source stringlengths 32 199 | text stringlengths 26 3k |
|---|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20America%201990 | Miss America 1990, the 63rd Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, September 16, 1989 and was televised by the NBC Network.
The winner, Debbye Turner, was the first Miss Missouri to take the crown. One of the five finalists, Jeri Lynn Zimmerman of Illinois, became known professionally as Jeri Ryan, an actress and one of the stars of the television series Star Trek: Voyager.
Results
Order of announcements
Top 10
Top 2
Awards
Preliminary awards
Non-finalist awards
Quality of Life awards
Delegates
Judges
Debbie Allen
Claudia Cohen
Mike Schmidt
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Merv Griffin
Phylicia Rashad
Donald Trump
External links
Miss America official website
1990
1989 in the United States
1990 beauty pageants
1989 in New Jersey
September 1989 events in the United States
Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected%20areas%20of%20California | According to the California Protected Areas Database (CPAD), in the state of California, United States, there are over 14,000 inventoried protected areas administered by public agencies and non-profits. In addition, there are private conservation areas and other easements. They include almost one-third of California's scenic coastline, including coastal wetlands, estuaries, beaches, and dune systems. The California State Parks system alone has 270 units and covers 1.3 million acres (5,300 km2), with over 280 miles (450 km) of coastline, 625 miles (1,006 km) of lake and river frontage, nearly 18,000 campsites, and 3,000 miles (5,000 km) of hiking, biking, and equestrian trails.
Obtaining an accurate total of all protected land in California and elsewhere is a complex task. Many parcels have inholdings, private lands within the protected areas, which may or may not be accounted for when calculating total area. Also, occasionally one parcel of land is included in two or more inventories. Over 90% of Yosemite National Park for example, is listed both as wilderness by the National Wilderness Preservation System, and as national park land by the National Park Service. The Cosumnes River Preserve is an extreme example, owned and managed by a handful of public agencies and private landowners, including the Bureau of Land Management, the County of Sacramento and The Nature Conservancy. Despite the difficulties, the CPAD gives the total area of protected land at , or 47.05% of the state (not including easements); a considerable amount for the most populous state in the country.
National Park System
The U.S. National Park System controls a large and diverse group of California parks, monuments, recreation areas and other units which in total exceed . The best known is Yosemite National Park, noted for several iconic natural features including Yosemite Falls, El Capitan and Half Dome, which is displayed on the reverse side of the California state quarter. Other prominent parks are the Kings Canyon-Sequoia National Park complex, Redwood National Park, Channel Islands National Park, Joshua Tree National Park and the largest, Death Valley National Park. The NPS also administers the Manzanar National Historic Site in Inyo County.
National Landscape Conservation System
The Bureau of Land Management’s National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) includes over 850 federally recognized areas and in California, manages of public lands, nearly 15% of the state's land area.
The National Landscape Conservation System is composed of several types of units: national monuments (distinct from the same-named units within the National Park System), national conservation areas, forest reserves, outstanding natural areas, national scenic and historic trails, wilderness, wilderness study areas, and others.
National Marine Sanctuaries
The National Marine Sanctuary System is managed by the Office of Marine Sanctuaries, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette%20magazine | A cassette magazine, or tapezine, is a publication contained entirely on computer-readable media, specifically on cassette. Its content consists of some combination of text, graphics, multimedia, and executable programs, and it is normally specific to one particular computer platform or operating system. The successor to the cassette magazine was the disk magazine.
Early home and hobby users of personal computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s sometimes typed in programs, usually in the BASIC language, which were published in the computer magazines of the time. This was a lot of work, and prone to error, so the idea of publishing a magazine directly on a computer-readable medium so that the programs could be run directly without typing came independently to several people.
Some ideas of putting bar codes into paper magazines, which could be read into a computer with the appropriate peripheral, were floated at the time, but never caught on. Since the common data storage medium of the earliest home computers was the audio cassette, the first magazine published on a physical computer medium was cassette magazine; CLOAD magazine, for the Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, began publication in 1978, named after the command to load a program from cassette on that computer system. Shortly afterwards, in July 1978, the first issue of CURSOR magazine was released for the Commodore PET.
CLOAD was not the first electronic periodical, however, because various ARPANET digests had been published as text files sent around the network since the early 1970s. These, however, were pure ASCII text and hence were not cassette magazines or disk magazines by the current definition. Also, at the time, few people outside of academic institutions had access to this forerunner of the Internet.
See also
Disk magazines
Cassette magazine
es:Casete magazine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG%20Jinsei%20Game | is a Japan-only role-playing game for the Family Computer that is similar to Jinsei Game, which is the Japanese version of The Game of Life.
Gameplay
The object is to explore a city full of stores, places of employment, and learning places. Starting from home, the player must earn money and statistics in order to unlock the better features of the game.
Unlike most games based on the Jinsei Game series, RPG Jinsei Game does not use a spinner system. Instead, the controller pad is used for movement and random encounters are featured like in Dragon Quest. The player can also talk to strangers, who might either give advice or do something malevolent to the player character. As in the Game of Life board game, the player has to choose from a range of careers such as musician, photographer, and even professional wrestler. Most of these tasks are mundane, while one of the quests involves chasing down unidentified flying objects. Buildings that are crucial to the quest (other than shops and learning places) can be fully explored; otherwise the player simply talks to the resident.
Fights can occur like in a standard role-playing game. However, the player's stats are used instead of hit points and magic points.
References
1993 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Social simulation video games
Takara video games
Video games developed in Japan
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly%20Spy | Sly Spy, known in Japan as and known in Europe as Sly Spy: Secret Agent, is an arcade video game developed by Data East and published in 1989. Despite not being a licensed James Bond game, Sly Spy contains references to the series.
After Data East became defunct following their bankruptcy in 2003, G-Mode bought the intellectual rights to the arcade game as well as most other Data East games and licenses.
Plot
The plot resembles some movies and novels of the James Bond series and takes place in the U.S. in an unspecified time period described in game as "199X". During the introduction sequence, the president and his wife are waving at the crowd next to a limousine at the White House in Washington D.C., when terrorists (some flying in using jetpacks) approach the president and his wife armed and dangerous, and, as soon as the screen goes red and gun sounds are heard, they seem to shoot not only the crowd, but also the president and the first lady, who are both presumed dead.
