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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length%20array | In computer programming, a variable-length array (VLA), also called variable-sized or runtime-sized, is an array data structure whose length is determined at run time (instead of at compile time).
In C, the VLA is said to have a variably modified type that depends on a value (see Dependent type).
The main purpose of VLAs is to simplify programming of numerical algorithms.
Programming languages that support VLAs include Ada, Algol 68 (for non-flexible rows), APL, C99 (although subsequently relegated in C11 to a conditional feature, which implementations are not required to support; on some platforms, VLAs could be implemented previously with alloca() or similar functions) and C# (as unsafe-mode stack-allocated arrays), COBOL, Fortran 90, J, and Object Pascal (the language used in Borland Delphi and Lazarus, that uses FPC).
Growable arrays (also called dynamic arrays) are generally more useful than VLAs because dynamic arrays can do everything VLAs can do, and also support growing the array at run-time.
For this reason, many programming languages (JavaScript, Java, Python, R, etc.) only support growable arrays.
Even in programming languages that do support variable-length arrays, it's often recommended to avoid using (stack-based) variable-length arrays, and instead use (heap-based) dynamic arrays.
Memory
Allocation
The GNU C Compiler allocates memory for VLAs with automatic storage duration on the stack. This is the faster and more straightforward option compared to heap-allocation, and is used by most compilers.
VLAs can also be allocated on the heap and internally accessed using a pointer to this block.
Implementation
C99
The following C99 function allocates a variable-length array of a specified size, fills it with floating-point values, and then passes it to another function for processing. Because the array is declared as an automatic variable, its lifetime ends when read_and_process() returns.
float read_and_process(int n)
{
float vals[n];
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
vals[i] = read_val();
return process(n, vals);
}
In C99, the length parameter must come before the variable-length array parameter in function calls. In C11, a macro is defined if VLA is not supported. The C23 standard makes VLA types mandatory again. Only creation of VLA objects with automatic storage duration is optional. GCC had VLA as an extension before C99, one that also extends into its C++ dialect.
Linus Torvalds has expressed his displeasure in the past over VLA usage for arrays with predetermined small sizes because it generates lower quality assembly code. With the Linux 4.20 kernel, the Linux kernel is effectively VLA-free.
Although C11 does not explicitly name a size-limit for VLAs, some believe it should have the same maximum size as all other objects, i.e. SIZE_MAX bytes. However, this should be understood in the wider context of environment and platform limits, such as the typical stack-guard page size of 4 KiB, which is many o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20IBM%20mainframe%20operating%20systems | The history of IBM mainframe operating systems is significant within the history of mainframe operating systems, because of IBM's long-standing position as the world's largest hardware supplier of mainframe computers. IBM mainframes run operating systems supplied by IBM and by third parties.
The operating systems on early IBM mainframes have seldom been very innovative, except for TSS/360 and the virtual machine systems beginning with CP-67. But the company's well-known reputation for preferring proven technology has generally given potential users the confidence to adopt new IBM systems fairly quickly. IBM's current mainframe operating systems, z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, and z/TPF, are backward compatible successors to those introduced in the 1960s.
Before System/360
IBM was slow to introduce operating systems. General Motors produced General Motors OS in 1955 and GM-NAA I/O in 1956 for use on its own IBM computers; and in 1962 Burroughs Corporation released MCP and General Electric introduced GECOS, in both cases for use by their customers.
The first operating systems for IBM computers were written in the mid-1950s by IBM customers with very expensive machines at , which had sat idle while operators set up jobs manually, and so they wanted a mechanism for maintaining a queue of jobs.
These operating systems run only on a few processor models and are suitable only for scientific and engineering calculations. Other IBM computers or other applications function without operating systems. But one of IBM's smaller computers, the IBM 650, introduced a feature which later became part of OS/360, where if processing is interrupted by a "random processing error" (hardware glitch), the machine automatically resumes from the last checkpoint instead of requiring the operators to restart the job manually from the beginning.
From General Motors GM-NAA I/O to IBSYS
General Motors Research division produced GM-NAA I/O for its IBM 701 in 1956 (from a prototype, GM Operating System, developed in 1955), and updated it for the 701's successor. In 1960 the IBM user association SHARE took it over and produced an updated version, SHARE Operating System.
Finally IBM took over the project and supplied an enhanced version called IBSYS with the IBM 7090 and IBM 7094 computers. IBSYS required 8 tape drivesfewer if one or more disk drives are present. Its main components are a card-based Job Control language, which is the main user interface; compilers for FORTRAN and COBOL; an assembler; and various utilities including a sort program.
In 1958, the University of Michigan Executive System adapted GM-NAA I/O to produce UMES, which was better suited to the large number of small jobs created by students. UMES was used until 1967 when it was replaced by the MTS timesharing system.
BESYS
Bell Labs produced BESYS (sometimes referred to as BELLMON) and used it until the mid-1960s. Bell also made it available to others without charge or formal technical support.
FORTRAN Monitor Syst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20%28Middle%20Eastern%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Middle East, formerly MTV Arabia, was a free-to-air music television channel, and the Middle Eastern incarnation of MTV. As an addition to the MTV network, it was a joint venture between MTV Networks International and Arabian Television Network, a subsidiary of Arabian Broadcasting Network, and part of Arab Media Group, the largest media group in the United Arab Emirates. Launched as MTV Arabia, the channel was rebranded as MTV Middle East on August 30, 2011.
The channel began its initial broadcast on October 27, 2007, and was launched on November 17, 2007.
As of 5 January 2015, MTV Middle East has stopped airing on Nilesat, and moved the whole localised channel to pay TV model on OSN under the name MTV Live HD.
Beginnings
The first mention of the project came within the coverage of MTV's 25th anniversary in 2006, and was revealed by Faisal Abbas, the media editor of the London-based pan-Arab daily, Asharq Al-Awsat, which reported that MTV is "very interested in the Arab satellite channel market" and quoted Dean Possenniskie, the network's vice president and general manager for emerging markets, saying, "Hopefully [we] will be in the market in the next 24 months" but "it all depends on finding the right local partners".
Akon, Ludacris, as well as Lebanese-Canadian Karl Wolf, Qusai aka Don Legend the Kamelion - the first Saudi Arabian hip hop artist, and the UAE's Desert Heat took part in the launching ceremonies of the channel in November 2007. Furthermore, Karl Wolf single "Africa" became the first ever video clip broadcast on the new music station.
MTV Europe was previously available in the region through a special deal with Showtime Arabia. The Showtime Arabia channel provided some Arabic music videos and a locally produced program called "Mashaweer" that later got renamed "Salaam" whose hosts included regional DJ Madjam & main host Susie iliyan.
Content
The channel aims to be a platform for the Arab youth, letting their opinions be a large factor in future programming. It will be likely that MTV Arabia will be pushing local R&B and hip hop music, which other Arab music stations like Rotana and Melody don't heavily feature says Patrick Samaha the General Manager of MTV Arabia.
MTV Middle East shows
Hip Hop Na
Block 13
Introducing
Baqabeeq
Banat
Rewes
Waslity
Amour
Cimena
MTV Weyakom
Na3na3
Arab Stars
created by the general manager Patrick Samaha and team (Sam Wahab, Wassim Hamdan, Jimmy Poon, Wessam Kattan, Rasha al emam, Fatma abou assi, Alaa Akawi, Mohamed Hamed, Roula Ghalyini, Fredwreck and Qusai)
Shows taken from MTV
MTV Middle East also airs series from MTV such as:
Awkward
Audrina
America's Best Dance Crew
I Used to Be Fat
Chelsea Settles
Nothing But Hits
Celebrity Deathmatch
Pimp My Ride
My Own
Life of Ryan
Why Can't I Be You
True Life
Two-A-Days
Cribs
Teen Cribs
Underemployed
Punk'd
The Ashlee Simpson Show
Making the Band
Taquita & Kaui
The Trip
The Shop
Falcon Dash
Wrestling Society X
Adventures in Hollyhood
Diary
Total R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wengyik%20Yeong | Wengyik 'Weng' Yeong (1966–2007) was an American computer scientist. He is principally known for his work on the X.500, LDAP, and SNMP Internet protocols.
He also authored and edited several Internet Engineering Task Force Requests for comments (RFCs), including the original specification for LDAP.
References
1966 births
2007 deaths
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
American computer scientists
Malaysian emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSIV%20%28AM%29 | KSIV (1320 AM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Clayton, Missouri, and serving the Greater St. Louis region. KSIV airs the Christian talk and teaching programming of the Bott Radio Network and is one of the network's two stations in St. Louis, alongside KSIV-FM (91.5). KSIV's AM transmitter site is located along Deer Creek in Webster Groves, near Brentwood. In addition to a standard analog transmission, KSIV is relayed over low-power FM translator K240ES () in St. Louis, broadcasting from the master FM tower in Crestwood.
History
KXLW
1320 AM went on the air at noon on January 1, 1947, as KXLW. Owned by the Saint Louis County Broadcasting Company, the station was conceived as a voice for the events and happenings of St. Louis County. Its programming included a daily farm almanac, "Women's Hour" with society and fashion news, and a noon news/sports hour; general manager Guy Runnion had previously been a newsreader at KMOX. The original tower in Olivette was ordered removed that June by a district judge, however, because the facility violated that town's zoning law; the matter would remain in the courts for years.
On January 1, 1948, KXLW celebrated its first year on air by activating KXLW-FM 101.1, allowing the daytime-only radio station to add nighttime service and giving St. Louis its first full-time FM station. The county station endured a more than two-month-long strike by its engineers in December 1948 and early 1949 because there was a dispute over who should play recordings: engineers or disc jockeys. During the strike, the station ran with non-union engineers, but it was still off the air six hours one day in January because of what general manager Guy Runnion called an "act of sabotage". Additionally, one morning, county police arrested engineers and announcers at the Olivette transmitter site because of the zoning issue.
Ultimately, it was Runnion who exited; under pressure from shareholders, he sold his interests to Lee, Silas, and T. Virgil Sloan, staying on as general manager until August when the new Brentwood site was ready. On November 13, KXLW-FM left the air for good, the third such closure in two weeks in St. Louis.
KXLW was purchased from the Sloan brothers in 1952 by John Kluge, who owned a radio station in Silver Spring, Maryland, and station director Les Ware. In December 1957, the $500,000 sale of KXLW to Richard Miller's Big Signal Radio Broadcasting Co. was announced and filed with the FCC; it was approved in April 1958.
The Miller years
Richard Miller moved from Atlanta to St. Louis to run KXLW, his first radio station. Under Miller, KXLW established itself as a local force in the rhythm and blues format and one of the country's first soul stations. Some of KXLW's Black personalities, from noted jazz DJ Jesse D. "Spider" Burks to Lou "Fatha" Thimes Sr., went on to fame in the market. In one case, a newsman who had grown up listening to the station and changed his name Al Gay to Al Sanders—at the sugge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHOJ%20%28AM%29 | KHOJ is a radio station broadcasting out of St. Charles, Missouri with a Catholic format. It broadcasts on AM frequency 1460 kHz and is part of the Covenant Network.
KHOJ's studios are located on Hampton Avenue in St. Louis, while its transmitter is located north of St. Charles.
History
KIRL went on the air in 1968, the successor to KADY, which had previously operated on the frequency from 1958 to 1965 (and built the transmitter site used by KHOJ today). It was owned by Contemporary Media, Inc. In 1979, Contemporary Media sold KIRL to the Bronco Broadcasting Company. Bronco relaunched KIRL as a gospel music station for the African American community. Zella Jackson Price and other pioneering announcers were on its air staff.
In 2005, Bronco sold KIRL to the Covenant Network for $730,000. The sale marked the end of KIRL's gospel programming as of April 30 and scattered many of the religious programs it carried. Covenant immediately relaunched the station as KHOJ with its programming.
References
External links
The Covenant Network
WRYT / KHOJ Programming Schedule
FCC History Cards for KHOJ
HOJ (AM)
Catholic radio stations
Radio stations established in 1968
1968 establishments in Missouri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSBS-FM | KSBS-FM (92.1 FM) is Samoa's first commercial FM radio station broadcasting a variety format including local Polynesian, oldies, easy listening music. KSBS-FM broadcasts religious programming on Sunday mornings as well as hourly news from the BBC World Service, NPR, Voice of America, Radio Australia and Radio New Zealand International. Licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to Pago Pago, American Samoa, it serves the general American Samoa area. Also known as "Island 92", KSBS-FM is owned by Samoa Technologies.
The station was assigned the KSBS-FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 6, 1988.
History of call letters
The call letters KSBS were earlier assigned to an FM station in Kansas City, Kansas, which began broadcasting October 5, 1947. It operated on 105.9 MHz and was licensed to Sunflower Broadcasting System Incorporated.
References
External links
Samoa Technologies corporate website
KSBS-FM Island 92 KSBS-FM Island 92 website
SBS
Variety radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1988
Pago Pago
1988 establishments in American Samoa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20terrestrial%20television%20in%20Finland | Digital terrestrial television in Finland was launched on August 21, 2001. The analogue networks continued its broadcasts alongside the digital ones until September 1, 2007, when they were shut down nationwide.
Before the analogue switchoff, the terrestrial network had three multiplexes: MUX A, MUX B and MUX C. MUX A contained the channels of the public broadcaster Yleisradio and MUX B was shared between the two commercial broadcasters: MTV3 and Nelonen. MUX C contained channels of various other broadcasters. After the analogue closedown, a fourth multiplex named MUX E was launched.
All Yles channels are broadcast free-to-air, so are a few commercial ones including MTV3, Nelonen, Sub, Jim, Nelonen Pro 2 and Kutonen.
There are also several pay channels. These are sold only by PlusTV.
History
The official launch took place on August 21, 2001. Under the original plans the channel's available would be, other than the four analogue ones: Yle's news channel (YLE24), Yle's cultural and educational channel (YLE Teema), Yle's Swedish channel (FST), a regional station (CityTV), a sports channel (Urheilukanava), a film channel from Helsinki Media (Elokuvakanava), a "school channel" from WSOY (Alfa+), a lifestyle channel (Wellnet) and Canal+.
The Yle's channels, MTV3, Nelonen and Urheilukanava (later renamed Nelonen Sport) were on board from the start. WSOY eventually decided to withdraw from the project without launching their channel, as did Canal+ and Elokuvakanava. CityTV eventually turned into the entertainment channel SubTV.
In 2003, MTV Oy started en "extra" channels, MTV3+, which offered some extra sports content. Nelonen also had an extra channel called Nelonen Plus. TV Viisi started in March 2004.
Canal Digital launched pay television with three Canal+ channels in March 2004. A fourth Canal+ channel, Canal+ Sport was added in November. The Disney Channel was added in April 2006 and KinoTV, Eurosport, Discovery, MTV and Nickelodeon in September 2007. In September 2008 the rival operator PlusTV got exclusive rights to all, but CANAL+ channels and Canal Digital was left with them only. The last move in Canal Digital's antenna operations in Finland took place on September 16, 2009, when PlusTV got exclusive rights to CANAL+ channels too. Nowadays Canal Digital operates only via satellite.
PlusTV was launched in November 2006, originally only broadcasting MTV3 Max and Subtv Juniori. They added Subtv Leffa in April and Urheilu+kanava in June 2007.
Both packages got more channels with the launch of MUX E in September 2007: SVT Europa and MTV3 Fakta was added to PlusTV and KinoTV was added to Canal Digital, while Discovery Channel, Eurosport, MTV Finland and Nickelodeon were added to both packages.
September 2007 also saw the launch of the SveaTV package in Ostrobothnia which broadcasts Swedish language channels from a special multiplex.
On the digital platform, subtitling isn't a part of the video stream, but is delivered as a separate data str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra%20%28programming%20language%29 | Cobra is a discontinued general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. Cobra is designed by Charles Esterbrook, and runs on the Microsoft .NET and Mono platforms. It is strongly influenced by Python, C#, Eiffel, Objective-C, and other programming languages. It supports both static and dynamic typing. It has support for unit tests and contracts. It has lambda expressions, closures, list comprehensions, and generators.
Cobra is an open-source project; it was released under the MIT License on February 29, 2008.
Features
Object-oriented
Namespaces
Classes, interfaces, structs, extensions, enumerations
Methods, properties, indexers
Mixins, extension methods
Generics, attributes
Quality control
Contracts, assertions
Unit tests, docstrings
Compile-time nil-tracking
Expressiveness
Static and dynamic binding
List, dictionary, and set literals
in and implies operator
for expressions
Slicing
Interpolated strings
Compile-time type inference
Lambdas and closures
General productivity
Exception handling
Postmortem exception report
Garbage collection
Scripting conveniences
Clean syntax
Dynamic binding
One-step run
Shebang line (#!)
Miscellaneous
Documentation tool (cobra -doc)
Syntax highlighting tool (cobra -highlight)
Examples
The following examples can be run from a file using cobra <filename>.
Hello World
class Hello
def main
print 'HELLO WORLD'
A simple class
class Person
var _name as String
var _age as int
cue init(name as String, age as int)
_name, _age = name, age
def toString as String is override
return 'My name is [_name] and I am [_age] years old.'
References
External links
The Cobra blog by Charles Esterbrook
Cobra News Index
.NET programming languages
Object-oriented programming languages
Programming languages created in 2006
Software using the MIT license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yudi%20Datau | Yudi Datau is an Indonesian cinematographer. His works include Arisan! (2003) and Denias Senandung Di Atas Awan (2006). Beautiful Pain was selected as the Malaysian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
Filmography
Arisan! (2003)
Impian Kemarau (2004)
Ungu Violet (2005)
Gie (2005)
Denias Senandung Di Atas Awan (2006)
Nagabonar jadi 2 (2007)
Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck (2013)
Critical Eleven (2017)
Surat Kecil Untuk Tuhan (2017)
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indonesian cinematographers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental%20station | Monumental is the name of a station in the Barcelona Metro network. It takes its name from the former La Monumental bullring located in Eixample Dret, the northern part of the central Barcelona district of Eixample. It's served by L2 (purple line), and opened in 1995, along with the other stations of the first section of the line to be built (from Sant Antoni to Sagrada Família). It's situated under Carrer de la Marina between Consell de Cent and Diputació, and can be accessed from both sidewalks of Marina.
Services
See also
List of Barcelona Metro stations
External links
Monumental at Trenscat.com
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1995
Transport in Eixample
Barcelona Metro line 2 stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance%20%28computer%20virus%29 | Ambulance or Ambulance Car is a computer virus that infected computers running a DOS operating system in June 1990. It was discovered in Germany.
Description
Ambulance does not become memory resident. It infects only one .COM file in any given directory, but not the first one. Thus, there must be at least two .COM files in a directory for it to spread.
When an infected file is executed, an ASCII art ambulance can be seen moving across the screen, a siren starts to sound, and it displays an alert message such as: BOOM! It is not a deliberately destructive virus; it simply spreads itself around and shows off its payload once in a while. In certain iterations of the virus, the ambulance will only appear once per boot-up.
Variants
These are just some of many variants detected:
Ambulance Car-B
RedX-Any
Ambulance.793
Ambulance.793.A
Ambulance.795
Ambulance.796A
See also
Comparison of computer viruses
References
External links
Ambulance by F-Secure.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081007234124/http://www.codebreakers-journal.com/content/view/193/104/
Ambulance Car Virus by Online VSUM.
AMBULANCE CAR VIRUS by Probert Encyclopaedia.
Ambulance virus removal - Antivirus by Turbo Cash.
Virus.DOS.Ambulance.793.a by Secure List.
DOS file viruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Verizon | "Lost Verizon" is the second episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 5, 2008 and in the United Kingdom on November 9, 2008. Bart becomes jealous of his friends and their cell phones. Working at a golf course, Bart takes the cell phone of Denis Leary after the star comedian throws it away in anger. Marge, per Leary's advice, activates the GPS system on the phone to track down Bart's every move; catching on, Bart attaches the GPS chip to a bird that migrates to Machu Picchu, Peru. Leary and Brian Grazer (who also appeared in "When You Dish Upon a Star" as himself) both guest star as themselves. It was directed by Raymond S. Persi and written by John Frink.
Plot
When Principal Skinner makes a fool of himself on a freeway, Milhouse manages to catch the scene on his cell phone. He calls most of his friends to see Skinner getting beaten up by a drunken-(as-always) Barney, but cannot call Bart, who does not have a cell phone and is immediately taunted for missing out on laughing at Skinner. Bart asks Marge for a phone; Marge explains that, because Mr. Burns has cut Homer's pay, forcing him to work for free, she cannot afford it, nor a dream trip for Lisa to Machu Picchu. A depressed Bart takes a walk past the Springfield Glen Country Club, and is hit by a golf ball. He angrily runs onto the golf course to find who hit him, and finds it was Dr. Julius Hibbert. Hibbert pays Bart a dollar for the retrieval and says golf balls can cost $5 new. Bart tries to earn enough money for a cell phone by retrieving golf balls until Groundskeeper Willie accuses Bart of cutting in on his job, and confiscates all the golf balls.
