations. It would be an alternate means of communication during and after detonations, providing a survivable command and control communications network for the Strategic Air Command (SAC), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). SLFCS would also relay signals from the Navy's LF/VLF systems.
Locations
Transmitters
Silver Creek, Nebraska (Detachment 1, 1st Aerospace Communications Group)
Hawes Air Force Station, California (Detachemnt 2, 33rd Communications Squadron)
PACCS aircraft
NAOC (formerly known as NEACP)
GREEN PINE Stations
The GREEN PINE communication system took messages broadcast over SLFCS and 'upconverted' them to UHF messages for bombers headed north. There were a handful of GREEN PINE stations in the northern portions of Alaska and Canada.
Receive Only
Altus AFB, Oklahoma
Barksdale AFB, Louisiana (8th Air Force Command Post)
Beale AFB, California (9 SRW Command Post)
Blytheville AFB, Arkansas (97 BW Command Post) CLOSED
Carswell AFB, Texas (7 BW Command Post) CLOSED
Castle AFB, California (93 BW Command Post) CLOSED
Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona - 390th SMW (18 LCCs) CLOSED
Dyess AFB, Texas (96 BW Command Post)
Eielson AFB, Alaska (6 SW Command Post)
Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota - 44th SMW (16 terminals - 15 LCCs and Wing Command Post) CLOSED
Fairchild AFB, Washington
F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming - 90th Missile Wing, 20th Air Force (21 terminals- 20 LCCs, 1 at 20th AF Missile Operations Center)
Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota - 321st SMW (16 terminals - 15 LCCs and Wing Command Post) CLOSED
Griffiss AFB, New York CLOSED
Grissom AFB, Indiana
K.I. Sawyer AFB, Michigan CLOSED
Little Rock AFB, Arkansas - 308th SMW (18 LCCs) CLOSED
Loring AFB, Maine (42 BW Command Post) CLOSED
Rickenbacker AFB, Ohio
Malmstrom AFB, Montana 341st SMW (20 terminals - 20 LCCs)
Mather AFB, California CLOSED
McConnell AFB, Kansas 22 BW (Command Post), 381st SMW (18 LC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Digital%20Network%20Division | ABC Digital Network Division, formerly ABC Innovation, was a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC Innovation was formed in early 2007 to develop digital products and services across the ABC, taking over many of the services previously managed by the New Media and Digital Services division, including ABC Online.
In 2015, ABC Innovation was replaced by the ABC Digital Network Division, but by 2017 the Digital Network fell under the Chief Technology Officer, and the name is no longer in existence.
History
The ABC established its original Multimedia Unit in 1995, to manage the corporation's website (launched in August that year). Although the unit at first relied upon funding allocation to the corporation's television and radio operations, in subsequent budgets it began to receive its own. The ABC provided live, online election coverage for the first time in 1996, although it was not until 1997 that limited news content was provided.
ABC Multimedia was renamed ABC New Media and Digital Services in 2000, at the same time becoming an "output division" similar to television or radio. The department continued to perform the same functions, in addition to taking control of the ABC's first digital television channels - Fly TV and ABC Kids. Broadband news services were introduced in 2001.
The formation of ABC Innovation was announced in February 2007. In March 2007, ABC Innovation led the corporation's establishment of an "ABC Island" in virtual world Second Life, launched with a live simulcast of a Four Corners program on virtual worlds titled "You Only Live Twice". The division won a Content+Technology|Content+Technology (C+T) Award in the Rich Media category on 18 July 2007, for its work in developing ABC Island.
In September 2007, ABC Innovation created a mobile off-deck portal providing coverage of the Australian Federal Election which could be downloaded to mobile devices.
ABC NOW, a desktop application combining the ABC television, radio and news RSS feeds, was released on 3 December 2007.
In March 2012, Angela Clark was appointed head of the ABC Innovation unit.
In 2015, the ABC Managing Director Mark Scott announced that the Innovation Division would be replaced with an ABC Digital Network Division, with the aim of prioritising the ABC's online and mobile initiatives. Clark remained head of the Division until the end of financial year 2015/6, but by 2017 she was gone, and the Digital Network fell into the Technology division under the Chief Technology Officer. In May 2017, Helen Clifton was appointed to the new role of Chief Digital and Information Officer, which continues .
References
Australian Broadcasting Corporation divisions
1995 establishments in Australia
2007 establishments in Australia
2017 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balisage | Balisage is, most commonly in military applications, the use of dim lighting to enable navigation while not giving away one's position to the enemy.
Computer applications usage
It can also refer, in computer applications, to the use of markup to enable document processing while not "giving away" one's data to proprietary software programs from which it might be hard to extract the data later.
This usage may have originated in the fact that the French version of the ISO standard defining SGML, translates the title thus:
Information processing - Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
Traitement de l'information -- Systèmes bureautiques -- Langage normalisé de balisage généralisé (SGML)
Balisage is also an annual conference on XML and related markup technologies.
References
External links
About.com
ISO Catalogue French entry for the SGML Manual
Military tactics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20communication%20channel | The general communication channel (GCC) was defined by G.709 is an in-band side channel used to carry transmission management and signaling information within optical transport network elements.
Two types of GCC are available:
GCC0 – two bytes within OTUk overhead. GCC0 is terminated at every 3R (re-shaping, re-timing, re-amplification) point and used to carry GMPLS signaling protocol and/or management information.
GCC1/2 – four bytes (each of two bytes) within ODUk overhead. These bytes are used for client end-to-end information and shouldn't be touched by the OTN equipment.
In contrast to SONET/SDH where the data communication channel (DCC) has a constant data rate, GCC data rate depends on the OTN line rate. For example, GCC0 data rate in the case of OTU1 is ~333kbit/s, and for OTU2 its data rate is ~1.3 Mbit/s.
Computer networking
Optical Transport Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20arch%20bridge | A network arch bridge is a tied arch bridge with inclined hangers that cross each other at least twice.
Structure
The inclined hangers with multiple intersections make the network arch bridge act like a truss, with only axial compressible and tensile forces. Bending moments and shear forces are very small in network arches.
The hanger arrangement is what separates network tied arch structures from other types of tied arches, such as those with vertical hangers. It is defined by the number of hangers, hanger inclination and hanger distance. A radial hanger arrangement provides an efficient structure, as shown by Benjamin Brunn and Frank Schanack in 2003. In the radial hanger arrangement the distances between the upper hanger nodes and the angle between hangers and arch remain constant. In order to avoid too long hangers this angle may be increased towards the bridge ends.
History
The network arch idea was developed by the Norwegian engineer in the end of the 1950s.
Advantages
Because both the arch and the tie are mainly subject to axial forces, their cross sections can be very small. Usually, transverse bending in the deck is bigger than bending in longitudinal direction. Therefore, a concrete deck that spans between the arches is a good solution for bridges with arch distances that are not too large. The concrete deck has longitudinal prestressing tendons in the arch planes.
Difference to Nielsen-Lohse-Bridges
In Japan, tied arch bridges with crossing hangers are wrongly called Nielsen-Lohse bridge. Engineer Octavius F. Nielsen applied for a patent on tied arches with inclined hanger rods in 1926. This bridge type was then built about 60 times, primarily in Sweden. None of these bridges had crossed hangers.
A drawback to the Nielsen type is that if there are dynamic loads on the bridge, the tension on some of these hangers may be reduced, even putting the hanger into compression. The network arch type, with multiple crossings, i.e. overlap in the horizontal axis, was developed by Per Tveit to avoid this.
Lohse bridges have a tie conversely curved to the arch. The bridge deck is supported by a third structural element hanging underneath. They are named for the German engineer Hermann Lohse (1815–1893) who developed them in the late 19th century.
The correct name of tied arch bridges with inclined hangers that cross each other at most once is Nielsen bridge. Tied arches with hangers with multiple intersections are network arch bridges. This strict rule is justified, because it leads to a more efficient structure.
Examples
, Norway (1963)
Fehmarnsund Bridge, Germany (1963)
Lake Champlain Bridge USA, 2011
Providence River Bridge, USA (2008)
, Steinkjer, Norway (1963)
Blennerhassett Island Bridge, USA (2008)
George C. King Bridge, Canada (2014)
Troja Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic (2014)
Bugrinsky Bridge, Novosibirsk, Siberia (2014)
Ordsall Chord, United Kingdom (2017).
References
External links
http://www.network-arch.com (Informati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20method | An access method is a function of a mainframe operating system that enables access to data on disk, tape or other external devices. Access methods were present in several mainframe operating systems since the late 1950s, under a variety of names; the name access method was introduced in 1963 in the IBM OS/360 operating system. Access methods provide an application programming interface (API) for programmers to transfer data to or from device, and could be compared to device drivers in non-mainframe operating systems, but typically provide a greater level of functionality.
Purpose of access methods
System/360 and successor systems perform input/output using a special program for an I/O channel, a processor dedicated to control peripheral storage device access and data transfer to and from main memory. Channel programs are composed of channel command words (CCWs). Programming those is a complex task requiring detailed knowledge of the hardware characteristics. Channel programs are initiated by a START IO instruction issued by the operating system. This is usually front ended by the Execute Channel Program (EXCP) macro for application programmer convenience. EXCP issues an SVC (supervisor call instruction) that directs the operating system to issue the START IO on the application's behalf.
Access methods provide:
Ease of programming - programmer would no longer deal with a specific device procedures, including error detection and recovery tactics in each and every program. A program designed to process a sequence of 80-character records would work no matter where the data are stored.
Ease of hardware replacement - programmer would no longer alter a program when data should be migrated to newer model of storage device, provided it supports the same access methods.
Ease shared data set access - an access method is a trusted program, that allows multiple programs to access the same file, while ensuring the basic data integrity and system security.
Read-ahead - Queued access methods may start as many I/O operations as there are buffers available, anticipating application program requirements.
Unlike systems derived from Unix, where all files and devices are considered to be an unformatted stream of bytes, mainframes offer a variety of data options and formats, such as varying types and sizes of records, and different ways of accessing data, such as via record keys. Access methods provide programs a way of dealing with this complexity.
Programs can read or write a record or block of data and wait until the input/output operation is complete (queued access methods) or allow the operation to be started and the program to continue to run, waiting for the completion at a later time (basic access methods).
Programs can specify the size and number of buffers for a file. The same buffer or pool can be used for multiple files, allowing blocks of data to be read from one file and written to another without requiring data movement in memory.
Programs ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cranaidae%20species | This is a partial list of the described species of the harvestman family Cranaidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Cranainae
Cranainae Roewer, 1913
Atonocranaus Mello-Leitão, 1935
Aguaytiella Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943
Aguaytiella maculata Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 — Peru
Alausius Roewer, 1932
Alausius mirus Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Allocranaus Roewer, 1915
Allocranaus colombianus Roewer, 1915 — Colombia
Angistrisoma Roewer, 1932
Angistrisoma atrolutea Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Angistrisoma fusca Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Angistrius Roewer, 1932
Angistrius abnormis Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Aucayacuella S. Avram & H. E. M. Soares, 1983
Aucayacuella bordoni S. Avram, 1983 — Peru
Balzabamba Mello-Leitão, 1945
Balzabamba marmorata Mello-Leitão, 1945 — Ecuador
Baustomus Roewer, 1932
Baustomus macrospina Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Bucayana Mello-Leitão, 1942
Bucayana bucayana Mello-Leitão, 1942 — Ecuador
Bunicranaus Roewer, 1913
Bunicranaus simoni Roewer, 1913 — Ecuador
Callcosma Roewer, 1932
Callcosma gracilima Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Carsevennia Roewer, 1913
Carsevennia crassipalpis Roewer, 1913 — French Guiana
Cayabeus Roewer, 1932
Cayabeus perlatus Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Cenipa Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943
Cenipa nubila Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 — Peru
Chetronus Roewer, 1932
Chetronus spiniger Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Clinocippus Roewer, 1932
Clinocippus albater Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Comboyus Roewer, 1943
Comboyus albilineatus Roewer, 1943 — Panama
Cranaus Simon, 1879
Cranaus albipustulatus Roewer, 1943 — Colombia
Cranaus bilunatus Roewer, 1913 — Ecuador
Cranaus chlorogaster (Gervais, 1844) — Colombia
Cranaus cinnamomeus (Gervais, 1844) — Colombia
Cranaus filipes (Roewer, 1917) — Ecuador
Cranaus flaviaculeatus (Caporiacco, 1951) — Venezuela
Cranaus hickmanni (Caporiacco, 1951) — Venezuela
Cranaus injucundus (Wood, 1869) — Ecuador
Cranaus praedo (Wood, 1869) — Ecuador
Cranaus spinipalpus (Wood, 1869) — Ecuador
Deriacrus Roewer, 1932
Deriacrus marginatus Roewer, 1963 — Colombia
Deriacrus simoni Roewer, 1932 — Colombia, Ecuador
Digalistes Roewer, 1932
Digalistes signata Roewer, 1932 — Brazil
Diptyonius Roewer, 1932
Diptyonius striatus Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Eucranaus Roewer, 1913
Eucranaus fuscus (Roewer, 1932) — Venezuela
Eucranaus reticulatus Roewer, 1913 — Ecuador
Eucranaus tenuipes (Roewer, 1959) — Ecuador
Guayaquiliana Mello-Leitão, 1935
Guayaquiliana camposi Mello-Leitão, 1935 — Ecuador
Holocranaus Roewer, 1913
Holocranaus albimarginis Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 — Peru
Holocranaus angulus Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Holocranaus bordoni (Avram & Soares, 1979) — Venezuela
Holocranaus calcar (Roewer, 1912) — Colombia
Holocranaus calus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1944) — Colombia
Holocranaus conspicuus Roewer, 1932 — Ecuador
Holocranaus laevifrons Roewer, 1917 — Ecuador
Holocranaus longipes Roewer, 1913 — Colombia
Holocranaus luteimarginatus Roewer, 191 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Sur%20%28disambiguation%29 | Big Sur is a region of the Central California coast.
Big Sur may also refer to:
macOS Big Sur, a version of the macOS operating system, released in 2020
Big Sur Village, an unincorporated community
Media
Big Sur (novel), by Jack Kerouac (1962)
Big Sur (film), a 2013 film based on the novel by Kerouac
Big Sur (album), a 2013 album by Bill Frisell
"Big Sur" (Jack Johnson song), 2017
"Big Sur" (The Thrills song), 2003
"Big Sur", a song by Mason Jennings from his album Mason Jennings
See also
"California Saga: Big Sur", a song by the Beach Boys
Big Sir (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem%20Web%20Network | Salem Web Network is a Christian website company, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia with offices in Dallas and Nashville. The company is owned and operated by Salem Communications.
History
Salem Web Network began with the acquisition of OnePlace.com and SermonSearch.com.
Websites
The network owns over 13 national sites and 100 local websites for Salem radio stations featuring Bible study tools, devotionals, music and ministry streaming, conservative news and commentary, Christian e-cards, video and social networking and other material.
BibleStudyTools.com is an online Bible resource with 31 translations, verse search, Bible commentaries, Bible concordances, Bible dictionaries, reading plans, lexicons, apocrypha, and Christian devotional literature. The website allows users to highlight and underline verses and create Bible reading plans, take and save notes in the online "margins" and share them online. It also includes tools to allow small groups and Sunday school classes to create group pages for studying Scripture together.
Christianity.com is a Christian web portal, providing articles on current topics, the history of Christianity, apologetics and other topics.
ChristianJobs.com is an employment website focusing on employment within the Christian community. It claims 241,617 registered members and 44,165 resumes in their database. It provides job postings, résumé listings, eCoaching, eMentoring and a business network.
ChurchStaffing.com is an employment website that aims to connect churches and ministries in the US and Canada with staff candidates. Users may post job openings and résumés, browse church and ministry vacancies, and shop in an online resource store. The site has an agreement with Secure Search to provide faith-based organizations with background checks for staff and volunteers. The site also has free sample job descriptions and a salary comparison database.
CrossCards.com provides e-cards, mobile wallpaper and Christian cell phone ringtones. The CrossCards.com iPhone app was released in 2010.
CrossDaily.com is a Christian graphics site. The graphics section features photography, video loops, PowerPoint sets, computer wallpaper, clip art and web art, animated and static Christian e-cards, and free Bible trivia games.
Crosswalk.com was acquired in 2002, and is built around four primary content areas – faith, family, fun and community. The content is provided by ministries such as Focus on the Family, Insight for Living from Chuck Swindoll, John Piper, John F. MacArthur, and others. The site features movie reviews, music and book reviews, homeschooling resources, a directory, and other Christian resources.
GodTube is a Christian video hosting service. In June 2010 Salem Communications acquired GodTube.com and Tangle.com. Viewers can watch and share videos, access Christian music, read the Bible online through the Online Bible, and upload prayers to the Prayer Wall and network with other users.
Hot Air is a political c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%20Mariners%20Radio%20Network | The Mariners Radio Network is the name applied to the radio stations which carry Seattle Mariners baseball games throughout Washington state.
Stations are listed by state, then city. All stations broadcast on the AM band unless otherwise noted.
The announcers for the 2010 season were Dave Niehaus with play-by-play from the bottom of the fourth through the bottom of the fifth and again from the top of the eighth until the end of the game and Rick Rizzs with play-by-play starting from the top of the first through the top of the fourth and again for the sixth and seventh innings. If the Mariners went to extra innings, Niehaus did the odd innings and Rizzs did the even innings. Niehaus died on November 10, 2010. For the 2011 season, Rizzs teamed with a rotating group of former Mariners announcers and players, including Ron Fairly, Ken Wilson, Ken Levine, Dave Valle, and Dan Wilson; this lineup was again used in the 2012 season. Aaron Goldsmith joined Rizzs as the club's radio announcing team at the start of the 2013 season.
Flagship history
With the start of the 2009 season, the network's flagship station is once again KIRO (710 ESPN Seattle), which became an affiliate of ESPN Radio in April 2009. Rival station KOMO AM 1000 had the broadcast rights for six seasons (2003-08). The original flagship station for the franchise was KVI 570, which carried the broadcasts for the M's first eight seasons (1977-84) and the Seattle Pilots' only season (1969). KIRO's first run as the flagship station was for eighteen seasons (1985-2002).
Stations
Washington
Idaho
Alaska
British Columbia
Oregon
Montana
See also
List of XM Satellite Radio channels
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
References
Seattle Mariners
Major League Baseball on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judoscript | Judoscript is a general purpose programming language designed primarily for scripting tasks on the Java platform. It was conceived and developed by James Jianbo Huang (), starting in late 2001. Judoscript was one of the first so-called Java scripting languages; but its most striking characteristics is its audacious multi-domain support philosophy and practice.