Later, a secret agent working for the American secret service, and known only by the name of Sly, is informed that the terrorists who struck at the presidential ceremony were located, identified, and confirmed to be CWD (Council for World Domination) members. CWD is a secret underground criminal organization with terrorist foundations, involved in drugs and arms dealing and government corruption, and ultimately plotting world conquest. Sly is assigned by the secret service to eliminate the CWD.
Listening to the world's desperate plea for freedom and hoping to protect those he loves most, Sly jumps from a plane towards Washington D.C., and begins his campaign to prevent the terrorists from infiltrating not only the city, but several spots in the U.S., and must also prevent a nuclear missile from launching and striking the Earth.
The final challenge
In the course of the game, the player faces off against several bosses, eventually encountering the leader of CWD, whose identity is never given outside of that title. A spiked ceiling slowly descends from above and the boss is protected by a force field. Sly must shoot or kick it to deal enough damage and dent the field. Sly then shoots CWD's leader, finishing him for good before fleeing the base with hardly a scratch.
In the beginning of the ending sequence, Sly receives a final transmission from the president himself, who somehow escaped the attack at the early moments of the game and is miraculously alive. The president congratulates Sly for saving the planet, but then tells him that he "missed a couple of things and may come back to pick them up". Sly goes to the White House, only to arrive at the entrance and quickly find roaring applause from the crowd as well as what seems the president's daughters – who were enchanted with Sly's heroic deeds – posing and smiling alongside him for a photo, who gave him several kisses, as a "thank you". Then, he and his girls drive off in a speeding Ferrari F40 while "THE END" is shown.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railways%20in%20South%20East%20Queensland | South East Queensland has a large passenger and freight railway network centred on Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Suburban and interurban passenger services in the region are operated by Queensland Rail, which also operates long-distance trains across the state. Aurizon and Pacific National operate freight services.
Queensland Rail operates ten suburban and three interurban lines in South East Queensland, which are all electrified. Centred in the Brisbane central business district, the network extends as far as Gympie in the north, Varsity Lakes in the south, Rosewood in the west, and Cleveland in the east to Moreton Bay.
Each line is ascribed a colour and name on all Queensland Rail signage and marketing collateral including timetables, posters and maps. There are 153 stations on the South East Queensland rail network. Queensland Rail refers to the network by two different names, either as the 'South East Queensland (SEQ) network' or the 'Citytrain network'. Rail services and ticketing are co-ordinated by the Queensland government agency Translink.
Queensland Rail’s trains had 42.86 million boardings in the 2022–23 financial year, giving the SEQ rail network the fourth highest patronage out of Australia's suburban rail networks, behind that of Perth.
In addition to the suburban heavy rail network, a 20km light rail line called G:Link operates in the Gold Coast.
History
Construction
The first railway in Queensland did not actually run to Brisbane, but ran from Ipswich to Grandchester. Opened in July 1865, the line into Brisbane was not completed until the opening of the Albert Bridge in July 1875. Branch lines in the city itself did not start until the next decade, with the branch line to Sandgate opened in May 1882, and the branch from Eagle Junction to Racecourse in September the same year.
Lines were opened from Brisbane to Sandgate and Ascot in 1882. The first section of the North Coast line opened to Petrie in 1888. In 1891 this line was connected to the Maryborough line at Gympie, creating a through line to Mount Perry. A branch line was built from Caboolture to Woodford in 1909 and Kilcoy in 1913, now closed. A branch line was opened from Monkland (south of Gympie) to Brooloo in 1915. A line was opened from the first South Brisbane station at Stanley Street, Woolloongabba to Beenleigh in 1885, and extended to Southport in 1889 and Tweed Heads, New South Wales in 1903. This line was closed beyond Beenleigh in 1964.
A branch line was completed between Park Road station and Cleveland in 1889, although the section beyond Lota station was closed and since reconstructed. A new South Brisbane station was built on Melbourne Street in 1891. This became the terminus of the standard gauge line from Grafton in 1930 and Sydney in 1932. A dual gauge line was built from South Brisbane over the Brisbane River to Roma Street in 1978. A line was opened in 1980 from a junction near Lindum station on the Clevelan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood%20railway%20station | Redwood railway station on the suburban rail network of Wellington, New Zealand, is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT). Opening in late 1963, it is double tracked with staggered side platforms; the up platform (north, towards Waikanae) is on the north side of the Tawa Street level crossing, the down platform (towards Wellington) on the south. The station serves the suburb of Redwood.
Services
Redwood is served by Kapiti Line commuter trains operated by Transdev Wellington under the Metlink brand operating between Wellington and Porirua or Waikanae. Services are operated by electric multiple units of the FT/FP class (Matangi). Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, pass through the station but do not stop.
Off-peak trains stop at all stations between Wellington and Waikanae. During peak periods, trains from Wellington that stop at all stations may terminate at Porirua or Plimmerton and return to Wellington while a number of peak services run express between Wellington and Porirua and thus do not stop at Redwood.
Travel times by train are fourteen minutes to Wellington, seven minutes to Porirua, and forty-six minutes to Waikanae.
Trains run every twenty minutes during daytime off-peak hours, more frequently during peak periods, and less frequently at night. Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae stopping at Redwood ran every thirty minutes but were increased to one every twenty minutes from 15 July 2018.
Temporary closure
The station was closed for about four months, from 8 February to 3 May 2010, and renovated at a cost in excess of $1 million. New passenger shelters were constructed, and both platforms were demolished and completely rebuilt as higher, 170 metre long, platforms.
History
Redwood is one of only two stations on the Paraparaumu Line not on track built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR); the other is Takapu Road to the south. The WMR built the original route of the NIMT between Wellington and Longburn and it was purchased by the New Zealand Railways Department in December 1908. The original route between Wellington and Porirua via Johnsonville, now truncated to the Johnsonville Line, was bypassed in the 1930s by the Tawa Flat deviation. Redwood is on the northern section of this deviation. The deviation opened for freight on 24 July 1935, for passengers on 19 June 1937, and was electrified in June 1940, but Redwood did not open until 15 December 1963. The northbound Redwood platform is close to the location of the first Tawa railway station which was located on what is now Duncan Street north of the junction of Tawa and Duncan Streets, from 1885 to 1937.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, with housing development on Taylor Terrace south of Tawa Street and in the new Redwood subdivision to the southwest, there was a need for an additional railway station between Takapu Road and Tawa. The Tawa Street locati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawa%20railway%20station | Tawa railway station, originally called Tawa Flat, is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) and is part of the suburban rail network of Wellington, New Zealand. It is double tracked with an island platform, and is from Wellington railway station, the southern terminus of the NIMT. The station serves the suburb of Tawa.