At a nearby celebrity golf tournament, Denis Leary (guest starring as himself) prepares to swing, but misses when his cell phone rings at the same time. Leary throws away his phone, which lands beside Bart. While going to inform Milhouse of his new cell, Bart receives a call from producer Brian Grazer (also guest starring as himself), who asks Leary to star in the film adaption of Everyone Poops. Bart, realizing the phone belongs to Leary, pretends to be him and accepts the role. He makes prank calls to bartenders all over the world, and has all of Boston native Leary's money spent on New York Yankees hats and uniforms. Marge overhears Bart and Milhouse's mischievousness, and when Milhouse confesses that it belongs to Leary, she confiscates and prepares to return Bart's phone to him. Leary calls his cell, and Marge answers, apologizing for her son's behavior. Leary, still angry with Bart's tricks, suggests Marge activate the GPS and web filter on the phone and return it to Bart, allowing her to track down Bart's every move and block certain websites. Somewhat guiltily, Marge activates the GPS and returns the phone to Bart, and she is able to prevent him from watching R-rated movies, gambling, grave-digging, and skating down steps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu%20localization%20of%20open-source%20software | Open-source software Urdu localization was initiated by the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP) at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, through its PAN Localization Project, funded by IDRC in Canada.
The localization of the following open source software is in progress:
SeaMonkey – an Internet suite
OpenOffice.org – an office suite
Psi – a chat client
NVu – a web development tool
Drupal – a content management system
SeaMonkey Urdu localization
SeaMonkey is an open-source, multi-platform, complete Internet suite including a browser, an email client, an IRC chat client and a simple HTML editor. It is available in a number of languages and the SeaMonkey Urdu localization is under progress at CRULP. The localization of the SeaMonkey browser, email client and HTML editor is complete and is available in the form of an Urdu language pack. Translation of SeaMonkey help files is in progress.
External links
Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing
PAN Localization Project
IDRC, Canada
SeaMonkey Localized Language Packs
Free software projects
Urdu-language computing
Internationalization and localization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourcefire | Sourcefire, Inc was a technology company that developed network security hardware and software. The company's Firepower network security appliances were based on Snort, an open-source intrusion detection system (IDS). Sourcefire was acquired by Cisco for $2.7 billion in July 2013.
Background
Sourcefire was founded in 2001 by Martin Roesch, the creator of Snort. The company created a commercial version of the Snort software, the Sourcefire 3D System, which evolved into the company's Firepower line of network security products. The company's headquarters was in Columbia, Maryland in the United States, with offices abroad.
Financial
The company's initial growth was funded through four separate rounds of financing raising a total of $56.5 million from venture investors such as Sierra Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia Capital, Core Capital Partners, Inflection Point Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, and Cross Creek Capital, L.P.
In 2005, Check Point Software attempted to acquire Sourcefire for $225 million, but later withdrew its offer after it became clear US authorities would attempt to block the acquisition. The company completed an initial public offering in March 2007, raising $86.3 million. In August of the same year, Sourcefire acquired Clam AntiVirus. Sourcefire rejected an offer of $187 million in May 2008 from security appliance vendor Barracuda Networks, who had offered to pay US$7.50 per share, amounting to a 13% premium of their then-current stock price. Sourcefire announced its acquisition of the cloud-based antivirus firm Immunet in January 2011.
Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2012 was $67.4 million compared to $53.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 27%. Revenue for the year ending December 31, 2012 was $223.1 million compared to $165.6 million for 2011, an increase of 35%. International revenues were $74.4 million, up 77% over 2011. As of December 31, 2012, the company's cash, cash equivalents, and investments totaled $204.0 million.
Sourcefire received SC Magazine's 2009 "Reader Trust" award for best intrusion detection and intrusion prevention system (IDS/IPS) for Snort and Network World's "2009 Best of Tests" award for the Sourcefire 3D System. The company placed in the "Leaders" Quadrant in the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant competition for intrusion detection and prevention system appliances, and received ICSA Labs' certification for the full line of Firepower (formerly 3D) appliances. Sourcefire was given a top "recommend" rating in 2012 for fastest and most accurate IPS detection from NSS Labs. Firepower was also ranked by NSS Labs at the top of their 2012 "Security Value Map" in security effectiveness and total cost of ownership.
On July 23, 2013, Cisco Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sourcefire for $2.7 billion.
Products
Firepower
The Sourcefire Firepower line of appliances are designed to form part of a layered security defense. They can be deployed as:
Next-Gen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPM-GOMS | CPM-GOMS is a variation of the GOMS technique in human computer interaction. CPM-GOMS stands for two things: Cognitive Perceptual Motor and the project planning technique Critical Path Method (from which it borrows some elements).
Overview
CPM-GOMS was developed in 1988 by Bonnie John, a former student of Allen Newell. Unlike the other GOMS variations, CPM-GOMS does not assume that the user's interaction is a serial process, and hence can model multitasking behavior that can be exhibited by experienced users. The technique is also based directly on the model human processor - a simplified model of human responses.
Evaluators begin a CPM-GOMS analysis in the same way they would a CMN-GOMS analysis. However, when the tasks are broken down just to the level where they are still perceptual or motor, the evaluator applies techniques from the model human processor. The tasks are first joined together serially and then examined to see which actions can be overlapped so that they happen in parallel. This technique facilitates representation of overlapping and very efficient "chunks" of activity characteristic of expert users. The estimated times by CPM-GOMS are generally faster since they do not allocate as much time to the "prepare for action" type operations.
This is the most difficult GOMS technique to implement. Therefore, it has the problem of discrepancies between evaluators. Research is currently being conducted to improve the CPM-GOMS technique so that it can be used without the evaluator having a high level understanding of the GOMS theoretical foundations.
Software
Cogulator, an open source software package, can be used to build CPM-GOMS models
See also
Human information processor model
KLM-GOMS
NGOMSL
CMN-GOMS
References
Notations
This article incorporates text from Dr. G. Abowd: GOMS Analysis Techniques - Final Essay, which has been released into GFDL by its author (see ).
Footnotes
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran%20Turismo%20Concept | is a 2002 racing simulation game developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It is the fourth overall installment the Gran Turismo series. The full game was unreleased in the North American market, although a stripped-down version of it was released in form of Gran Turismo: Nissan 350Z Edition.
Versions
2001 Tokyo
The 2001 Tokyo version features Tokyo Motor Show 2001 concept cars including the Nissan GT-R Concept '01, for a total of 51 cars. The game also comes with a 64-page manual, featuring images of the available cars. It was released in Japan and Southeast Asia on January 1, 2002. As of April 2008, Gran Turismo Concept 2001 Tokyo has shipped 430,000 copies in Japan and 10,000 in Southeast Asia.
2002 Tokyo-Seoul
A second version, 2002 Tokyo-Seoul, was released in South Korea on May 16, 2002, to celebrate the PlayStation 2 official launch in this country. It featured cars from the 2001 Tokyo version plus additional models unveiled at the Seoul Motor Show. This game introduced South Korean automakers, like Hyundai, in the Gran Turismo series. As of April 2008, Gran Turismo Concept 2002 Tokyo-Seoul has shipped 90,000 copies in South Korea.
2002 Tokyo-Geneva
A last version, 2002 Tokyo-Geneva, was released in Europe on July 17, 2002. It featured all the cars from the 2002 Tokyo-Seoul version plus new models unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show including the Volkswagen W12. A Chinese/English NTSC version was released in the Southeast Asia on July 25, adding 30 cars to the 2001 Tokyo version released earlier in this area. As of April 2008, Gran Turismo Concept 2002 Tokyo-Geneva has shipped 1 million copies in Europe and 30,000 in Southeast Asia. 2002 Tokyo-Geneva is the definitive version of GT Concept, as it has the most cars, including the Ford GT40 LM Edition.
Reception and sales
On release, Famitsu magazine scored the 2001 Tokyo version of the game a 33 out of 40.
As of April 30, 2008, all versions of Gran Turismo Concept combined have shipped 430,000 copies in Japan, 1 million in Europe, and 130,000 in Asia for a total of 1.56 million copies.
References
External links
Gran Turismo Concept: 2002 Tokyo-Geneva (YouTube)
Gran Turismo (series)
2002 video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Racing simulators
Racing video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in French Polynesia
Video games set in Switzerland
Video games set in Tokyo
Video games scored by Daiki Kasho
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Crosby | Simon Crosby is Co-founder and CTO of security software vendor Bromium Inc. and was a faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Career
Crosby focuses on edge-based learning for fast-data. He co-founded security vendor Bromium in 2010, later sold to HP Inc in 2019. He was the Chief Technology Officer of Data Center and Cloud Division at Citrix Systems from 2008-2011. Simon founded XenSource, Inc. in 2005 and held the position of Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development. Prior to XenSource, he was a Principal Engineer at Intel.
He is an Equity Partner at DCVC, serves on the board of Cambridge in America, and an investor in and advisor to numerous startups. He served as a Faculty Member at Cambridge University, UK, where he led the research on network performance and control and multimedia operating systems. Simon is the author of 35 research papers and patents on a number of data center and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, and resource optimization and performance.
He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Cambridge, an MSc from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and a BSc (Hons) degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Education
Simon holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and a BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
References
1960 births
Living people
Intel people
University of Cape Town alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
American company founders
Computer programmers
South African businesspeople
University of Natal alumni
20th-century American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Space%20Information%20System | The European Space Information System (ESIS) project was initiated in 1988 as a service for homogeneous access to heterogeneous databases on the network. At the time, DECNET, EARN and Bitnet were the main academic links. The project pre-dated the World Wide Web, which immensely pushed technology in 1993 to allow homogeneous access to data.
Initially, the ESIS project was to link databases of the European Space Agency together with centres of excellence that included the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg and its SIMBAD service, the European Southern Observatory and the Canadian Astronomical Data Centre (CADC), as well as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for Space Physics data
The outcome of the project yielded a set of applications to browse catalogues, access images, spectra and lightcurves, as well as access to bibliographic information. The main astronomical missions that influenced ESIS at the time were the Hubble Space Telescope, EXOSAT and IUE, while Space Physics was mainly focused on the Cluster mission.
Having been a pioneer project in its days, many of the original concepts used then (such as catalogue browsing, searching in an area of the sky) were later embedded in other astronomical data services worldwide. ESIS provided the building blocks and the prototypes to what is today being implemented in the Virtual Observatory projects, such as the Astrophysical Virtual Observatory.
The greatest success of ESIS was the transfer of its Catalogue Browser to the CDS, which later became better known as the VizieR Catalogue Service.
See also
VizieR
Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
ESA
References
Astronomical catalogues
Computational astronomy
Information technology organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN%20Media | Student Youth Network Inc., operating as SYN Media , is an Australian youth-run not-for-profit organisation providing media training and broadcasting opportunities for young people. Commonly referred to as SYN, the organisation produces new and independent media that is made by and for young people in Melbourne. Founded in 2000, today volunteers – all aged 12–25 years of age – produce a radio station broadcast on FM radio and DAB+ digital radio, as well as content for television, print and online. A 2006 McNair listener survey showed a similar age group, 15–24, as the largest age group listening to community radio in Australia.
History
SYN Media formed on 13 June 2000 as Student Youth Network Inc. as a merger of two student radio projects – 3TD, based at Thornbury-Darebin College, and RMIT University's Student Radio Association. A merger was to take place between 3TD, SRA, La Trobe University's SUB FM, Swinburne University's 3SSR, Monash University's 3MU and Deakin's BAS Radio as the Melbourne Student Radio consortium. However, talks broke down due to disagreements around giving high school students access to the station in less desirable timeslots and less board access, leading SRA general manager Jesse Nonneman to approach 3TD managers Colin Thompson and Paul Van Eeden about splitting away from the consortium.
The new organisation would be known as SAY-FM – Student And Youth FM – however, this was changed to SYN before the group's first meeting. With the aim of promoting young people as "creators not just consumers of media", funding was ensured through the Victorian Education Department, with the financial backing of then-Education Minister Mary Delahunty, and support from state minister Justin Madden and federal minister Martin Ferguson.
In 2001, the organisation secured one of four community radio licenses broadcasting to the Greater Melbourne area, alongside 3KND, JOY 94.9 and Triple Seven (now 89.9 LightFM), and on 28 January 2003 SYN FM launched, broadcasting on 90.7FM.
Also in 2003 was the organisation's first expansion into television. SYN TV would be the first programme in Australia to simulcast on radio (via SYN FM), television (via Channel 31) and stream online. Hosted entirely by under-18s, the programme would later be spun into two shows – the music-based 1700 on C31, and the under-18 focused Objection (now Amplify) on SYN 90.7. From February 2004, the organisation also operated the Pecado zine. The zine closed in December 2006.
In 2010, the organisation launched a revamped website, and in 2011 expanded its radio signal onto DAB+ digital radio. On 1 April 2014, SYN Nation was launched, exclusive to the DAB+ platform, featuring nationally focused content from partner community radio stations in Byron Bay, Canberra, Hobart, Gippsland, Warrnambool, Fitzroy Crossing and Fremantle.
On 16 April 2019, SYN Media announced that SYN Nation would merge with SYN 90.7 to create a single station, broadcasting on 90.7FM and DAB+ digital rad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Systems%20Adapter | The Open Systems Adapter (OSA) is a network controller for IBM z/Architecture, ES/9000 and S/390 mainframes. The OSA supports Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI connectivity.
References
External links
Networking on z/OS
Networking hardware
IBM System/360 mainframe line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Class%20%28game%20show%29 | First Class is a British game show that originally aired as a regional programme for BBC Wales from 3 October to 19 December 1984 with Louise Bachelor as host. It was then networked on BBC1 and recorded in the BBC's Scotland studios in Glasgow, with broadcasts from 8 January 1986 to 21 August 1988 with Debbie Greenwood as host. Series 1 was shown on Wednesdays, Series 2 & 3 on Wednesday & Thursday evenings, and series 4 was moved to Saturday evenings in 1988.
Format
The show was two teams of three students (each team representing a particular school) would take part in a multi-format quiz featuring questions on both general knowledge and popular culture, as well as innovative video game rounds. Rounds such as the "Spinning Gold Disc" made use of a simulated computer display similar to other game shows of the same era, such as Blockbusters and Catchphrase. Other rounds such as "Word of Mouth" used a real computer display from a BBC Micro. This computer also provided the on-screen captions and scores and was nicknamed Eugene, after the show's original programmer Eugene Crozier.
The competition was a knockout tournament; the eventual winners of the series would be presented with a computer (usually a BBC Master) for their school. Celebrity episodes of the show were also aired, featuring cast members from Grange Hill and EastEnders.
First Class was notable for its use of video games; such footage (of arcade games in particular) was a rarely seen on UK television at the time and the show aired several years before GamesMaster. The designated contestant from each team would earn points by beating the other player's score; rounds would be either turn-based and head-to-head depending on the game / event. The games were often referred to by their events as opposed to their titles, for example the "spring and vault" round or the "clay pigeon shooting".
The music used for the programme's titles was "Airborn" by Mike Oldfield, from his 1979 album Platinum.
Arcade games featured
Hyper Sports (skeet shooting and vaulting horse events)
Paperboy
720°
Transmissions
Series
Specials
External links
References
1984 British television series debuts
1988 British television series endings
1980s British television series
BBC television game shows
1980s British game shows
English-language television shows
Student quiz television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inference%20attack | An Inference Attack is a data mining technique performed by analyzing data in order to illegitimately gain knowledge about a subject or database. A subject's sensitive information can be considered as leaked if an adversary can infer its real value with a high confidence. This is an example of breached information security. An Inference attack occurs when a user is able to infer from trivial information more robust information about a database without directly accessing it. The object of Inference attacks is to piece together information at one security level to determine a fact that should be protected at a higher security level.
While inference attacks were originally discovered as a threat in statistical databases, today they also pose a major privacy threat in the domain of mobile and IoT sensor data. Data from accelerometers, which can be accessed by third-party apps without user permission in many mobile devices, has been used to infer rich information about users based on the recorded motion patterns (e.g., driving behavior, level of intoxication, age, gender, touchscreen inputs, geographic location).
Highly sensitive inferences can also be derived, for example, from eye tracking data, smart meter data and voice recordings (e.g., smart speaker voice commands).
References
Applied data mining
Data security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooische%20Vrouwen | Gooische Vrouwen is a Dutch comedy-drama series, created by Linda de Mol for her brother John de Mol's TV network Tien in 2005, along the lines of Desperate Housewives or Sex and the City. After the show's second season, its original channel was acquired by RTL Nederland and Gooische Vrouwen was transferred to its flagship channel RTL 4, where it ran for three more seasons until its finale in 2009. After its 42-episode run the show was followed by a theatrically released feature film (also called Gooische Vrouwen) in 2011. The show chronicles the everyday lives of four female friends living in the Gooi.
Gooische Vrouwen has since been sold to Germany (for which version Linda de Mol dubbed her own voice), Belgium, France and Serbia.
Plot overview
The show chronicles the everyday lives of four female friends living in the Gooi (the Dutch equivalent of Beverly Hills).
Cheryl and her husband, charm singer Martin Morero, move from Amsterdam to the Gooi after the huge success of his latest song "Echte Liefde" (true love). However, the working-class Moreros soon realize they do not fit in with the upper-class residents of the Gooi. Other problems in the Moreros' life include Martin's constant philandering and their continued yet unsuccessful attempts at having a baby.
Housewife Willemijn Lodewijkx is married to Evert, with whom she has three children - bored Roderick, difficult Louise and timid Annabel. But after more than twenty years of marriage, they seem to be stuck. While Willemijn tries to keep her spirits up, her marriage disintegrates. After the third season, Willemijn is replaced by Roelien Grootheeze.
Free-spirited artist Anouk Verschuur specializes in making highly erotic art. Anouk herself is also blessed with a very healthy libido which leads her into the arms of many a stranger, although she is still not completely over her pilot ex-husband Tom Blaauw, with whom she has a daughter, precocious Vlinder.
Ruthless divorce lawyer Claire van Kampen is struck by personal tragedy which pushes her estranged daughter Merel even further away, while plunging the two into financial difficulties. Claire must come up with ever more drastic schemes to keep their heads above water.
The four women confide in each other and in their enigmatic psychiatrist Dr. Ed Rossi. Meanwhile, mysterious Thai au pair Tippi Wan seems to have an agenda of her own, manipulating and scheming her way into the lives of the four women.
Cast
Offshoots
The younger days of the four women are chronicled in a prequel-novel.
The success of Gooische Vrouwen inspired RTL 4 to make a real-life soap about a younger generation of women from the Gooi (De Echte Gooische Meisjes). For the second season, they temporarily relocated to Amsterdam where they were trained to deal with spending cuts. One of the girls went on to document her trip to Peru.
A feature film, also called Gooische Vrouwen, was released theatrically in 2011.
A sequel film called Gooische Vrouwen 2 was released in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpursEngine | SpursEngine is a microprocessor from Toshiba built as a media oriented coprocessor, designed for 3D- and video processing in consumer electronics such as set-top boxes and computers. The SpursEngine processor is also known as the Quad Core HD processor. Announced 20 September 2007.
The SpursEngine is a stream processor powered by four Synergistic Processing Elements (SPE), also used in the Cell processor featured in Sony PlayStation 3. These processing elements are fed by on chip H.264 and MPEG-2 codecs and controlled by an off die host CPU, connected by an on chip PCIe controller (in contrast to the Cell processor which has an on chip CPU (the PPE) doing similar work). To enable smoother interaction between the host and the SpursEngine Toshiba also integrated a simple proprietary 32-bit control core. The SpursEngine employs dedicated XDR DRAM as its working memory.
The SpursEngine is designed to work at much lower frequencies than the Cell and Toshiba has also optimized the circuit layout of the SPEs to reduce the size by 30%. The resulting chip consumes 10-20 W of power.
The SpursEngine is accessible to the developer from a device driver developed for Windows and Linux systems. Software supporting the SpursEngine is limited and is primarily in the realm of video editing and encoding.
Technical specification
The first generation of SpursEngine processors are specified as follows:
Built with a 65 nm bulk CMOS fabrication process with 7 layers of copper interconnect
9.98 mm × 10.31 mm (102.89 mm²) large die
239.1 million transistors (Logic: 134 M, SRAM:104.8 M)
Thermal design power: <20 W
Max frequency: 1.5 GHz
Packaged in a 624 pin FC-BGA (Flip Chip-Ball Grid Array)
48GFLOPS peak performance (12GFLOPS per SPU @ 1.5GHz)
Commercialization
In April 2008 Toshiba shipped samples of the SpursEngine SE1000 device, a PCIe-based reference board.