By the end of 2005, Judoscript has completed all the designated application features. The situation with Java scripting languages swiftly changed when JavaSoft announced to create its own in 2003. Judoscript's development was stopped when JavaSoft's own Groovy language was close to be released.
History
Huang has worked on a commercial report writer, SQR, which is used extensively in PeopleSoft. Technically, SQR is an archane, general purpose scripting language with embedded SQL and reporting directives for producing character-based reports and data manipulation. Written in C, it is ported to almost all flavors of major operating systems, and works with all major RDBMS databases. With the advent of Java and JDBC, Huang quickly realized that a single version of such software would eliminate the whole array of different ports of SQR. This was the seed of the Judoscript idea.
Even back in the late 1990s, embedded SQL was not a new idea; for instance, Oracle's Pro*C did just that. Remarkably, embedded SQL is indeed a domain-specific (RDBMS) feature built into a general purpose language. Regular expression in Perl is another good example, in the domain of text handling. The vision of Judoscript started to take shape, to be a general purpose scripting language with declarative expressiveness for many popular programming domains in a coherent way. At the turn of the millennium, the Internet started to permeate our lives, and a growing number of key technologies were becoming widely adopted, therefore, choosing specific domains to support in Judoscript was not too hard a thing. In a way, this vision came about at the right time. The domain-specific features that were embodied in Judoscript's lifetime included JDBC scripting, SAX-style SGML and XML programming, WSDL scripting, Ant scripting, unified file system and archive scripting, Microsoft COM scripting, running native OS executables, send mail, HTTP and SCP scripting, and last but not least, Java scripting. Had Judoscript continued to grow, it would foreseeably contain more and more domain-specific support as new technologies become prevalent, such as NoSQL, AI, etc.
Being a JVM-based scripting language, Judoscript has Java scripting as a first-class citizen. Judoscript has pioneered native Ant support, allowing users to tap into the vast pool of utilities in the Ant ecosystem. With native scripting capabilities with Java, Ant, WSDL, HTTP, and Microsoft's COM, Judoscript users can readily utilize resources from heterogeneous sources. The base language of Judoscript is very much JavaScript plus static class declaration. Like any scripting la |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Way%20I%20Am%20%28Ingrid%20Michaelson%20song%29 | "The Way I Am" is a song written by Ingrid Michaelson on her album Girls and Boys.
On September 21, 2007, Michaelson made her network television debut performing the song on Last Call with Carson Daly.
Caroline Pennell sang the song on the fifth season of The Voice in the knockout rounds, winning widespread fame, and was deemed the front runner of the show with her performance.
American Idol Season 9 finalist Didi Benami performed a cover of the song on the Top 12 female performances on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.
The song is frequently used to demonstrate Bose Corporation products due to its deep bass and crisp vocals.
Music video
The song's music video was directed by Autumn de Wilde. It depicts Michaelson dancing with a man (played by Greg Laswell, whom Michaelson would later marry) in a gymnasium where everyone present, except for Michaelson, is a clown or mime. Other dancers glare at Michaelson and she runs from the dance to a bathroom, where she uses lipstick to give her reflection the appearance of a clown nose, and then labels herself a "freak." Her dance partner, a clown, has followed her and embraces her when she emerges from the bathroom. They share a kiss and leave together.
Chart performance
The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #80 on October 4, 2007, and peaked at #37. The single benefited from the exposure through its use in a national television ad campaign for Old Navy sweaters. On the Canadian Hot 100, "The Way I Am" peaked at #51. It has been certified Platinum by the RIAA and has sold 1.6 million copies in the United States.
Charts
Year-end charts
References
2007 debut singles
Songs written by Ingrid Michaelson
Ingrid Michaelson songs
2006 songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Country%20Public%20Radio | See also Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI.
North Country Public Radio is a National Public Radio member regional radio network headquartered in Canton, New York. The member-supported network is owned by St. Lawrence University and is the National Public Radio (NPR) member for the Adirondack North Country region of northern New York. Its radio studios are in the Noble Medical Building on the SLU campus.
The flagship station, WSLU in Canton, signed on for the first time on (originally on 96.7 MHz). It was a charter member of NPR. It adopted the on-air name North Country Public Radio in 1984. In the same year, it built the first of several low-powered FM translators. Much of the surrounding area was among the few places in the Northeastern United States that were still without public radio. Its first full-powered repeaters, WSLO in Malone and WSLL in Saranac Lake, began broadcasting in 1989, with additional stations signing on in the early 1990s.
It now comprises 15 full-power FM transmitters and 18 low-powered translators serving the North Country, parts of western Vermont and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec with regional and national news, public affairs programs, and an eclectic variety of music. Major cities in its coverage area are Watertown, Plattsburgh, and Glens Falls in New York, as well as Burlington, Vermont and Cornwall, Ontario.
In May 2011, North Country Public Radio also launched WREM, a radio station in Canton which offers a distinct program schedule sourced from Public Radio Exchange.
Stations
Notes:
Translators
References
External links
NCPR website
North Country at Work
NPR member networks
St. Lawrence University
1968 establishments in New York (state)
Radio stations established in 1968 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunsdorf | Braunsdorf is a village and a former municipality in the district of Greiz, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 December 2011 it has been part of the municipality Auma-Weidatal.
References
Former municipalities in Thuringia
Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%20Harper | Shannon Harper was a popular United States co-writer of romantic novels. During years she collaborated with Madeline Porter by mail, fax machines and their computers, using pen names Elizabeth Habersham, Anna James and Madeline Harper. She also co-wrote books with Donna Ball as Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady. She lives in Winter Haven, Florida, US.
References
Anne James's Webpage, Madeline Harper's Webpage, Leigh Bristol's Webpage and Taylor Brady's Wepage in Fantastic Fiction's Website
20th-century American novelists
American romantic fiction writers
American women novelists
20th-century American women writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Zalmoxidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the harvestman family Zalmoxidae. Data on Neotropical species is mostly taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Data on Indo-Pacific species is taken from the Sharma et al. (2011) Zootaxa catalog.
Absonus M. A. González-Sponga, 1987
Absonus ayalai M. A. González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Absonus caracasensis M. A. González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Araguita M. A. González-Sponga, 1987
Araguita speciosa M. A. González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Avilaia González-Sponga, 1998
Avilaia cordillerensis González-Sponga, 1998
Azulitaia M. A. González-Sponga, 1987
Azulitaia rubicunda M. A. González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Buruquelia González-Sponga, 1999
Buruquelia cornifera González-Sponga, 1999 — Venezuela
Carayaca González-Sponga, 1998
Carayaca ornata González-Sponga, 1998
Cea M. A. González-Sponga, 1987
Cea lanceolata M. A. González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Cersa V. Silhavy, 1979
Cersa kratochvili V. Silhavy, 1979 — Cuba
Chamaia M. A. González-Sponga, 1987
Chamaia convexa M. A. González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Chirimena González-Sponga, 1999
Chirimena brevigranulata González-Sponga, 1999
Cochirapha Roewer, 1949
Cochirapha rugipes Roewer, 1949 — Ecuador
Cubiria M. A. González-Sponga, 1987
Cubiria inflata González-Sponga, 1999
Cubiria peculiaris M. A. González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Curimaguanus González-Sponga, in Kury 2003
Curimaguanus infrequentis (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
Ethobunus Chamberlin, 1925
Ethobunus acanthotibialis (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1953) — Mexico
Ethobunus albitrochanteris (Roewer, 1933) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus armatus (Roewer, 1954) — El Salvador
Ethobunus atroluteus (Roewer, 1949) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus brasiliensis (Mello-Leitão, 1941) — Brazil
Ethobunus brevis (Roewer, 1949) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus calvus (González-Sponga, 1998) — Venezuela
Ethobunus ceriseus (Sørensen, 1932) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus cubensis (V. Silhavy, 1979) — Cuba
Ethobunus filipes (Roewer, 1949) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus foliatus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1983) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus gertschi (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942) — Panama
Ethobunus goodnighti (Rambla, 1969) — Jamaica
Ethobunus gracililongipes (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
Ethobunus gracilipes (Roewer, 1949) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus llorensis (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1983) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus longus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus meridionalis (Caporiacco, 1951) — Venezuela
Ethobunus minutus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1977) — Belize
Ethobunus misticus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1977) — Belize
Ethobunus parallelus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus pecki (Rambla, 1969) — Jamaica
Ethobunus pilosus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1953) — Mexico
Ethobunus rectipes (Roewer, 1927) — Venezuela
Ethobunus simplex Chamberlin, 1925 — Panama
Ethobunus tarsalis (Banks, 1909) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus tenuis (Roewer, 1949) — Costa Rica
Ethobunus trochantericus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecPAL | SecPAL is a declarative, logic-based, security policy language that has been developed to support the complex access control requirements of large scale distributed computing environments.
Common access control requirements
Here is a partial-list of some of the challenges that SecPAL addresses:
How does an organization establish a fine-grained trust relationship with another organization across organizational boundaries?
How does a user delegate a subset of a user’s rights (constrained delegation) to another user residing either in the same organization or in a different organization?
How can access control policy be authored and reviewed in a manner that is human readable - allowing auditors and non-technical people to understand such policies?
How does an organization support compliance regulations requiring that a system be able to demonstrate exactly why it was that a user was granted access to a resource?
How can policies be authored, composed and evaluated in a manner that is efficient, deterministic and tractable?
Architecture
The SecPAL Research homepage includes links to the following papers which describe the architecture of SecPAL at varying levels of abstraction.
SecPAL Formal Model ("Design and Semantics of a Decentralized Authorization Language") – Formal description of the abstract types, language semantics and evaluation rules that support deterministic evaluation in efficient time.
SecPAL Schema Specification – Specification describing a practical XML based implementation of the formal model targeted at supporting access control requirements of distributed applications
.NET Research Implementation of SecPAL – C# implementation, C# samples for common authz patterns, and comprehensive developer documentation and a getting started tutorial
Additional research
IEEE Grid 2007 - Fine Grained Access Control Using SecPAL
SecPAL for Privacy
References
Computer languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens%20%28typeface%29 | Athens was one of the original bitmap typefaces for the Apple Macintosh computer. It was designed by Susan Kare. An official TrueType version was never made, and Athens was rendered obsolete with the arrival of System 7.
Alexandria by Hank Gillette and Athene by Rebecca Bettencourt are free TrueType fonts of similar design sometimes used as a surrogate on non-Apple systems.
References
Apple Inc. typefaces
Slab serif typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1984
Typefaces designed by Susan Kare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20and%20Democracy%20Network | The Ethics and Democracy Network (Spanish Red Ética y Democracia, RED) was a centre-left political party in Ecuador. It was formed by labour union leaders and other leftist militants, led by León Roldós, former vice-president and brother of former president Jaime Roldós, who came from the Ecuadorian Socialist Party. For the October 2006 elections, RED entered into an alliance with the Democratic Left party, to support the candidacy of León Roldós and running mate Ramiro González, former Prefect of the Pichincha Province. The alliance's presidential ticket came in fourth place with 14.8% of the votes, while RED won 5 of 100 seats in Congress.
Between 2005 and 2007, RED received training by the U.S. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs through its Political Party Network funded by the National Endowment for Democracy.
In 2009, Martha Roldós, the daughter of Jaime and niece of León Roldós ran as RED's presidential candidate. She was considered one of the strongest left-wing contenders of President Rafael Correa whom she heavily criticized, but won only 4.3% of the votes. Mario Unda, professor of sociology at the Central University of Ecuador criticized RED for a perceived drift to the right and links with business oligarchs. RED was joined by Mónica Chuji, a former member of Correa's government who had turned against him, accusing him of authoritarian tendencies and excessive economic focus on ecologically harmful extractive industries. Chuji became RED's frontrunner for the Congressional election, in which the party failed to win any seat.
References
2005 establishments in Ecuador
2013 disestablishments in Ecuador
Defunct political parties in Ecuador
Ethics organizations
Plurinational Unity of the Lefts
Political parties disestablished in 2013
Political parties established in 2005
Socialist parties in Ecuador |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%20X%20II%3A%20The%20Mad%20Prof%27s%20Back | Agent X II: The Mad Prof's Back is a computer game released in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. It is the follow-up to the ZX Spectrum game Agent X.
The player takes control of the eponymous Agent X in a multi-load game made up of a number of sub-games.
Story
The mad professor has returned, seeking revenge after Agent X foiled his plan to brainwash the President. This time he is out to ruin the world economy. He has set up an underground base on the Moon. From this hideout he plans to unleash his terrible Zit-Ray, a device that causes everybody to break out in terrible terminal acne. The mad prof plans that, with spending so much money on spot remover cream - which, due to the terrible effects of the Zit-Ray, will not work anyway - the economy will be in ruins, as no-one will have any money left for essentials. Agent X must travel to the Moon, surprise the scientist, and destroy the zit-ray,
Gameplay
Agent X II is split into three different subgames. The first level is a side scrolling shoot 'em up in a similar vein to Gradius. Level 2 is a platform game, set in a tower of screens, each with three floors. Each screen contains a computer terminal, a floating code number, and an assortment of enemies. Agent X must jump from level to level collecting codes, entering them into the computers and killing the aliens. After three codes have been entered, a final code must be typed into the lowest terminal and a snake-like alien destroyed before the task is completed. The third and final level is a Breakout clone.
Reception
Reviews were generally poor, with Your Sinclair rating it at 6/10, CRASH giving it 56%, and Sinclair User giving only 3/10.
Mike Dunn of CRASH said of the game Despite decent graphics, Agent X II is a real disappointment after the fun and frolics of its predecessor", Your Sinclair's Nat Pryce said of the third level: "Worst of all, there seems to be no skill involved - you can't aim the ball as in Arkanoid, it just zips around all over the place. Unplayable, I'm afraid." and Sinclair User called the game an "Extremely disappointing follow-up to an excellent original. Highly unoriginal and dull. Don't bother.".
See also
Agent X (1986 video game)
References
External links
Agent X II at CPCZone
Agent X II at Lemon64
Agent XII at CPC WIKI
1987 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Breakout clones
Commodore 64 games
Platformers
Shoot 'em ups
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Mastertronic games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20System%20Projects | OSP, an Environment for Operating System Projects, is a teaching operating system designed to provide an environment for an introductory course in operating systems. By selectively omitting specific modules of the operating system and having the students re-implement the missing functionality, an instructor can generate projects that require students to understand fundamental operating system concepts.
The distribution includes the OSP project generator, which can be used to package a project and produce stubs (files that are empty except for required components, and that can be compiled) for the files that the students must implement. OSP includes a simulator that the student code runs on.
See also
Mobile operating system
Network operating system
Operating system
References
OSP: An Environment for Operating System Projects by Michael Kifer and Scott A. Smolka, Addison Wesley, 1991, 86 pages (2nd printing in 1992).
External links
1992 paper (ACM portal)
1996 paper
Discontinued operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20highest-paid%20American%20television%20stars | This is a list of people starring on American television that are the highest-paid, based on various sources.
Television series
TV and streaming salaries per episode
Television hosts
Network primetime salaries per season
Daytime annual salaries
News presenters
References
Highest paid stars
Highest paid stars
television stars
List
television stars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission%20delay | In a network based on packet switching, transmission delay (or store-and-forward delay, also known as packetization delay or serialization delay) is the amount of time required to push all the packet's bits into the wire. In other words, this is the delay caused by the data-rate of the link.
Transmission delay is a function of the packet's length and has nothing to do with the distance between the two nodes. This delay is proportional to the packet's length in bits,
It is given by the following formula:
seconds
where
is the transmission delay in seconds
N is the number of bits, and
R is the rate of transmission (say in bits per second)
Most packet switched networks use store-and-forward transmission at the input of the link. A switch using store-and-forward transmission will receive (save) the entire packet to the buffer and check it for CRC errors or other problems before sending the first bit of the packet into the outbound link. Thus, store-and-forward packet switches introduce a store-and-forward delay at the input to each link along the packet's route.
See also
End-to-end delay
Processing delay
Queuing delay
Propagation delay
Network delay
References
External links
Java Applet
Network Delays
Computer networks
de:Laufzeit (Elektrotechnik) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suter%20%28computer%20program%29 | Suter is a military computer program developed by BAE Systems that attacks computer networks and communications systems belonging to an enemy. Development of the program has been managed by Big Safari, a secret unit of the United States Air Force. It is specialised to interfere with the computers of integrated air defence systems. Suter was integrated into US unmanned aircraft by L-3 Communications.
Three generations of Suter have been developed. Suter 1 allows its operators to monitor what enemy radar operators can see. Suter 2 lets them take control of the enemy's networks and direct their sensors. Suter 3, tested in summer 2006, enables the invasion of links to time-critical targets such as battlefield ballistic missile launchers or mobile surface-to-air missile launchers.
The program has been tested with aircraft such as the EC-130, RC-135, and F-16CJ. It has been used in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2006.
U.S. Air Force officials have speculated that a technology similar to Suter was used by the Israeli Air Force to thwart Syrian radars and sneak into their airspace undetected in Operation Orchard on September 6, 2007. The evasion of air defence radar was otherwise unlikely because the F-15s and F-16s used by the IAF were not equipped with stealth technology.
References
Information operations and warfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vank | Vank or VANK may refer to:
VANK, the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, a South Korean Internet-based organization
Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Ambachts- en Nijverheidskunst (VANK)
Vank (վանք), the Armenian language word for monastery. By extension:
Vank, Armenia, a town
Vank, Martakert, a village in Nagorno-Karabakh
Vank Cathedral, an Armenian cathedral in Isfahan, Iran
Banku (call to prayer), the Muslim call to public prayer on the Malabar Coast.
See also
Vang (disambiguation)
Vəng (disambiguation), several places in Azerbaijan
Wank (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20Exclusive | Washington Exclusive was an American news and public affairs television program broadcast on the DuMont Television Network and produced by Martha Roundtree and Lawrence Spivak, who also co-produced Meet the Press.
Broadcast history
The series ran nationally from June 21 to November 1, 1953, and was hosted by Frank McNaughton. The show aired Sunday nights at 7:30 pm ET. Six former U.S. senators appeared on the panel, discussing current issues. The series was cancelled in November 1953.
This series is not to be confused with the similarly named Washington Report, another DuMont public-affairs program from Washington which aired from May to August 1951.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1953 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
DuMont news programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru%C3%9Fbach%20am%20Pa%C3%9F%20Gsch%C3%BCtt | Rußbach am Paß Gschütt is a municipality in the Hallein district in the Austrian state of Salzburg.
It is famous for its amazing skiing and summer mountain biking tours and extensive network of hiking trails. It is a must-visit town in Austria and only 40 minutes by car from Salzburg.