Services
Tawa is served by Kapiti Line commuter trains operated by Transdev Wellington under the Metlink brand operating between Wellington and Porirua or Waikanae. Services are operated by electric multiple units of the FT/FP class (Matangi). Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, pass through the station but do not stop.
Off-peak trains stop at all stations between Wellington and Waikanae. During peak periods, trains from Wellington that stop at all stations may terminate at Porirua or Plimmerton and return to Wellington while a number of peak services run express between Wellington and Porirua and thus do not stop at Tawa.
Travel times by train are fifteen minutes to Wellington, six minutes to Porirua, and forty-five minutes to Waikanae.
Trains run every twenty minutes during daytime off-peak hours, more frequently during peak periods, and less frequently at night. Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae stopping at Tawa ran every thirty minutes but were increased to one every twenty minutes from 15 July 2018.
History
Tawa Flat railway station was renamed Tawa railway station on 23 February 1959 in conjunction with the change of name of the Borough of Tawa Flat to the Borough of Tawa. The area that had previously been known as Tawa Flat then became known as Tawa.
The original line through Tawa was built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR) and the station opened on 24 September 1885. At this time, the railway followed a circuitous route via Johnsonville to reach Wellington and Tawa was 16.48 km from the terminus. The original station was a flag stop at which trains would only stop if signalled to do so by passengers wishing to board or alight. It was located on what is now Duncan Street north of the junction of Duncan Street and Tawa Street and close to and above the present northbound Redwood railway station.
Train crossing
Arthur Leigh Hunt was employed from the WMR from 1892 to 1897, advancing from office boy at Thorndon to stationmaster. When he was a ticket clerk on the mail train coming south on a wild night with a “southerly” he was instructed at Paekakariki to cross with a special train at Tawa. The Tawa Flat station had only one “dead end” siding which was too short for either train. So the south-bound train was split into A and C, the front and rear halves. The north-bound train was designated B and the following shunts were required:
A goes forward and reverses into siding
B proceeds forward along main line clear of points to C
A proceeds onto main line clear of the points by the length of B pl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy%20deletion | In computer science, lazy deletion refers to a method of deleting elements from a hash table that uses open addressing. In this method, deletions are done by marking an element as deleted, rather than erasing it entirely. Deleted locations are treated as empty when inserting and as occupied during a search. The deleted locations are sometimes referred to as tombstones.
The problem with this scheme is that as the number of delete/insert operations increases, the cost of a successful search increases. To improve this, when an element is searched and found in the table, the element is relocated to the first location marked for deletion that was probed during the search. Instead of finding an element to relocate when the deletion occurs, the relocation occurs lazily during the next search.
References
Hashing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20injection | Packet injection (also known as forging packets or spoofing packets) in computer networking, is the process of interfering with an established network connection by means of constructing packets to appear as if they are part of the normal communication stream. The packet injection process allows an unknown third party to disrupt or intercept packets from the consenting parties that are communicating, which can lead to degradation or blockage of users' ability to utilize certain network services or protocols. Packet injection is commonly used in man-in-the-middle attacks and denial-of-service attacks.
Capabilities
By utilizing raw sockets, NDIS function calls, or direct access to a network adapter kernel mode driver, arbitrary packets can be constructed and injected into a computer network. These arbitrary packets can be constructed from any type of packet protocol (ICMP, TCP, UDP, and others) since there is full control over the packet header while the packet is being assembled.
General procedure
Create a raw socket
Create an Ethernet header in memory
Create an IP header in memory
Create a TCP header or UDP header in memory
Create the injected data in memory
Assemble (concatenate) the headers and data together to form an injection packet
Compute the correct IP and TCP or UDP packet checksums
Send the packet to the raw socket
Uses
Packet injection has been used for:
Disrupting certain services (file sharing or HTTP) by Internet service providers and wireless access points
Compromising wireless access points and circumventing their security
Exploiting certain functionality in online games
Determining the presence of internet censorship
Allows for custom packet designers to test their custom packets by directly placing them onto a computer network
Simulation of specific network traffic and scenarios
Testing of network firewalls and intrusion detection systems
Computer network auditing and troubleshooting computer network related issues
Detecting packet injection
Through the process of running a packet analyzer or packet sniffer on both network service access points trying to establish communication, the results can be compared. If point A has no record of sending certain packets that show up in the log at point B, and vice versa, then the packet log inconsistencies show that those packets have been forged and injected by an intermediary access point. Usually TCP resets are sent to both access points to disrupt communication.
Software
lorcon, part of Airpwn
KisMAC
pcap
Winsock
CommView for WiFi Packet Generator
Scapy
Preinstalled software on Kali Linux (BackTrack was the predecessor)
NetHunter (Kali Linux for Android)
HexInject
See also
Packet capture
Packet generation model
Raw socket
Packet crafting
Packet sniffer
External links
Packet Injection using raw sockets
References
Packets (information technology) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20generator | A packet generator or packet builder is a type of software that generates random packets or allows the user to construct detailed custom packets. Depending on the network medium and operating system, packet generators utilize raw sockets, NDIS function calls, or direct access to the network adapter kernel-mode driver.
This is useful for testing implementations of IP stacks for bugs and security vulnerabilities.
Comparison
General Information
See also
Packet crafting
Packet analyzer
Packetsquare
Network analyzers
Packets (information technology) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial | OpenSocial is a public specification that defines a component hosting environment (container) and a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web applications. Initially, it was designed for social network applications. It was developed by Google along with MySpace and several other social networks. Recently, it has been adopted as a general use runtime environment for allowing untrusted and partially trusted components from third parties to run in an existing web application. The OpenSocial Foundation moved to integrate or support numerous other Open Web technologies. This includes OAuth and OAuth 2.0, Activity Streams, and Portable Contacts, among others.
It was released on November 1, 2007.