The accelerator card connects to a 1x PCI Express bus and has 128MB XDR DRAM with 12.8GB/s bandwidth.
Leadtek is producing the WinFast PxVC1100 and HPVC1100, internal and external PCIe accelerators based on the SE1000 platform.
Thomson-Canopus has announced the Firecoder Blu, a PCIe accelerator based on the SE1000 platform.
Toshiba included the SpursEngine processors in their Qosmio laptops, models F50, G50 and G55, in the third quarter of 2008.
See also
Cell (microprocessor)
References
External links
Toshiba's Demos SpursEngine-Equipped Qosmio, Uses Cell Broadband Engine Technology, Gizmodo.com
Cell Users Group - SpursEngine
Cell-based GPU zaps laptop batteries, admits Toshiba – The Register
Cell BE architecture
Coprocessors
Toshiba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberto%20C%C3%A2mara | Gilberto Câmara (born 29 March 1956) is a Brazilian computer scientist and is currently serving as the Secretariat Director for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). He is a former director of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) (from 2006 to 2013). He was head of INPE's Image Processing Division from 1991 to 1996 and Director for Earth Observation from 2001 to 2005.
He is a researcher in the areas of Geographical Information Science, Spatial Databases, Spatial Analysis and Environmental Modelling. Gilberto is the principal investigator on the area of Spatial Databases and Spatial Environmental Models in the GEOMA research network for Environmental Modelling of Amazonia. He is responsible for setting up data policies for CBERS images in Brazil and abroad, and for creating INPE's Remote Sensing Data Center, which has put 30 years of imagery on-line. He was also responsible for setting up a system for real-time detection of deforestation in Amazonia and for making PRODES deforestation maps available on the Internet.
He is a professor in INPE's graduate programs in remote sensing and computer science, a member of Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Land Project and of the editorial board of the Journal of Earth Science Informatics. In 2011, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Münster.
References
Further reading
External links
Personal homepage
1956 births
Living people
People from Fortaleza
Brazilian scientists
Geographic information scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass%20Light | Compass Light is a video production company based in Camden, Maine. The company coordinates production of high definition video, film and non-fiction programming, from story development and shooting to editing and distribution.
Work focuses on the discoveries of people in challenging and value-forming situations, primarily outdoors and in a marine context. The company grew out of the work of producer/director David Conover, and draws on an assembled network of marine production personnel.
Productions
Behold The Earth - (2017)An inquiry into America's divorce from nature. It is a feature-length musical documentary film.
Sunrise Earth - (2004–present)Real-time observations of one sunrise habitat per episode draws on wonder of HD to make you a naturalist in your own living space.
Seasons one and two cover North America. In its third season, Sunrise Earth goes international, to Asia, Europe, Central and South America. The fourth season, airing on HD Theater in January, 2008, consists of locations chosen by the viewers themselves.
Cracking The Ocean Code - (2005)This HD production was shot in Panama, Cocos Island, and Galapagos with genome pioneer J. Craig Venter. It aired on The Science Channel and Discovery HD Theater.
Toad Warriors - (2005)Craig and Jackie Adams-Maher risk life and limb to save the king brown snake of Australia from a deadly invasive army: the cane toad. Cane toads possess a deadly poison that kills any animals in their path.
Without their help, the deadly king brown snake, a species that is essential in the production of life-saving antivenom, faces extinction.
(post-produced for David Wright and Lunasea, Inc.)
Film production companies of the United States
Companies based in Maine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper%27s%20Scare%20School%20%28TV%20series%29 | Casper's Scare School (also known as Casper's Scare School: The Animated Series) is a computer-animated series based on the computer-animated film of the same name featuring the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. The series premiered in Canada on YTV on January 11, 2009, and then in France on TF1's TFOU block on April 1, and later in the United States on Cartoon Network on October 4 the same year.
A second season aired in 2012 with a new opening sequence, a new voice cast and a slightly different CGI animation style. 52 episodes were produced.
Premise
Casper has to be able to graduate through the Scare School before he gets banished to the valley of the shadows forever. He goes on many adventures with the students that attend there.
Characters
Casper (voiced by Robbie Sublett in season 1, and by Matthew Géczy in season 2)
Production
The series is co-produced by Classic Media, MoonScoop Group and DQ Entertainment, with participation from TF1, The Harvey Entertainment Company (as an in-name only unit since Classic Media acquired their library in 2001) and CNC.
The complete first season aired between October and November 2009.
The second season aired on October 2, 2012, on Cartoon Network featuring a new title theme, recasting all the voices and with new edited CGI animation. One of the new voice actors was Matthew Geczy who started in Code Lyoko, another France production. Jimmy's voice is similar to the film version. The characters whose voices dramatically changed were Casper, Thatch, Stinky, Stretch, Wolfie and Alder, all voiced by Geczy, given a voice similar to his character, Odd Della Robbia from Code Lyoko. Geczy also voices numerous characters. Many other actors from said show also work on it such as Mirabelle Kirkland who voiced Yumi Ishiyama in Code Lyoko now plays Mantha and Jimmy in the second season. Some background characters were given larger roles and speaking roles and the personalities of some characters have changed, mostly with Thatch having a tender side of playing with rubber ducks.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2009)
Season 2 (2012)
Home media
United States
In August 2010, Classic Media and Vivendi Entertainment released Casper's Scare School: 12 Monstrous Episodes on DVD in Region 1. This collection features the first 12 episodes of the series.
A DVD release containing the first twelve episodes of Series 2 was released by Classic Media in August 2013. Although the DVD titles it as "Volume 1", a second volume was never made.
Australia
In 2010, Universal Pictures Australia released three carry-case DVD releases of the series containing episodes from Series 1 - "Vote for Casper", "Scare Day" and "Scare Scouts".
Series 2 was released by Shock Entertainment, who soon released complete Series 1 and 2 DVD sets in February 2016.
United Kingdom
Universal Pictures UK released three DVD releases of the series - "Vote for Casper" in October 2010, "Scare Day" in October 2011 and "Scare Sco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McMullen%20%28broadcaster%29 | John McMullen is a radio host, producer, and broadcaster. He has worked for Internet radio broadcasters, founded the GayBC Radio Network, a service for the LGBT community, and operated Sirius Satellite Radio's LGBT radio offering, Sirius OutQ.
Career
McMullen produced content for RealNetworks, later hosting a radio talk show with co-host Chelle Milleur called Hangin' Out. The show, consisting both of dialogue between the hosts and of interviews with newsmakers, covered topics of interest to the gay community in areas such as politics, world events, sports, fashion, and the arts. Issues like the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) were routinely covered, as were events important to the community, such as the annual Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards. It debuted September 29, 1996.
Later, McMullen started GLOradio, which became the GayBC Radio Network, an Internet radio broadcaster. This provided an international audience with 24-hour live and prerecorded programming, including news, talk, music, and entertainment programming via streaming audio. He assembled a collection of on-air talent that included Milleur, Michelangelo Signorile, Grethe Cammermeyer, Mike Webb, Jeff Calley, Romaine Patterson, Anthony Veneziano, Jeremy Hovies, Charlie Dyer, and McMullen himself. Following the collapse of GayBC's advertising-supported business model, McMullen started another similar service called Gay Radio Network, which met a similar fate.
Fledgling satellite radio broadcaster Sirius Satellite Radio hired McMullen to direct and oversee operations for Sirius OutQ, the company's radio channel focused on the LGBT community. McMullen and many of the others from GayBC Radio and Gay Radio Network formed the initial core of Sirius OutQ's programming. From 2003 through 2006, while still with Sirius, he served as a national media endorsement spokesperson for Subaru of America. He was dismissed by Sirius in 2006.
He now serves as Director of News, Talk & Sports Programming for and hosts a general-interest talk show on KNews Radio's AM radio stations in Coachella (KNWZ 970), Palm Springs (KNWQ 1140), and Yucca Valley, California (KNWH 1250), as well as on-line. Two associates from GayBC, Charlie Dyer and Michael Wengert, also work for the station.
Recognition
In 2003, OUT magazine named McMullen one of their Out 100 for his role in launching Sirius OutQ
Recipient of the GLAAD Media Award
Recipient of the New York Festival's Bronze Medal for news.
Media appearances
McMullen has appeared or been featured on:
ABC World News Tonight
CNBC's Bullseye
CNN
CBS News on Logo
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times
Newsweek
Time
The Advocate
The Associated Press
References
External links
GayBC Radio Network
Sirius OutQ
JohnMcMullen.com
Living people
American radio personalities
Internet radio in the United States
American LGBT broadcasters
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20D%27Souza | Francis D'Souza is a Canadian television executive and a former broadcaster. He is the Managing Editor of News Programming at CBC, nationally, and a former television news anchor for Citytv in Toronto, Ontario.
Biography
D'Souza became interested in a career in television after being selected from Citytv's Lunch Television audience to perform the opening announcement on Queen Street. Prior to joining Citytv, D'Souza volunteered at Rogers Cable TV in Mississauga, his home town. He was chosen to host Plugged In! on Rogers Television. He was a production assistant with the CBC, a videographer at Global News Toronto and for two years (2000-2002) in Sudbury, Ontario anchored the CTV Northern Ontario (CICI-TV) News at 11:30pm in Northern Ontario.
At Toronto's Citytv, he co-anchored a weekend newscast with Merella Fernandez and co-anchored a noon newscast until that program was cut in January 2010. D'Souza anchored the 5 pm newscast from its inception in 2011 until May 2019. He also served as substitute anchor for morning program Breakfast Television.
In June 2019 D’Souza joined CBC as Managing Editor of News Programming, overseeing the journalism, operation and strategic direction of The National, World at 6, World Report, World this Weekend, Front Burner, and CBC News Specials.
Education
B.A.A. 2000, Radio and Television Arts, Ryerson Polytechnic University
D'Souza graduated from Clarkson Secondary School in 1996.
Awards
2019 Canadian Screen Award, Best Live News Special, CityNews - #CityVote - The Debate
2011 Gemini Award, Best Breaking Reportage, Local, CityNews - G20 Summit
References
External links
Canadian television news anchors
Canadian people of Indian descent
Living people
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Canadian people of Goan descent
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Networking%20Council | Informally established in the early 1990s, the Federal Networking Council (FNC) was later chartered by the US National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Computing, Information and Communications (CCIC) to continue to act as a forum for networking collaborations among US federal agencies to meet their research, education, and operational mission goals and to bridge the gap between the advanced networking technologies being developed by research FNC agencies and the ultimate acquisition of mature version of these technologies from the commercial sector. The FNC consisted of a group made up of representatives from the United States Department of Defense (DoD), the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), among others.
By October 1997, the FNC advisory committee was de-chartered and many of the FNC activities were transferred to the Large Scale Networking group of the Computing, Information, and Communications (CIC) R&D subcommittee of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program, or the Applications Council.
On October 24, 1995, the Federal Networking Council passed a resolution defining the term Internet:
Resolution: The Federal Networking Council (FNC) agrees that the following language reflects our definition of the term ``Internet. ``Internet'' refers to the global information system that - (i) is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol (IP) or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons; (ii) is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons, and/or other IP-compatible protocols; and (iii) provides, uses or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure described herein.'
Some notable members of the council advisory committee included: Henriette Avram, Matt Blaze, Vint Cerf, John Gage, Robert Kahn, Paul Mockapetris, Ike Nassi, Stewart Personick and Stephen Wolff.
References
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20Associates | Spectral Associates was an American maker of computer games for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It was founded in 1980 and went defunct sometime in the late 1980s. Spectral Associates sold their software through Radio Shack and via direct sales. It was a very prolific game company for the TRS-80 Color Computer I and II in its heyday.
Software Publications
Computer Games
Cave Walker (1986, via Tandy Corporation)
Color Meteoroids 1.6 (1981)
Color Space Invaders 1.4 (1981)
Color Space War (cassette)
Cubix
Decathlon
Froggie
Galagon
Ghost Gobbler (cassette/disk)
Ice Castles
Interbank Incident (1985–1987)
Lancer (1983, cassette/disk)
Lunar Rover 1
Lunar Rover Patrol (1983, cassette/disk)
Keys of the Wizard (cassette)
Madness and the Minotaur (1982, cassette)
Maze Escape (32K and above, cassette)
Module Man
Ms. Gobbler (cassette/disk)
Pegasus and the Phantom Riders (1985–1987)
Pengon (cassette)
Piggy (cassette)
Planet Invasion (cassette)
Qix
Realm of Nauga (cassette)
Roller Controller
Space Sentry (cassette/disk)
Springster (1985–1987)
Storm Arrows (cassette/disk)
Treasury Pack 1 (disk) - these treasuries included (not necessarily an all-inclusive list): Keys of the Wizard, Lunar Rover Patrol, Cubix, Module Man, Qix, Roller Controller, Pengon, Decathlon, Lancer, Froggie, Galagon, and Lunar Rover 1
Treasury Pack 2 (disk)
Whirlybird Run (1982, cassette/disk)
Computer Games (Educational)
Alpha Search (educational, cassette/disk)
Applications/Utilities
Clone 80cc (cassette)
RGB Patch (disk)
Demonstration Program (1986, Radio Shack store demo)
Holiday Demonstration Program (1986, Radio Shack store demo)
Miscellaneous Publications
July 1980 - June 1981
Introduced a 16K upgrade, ($75.00) an editor/assembler, plus several other utilities and one of the first games: SPACE INVADERS. They were also in the process of developing MAGIC BOX which would enable Model I & III tapes to be loaded into the Color Computer.
July 1981 - June 1982
Color Computer technical manual (book)
July 1983 - June 1984
Color Basic Unravelled II (book)
Disk Basic Unravelled II (book)
Extended Basic Unravelled II (book)
Super Extended Basic Unravelled II (book)
Other
The Facts for the TRS-80 Color Computer (book, Copyright (c) 1983, First printing: Nov 1981, Fifth Printing: Jul 1983)
CoCo 3 Secrets Revealed
External links
TRS-80 Book Covers
References
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game companies established in 1980
Defunct educational software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel%20Rochester%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Nathaniel Rochester (January 14, 1919 – June 8, 2001) was the chief architect of the IBM 701, the first mass produced scientific computer, and of the prototype of its first commercial version, the IBM 702. He wrote the first assembler and participated in the founding of the field of artificial intelligence.
Early work
Rochester received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941. He stayed on at MIT in the Radiation Laboratory for three years and then moved to Sylvania Electric Products where he was responsible for the design and construction of radar sets and other military equipment. His group built the arithmetic element for the Whirlwind I computer at MIT.
IBM 701 computer
In 1948, Rochester moved to IBM, where he co-designed, along with Jerrier Haddad, the first mass-produced scientific computer, the IBM 701. He wrote the first symbolic assembler, which allowed programs to be written in short, readable commands rather than pure numbers or punch codes. He became the chief architect of IBM's 700 series of computers.
Artificial intelligence
In 1955, IBM organized a group to study pattern recognition, information theory and switching circuit theory, headed by Rochester. Among other projects, the group simulated the behaviour of abstract neural networks on an IBM 704 computer.
That summer John McCarthy, a young Dartmouth College mathematician, was also working at IBM. He and Marvin Minsky had begun to talk seriously about the idea of intelligent machines. They approached Rochester and Claude Shannon with a proposal for a conference on the subject. With the support of the two senior scientists, they secured $7,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation to fund a conference in the summer of 1956. The meeting, now known as the Dartmouth Conference, is widely considered the "birth of artificial intelligence."
Rochester continued to supervise artificial intelligence projects at IBM, including Arthur Samuel's checkers program, Herbert Gelernter's Geometry Theorem Prover and Alex Bernstein's chess program. In 1958, he was a visiting professor at MIT, where he helped McCarthy with the development of the Lisp programming language.
The artificial intelligence programs developed at IBM began to generate a great deal of publicity and were featured in articles in both Scientific American and The New York Times. IBM shareholders began to pressure Thomas J. Watson Jr., the president of IBM, to explain why research dollars were being used for such "frivolous matters." In addition, IBM's marketing people had begun to notice that customers were frightened of the idea of "electronic brains" and "thinking machines". An internal report prepared around 1960 recommended that IBM end broad support for AI and so the company ended its AI program and began to aggressively spread the message that "computers can only do what they were told."
Later work
In the 1960s, Rochester continued to work at IBM, directing re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express%20Telecom | Express Telecommunication Company, Inc. (commonly known as Express Telecom or Extelcom) is a subsidiary of Vega Telecom. It was the Philippines' first mobile phone network operator and operated an analog AMPS network.
History
Established in December 1988, Extelcom was granted a provisional authority to install, operate and maintain a Cellular Mobile Telephone System (CMTS) in Metro Manila by the National Telecommunications Commission. In May 1989, limited operations commenced with the installation of Extelcom's first switch in Antipolo and three cell sites in Metro Manila. The company initially offered cellular technology with service features including call forwarding, call waiting, and three-way conferencing. It was assigned the area codes 973 and 974 (presently not in use). In October 1992, Extelcom was granted a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) by the NTC. Extelcom is the only CMTS operator in the Philippines with a CPCN. Extelcom introduced the first cellular prepaid card in the country, "Cellcard".
It has 10 MHz on the 800 bandwidth for its analog network. The NTC in September 2001 gave Extelcom 5 MHz frequency in the 1800 bandwidth for its planned GSM operations. It dropped its GSM plans in 2003 in favor of deploying a network based on the CDMA protocol.
In July 2015, Vega Telecom acquired Extelcom from the group of Roberto Ongpin and the Ashmore Group.
Services
Express Unlimited Plans
Express Unlimited Luzon and Metro Manila
Express Unlimited Visayas and Mindanao
Express Unlimited National (nationwide coverage)
Prepaid Cellcard
Pinaka Cellcard
Value Added Services
Call Forwarding
Call waiting
Three-way Call Conference
Express IDD
International Roaming
Express Tawag Center
Call Center Business Solutions
Wireless Connection (Microwave radio link)
This set-up provides dedicated clear channel wireless connectivity across two or more points. Extelcom utilizes its service areas via cellsites located nationwide;
Physical Connection
Using the facilities of Extelcom's other business partners, this set-up provides dedicated clear channel and physical (wired) connectivity across two or more locations.
References
Mobile phone companies of the Philippines
Companies based in Pasig
1988 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20loudspeaker | A conventional loudspeaker is an electromechanical transducer that converts an electrical signal into sound. If locally powered, this can also be termed an active loudspeaker, meaning it contains an audio power amplifier that drives the loudspeaker. A network loudspeaker implies the ability to send audio to such a device from a network connection, usually over an Ethernet network or the Internet. In many cases this type of speaker also contains digital signal processing (DSP) to provide the audio crossover and other tonal functions that exist in conventional speakers. Network speakers are also known as IP speakers. In many cases the IP speaker is created from an IP audio endpoint — a device with the requisite network connection and ability to process audio packets, but without the actual physical speaker portion — that provides amplified audio to a conventional loudspeaker or unamplified audio (i.e. line-out) to an amplified speaker or system.
History
Network audio was first introduced in 1983 by John Detreville and W. David Sincoskie of Bell Labs in the IEEE paper "A Distributed Experimental Communications System". Subsequently, in 1988, Polle T. Zellweger, Douglas B. Terry and Daniel C. Swinehart of Xerox PARC introduced audio over Ethernet at the 2nd IEEE Conference in a paper entitled "An Overview of the Etherphone System and its Applications". The very closely related technology (nearly synonymous), Voice over IP (VoIP), which generally consists at a minimum of a microphone on one end, a speaker on the other end, with a network connecting them; began widespread use in 1998 with PCs, followed shortly after by dedicated hardware (phones with built-in VoIP capabilities). Subsequently, the first Squeezebox, using networked audio, was released in 2001 and Philips released its IP audio device also in 2001, the FW-i1000. Countless IP audio devices have since proliferated into most major audio markets.
Designs
The audio content played by the processor in an IP speaker is communicated from its source across a packet-switched data network using IPv4 and IPv6 addressing with a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) or Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). The IP Speaker connects to Unicast or Multicast addresses to enable the delivery of streamed data from a source on the network, to arrive at a single speaker or many speakers respectively.
See also
Audio over IP
References
Loudspeakers
Audio network protocols
Network appliances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogwalker%20%28story%29 | "Dogwalker" is a cyberpunk novelette by Orson Scott Card. It appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989, and was subsequently included in Card's collection Maps in a Mirror.
Short stories by Orson Scott Card
1989 short stories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox%20%28OSGi%29 | In computing, Equinox is a sub-project of the Eclipse project that provides a certified implementation of the OSGi R4.x core framework specification. It is a module runtime that allows developers to implement an application as a set of "bundles" using the common services infrastructure.