Geography
The municipality lies in the Rußbach valley, a tributary of the Lammer River in the Tennengau.
References
Dachstein Mountains
Cities and towns in Hallein District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20clinical%20data%20management%20practice | Good clinical data management practice (GCDMP) is the current industry standards for clinical data management that consist of best business practice and acceptable regulatory standards. In all phases of clinical trials, clinical and laboratory information must be collected and converted to digital form for analysis and reporting purposes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use have provided specific regulations and guidelines surrounding this component of the drug and device development process. The effective, efficient and regulatory-compliant management of clinical trial data is an essential component of drug and device development.
The Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) has created the Good Clinical Data Management Practices (GCDMP©) standard, a comprehensive document that provides guidance on accepted practices of clinical data management (CDM) that are not totally covered by current guidelines and regulations. This document is updated by Subject Matter Experts on a continuous basis.
See also
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)
Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH)
Center for Food Safety and Nutrition (CFSAN)
Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM)
Good clinical practice
GxP
Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
References
External links
Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR Part 11), Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures, Final Rule Published in the Federal Register
Clinical research
Clinical data management
Good practice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20partitioned%20access%20method | In IBM mainframe operating systems, basic partitioned access method (BPAM) is an access method for libraries, called partitioned datasets (PDSes) in IBM terminology. BPAM is used in OS/360, OS/VS2, MVS, z/OS, and others.
A PDS consists of members (internally identical to sequential data sets), registered in a list called the directory. The combination of members and directory is a single dataset on disk. The directory contains a list of member's names (8 characters, padded on the right with blanks, as required) and member's addresses. Addresses are relative to the start of the dataset in order to allow the PDS to be moved to a different disk location.
Partitioned datasets can store any type of data, but they are often used to store executable programs, or load modules, sometimes called binaries in other systems. Other uses include system assembler macro definitions, job control procedures, and program source code.
Application program interface
BPAM provides an application program interface (API) to allow programmers to access libraries directly. The BPAM API is similar to basic sequential access method (BSAM), but it adds functionality to process directories. Individual members of a PDS can also be processed using sequential access methods by specifying the member name on the job control DD statement.
The programmer specifies DSORG=PO in their Data Control Block (DCB) to indicate use of BPAM.
As a basic access method BPAM reads and writes member data in blocks and the I/O operation proceeds asynchronously and must be tested for completion using the CHECK macro. BPAM uses the standard system macros OPEN, CLOSE, READ, WRITE,and CHECK. The NOTE macro instruction returns position of the last block read or written, and the POINT macro will reposition to the location identified by a previous NOTE. The BLDL macro can be used to build a list of the addresses of members specified by the programmer for later use, if desired. FIND positions to a single member, specified by name, which requires a directory lookup on disk, or by address previously retrieved by BLDL. The STOW macro is used to update the directory when a member is added, deleted, changed (including renamed), or replaced.
Load modules
The operating system requires all executable programs to be stored in libraries because the member's directory entry contains additional attribute information specific to load modules. When used for storing load modules, directories also contain, among other data, the size of the load module and the address of the first "text record", which is different from the address of the first member data. Executable programs are written to libraries by the linkage editor and loaded into user-acquired storage by the Loader (an application program) or into system-acquired storage by Program Fetch (a component of the OS supervisor).
The Linkage Editor organizes a load module in a specialized format consisting of alternating "text records" and "control/relocation dicti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervisor%20Call%20instruction | This article covers the specific instruction on the IBM System/360 and successor mainframe computers, and compatible machines. For the general concept of an instruction for issuing calls to an operating system, see System call.
A Supervisor Call instruction (SVC) is a hardware instruction used by the System/360 family of IBM mainframe computers up to contemporary zSeries, the Amdahl 470V/5, 470V/6, 470V/7, 470V/8, 580, 5880, 5990M, and 5990A, and others; Univac 90/60, 90/70 and 90/80, and possibly others; the Fujitsu M180 (UP) and M200 (MP), and others; and is also used in the Hercules open source mainframe emulation software. It causes an interrupt to request a service from the operating system. The system routine providing the service is called an SVC routine. SVC is a system call.
Rationale
IBM mainframes in the System/360 and successor families operate in one of two states: problem state or supervisor state and in one of sixteen storage access keys (0 to 15). In problem state, a large set of general purpose non-privileged instructions are available to a user program. In supervisor state, system programs are additionally able to use a small set of privileged instructions which are generally intended for supervisory functions. These functions may affect other users, other processors, or the entire computer system. In storage key 0 a program is able to access all addressable storage, otherwise it is limited to storage areas with a matching key.
A program is only allowed to access specific supervisory functions after thorough authorization checking by the operating system: DEBCHK (SVC 117), TESTAUTH (SVC 119), and possibly additional tests. Programs which fail any of these tests are ABENDed, that is abnormally terminated and immediately cease processing. Some of these tests were not available in OS/360, but were added in OS/VS1, SVS or MVS/370, but all were available in MVS/370 or subsequent releases, and are still available to this day.
In OS/VS1, OS/VS2 (SVS), MVS/370 and subsequent versions of the OS, the MODESET function (SVC 107) obviated the need for many user-written SVCs as this system SVC accommodated both changes in mode (problem state to supervisor state) and key (8-15 [ user ] to 0-7 [ system ] ) in a single operation, and many user-written SVCs were originally intended for simple mode and key changes, anyway, and subsequently the only special requirement was that the jobstep be APF authorized and that the MODESET-invoking program be resident in a concatenation of libraries all of which were identified as authorized, and this secure approach was completely under the installation's control. This approach generally simplified user controls over authorization, although some simple changes to the application were thereby required. In general, user installations favored this approach, and the overall reliability of the system was significantly improved thereby.
Although mainframe applications are typically synchronous processes, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Control%20Block | In IBM mainframe operating systems, such as OS/360, MVS, z/OS, a Data Control Block (DCB) is a description of a dataset in a program. A DCB is coded in Assembler programs using the DCB macro instruction (which expands into a large number of "define constant" instructions). High level language programmers use library routines containing DCBs.
A DCB is one of the many control blocks used in these operating systems. A control block is a data area with a predefined structure, very similar to a C struct, but typically only related to system's functions. A DCB may be compared to a FILE structure in C, but it is much more complex, offering many more options for various access methods.
The control block acted as the Application programming interface between Logical IOCS and the application program and usually was defined within (and resided within) the application program itself. The addresses of I/O subroutines would be resolved during a linkedit phase after compilation or else dynamically inserted at OPEN time.
The equivalent control block for IBM DOS/360, DOS/VSE and z/VSE operating systems is a "DTF" (Define the file)
Typical contents of a DCB
symbolic file name (to match a JCL statement for opening the file)
type of access (e.g. random, sequential, indexed)
physical characteristics (blocksize, logical record length)
number of I/O buffers to allocate for processing to permit overlap of I/O
address of I/O operating system library subroutines (e.g. read/write)
other variables as required by the subroutines according to type
Prototype DCBs
Many of the constants and variables contained within a DCB may be left blank (i.e., these default to zero).
The OPEN process results in a merge of the constants and variables specified in the DD JCL statement, and the dataset label for existing magnetic tape and direct-access datasets, into the DCB, replacing the zero values with actual, non-zero values.
A control block called the JFCB (Job File Control Block) initially holds the information extracted from the DD statement for the dataset. The results of the merge are stored in the JFCB which may also be written into the DSCB during the CLOSE process, thereby making the dataset definition permanent.
An example is the BLKSIZE= variable, which may be (and usually is) specified in the DCB as zero. In the DD statement, the BLKSIZE is specified as a non-zero value and this, then, results in a program-specified LRECL (logical record length) and a JCL-specified BLKSIZE (physical block size), with the merge of the two becoming the permanent definition of the dataset.
See also
Data Set Control Block (DSCB), a part of VTOC
Record-oriented filesystem
IBM mainframe operating systems
IBM file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springwell%20Village | Springwell Village is a village in the City of Sunderland, bordering Gateshead, approximately from Newcastle upon Tyne, from Sunderland, and from Durham. In 2011, Census data for the City of Sunderland ward of Washington West recorded a total population of 11,833.
The village is home to one church, Springwell Village Methodist Church, as well as three shops and two local pubs – The Guidepost in the centre of the village, and The Ship on the outskirts. The area surrounding the village consists mainly of farmland, as well as land used for equestrian activities.
History
The first residences in the area were constructed in 1821 to house workers of the nearby colliery. The village has retained much character, according to Rightmove the average sold price in the year up to October 2021 was £167,565. It has a mix of small private estates situated in the centre, social housing at the eastern and western extremities, and south alongside a large proportion of individual properties and small stone terrace cottages, built of local, low quality stone, a style typical within the village.
The Bowes Railway Museum is located on the outskirts of the village. The railway served the colliery at Springwell Village from 1826 until 1974, with a short part of the route now operating as a railway museum.
Formerly a part of County Durham, the postal address is Gateshead, with the village now situated in the City of Sunderland. The village has close ties to Washington, Sunderland, Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne.
Demography
According to the 2011 Census, the Washington West ward has a population of 11,833. 51.4% of the population are female, slightly above the national average, while 48.6% are male. Only 2.1% of the population were from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) group, as opposed to 14.6% of the national population.
Data from the 2011 Census found that the average life expectancy in Washington West is 78.0 years for men, and 79.5 years for women. These statistics compare favourably for men, but less so for women, when compared to the average life expectancy in the North East of England, of 77.4 and 81.4 years, respectively.
Car ownership is significantly higher than the average in the City of Sunderland (64.9%), as well as being higher the national average of 74.2% – with 75.0% of households in the Washington West ward owning at least one car.
Education
Springwell Village is served by Springwell Village Primary School, which was rated "good" by Ofsted in July 2015. Nearby primary schools include Roman Road Primary School and St. Augustine's Catholic Primary School in Leam Lane, Fell Dyke Community Primary School in Wrekenton, and George Washington Primary School in Usworth.
In terms of secondary education, students attend the nearby Cardinal Hume Catholic School in Wrekenton, rated "outstanding" by Ofsted in January 2014, as well as Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy in Birtley, and St. Robert of Newminster Catholic School in Fatfield.
Gover |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police%20Technology%20Department | The Police Technology Department is the IT arm of the Singapore Police Force.
History
The Data Processing Unit (DPU) was formed in 1971 to handle the Data Processing requirements and needs of the SPF. A year later, the 1st computerized system for SPF, Accident Statistics (Batch) was developed under the Computer Services Department, Ministry of Finance.
With the expansion of DPU, it was renamed to the Electronics, Computers and Communications Department (ECC) in 1981. ECC consisted of two main divisions, the Computer Systems Division which was responsible for computer and IT systems and the Force Communications Branch which was responsible for managing SPF's communication systems. ECC was awarded the ISO 9001 standard certification in November 1999.
The ECC merged with the Technology Planning Division of the Planning and Organisation Department and the Special Project (C3) Department to form a new Police Technology Department on April 15, 2000.
A year later, on April 15, 2001, the Police Coast Guard (PCG) IT Branch was integrated into the PTD.
Directors
External links
Police Technology Department About Us
Singapore Police Force |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20National%20Route%2032 | is a national highway connecting Takamatsu and Kōchi in Japan.
Route data
Length: 139.9 km (86.9 mi)
Origin: Takamatsu (originates at junction with Routes 11 and 30)
Terminus: Kōchi (ends at the origin of Routes 33, 55, 194, 195 and 197, the terminus of Route 55)
Major cities: Miyoshi
History
1952-12-04 - First Class National Highway 32 (from Takamatsu to Kōchi)
1965-04-01 - General National Highway 32 (from Takamatsu to Kōchi)
Municipalities passed through
Kagawa Prefecture
Takamatsu - Ayagawa - Marugame - Manno - Mitoyo
Tokushima Prefecture
Kōchi Prefecture
Intersects with
Kagawa Prefecture
Tokushima Prefecture
Kōchi Prefecture
References
032
Roads in Kagawa Prefecture
Roads in Kōchi Prefecture
Roads in Tokushima Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6hren-D%C3%B6hlen | Göhren-Döhlen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Greiz, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 December 2011, it is part of the municipality Auma-Weidatal.
References
Former municipalities in Thuringia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staitz | Staitz is a village and a former municipality in the district of Greiz, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 December 2011, it is part of the municipality Auma-Weidatal.
References
Former municipalities in Thuringia
Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiebelsdorf | Wiebelsdorf is a village and a former municipality in the district of Greiz, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 December 2011, it is part of the town Auma-Weidatal.
References
Former municipalities in Thuringia
Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials%20data%20management | Materials data is a critical resource for manufacturing organizations seeking to enhance products, processes and, ultimately, profitability. This data describes the properties and processing of the materials that these organization uses - metals, alloys, plastics, composite materials, ceramics, etc. This data may come from a wide range of sources - e.g., materials testing, quality assurance, or measurement of product performance. The process by which manufacturers manage and use such information is one essential 'cog' in the larger machine that is the product lifecycle.
One project that has looked at this issue in-depth is the Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC), a collaboration of leading aerospace, defense, and energy enterprises - organizations such as NASA, Boeing, Rolls-Royce plc, Honeywell, and GE Aviation. The MDMC has identified the problems caused by failures in the materials data management process and investigated how an optimized process can lead to better innovation and quality.
Materials data management problems
Problems typically relate to productivity and data integrity. They begin with difficulties in consolidating specialized data stored in disparate sources and varied formats. Problems continue with the challenge of controlling and using approved information effectively throughout an organization, often within complex processes. These include:
Engineers spending hours finding property data to support analysis or simulation
Materials scientists duplicating existing test results or generating data that goes unused
Design iterations failing due to outdated or inconsistent data
Weeks taken tracing the source of design data for certification, or customers, or to support the design process
This final issue ('traceability') is particularly important in quality and safety-conscious industries (such as aerospace or medical devices) where engineers need to be able to trace the full pedigree for a manufactured component - ideally, not just back to the design, but to all of the raw (materials and other) data used to create the design. This need for traceability has been a key driver for many commercial materials data management projects.
Materials data management opportunities
Materials data management is not just about the avoidance of problems and risk. The MDMC reports that best practice materials data management can have very positive effects on innovation and quality. For example, Rolls-Royce Aerospace have described how the ongoing assessment and analysis of all of the materials property information generated across the testing and design process can allow an organization to continually refine the 'allowable' values used in design, leading to improved product performance.
Practical issues
Materials data management practitioners usually emphasize the need for a holistic approach. It is of limited use having a superb means to capture test data if that data disappears into a ‘black hole’ database that no-one acc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair%20Accelerator | Altair Accelerator, previously known as NetworkComputer (NC), is a commercial job scheduler developed by Altair Engineering. The product was originally developed by Runtime Design Automation (RTDA) before Altair acquired the company.
Accelerator is used to manage a computer farm or computer cluster and is responsible for accepting, scheduling, dispatching, and managing the remote execution of standalone, parallel, or interactive user jobs. It also manages the allocation of resources such as processors, memory, disk space, software licenses, and custom objects to jobs that require them.
Accelerator uses a unique event-driven scheduler that results in very low overhead per job, usually in the millisecond range.
Features
Web interface for administrators and users
Native command execution and scripting support
Job throttling based upon resource availability (CPU, RAM, licenses, etc.)
Accelerator runs on multiple platforms, including Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows.
References
Berkeley Presentation
DeepChip post discussing NC
EETimes article
SOCcentral article
External links
Altair Engineering website
Job scheduling
Proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangler%20pattern | Mangler is a software design pattern. A Mangler is a pattern that performs multiple operations over a series of data, similar to the MapReduce function inside of Bigtable and Amazon's Dynamo. Typically, a mangler is fed a series of Maps from which it performs its internal operations and passes its internal state/data to an external Filter.
A typical usage of the Mangler Pattern is during internal search operations. When parsing a query from an end-user, the system will try to strip out a series of un-needed tokens, reassembling the original query into a more usable, functional query.
An important distinction between the Mangler and other patterns is the "Modify in place" optimization, pioneered by the pattern's creator.
This pattern was created by Dr. John Watson, during his tenure at TransUnion's Research and Development Lab.
C#
This is a trivial implementation of Mangler in C#.
public interface ITokenMangler
{
ICollection<string> MangleTokens(IEnumerable<string> tokens);
}
public class LowerCasingTokenMangler : ITokenMangler
{
public ICollection<string> MangleTokens(IEnumerable<string> tokens)
{
var results = new List<string>();
foreach (var token in tokens)
{
results.Add(token.ToLower());
}
return results;
}
}
Java
This is a trivial implementation of Mangler in Java.
public interface TokenMangler {
List<String> mangleTokens (List<String> tokens);
}
public class LowerCasingTokenMangler implements TokenMangler {
List<String> mangleTokens (List<String> tokens) {
List<String> results = new ArrayList<String>();
for (String token : tokens) {
results.add(token.toLowerCase());
}
return results;
}
}
Software design patterns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquibase | Liquibase is an open-source database-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database schema changes. It was started in 2006 to allow easier tracking of database changes, especially in an agile software development environment.
Overview
All changes to the database are stored in text files (XML, YAML, JSON or SQL) and identified by a combination of an "id" and "author" tag as well as the name of the file itself. A list of all applied changes is stored in each database which is consulted on all database updates to determine what new changes need to be applied. As a result, there is no database version number but this approach allows it to work in environments with multiple developers and code branches.
Liquibase automatically creates DatabaseChangeLog Table and DatabaseChangeLogLock Table when you first execute a changeLog File.
Major functionality
The following is a list of major features:
Over 30 built-in database refactorings
Extensibility to create custom changes
Update database to current version
Rollback last X changes to database
Rollback database changes to particular date/time
Rollback database to "tag"
SQL for Database Updates and Rollbacks can be saved for manual review
Stand-alone IDE and Eclipse plug-in
"Contexts" for including/excluding change sets to execute
Database diff report
Database diff changelog generation
Ability to create changelog to generate an existing database
Database change documentation generation
DBMS Check, user check, and SQL check preconditions
Ability to split change log into multiple files for easier management
Executable via command line, Apache Ant, Apache Maven, servlet container, or Spring Framework.
Support for 10 database systems
Commercial version
Liquibase (formerly Datical) is both the largest contributor to the Liquibase project and the developer of Liquibase Enterprise – a commercial product which provides the core Liquibase functionality plus additional features.
Change Forecasting: Forecast upcoming changes to be executed before they are run to determine how those changes will impact your data.
Rules Engine to enforce Corporate Standards and Policies.
Supports database Stored Logic: functions, stored procedures, packages, table spaces, triggers, sequences, user defined types, synonyms, etc.