Applications implementing the OpenSocial APIs are interoperable with any social network system that supports them. At launch, OpenSocial took a one-size-fits-all approach to development. As it became more robust and the user-base expanded, OpenSocial modularized the platform to allow developers to only include the parts of the platform it needed.
On December 16, 2014, the W3C issued a press release, "OpenSocial Foundation Moving Standards Work to W3C Social Web Activity", stating that OpenSocial would no longer exist as a separate entity, and encouraging the OpenSocial community to continue development work through the W3C Social Web Activity in the Social Web Working Group and Social Interest Group. The OpenSocial Foundation stated that "the community will have a better chance of realizing an open social web through discussions at a single organization, and the OpenSocial Foundation board believes that working as an integrated part of W3C will help reach more communities that will benefit from open social standards."
Structure
Based on HTML and JavaScript, as well as the Google Gadgets framework, OpenSocial includes multiple APIs for social software applications to access data and core functions on participating social networks. Each API addresses a different aspect. It also includes APIs for contacting arbitrary third-party services on the web using a proxy system and OAuth for security.
In version 0.9, OpenSocial added support for a tag-based language. This language is referred to as OSML and allows tag-based access to data from the OpenSocial APIs that previously required an asynchronous client-side request. It also defined a rich tag template system and adopted an expression language loosely based on the Java Expression Language.
Starting in version 2.0, OpenSocial adopted support for Activity Streams format.
History
Background
OpenSocial is commonly described as a more open cross-platform alternative to the Facebook Platform, a proprietary service of the popular social network service Facebook.
Development
OpenSocial was rumored to be part of a larger social networking initiative by Google code-named "Maka-Maka", which is defined as meaning an "intimate friend with whom one is on terms of receiving and giving freely" in Ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Switch%20Redundancy%20Protocol | The Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol (VSRP) is a proprietary network resilience protocol developed by Foundry Networks and currently being sold in products manufactured by both Brocade Communications Systems (formerly Foundry Networks) and Hewlett Packard. The protocol differs from many others in use as it combines Layer 2 and Layer 3 resilience – effectively doing the jobs of both Spanning tree protocol and the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol at the same time. Whilst the restrictions on the physical topologies able to make use of VSRP mean that it is less flexible than STP and VRRP, it does significantly improve on the failover times provided by either of those protocols.
See also
Common Address Redundancy Protocol
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
Hot Standby Router Protocol
Spanning Tree Protocol
External links
Configuration Guide - Brocade Communications Systems
Internet protocols
Routing protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20Pits%20Trail | The Five Pits Trail is a rail trail in Derbyshire, England. It consists of a network of surfaced walkways for recreational use. The approximately trail links Grassmoor to Tibshelf. The Trail can be extended to by continuing along the route to Williamthorpe Ponds and Holmewood. Derbyshire County Council created the Five Pits Trail in 1989, following the route of the former Great Central Railway which served the five main coal mines of Grassmoor, Williamthorpe, Holmewood, Pilsley and Tibshelf.
Part of the trail (between Station Road, Pilsley, and Tibshelf) has been identified as the "Tom Hulatt Mile" and is marked at the side of the trail. This mile commemorates local runner Tom Hulatt who took place in the race that created the first four-minute mile.
The Tibshelf end of the trail runs past Newton Ponds and joins the Silverhill Trail, which connects to the Brierley Forest Link Trail, and to Teversal Trail in Teversal.
Access to the Five Pits Trail is possible via numerous footpaths which cross it and by a number of roads which cross it. There are car parks provided at several locations: Church Lane in Tibshelf, Station Road in Pilsley, Timber Lane near Astwith, and at both the Birkin Lane and the Mansfield Road entrances to Grassmoor Country Park.
References
Rail trails in England
Footpaths in Derbyshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Cummins%20%28reporter%29 | Jim Cummins (March 11, 1945 – October 26, 2007) was an American television reporter for the NBC News network. He became a somewhat recognizable member of the network, having worked there for nearly thirty years.
Education
Cummins was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was a basketball player and member of the Regis Catholic High School 1962 state champion squad. From 1963 to 1967, Cummins attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees. He was also a forward at for the Wildcats basketball team at NU.
Career
Cummins began his professional career at KGLO-TV in Mason City, Iowa, in 1969. From there, his career took him to WOTV (Grand Rapids, Michigan), WTMJ-TV (Milwaukee), and WMAQ (Chicago).
He joined NBC News in 1978 working out of their Chicago bureau. In 1989, Cummins reopened NBC's Southwest bureau in Dallas, becoming its correspondent. Over the years, he reported on various stories including U.S. political coverage, plane crashes, the Iran hostage crisis, the Salvadoran Civil War, the Oklahoma City bombing, many hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes, and live coverage of the Waco Siege. Cummins' work manifested itself when he won an Award for his coverage of the Midwest floods in 1993. He also earned two National Emmy nominations for his coverage of Hurricane Hugo and the Salvadoran Civil War.
Cummins retired from his NBC position in 2007, but shortly after was diagnosed with cancer. He died at the Presbyterian Hospital of Plano on October 26 at age 62, and was buried at Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Dallas. Cummins was survived by his widow and six children.
Personal life
Jim Cummins had an extensive family consisting of his wife, Connie of Dallas; three daughters, Chrissy Cummins and Molly Cummins, both of Dallas, and Kim of Lafayette; three sons, John Cummins of Dallas, Billy Cummins, a student of University of Oklahoma, and Doug Cummins of Waco; two brothers, Richard Cummins of New York City and Bob Cummins of Sarasota; and two grandchildren. He also coached youth baseball and basketball teams for his six children.
Molestation lawsuits
In 1962, Cummins, then a 17-year-old altar boy, alleged that he was sexually molested by his parish priest, Reverend William Roach. In 2002, his repressed history was reflected through Cummins's interview with a family dealing with a similar, situation. Cummins filed the first of fifteen lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Dubuque and priests accused of child molestation.
References
External links
1945 births
2007 deaths
NBC News people
American war correspondents
American male journalists
Medill School of Journalism alumni
People from Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Deaths from cancer in Texas
Burials at Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightsail | The term lightsail may reference:
a solar sail for spacecraft propulsion
LightSail, a solar sail cubesat by The Planetary Society
Amazon Lightsail, a computing server service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail2ban | Fail2ban is an intrusion prevention software framework. Written in the Python programming language, it is designed to prevent brute-force attacks. It is able to run on POSIX systems that have an interface to a packet-control system or firewall installed locally, such as iptables or TCP Wrapper.