Equinox began as a project to replace the original Eclipse plug-in runtime in version 3.0 of Eclipse. It was further developed to meet the needs of the Eclipse community. The adaptations were made into the OSGi specification process, with many being incorporated in the R4 release of the OSGi framework specification. Since then, Equinox has been the reference implementation for the OSGi framework specification.
See also
Knopflerfish
Apache Felix
Concierge OSGi
References
External links
OSGi development with Eclipse Equinox - Tutorial
Equinox project home page
OSGi R4 core framework specification
Explore Eclipse's OSGi console by Chris Aniszczyk
Eclipse technology
Eclipse software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lelia%20Green | Lelia Green is a professor at the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, Perth.
Green is the author of Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex and the editor of Framing Technology: Society, Choice and Change, and also on the editorial board of the Australia Journal of Communication and Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy.
Major areas of work
Lelia Green is the author of Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex. She defines "technoculture" as the integration of new communication technologies into a society, and in her book she explores the effects of the digital age on society, its structure, and policy creation.
Green argues early in her book that the term "technoculture" is a word that should not be used lightly, as the concept itself is meant to refer closely and accurately to technologies that assist the communication through which culture is built. These technologies can refer to any means of communication in a concrete, physical form. Understood in this context, written language can be regarded as technocultural; however, spoken language cannot, though it can become technocultural if it is placed in a recorded or transmitted form.
Lelia Green and Technology Change
The mythology of technology
The myths surrounding scientific and technological advancements are based around a celebration of the importance of these developments in our lives. Green emphasizes that the success or failure of a new technological development is based largely on the social context in which it is developed. In order for an invention to be adopted into a society, it must first be accepted, then integrated into the daily experience of the individuals who make up that society. Green argues that technology is developed and adopted due to "social determinism".
The ABC of Technological Advantage
Green argues that technological advancements are the result of the choices and priorities of the powerful social elite, who she identifies as the "A, B and C of social power"—the armed forces, the bureaucracy, and the corporate sector. Green maintains that these powerful groups, rather than the whole of society, ensure that the technological developments are implemented and accepted. Green also notes that with globalization, the Western power elites are exporting new ideas and new technologies to other cultures and societies around the world, and these societies in turn affect the way the technology is used.
Books
Green, Lelia, 2010, The Internet: An Introduction to new media, Berg, New York.
Green, Lelia, 2002, Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Green, Lelia and Guinery, R. (Eds), 1994, Framing technology: Society, Choice and Change, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
References
External links
Bio at School of Arts and Humanities
Mass media theorists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Philosophers of technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel%E2%80%93Tukey%20test | In statistics, the Siegel–Tukey test, named after Sidney Siegel and John Tukey, is a non-parametric test which may be applied to data measured at least on an ordinal scale. It tests for differences in scale between two groups.
The test is used to determine if one of two groups of data tends to have more widely dispersed values than the other. In other words, the test determines whether one of the two groups tends to move, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left, but away from the center (of the ordinal scale).
The test was published in 1960 by Sidney Siegel and John Wilder Tukey in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, in the article "A Nonparametric Sum of Ranks Procedure for Relative Spread in Unpaired Samples."
Principle
The principle is based on the following idea:
Suppose there are two groups A and B with n observations for the first group and m observations for the second (so there are N = n + m total observations). If all N observations are arranged in ascending order, it can be expected that the values of the two groups will be mixed or sorted randomly, if there are no differences between the two groups (following the null hypothesis H0). This would mean that among the ranks of extreme (high and low) scores, there would be similar values from Group A and Group B.
If, say, Group A were more inclined to extreme values (the alternative hypothesis H1), then there will be a higher proportion of observations from group A with low or high values, and a reduced proportion of values at the center.
Hypothesis H0: σ2A = σ2B & MeA = MeB (where σ2 and Me are the variance and the median, respectively)
Hypothesis H1: σ2A > σ2B
Method
Two groups, A and B, produce the following values (already sorted in ascending order):
A: 33 62 84 85 88 93 97 B: 4 16 48 51 66 98
By combining the groups, a group of 13 entries is obtained. The ranking is done by alternate extremes (rank 1 is lowest, 2 and 3 are the two highest, 4 and 5 are the two next lowest, etc.).
The sum of the ranks within each W group:
WA = 5 + 12 + 11 + 10 + 7 + 6 + 3 = 54
WB = 1 + 4 + 8 + 9 + 13 + 2 = 37
If the null hypothesis is true, it is expected that the average ranks of the two groups will be similar.
If one of the two groups is more dispersed its ranks will be lower, as extreme values receive lower ranks, while the other group will receive more of the high scores assigned to the center. To test the difference between groups for significance a Wilcoxon rank sum test is used, which also justifies the notation WA and WB in calculating the rank sums.
From the rank sums the U statistics are calculated by subtracting off the minimum possible score, n(n + 1)/2 for each group:
UA = 54 − 7(8)/2 = 26
UB = 37 − 6(7)/2 = 16
According to the minimum of these two values is distributed according to a Wilcoxon rank-sum distribution with parameters given by the two group sizes:
Which allows the calculation of a p-value for this test according to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20frequency%20scaling | Dynamic frequency scaling (also known as CPU throttling) is a power management technique in computer architecture whereby the frequency of a microprocessor can be automatically adjusted "on the fly" depending on the actual needs, to conserve power and reduce the amount of heat generated by the chip. Dynamic frequency scaling helps preserve battery on mobile devices and decrease cooling cost and noise on quiet computing settings, or can be useful as a security measure for overheated systems (e.g. after poor overclocking).
Dynamic frequency scaling almost always appear in conjunction with dynamic voltage scaling, since higher frequencies require higher supply voltages for the digital circuit to yield correct results. The combined topic is known as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS).
Processor throttling is also known as "automatic underclocking". Automatic overclocking (boosting) is also technically a form of dynamic frequency scaling, but it's relatively new and usually not discussed with throttling.
Operation
The dynamic power (switching power) dissipated by a chip is C·V2·A·f, where C is the capacitance being switched per clock cycle, V is voltage, A is the Activity Factor indicating the average number of switching events per clock cycle by the transistors in the chip (as a unitless quantity) and f is the clock frequency.
Voltage is therefore the main determinant of power usage and heating. The voltage required for stable operation is determined by the frequency at which the circuit is clocked, and can be reduced if the frequency is also reduced. Dynamic power alone does not account for the total power of the chip, however, as there is also static power, which is primarily because of various leakage currents. Due to static power consumption and asymptotic execution time it has been shown that the energy consumption of software shows convex energy behavior, i.e., there exists an optimal CPU frequency at which energy consumption is minimized.
Leakage current has become more and more important as transistor sizes have become smaller and threshold voltage levels are reduced. A decade ago, dynamic power accounted for approximately two-thirds of the total chip power. The power loss due to leakage currents in contemporary CPUs and SoCs tend to dominate the total power consumption. In the attempt to control the leakage power, high-k metal-gates and power gating have been common methods.
Dynamic voltage scaling is another related power conservation technique that is often used in conjunction with frequency scaling, as the frequency that a chip may run at is related to the operating voltage.
The efficiency of some electrical components, such as voltage regulators, decreases with increasing temperature, so the power usage may increase with temperature. Since increasing power use may increase the temperature, increases in voltage or frequency may increase system power demands even further than the CMOS formula indicates, and vice versa.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQinVision | IQinVision is a manufacturer of network cameras, IP cameras, and network video recording (NVR) systems. The company was founded in 1998. The company is headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California, and it has offices in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Utrecht, Netherlands.
IQinVision brands its cameras under the term “IQeye” and the cameras it produces can act as stand-alone surveillance systems or integrate with other systems via an API or Software Developer’s Kit for full-custom applications. For example, IQeye camera integrate with many popular third party network video recorder applications such as those by companies like Aimetis, Genetec, Milestone, ONSSI, Mirasys and many others.
IQinVision brands megapixel IP cameras under its own name as well as under OEM models.
Company history
IQinVision began as a technology merger between an Engineering Services firm, Gordian Technologies, and one of Gordian's customer's, a small startup company called "VISIQN" (literally 'IQ' within the word "Vision" with the Q replacing the O) that designed intelligent network cameras for the surveillance industry. The company was founded in 1998 to design, manufacture and market a line of megapixel/HD cameras. The company changed its name to "IQinVision" early on to avoid confusion.
The company has offices in San Juan Capistrano and Amsterdam.
In January 2011, the company held its first partner conference - the IQsummit. At the conference, the company gave updates on IQinVision and discussed the future of megapixel surveillance and networked security video.
In June 2013, Charles Chestnutt was officially appointed as the company's President and CEO. Charles had been serving since January 2012, as the company's interim chief executive officer.
In March 2014, IQinVision merged with Vicon Industries, another company that also specializes in digital surveillance.
See also
Professional video over IP
Closed-circuit television (CCTV)
Closed-circuit television camera
Video content analysis
Digital video recorder
IP camera
Physical security
References
External links
Official website
Video surveillance companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Earley | Jay Earley is an American computer scientist and psychologist. He invented the Earley parser in his early career in computer science. Later he became a clinical psychologist specializing in group therapy and Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), including working with the inner critic. He has created the Pattern System, a personality system, and Self-Therapy Journey, a web application for psychological healing and behavior change.
References
American computer scientists
21st-century American psychologists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar%2012 | Telstar 12, previously known as Orion 2, is a Canadian communications satellite in the Telstar series which is operated by Telesat. It was originally built for Orion Network Systems, which merged with Loral Skynet shortly before the satellite was launched. It was subsequently transferred to Telesat when it merged with Loral Skynet in 2007.
Telstar 12 is a Ku band satellite with coverage of North America as far west as Cleveland, Ohio, the majority of South America and Europe. Telstar 12 also has the capability to provide intercontinental connectivity including trans-Atlantic to the Mid-East. Eutelsat uses four transponders on the satellite for services between Europe and the Americas.
On 1Q 2016, Telstar 12 was replaced in its orbital position with Telstar 12 Vantage satellite.
See also
Telstar
Telesat
References
External links
International Media Switzerland – official provider's site
Telesat's press release of T12V availability
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Telstar satellites
Spacecraft launched in 1999
1999 in spaceflight
1999 in Canada
Satellites using the SSL 1300 bus
Eutelsat satellites
Ariane commercial payloads |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20renderer | A video renderer is software that processes a video file and sends it sequentially to the video display controller card for display on a computer screen. An example of a video renderer, is the VMR-7 that was used by Microsoft's DirectShow. An example of a UNIX video renderer is the one container within GStreamer.
The most commonly used video renderers are:
Enhanced Video Renderer
VMR9 Renderless
Haali's Video Renderer
Madvr Video Renderer
See also
Rendering (computer graphics)
Notes
Graphics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20screencasting%20software | This page provides a comparison of notable screencasting software, used to record activities on the computer screen. This software is commonly used for desktop recording, gameplay recording and video editing. Screencasting software is typically limited to streaming and recording desktop activity alone, in contrast with a software vision mixer, which has the capacity to mix and switch the output between various input streams.
Comparison by specification
Comparison by features
The following table compares features of screencasting software. The table has seven fields, as follows:
Product name: Product's name; sometime includes edition if a certain edition is targeted
Audio: Specifies whether the product supports recording audio commentary on the video
Entire desktop: Specifies whether product supports recording the entire desktop
OpenGL: Specifies whether the product supports recording from video games and software that employ OpenGL to render digital image
Direct3D: Specifies whether the product supports recording from video games or software that employ Direct3D to render digital image
Editing: Specifies whether the product supports editing recorded video at least to some small extent, such as cropping, trimming or splitting
Output: Specifies the file format in which the software saves the final video (audio output types are omitted)
See also
Comparison of webcam software
References
Screencasting software
Lists of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl%20Rojas | Raúl Rojas González (born 1955, in Mexico City) is an emeritus professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin, and a renowned specialist in artificial neural networks. The FU-Fighters, football-playing robots he helped build, were world champions in 2004 and 2005. He is now leading an autonomous car project called Spirit of Berlin.
He and his team were awarded the Wolfgang von Kempelen Prize for his work on Konrad Zuse and the history of computers. Although most of his current research and teaching revolves around artificial intelligence and its applications, he holds academic degrees in mathematics and economics.
In 2009 the Mexican government created the Raúl Rojas González Prize for scientific achievement by Mexican citizens. The first recipient of the prize was Luis Rafael Herrera Estrella, for contributions to plant biotechnology.
He ran for president at the Free University of Berlin in 2010.
History
Rojas was born on June 25, 1955, in Mexico City to an engineer and a teacher. He attended university at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City, where he majored in Mathematics and Physics. He moved to Germany in 1982 as a doctoral student in economics under the guidance of the political economist Elmar Altvater. The resulting dissertation was published under the title "Die Armut der Nationen – Handbuch zur Schuldenkrise von Argentinien bis Zaire" (The poverty of nations – Handbook of debt crisis from Argentina to Zaire). He became a full professor at University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1994, and later moved to the Free University of Berlin, where he remains today in the Informatics department. His wife, Margarita Esponda Argüero, is a professor in the same department.
Prizes
2001: Gründerpreis Multimedia of the German Ministry of Finance and Technology
2002: European Academic Software Award
2004 and 2005: World champions in football robots with the FU-Fighters
2005: Wolfgang von Kempelen Prize for the History of Informatics
2009: Received the Heberto Castillo gold medal for contributions to science from the Mexico City government
2015: Was named Professor of the year by the Association of German Universities
2015: Received the National Prize of Sciences and Arts by the Mexican Government in the category of Technology and Design
Works
Available as a free e-book
References
External links
Homepage of Raúl Rojas at the Free University of Berlin
Curriculum vitae of Raúl Rojas
FU-Fighters football robots
Autonomous car project
1955 births
Living people
National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
Instituto Politécnico Nacional alumni
Scientists from Mexico City
Mexican scientists
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W95 | W95 may refer to:
Ocracoke Island Airport, in Hyde County, North Carolina, United States
Truncated great icosahedron
Windows 95, an operating system
W95, a classification in masters athletics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereus%20Poker%20Network | Cereus Poker Network was an online poker network comprising Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet. The site is now insolvent and not processing player withdrawals. Cereus is owned by a private company, Blanca Games. Blanca Games bought all Network assets in August 2010 from Tokwiro Enterprises. The Cereus network was one of the world's ten largest online poker cardrooms prior to losing the majority of its player base in the wake of the April 15, 2011 online poker indictments.
Absolute Poker
Absolute Poker was established in 2003. It was licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.
2007 cheating incident
In September 2007, Absolute Poker began defending itself following accusations made by members of several Internet forums that the online poker room has a "superuser" account which allows one player to read the hole cards of another during a game. By October, widespread Internet allegations of cheating led to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission beginning an investigation.
Although allegations had been made about several accounts, one of the most remarkable pieces of evidence was a complete history of a tournament which was won by a player called "POTRIPPER". This history was far more complete than normal; it included all hidden hole cards for all of the players at the table, and the IP addresses of players and third-party observers who were watching the game via the Internet. It was sent out, perhaps by accident, when a player complained about suspicious play. Reviewing the data, mathematician and gaming expert Michael Shackleford said:
Hand after hand POTRIPPER’s play is consistent with that of a player who had knowledge of every player’s hole cards. The majority of hands show POTRIPPER bluffing at just the right times when his opponents were weak. Yet, when he was hopelessly outmatched, even with good cards, he laid them down.
Shackleford subsequently blacklisted Absolute Poker on his gaming-related website.
On October 19, an unofficial source within Absolute Poker claimed that an employee had hacked the system to "prove a point". On October 21, Absolute released an official statement:
...it appears that the integrity of our poker system was compromised by a high-ranking trusted consultant employed by AP whose position gave him extraordinary access to certain security systems. As has been speculated in several online forums, this consultant devised a sophisticated scheme to manipulate internal systems to access third-party computers and accounts to view hole cards of other customers during play without their knowledge. [...] We will pay for all losses suffered by the affected players as soon as our audit is finished and the amounts are determined.
In November 2007, Absolute issued an interim statement claiming the employee cheating had taken place over a period of forty days and that the cardroom was refunding $1.6 million to affected players. The Kahnawake Gaming Commission issued its report on the incident in January 2008. Among other con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWPN | WWPN may refer to:
World Wide Port Name, in Fibre Channel storage networking technology
WWPN (FM), an FM radio station licensed to Westernport, Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%20in%20Hand%3A%20Center%20for%20Jewish-Arab%20Education%20in%20Israel | Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel (, ) is a network of integrated, bilingual schools for Jewish and Arab children in Israel. Hand in Hand was co-founded by Israeli Arab educator Amin Khalaf and Israeli American educator Lee Gordon in 1997 with 50 students at two campuses.
Hand in Hand's mission is to create a strong and inclusive shared society in Israel through a network of integrated, bilingual schools and active communities. The organization's philosophy is that the actual living experience of its students, teachers, parents and others who participate in its schools and communities can inspire broad support for social inclusion and civic equality in Israel.
Hand in Hand now operates seven schools with more than 2,100 Jewish and Arab students. More than 3,000 parents and other adults, Jews and Arabs alike, currently participate in integrated community activities organized by Hand in Hand. Over the next 10 years, Hand in Hand aims to create a network of 10 to 15 integrated bilingual schools, supported and enhanced by active communities, altogether involving more than 20,000 Israeli citizens. .
History
Hand in Hand was founded in 1997 by two Israeli educators, one Arab and one Jewish. They started the first two schools in 1998, one in the Galilee region near the Misgav Regional Council and one in Jerusalem. These first two schools grew, and in the summer of 2003, a group of interested parents from the Wadi Ara region in the Arab Triangle met to express interest in establishing a third Hand in Hand School in their region.
After delays, which included difficulty winning recognition from the Israeli Ministry of Education, the "Bridge over the Wadi" (Gesher al haWadi, Hebrew: ) school opened on September 1, 2004, with 106 students. The teachers come from Jewish and Arab towns in the area.
Hand in Hand's fourth school opened in September 2007 in the city of Beer Sheva. This school is now fully independent of Hand in Hand.
On October 21, 2007, Hand in Hand's Max Rayne school opened in Jerusalem's Pat neighborhood near the Arab village of Beit Safafa. The new campus was built with $11 million from donors including the Jerusalem Foundation, the Rayne Foundation, and other European donors.
In 2012, a preschool was opened in the urban area of Haifa, by Dr. Merav Ben-Nun, with a kindergarten in 2013. In 2016 an elementary school was opened In Carmelia. THe school moved to another neighborhood in Haifa in 2019.
Hand in Hand has also partnered with Project Harmony Israel since 2010 to provide an English immersion summer camp for Hand in Hand students as well as students from around Jerusalem.
Conflict
2014 arson attack in Jerusalem
In November 2014 the Hand in Hand Max Rayne School was subjected to an arson, suspected of being a hate crime that was racially motivated. The school was also defaced with anti-Arab slogans such as "Death to Arabs" and "Kahane was right!" Shortly thereafter, the "Tag Meir" coexistence organization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Schreyer | Helmut Theodor Schreyer (4 July 1912 – 12 December 1984) was a German inventor. He is mostly known for his work on the Z3, one of the first personal computers (PC).
Early life
Helmut Schreyer was the son of the minister Paul Schreyer and Martha. When his father started to work in a parish in Mosbach, the young Schreyer went to a school there. He earned his Abitur in 1933.
Career
Schreyer started to study electronic and telecommunications engineering at the Technical University of Berlin in 1934. He got to know Konrad Zuse at the company AV Motiv in 1935. In 1938 Schreyer earned his diploma and then worked as a graduate assistant for Prof Wilhelm Stäblein. Another assistant of Stäblein was Herbert Raabe, who had worked at AEG's research division until 1936.
World War II
In 1939, when World War II started, Schreyer applied for exemption from the drafting for military service, on the basis that his work was important for the war efforts of Nazi Germany. Schreyer submitted to the German government a plan to build a large electronic computer. This plan was rejected by the Nazi German military, because the war was expected to only last a couple of years and building the electronic computer Schreyer envisaged, would have taken much longer. Among others, Schreyer worked on detection technology for unexploded ordnance. He then worked on the accelerometer for the V-2-rocket. Schreyer's prototype of this accelerometer was destroyed, when he fled to Vienna on a train, during the last days of World War II. Schreyer also worked on technology to convert the radar signal into an audio signal which the pilot of a fighter aircraft might recognize.
Konrad Zuse invented and built the so called Z-series of personal computers between 1936 and 1945. Zuse was a schoolmate and co-worker of Schreyer, who advised Zuse on relays. Subsequently, Zuse built the Z3 computer, integrating relays as arithmetic logic unit. The Z3 computer was completed in 1941 and used 2,600 relays, with the distinction of being the first personal computer that was fully operational, controlled entirely automatically, and being a calculating machine. Schreyer had theorized on the use of electrical circuit technology to implement computers, but while he first considered it practically infeasible, he subsequently could not get the necessary funding for his theory. Up to 1942 Schreyer himself built an experimental model of a computer using 100 vacuum tubes, which was lost at the end of World War II.