Compare Databases enables you to compare two database schemas to identify change and easily move it to your change log.
Change Set Wizard to easily define and capture database changes in a database neutral manner.
Deployment Plan Wizard for modeling and managing your logical deployment workflow
Plug-ins to Jenkins, Bamboo, UrbanCode, CA Release Automation (Nolio), Serena Release Automation, BMC Bladelogic, Puppet, Chef, as well all popular source control systems like SVN, Git, TFS, CVS, etc.
Liquibase products, including Liquibase Enterprise (formerly known as Datical DB), are used by DBAs, Release Managers, DevOps teams, Application Owners, Architects, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transportation%20in%20Oregon | Rail transportation is an important element of the transportation network in the U.S. state of Oregon. Rail transportation has existed in Oregon in some form since 1855, and the state was a pioneer in development of electric railway systems. While the automobile has displaced many uses of rail in the state (as elsewhere), rail remains a key means of moving passengers and freight, both within the state and to points beyond its borders.
History
The first railway in Oregon was proposed by Byron J. Pengra, Surveyor General of Oregon, along the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road in 1864, but Oregon's first railroad ended up being the Oregon Portage Railroad. Henry Villard's Oregon Railway and Navigation Company established transcontinental rail lines with Northern Pacific in 1880, then with Union Pacific in 1881 (through the latter's Oregon Short Line).
Twenty-first century network
As of 2004, the state of Oregon has over (route-miles) of track, and of railroad right-of-way after peaking in the 1930s at about of track. Oregon is served by two Class 1 railroads, which account for over of trackage, and over twenty Class 2 and Class 3 operators. Three Amtrak routes serve the state, primarily through the Willamette Valley and south-central Oregon. Rail is a key element of the mass transit system in the city of Portland and surrounding communities. And numerous tourist railways operate in the state.
Freight rail
Oregon is currently served by two Class 1 railroads, the BNSF Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad (UP). Prior to its acquisition by the UP in 1996, Oregon was also served by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company; the UP continues to operate on tracks acquired from the SP.
Union Pacific
The UPRR operates several mainlines in the state. The primary north/south UP mainline enters Oregon from California south of Klamath Falls, runs north through Central Oregon up to Chemult, then proceeds northwest via the Willamette Pass to Eugene. From Eugene, it then turns north again up the Willamette Valley, passing through cities including Albany, Salem, Woodburn, Canby, Oregon City, Milwaukie, terminating in Portland. The primary east/west UP mainline starts in Portland and heads east towards Troutdale where it enters the Columbia Gorge. It passes through the gorge on the Oregon side, serving cities such as Hood River, The Dalles, Boardman, and Hermiston. In the Hermiston area, the line branches; with one line heading northeast to Spokane, Washington; the other heading southeast roughly parallel to the old Oregon Trail and modern-day Interstate 84, passing through Pendleton, La Grande, Baker City, and Ontario before entering Idaho.
In addition to the mainlines, the UPRR also operates several branch lines in the state, serving the terminal district of Portland, the city of Umatilla, and the community of Pilot Rock.
BNSF
The BNSF operates one significant mainline in the state, serving Central Oregon. The BNSF line enters the state southeast o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo%204 | Halo 4 is a 2012 first-person shooter video game developed by 343 Industries and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. Halo 4s story follows a cybernetically enhanced human supersoldier, Master Chief, and his artificial intelligence construct Cortana, as they encounter unknown threats while exploring an ancient civilization's planet. The player assumes the role of Master Chief who battles against a new faction that splintered off from remnants of the Covenant, a former military alliance of alien races, and against mechanical warriors of the Forerunner empire known as the Prometheans. The game features a selection of weapons, enemies, and game modes not present in previous titles of the series.
Development of Halo 4 began in 2009 and continued until September 2012. Halo 4 is 343 Industries' first original title within the Halo series—previously, development of the main series was undertaken by Bungie, the creator of the franchise. In the developmental process, 343 Industries decided to explore the Forerunner fiction within the Halo universe, leading the team to design a new setting, enemies, and main antagonist. Existing characters and assets received visual overhauls, recreated from the ground up, and motion capture was used for animation within cutscenes. A goal for Halo 4s story was to incorporate more human elements; to achieve this, the developers chose to delve more deeply into the relationship between the two protagonists, Master Chief and Cortana. Several external studios assisted 343 Industries with developing Halo 4, and over 350 people worked on the game in total.
The game was officially announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 (E3) on June 6. Prior to launch, Microsoft stated that Halo 4 was the most expensive video game title the company had created so far. The game was marketed with promotional events and videos, including the creation of a live-action film, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn. Halo 4 grossed million on its launch day and $300 million in its opening week—a record for the franchise. More than one million people played Halo 4 on Xbox Live within the first 24 hours of its release. The game was met with positive reviews by professional critics and received multiple nominations and awards from the press. It was re-released as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection for the Xbox One in 2014, and was followed by a sequel, Halo 5: Guardians, in 2015.
Gameplay
Halo 4 is a shooter game in which players predominantly experience gameplay from a first-person perspective; the game perspective switches to third-person when using certain weapons, abilities and vehicles. The player's head-up display (HUD) shows real-time information on the player character's armor system, such as shield status, information on current weapons and abilities, and waypoints for goals and objectives. The HUD also has a motion tracker that detects allies, enemies, and vehicles within a certain radius of the player. The gam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20primary%20destinations%20on%20the%20United%20Kingdom%20road%20network | Primary destinations are locations that appear on route confirmation signs in the United Kingdom. Most are important settlements or conurbations, but some are bridges and tunnels, or even villages that are important junctions, e.g. Scotch Corner or Crianlarich.
In 1994, previous lists for destinations in Great Britain were superseded when English, Scottish and Welsh destinations were prescribed in Appendix C of Local Transport Note 1/94: The Design and Use of Directional Informatory Signs (LTN 1/94), published by the then Department of Transport.
A revised list for England was published in 2009 and updated in 2010.
The 1994 list had 333 entries for England. When the 2010 list was compiled, 15 entries were removed and 16 added, giving a total of 334 entries. In December 2011, following a consultation, the Department for Transport announced that it would add Birmingham Airport, East Midlands Airport, Luton Airport, Thamesport (for Medway Ports East) and Port of Tilbury; and, in response to local feedback, that it would also add Colne and Minehead and ratify the removal of Stone.
The list for Northern Ireland destinations has always been maintained separately from those for Great Britain. Since devolution under the Scotland Act 1998 and the Government of Wales Act 1998, transport matters and hence responsibility for maintaining lists of primary destinations have been devolved to the Scottish Parliament and the Senedd and their respective governments.
Some maps show primary destinations in a different colour or font size to other places. However, these sometimes include places which are not on the official lists.
Signage
Primary destinations in Greater London, other than Heathrow Airport and London, will generally only be signed within the M25 motorway.
List of primary destinations
Great Britain
The entries for England in this list were compiled from the 2010 list and 2011 amendments, while those for Scotland and Wales were compiled from the 1994 list.
Northern Ireland
Primary destinations in Northern Ireland are published separately from those in Great Britain. The current list is:
Antrim
Armagh
Ballymena
Bangor
Belfast
Belfast Airport
Carrickfergus
Coleraine
Cookstown
Craigavon
Derry
Downpatrick
Dungannon
Enniskillen
Larne
Lisburn
Newcastle
Newry
Newtownards
Omagh
Strabane
Warrenpoint
Notes
References
Lists of roads in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom transport-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet | Packet may refer to:
A small container or pouch
Packet (container), a small single use container
Cigarette packet
Sugar packet
Network packet, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network
Packet radio, a form of amateur radio data communications using the AX25 protocol
Packet trade, regularly scheduled cargo, passenger, and mail trade conducted by ship
Packet boat, type of boat used for scheduled mail or passenger service
C-82 Packet, a U.S. military transport aircraft
Packet Newspapers, British newspaper group
See also
Package (disambiguation)
Pack (disambiguation)
Kit (disambiguation)
MacGuffin - A plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or another motivator popularized in the 1930s by Alfred Hitchcock: "Taken from a story about two men on a train. One man says, 'What's that package up there in the baggage rack?' And the other answers, 'Oh, that's a MacGuffin'. The first one asks, 'What's a MacGuffin?'" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20virtualization | In computing, network virtualization is the process of combining hardware and software network resources and network functionality into a single, software-based administrative entity, a virtual network. Network virtualization involves platform virtualization, often combined with resource virtualization.
Network virtualization is categorized as either external virtualization, combining many networks or parts of networks into a virtual unit, or internal virtualization, providing network-like functionality to software containers on a single network server.
In software testing, software developers use network virtualization to test software which are under development in a simulation of the network environments in which the software is intended to operate. As a component of application performance engineering, network virtualization enables developers to emulate connections between applications, services, dependencies, and end users in a test environment without having to physically test the software on all possible hardware or system software. The validity of the test depends on the accuracy of the network virtualization in emulating real hardware and operating systems.
Components
Various equipment and software vendors offer network virtualization by combining any of the following:
Network hardware, such as switches and network adapters, also known as network interface cards (NICs)
Network elements, such as firewalls and load balancers
Networks, such as virtual LANs (VLANs) and containers such as virtual machines (VMs)
Network storage devices
Network machine-to-machine elements, such as telecommunications devices
Network mobile elements, such as laptop computers, tablet computers, and smartphones
Network media, such as Ethernet and Fibre Channel
External virtualization
External network virtualization combines or subdivides one or more local area networks (LANs) into virtual networks to improve a large network's or data center's efficiency. A virtual local area network (VLAN) and network switch comprise the key components. Using this technology, a system administrator can configure systems physically attached to the same local network into separate virtual networks. Conversely, an administrator can combine systems on separate local area networks (LANs) into a single VLAN spanning segments of a large network.
Internal virtualization
Internal network virtualization configures a single system with software containers, such as Xen hypervisor control programs, or pseudo-interfaces, such as a VNIC, to emulate a physical network with software. This can improve a single system's efficiency by isolating applications to separate containers or pseudo-interfaces.
Examples
Citrix and Vyatta have built a virtual network protocol stack combining Vyatta's routing, firewall, and VPN functions with Citrix's Netscaler load balancer, branch repeater wide area network (WAN) optimization, and secure sockets layer VPN.
OpenSolaris network virtualiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arelion | Arelion, formerly named Telia Carrier and TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC), is a provider of telecommunication services based in Solna, Sweden. Arelion is a tier 1 network provider, assigned Autonomous System number AS1299. Since 2021, the name Twelve99 is also used in technical contexts.
History
Telia Company started building its carrier network in 1993, which became TeliaSonera International Carrier.
On 19 April 2016, the carrier was rebranded to Telia Carrier, together with its parent company dropping the "Sonera" part of its name.
On 6 October 2020, Telia Company agreed to sell its Telia Carrier unit to Polhem Infra for roughly US$1 billion. The sale was completed on 1 June 2021.
Related to the purchase, Telia Carrier begun moving from telia.net to a new domain name twelve99.net for technical uses. The domain name is a reference to Telia's AS number 1299.
On 19 January 2022, Telia Carrier rebranded to Arelion.
Services
The core business of Arelion is to provide fiber-based telecommunications services and infrastructure. The company is an IP connectivity supplier ranked number one globally according to Kentik Market Intelligence. It also provides services to operators, content providers enterprises, education and online gaming networks.
The company owns and operates a large fiber network, spanning 75,000 km and connecting 320 points of presence spread across more than 120 cities in 35 countries . The network is centrally managed and monitored and optimized from Network Operations Centers 24/7/365.
Customers
The company's customer base is mainly wholesale and includes the telecoms service providers ViaSat and Rostelecom, the content providers Facebook, Twitch, Activision Blizzard, and the content delivery networks CDNetworks. In May 2012, Arelion announced it had been selected to build and manage a pan-European optical network for Facebook. The multi-terabit optical network will allow Facebook to serve users in Africa, Middle East and Europe from a data center in Luleå, Sweden, near the Arctic Circle.
First terabit optical trial
In November 2011 Arelion and Infinera announced completion of the world's first Terabit optical transmission based on super-channels. The demonstration was performed on 1105 km of optical fiber between Los Angeles and San Jose, California. The trial was conducted with elements of the new Infinera DTN-X platform and demonstrated twice the capacity of previous trials by adding a terabit of bandwidth to a route carrying production capacity.
Corporate community support
Since 2008, Arelion has donated free service to the Wikimedia Foundation, being the only global tier 1 carrier to do so, as of February 2012.
References
External links
Global network map
Brendan Ives talks to Capacity TV
Tier 1 networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Umpleby | Stuart Anspach Umpleby (born March 5, 1944) is an American cybernetician and professor in the Department of Management and Director of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning in the School of Business at the George Washington University.
Biography
Umpleby attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he received degrees in engineering in 1967, in political science in 1967 and in 1969, and a PhD in communications in 1975.
In the 1960s, while a student at the University of Illinois, Umpleby worked in the Institute of Communications Research, The Biological Computer Laboratory, and the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, the PLATO system. From 1967 to 1975 he and other students developed computer conferencing systems and other applications for time shared computers.
After moving to George Washington University, he was the moderator from 1977 to 1980, of a computer conference on general systems theory supported by the National Science Foundation. Between 1982 and 1988 he arranged scientific meetings involving American and Soviet scientists in the area of cybernetics and general systems theory.
From 1975 to present he has been a professor in the Department of Management at The George Washington University, where he teaches courses ranging from cybernetics, systems theory, and system dynamics to the philosophy of science, cross-cultural management, and organizational behavior. From 1994 to 1997 he was the faculty facilitator of a Quality and Innovation Initiative in the GW School of Business.
He is a past president of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC). In 2007 Stuart Umpleby was awarded The Wiener Gold Medal of the American Society for Cybernetics.
In 2010 he was elected an Academician in the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, an honor society created by the International Federation for Systems Research.
He is twice divorced and has two sons.
Work
Umpleby's research interests are in the fields of cybernetics and systems theory, the philosophy of science, and management methods. Other interests have been demography, the year 2000 computer crisis, academic globalization, and the transitions in the post-communist countries.
Cybernetics
In the early 1970s Umpleby studied cybernetics with Heinz von Foerster and Ross Ashby in the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. With Heinz von Foerster and Leo Steg he organized the first Gordon Research Conference on cybernetics in 1984. He worked to develop and promote second-order cybernetics or biological cybernetics. He also helped to create social cybernetics. He provided an example of the amplification of management capability. He clarified the nature of information in descriptions of the physical relationships among matter, energy, and information.
And he has pointed out that George Soros's reflexivity theory is quite compatible with cybernetics.
Philosophy of science
Following h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Baecker | Ronald Baecker (born October 7, 1942) is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Bell Chair in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Toronto (UofT), and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He was the co-founder of the Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP), and the founder of the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) and the Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab (TAGlab) at UofT. He was the founder of Canada's research network on collaboration technologies (NECTAR), a founding researcher of AGE-WELL, Canada's Technology and Agine research network, the founder of Springer Nature's Synthesis Lectures on Technology and Health, and the founder of computers-society.org. He also started five software companies between 1976 and 2015. He is currently an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
He is the author of Ethical Tech Startup Guide (Springer Nature, 2023), author of Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must Do (2021), co-author of The COVID-19 Solutions Guide (2020), and author of Computers and Society: Modern Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2019). His other books are Readings in Human Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000 (Morgan Kaufmann, 1995), Readings in Groupware and Computer Supported Cooperative Work: Software to Facilitate Human-Human Collaboration (Elsevier, 1993), Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs (Addison-Wesley, 1990) and Readings in Human Computer Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Elsevier, 1987).
Education
Baecker received a B.Sc. in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1963, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1964, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 1969.
Summary of research interests
Baecker is an expert in human-computer interaction (HCI), user interface (UI) design, software visualization, multimedia, computer-supported cooperative work and learning, entrepreneurship in the software industry, and the design of technologies for aging gracefully.
Honors and awards
ACM Distinguished Speaker, 1 March 2022 - 28 February 2025.
Social Impact Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Human Interaction (SIGCHI), 2020.
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association of Computer Science/Association d’informatique Canadienne, the national organization of Canadian Computer Science Departments/Schools/Faculties, May 2015.
Given the 3rd Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award, GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence, May 2013.
Elected as an ACM Fellow, November 2011.
Second-place recipient, University of Toronto Inventor of the Year Award, Information and Computer Technology, January 2011.
Awarded the 2007 Leadership Award of Merit from the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) in June 2007.
Awarded the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award in May 2005.
Elected to the ACM SIGCHI CHI Academy in February 2005.
Named one of the 60 Pioneers of Compu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFDC | NFDC may refer to:
National Flight Data Center, a branch of the FAA that produces a complete navigation database for the United States of America.
National Federation of Demolition Contractors, a UK trade association.
National Film Development Corporation (disambiguation), various meanings:
National Film Development Corporation of India
National Film Development Corporation Malaysia
New Freedom Data Center |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrome%20monitor | A monochrome monitor is a type of computer monitor in which computer text and images are displayed in varying tones of only one color, as opposed to a color monitor that can display text and images in multiple colors. They were very common in the early days of computing, from the 1960s through the 1980s, before color monitors became widely commercially available. They are still widely used in applications such as computerized cash register systems, owing to the age of many registers. Green screen was the common name for a monochrome monitor using a green "P1" phosphor screen; the term is often misused to refer to any block mode display terminal, regardless of color, e.g., IBM 3279, 3290.
Abundant in the early-to-mid-1980s, they succeeded Teletype terminals and preceded color CRTs and later LCDs as the predominant visual output device for computers.
CRT Design
The most common technology for monochrome monitors was the CRT, although, e.g., plasma displays, were also used.
Unlike color monitors, which display text and graphics in multiple colors through the use of alternating-intensity red, green, and blue phosphors, monochrome monitors have only one color of phosphor (mono means "one", and chrome means "color"). All text and graphics are displayed in that color. Some monitors have the ability to vary the brightness of individual pixels, thereby creating the illusion of depth and color, exactly like a black-and-white television.
Typically, only a limited set of brightness levels was provided to save display memory which was very expensive in the '70s and '80s. Either normal/bright or normal/dim (1 bit) per character as in the VT100 or black, dark gray, light gray, white (2bit) per pixel like the NeXT MegaPixel Display.
Monochrome monitors are commonly available in three colors: if the P1 phosphor is used, the screen is green monochrome. If the P3 phosphor is used, the screen is amber monochrome. If the P4 phosphor is used, the screen is white monochrome (known as "page white"); this is the same phosphor as used in early television sets.
An amber screen was claimed to give improved ergonomics, specifically by reducing eye strain; this claim appears to have little scientific basis.