Functionality
Fail2ban operates by monitoring log files (e.g. , , etc.) for selected entries and running scripts based on them. Most commonly this is used to block selected IP addresses that may belong to hosts that are trying to breach the system's security. It can ban any host IP address that makes too many login attempts or performs any other unwanted action within a time frame defined by the administrator. It includes support for both IPv4 and IPv6. Optionally longer bans can be custom-configured for "recidivist" abusers that keep coming back. Fail2ban is typically set up to unban a blocked host within a certain period, so as to not "lock out" any genuine connections that may have been temporarily misconfigured. However, an unban time of several minutes is usually enough to stop a network connection being flooded by malicious connections, as well as reducing the likelihood of a successful dictionary attack.
Fail2ban can perform multiple actions whenever an abusive IP address is detected: update Netfilter/iptables or PF firewall rules, TCP Wrapper's table, to reject an abuser's IP address; email notifications; or any user-defined action that can be carried out by a Python script.
The standard configuration ships with filters for Apache, Lighttpd, sshd, vsftpd, qmail, Postfix and Courier Mail Server. Filters are defined by Python regexes, which may be conveniently customized by an administrator familiar with regular expressions. A combination of a filter and an action is known as a "jail" and is what causes a malicious host to be blocked from accessing specified network services. As well as the examples that are distributed with the software, a "jail" may be created for any network-facing process that creates a log file of access.
Integrations
Fail2ban can be integrated with many APIs, including blocklist.de and AbuseIPDB.
Shortcomings
Fail2ban fails to protect against a distributed brute-force attack. However, tools exist to distribute ban/unban events among servers using zmq.
There is no interaction with application-specific APIs.
See also
DenyHosts, a log-based intrusion-prevention security tool
Stockade, a rate-limiting approach to spam mitigation.
OSSEC, an open-source host-based intrusion-detection system.
References
External links
Debian popularity contest results for fail2ban
Free software programmed in Python
Computer network security
Computer security software
Internet Protocol based network software
Free network-related software
Free security software
Linux security software
Brute force blocking software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khosla%20Ventures | Khosla Ventures is an American venture capital firm founded by Vinod Khosla, focused on early-stage companies in the Internet, computing, mobile, financial services, agriculture, healthcare and clean technology sectors. Some of its most successful investments include Affirm, DoorDash, Square, Impossible Foods and Instacart.
History
The firm was founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, a former general partner of Kleiner Perkins. The firm's first two investment vehicles were funded with Khosla's own personal capital and were not open to institutional investors. In March 2009, Pierre Lamond became General Partner. In December 2009, Khosla completed fundraising for two new funds, to invest in cleantech and information technology start-ups.
Khosla Ventures Fund III secured $1 billion of investor commitments to invest in traditional early stage and growth stage companies. Khosla also raised $300 million for Khosla Seed, which will invest in higher-risk opportunities and science experiments. The firm has invested in bio-refineries for energy and bioplastics, solar, wind, battery, engines, LED, HVAC efficiency and other environmentally friendly technologies.
, Khosla Ventures was one of the five largest and most active investors in the space sector, which has had over of private capital invested in it since 2005.
In September 2017, Khosla Ventures had about $5 billion in assets under management.
In October 2021, Khosla Ventures announced that it had raised $1.4 billion in funding to invest in early-to-late stage startups, breaking down to $400 million for seed deals and $1 billion for later-stage companies. The fund has incubated several companies including QuantumScape and NextVivo.
In January 2022, Khosla Ventures raised $557 million in its first opportunity fund.
Investments
Khosla Ventures has invested in several enterprise companies including Okta, valued at $27 billion as of August 2020, RingCentral, valued at $23.5 billion as of May 2021, along with others including Nutanix, ThoughtSpot and Rubrik. Khosla investments into transportation include Hermeus, Waabi, and Glydways.
In October 2021, DevOps platform provider GitLab raised $801 million in its initial public offering. Khosla Ventures led the seed round in 2015 and reportedly made more than 150 times return on its investment.
Khosla Ventures has also made numerous healthcare investments including Guardant Health. Many of Khosla's healthcare investments are based on his belief that artificial intelligence will allow for safer and cheaper healthcare. The companies include Color Genomics, a genetic testing service, Oscar Health, a tech enabled health insurance, Sword Health, which provides virtual MSK care, and Cellino which is known for its drug discovery. Khosla Ventures was the first venture capital investor of Impossible Foods, investing $3 million in 2011.
Affirm, a financial technology company, raised $1.2 billion in its initial public offering, which was the largest U.S. filing of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag-of-words%20model | The bag-of-words model is a model of text represented as an unordered collection of words. It is used in natural language processing and information retrieval (IR). It disregards grammar and word order but keeps multiplicity. The bag-of-words model has also been used for computer vision.
The bag-of-words model is commonly used in methods of document classification where the (frequency of) occurrence of each word is used as a feature for training a classifier.
An early reference to "bag of words" in a linguistic context can be found in Zellig Harris's 1954 article on Distributional Structure.
The Bag-of-words model is one example of a Vector space model.
Example implementation
The following models a text document using bag-of-words. Here are two simple text documents:
(1) John likes to watch movies. Mary likes movies too.
(2) Mary also likes to watch football games.
Based on these two text documents, a list is constructed as follows for each document:
"John","likes","to","watch","movies","Mary","likes","movies","too"
"Mary","also","likes","to","watch","football","games"
Representing each bag-of-words as a JSON object, and attributing to the respective JavaScript variable:
BoW1 = {"John":1,"likes":2,"to":1,"watch":1,"movies":2,"Mary":1,"too":1};
BoW2 = {"Mary":1,"also":1,"likes":1,"to":1,"watch":1,"football":1,"games":1};
Each key is the word, and each value is the number of occurrences of that word in the given text document.
The order of elements is free, so, for example {"too":1,"Mary":1,"movies":2,"John":1,"watch":1,"likes":2,"to":1} is also equivalent to BoW1. It is also what we expect from a strict JSON object representation.