Schreyer planned to build a computer memory for 1000 words in 1943, that was to contain several thousand electron tubes, but the war put an end to all larger plans. In 1944 he built an electrical circuit to convert decimal to binary numbers.
After World War II
Schreyer had fled to Vienna in the final days of World War II, where he went to the Brazilian Embassy, and he was issued with a Brazilian passport. He then fled to Brazil, where he was offered work at the Army's Technical School (ETE). In 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listen%20Lena | Listen Lena is a 1927 American comedy film directed by Clem Beauchamp. According to the Internet Movie Database, Fatty Arbuckle appears in this film as a "fat man with strategically covered face", although the role is uncredited and unconfirmed.
Cast
Al St. John as Al Adams
Lucille Hutton as Lena
Jack Lloyd
Clem Beauchamp as Cyril
Glen Cavender
Al Thompson
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Fat man with strategically covered face (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
See also
Fatty Arbuckle filmography
External links
1927 films
1927 comedy films
1927 short films
American silent short films
Educational Pictures short films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Stephen Roberts
Silent American comedy films
American comedy short films
1920s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDMA%20%28AM%29 | KDMA (1460 kHz) is an American AM radio station licensed to serve the community of Montevideo, Minnesota. The station is a traditional "full service" AM radio station, meaning the programming is locally produced and has a local focus.
Iowa City Broadcasting Company acquired the station in 1997 from Eagle Broadcasting Corporation. According to FCC ownership reports Iowa City Broadcasting is 100% owned by Thomas E. Ingstad of Minnetonka, Minnesota.
External links
Radio stations in Minnesota
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1951
1951 establishments in Minnesota
Montevideo, Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%20railway%20proposals | There have been various proposals to link the city of Nelson to New Zealand’s South Island rail network, but none have come to fruition.
Nelson was served by the Dun Mountain Railway, a mineral tramway that was also used by a horse tram between the city and its port, and by the Nelson Section, an isolated part of the government-owned railway between Nelson and Glenhope, which served several existing and developing communities in between.
Proposals
Proposals to connect Nelson to the South Island network have involved extensions and different routes for the isolated Nelson Section, and proposals for completely new lines that did not connect with the Nelson Section.
The original intention was to build a line that could tap the West Coast coalfields and link with Christchurch, either by way of the Midland Line and the Buller District, or by way of Tophouse and the Lewis Pass. Only after the line was closed was the Blenheim connection seriously advocated and that only until the defeat of the Second Labour Government of 1957 - 1960.
Belgrove – Tophouse route
On 26 July 1880 a government-appointed commission made recommendations on the future of several lines under construction or consideration, including those to serve Nelson. It reported that the then-under-construction Foxhill to Belgrove extension of the Nelson Section should be completed immediately, but the Belgrove – Roundell section was on the postponed list.
Despite this, work on the survey for the route continued and was completed as far as Blue Glen by March 1881. Rumours persisted that work on the next of the route would soon commence, and were enough of an incentive for many unemployed people to seek work at Belgrove. In 1883, a contract was let for work to begin on the next 4 km of the formation, a job that was completed by early 1885, at which point the work stopped. By the time work on the Nelson Section resumed in 1890, the route had changed with the new objective being the Spooner’s Range tunnel, and the 4 km of formation already built beyond Belgrove was abandoned, costing the taxpayer £10,700. It is now partly a forestry access road.
There were various other proposals for connections from Tophouse to the isolated Picton section and the Waiau Branch line. There was also a proposal to connect to the West Coast via Kawatiri and Inangahua, but this was rejected in favour of the line passing through existing rural communities to the south-west of Nelson.
Inangahua extension
After an abortive attempt to start work on a Belgrove to Tophouse route in the 1880s, the Midland Railway Company, having been selected to continue construction of the line beyond Belgrove, chose a route that passed through the Spooner Range by a summit tunnel. The intention was that the line would continue westwards via Murchison and the Buller River gorge to the nearest railhead, at Inangahua Junction.
The Railways Authorization Act 1924 (No 36) authorised several lines; No 9 was an extension of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastiat%20Prize | The Bastiat Prize was a journalism award given annually by the Reason Foundation. In 2011 and before it was given by the International Policy Network. The Bastiat Prize recognized journalists whose published works "explain, promote and defend the principles of the free society." The award came with US$15,000.
Instituted in 2002, the Prize was inspired by the 19th-century French philosopher Frédéric Bastiat and his defense of liberty. Bastiat's use of satire and allegory enabled him to relate complex economic issues to a general audience. In keeping with his legacy, Bastiat Prize entries were judged on intellectual content, the persuasiveness of the language used, and the type of publication in which they appeared
Judges included Margaret Thatcher, James Buchanan, and Milton Friedman.
Prize winners
2002: Sauvik Chakraverti and Amity Shlaes.
2003: Brian Carney.
2004: Robert Guest.
2005: Mary Anastasia O'Grady.
2006: Tim Harford and Jamie Whyte.
2007: Amit Varma
2008: Barton Hinkle.
2009: John Hasnas, Shikha Dalmia, and Daniel Hannan
2010: James Delingpole and Bret Stephens
2011: Tom Easton and Virginia Postrel
2012: Anne Jolis
2013: Lane Filler and Ross Clark
2014: Robert Graboyes
2015: Amit Varma
2016: Tim Harford
2017: Radley Balko and Hugo Restall
2018: Bari Weiss
References
External links
Bastiat Prize Policy Network 2011 and prior
Bastiat Prize Reason Foundation 2012
Bastiat Prize
Bastiat Prize
2002 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20deficit%20financing | Television deficit financing is the practice of a network or channel paying the studio that creates a show a license fee in exchange for the right to air the show, and in which the license fee is less than the cost of the show. A major broadcast network will ask a program producer to share in the financial risk when considering adopting a new program to its schedule; at least for the first season of the series. Deficit financing is often the norm for scripted television, this came during the Post Network Era. Deficit financing however, does not cover the cost of product, which leads to a deficit for the studio.
Television deficit financing also helps to minimize the substantial risks and costs of developing programs for the networks and gives studios initial benefits as well. The studio bears the difference between production costs and licensing fees, but recoups significantly more money if the show is sold in syndication. The main benefit of deficit financing comes from syndication, this offers different windows for the program, i.e. first run syndication, second run, cable, etc. There is both good and bad to deficit financing, it gives the studios the opportunity to gain major rewards, but they are also taking most of the risk. For networks, they are minimizing most of their risk, but they risk losing out on most profit. If the network orders enough episodes of a show, the studio can then sell the series to other markets. Deficit financing minimizes risks and costs of developing programs for networks.
References
Television terminology
Television syndication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMAR-FM | KMAR-FM (95.9 “The Bird” FM, "Real Country") is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Winnsboro, Louisiana. The station airs the syndicated Westwood One programming Real Country in addition to locally produced programming.
The station is owned by John and Nancy Moroni, through licensee Bird Broadcasting Network, LLC.
KMAR has been the home for CodyMac in the Morning since 2014. And the exclusive home for Franklin Parish athletics.
Prior to 2013, the agricultural journalist Regnal Wallace, a native of Franklin Parish, broadcast "Round Franklin", which was carried across northeast Louisiana for sixteen years.
References
External links
Radio stations in Louisiana
Country radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centracare%20%28hospital%29 | Centracare is a Canadian psychiatric hospital in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Operated by Horizon Health Network, it is a modern 50-bed tertiary care facility.
History
Centracare's history can be traced to 1835 when the Provincial Lunatic Asylum was constructed at the corner of Wentworth and Leinster streets in "uptown" Saint John, making it the first mental health facility constructed in British North America. Its first director was Dr. George Peters who served from 1835 to 1848.
Ground was broken in 1846 on a new facility to be constructed of stone to replace the aging wooden structure at Wentworth and Leinster. This new building was to occupy a commanding location in the neighbouring city of Lancaster, on a high bluff on the west bank of the Saint John River overlooking the Reversing Falls gorge which was immediately upstream. An infamous nearby road intersection at the west end of the Reversing Falls Bridge called "Simms Corner" (after the T.S. Simms & Co. Ltd. paint brush factory) was located on the north side of the property.
The first 90 patients moved into the building on December 12, 1848.
Dr. John Waddell served as director from 1849 to 1875, living for 26 years with his family in an apartment on the third floor of the building above the main entrance.
Dr. James T. Steeves took over the position as director and served from 1875 to 1895. The late 1870s saw tremendous growth in the number of patients being admitted, leading to overcrowding and turning away patients. The Great Fire of 1877 would have been easily viewed from the institution's location overlooking the city, however it was noted that this disaster did not have a significant effect upon the patients.
The building was modernized and living conditions improved during capital expenditures during the late 1870s that saw rooms painted and decorated, as well as the installation of dumbwaiters and elevators, hot water throughout the building, improved ventilation, water closets, and a central laundry service operating steam-heated washers and dryers. An 1878 addition (the first of five) was constructed to the building for housing male patients and a workshop was opened for them in 1880. In 1881 an addition was constructed for female patients which helped to relieve overcrowding concerns.
The hospital contained 15 wards which separated men from women, as well as paying patients from non-paying patients and by varying degrees of severity of illness. Able-bodied patients were expected to work in the building's laundry or clean various parts of the facility in order to pay for their stay. The Annex Farm opened on the Sand Cove Road in southern Lancaster, overlooking the Bay of Fundy in 1885 and many residents worked there as well.
Dr. George A Hetherington served as director from 1896 to 1903 and oversaw improvements to the property's exterior, including various walkways, pathways and gardens of the Asylum as part of a project to encourage patients to do more outdoor activ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJD | PJD can have several meanings
the custom motorcycle manufacturer Paul Jr. Designs
the American computer scientist Peter J. Denning
the Justice and Development Party (Morocco) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/F%20International | C/F International was a company that licensed television programming to stations, home video companies and other outlets around the world. Its Businessweek profile stated that, "C/F International, Inc. operates as a worldwide distributor of television and home video programming. It engages in the domestic and international licensing of entertainment and educational programs to broadcast television, cable television, satellite television, home video, digital versatile disc, and other video-related markets. The company is based in Ventura, California."
The company's founder and principal was Burt Rosen, a Christopher Award co-winner, whose reputation was initially established as a television producer. Rosen was also an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award winner.
In later years, the company had been engaged in litigation in relation to ownership and licensing interests involving singer Tom Jones. For example, as of December, 2004, C/F International was a secured judgement creditor of Classic World Productions and it principal, Darryl Payne, for approximately one million dollars, and was the principal secured creditor at the time of the subsequent bankruptcy filing by the company. C/F International's action against Classic World Productions and owner Darryl Payne was based on unpaid royalties in relation to the Tom Jones 1969-1971 ITC/ABC variety series, This Is Tom Jones, and related recordings.
C/F International's rights to later Tom Jones material were also subject to dispute. In March, 2007, Tom Jones and Tom Jones Enterprises sued C/F International to stop the company from licensing sound recordings made from Jones' 1981 series of variety shows, eponymously titled Tom Jones, which was syndicated in first-run by Rosen's prior company, EPI Limited. It was contended that any rights that C/F International had to license the Tom Jones show did not include the right to make and license separate recordings of the performances on the show. In addition, it was contended that any rights that C/F International had in the Tom Jones show no longer existed, due to numerous breaches of contract. The 1969-1971 This Is Tom Jones television shows are currently sold by Time-Life, rather than by Classic World Productions or C/F International.
In 2008, Burt Rosen died, and the company has subsequently folded. The extent of resolution of the previously referenced litigation is uncertain.
References
Television production companies of the United States
Companies based in Ventura County, California
Companies disestablished in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWSE | WWSE (93.3 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Jamestown, New York. It is owned by the Media One Radio Group. WWSE has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 26,500 watts.
Programming
The station broadcasts a hot adult contemporary radio format, featuring hits from the 1990s through today. Local personalities heard on the station include Lee John, the longest running FM Morning Show in the region (beginning on April 1, 2001) and Andrew Hill, who has been with the station since 2000. Syndicated personalities John Tesh and Mario Lopez are heard each weekday. Weekend programming includes the iHeartRadio Countdown, Roula, RetroMix, RetroPop Reunion and Nina Blackwood's Absolutely 80's. Weather forecasts are provided by WGRZ.
WWSE is also a longtime affiliate of Buffalo Bills Radio Network, broadcasting all the team's NFL games during the season.
History
In , the station first signed on the air. It was the FM counterpart to sister station WJTN 1240 AM. It originally simulcast most of WJTN's programming. In the late 1970s, it began broadcasting its own separate contemporary hits format.
The station hosted the popular Chautauqua Lake Idol for 11 years in Bemus Point, attracting thousands of spectators to The Floating Stage on Monday night's during the summer.
References
External links
FCC History Cards For WWSE (FM) (1948-1980)
Jamestown, New York
WSE
Hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1947
1947 establishments in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSIV-FM | KSIV-FM (91.5 MHz) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to St. Louis, Missouri, featuring a Christian talk and teaching format as one of two Bott Radio Network stations in Greater St. Louis, the other being KSIV (). The station has been a Bott outlet since 1996, though the license history stretches back to the establishment of KSLH, an educational station that was owned by St. Louis Public Schools, in 1950.
History
KSLH: the educational station
The St. Louis city board of education applied to the FCC to operate a new noncommercial FM radio station on September 25, 1944, which was granted by the Federal Communications Commission on June 11, 1947. The station took nearly three years to be built; in May 1949, the board approved $60,874 in bids for the construction of the facility at the district's audiovisual building at 1517 S. Theresa Ave. By year's end, construction was nearly complete on the facility, including a tower, as well as a total of five studios and two control rooms. KSLH finally began broadcasts on April 13, 1950, with receivers set up in 191 city elementary schools. Despite coming on late in the school year, KSLH quickly settled into a schedule. All but three of the station's initial 15-minute programs were for grade school students; the exceptions were high school fare on poetry, choral music, and business.
KSLH devoted itself almost entirely to instruction for most of its life. By 1953, it broadcast from 9:10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., matching the school day; it produced about 300 educational programs in a given year, alongside content obtained in the National Association of Educational Broadcasters program exchange. Eight different planning committees worked with teachers on the development of radio courses, while many programs aired at different times to suit the needs of the city schools. In its first decade of broadcasting, the station produced 2,878 fifteen-minute programs. In addition to NAEB-supplied programs, KSLH educational broadcasts were also supplied by the state of Missouri, the United Nations, and even the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and BBC. Among its staff was at least one alumnus who went on to a lengthy career in St. Louis broadcasting: future KMOV-TV anchor Julius Hunter, who at one time taught in the school system, worked at the station as a writer-producer in the late 1960s.
The station, however, still broadcast during the day, and it was silent entirely on weekends and when school was not in session; aside from an afternoon hour of adult shows, it did not expand into evenings, saying the cost of doing so was prohibitive. Even when St. Louis community station KDNA sought to enter into a time-share agreement in 1973 to use the KSLH facility when KSLH was off the air, the board refused, and the FCC rejected the group's petition to force the board into such a situation without its consent.
Airtime and equipment problems
KSLH operated with its original equipment for almost all of its owners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endrov | Endrov is an open-source plugin architecture aimed for image analysis and data processing. Being based on Java, it is portable and can both be run locally and as an applet. It grew out of the need for an advanced open source software that can cope with complex spatio-temporal image data, mainly obtained from microscopes in biological research. It lends much of the philosophy from ImageJ but aims to supersede it by having a more modern design.
Endrov grew out of the needs of a software to map the embryogenesis of C.elegans.
The lead developer, Johan Henriksson, is a Ph.D. student at Karolinska Institute.
Specifications
Endrov is both a library and an imaging program. The design has made strong emphasis on separating GUI code from data types, filters and other data processing plugins. The idea is that the program can be used for most daily use or prototyping, and for bigger batch processing or integration, the code is invoked as a library.
As a program, Endrov can do what you expect from normal image processing software. It is meant to be hackable; integrating new editing tools, windows and data types is meant to be simple. The main features that set it apart from other imaging software is that it can handle additional dimensions (XYZ, time, channel) which is needed for more serious microscopy. Filters can also be used without being directly applied, and can be composed into filter sequences. Data (for example derived from analysis) is stored together with the images.
The native image format is OST but most common formats are supported.
Comparison with ImageJ
ImageJ is older and hence it is more mature and has more plugins. This limits how much of ImageJ can be changed without breaking backwards-compatibility, which has caused design flaws to accumulate over time. Endrov sacrifices all backwards-compatibility for a clean design. While ImageJ consists of a core and rather independent plugins, Endrov has few core functions and plenty of plugin-plugin dependencies. The goal is to tighten the integration and increase encapsulation, thus reduce code redundancy and ease maintenance. As an example, the GUI is separate from most algorithm plugins; algorithms merely provide descriptions of input and output.
See also
Microscope image processing
Image processing
List of free and open-source software packages
References
External links
Endrov official website
Data visualization software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Library%20Network | The Keystone Library Network (KLN), founded in 1998, is a consortium of 18 libraries, including the 14 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's university libraries. The KLN provides its libraries with abstracts and access to 6,739 full-text journals and 10,000 business reports including country reports, industry reports, market research reports, and SWOT analyses.
The KLN maintains library catalogs of its members' holdings through Pennsylvania Inter-Library Online Technology (PILOT). The KLN enables users at each library to simultaneously search a group of shared resources provided by the KLN in addition to searching the individual library's locally subscribed resources.
Member libraries
Bloomsburg University – Harvey A. Andruss Library
California University of Pennsylvania – Louis L. Manderino Library
Cheyney University – Leslie Pinckney Hill Library
Clarion University – Carlson Library
Suhr Library
East Stroudsburg University – Kemp Library
Edinboro University – Baron-Forness Library
Geneva College – McCartney Library
Harrisburg University – Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Library
Indiana University of Pennsylvania – Libraries
Cogswell Music Library
Rhoades B. Stabley Library
Patrick J. Stapleton Library
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) – Langston Hughes Memorial Library
Kutztown University – Rohrbach Library
Lock Haven University – Stevenson Library
Mansfield University – North Hall Library
Millersville University – Helen A. Ganser Library
Shippensburg University – Lehman Library
Slippery Rock University – Bailey Library
Pennsylvania Department of Education – State Library of Pennsylvania
West Chester University – Library Services
Francis Harvey Green Library
Presser Music Library
External links
Library consortia in Pennsylvania
1998 establishments in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording%20at%20the%20edge | Recording at the edge is the recording of video and storing it either in camera or to a directly connected storage device instead of transporting it across the network to a centralized recording facility such as a digital video recorder.
Recording at the edge is a distributed or de-centralized approach to storage—the video is spread across a number of edge-storage devices as opposed to centralized on one.
Network bandwidth-friendly
Recording at the edge is a network bandwidth-friendly approach because it does not use any network bandwidth in order to record video—instead the network is only used to play back audio or video from the edge at some review station. When the network includes a WAN or, worse still, the Internet, by definition Recording at the Edge becomes the only way to ensure high quality recordings.
Reliability
Recording at the edge is more reliable because recording is independent of the network's health and degree of congestion. Even if the network grinds to a halt recording continues unaffected. However, you have to be very cautious while only recording at the edge. SD cards in these cameras are continuously filled with data, written over, and over-worked -They burn out very quickly, compared to a normal Hard Drive.
Simple Deployment
Recording at the Edge can be achieved by deploying PC-based DVRs at the edge, however with vulnerable operating systems these are more challenging to maintain than a simple purpose built embedded appliance. Embedded DVRs are better suited to this role, although conventional DVRs traditionally focus on recording, searching and playback than scalable live streaming over the network, which is a primary function of an IP-based CCTV architecture.
Surveillance System Fault Tolerance
One of the concerns about IP-based CCTV is the dependence on the network. In a network outage in a centralized storage model both live video and the ability to record is lost. With Recording at the edge this is less of an issue because network outage only impacts live video.
In a centralized approach, if the central recording station fails, all cameras cease to be recorded. With recording at the edge, if one edge recorder fails then only those cameras connected to that unit stop recording.