Usage
Well-known examples of early monochrome monitors are the VT100 from Digital Equipment Corporation, released in 1978, the Apple Monitor III in 1980, and the IBM 5151, which accompanied the IBM PC model 5150 upon its 1981 release.
The 5151 was designed to work with the PC's Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) text-only graphics card, but the third-party Hercules Graphics Card became a popular companion to the 5151 screen because of the Hercules' comparatively high-resolution bitmapped 720×348 pixel monochrome graphics capability, much used for business presentation graphics generated from spreadsheets like Lotus 1-2-3. This was much higher resolution than the alternative IBM Color Graphics Adapter 320×200 pixel, or 640×200 pixel graphic standard. It could also run |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STV%20%28TV%20station%29 | STV is an Australian television station licensed to and serving the regions surrounding Mildura, Victoria, owned and operated by the WIN Corporation and part of the WIN Television network. The station commenced transmissions on 27 November 1965.
History
During the 1970s, STV formed a programming and operational affiliation with GLV-10 (later GLV-8) in Traralgon and BCV-8 in Bendigo – a partnership expanded upon in 1982 with the establishment of a single on-air identity and programming schedule across the three stations, known originally as Southern Cross TV8 and later, the Southern Cross Network.
Alan Bond's Bond Media brought STV in March 1989, for $18 million, from then-owners Sunraysia Television, after they acquired Channel Nine Perth from Bond who were forced to sell it due to cross-media ownership laws restricting national audience reach. They paid A$95 million for the Perth station. Bond later onsold the station to ENT Ltd. later that same year in May and split from the Southern Cross Network shortly afterwards to join the VICTV Television Victoria network, which also encompassed GMV-6 Shepparton and BTV-6 Ballarat and following aggregation, extended its transmission area into Bendigo, Albury and Gippsland. The VIC TV network was sold to WIN Television in 1994. However, Mildura did not aggregate until 1 July 1997, when Prime Television launched to become a Seven Network affiliate while WIN Mildura became a dual Nine and Ten affiliate. On 30 June 2010, the station ceased broadcasting on analogue as part of the digital TV switchover in the Mildura area.
On 1 July 2016, as part of a wide national re-alignment of regional television, STV swapped affiliations with MDV switching from Nine Network to Network Ten, rebroadcasting a feed of ATV-10 from Melbourne with local ads.
On 1 July 2021, as part of a wide national re-alignment of regional television, STV swapped affiliations with MDV switching back from Network 10 to the Nine Network.
Programming
WIN Mildura broadcasts its programming from Channel Nine.
WIN News Sunraysia
For nearly 50 years, the station produced regional news bulletins from its Mildura studios. In later years, WIN News programs were presented from VTV's studios in Ballarat. WIN ceased its Sunraysia news operations in May 2015, at the same time WIN ceased its Mackay news operations.
As a current Nine Network partner, it broadcasts WIN News Central Victoria, the national and Victorian Nine News editions and A Current Affair.
References
WIN Television
Television channels and stations established in 1965
Mildura |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Israel | Rail transport in Israel includes heavy rail (inter-city, commuter, and freight rail) as well as light rail. Excluding light rail, the network consists of of track, and is undergoing constant expansion. All of the lines are standard gauge and approximately one-fifth of the heavy rail network is electrified, with additional electrification work underway. A government owned rail company, Israel Railways, manages the entire heavy rail network. Most of the network is located on the densely populated coastal plain.
Some of the rail routes in Israel date back to before the establishment of the state – to the days of the British Mandate for Palestine and earlier. Rail infrastructure was considered less important than road infrastructure during the state's early years, and except for the construction of the coastal railway in the early 1950s, the network saw little investment until the late 1980s. In 1993, a rail connection was opened between the coastal railway from the north and southern lines (the railway to Jerusalem and railway to Beersheba) through Tel Aviv. Previously the only connection between northern railways and southern railways bypassed the Tel Aviv region – Israel's population and commercial center. The linking of the nationwide rail network through the heart of Tel Aviv was a major factor in facilitating further expansion in the overall network during the 1990s and 2000s and as a result of the heavy infrastructure investments passenger traffic rose significantly, from about 2.5 million per year in 1990 to about 67 million in 2018.
Israel is a member of the International Union of Railways and its UIC country code is 95. Currently, the country does not have railway links to adjacent countries, but one such link is planned with Jordan. Further links existed with Egypt, Lebanon and Syria in earlier years. Unlike road vehicles and street trams, trains in Israel run on the left hand tracks.
In addition to heavy rail, several urban transport rail lines operate or are under construction in Israel. These include a short funicular underground railway in Haifa which opened in 1959 (Carmelit), a light rail line in Jerusalem (opened in 2011) and another light rail line in Tel Aviv, which began operations in 2023.
History
Ottoman Empire
Rail infrastructure in what is now Israel was first envisioned and realized during the Ottoman period. in 1839, Sir Moses Montefiore was an early proponent of trains in the land of Israel. However, the first railroad in Palestine was the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway, initiated by the Jewish entrepreneur Joseph Navon and built by the French at meter gauge. It opened on September 26, 1892 with a time travel of 3 hours and 30 minutes.
The second line in what is now Israel was the Jezreel Valley railway from Haifa to Beit She’an, which had been built in 1904 as part of the Haifa-Daraa branch, a 1905-built feeder line of the Hejaz Railway which ran from Medina to Damascus. During the Ottoman era, the network grew: Nablus, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Lopes%20%28journalist%29 | Tim Lopes (born Arcanjo Antonino Lopes do Nascimento; November 18, 1950 – June 2, 2002) was a Brazilian investigative journalist and producer for the Brazilian television network Rede Globo. In 2002, the media reported him missing while working undercover on a story in one of Rio's favelas. It was later learned that Lopes had been accosted by drug traffickers who controlled the area, was kidnapped, driven to the top of a neighboring favela in the trunk of a car, tied to a tree and subjected to a mock trial, tortured by having his hands, arms, and legs severed with a sword while still alive, and then had his body placed within tires, covered in gasoline and set on fire—a practice that traffickers have dubbed micro-ondas (in allusion to the microwave oven).
The details of Lopes's death received substantial attention in Brazil's media because of the barbarity of the crime and due to it highlighting the existence of poder paralelo (parallel power) within Rio—meaning criminals controlling areas of the city with impunity.
Early life and personal life
Arcanjo Antonino Lopes do Nascimento was born in Pelotas, Brazil, the fourth child of a family of twelve. When he was 8 years old, his parents moved the family to Rio de Janeiro, where they lived in humble circumstances in the Mangueira favela in a three-room shanty.
Mangueira is home to the samba school, Mangueira and is located on a hill near Maracanã football stadium.
Years later as a journalist, Lopes produced a piece about Mangueira samba and one of its founders, the Carioca sambista Carlos Cachaça. Cachaça saw the story and commented to a sambista friend, Monarco, of the Velha Guarda da Portela, that Lopes's reporting was "the best material that he had ever seen" on Mangueira. In 2002, Lopes was co-writing a book, about Mangueira samba school and his experience growing up there, with Alexander Medeiros.
Lopes was one of the founders of the Carnaval bloco, "Simpatia é quase amor" (Sympathy is almost like love) of Ipanema, and had served as an official judge of the annual carnival procession at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí. He was a dedicated fan of the professional Rio football club, Vasco da Gama.
Lopes lived with his wife Alessandra Wagner and her son Diogo. Lopes also had a nineteen-year-old son, Bruno, from a previous marriage, with whom he maintained a father-son relationship. Although Lopes was born Gaucho (native resident of Rio Grande do Sul), "he was a stereotypical Carioca" (native resident of Rio de Janeiro), always smiling with a friendly disposition and knowing every corner of Rio. He was at ease hanging out with wealthy residents in Leblon or with those living in poor areas of the city or on the street, and in speaking street slang.
Career
Tim Lopes attended journalism school at the Faculdade Hélio Alonso (FACHA) in Rio de Janeiro and during his career wrote for the Rio newspapers O Globo, O Dia, and Jornal do Brasil. As part of an investigative piece in 1978, Lopes worked at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMN%20%28TV%20station%29 | AMN is a television station licensed to serve Griffith and the surrounding Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (M.I.A.). The station is owned and operated by WIN Corporation as a Nine Network affiliate, WIN Television.
WIN Television is the sole commercial television broadcaster in the Griffith and M.I.A. area, also providing MTN, a Seven Network affiliate, and a Network 10 affiliate MDN, a supplementary station.
History
The Australian Broadcasting Authority relaxed the rules regarding station ownership in solus markets in the mid-1990s. The changes allowed for one company to operate two stations without competition, provided the Authority did not have reason to believe another company would be interested. MTN applied for a Section 38A licence in 1995, and after being refused once, challenged the Authority, and was successful on appeal – ultimately being granted the second license on 18 July 1996. The second channel launched on 5 October 1997, on UHF channel 31 using the callsign AMN. It was a direct feed of Prime Television Orange, with the exception of its local news, which AMN replaced with an alternative program. Since then, AMN has changed from being a direct feed of Prime7 to being a feed of Seven Network Sydney.
WIN Corporation brought MTN and AMN from then-owner Associated Media Investments on 6 July 1998.
As part of Australia's digital transition, AMN ceased broadcasting in analogue on 5 June 2012.
On 1 July 2016, to reflect WIN's new affiliation agreement with Network Ten, AMN and MDN swapped affiliates – with AMN becoming a Ten affiliate while MDN became a Nine affiliate.
On 1 July 2021, to reflect WIN's new affiliation agreement with Nine Network, AMN and MDN swapped affiliates – with AMN becoming a Nine affiliate while MDN became a 10 affiliate.
Programming
AMN carries programming from Nine Network, which includes the 9 News Sydney bulletin as well as the southern NSW/Wagga Wagga WIN News bulletin. The station also carries the Sydney feeds of 9Gem, 9Go! and 9Life.
News
WIN News Griffith (formerly MTN9 News) was a local news bulletin broadcast on MTN. The news bulletin premiered the same year as MTN launched, seeing it run for over forty years. WIN News Griffith was axed in August 2006, with WIN Television amalgamating the news bulletins from Griffith and Wagga Wagga into one Riverina bulletin presented from WIN's Wollongong studios The last bulletin aired on 18 August 2006. Following the bulletin's cancellation, WIN maintained a journalist, sport reporter and camera operator in Griffith to produce news stories, however, in 2013 this staff was reduced to a single video journalist, and then in 2015 was removed entirely to be replaced by a roving journalist from the Wagga Wagga station. Following the cancellation of the bulletin, Griffith City Council petitioned regional broadcasters in neighbouring areas to present a local news bulletin. This has since been abandoned.
Channels
The following is a list of channels broadcast on AMN.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kew%20tram%20depot | Kew tram depot is located on the corner of Barkers Road and High Street, Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Operated by Yarra Trams, it is one of eight tram depots on the Melbourne tram network.
History
Kew tram depot opened on 8 May 1915. When the Public Transport Corporation was privatised in August 1999, Kew depot passed to Yarra Trams.
Layout
The main yard has 12 covered roads. There are two tracks for trams leaving or entering via Barkers Road, and a single track connecting to High Street.
Rolling stock
As at December 2019, the depot had an allocation of 62 trams: 26 A2 Class and 36 C Class.
Routes
The following routes are operated from Kew depot:
48: Victoria Harbour Docklands to Balwyn North
78: North Richmond to Balaclava
109: Box Hill to Port Melbourne
References
Tram depots in Melbourne
Transport infrastructure completed in 1915
1915 establishments in Australia
Transport in the City of Boroondara
Buildings and structures in the City of Boroondara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essendon%20tram%20depot | Essendon tram depot is located on Mount Alexander Road, Travancore, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Operated by Yarra Trams, it is one of eight tram depots on the Melbourne tram network. Despite the name, the depot is located three kilometres from the suburb of Essendon.
History
The Essendon tram depot was opened in 1906 by the North Melbourne Electric Tramway & Lighting Company. It passed with the company to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board on 1 August 1922.
When the Public Transport Corporation was privatised in August 1999, Essendon depot passed to M-Tram. It passed to Yarra Trams when it took control of the entire tram network in April 2004.
Layout
Essendon depot has 24 roads, 18 of which are covered in three sheds, the remaining six are in the open to the north of the sheds. It has access from Mount Alexander Road in both directions, and also features facilities for heavy maintenance.
Rolling stock
As at December 2019, the depot had an allocation of 73 trams: 44 B2 Class and 29 Z3 Class.
Routes
The following routes are operated from Essendon depot:
57: West Maribyrnong to City (Elizabeth Street)
58: Coburg West to Toorak shared with Southbank depot
59: Airport West to City (Elizabeth Street)
82: Moonee Ponds Junction to Footscray
References
Tram depots in Melbourne
Transport infrastructure completed in 1906
1906 establishments in Australia
Essendon, Victoria
Transport in the City of Moonee Valley
Buildings and structures in the City of Moonee Valley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyesebel%20%282008%20TV%20series%29 | Dyesebel is a 2008 Philippine television drama romance fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a Philippine graphic novel of the same title by Mars Ravelo. Directed by Joyce E. Bernal and Don Michael Perez, it stars Marian Rivera in the title role and Dingdong Dantes. It premiered on April 28, 2008 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Kamandag. The series concluded on October 17, 2008 with a total of 125 episodes. It was replaced by Gagambino in its timeslot.
Premise
Dyesebel is a mermaid who will fall in love with Fredo. She must also stop the cruelties of her four adversaries: Ava, Berbola, Dyangga and Betty.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Marian Rivera as Dyesebel Montemayor-Legaspi / Isabel
Dingdong Dantes as Fredo Legaspi
Supporting cast
Michelle Madrigal as Berbola
Alfred Vargas as Erebus
Rufa Mae Quinto as Amafura
Jean Garcia as Lucia Montemayor / Ava Legaspi
Bianca King as Betty Salcedo
Mylene Dizon as Dyangga
Ricky Davao as Juan Legaspi
Lotlot de Leon as Banak
Luis Alandy as Gildo Villarama
Marco Alcaraz as Usaro
Teri Onor as Akirang
Paolo Ballesteros as Bukanding
Aljur Abrenica as Paolo Legaspi
Kris Bernal as Shiela Mae Legaspi / Shiela Mae Montemayor
Hero Angeles as Mark
Nanette Inventor as Guada
Robert Villar as Buboy
Chanda Romero as Felicia Montemayor
Guest cast
Wendell Ramos as Florentino "Tino" Montemayor
Vaness del Moral as Sosira
Filiberto Nepomuceno as Butete
Charlotte Hermoso as Jelay
Ryan Yllana as Leo
Philip Lazaro as Charity
Mariz Ricketts as Melba
Jackie Rice as Arana
Fayatollah as Lady Dee
KC Hollmann as Gildo's secretary
Mang Enriquez as Mike
Chinggoy Alonzo as Ernesto Montemayor
Andrea del Rosario as Vivian Montemayor
Kevin Santos as Fonsy
Angel Estrada as Vicky
Matt Ranillo III as Enrico Salcedo
Jen Rosendahl as Vivian's friend
Elizabeth Ramsey as Pearls' mother
Joseph Marco as Joseph
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Dyesebel earned a 44.9% rating. While the final episode scored a 41.1% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
Dyesebel
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Mermaids in television
Philippine fantasy television series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20in%20radio | The year 2002 in radio involved some significant events.
Events
January – The Glenn Beck Program launched on 47 stations on Premiere Radio Networks.
January 21 – A train derailment in Minot, North Dakota kills one person and knocks out power throughout the region, spilling 250,000 gallons of toxic anhydrous ammonia for fertilizer purposes. The designated primary station for the EAS in Minot, Clear Channel-owned KCJB 910-AM, fails to air any disaster information. The EAS had to be activated by local law enforcement; Minot police were unable to do so, and KCJB couldn't due to being all-automated in the overnight hours. The incident gradually attracts controversy, as well as attacks on Clear Channel from future Minnesota senator Al Franken.
March 11 – BBC 6 Music, the first new BBC music radio station in decades, is launched.
May 29 - After 2 years with rhythmic oldies, KBTB/Seattle begins stunting on this day as "Quick 96." 2 days later, KBTB flips back to classic hits as KJR-FM.
July 8 – KHBZ-FM in Oklahoma City shifts to Alternative Rock.
November 4 - After 36 years in the country format, KIKK-FM/Houston flipped to smooth jazz as KHJZ, "95.7 The Wave."
December 2 – radio2XS launches onLine from Sheffield
"Dawson McKay & The Get Up Gang" becomes "The Get Up Gang with Dawson, Wendy, and Levi" as Dawson moves from KASH 107.5 in Anchorage, Alaska to Albuquerque New Mexico's 92.3 KRST.
KDWN in Las Vegas, Nevada fires Doug Basham, despite receiving the highest ratings of any other host on the station including nationally syndicated ones, allegedly for spending "too much time bashing the president."
CBS Radio fires Opie and Anthony of The Opie and Anthony Show from WNEW-FM, following the backlash of their Sex for Sam 3 promotion in New York City, NY.
Debuts
July 1 – Launch of Sirius Satellite Radio
Closings
Karl Haas retired from broadcasting at the age of 89, and recorded his last episode of Adventures in Good Music.
August 27: CHUM Radio shuts down its "Team" syndicated sports network in Canada after a little over a year; their flagship station "1050 CHUM" in Toronto reverted to its famous oldies format with much fanfare, while the other "Team" stations reverted to their previous formats, with the exception of Ottawa's CFGO.
Deaths
January 21 - Peggy Lee, 81, American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer and actress.
February 27 - Spike Milligan, 83, English comedian and writer, writer/performer of The Goon Show.
March 31 - Barry Took, 73, English comedy writer and broadcast presenter.
April 26 - Del Sharbutt, 90, American radio and television announcer.
June 7 - Wayne Cody, 65, radio and television sportscaster who spent the bulk of his career in Seattle, Washington at KIRO.
June 18 - Jack Buck, 77, American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals.
August 2 - Joe Allison, 77, American songwriter, radio and television personality, record producer, and country music b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20in%20radio | The year 2000 in radio involved some significant events.
Events
The Real Radio & Century Radio networks become active on – air, through the United Kingdom.
The Quad-Cities' signal for 1580 AM, last holding the call letters KFQC, goes silent for the last time. To date, there has been no announcement when, or if, a station will be returning to the frequency, which had been in use since 1952.
January - Country-formatted KFMS/Las Vegas flips to Top 40/CHR, "Kiss FM"
January 14 - WQSH/Louisville shifts from Modern AC to Hot AC
January 27 - The City 97.9/Oklahoma City flipped from Smooth jazz to Rhythmic CHR, branded as "Wild 97dot9."