Note: if another document is like a union of these two,
(3) John likes to watch movies. Mary likes movies too. Mary also likes to watch football games.
its JavaScript representation will be:
BoW3 = {"John":1,"likes":3,"to":2,"watch":2,"movies":2,"Mary":2,"too":1,"also":1,"football":1,"games":1};
So, as we see in the bag algebra, the "union" of two documents in the bags-of-words representation is, formally, the disjoint union, summing the multiplicities of each element.
.
Application
The Bag-of-words model was mainly used to calculate frequencies of words in different documents. The frequencies were typically "normalized" by the inverse of document frequency, or tf–idf. Additionally, for the specific purpose of classification, supervised alternatives have been developed to account for the class label of a document. Lastly, binary (presence/absence or 1/0) weighting is used in place of frequencies for some problems (e.g., this option is implemented in the WEKA machine learning software system).
Python implementation
# Make sure to install the necessary packages first
# pip install --upgrade pip
# pip install tensorflow
from tensorflow import keras
from typing import List
from keras.preprocessing.text import Tokenizer
sentence = ["John likes to watch movies. Mary likes movies too."]
def print_bow(sen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netskills | Netskills was a training and staff development organisation providing services to help the UK education sector make effective use of technology.
Netskills started in 1995 as a project called 'Network Skills for Users of the Electronic Library' and had the mission 'to help the UK higher education community make effective use of the Internet for teaching, research and administration', which it achieved through workshops on topics including 'An Introduction to the Internet', 'Searching for Information on the World Wide Web' and 'An introduction to World Wide Web Authoring'.
In 1998 Netskills became a Jisc advisory service, with the new mission 'To be a centre of expertise and knowledge - supporting and enabling the education community to make effective, sustainable use of innovative technology through training, development and consultancy'.
At one stage every university in the UK used the service along with over 400 FE colleges and more than 40 library authorities.
During 2009 Netskills became one of a number of Jisc Advisory services to become part of Jisc Advance. As Jisc Netskills, the service provided a range of training programmes and expertise on topics such as e-learning, web development, social networking, Web 2.0 technologies, information skills and access management.
Some activities were brought in-house by Jisc from 2 January 2015 as part of Jisc Customer Services, nominally marking the closure of the service.
By the end of the project almost 1000 individuals were taking part in Netskills training events every year.
During its time as a Jisc-funded project, Netskills was based at Newcastle University.
References
External links
Just Netskills
Jisc
Newcastle University
Education in the United Kingdom
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Jisc
Newcastle University
Science and technology in Tyne and Wear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair%20Murdoch | Blair Murdoch (born June 11, 1943) was a television producer during the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. He independently produced many television series, mainly game shows, for Global Television Network in Canada and for MGM Television in Los Angeles. His work included Acting Crazy, The Next Line, The New Liar's Club, Kidstreet, Richard Deacon's Micro Magic, Celebrity Microwaves with Pete Barbutti, Men in Action, Love Me, Love Me Not, Fibi's Funny Bones, Money Court, Love Handles, An Evening with Casey Stengel and Sea Hunt. Many of Murdoch's shows were cast at the CKVU-TV studios in Vancouver, British Columbia. His other place of production was CFAC-TV in Calgary, Alberta.
References
Canadian television producers
Living people
1943 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Host%20Board | System Host Board is a term applied to a single-board computer meeting the PICMG 1.3 specification. PICMG 1.3 extended the previous PICMG specifications to continue support for PCI/PCI-X expansion cards as well as new support for PCI Express.
References
External links
PICMG 1.3 SHB Express Resources
Single-board computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSJR-FM | KSJR-FM (90.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Collegeville, Minnesota, and serving the St. Cloud area. The station is owned by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), and airs MPR's "Classical Music Network," originating from the Twin Cities. The station has inserts at least once an hour for local underwriting and weather.
KSJR was the birthplace of MPR. It signed on from the campus of Saint John's University on January 22, 1967. However, it soon became apparent that the station needed to reach the Twin Cities, an hour southeast, if it had any chance of surviving, as the St. Cloud/Stearns County area was not nearly large enough for the station to be viable. KSJR tripled its power in hopes of reaching the valuable Twin Cities market. Even then, it barely covered Minneapolis and missed St. Paul. The station's young general manager, Bill Kling, then persuaded Saint John's to sign on a repeater for the Twin Cities, KSJN. By 1969, however, the operation was still awash in debt, so Saint John's transferred the stations to a nonprofit corporation that evolved into Minnesota Public Radio.
MPR moved its headquarters to St. Paul in 1971, and KSJR eventually reduced its power to normal levels as KSJN became the flagship station. MPR still maintains and office and studio space on the St. John's campus in Collegeville.
See also Minnesota Public Radio
Translators
KSJR-FM is relayed by two additional translator stations.
References
External links
KSJR-FM page at Minnesota Public Radio
Radio stations in Minnesota
Minnesota Public Radio
Classical music radio stations in the United States
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1967
Radio stations in St. Cloud, Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSCN | WSCN (100.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Cloquet, Minnesota, serving the Duluth-Superior area. The station is owned by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), and airs MPR's "News and Information" network, originating from the Twin Cities. The station has inserts at least once an hour for local underwriting and weather. MPR also maintains an office and studio in downtown Duluth.
WSCN broadcasts in HD.
History
WSCN signed on as WKLK-FM at 100.9 MHz on November 17, 1975. It was owned with WKLK (1230 AM) and almost entirely simulcast it. The station was sold to Minnesota Public Radio in 1988 for $200,000 and upgraded its signal from 3,000 watts to 100,000 watts, and relocating to 100.5.
On January 20, 2016, MPR announced that WSCD-FM translator 90.9 W215CG and WSCN-HD2 would air its adult album alternative network The Current beginning February 1, 2016. Programming originates from MPR's studios in St. Paul, but a local program featuring Duluth music is produced for the network.
External links
WSCN page at Minnesota Public Radio
References
Radio stations in Minnesota
Minnesota Public Radio
NPR member stations
Cloquet, Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRSW | KRSW (89.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Worthington, Minnesota, serving the Marshall area. The station is owned by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), and airs MPR's "Classical Music Network," originating from the Twin Cities. MPR maintains office space on the campus of Minnesota West Community and Technical College, but all programming originates from the St. Paul office. The station has local inserts at least once an hour for underwriting and a local weather forecast.