Pre-alarm recording
For added security centralized storage is frequently used to record alarm video for easy alarm verification and long-term secure storage. Pre-alarm recording is offered by introducing a buffer in the encoder so that the seconds or minutes of video before and after an alarm can be automatically transmitted to the centralized storage. Because of the huge edge storage capacities of some encoders, ranging from 256 MB to 800 GB, you can continuously record video at high frame rates and high resolutions, and still take advantage of pre-alarm recording. For instance, if you continuously transmit a 1 Mbit/s stream (30 IPS at 4 CIF) to a central recorder in the anticipation that an alarm event will occur, you will consume 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20phone%20signal | A mobile phone signal (also known as reception and service) is the signal strength (measured in dBm) received by a mobile phone from a cellular network (on the downlink). Depending on various factors, such as proximity to a tower, any obstructions such as buildings or trees, etc. this signal strength will vary. Most mobile devices use a set of bars of increasing height to display the approximate strength of this received signal to the mobile phone user. Traditionally five bars are used. (see five by five)
Generally, a strong mobile phone signal is more likely in an urban area, though these areas can also have some "dead zones", where no reception can be obtained. Cellular signals are designed to be resistant to multipath reception, which is most likely to be caused by the blocking of a direct signal path by large buildings, such as high-rise towers. By contrast, many rural or sparsely inhabited areas lack any signal or have very weak fringe reception; many mobile phone providers are attempting to set up towers in those areas most likely to be occupied by users, such as along major highways. Even some national parks and other popular tourist destinations away from urban areas now have cell phone reception, though location of radio towers within these areas is normally prohibited or strictly regulated, and is often difficult to arrange.
In areas where signal reception would normally be strong, other factors can have an effect on reception or may cause complete failure (see RF interference). From inside a building with thick walls or of mostly metal construction (or with dense rebar in concrete), signal attenuation may prevent a mobile phone from being used. Underground areas, such as tunnels and subway stations, will lack reception unless they are wired for cell signals. There may also be gaps where the service contours of the individual base stations (Cell towers) of the mobile provider (and/or its roaming partners) do not completely overlap.
In addition, the weather may affect the strength of a signal, due to the changes in radio propagation caused by clouds (particularly tall and dense thunderclouds which cause signal reflection), precipitation, and temperature inversions. This phenomenon, which is also common in other VHF radio bands including FM broadcasting, may also cause other anomalies, such as a person in San Diego "roaming" on a Mexican tower from just over the border in Tijuana, or someone in Detroit "roaming" on a Canadian tower located within sight across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario. These events may cause the user to be billed for "international" usage despite being in their own country, though mobile phone companies can program their billing systems to re-rate these as domestic usage when it occurs on a foreign cell site that is known to frequently cause such issues for their customers.
The volume of network traffic can also cause calls to be blocked or dropped due to a disaster or other mass call event which overloads |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDN | MDN may refer to:
Computing and technology
MDN Web Docs (formerly Mozilla Developer Network), a Mozilla website for developer documentation
Message Disposition Notification, a form of return receipt for e-mail
Telephone number for mobile devices, as in:
Mobile device number
Mobile dialable number
Mobile directory number
Organizations
Ministry of National Defence (Portugal) (Ministério da Defesa Nacional), the Portuguese defence ministry
Nicaraguan Democratic Movement (Movimiento Demócratico Nicaragüense)
Transport
Macedon railway station, Victoria, Australia (station code: MDN)
Madison Municipal Airport (Indiana), Madison, Indiana, United States (IATA code: MDN)
Maiden Newton railway station, England (National Rail station code: MDN)
Medan railway station, North Sumatra, Indonesia (station code: MDN)
Meriden (Amtrak station), Connecticut, United States (Amtrak station code: MDN)
Minggang East railway station, China (China Railway telegraph code: MDN)
Morden tube station (London Underground station code: MDN)
Mudan Airlines, Somali Republic (ICAO code: MDN)
Other uses
East German mark (Mark der Deutschen Notenbank), the official unit of currency in East Germany from 1964 to 1967
Maya Day Number, the sum of days in Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
Mbati language (ISO 639-3: mdn)
MdN Interactive, the magazine for Macintosh designers Network
MDN, a television station in Griffith, New South Wales, and sister station of MTN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defraggler | Defraggler is a freemium defragmentation utility developed by Piriform Software, which can defragment individual files or groups of files on computer memory systems. Defraggler runs on Microsoft Windows; it has support for all versions since Windows XP. It includes support for both IA-32 and x64 versions of these operating systems.
Overview
Defraggler can defragment individual files, groups of files (in a folder) or an entire disk partition, either by the user's command or automatically on a schedule. It supports FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT. It can also be installed as a portable application on a USB flash drive. Defragmentation of RAID disks is also supported, although no details are supplied.
Defraggler was given a 5/5 star rating from Softpedia. In Lifehacker's Hive Five for Best Disk Defragmenter, Defraggler received first place.
See also
CCleaner
Recuva
Comparison of defragmentation software
References
External links
Utilities for Windows
Windows-only freeware
Defragmentation software
2008 software
Piriform Software
Gen Digital software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible%20primary | In the United States, the invisible primary, also known as the money primary, is the period between (1) the first well-known presidential candidates with strong political support networks showing interest in running for president and (2) demonstration of substantial public support by voters for them in primaries and caucuses. During the money primary candidates raise funds for the upcoming primary elections and attempt to garner support of political leaders and donors, as well as the party establishment. Fund raising numbers and opinion polls are used by the media to predict who the front runners for the nomination are. This is a crucial stage of a campaign for the presidency, as the initial frontrunners who raise the most money appear the strongest and will be able to raise even more money. On the other hand, members of the party establishment who find themselves losing the invisible primary, such as Mitt Romney in the 2016 race, may abandon hope of successfully running.
During the invisible primary appeals are made and meetings held with the political elite: party leaders, major donors, fundraisers, and political action committees. In contrast to the smoke-filled room where a small group of party-leaders might at the last minute, in a small meeting room at a political convention, determine the candidate, the invisible primary refers to the period of jockeying which precedes the first primaries and caucuses and even campaign announcements. The winners of the invisible primary, such as Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush in 2016, come into the first primaries and caucuses with a full war chest of money, support from office holders, and an aura of inevitability. Winners of the invisible primary have the support of the leaders of their political party and, in turn, support the political positions of their party; they are insiders, part of the party establishment. They do not always win, as Hillary Clinton did not in 2008. There is little or no campaign advertising using TV, particularly by the candidate, during this period, although online advertising may be used to build mailing lists of grassroots supporters and small contributors.
References
Bibliography
"Money Primary" on www.wordspy.com
Earliest appearance:
US Government and Politics Second Edition William Storey
Political terminology of the United States
United States presidential primaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redalyc | The Redalyc project (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal) is a bibliographic database and a digital library of Open Access journals, supported by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México with the help of numerous other higher education institutions and information systems.
The project started in October 2002 with the general aim of building a scientific information system made up by the leading journals of all the knowledge areas edited in and about Latin America. Since its creation, its goal is: to give visibility to the scientific production generated in Ibero-America, that is underestimated worldwide due to various factors like low investment in science and technology, low participation of Latin American scientists in some of the main currents of science, as measured by percentage of articles by Latin American authors in established electronic databases e.g., MEDLINE, and the low impact of that production. Participation, measured by percentage of articles by authors of Latin America in such databases was very low in the dominant repositories e.g., 2.7% in the Science Citation Index (SCI).
As of 2015, Redalyc is an information system that also evaluates the scientific and editorial quality of knowledge in Ibero-America. A research group generates bibliometric indicators about the impact of the journals, authors and countries included in the journal electronic library. Redalyc has been consolidated as an important repository of knowledge with over 1,000 journals and more than 425,000 full-text articles.
Scientific Journal Electronic Library
Organized in two main areas (social and natural sciences) and many specialised sub-sections, Redalyc gathers journals published in 15 countries, with over 550 journals and 16,000 articles available in PDF format, along with abstracts in Spanish and English languages, reference information, and other metadata. Similar to parallel projects such as Latindex, Redalyc fully embraces open access and releases its material under a Creative Commons license, making it free to download. Along with a keyword search on each page, users can browse the catalogue by title, author, country, or subject.
Countries
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Serbia, Uruguay and Venezuela
Subjects
Social Sciences and Humanities
Agrarian Studies, Anthropology, Art, Communication, Culture, Demography, Economy, Education, Environmental Studies, Geography, Health, History, Information Sciences, Language and Literature, Law, Multi-disciplinary studies, Philosophy and Science, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology and Territorial Studies
Natural and Exact Sciences
Agrarian Science, Architecture, Astronomy, Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geology, Geophysics, Information Technology, Mathematics, Medicine, Multidisciplinaries, Oceanography, Physics a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Grayson | Ralph Lawrence Grayson (1921–1991) was a scientist, engineer, pilot, attorney, soldier, father and husband. He went on to be a pioneer in network computing at both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and NASA.
Early life
On April 29, 1921, Grayson was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Grayson's father was Albert Grayson, an Arkansas sharecropper. Grayson's mother was Pearl Foster Grayson (1895–1934). Grayson was the eldest and he had seven other siblings. Grayson also had 3 step-siblings.
Career
In 1979 Ralph retired from the FAA as Associate Commander, Memphis Air Route Traffic Control Center. During this time, NASA made many overtures to recruit him. He initially turned these offers down. He was then approached with a package deal through Battelle, employed as a subcontractor. He accepted.
His title at NASA was principal research scientist, Aviation Safety Reporting, System Project Office located at Moffett Field Naval Air Station in Mountain View, California.
Ralph Grayson was an international calibre expert in the field of aviation safety — human error, redundancy systems, and computerized safety systems. His technical papers written during his final years at the FAA and his time at NASA would become reference material within the field for a generation. Many of both the procedural and technological innovations he brought to the Air Traffic Control system outlived him, and remained in use into the 21st century.
References
External links
NASA Technical Paper #1875, by Ralph L. Grayson and Charles E. Billings, pdf file
The Human Factor in Commercial Aviation, Princeton University Press, pdf file
4-286 Interactive Family Histories
The Electric Car, GigantiCo
1921 births
1991 deaths
20th-century American engineers
People from Fort Smith, Arkansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location%20routing%20number | A location routing number (LRN) is an identification for a telephone switch for the purpose of routing telephone calls through the public switched telephone network (PSTN) in the United States. This identification has the format of a telephone number, in accordance with the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). The association of a location routing number with a telephone number is required for local number portability.
Function
In the US, the location routing number is a ten-digit number following the specifications of the North American Numbering Plan. The LRN is stored in a database called a Service Control Point (SCP) that identifies a switching port for a local telephone exchange. Using LRN, when a telephone number has been dialed, the local telephone exchange queries or "dips" a routing database, usually the SCP, for the LRN associated with the subscriber number. The LRN removes the need for the public telephone number to identify the local exchange carrier. If a subscriber changes to another telephone service provider, the current telephone number can be retained, and only the LRN needs to be changed.
In addition to supporting service provider telephone number portability, an LRN also supports the possibility of two other types of number portability: service portability (for example, ordinary service to ISDN) and geographic portability.
History
In 1996, the US Congress mandated a change in local telephone service that allows any carrier to enter a local market. The new regulation provided for local number portability (LNP), which permitted the servicing of telephone numbers from other wire centers than that the given by the NPA-NXX prefixes of each number. In practice, a subscriber can keep a telephone number when moving to another exchange area by a process called porting a telephone number. Every ported telephone number has an LRN assigned.
Virginia-based NeuStar has been contracted with developing and maintaining the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) to support the implementation of local number portability. On March 26, 2015, the FCC approved the recommendation of the North American Numbering Council (NANC) to award the contract to Telcordia Technologies, doing business as iconectiv, as the next Local Number Portability Administrator (LNPA), after 18 years of management by Neustar.[4][5] The reasons for the change were cited as cost savings.[6] With commission oversight, North American Portability Management, LLC (NAPM) negotiated the terms of a Master service agreement (MSA) with iconectiv.[4][6] The MSA was submitted to the FCC for review and approval in March 2016.[7] The iconectiv contract was finalized in August 2016.[8] iconectiv officially became the administrator of the NPAC on May 25, 2018.[9]
See also
Signalling System No. 7
References
External links
http://www.nanc-chair.org/docs/nowg/Nov03_LRN_Cites_Document.doc
Telephone numbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METRORail%20Red%20Line | The Red Line is one of three light rail routes on the METRORail network operated by METRO in Houston, Texas. It is the oldest line in the METRORail system, with the first section of the line between Fannin South and UH–Downtown opening on January 1, 2004.
Construction on a extension to the north began July 2009, and was expected to continue until 2014, though the opening date was later pushed back to 2015. On December 8, 2011, the FTA announced the award of a $450 million grant from the New Starts transit program to fund construction of the Red Line. Better than expected construction progress eventually led to the new line opening ahead of schedule on December 21, 2013.
Route
The approximately Red Line runs through the heart of the historic North Side, a storied neighborhood rooted in rail that came into being with the expansion, in the 1880s, of the Hardy Rail Line. It largely parallels Interstate 45.
Description
Starting at Fannin South, the Red Line travels parallel to Fannin Street, crossing under I-610, until it shifts onto Greenbriar Drive. It turns onto South Braeswood Boulevard briefly before returning to Fannin Street, which it follows through the Texas Medical Center. Through the Museum District, trains travel on one-way streets: southbound trains use Fannin Street, while northbound trains move onto San Jacinto Street. The tracks rejoin just south of I-69 before merging onto Main Street, which it follows through Midtown and Downtown. Along this stretch, the line intersects with the eastbound Green Line and Purple Line at Rusk Street and the westbound lines at Capitol Street. The tracks eventually move onto the west side of Main Street as they approach station, the original terminus of the line, located adjacent to the University of Houston–Downtown campus.
Since 2013, the Red Line continues north, following Main Street through the Burnett Transit Center and on to Boundary Street, where it crosses east to Fulton Street, and proceeds north on Fulton through the Near Northside to its current terminus at the Northline Transit Center, located adjacent to the Northline campus of the Houston Community College.
Infrastructure
As with the other METRORail lines, the Red Line is predominantly at-grade and street running, with paved tracks laid down the median of Main Street in downtown, Fannin Street to the south, and Fulton Street to the north. These tracks are not physically separated from road traffic, though they are located in dedicated lanes and trains receive priority at intersections at cross-streets by means of preempted traffic signals. However, flashing grade crossing signals and gates are present where trains cross parallel traffic lanes as they move from one street to another, and along the section of the line south of Old Spanish Trail, where tracks are laid out on a right-of-way parallel to the road rather than in the median. Two sections along the Red Line extension north of UH–Downtown, though, are located on elevated s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBLE | KBLE (1050 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a religious radio format in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is owned by Sacred Heart Radio and is the key station in a regional network broadcasting Catholic radio programming in much of Washington state as well as Kodiak, Alaska. Sacred Heart Radio maintains studios and offices in Kirkland, while KBLE is broadcast from a transmitter site in southwest Seattle. In part of the coverage area, primarily encompassing Seattle's northern suburbs, KBLE is broadcast on FM translator K262CX (100.3 MHz).
KBLE has been on the air since 1948. It was established in Kirkland but moved to Seattle in 1963, the same year it adopted its present call sign and daytime power of 5,000 watts. For almost all of its history, the station has been associated primarily with religious broadcasting,
History
Early years
F. L. Thornhill, trading as the East Side Broadcasting Company, applied for a construction permit to build a new 250-watt, daytime-only radio station in Kirkland on October 8, 1946. Originally specifying 860 kHz, the application was amended to 1050 kHz before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted it on June 3, 1947. The station went on the air on February 24, 1948, under the call sign KRKL, and in 1950, the station was sold to Lamar N. Ostrander and W. A. Chamness.
In 1954, KRKL was approved to increase its power from 250 to 1,000 watts, remaining a daytime-only station. After the power increase, the station changed its call sign from KRKL to KNBX on December 1, 1954 (beginning to use them on the air on December 13); the renamed station's programming continued to consist of "quality music, weather reports and the broadcast of leading gospel programs". Wilson replaced Chamness as owner in two transactions between 1958 and 1959.
Meanwhile, in 1956, KRKL filed to move from Kirkland to Seattle proper. The FCC approved of the change more than six years later, on January 23, 1963, and on December 16, the call letters were changed from KNBX to KBLE, marking its move into Seattle and an increase to 5,000 watts of power from the present southwest Seattle transmitter site. The studios were located at 114 Lakeside Avenue, near one end of a piece of Seattle's transit history. Until 1940, a cable car system—the last in Seattle to remain open—operated along Yesler Way and terminated near the studios, connecting Colman Dock to what once was a major ferry terminal serving Lake Washington. Wilson, a resident of Mercer Island, often rode the cable car en route to the ferry to the island. As a result, the owners chose what Wilson called "a significant and nostalgic bit of Seattle history" in their new call sign. Meanwhile, Ostrander and Wilson were busy expanding. With a third investor, they had started KARI at Blaine, Washington, which when it started in 1960 brought religious broadcasting to Vancouver for the first time, and FM stations in Seattle (KBLE-FM 93.3, today KJR-FM) and Bellingham (KERI-FM 104.3, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLFE | KLFE (1590 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Catholic radio format in Seattle, Washington. The station is owned by Relevant Radio and airs programming from Relevant Radio, a national Catholic network based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The radio studios and offices are on 5th Avenue South in Seattle.
By day, KLFE transmits 20,000 watts; to protect other stations on 1590 AM at night, it reduces power to 5,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a two-tower array. The transmitter is on North Madison Avenue on Bainbridge Island.
History
KTIX, KETO and KUUU
The station first signed on the air on September 10, 1956. The original call sign was KTIX. It had a full-service format. For the first two years, the station was a daytimer, going off the air at sunset. It upgraded to full-time status in 1958. KTIX was owned by Gordon Allen, who sold the station to broker Hugh Ben LaRue.
In 1962, William Boeing bought the station, flipped it to a country music format and took the call letters KETO. The station also launched an FM counterpart on 101.5 (now KPLZ-FM). Boeing sold the station to Weaver-Davis Broadcasting. The station then shifted to Adult Contemporary as KSND. In 1970, the call sign changed to KUUU, and rebranded as "KU16". At the time, a daytime transmitter in South Seattle and a nighttime transmitter on Bainbridge Island was needed so KUUU would not interfere with co-channel KTIL in Netarts, Oregon. Sterling Recreation Organization bought KUUU and became a sister station with KZOK-FM in 1975, with the call letters changing to KZOK in 1977. It flipped to an Oldies format as "Solid Gold 16 KZOK".
Modern Rock KJET
At midnight on May 31, 1982, 1590 became KJET with a Modern Rock format, which was starting to emerge in popularity at the time. The first song on "KJET" was "I Love Rock & Roll" by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.
The station gained immediate popularity with its primary target audience of young adults, as the market did not have an alternative station on FM radio, which was where most music formats were migrating. In addition, the station also had a following outside of Seattle, particularly at night, due to its signal strength, where it was receivable in Eastern Washington and as far north as Alaska. However, due to financial troubles, KJET signed off at 3 p.m. on September 23, 1988, with "Through Being Cool" by Devo as the final song.
KQUL and KZOK
After KJET signed off, the station became KQUL, with a 1950s/60s oldies format, and was completely satellite-fed from the "Kool Gold" network. Adams Communications bought the station in 1989, with Chrysler Capital Corporation buying the station in December 1992 due to Adams' bankruptcy.
KQUL changed its call letters back to KZOK in November 1989, and on February 1, 1990, became Seattle's home for the Z-Rock network, which specialized in active rock and heavy metal music. It later changed to a simulcast of KZOK-FM in October 1993.
Salem Radio
On September 8, 1994, after Chry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromasette | Chromasette was the first cassette-based TRS-80 Color Computer magazine produced by David Lagerquist and was an offshoot of CLOAD magazine. The first issue was published July 1981 and the last issue was published in July 1984. Issues were published monthly. It was headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.
While some references cite the price as having been US$3.50 an issue, it was advertised in Creative Computing magazine in May 1983 as $45 a year for 12 issues, $25 for 6 issues, or $5 each. The first issue contained 5 Basic programs and the "cover" of the electronic magazine (which had to be loaded onto a TRS-80 Color Computer and then run) was dynamic. Included with each cassette was a 5-6 page newsletter explaining the programs included on the cassette, including their PMODE and PCLEAR values (if needed), their locations on tape, and several paragraphs of documentation about each (sometimes suggesting program alterations that change or improve the results). The newsletter contained tips, rumors (for example whether the TRS-80 Color Computer would soon support 5" floppy diskette drives in addition to cassettes for loading and recording software programs), along with other insights. They contained a variety of information about the Color Computer and some of the hardware and software available for it. In addition, they included advertisements. Dave signed only his first name to the CLOAD and Chromasette letters.
How cassettes were produced
(from comment from David Lagerquist in the April 1983 issue)
"How do we duplicate the 6000 or so cassettes we send out each month? Rose
just doesn't sleep! Really, the programs are read off a disk and sent
through a line amplifier to 30 cassette recorders hooked up in parallel.