March - Connoisseur Communications, owners of Quad Cities radio stations KJOC, KORB, WXLP, KQLI and KBOB, are sold to Cumulus Media. At the same time, a series of format changes at two of the stations are unveiled. KBOB, with a country music format, is moved from 99.7 FM to 104.9 FM, replacing KQLI's light adult contemporary format. Replacing KBOB at 99.7 FM is a contemporary hit radio/Top 40 format, with the new call sign KBEA-FM.
March - Clear Channel acquires SFX Broadcasting for $4.4 billion
March - Classic Rock-formatted WNAP/Indianapolis flips to Top 40/CHR as WNOU, "Radio Now"
March 10 - Country-formatted KYNG/Dallas-Fort Worth flips to hot talk as "105.3 The Talk That Rocks."
March 17 - WFSJ Jacksonville debuts as Kiss 97.9
June - Minnesota receives its first ever commercial Rhythmic Top 40 station when KARP-FM dropped its country format and moved into the Minneapolis/St. Paul market as KTTB, "B96."
June 9 - Modern AC-formatted KBBT/Portland flips to All-80's Hits as KVMX, "Mix 107.5."
June 30 - KKBT 100.3 and KCMG 92.3 swapped frequencies in Los Angeles, and in Washington DC, WPLC, after being sold, flips from Modern AC as "Pulse 94dot3" to Spanish AC as "Amor 94.3".
July 18 - 94.5 The Buzz (Modern Rock) and Oldies 107.5 (Classic Hits) swapped frequencies in Houston. Chris McMurray makes the official announcement before the move to 107.5
August 17 - Kansas City's longtime classical station KXTR 96.5 is moved to AM 1250 at 10 AM that day. A modern AC format that would later evolve to modern rock as "96.5 The Buzz" replaced classical at 96.5 two hours later. New calls of KRBZ arrived about a week later.
August 18 - Hot AC-formatted KSTJ/Las Vegas flips to All-80s Hits
August 24 - U102/Denver launched.
August 25 - WHCY Sussex becomes Max 106.3
August 30 - The merger of AMFM, Inc. and Clear Channel Communications officially closes.
September - Smooth jazz-formatted KHIH/Denver flips to Top 40/CHR as KFMD, "Kiss FM."
September 25 – KFYI 590 and KGME 910 swapped frequencies at midnight in Phoenix
October - Active rock-formatted WXTM/St. Louis flips to All-80s Hits as WMLL, "The Mall."
October 30 - WOCL/Orlando dropped its Rhythmic Oldies format and began stunting. Also on this day, Rock AC-formatted KMBX/Seattle flips to rhythmic oldies.
October 31 - WOCL stops stunting at Noon, and launches its new modern rock fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atla%20Religion%20Database | The Atla Religion Database (ATLA RDB) is an index of academic journal articles in the area of religion. It is updated monthly and published by the American Theological Library Association. The database indexes articles, essays, and book reviews related to a wide range of scholarly fields related to religion. The database is available on a subscription basis through a database aggregator.
The total database includes over 3.0 million article citations from over 2,400+ journals. There are more than a quarter of a million essay citations from more than 18,000 multi-author works. The number of book reviews is over half a million. Atla indexes multi-author works, such as Festschriften and conference proceedings, with separate records for each essay.
Formats
The Atla Religion Database, formerly available on CD-ROM, is a MARC record format database that incorporates several out-of-print indexes, including Religion Index One: Periodicals, Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works, and Index to Book Reviews in Religion.
Coverage
The database indexes scholarly works on major world religions. There are, however, selection criteria for inclusion according to scholarly merit and scope. More than 60 languages are represented. Some records cover articles as far back as the 19th century. Atla claims full coverage for core journals back to 1949.
In 1996 Susan Smailes' masters thesis criticized Atla Religion Database for under-representing the emerging fields of lesbian theology and womanist theology in its coverage.
Scholarly fields with significant degrees of coverage include:
Ancient history
Anthropology
Archaeology
Bible
Church history
Ethics
Mission
Philosophy
Pastoral ministry
Religious studies
Theology
Human Culture & Society
Ecumenism
World religions
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
References
External links
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Year of establishment missing
Religion databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%21%20Daily | Star! Daily is a Canadian half-hour daily entertainment television series that aired on the CHUM Limited networks Star!, A-Channel and Citytv. The show was hosted by Dina Pugliese and Husein Madhavji along with entertainment reporters Larysa Harapyn, Liz West, Danielle McGimsie and Sean Gehon.
Following the acquisition of Star! and A-Channel by CTVglobemedia, Star! Daily was discontinued on October 11, 2007, and 22 members of its production staff were laid off. It was replaced on both networks by CTV's own entertainment news program, etalk, which CTVglobemedia staff considered to be a more successful program.
References
External links
Star! Daily (archived)
Entertainment news shows in Canada
Citytv original programming
2007 Canadian television series endings
2000s Canadian television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetix%20Europe | Jetix Europe N.V. (formerly known as Fox Kids Europe N.V.) was a European television broadcasting company that owned children's television channels and programming blocks across the Europe and Middle East, such as Jetix and Jetix Play.
History
Fox Kids Europe
Formation
In September 1995, Fox Broadcasting Company and Saban Entertainment announced they had formed a strategic partnership in the creation of children's programming networks worldwide under the Fox Kids umberella. The networks would capitalize on Saban's library and Fox-parent News Corp.’s distribution strength. The venture launched their first international Fox Kids Network branded channel in the United Kingdom on October 19, 1996.
After the successful launch of Fox Kids UK, five additional Fox Kids networks were launched between 1997 and 1999 for the Netherlands, France, Poland, Scandinavia and Spain.
On April 1, 1999, the Central & Eastern Europe feed was launched for the CIS and Baltic countries.
Expansion/Going Public
Fox Kids Europe became a publicly traded company in November 1999 with Fox Family Worldwide holding a 75.7% majority stake and the other 24.3% being listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
In 2000, five additional Fox Kids feeds launched: Italy, Turkey, Germany, Hungary and the Middle East. These launches made Fox Kids the only children's entertainment company with a local channel in every major European market.
In Late-2000, Saban Entertainment reconsolidated their European licensing subsidiary based in the United Kingdom – Saban Consumer Products Europe, as a subsidiary of Fox Kids Europe.
In February 2001, a Fox Kids feed was launched in Israel, while the Hungarian feed was extended to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while launching in Russia as a programming block on free-to-air channel Ren TV. In June 2001 Fox Kids Europe announced that the Fox Kids brand had become the most widely distributed children's channel in Europe and the Middle East, reaching 24.9 million households and broadcasting in 54 countries via 11 channel feeds in 16 languages.
In the Summer of 2001, the Italian Fox Kids channel launched a syndicated block for several local stations in Italy.
Purchase by The Walt Disney Company
On July 23, 2001, it was announced that The Walt Disney Company would purchase Fox Family Worldwide for $2.9 billion, which included FFW's majority stake in Fox Kids Europe, which was completed on October 24, 2001 The original intention of The Walt Disney Company for the Fox Kids Europe networks after the acquisition was to rebrand all operations as Toon Disney, a channel that had very little distribution internationally but this was scrapped, and the company was instead granted a non-fixed term license with 20th Century Fox Film Corporation to continue using the "Fox Kids" brand at no charge.
In November 2001, a Greek service was launched with limited 13 hours following a 2-hour block launched in October.
In December 2002, the company signed with BMG Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIN%20%28TV%20station%29 | WIN is a television station serving southern New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It is the flagship station of the WIN Television network.
History
Television Wollongong Transmission Limited (TWT) was incorporated on 4 October 1955 by a group of local businessmen. Five years later, it was awarded a licence by the Postmaster-General's Department, over a number of other groups aligned to Sydney-based stations ATN-7 and TCN-9, to broadcast to the Illawarra and South Coast regions. The new station was to broadcast on the VHF-4 frequency, using the callsign WIN (which stood for Wollongong Illawarra New South Wales, in line with other Australian call signs). Soon after, a plot of land was purchased at Fort Drummond, approximately two kilometres south of the Wollongong central business district, for the station's television studios.
Prior to the opening night's transmissions, WIN-4 undertook a television conversion program, aimed at encouraging residents to acquire new tuning equipment and converting television sets in the area to receive the station's allocated frequency. A transmitter was to be erected on Knight's Hill; however, test transmissions were delayed due to rain.
WIN-4 commenced transmissions at 5:15 p.m. on 18 March 1962. The first night was met with a number of technical issues, most notably the complete loss of audio. TCN-9 and ATN-7 refused to sell programming to the station, leading to an unstable financial situation which, at its peak, left the station with only 42 hours of programming.
In April 1963, Media Securities, owned by Rupert Murdoch, acquired a controlling interest in the station (his second television station after NWS-9 Adelaide) and soon appointed a new general manager, Bill Lean. Both TCN-9 and ATN-7 began purchasing several hours of first-run American television programming from WIN-4, following contractual arrangements signed by Murdoch. Throughout this period, WIN-4 expanded its repeater transmissions to include Moruya, Batemans Bay, Narooma, Bega and Eden. Local programming and the station's near-monopoly in the area meant that, by 1973, viewership had increased to occupy 63 percent of the audience.
In order to buy controlling interests in capital city stations TEN-10 Sydney and ATV-0 (now ATV-10) Melbourne, in June 1979, Murdoch sold his 76 per cent stake in the publicly listed Wollongong station to Oberon Broadcasters, owned by the head of Paramount Pictures' international distribution arm, Bruce Gordon. At the time, under the Broadcasting and Television Act, a company was not permitted to own more than 5 per cent in more than one television station in the same state.
Since inception in 1962, WIN has produced and broadcast notable programs including Sportsview and Sportsworld, a review of international, national and local sporting events. From the first week of transmissions, children's television series The Channel 4 Club was produced, with children's television program Stopwatch beginning i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabled%20Persons%20Railcard | The Disabled Persons Railcard is a concessionary fare scheme in the United Kingdom giving eligible passengers with disabilities benefits on the National Rail network including a 1/3 discount on fares.
Card and discounts
The card is available as a one-year validity card for £20 and as a three-year validity card for £54. The Railcard holder can take another adult with them at the same discount rate.
All franchised train operating companies in Great Britain must accept the Railcard and offer discounts under terms set out in the Railways Act 1993. The Railcard is managed by Rail Delivery Group. It is aimed at people who have the most difficulty using rail for a reason relating to their disability. Its purpose is to encourage people to use the train and to reduce the cost for those who need to be accompanied by a carer.
As of July 2022, there are over 228,000 Disabled Persons Railcards in circulation.
Origins
British Rail (BR) introduced the Disabled Persons Railcard in 1981 to mark the International Year of Disabled Persons. Sir Peter Parker was Chairman of BR at the time and the British Railways Board included Tom Libby and wheelchair user Bill Buchanan, who was "Special Adviser on the Disabled".
Tom Libby and Bill Buchanan together with Sir Bert Massie (RADAR) were tasked to design and develop the Disabled Persons Railcard.
The Railcard initially cost £5. Its price increased to £14 in the 1990s and then in 2006 to £18. A three-year Railcard was also introduced in September 2006 at £48.
The price increased again in January 2011, to its current cost of £20 for a year. The three year railcard was increased the same year, costing £54 (£18 per year). these prices are still in effect.
Qualifying disabilities
Applicants must submit evidence to show that their disability makes them eligible for a Disabled Persons Railcard.
A passenger is eligible for the Disabled Persons Railcard if they
receive Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or Adult Disability Payment (ADP)
receive Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or Child Disability Payment (CDP) at either:
the higher or lower rate for the mobility component
the higher or middle rate for the care component
have a visual impairment
have a hearing impairment
have epilepsy
receive Attendance Allowance, Severe Disablement Allowance or Pension Age Disability Payment (PADP)
receive War Pensioner's Mobility Supplement
receive War or Service Disablement Pension for 80% or more disability
buy or lease a vehicle through the Motability scheme
Disabled people and trains
Historically, the design of most British trains did not enable wheelchair users to travel in the main passenger area. Passenger doors were too narrow and the fixed seating layout did not give wheelchair users space to manoeuvre. When wheelchair users could travel by rail, it was in the guard's van.
The introduction of High Speed Trains and sliding door carriages in the 1970s and 1980s, did much to improve access for disabled pass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly%20of%20European%20Regions | The Assembly of European Regions (AER) is the largest independent network of regions in wider Europe. Bringing together regions
from 35 countries and 15 interregional organizations, AER is a forum for interregional cooperation.
Historical background
On 15 June 1985, at Louvain-la-Neuve (Walloon Brabant), 47 Regions and 9 interregional organizations founded the Council of the Regions of Europe (CRE), which would later become the Assembly of European Regions in November 1987 at the second General meeting of the Regions of Europe in Brussels.
The year 1985 was proclaimed by the United Nations as the International Youth Year. The same year AER launched its first programme, Eurodyssey, designed to promote and encourage youth mobility.
In 1990, AER's Tabula Regionum Europae published the first map of its kind citing a Europe made up of regions and not simply of countries. The year after, the principle of subsidiarity became the leading AER campaign to promote the role of regions in all European and national decision-making processes. Soon thereafter its success was to be evident as the principle was recognized in the Maastricht Treaty of 1992.
The creation of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) in 1994 and the Chamber of the Regions in the framework of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe (CLRAE) in 1994, exemplified a victory for AER in advocating for the regions in Europe.
In 1995, AER launched a campaign to promote regionalism in Europe. As a result, 300 AER members adopted in 1996 the Declaration on Regionalism in Europe immediately initializing a reference document for new and developing regions.
In 2002, AER presented its position on the “Future of Europe” to the European Convention. AER actively contributed to the drafting of the European Constitution, demonstrating strong political involvement. The final text included all AER proposals, namely
The recognition of the regions as an important level of governance within Europe.
The extension of the principle of subsidiarity to regional and local levels.
The inclusion of regional cohesion in EU's objectives.
In 2008, AER established the Youth Regional Network, Europe's first and only platform of regional youth councils, parliaments and organisations.
Definition of "Region"
According to the AER statutes, in principle the term "region" refers to a territorial authority existing at the level immediately below that of the central government, with its own political representation in the form of an elected regional assembly.
Members
Member regions of the Assembly of European Regions come from the following countries:
List of presidents of the AER
Albert Castellanos (Spain) - 2023–present
Magnus Berntsson - Västra Götaland (Sweden) - 2017–2023
Hande Özsan Bozatlı - Istanbul (Turkey) - 2013–2017
Michèle Sabban - Île-de-France (France) - 2008–2013
Riccardo Illy - Friuli-Venezia-Giulia (Italy) - 2004–2008
Liese Prokop - Lower Austria (Austria) - 2000–2004
Luc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Eilor | Elizabeth Eilor was the executive director of the African Women's Economic Policy Network. The organization trains women in economic literacy and advocacy. AWEPON is based in Uganda and spans some 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
References
Living people
Ugandan economists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Ugandan women
21st-century Ugandan businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%20Modula-3 | Baby Modula-3 is a functional programming sublanguage of Modula-3 (safe subset) programming language based on ideals invented by Martín Abadi. It is an object-oriented programming language for studying programming language design; one part of it is implicitly prototype-oriented, and the other is explicitly statically typed designed for studying computer science type theory. It has been checked as a formal language of metaprogramming systems. It comes from the Scandinavian School of object-oriented languages.
Abadi tried to give an example of pure object-oriented language which would allow studying the formal semantics of objects. "Baby Modula-3 is defined with a structured operational semantics and with a set of static type rules. A denotational semantics guarantees the soundness of this definition."
This object model has been shown to have well definiteness decidability (a mechanical proof of it isn't known).
Abadi worked at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Systems Research Center (SRC) in Palo Alto, California. As DEC was bought by Compaq and then Compaq was bought by Hewlett-Packard (HP), the SRC-report 95 was made available to the public by HP.
Influences
Luca Cardelli and Martín Abadi wrote the book A Theory of Objects in 1996, laying out formal calculi for the semantics of object-oriented programming languages. Baby Modula-3 influenced this work according to Cardelli, and guided a calculus of the type of self in Types for object and the type of 'self'.
It has opened the way for work on Modula-3 formal semantic checking systems, for object-oriented type system programming languages that have been used to model the formal semantics of languages such as Ada and C.
References
Academic programming languages
Modula programming language family
Prototype-based programming languages
Programming language design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary-Kathryn%20Kennedy | Mary-Kathryn "M.K." Kennedy is an American TV producer best known for her work on Spanish-language telenovelas produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. She has been executive producer of Marina, El Juramento and associate producer of ¡Anita, no te rajes!.
executive producer - Telemundo
1.El Juramento (2008)
2.Sin Senos No Hay Paraíso (2008)
3.Marina (2006/07)
associate producer
4.¡Anita, No Te Rajes! (1998)
External links
Living people
American television producers
American women television producers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networker%20%28train%29 | The Networker is a family of passenger trains which operate on the UK railway system. They were built in the late 1980s and early 1990s by British Rail Engineering Limited (which became part of ABB in September 1992) and Metro Cammell. The trains were built for the Network SouthEast (NSE) sector of British Rail, which is where their name comes from. They are all multiple-unit trains.
History
At the launch of Network SouthEast in 1986, the 'Networker' was announced. It would be a new family of trains, part of NSE's plan to modernise their network and replace older, often slam-door trains.
Unlike previous contemporary rolling stock units in Britain, Networker trains would use aluminium bodies to save weight, with some units featuring modern AC traction motors and air conditioning. The design was supposed to cover all requirements for future NSE multiple units, including new routes like the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. NSE planned a rolling programme of train replacement, ordering around 300 carriages a year.
Networker was originally intended to become one of the largest families of trains, bigger even than the largely Mark 3-based Second Generation. However, due to the recession in the early 1990s and the privatisation of British Rail from 1994, around 340 trains were built, substantially less than originally planned.
Variants
Diesel multiple units
Class 165
The Class 165 is a 2- and 3-car diesel multiple unit (DMU), built for outer suburban workings. Thirty-nine units were built for the Chiltern subdivision of Network SouthEast in 1990 and 1991 (Class 165/0), and thirty-seven for the Thames subdivision in 1992 (Class 165/1). Since privatisation, the 165/0 units have been operated by Chiltern Railways, while the 165/1 units have been operated by Thames Trains, First Great Western Link, First Great Western and Great Western Railway in turn.
Class 166
The Class 166 is a faster, air-conditioned variant of the Class 165, built for main line workings. Twenty-one 3-car units were built for the Thames and North Downs subdivisions of Network SouthEast in 1992 and 1993.