See also Minnesota Public Radio
External links
KRSW page at Minnesota Public Radio
Radio stations in Minnesota
Minnesota Public Radio
Classical music radio stations in the United States
NPR member stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notion%20%28music%20software%29 | Notion, previously stylized as NOTION, is a computer software program for music composition and performance, created by NOTION Music (formerly Virtuosoworks) of Greensboro, North Carolina. NOTION Music was acquired by PreSonus in 2013 which in turn was acquired by Fender Musical Instruments in 2021. Notion 6 is available on Microsoft Windows and macOS, and Notion Mobile is available for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Fire OS.
Composition
Notion supports composition using a computer keyboard/mouse, MIDI keyboard, MIDI guitar, MIDI file, MusicXML file, or handwriting recognition. It automatically handles aspects of music notation such as stem direction and alignment of rhythmic values, and supports the input and output of notation in tablature form, synchronized with the standard music notation.
It includes an audio mixer to set volume levels, perform panning, and add effects such as equalization, compression and reverb.
From version 3 onward, it supports third-party VST effects and other third-party sound libraries, including presets for products from the Vienna Symphonic Library, EastWest, Miroslav Philharmonik, and Garritan Personal Orchestra.
Playback and performance
Notion's sample playback library was recorded at Abbey Road by the London Symphony Orchestra. The playback engine has options for real-time interpretation of tempi, articulations, and performance techniques.
Users can capture playback in wav digital audio files for transfer to CD or digital audio workstation, or for conversion to other audio formats such as mp3.
Integration with Studio One
Starting with version 3.3 in 2016, the Studio One DAW (also developed by PreSonus) is integrated with Notion version 6 and above, allowing the two applications to perform real-time audio and MIDI streaming (via either ReWire or PreSonus' own UCNET protocol) to share audio, note, track, VST and score data, either with both applications running on the same computer, or on multiple computers connected to a network.
This integration was expanded further by Notion versions 6.4 (May 2018, following the release of the Chord track for Studio One in version 4), allowing the transfer of chord-level information between the two applications; and version 6.5 (January 2019), which enabled the automatic translation of drum tracks into standard percussion notation.
In 2021 Notion Mobile was released based on Studio One's software framework, enabling the two applications to share and natively open Notion document files.
See also
PreSonus
Studio One (software)
Progression (software)
List of music software
Notes
External links
Scorewriters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20The%20Pet%20Network | This is a list of television programs formerly and currently broadcast by the Canadian television channel The Pet Network.
Current programming
This a list of programs currently being broadcast regularly, as of November 2007.
Final programming
0–9
100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd
A–E
The Adventures of Black Stallion
Amazing Tales
Animal Airport
Animal Allies
Animal Crackers
Animal Doctor
Animal House
Animal Magnetism
Animal Miracles
Animal Movie Magic
Animal Rescue
Animal SOS
Animalia
Bark Off!
Baman Piderman
Dogs
F–J
Good Dog
Harry's Mad
Here's Boomer
K–O
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
Life with Pets
Mickey's Farm, a.k.a. Mickey: Everyone's Best Friend
The Mighty Jungle
Ned's Newt
Noah's Ark
P–T
Patrol 03
Pet Central
Pet Cinema - various movies
Pet Docs - various documentaries
Pet Fashion
Pet Friends
Pets and People
Riding High
Twits & Pishers
U–Z
Vets in Hong Kong
Vets on the Wildside
Wild Thing!
Woof!
Working Animals
World's Greatest Pets
Original programming
A–E
Barking!
Barking Mad
Battersea Dogs' Home
Dog-pound Shuffle
F–J
Gentle Doctor
Hollywood Pets
International Animal Emergency
K–O
Lassie
My Magic Dog
P–T
Pet Project
Psycho Kitty
The Right Companion
Sunny's Ears
U–Z
The Vet
External links
The Pet Network
Pet Network, The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enne | Enne may refer to:
Enne Dam, a dam in Kütahya Province, Turkey
Canton of Enne et Alzou, an administrative division of Aveyron, France
Enne Limited, a data company founded by Antonino Letteriello
People with the surname
Merika Enne (born 1992), Finnish snowboarder
See also
Ennes (disambiguation)
Ñ, a letter used in Spanish and other languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack//Link | .hack//Link is a single-player action role-playing game developed by CyberConnect2 for the . The game was released exclusively in Japan on March 4, 2010.
Set in a fictional version of the year 2020, .hack//Link's story takes place in a new version of "The World", a popular series of MMORPGs known as The World R:X. The game focuses on a young man named Tokio Kuryuu, a second year junior-high student who gets transported into The World R:X by a new student named Saika Amagi. After arriving into the game, Tokio is tasked by an artificial intelligence version of the character Kite to be a hero and use a tower of the Akashic Records to save the Twilight Knights, a group of artificial intelligence versions of characters based on casts of previous entries in the .hack series. Using the Akashic Records, Tokio is able to travel backwards in time to previous .hack entries and encounter past characters in order to unfreeze the data of the Twilight Knights.
Since its release, .hack//Link has been met with negative to mixed reception among both critics and fans alike. With many praising the expansion of the series' overall lore, but with strong criticism towards the gameplay of the title.
Although never stated to be the final chapter to the .hack series, the game is currently the last game in the chronology of the series to bear the name of .hack. The game was eventually followed with future installments known as Guilty Dragon: The Sin Dragon and the Eight Curses and New World Vol. 1: Maiden of Silver Tears for both iOS and Android platforms. Both games have since had their services discontinued.
Plot
The story takes place in the year 2020. Tokio Kuryuu is a normal middle-school student who loves to play games. One day, a transfer student named Saika Amagi approaches Tokio and takes him to the school rooftop where she sends Tokio directly into The World R:X. There, he finds Kite, the legendary hero and leader of Twilight Knight dedicated to protect The World fighting against Flügel, the leader of a mysterious group called Schicksal. During their battle, Kite protected Tokio from Flügel's attack, resulting Kite's PC to be frozen but not before he asked Tokio to save them. Tokio is then transported to Saika's hideout, Grand Whale, and forcefully makes him her slave to find four items called Chrono Cores that are necessary to fully control the Akashic Record, a god-like power that holds over the system of The World and enables them to travel to the past data of The World. Using the Akashic Record, Tokio and Saika travels throughout the past timelines of .hack series to find the Chrono Cores and restored the frozen data of all members of Twilight Knights, gaining new allies in the process.