The recorders are controlled by a Color Computer through the microphone
jack. The 'random' clicking of 30 buttons lets us know that the tapes are
done and that it's time to put in some more blank ones. A heck of a way to
make a living..."
Issues
The following is an incomplete listing of files included in Chromasette issues.
July 1981
COVER BAS 0 B 3
HOWFAR BAS 0 B 4
BLOCKADE BAS 0 B 3
ACUMEN BAS 0 B 3
DISRTATN BAS 0 B 3
BLAST BAS 0 B 3
August 1981
HORNCOV BAS 0 B 2
DRAWINST BAS 0 B 3
DRAWER BAS 0 B 3
WORDS BAS 0 B 3
JERUSADV BAS 0 B 4
LANDER BAS 0 B 3
TWODATES BAS 0 B 2
September 1981
NERVES BAS 0 B 2
SPELLIT BAS 0 B 3
BASEGUES BAS 0 B 3
HICALC BAS 0 B 3
MUSICPAT BAS 0 B 2
SEEKCOVR BAS 0 B 3
October 1981
COVER124 BAS 0 B 2
MAGICSQR BAS 0 B 2
MCJUMP BAS 0 B 3
COEFF BAS 0 B 2
TOWERINS BAS 0 B 1
TOWER BAS 0 B 2
PHONEWRD BAS 0 B 1
November 1981
TURKCOV BAS 0 B 3
STAREATR BAS 0 B 2
UFOMATH BAS 0 B 2
MORSINST BAS 0 B 1
MORSQUIZ BAS 0 B 4
REVERSI BAS 0 B 2
December 1981
GRAPHCOV BAS 0 B 3
DOGSTARS BAS 0 B 2
BASECONV BAS 0 B 2
AMORT BAS 0 B 2
POUNCE BAS 0 B 1
ROTATE BAS 0 B 1
FIGURE DAT 1 A 3
WORLDMAP BAS 0 B 4
January 1982
LINESCOV BAS 0 B 2
BLOCK BAS 0 B 2
TYPING BAS 0 B 2
MANSION |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20information%20database | The line information database (LIDB) is a collection of commercial databases used in the United States and Canada by telephone companies to store and retrieve Calling Name Presentation (CNAM) data used for caller ID services. In Canada, it is common for the client to apply their own Caller ID information, and this is allowed (and common in PBXs), provided the regulations regarding spoofing and fraud are not violated. The databases map telephone numbers to 15-character strings of caller names. Class 5 telephone switches, which provide end-office services in exchange areas, use the Signaling System 7 (SS7) signaling protocol to query the database.
The data submitted to the Line Information Database is maintained by a customer's carrier, and most incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) like the Baby Bells, and competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) provide access for customers. In addition, LIDB databases were available from Intelco, Neustar, TNS, Qwest, Sprint and Verisign in North America. Some carriers do not provide a database, and CNAM lookups are provided using alternate methods, aggregated data from other sources, such as social media.
In the USA, caller ID name information is not transmitted from the originating office to the destination office. It is the terminating carrier that is responsible for providing the caller ID information to its customers. The carrier performs a database lookup using the caller's telephone number to obtain the name information for the caller ID service. If the data is with another carrier, then the terminating carrier must perform a lookup and pay a small dip fee to the carrier hosting the information. Wholesale rates for the fee are on the order of $200 to $600 per 100,000 lookups.
Per carrier policy, the name of a person or business may be automatically added to the Line Information Database and the customer must opt-out to remain anonymous. Other carriers exclude identity information by rule, and require the subscriber to opt-in. If the identity information is not available, then the maintainer of the database often returns geographic information, such as the city and state. In case of a failure, the maintainer of the database may also return "NOT AVAILABLE".
The CNAM databases are independent databases operated by LECs and other private companies. The called party's carrier has the responsibility to perform the CNAM lookup, and it is possible that lookups for the same telephone number from different locations return different name information.
See also
Local number portability
Location Routing Number
Dip fee fraud
References
Telephony
Caller ID |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYAP-FM | DYAP (88.3 FM), broadcasting as 88.3 XFM, is a radio station owned by Southern Broadcasting Network and operated by Y2H Broadcasting Network, Inc. The station's studio is located at Unit 5, 2nd floor, Z Plaza Bldg., Dionisio Jakosalem St., Brgy. Zapatera, Cebu City, while its transmitter is located at the SBN Compound, San Carlos Heights, Quiot Pardo, Cebu City.
History
The station began its broadcast in 1988 as DYAP 88.3.
In 2001, it rebranded as First FM 88.3 with an Adult Top 40 format.
In late 2003, the station became as Mom's Radio 88.3. Dedicated to the mothers and mother-to-be listeners in Cebu City. It transferred its studio to Krizia Bldg. along Gorordo Ave.
In 2010, it reverted to DYAP 88.3 with limited broadcast time from 12:00 NN to 8:00 PM. It relocated to its transmitter site in San Carlos Heights.
In November 2015, Mom's Radio returned on air, this time via satellite from Manila. It operated daily from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM.
On February 25, 2018, Mom's Radio stations went off the air due to financial constraints.
In September 2022, Yes2Health took over the station's operations and rebranded it as XFM with a news and music format. It began test broadcast on January 26, 2023, along with a newly installed 10,000-watt transmitter from DB Elettronica of Italy for better signal reception in Metro Cebu and nearby islands.
On February 13, 2023, XFM Cebu debuted its own slate of local programming.
On March 20, 2023, XFM Cebu was officially launched with a motorcade and a free concert at the Brgy. Cogon Ramos Gymnasium, featuring performances from Jay-R Siaboc and Rommel Tuico.
References
Southern Broadcasting Network
Radio stations in Metro Cebu
Radio stations established in 1988
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYAC-FM | DYAC (90.7 FM), broadcasting as 90.7 Brigada News FM, is a radio station owned by Mareco Broadcasting Network and operated by Brigada Mass Media Corporation. It serves as the Visayas flagship station of Brigada News FM. The station's studio and offices are located at the Uptown Residences, V. Rama Ave. cor. B. Rodriguez St., Brgy. Guadalupe, Cebu City, while its transmitter is located at Mt. Busay, Brgy. Babag 1, Cebu City (near the ABS-CBN tower). It operates 24 hours a day.
History
The station was established by Ermita Electronics Corporation in 1997 under the call letters DYAC. It was the first station in Cebu City to carry a dance format.
In 1999, Ultrasonic Broadcasting System leased the station's airtime and relaunched it as 90.7 Energy FM. It aired arece mass-based format, along with news updates every top of the hour. The station, located at the Room 210, 3/F Doña Luisa Bldg., Fuente Osmeña, initially carried a power of 22-kilowatt crystal clear signal.
In October 2003, after Energy FM transferred its operations to Word Broadcasting Corporation-owned 89.1 FM, Mareco Broadcasting Network acquired the station from Ermita and moved Crossover's operations to this frequency, which carried a Smooth AC format. Crossover used to air on Vimcontu Broadcasting Corporation-owned 93.1 FM through an airtime lease agreement from its inception in September 1997 prior to its move.
At the end of 2019, Horizon of the Sun Communications (producers of Chinese Filipino oriented shows Chinatown TV and Chinese News TV) took over the operations of MBNI's stations.
On November 16, 2020, the station, along with other MBNI provincial stations, started carrying the Q Radio brand and switched to a CHR/Top 40 format. Aside from having its own local programming, it also simulcasted a handful of programs from its flagship station in Manila.
On December 16, 2021, Q Radio went off the air as an effect of Typhoon "Rai" (Odette) at the evening, which damaged the station's transmitter and building. Few weeks later, the station returned on-air after the power was restored in the area.
In May 2023, two months before the termination of Brigada's lease with Vimcontu, Brigada Mass Media Corporation (BMMC) bought the station's airtime lease and conducted a test broadcast, following the transfer of its broadcast facilities to Uptown Residences in Brgy. Guadalupe. Prior to its transfer, Brigada News FM was previously on 93.1 FM under an airtime lease with its original owner from July 2013 to the middle of 2023. On May 15, as part of its transition, 90.7 FM began simulcasting 93.1 during automated and graveyard timeslots. On June 17, Q Radio signed off for the last time with "Wherever You Will Go" by The Calling as its swansong.
On June 18, 2023, Brigada News FM began broadcasting in this frequency full-time. The station's old 5-kilowatt transmitter in Doña Luisa Bldg. was replaced with a newly-installed 20-kilowatt stereo transmitter atop Mt. Busay for clearer and better signal re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendo%20Rage | Kendo Rage, known in Japan as , is an action video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom by Datam Polystar. SETA published the English version.
Gameplay
It is a 2D action side scrolling game.
Plot
The original Japanese version of the game stars a girl named . A spirit detective named Doro (ドロ) finds Mai and asks her to help him attack monsters.
In the English-language version of the game, an American girl named Josephine "Jo" goes to Japan to attend a summer kendo school. Her personal trainer, Osaki "Bob" Yoritomo, asks her to fight monsters on the way to school.
Release
Makeruna! Makendō was released for the Super Famicom on January 22, 1993. An OVA series, Makeruna! Makendo, closely follows the original Japanese version of the game, featuring both Mai and her younger sister Hikari (the main character from the second game).
It was released in North America as Kendo Rage in October 1993 and published by SETA
A fighting game follow-up titled Makeruna! Makendō 2: Kimero Youkai Souri was released for the Super Famicom and PlayStation. A role-playing video game titled Makeruna! Makendō Z was released for the PC-FX.
Reception
Famitsu gave the game a score of 24 out of 40.
See also
Valis series
References
1993 video games
1995 anime OVAs
Action games
Affect (company) games
Datam Polystar
Kadokawa Dwango franchises
OVAs based on video games
SETA Corporation games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games set in Japan
Single-player video games
Magical girl video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20summation | The Wolf summation is a method for computing the electrostatic interactions of systems (e.g. crystals). This method is generally more computationally efficient than the Ewald summation. It was proposed by Dieter Wolf.
References
See also
Wolf method on SklogWiki
Potential theory
Computational physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Classes%20371%2C%20381%20and%20471 | Class 371, Class 381 and Class 471 were proposed electric multiple unit classes from the Networker family of trains intended to operate long distance services in the south-east of England. Due to British Rail's financial limitations in the early 1990s recession, and the break-up of NSE in the privatisation of British Rail from 1994, none of the trains were ordered.
Class 371 and 381
Classes 371 and 381 were intended as the so-called "Universal Networker", a dual voltage train capable of operating using both 25 kV AC from overhead wire and 750 V DC from third rail. It was planned that Class 371 would be used on the enhanced Thameslink 2000 services while Class 381 would be utilised on various long-distance routes across the Network SouthEast (NSE) sector, including Kent Coast services from Victoria and Charing Cross, Great Northern services from King's Cross and London, Tilbury and Southend (LTS) services from Fenchurch Street.
Due to British Rail's financial limitations in the early 1990s recession, and the break-up of NSE in the privatisation of British Rail from 1994, neither train was ordered.
Class 471
Class 471 was the proposed "Main Line Networker" intended for long-distance Network SouthEast services from London to Kent and Sussex.
Intended as four car units, the Class 471 was to have featured an end gangway to allow passage between two connected units, with seating in 2+2 and 2+3 arrangements. First class seating was to be in side corridor compartments, but the seats (3 across with small table/bin between them) were to be no wider than standard class. The publicity sheet promised air conditioning, trolley catering, telephone area, carpeting throughout, customer operated power doors, individual reading lights in first class, high backed seats for comfort, public address system and dot matrix on board information system. A mock-up was unveiled in August 1991, baring a resemblance to the Class 442 "Wessex Express" units operating to the South-West, but with sliding doors. Entry into service was due by 1993.
However, due to British Rail's financial limitations in the early 1990s recession, and the break-up of NSE in the privatisation of British Rail from 1994, the train wasn't ordered.
Alternative
The cancellation of the Class 371, 381 and 471 led to an alternative proposal. This involved the construction of a new batch of dual voltage units, classed as Class 365 using the existing Class 465 bodyshell, at the same time converting them for long-distance usage. A total of 41 units were built, with 25 for the Great Northern routes from Kings Cross and 16 for Kent Coast routes.
The Class 319 were the primary dual voltage commuter unit operating over the Thameslink route for nearly 30 years, but have been replaced by Class 700, part of the Siemens Desiro City family. Meanwhile, the Electrostar series is utilised over several long-distance routes in the South-East. Both the Class 375 and Class 377 Electrostars have dual voltage sub-classe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%202004 | The World Cyber Games 2004 was held in San Francisco, California, United States from the October 6–10. It was the first ever World Cyber Games to be held outside of Korea.
Official games
PC games
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
FIFA Football 2004
Need for Speed: Underground
StarCraft: Brood War
Unreal Tournament 2004
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Xbox games
Halo: Combat Evolved
Project Gotham Racing 2
Results
References
External links
WCG 2004 Overview
World Cyber Games events
2004 in esports
2004 in sports in California
2004 in American sports
International esports competitions hosted by the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parser%20%28programming%20language%29 | Parser is a scripting language developed by Art. Lebedev Studio used for web development and server-side scripting.
The reference compiler for the language was developed in C++ by studio employees Konstantin Morshnev and Alexander Petrosyan to automate often repeated tasks, especially maintenance of already existing websites. It was used in many web projects of the studio. In March 2006, revision three was released as free software under a GPL license and it is now used in other websites, mostly in Russia (according to a partial list at the language website).
Originally, Parser was merely a simple macro processing language but revision three introduced object-oriented programming features.
The language supports technologies needed for common web design tasks: XML, Document Object Model (DOM), Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) and others.
Parser supports web server integration via:
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI)
Apache module (mod_parser3)
See also
Parsing
References
External links
Free compilers and interpreters
Procedural programming languages
Macro programming languages
Scripting languages
Programming languages created in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attiki%20metro%20station | Attiki () is a metro station in Athens, Greece. The station opened in 1885. It was the main hub of Attica Railways, a metre gauge network connecting downtown Athens with the mining town of Lavrion and the northern suburbs of Marousi and Kifissia. Lavrion trains were diverted to the SPAP line in 1929 and passenger services to Kifissia were suspended in 1938.
In 1949 the station was converted to standard gauge and became the northern terminus of the line of Hellenic Electric Railways. The new electrified line was again extended to Kifissia, leaving Attiki as an intermediate station. Two underground platforms were added in 2000 for Athens Metro Line 2 trains. The station entrance and the Line 1 platforms were renovated extensively in 2003–2004.
Part of the old station is used as a trolleybus garage by OSY.
Today the station is served by STASY. There are train storage and a service connection between the Line 1 and Line 2.
See also
Lavrion Square-Strofyli railway
Athens–Lavrion Railway
References
External links
Official Website
Railway stations in Greece opened in the 2000s
Railway stations opened in 2000
2000 establishments in Greece
Athens Metro stations
Buildings and structures in Athens
Transport in Athens
Railway stations opened in 1949
Railway stations in Greece opened in the 1940s
1949 establishments in Greece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Coll | John Alexander Coll was a British computer specialist. While teaching physics at Oundle school he built a number of computers and was involved in Micro Users in Secondary Education (MUSE). He helped write the functional description for the BBC Computer and played an important role in convincing senior management at the BBC that it could be done. He later wrote the BBC Microcomputer User Guide which was supplied by Acorn Computers with the BBC Micro and appeared regularly on the television programmes Making the Most of the Micro and Micro Live which featured the computer.
Professional career
He taught physics at Keil School and then at Oundle School where he was also head of Electronics and was also a tutor at Laxton House.
At Oundle he learnt to program the school's Data General Nova 2 computer alongside a number of pupils, built a Motorola 6800 based microcomputer from scratch, designing and etching the printed circuit boards personally and then purchased and built a kit SWTPC 6800 computer which was made available to the pupils. His relationship with SWTPC's UK operation helped many former pupils gain gap-year and full-time jobs and a foothold into the computer industry. He was also active with the organisation 'Micro Users in Secondary Education (MUSE)'.
With David Allen, he was then asked by the British Broadcasting Corporation to help draw up the functional description for a computer which would be used as part of a television series to teach computer literacy. Of John, of the team at the BBC said "It was John’s drive, determination and sheer brilliance that really pulled the whole thing off".
He later wrote the BBC Microcomputer User Guide with David Allen which was supplied by Acorn Computers with the BBC Micro, he appeared regularly on the television programmes Making the Most of the Micro and Micro Live and wrote many articles for Personal Computer World during its early year.
John also invested his time in people and he wanted to realize the potential in people. In his part in philanthropy, John was mainly focused on educating people about IT.
Through his company Connection Software he started off the charity Educated Horizons, which funded students from disadvantaged backgrounds from the Chikomba District, to pursue further education in higher institutions of learning in Zimbabwe.
He also equipped many High Schools in the Harare Archdiocese with computers and other IT equipment to ensure the smooth studying of technical subjects like Computer Science. He was the Patron of the St Francis of Assisi Computer Science class (2010).
Until his death on 23 December 2014 John ran Connection Software, a telecoms software house and ASP specialising in SMS, MMS and VOIP.
Publications
The BBC Microcomputer User Guide was written by John Coll and edited by David Allen for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
References
External links
Connection Software
British computer scientists
2014 deaths
Teachers of Oundle School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20SX-9 | The SX-9 is a NEC SX supercomputer built by NEC Corporation. The SX-9 Series implements an SMP system in a compact node module and uses an enhanced version of the single chip vector processor that was introduced with the SX-6. The NEC SX-9 processors run at 3.2 GHz, with eight-way replicated vector pipes, each having two multiply units and two addition units; this results in a peak vector performance of 102.4 gigaFLOPS. For non-vectorized code, there is a scalar processor that runs at half the speed of the vector unit, i.e. 1.6 GHz. Up to 16 CPUs and 1 terabyte of memory may be used in a single node. Each node is packaged in an air-cooled cabinet, similar in size to a standard 42U computer rack. The SX-9 series ranges from the single-node SX-9/B system with 4 CPUs to the maximum expansion stage with 512 nodes, 8,192 CPUs, and 970 TFLOPS peak performance. There is up to 4 TB/s shared memory bandwidth per node and 2×128 GB/s node interconnect bandwidth. The operating system is NEC's SUPER-UX, a Unix-like OS.
The SX-9 had the world's fastest vector CPU core. A fully equipped system with 512 nodes would have been the world's fastest supercomputer at the time of release in the first quarter of 2008, with a performance of 819 TFLOPS. The SX-9 was discontinued in 2015.
The German national meteorological service (DWD) operated two independent SX-9 clusters, with 976 processors, 31,232 GB of RAM and 98 TFLOPS performance in total.
NEC Published Product Highlights
1.6 TFLOPS max. peak performance per node
350 million transistors per CPU, 1.0 V, 8,960 pins (1,791 signal pins)
Up to 16 CPUs per node, manufactured in 65 nm CMOS cu technology, 11 copper layers
Up to 64 GB of memory per CPU, 1 TB in a single node
Up to 4 TB/s bandwidth per node, 256 GB/s per CPU
IXS Super-Switch between nodes, up to 512 nodes supported, 256 GB/s per node (128 GB/s for each direction)
50% less power consumption compared to the NEC SX-8R
See also
SUPER-UX
SX architecture
External links
special issue of NEC Technical Journal (Vol 3, No 4, 2008) on NEC SX-9
References
Sx-9
Vector supercomputers
ja:NEC SX#SX-9 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum%20transport | Petroleum transport is the transportation of petroleum and derivatives such as gasoline (petrol). Petroleum products are transported via rail cars, trucks, tanker vessels, and pipeline networks. The method used to move the petroleum products depends on the volume that is being moved and its destination. Even the modes of transportation on land such as pipeline or rail have their own strengths and weaknesses. One of the key differences are the costs associated with transporting petroleum though pipeline or rail. The biggest problems with moving petroleum products are pollution related and the chance of spillage. Petroleum oil is very hard to clean up and is very toxic to living animals and their surroundings.
Methods
Marine Vessels
Marine Vessels and barges can transport this petroleum all around the world. Because these vessels can carry a lot of fuel, the amount it costs per barrel to move this oil is very cheap. These tankers are also the only practical way to move crude oil across the oceans. Usually the larger tankers are used to transport this fuel on a global scale, taking fuel from one continent to the other. Barges are more like tankers, but smaller and do not have any method of propulsion to move them. They are often pushed or towed by tugs. This makes barges very ineffective for transporting this oil for long distances. Barges are also not applicable for traveling across rough seas, so they are used in calmer waters. However, these barges are usually used for transporting the fuel at shorter distances.