Electric multiple units
Classes 316 and 457
These designations applied to a single four-car electric multiple unit (EMU), converted from former Class 210 carriages, that was used as a research prototype. The unit was numbered as a Class 457 unit for trials with power from 750 V direct current (DC) third rail on Southern Region lines, then as a Class 316 unit for trials with power from 25 kV alternating current (AC) overhead line equipment on lines north of the River Thames, for which one of its intermediate carriages was replaced with a Class 313 pantograph trailer.
Class 365
The Class 365 was a dual-voltage EMU. The train was ordered in 1993, following a financial battle between NSE and InterCity for investment. Forty-one 4-car units were built from 1994 to 1995, the first sixteen fitted with pick-up shoes for power from third rail on services between London and Kent, and t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia%20%C3%97%20europaea | Tilia × europaea, generally known as the European lime, common lime (British Isles) or common linden, is a naturally occurring hybrid between Tilia cordata (small-leaved lime) and Tilia platyphyllos (large-leaved lime). It occurs in the wild in Europe at scattered localities wherever the two parent species are both native. It is not closely related to the lime fruit tree, a species of citrus.
Description
Tilia × europaea is a large deciduous tree up to tall with a trunk up to . The base of the trunk often features burrs and a dense mass of brushwood. The leaves are intermediate between the parents, long and broad, thinly hairy below with tufts of denser hairs in the leaf vein axils. The flowers are produced in clusters of four to ten in early summer with a leafy yellow-green subtending bract; they are fragrant, and pollinated by bees. The floral formula is ✶ K5 C5 A0+5∞ (5). The fruit is a dry nut-like drupe in diameter, downy and faintly ribbed.
Cultivation
This hybrid is very widely cultivated, being readily and inexpensively propagated by layering; as a result, it is often the commonest Tilia species in urban areas and along avenues and streets. It is not however the best species for this purpose, as it produces abundant stem sprouts, and also often hosts heavy aphid populations resulting in honeydew deposits on everything underneath the trees. Furthermore, there is substantial leaf litter in autumn (fall).
Notable trees
One long-lived example was the "Malmvik lime", planted as a sapling near the Malmvik Manor in Stockholm, Sweden in 1618. The tree existed for 381 years until the last part of the tree fell in a storm in 1999. The UK Tree Register Champion is at Aysgarth, Yorkshire, measuring in height and diameter at breast height in 2009. The tree in front of Augustusburg Hunting Lodge in Saxony was planted in 1421 according to the chronicles of Augustusburg.
Some 13 limes were planted at Mullary cemetery Co Louth Ireland to commemorate "king Billy's" victory at the battle of the Boyne in circa 1669 as lime are not native to Ireland and they were planted to mark the foreign victory, they remain standing today.
Uses
The leaves, except for their stalks, can be eaten raw.
The infusion of its blossoms functions as a mild relaxant.
The wood of the lime was commonly used by Vikings in their shields.Archaeologist Neil Price talked about this in a Wired video but I haven't found it in one of his books.
References
External links
Photos, measurements and location details of ancient common lime trees
europaea
Plant nothospecies
Flora of Europe
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20de%20Radiodifusi%C3%B3n%20B%C3%ADblica | Red de Radiodifusión Bíblica is a religious, Spanish-language radio network operated by the Charlotte, North Carolina based Bible Broadcasting Network.
The programming of this network is primarily directed toward people living in Latin-American countries, although some U.S. radio stations in states bordering Mexico also broadcast the network.
External links
BBN International website
Christian radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least-squares%20spectral%20analysis | Least-squares spectral analysis (LSSA) is a method of estimating a frequency spectrum based on a least-squares fit of sinusoids to data samples, similar to Fourier analysis. Fourier analysis, the most used spectral method in science, generally boosts long-periodic noise in the long and gapped records; LSSA mitigates such problems. Unlike in Fourier analysis, data need not be equally spaced to use LSSA.
Developed in 1969 and 1971, LSSA is also known as the Vaníček method and the Gauss-Vaniček method after Petr Vaníček, and as the Lomb method or the Lomb–Scargle periodogram, based on the simplifications first by Nicholas R. Lomb and then by Jeffrey D. Scargle.
Historical background
The close connections between Fourier analysis, the periodogram, and the least-squares fitting of sinusoids have been known for a long time.
However, most developments are restricted to complete data sets of equally spaced samples. In 1963, Freek J. M. Barning of Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, handled unequally spaced data by similar techniques, including both a periodogram analysis equivalent to what nowadays is called the Lomb method and least-squares fitting of selected frequencies of sinusoids determined from such periodograms — and connected by a procedure known today as the matching pursuit with post-back fitting or the orthogonal matching pursuit.
Petr Vaníček, a Canadian geophysicist and geodesist of the University of New Brunswick, proposed in 1969 also the matching-pursuit approach for equally and unequally spaced data, which he called "successive spectral analysis" and the result a "least-squares periodogram". He generalized this method to account for any systematic components beyond a simple mean, such as a "predicted linear (quadratic, exponential, ...) secular trend of unknown magnitude", and applied it to a variety of samples, in 1971.
Vaníček's strictly least-squares method was then simplified in 1976 by Nicholas R. Lomb of the University of Sydney, who pointed out its close connection to periodogram analysis. Subsequently, the definition of a periodogram of unequally spaced data was modified and analyzed by Jeffrey D. Scargle of NASA Ames Research Center, who showed that, with minor changes, it becomes identical to Lomb's least-squares formula for fitting individual sinusoid frequencies.
Scargle states that his paper "does not introduce a new detection technique, but instead studies the reliability and efficiency of detection with the most commonly used technique, the periodogram, in the case where the observation times are unevenly spaced," and further points out regarding least-squares fitting of sinusoids compared to periodogram analysis, that his paper "establishes, apparently for the first time, that (with the proposed modifications) these two methods are exactly equivalent."
Press summarizes the development this way:
In 1989, Michael J. Korenberg of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, developed the "fast orthogonal search" method o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceOrb%20360 | The SpaceOrb 360 is a 6DOF computer input device that is designed to be operated with two hands. Each of the 6 axes have 10-bit precision each when measuring the amount of force or torque applied. It has two right-index-finger buttons and four right-thumb buttons. It interfaces with a computer through an RS-232 serial port using a custom binary protocol. Drivers for the device exist for Mac OS, Microsoft Windows and Linux. Logitech had similar 6DOF devices during the same time period called the Cyberman and Cyberman II.
The device was released in 1996, the same year as popular 3D games such as Descent II and Quake. It was originally called the Spaceball Avenger II, a sequel to SpaceTec's Spaceball Avenger. The SpaceOrb was especially suited for the gameplay of Descent because of the complete freedom-of-motion afforded by its rendering engine. There was strong support for the device in both Quake and Quake II, but the WASD-type keyboard-and-mouse controls eventually became more popular. As of the Half-Life engine (based on the original Quake source), there was specific support for the SpaceOrb's capabilities. Developers later started to drop variable movement speed support, which reduced the 10bit translation force measurement to 1bit per direction.
It was originally manufactured and sold by the SpaceTec IMC company (first bought by Labtec, which itself was later bought by Logitech). The device is no longer sold nor supported by Logitech. It has been supplanted by more modern devices sold under Logitech's 3Dconnexion brand, which are all one-handed 3DMice that afford the other hand the freedom to interact with the keyboard/mouse.
In 2009, a SpaceOrb fan with the username "vputz" has designed Arduino add ons (OrbDuino, OrbShield, Orbotron) to make SpaceOrbs available over USB, making it compatible with modern operating systems by emulating joystick, mouse, and/or keyboard.
ASCII Sphere 360
ASCII Entertainment (later Agetec) bought the SpaceOrb 360 design and technology license to manufacture the ASCII Sphere 360 model for the original Sony PlayStation.
References
External links
www.jaycrowe.com is Birdman's SpaceOrb Messageboard.
AGETEC ASCII Sphere 360 product page.
LGR Oddware: SpaceOrb 360 RealLife 3D Game Controller
Pointing devices
Computing input devices
History of human–computer interaction
Video game control methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGPC | WGPC (branded as 1450 The Fan) was a radio station serving Albany, Georgia, United States and surrounding cities with sports radio programming from CBS Sports Radio. This station broadcast on AM frequency 1450 kHz and was under ownership of Cumulus Media.
The station was first licensed in 1932 as WENC on 1420 kHz, operating from Americus. In 1934, the station moved to Albany and changed its call letters to WGPC, becoming the first station in the city. In 1941, the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement moved the station to 1450.
WGPC went dark after its tower, which had been used since 1940, was cut in half during a storm on January 2, 2017. On March 22, 2017, Cumulus told WALB that the WGPC license had been surrendered to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); the FCC canceled the license on March 24, 2017.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball%20Sunday | Baseball Sunday was a 1980s era nationally syndicated call-in sports talk radio program, created and produced by William Foard and distributed via satellite on the Foard Entertainment Network. The original cast included host Kevin Harlan, with former New York Yankee player and Baltimore Orioles manager, Hank Bauer and statistician John Matthews.
Format
The basic format of Baseball Sunday involved a round table chat about the goings on in Major League Baseball at the time. The hosts would also take calls from the listeners. Radio highlights from that particular Sunday's Major League Baseball action would be mixed in for good measure. Baseball Sunday was a precursor of sorts to ESPN's Baseball Tonight, which debuted in 1990.
Hosts
As previously mentioned, the initial host of Baseball Sunday was Kevin Harlan, who was also joined by regulars Bill James and Hal Bodley (of USA Today). Around 1990, Harlan left the program and was replaced by Joe Garagiola. What then became known as Baseball Sunday with Joe Garagiola was created by Shane Hackett and Miles McMillan. It was owned and produced by United Syndications Associates and aired on over 200 radio stations.
References
Sources
Don Orsillo and Joe Simpson
Sunday
American sports radio programs
Sunday mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam%2000%20episodes | This is a list of episodes from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam 00. The series premiered on October 6, 2007, replacing Toward the Terra on the terrestrial MBS and TBS networks, occupying the networks' noted Saturday 6:00 p.m. timeslot. The first season ended its run on March 29, 2008. Season one of the series has been re-broadcast across Japan on various television networks such as TBS, Kids Station, MBS and BS-i from April onwards. Season two is being broadcast in the MBS and TBS Sunday 5:00 p.m. slot since October 5, 2008. The second season ended its run on March 29, 2009. Season two of the series has been re-broadcast across Japan on various television networks such as TBS, Kids Station, MBS and BS-i from April onwards. The English dub of the first season premiered on Syfy (spelled Sci Fi at the time; renamed Syfy midway through the anime's run) on Monday November 24, 2008 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT and ended on February 9, 2009. The English dub of the second season premiered on Syfy on Monday June 29, 2009 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT and concluded on September 21, 2009.
The official DVDs of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 had been released with 7 volumes on January 25, February 22, March 25, April 25, May 23, June 25 and July 25 of 2008. Blu-ray DVDs of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 had been released so far with Volumes 1 and 2 on August 22, Volume 3 on September 22 and Volume 4 on October 24 of 2008.
From episodes 1-13, the first opening theme is "Daybreak's Bell" performed by L'Arc~en~Ciel while the first ending theme is performed by The Back Horn. From episodes 14-25, the second opening theme is "Ash Like Snow" performed by The Brilliant Green while from the second ending theme is "Friends" performed by Stephanie. From episodes 26-38, the third opening theme is performed by UVERworld while the third ending theme is "Prototype" is performed by Chiaki Ishikawa. From episodes 39-50, the fourth opening theme is is performed by Stereopony while the fourth ending theme is "Trust You" is performed by Yuna Ito. For episodes 25 and 50, the ending theme is "Daybreak's Bell". For episodes 19 and 24, "Love Today", performed by Taja, was used as an insert song. For episode 43, Unlimited Sky by Tommy Heavenly6 was used as an insert song.
Series overview
Episode list
Season 1 (2007–08)
Season 2 (2008–09)
References
General
Specific
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
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Episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daejeon%20Station | Daejeon Station is on South Korea's high-speed KTX railway network, 166.6 km south of Seoul Station.
History
The station opened on January 1, 1905, in the period of Korea under Japanese rule and KTX trains on the Gyeongbu Line began services on April 1, 2004. The station inspired the romantic blues ballad "Daejeon Blues" that has been preferred by musicians throughout Asia and has become a Korean classic. The melody of the song is played on the speakers of the subway trains upon arriving at Daejeon Station. The station was used for the 2016 film Train to Busan.
Services
Daejeon Station serves all KTX trains on the Gyeongbu Line. It also has express services and local services on the normal speed Gyeongbu Line. The station is served by the Daejeon Line, a short line connecting Daejeon Station with Seodaejeon station, and also by the Daejeon Subway. Underground shopping can be found connected to Daejeon station.
See also
Transportation in South Korea
Korail
KTX
KTX-Sancheon
References
External links
Korea Train eXpress
Route Map
"Daejeon Blues" Song
Korea Train Express stations
Railway stations in Daejeon
Daejeon Metro stations
Dong District, Daejeon
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1905 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelioration%20pattern | In software engineering, an amelioration pattern is an anti-pattern formed when an existing software design pattern was edited (i.e. rearranged, added or deleted) to better suit a particular problem so as to achieve some further effect or behavior. In this sense, an amelioration pattern is transformational in character.
References
External links
Amelioration Pattern at the Portland Pattern Repository
Software design patterns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iksan%20station | Iksan station is on South Korea's high-speed KTX railway network, 243 km south of Yongsan station.
History
The station opened on January 1, 1915, and KTX trains on the Honam Line began services on April 1, 2004. The most notable incident to occur at this station was an explosion that occurred at 9:15 p.m. on November 11, 1977. The explosion occurred as dynamite being transported from Incheon to Gwangju caught alight. The station was then known as "Iri station" (이리역), Iri being Iksan's former name.
Services
Iksan station serves KTX trains on the Honam high-speed railway and the normal speed Honam Line. It also has express services and local services on the normal speed Honam Line. Trains on the Jeolla and Janghang Lines also call at this station.
See also
Transportation in South Korea
Korail
KTX
Iri station explosion
References
External links
Korea Train eXpress
Route Map
Railway stations in North Jeolla Province
Railway stations opened in 1915
1915 establishments in Japan
Korea Train Express stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1910s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibVNCServer | In computer networking, LibVNCServer and LibVNCClient are cross-platform C libraries that enable one to easily implement VNC server or client functionality in an application. Both libraries support version 3.8 of the Remote Framebuffer Protocol, are fully IPv6-conformant and can handle most known VNC encodings. LibVNCClient furthermore supports encrypted connections. Both libraries are GPL-licensed and portable to many different operating systems.
See also
x11vnc
References
External links
C (programming language) libraries
Cross-platform free software
Free software programmed in C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlands%20School%20FCJ | Newlands Catholic School FCJ, was a mixed 11–16 Catholic, state school in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. The school was awarded Specialist Maths and Computing College status.
It was owned by a religious order, the Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJs) who originally came to Middlesbrough in the 19th century at the request of the Bishops. It was originally a girls school before it was amalgamated with St Mary's the local boys school.
The school motto was Fortiter Et Recte, which in Latin means "Bravely and Justly".
In 2009 Newlands School was officially renamed as Trinity Catholic College after amalgamating with St. David's School, Middlesbrough.
References
Defunct Catholic schools in the Diocese of Middlesbrough
Defunct schools in Middlesbrough |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GwangjuSongjeong%20station | GwangjuSongjeong Station (formerly Songjeong-ri Station) is a station in Gwangju, South Korea. It is on the national high-speed KTX railway network, 341 km south of Yongsan Station.
History
The station opened on November 1, 1914, and the building was moved to its current location on September 18, 1988. KTX trains on the Honam Line began services on April 1, 2004.
The government of Gwangju City changed the name of Songjeong-ri station to GwangjuSongjeong station on April 1, 2009.
Services
GwangjuSongjeong Station serves KTX trains on the Honam Line. It also has express services and local services on the normal speed Honam Line and on the Gyeongjeon Line. Under the same name, the station is currently on Line 1 of Gwangju's subway network. From April 2, 2015, intercity bus stops were established in front of Songjeong station in Gwangju.
See also
Transportation in South Korea
Korail
KTX
References
External links
Korea Train eXpress
Route Map
Station information from Korail
Korea Train Express stations
Railway stations in Gwangju
Railway stations opened in 1913
Gwangsan District
1913 establishments in Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1910s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizwanur%20Rahman | Rizwanur Rahman (1977 – 21 September 2007) was a 30 year-old computer graphics trainer who was driven into committing suicide according to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Love and marriage
Rizwanur Rahman, a middle-class man, met the 23-year-old Priyanka Todi, daughter of Ashok Todi, owner of Lux Cozi, at the graphics training school where he taught. They began an affair, which was kept secret from their families.
It is believed that on 18 August 2007, the two secretly married according to the Special Marriage Act to which a few close friends and colleagues of Rizwanur were witnesses. The two families were not informed about the marriage and no witnesses were declared in the case later on.
After the ceremony, Priyanka went back to the Todi family, and Rizwanur continued his work at the multi-media centre. In late August, Rizwanur Rahman approached his brother and confessed to having secretly married. On 31 August, he brought Priyanka home to his family's small apartment in a working class Muslim neighbourhood. He and Priyanka signed and sent a letter to the police asking for protection from her father.
Later, Priyanka would say: "My mind was a blank... I was just signing whatever letters Rizwan was telling me to sign. I once told him we shouldn’t mention my father, but he said Pappu and Rukbanur had insisted that we frame the letters like that and they knew best."
It is alleged that Priyanka's father, Ashok Todi, and the Todi family were displeased that Priyanka had married into a lower income family, and Rahman, being a Muslim, exacerbated their displeasure. It has also been alleged that Rahman was told to "remove himself" from Priyanka's life and was also threatened by various fronts for this inter-religious marriage. On 31 August, Priyanka and Rahman notified the authorities that they were staying together at Rahman's house.