Pipelines
Pipelines are used to transport oil from wells to refineries and storage facilities, and are viewed as the most cost efficient way to move oil on land. Pipelines have also been found to be the safest mode of transport for oil, with one study finding an incidence rate of just 0.58 incidents per billion-ton miles. In Canada, over 99.99 percent of the oil transported by federally regulated pipeline arrives safely every year. First, the oil is collected at the wellhead, or some area where the oil is stored. From the wellhead it is pumped across the land through a pipe, and is discharged at its destination which typically is a refinery. However, pipelines can be used the same way to deliver already refined fuels such as gasoline, diesel and even jet fuel from the refinery to distribution facilities or a consumer. These pipelines are not just a solid line of straight pipe, but have various components on the pipeline. These pipelines will have booster pumps to keep the fuel moving along a long distance, inspection areas to make sure that the fuel is not getting any contaminants, and even other collection and delivery points along the way. Although it costs a lot of money and time to set up these pipelines, the operation cost is significantly less than using any other type of transportation. Also, the amount of manpower needed to move this oil is not that much. Pipelines offer the most efficient mode of transporting this oil acro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb%20Alley | Bomb Alley is a 1983 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). Covering the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II, it runs on the Apple II platform. It has the distinction of being the first true land-sea-air computer wargame, where ground troops could advance and retreat across land.
The game's main scenario is the summer of 1942 when Rommel's forces threatened to capture Cairo and Alexandria. There is also a smaller scenario covering the Battle of Crete in 1941. Bomb Alley was Grigsby's second game, following Guadalcanal Campaign (1982). It reuses that title's engine, and was coded and distributed as uncompiled Applesoft BASIC. Grigsby developed both games while working full-time for the United States Department of Defense.
Grigsby and SSI followed Bomb Alley with North Atlantic '86 (1983), made with the same engine.
Description
Each turn represented twelve hours, with ground and air combat taking place only during daytime turns.
Grigsby expanded the game from Guadalcanal Campaign with many new features, such as transport aircraft, torpedo boats, and the ability to use paratroops once per game. Most important of all was the ability of aircraft to support ground troops in combat.
As in the previous game, an AI "player" was available for one side only, but this time it was the Allies. The Axis had to have a human player. Also in contrast, there were only three scenarios instead of six, and the "long" campaign game ran less than three months.
Both sides faced the problem of how to keep their forces supplied, primarily with ship convoys, and how best to disrupt the other side's convoys. Where to base the fighters and bombers, which had been obvious in Guadalcanal Campaign, was now a challenge. Control of the air over Africa had to be traded off with the air battles over Malta.
Development
Bomb Alley was designed by Gary Grigsby, following his debut title Guadalcanal Campaign in 1982. As with his first game, he developed Bomb Alley in his spare time while working in a civil service position.
Reception
Rich Sutton of Video Games wrote that he "highly recommended [Bomb Alley] for the intermediate player".
The game's greatest weakness was the scoring system, which strongly favored the British. While Malta and Tobruk were worth 500 points each if the Allies held them, the Axis received only 200 points each for capturing them. The only high-value target for the Axis was capturing Alexandria itself. This meant the Axis had to win decisively or not at all.
Another problem was the limited types of aircraft available. Historically, the Mediterranean Theatre had a wide mix of German, Italian, British, and American bombers and fighters. Grigsby's system accommodated only one fighter type for each side, and only a few bomber types. A 1983 review in Computer Gaming World complained about this lack of detail, which may have contributed to Bomb Alley selling less well than Guadalcanal Campaign. A 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20software%20engineering | Forensic software engineering refers to the discipline of analyzing (and sometimes reconstructing) the functionality of software applications or services that have become defunct; are no longer accompanied by, or previously lacked, documentation; or for which the original engineers are no longer available.
Description
Usually, forensic software engineering is performed with an interest in understanding the functionality - and sometimes intent - of software that has been abandoned by its creators, with an eye to correcting unexpected outcomes or determining whether to port, rebuild, replace, or retire a functional software instance.
Is often required as a result of a corporate mergers or acquisitions, or during the migration/transition from an old datacenter to a newer one.
See also
Charles Babbage Institute
History of operating systems
IT History Society
List of operating systems
Timeline of operating systems
References
Engineering disciplines
Software engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%203%20Alsace | France 3 Alsace is a regional television service and part of the France 3 network. Serving the Alsace region from its headquarters in Strasbourg, France 3 Alsace produces regional news, sport, features and entertainment programming.
History
RTF Télé-Strasbourg began broadcasting on 15 October 1953. In 1964, RTF was replaced with ORTF by the government, with RTF Télé-Strasbourg becoming ORTF Télé-Strasbourg. After the de-establishment of ORTF on 6 January 1975, ORTF Télé-Strasbourg became FR3 Alsace. Following the establishment of France Télévisions on 7 September 1992, FR3 Alsace was rebranded France 3 Alsace.
Programming
News
France 3 Alsace produces two daily region-wide news programmes - a 15 to 20-minute bulletin (midi-pile) at 1200 CET during Ici 12/13 and the main half-hour news at 1900 during Ici 19/20. Two 10-minute sub-regional bulletins, Strasbourg-Deux Rives (serving Bas-Rhin) and France 3 Haute-Alsace (serving Haut-Rhin) are broadcast during Ici 19/20 at 1900 CET.
Rund um, a short bulletin in the Alsatian language with French subtitles, is also aired each weekday after the regional Ici 12/13 bulletin.
On 5 January 2009, a 5-minute late night bulletin was introduced, forming part of Soir 3.
Non-news programming
Triangle
C'est mieux le matin
Vis à vis
7 jours en Alsace et Le Mag (Current affairs debate)
Européos (programme on Europe and European institutions)
Sportshow (a weekly sport programme)
La voix est libre (debate show)
Gsuntheim (Alsatian-language weekend magazine)
Sür un Siess (cooking programme, also in Alsatian)
Capital
France 3 Alsace has an annual budget of €20.4 million (£14.3 m, $29.3 m) (roughly 2% of the national budget of France 3).
Broadcast area
As well as the target coverage area of Alsace, France 3 Alsace also broadcasts to Basel in Switzerland and parts of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, counting to an overall potential audience of around 2.5 million people (including 1.8 million in Alsace).
References
External links
Official site
03 Alsace
Television channels and stations established in 1953
Mass media in Strasbourg
Television in minority languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoblock | Monoblock can refer to:
A type of air conditioner
A monoblock LNB
Monoblock PC, a computer workstation
A mono (one channel) audio power amplifier
In photography, another name for a monolight, a type of electronic flash with the electronics in the head, as opposed to a pack-and-head system
See also
Monoblock Industry of Imagineering
Monobloc (disambiguation)
Block (disambiguation)
Mono (disambiguation)
ru:Моноблок |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choir%20Practice | Choir Practice is a retrospective album by the Choir that has been released in both LP and CD format.
Release data
This album was released in 1994 by Sundazed Records as an LP (#LP-5009) and as a CD (#SC 11018).
Notes on the tracks
This album was assembled by Bob Irwin and Jeff Jarema from a variety of sources. Most compilations of music by garage rock bands collect the singles and possibly an unreleased track or two. However, in this case, only their classic "It's Cold Outside" is included on this album; even the highly regarded flip side of this first single, "I'm Goin' Home", is omitted. Although the A-side of their fourth single, "When You Were with Me", is among the tracks, this is the original version of the song, before the record label added strings (which addition angered Wally Bryson at the time). The second, third and fifth singles, along with all of the B-sides, are not represented on this album.
Track listing
LP
Side one
I'd Rather You Leave Me (Wally Bryson), 2:06
It's Cold Outside (Dann Klawon), 2:49
When You Were with Me (Wally Bryson), 2:32 – Unissued Version
Don't Change Your Mind (Wally Bryson/Dave Smalley), 1:51
Dream of One's Life (Jim Skeen), 3:27
In Love's Shadow (Dann Klawon), 2:41 – Demo by the Mods
I'm Slippin' (Dann Klawon), 2:52 – Demo by the Mods
Side two
Treeberry (Jim Skeen), 2:22
Smile (Dann Klawon), 2:45 – Demo
I Only Did it 'Cause I Felt So Lonely (Wally Bryson), 2:16
Anyway I Can (Phil Giallombardo), 3:50
Boris' Lament (Phil Giallombardo), 2:51
David Watts (Ray Davies), 2:34
If These Are Men (Denny Carleton), 3:00
CD
I'd Rather You Leave Me
It's Cold Outside
When You Were with Me (previously unissued)
Don't Change Your Mind (rehearsal version)
Dream of One's Life (previously unissued)
In Love's Shadow (Demo by the Mods/previously unissued)
I'm Slippin' (Demo by the Mods/previously unissued)
Leave Me Be (Demo by the Mods/previously unissued) – CD bonus track
I'd Rather You Leave Me (rehearsal version/previously unissued) – CD bonus track
Treeberry (rehearsal version/previously unissued)
Smile (previously unissued)
A to F (previously unissued) – CD bonus track
I Only Did It 'Cause I Felt So Lonely
Don't Change Your Mind – CD bonus track
Anyway I Can (previously unissued)
Boris' Lament (previously unissued)
David Watts (previously unissued)
If These Are Men (previously unissued)
References
1994 compilation albums
The Choir (garage rock) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Schmidt | Howard Anthony Schmidt (October 5, 1949 – March 2, 2017) was a partner with Tom Ridge in Ridge Schmidt Cyber LLC, a consultancy company in the field of cybersecurity. He was the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration, operating in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He announced his retirement from that position on May 17, 2012, effective at the end of the month.
One of Schmidt's leading policy objectives was the development of "National Strategy for
Trusted Identities in Cyberspace", which sought to enable private industry to create electronic identities that can be relied upon in cyberspace similar to the way that businesses rely on the combination of driver's licenses and credit cards to authenticate identities in physical space.
Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Schmidt served as President of the Information Security Forum and President and CEO of R & H Security Consulting LLC, which he founded in May 2005. He was also the international president of the Information Systems Security Association and the chairman of the board of the Finnish security company Codenomicon, the American security company Fortify Software, and the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, commonly known as (ISC)². In October 2008 he was named one of the 50 most influential people in business IT by readers and editors of Baseline Magazine.
Schmidt died of brain cancer on March 2, 2017, at his home in Muskego, Wisconsin.
Education
Schmidt held a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration (1994) and a Master of Arts degree in organizational management (1998) from the University of Phoenix. He also holds an honorary doctorate degree in humane letters. Schmidt's certifications include CISSP and CISM. He was a professor of practice at the Georgia Institute of Technology's GTISC, professor of research at Idaho State University, adjunct distinguished fellow with Carnegie Mellon's CyLab, and a distinguished fellow with the Ponemon Institute.
Biography
Public service
Schmidt began his government service in the United States Air Force in 1967, where he studied chemical weapons, high explosives, and nuclear weapons while attending munitions school. Between 1968 and 1974, Schmidt completed three tours of duty in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He left active military duty in 1974, then started his civil service career at the Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field, since renamed as the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range and served as chief of transportation and deputy director of resource management until 1982.
He served in the Arizona Air National Guard with the 161st Communications Squadron based at Phoenix International Airport, from 1989 until 1998.
Schmidt was a city police officer from 1983 to 1994 for the Chandler Police Department in Arizona where he served on the SWAT team and the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Unit, and formed and led the Special Enforcement Team. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonna%20Fitzgerald | Jonna Fitzgerald is an American beauty pageant titleholder and musical entertainer. She was crowned Miss Texas 1985 then Preliminary Talent Winner and 2nd Runner Up to Miss America 1986. In computer modelling that successfully predicted that Susan Akin would be named Miss America, Fitzgerald's odds were set at 22 to 1.
Fitzgerald was a featured entertainer for the 1985 Vice-Presidential Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C., with Johnnie High's Country Music Revue. Through the years she has shared the stage with artists such as Janie Fricke, Jerry Clower, Frenchie Burke, Mason Dixon, Larry Gatlin, Shoji Tabuchi, Johnnie Gimble, and Charlie Daniels. The country music Revue Association named her “Instrumentalist of the Year” in 1989.
In 1999, Fitzgerald became a news anchor at KETK-TV in Tyler, Texas. She worked as an anchor and community relations director until 2005, when she was named district director for incoming congressman Louie Gohmert's district office.
References
1965 births
American entertainers
Living people
Miss America 1980s delegates
20th-century American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20launch | A soft launch, also known as a soft opening, is a preview release of a product or service to a limited audience prior to the general public. Soft-launching a product is sometimes used to gather data or customer feedback, prior to making it widely available during an official release or grand opening. A company may also choose a soft launch to test the functionality of a product, allowing adjustments to be made before a wider release and marketing efforts are implemented.
Computer related
When implementing a soft launch strategy, a company releases a product with little or no marketing. A soft launch permits a company to react to customer demands quickly and effectively, introducing new features which will ultimately make the product successful. For companies with a limited budget, a soft launch can allow them to focus on product development rather than marketing.
Website
Soft launches can be used with websites to help roll out new features, test or tweak a design (or possible redesign) allowing a design which users dislike to be quietly retired. Changes can also be made to increase the functionality of the website and respond to user requests. Gmail, for example, was soft launched in 2005 and fully launched one year later.
Hardware
In the instance of hardware products, a limited release soft launch can be used to test the market prior to a wide scale release. It also means companies are allowed to make last minute changes to the product after the soft launch. In many instances, soft launches of hardware are done in major metropolitan areas where the company has access to a wide variety of demographic groups.
Software
Soft launches are also used for software, with a small release being made to a limited group of individuals for beta testing. Software can be extensively tested by the releasing company, but ultimately it needs to be used to determine how effective it is. Major flaws in the design may emerge during beta testing and can be corrected before the product is released into a major market.
Some software is soft launched on the Internet, which allows for easy software updates. Early beta testers can grow attached to the program and will continue to download new versions as they are released. Thus, companies often build up a loyal customer base, which spreads the word to other potential customers.
Mobile apps
Before committing to a hard launch in the United States, developers creating English mobile applications may choose to launch unofficially in less populous countries such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, to refine the app by analyzing usage and spending habits, which are thought to be similar to those in the United States. This may also reduce the chances of the American press noticing the app. Canada has the additional benefit of having similar time zones to the United States. Soft launches are popular for free-to-play mobile games.
Brick and mortar establishments
When a brick and mortar business wishes to open prior t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYRT-FM | DYRT (99.5 FM), on-air as Barangay RT 99.5, is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network Inc. The station's studio and transmitter are located at GMA Skyview Complex, Nivel Hills, Apas, Cebu City.
History
1978-1979: DYLS
The station was established in 1978 on 97.1 MHz under the call letters DYLS. It was the second oldest regional FM station under the auspices of the Republic Broadcasting System after DXSS in Davao, which started operations in 1977. In 1979, the station went off the air.
The frequency returned on air in 1992, a different radio station owned by AMCARA Broadcasting Network.
1980-1995: Double 9.5 RT
On February 4, 1980, the station returned to air, this time on 99.5 MHz under the call letters DYRT. It carried the branding Double 9.5 RT: The Romantic Touch, with the slogans "Cebu's Most Romantic Easy Listening Radio Station" and "The Beautiful Music Station of Cebu". Back then, its studio and transmitter were located at the 10/F Luym Bldg. along Plaridel cor. Juan Luna St. (now Osmeña Blvd.). The station aired easy listening music and news updates every top of the hour, and English was used as its medium. In 1990, DYRT and its sister station GMA-7 Cebu moved to its current home in GMA Skyview Complex in Nivel Hills, Apas, and switched to a Top 40 format.
1995-2014: Campus Radio/99.5 RT
On March 1, 1995, following the launch of RGMA done by Mike Enriquez, the station was rebranded as Campus Radio 99.5 RT, with the slogan "Forever!". Two years later, when Bobby Nalzaro took over the operations of GMA Cebu, the station changed its slogan to "Nindota-Ah!", which was later adapted by several RGMA FM stations in Mindanao in 1998, and changed its medium to Cebuano. The station was reformatted to a mass-based station. On July 29, 2002, the station dropped Campus Radio from its branding. From 2013 to 2018, as conducted by Nielsen Radio Audience Measurement, 99.5 RT Cebu was the dominant overall Number 1 Radio Station in Cebu.
2014-present: Barangay RT
On February 17, 2014, as part of RGMA's brand unifying, the station was rebranded as Barangay RT 99.5 and carried-over the slogan "Isang Bansa, Isang Barangay". Since then, it began simulcasting a handful of programs from its Manila station. On April 22, 2019, the station began simulcasting DYSS Super Radyo's program Bobby Nalzaro On Board: Saksi until December 2021.
Following the effects of Typhoon Rai (Odette) in Cebu, Bohol and Leyte on December 16, 2021, the station scaled down its programming.
References
External links
www.amfmph.com/barangay-99-5-rt-cebu-11254.html
Barangay FM stations
Barangay RT 99.5
Radio stations established in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20Software | Database Software may refer to:
Database software, an alternative capitalisation used to refer to software used to manage a database
Europress, A company previously trading under the name Database Software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Burrows | Michael Burrows, FRS (born 1963) is a British computer scientist and the creator of the Burrows–Wheeler transform, currently working for Google. Born in Britain, as of 2018 he lives in the United States, although he remains a British citizen.
Education
Burrows studied Electronic Engineering with Computer Science at University College London and then completed his PhD in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, where he was a postgraduate student of Churchill College, Cambridge supervised by David Wheeler.
Career
Upon leaving Cambridge, he moved to USA and worked at the Systems Research Center (SRC) at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) where, with Louis Monier, he was one of the two main creators of AltaVista.
Following Compaq's acquisition of DEC, Burrows worked briefly for Microsoft preventing spamming. Shortly thereafter he went to Google.
After his early work at the University of Cambridge, where he researched microkernels and basic matters of security, he went on to enlarge upon that work as systems were deployed at large scale on the Internet.
During his employment at Google, Burrows has studied concurrency & synchronisation and programming in the large – especially with respect to the C++ language. He designed the Chubby lock service for coordination between server nodes in large distributed systems.
Awards and honours
Burrows was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. His nomination reads:
Burrows received the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award in 2003.
He received the IET Achievement Medal (Computer Engineering) in 2019.
References
1963 births
British computer scientists
Google employees
Fellows of the Royal Society
Living people
Alumni of University College London
Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge
Computer security academics
Digital Equipment Corporation people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van-Pires | Van-Pires is a 1997 computer-animated children's television series with live-action segments. It was produced by Abrams/Gentile (New York), with CGI animation being produced under MSH (San Francisco). The show was syndicated by The Summit Media Group.
Van-Pires also had portions of its soundtrack written and performed by John Entwistle of the rock band The Who and Steve Luongo, Entwistle's long-time friend, producer, and drummer in The John Entwistle Band with Alberto Rosende and Noam Kaniel.
Van-Pires centers on a group of human teenagers who protect and defend the world from evil anthropomorphic junkyard vans and vehicles known as the "Van-Pires" by transforming into robotic anthropomorphic cars, calling themselves the "Motor-Vaters".
Characters
Motor-Vaters
Four ordinary teens were accidentally caught in the path of a falling meteor. The meteor transformed them into heroic robotic guardians to protect the night from the evil forces of Tracula (a reference to "Dracula") and the rest of the Van-Pires. Each Motor-Vater has the ability to fly and they also share the same weaknesses as their enemies; like the Van-Pires, the Motor-Vaters require gas to sustain themselves and must avoid the sun at all costs. To transform, each hero gets into the driver's seat of his or her Carfin (a portmanteau of "car" and "coffin") and shouts, "Mission Ignition!"
Axle (Jason Hayes) – The leader of the Motor-Vaters. He takes his role seriously and does what it takes to keep the team together. However, Axle can be too serious with his responsibilities either causing self-doubt when something goes awry or alienating one of the other Motor-Vaters. In his Motor-Vater form, Axle's color scheme is yellow with red fire designs. These colors are the same as his Carfin, which resembles a Lincoln convertible.
Snap (Garikayi Mutambirwa) – Snap is a very laid back person but is ready to jump into action when trouble rises. Unlike the other Motor-Vaters (who speak exclusively in car puns), he speaks exclusively in a mangled form of African American Vernacular English. His Motor-Vater form is blue with a purple trim. Snap's Carfin is a blue hippie van.
Nuke (Marc Schwarz) – Nuke is the team's strongman and thrill seeker. He has mastered the art of weaponized flatulence. His Motor-Vater form is green and modeled after a tow truck, complete with hook and crane. Nuke's Carfin is also a green tow truck.
Rev (Melissa Marsala) – Rev is a tomboy, but she gets down and dirty just like the rest of the guys. Sometimes, Rev is not afraid to show off her feminine side. She is the target of both Nuke and Tracula's romantic affections, but she ignores them both because of her special relationship with her mentor Van He'llsing. In her Motor-Vater form, she is a red and armed with a fire hose and axe. Her Carfin is a fire truck.
Allies
Van He'll Sing (Unknown as the character is credited as playing himself) – The Motor-Vaters' friend and advisor. Van is an old hippie that runs Sunrise |
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