Return to parents
It has been alleged that due to an understanding with the Todi family, top level police officers of the state summoned the couple several times to State Police Headquarters at Lalbazar, Kolkata, and threatened Rizwan of dire consequences if he did not separate from his wife. Rizwan refused to yield. This is an unsubstantiated allegation levelled against the police force, not against Priyanka's parents, and there is nothing in official records to indicate that any such thing happened. What is on record is a meeting held at the police station on 8 September, eight days after Rahman's marriage was certified. On this occasion, the police summoned Rizwan and strongly urged him to allow his wife to visit her parents for a week or so. They told him that he was liable to be arrested on various charges, including abduction and illegal confinement, if his wife remained confined inside his tiny, rundown house; also that there was a minor charge against him of stealing a cell phone and other items from the Todi mansion, He was told that the girl, Priyanka, had never spoken to her parents properly after d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chuck%20episodes | Chuck is an American spy action-comedy-drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. It premiered on the terrestrial television network NBC on September 24, 2007, airing on Mondays at 8:00 pm ET. Chuck centers on Chuck Bartowski (played by Zachary Levi), an "average computer-whiz-next-door", who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working in the CIA; the message embeds the only remaining copy of the world's greatest spy secrets into Chuck's brain. The first season of Chuck aired in 2007–08, containing 13 episodes. After the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, NBC renewed Chuck for a second season instead of extending the first to a full season of 22 episodes. The full-length second season originally aired in 2008–09. Episodes of Chuck are also available in various new media formats. The first through fifth seasons are available to purchase on DVD and Blu-ray. In the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, every episode is available for download from iTunes. Episode titles for Chuck are consistently formatted as "Chuck Versus...". For example, the pilot episode is titled "Chuck Versus the Intersect". This list is ordered by the episodes' original air date and not by the production codes, which show the order in which episodes were filmed.
On May 13, 2011, NBC renewed Chuck for a fifth and final season consisting of 13 episodes, which premiered on October 28, 2011.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2007–08)
Season 2 (2008–09)
Season 3 (2010)
Season 4 (2010–11)
It was initially announced on May 14, 2010, that NBC renewed Chuck for a fourth season consisting of 13 episodes with an option for a back nine; on October 19, 2010, NBC ordered an additional eleven episodes (rather than the original option of nine), bringing the number of season four episodes to 24, the largest for the series.
Season 5 (2011–12)
NBC confirmed that the fifth and final season of Chuck would consist of thirteen episodes on May 13, 2011, returning in the fall on Friday nights at 8/7c; the season aired from October 28, 2011, to January 27, 2012.
Web-based spin-offs
Chuck Versus the Webisodes
Meet the Nerd Herders
Morgan's Vlog
Chuck Presents – Buy Hard: The Jeff and Lester Story
Notes
References
External links
Lists of American comedy-drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Chennai | The article speaks about the many print, television and radio networks that dominate Chennai city's mass media market.
Print media
Newspaper publishing started in Chennai with the launch of a weekly, The Madras Courier, in 1785. It was followed by the weeklies Azdarar, the first Armenian language newspaper ever published, in 1794, and The Madras Gazette and The Government Gazette in 1795. The Spectator, founded in 1836, was the first English newspaper in Chennai to be owned by an Indian and became the city's first daily newspaper in 1853. The first Tamil newspaper, Swadesamitran, was launched in 1899. The first Telugu journal printed in Madras was Satya Doota in 1835.
Chennai has six major print media groups that publish about eight major newspapers and magazines. The major English dailies are The Hindu, The Times of India, The New Indian Express and The Deccan Chronicle evening dailies, The Trinity Mirror and News Today. As of 2012, The Hindu was the city's most read English newspaper, with a daily circulation of 5.4 lakh copies. The major business dailies published from the city are The Economic Times, The Hindu Business Line, Business Standard, and The Financial Express. The major Tamil dailies include the Dina Thanthi, Dinakaran, Dina Mani, Dina Malar, Tamizh Ossai, Tamil Murasu, Theekkathir Makkal Kural and Malai Malar. Many local newspapers cater to particular localities and neighborhoods.
Magazines published from Chennai include Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam, Kalki, Nakkheeran Tamil Investigation Magazine, Kungumam, Swath (Telugu magazine), Frontline, and Sportstar.
Television
Doordarshan runs three terrestrial television channels, DD CHENNAI (DD-1), DD NEWS (DD-2), and DD Podhigai, and one satellite television channel, Podhigai TV, from its Chennai centre, which was set up in 1974. Private Tamil satellite television networks like Sun TV, Zee Tamil, Raj TV, Star Vijay, Colors Tamil, Jaya TV, Makkal TV and Kalaignar TV Thamizhan TV broadcast out of Chennai.
The Sun Network, a Rs. 4,395 crore public firm, is based in the city and is the country's second-largest broadcasting company, in terms of viewership share. Some of its TV shows have generated the highest television rating points in the country. In addition to owning 19 TV channels in all major South Indian languages, the group owns FM radio stations in over eleven cities and some Tamil magazines and newspapers.
SCV is the major cable TV service provider. Direct-to-home (DTH) is available via DD Direct Plus, Dish TV, Tata Sky, Sun Direct DTH, BIG TV, Airtel Digital TV and Videocon d2h. Chennai is the first city in India to have implemented the Conditional Access System for cable television.
Radio
Radio broadcasting started from the radio station at the Rippon Buildings complex, founded in 1930, and was shifted to All India Radio in 1938. The city has two AM and ten FM radio stations, operated by Anna University, All India Radio and private broadcasters.
Web media
Chennai News Wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Birch%20%28businessman%29 | Michael Birch OBE (born 7 July 1970) is a British computer programmer and entrepreneur. Birch has helped co-found several startups including Blab, BirthdayAlarm.com, Ringo.com, and social networking site Bebo. Birch sold Bebo, his most lucrative business, which he started with his wife, Xochi Birch, to AOL in March 2008 for $850 million. Later he purchased the company back for $1 million. Birch has made several large donations to charitable organizations, including charity:water.
Early life
Birch was born in Sawston, Cambridgeshire and raised in Hertfordshire. He attended Imperial College London from 1988 to 1991, where he received a bachelor of science degree in physics.
Career
Birch and his wife Xochi Birch have co-founded over half a dozen startups in the past 15 years. Together with Birch's brother Paul, they founded BirthdayAlarm.com and with Morgan Sowden they founded Ringo.com (which was sold to tickle.com in 2003). Birch and Xochi later founded the online social networking website Bebo in January 2005, with a major launch in July 2005. In 2007, Bebo had over 45 million registered users and was the sixth most popular site in the UK, bigger than AOL, Amazon.co.uk and bbc.co.uk.
Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL in March 2008 for $850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. The Bebo franchise quickly declined under its new owners and fell into bankruptcy; in 2013 the couple bought Bebo back for $1 million.
Since 2008, the couple has started five separate companies they run in parallel. and also invested in MyStore.com along with Gordon Crawford, Julian Lennon and Todd Meagher. In 2013 the Birches founded an exclusive but not elite members club called The Battery, in San Francisco, with their vision stated as "to create a culture where inspiration is embraced, diverse communities come together and egos are checked at the door."
In July 2009, Michael co-founded PROfounders Capital with Brent Hoberman, Peter Dubens, Jonnie Goodwin, Rogan Angelini-Hurll and Sean Seton-Rogers.
Birch and Xochi are supporters of the non-profit organization charity:water, having given over $20 million to the organization. Birch also helped the organization launch mycharitywater.org, a fundraising platform that has raised more than $21 million for clean water projects around the world since launch in autumn 2009. In October 2011, Birch launched a social media project with charity:water and the startup studio Monkey Inferno, Inc to raise awareness of the water crisis and give millions of people the ability to let their friends know, donate and help solve the water crisis.
In October 2014 the Birches bought the Farmers Arms public house and Manor House properties in the village of Woolfardisworthy, Torridge (Woolsery), North Devon. A popular community pub for decades, the historic Grade II Listed Farmers Arms, the only pub in Woolfardisworthy village, closed in December 2012 and was reopened in September 2018. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaming%20user%20profile | A roaming user profile is a file synchronization concept in the Windows NT family of operating systems that allows users with a computer joined to a Windows domain to log on to any computer on the same domain and access their documents and have a consistent desktop experience, such as applications remembering toolbar positions and preferences, or the desktop appearance staying the same, while keeping all related files stored locally, to not continuously depend on a fast and reliable network connection to a file server.
Method of operation
All Windows operating systems since Windows NT 3.1 are designed to support roaming profiles. Normally, a standalone computer stores the user's documents, desktop items, application preferences, and desktop appearance on the local computer in two divided sections, consisting of the portion that could roam plus an additional temporary portion containing items such as the web browser cache. The Windows Registry is similarly divided to support roaming; there are System and Local Machine hives that stay on the local computer, plus a separate User hive (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) designed to be able to roam with the user profile.
When a roaming user is created, the user's profile information is instead stored on a centralized file server accessible from any network-joined desktop computer. The login prompt on the local computer checks to see if the user exists in the domain rather than on the local computer; no pre-existing account is required on the local computer. If the domain login is successful, the roaming profile is copied from the central file server to the desktop computer, and a local account is created for the user.
When the user logs off from the desktop computer, the user's roaming profile is merged from the local computer back to the central file server, not including the temporary local profile items. Because this is a merge and not a move/delete, the user's profile information remains on the local computer in addition to being merged to the network.
When the user logs in on a second desktop computer, this process repeats, merging the roaming profile from the server to the second desktop computer, and then merging back from the desktop to the server when the user logs off.
When the user returns to the first desktop computer and logs in, the roaming profile is merged with the previous profile information, replacing it. If profile caching is enabled, the server is capable of merging only the newest files to the local computer, reusing the existing local files that have not changed since the last login, and thereby speeding up the login process.
Limitations
Performance
Due to the profile copying at login and logout, a roaming profile set up using the default configuration can be extremely slow and waste considerable amounts of time for users with large amounts of data in their account.
When Microsoft designed Internet Explorer, the programmers made an explicit decision to store cookies and favorites as t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Biantidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the harvestman family Biantidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Biantinae
Biantinae Thorell, 1889
Anaceros Lawrence, 1959 — Madagascar
Anaceros anodonta Lawrence, 1959
Anaceros canidens Lawrence, 1959
Anaceros humilis Lawrence, 1959
Anaceros pauliani Lawrence, 1959
Biantella Roewer, 1927
Biantella reticulata Roewer, 1927 — Cameroon
Biantes Simon, 1885
Biantes albimanum (Loman, 1902) — Seychelles
Biantes aelleni Silhavy, 1973
Biantes annapurnae J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes atroluteus Roewer, 1914 — India
Biantes brevis J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes carli Roewer, 1929 — India
Biantes conspersus Roewer, 1927 — Bombay
Biantes dilatatus J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes fuscipes Thorell, 1890 — Pinang
Biantes gandaki J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes gandakoides J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes ganesh J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes godavari J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes gurung J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes jirel J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes kathmandicus J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes lecithodes Thorell, 1899 — Burma
Biantes longimanus Simon, 1885 — India
Biantes magar J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes minimus M. Rambla, 1983 — Seychelles
Biantes newar J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes parvulus (Herbst, 1911) — Seychelles
Biantes pernepalicus J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes quadrituberculatus Roewer, 1929 — India
Biantes rarensis J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes sherpa J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes simplex J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes thakkhali J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes thamang J. Martens, 1978 — Nepal
Biantes vitellinus Thorell, 1890 — Sumatra
Biantessus Roewer, 1949
Biantessus vertebralis (Lawrence, 1933) — South Africa
Biantessus nigrotarsus (Lawrence, 1933) — South Africa
Biantomma Roewer, 1942
Biantomma nigrospinosum Roewer, 1942 — Bioko
Clinobiantes Roewer, 1927
Clinobiantes paradoxus Roewer, 1927 — Cameroon
Cryptobiantes Kauri, 1962
Cryptobiantes protector Kauri, 1961
Eubiantes Roewer, 1915
Eubiantes africanus Roewer, 1915 — eastern Africa
Fageibiantes Roewer, 1949
Fageibiantes bicornis (Fage, 1946) — Madagascar
Fageibiantes bispina (Lawrence, 1959)
Hinzuanius Karsch, 1880
Hinzuanius africanus Pavesi, 1883 — Ethiopia
Hinzuanius comorensis (Roewer, 1949) — Comoros
Hinzuanius flaviventris (Pocock, 1903) — Socotra
Hinzuanius gracilis (Roewer, 1949) — Madagascar
Hinzuanius indicus (Roewer, 1915)
Hinzuanius insulanus Karsch, 1880 — Comoros
Hinzuanius littoralis (Lawrence, 1959)
Hinzuanius madagassis (Roewer, 1949) — Madagascar
Hinzuanius mauriticus Roewer, 1927
Hinzuanius milloti (Fage, 1946) — Madagascar
Hinzuanius pardalis (Lawrence, 1959)
Hinzuanius pauliani (Lawrence, 1959)
Hinzuanius tenebrosus (Lawrence, 1959)
Hinzuanius vittatus (Simon, 1885) — Madagascar
Ivobiantes Lawrence, 1965
Ivobiantes spinipalpis Lawrence, 1965
Metabiantes Roewer, 1915
Metabiantes armatus La |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Mitty | Joseph Sidney Mitty MBE (7 May 1919 – 30 September 2007) was a British salesman and the man who turned the first Oxfam gift shop into a national retail network of shops selling second hand clothing and other goods. This network put Oxfam on the high street map and has contributed substantially to Oxfam's income as well as presence in the public eye over the years. It was also an inspiration for many charities to follow Oxfam's lead.
Mitty worked for Oxfam for 33 years, earned the nickname of "salesman of the angels".
By 2007, there were over 700 Oxfam shops throughout the UK.
Early life
Joe Mitty was born on 7 May 1919, in Islington, north London. His father, an employee at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, died when he was twelve years old and he was brought up by his mother. He attended a local Church of England school.
After leaving school, Mitty became a civil service clerk. He joined the British Territorial Army in 1938, before enlisting in the 7th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment in March 1939. in 1942, Mitty was admitted to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, for officer training, following which he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the British Army's Hampshire Regiment and was sent to East Asia.
On his way to the Far East, Mitty travelled through India, where he was moved by the extreme poverty which he witnessed in the slums of Calcutta.
In 1942, while still serving in the military, Mitty married Dorothy White. The couple had two sons and a daughter. Dorothy died in 1995. His daughter Gloria died in 1989.
Mitty left the Army in 1946 and moved to Oxford with his wife. He purchased a quarter-acre plot of land at Cumnor for £75, and built a house, which he and his wife would live in for the next 60 years. He initially worked for the Ministry of Aircraft Production. However, in 1949 he noticed an employment advertisement in the Oxford Mail newspaper seeking an administrative assistant for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, an organization which would later become known by its current name, Oxfam. Mitty decided to apply for this position.
Oxfam and the Oxfam Charity Shop
Joe Mitty was hired directly by Oxfam founder, Cecil Jackson-Cole, in 1947. Mitty was instructed to meet Jackson-Cole in the lobby of the Grosvenor Hotel, in Victoria with a handkerchief over his face. He was also told to address anyone who approached him with the question, "Are you Mr Jackson-Cole?" Mitty was hired at the hotel by Jackson-Cole and received a starting salary of a little over £8 per week. This made Mitty Oxfam's first paid employee.
Mitty's initial role at Oxfam was to oversee the distribution of donated clothing to Europeans who had been left impoverished during World War II. However, Oxfam soon saw an untapped financial potential in selling the donated clothing rather than just sending the donations to Europe. This would allow Oxfam "to become a shop that sold everything but bought nothing," to quote The Telegraph. Proceeds from the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Podoctidae%20species | This is a list of the described species of the harvestman family Podoctidae. The data is taken from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Erecananinae
Erecananinae Roewer, 1912
Erecanana Strand, 1911
Erecanana defensa Goodnight & Goodnight, 1959
Erecanana dentipes H. Kauri, 1985 — Zaire
Erecanana insulana Roewer, 1949 — Réunion
Erecanana lentiginosa Lawrence, 1962
Erecanana mordax (Sørensen, 1910) — Tanzania (Usambara Mountains)
Erecanana quadridens Lawrence, 1962
Erecanana remyi (Roewer, 1949) — Madagascar
Erecanana subinermis Caporiacco, 1947
Erecanana typus (Sørensen, 1910)
Iyonus Suzuki, 1964 — Japan
Iyonus yuyama Suzuki, 1964
Lomanius Roewer, 1923
Lomanius tridens (Loman, 1905) — Java
Lomanius brevipalpus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1948) — Palau
Lomanius carinatus Suzuki, 1976
Lomanius formosae Roewer, 1912 — Taiwan
Lomanius longipalpus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1948) — Palau
Lomanius longipalpus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1957 (preoccupied)
Lomanius longipalpus longipalpus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1957
Lomanius longipalpus mindanaoensis Suzuki, 1977
Lomanius minimus Roewer, 1926
Lomanius rectipes (Roewer, 1963)
Ibaloniinae
Ibaloniinae Roewer, 1912
Asproleria Roewer, 1949
Asproleria albituberculata Roewer, 1949 — New Guinea
Austribalonius Forster, 1955
Austribalonius horridus Forster, 1955 — Australia
Bonea Roewer, 1913
Bonea sarasinorum Roewer, 1913 — Sulawesi
Bonea albertus (Roewer, 1949) — Borneo
Bonea armatissimus (Roewer, 1949) — Borneo
Bonea cippatus Roewer, 1927 — Philippines
Bonea longipalpis Suzuki, 1977
Bonea palpalis (Roewer, 1949) — Java
Bonea scopulata (Roewer, 1949) — Singapore
Bonea silvestris (Roewer, 1949) — Sarawak (Borneo)
Eusitalces Roewer, 1915
Eusitalces parvulus Roewer, 1915 — Sri Lanka
Gargenna Roewer, 1949
Gargenna coronata Roewer, 1949 — Indonesia
Heteroibalonius Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947
Heteroibalonius malkini Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947
Heteropodoctis Roewer, 1912
Heteropodoctis quinquespinosus (Roewer, 1911) — New Guinea
Holozoster Loman, 1902
Holozoster ovalis Loman, 1902 — Seychelles
Ibalonianus Roewer, 1923
Ibalonianus quadriguttatus (Hirst, 1912) — Maluku Islands (Indonesia)
Ibalonianus kueckenthali (Hirst, 1912) — Maluku Islands
Ibalonianus impudens (Loman, 1906) — New Guinea
Ibalonianus prasinus Roewer, 1949 — New Guinea
Ibalonianus rainbowi (Forster, 1949) — Solomons
Ibalonianus waigenensis Roewer, 1949 — Indonesia
Ibalonianus venator Roewer, 1949 — New Guinea
Ibalonius Karsch, 1880
Ibalonius jagori Karsch, 1880 — Luzon (Philippines)
Ibalonius annulipes (Sørensen, 1886) — New Caledonia
Ibalonius breoni (Simon, 1879) — Réunion
Ibalonius dubius (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1948) — Russell Islands
Ibalonius ferrugineum (Roewer, 1912) — Philippines
Ibalonius flavopictum Hirst, 1911 — Seychelles
Ibalonius impudens Loman, 1906 — New Guinea
Ibalonius inscriptus Loman, 1902 — Seychelles
Ibalonius karschii Loman, 1902 — Seychelles
Ibalonius lomani Hirst, 1 |
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