During their journey, Tokio befriends AIKA, a benevolent AIDA-PC that greatly resembles Saika whom the latter introduces as some sort of her alter ego. Saika also reveals that the reason she's gather Chrono Cores is because her cousin, Jyotaro Amagi, has sent her an email |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden%20railway%20station%2C%20Wellington | Linden railway station is located on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) in Linden, New Zealand and is part of the suburban rail network of Wellington. It is double tracked, has an island platform layout, and is 14.91 km from Wellington railway station, the southern terminus of the NIMT.
Services
Linden is served by Kapiti Line commuter trains operated by Transdev Wellington under the Metlink brand operating between Wellington and Porirua or Waikanae. Services are operated by electric multiple units of the FT/FP class (Matangi). Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, pass through the station but do not stop.
Off-peak trains stop at all stations between Wellington and Waikanae. During peak periods, trains from Wellington that stop at all stations may terminate at Porirua or Plimmerton and return to Wellington while a number of peak services run express between Wellington and Porirua and thus do not stop at Linden.
Travel times by train are seventeen minutes to Wellington, four minutes to Porirua, and forty-three minutes to Waikanae.
Trains run every twenty minutes during daytime off-peak hours, more frequently during peak periods, and less frequently at night. Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae stopping at Linden ran every thirty minutes but were increased to one every twenty minutes from 15 July 2018.
History
The line through Linden was originally part of the Wellington - Manawatu Line built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR). The single track line opened on 24 September 1885 when services commenced on the first section of the line from Wellington to Paremata with the full line to Longburn completed in 1886. Trains were operated by the WMR until December 1908, when the New Zealand Railways Department purchased the WMR and incorporated its line into the NIMT.
On 19 June 1937, the Tawa Flat deviation to the south of Linden was opened to passenger services with double track from Tawa Flat to Wellington. It eliminated the circuitous single track route via Johnsonville to Wellington. The line through Linden was electrified in June 1940 and double track from Tawa Flat to Porirua was completed on 15 December 1957.
Linden station opened with trains stopping there from 28 July 1940, after more than thirty years of requests to the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) by developers, and by local residents wishing to avoid a walk of up to a mile from the Tawa Station. Apparently, those wishing to alight used to pull the emergency brake cord so that the train stopped in the vicinity of Collins Avenue; Don Carman recalls passengers debating as to whose turn it was to pull the cord. Deputations and letters to the minister in the 1930s were told that the time (for a station) was not yet ripe; though a petition in April 1939 got agreement after completion of electrification (in 1940), though delayed by the war. Originally conditiona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenepuru%20railway%20station | Kenepuru railway station is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) in New Zealand, on Wellington's suburban rail network. It is double tracked with side platforms on a curved section of the line, 16.16 km from Wellington railway station, the southern terminus of the NIMT. The station serves the industrial suburb of Kenepuru and is within walking distance of Kenepuru Hospital.
Services
Kenepuru is served by Kapiti Line commuter trains operated by Transdev Wellington under the Metlink brand operating between Wellington and Porirua or Waikanae. Services are operated by electric multiple units of the FT/FP class (Matangi). Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, both pass through the station but do not stop.
Off-peak trains stop at all stations between Wellington and Waikanae. During peak periods, trains from Wellington that stop at all stations may terminate at Porirua or Plimmerton and return to Wellington while a number of peak services run express between Wellington and Porirua and thus do not stop at Kenepuru.
Travel times by train are nineteen minutes to Wellington, two minutes to Porirua, and forty-one minutes to Waikanae.
Trains run every twenty minutes during daytime off-peak hours, more frequently during peak periods, and less frequently at night. Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae stopping at Kenepuru ran every thirty minutes but were increased to one every twenty minutes from 15 July 2018.
Kenepuru was considered for closure by the Greater Wellington Regional Council as it was claimed that it had low usage and required considerable expenditure for upgrading for the new Matangi units, and for safety reasons. However, it was announced on 5 October 2011 that it was safe for now and minor remedial work would be done to extend its life for 10 more years.
The station buildings and platforms were refurbished over the Christmas 2011 break and reopened on 24 January 2012. At a cost of over $320,000 both platforms were resurfaced, the southbound platform was strengthened and the access path to it upgraded (the first refurbishment since the station opened in 1963).
History
The line through Kenepuru was built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR), completed to Longburn in 1886 and operated by the WMR until December 1908, when the New Zealand Railways Department purchased it and incorporated its line into the NIMT.
On 19 June 1937, the Tawa Flat deviation was opened to the south of Kenepuru. It eliminated the circuitous route via Johnsonville into Wellington. In June 1940 the line through the future site of Kenepuru station was electrified, and on 15 December 1957 it was double tracked.
The railway initially ran through farmland in the Kenepuru area but by 1960 the nearby Kenepuru Hospital was being developed, there was increasing commercial development between Kenepuru Drive and the railway, and the Bell Block subdivision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollhouse%20%28TV%20series%29 | Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon under Mutant Enemy Productions. It premiered on February 13, 2009, on the Fox network and was canceled on November 11, 2009. The final episode aired on January 29, 2010. Production wrapped in December 2009, with a total of 27 episodes produced including the original pilot.
The show revolves around a corporation running numerous underground establishments (known as "Dollhouses") around the globe that program individuals referred to as Actives (or Dolls) with temporary personalities and skills. Wealthy clients hire Actives from Dollhouses at great expense for various purposes, including heists, sexual encounters, assassinations, expert counsel, and all manner of unique experiences. The series primarily follows the Active known as Echo, played by Eliza Dushku, on her journey toward self-awareness. Dushku also served as series producer.
Dollhouse initially received mixed reviews and underwhelming ratings, but improved enough to be renewed for a second season. After the second-season finale, the series was canceled.
Plot
The story follows Echo (Eliza Dushku), a "doll" or "Active" for the Los Angeles "Dollhouse", one of several facilities, called "Houses", run by a company which hires out human beings to wealthy clients. These "engagements" range from romantic interludes to high-risk criminal enterprises. Each Active has their original memories wiped and exists in a childlike blank state until programmed via the insertion of new memories and personalities for each mission. Actives such as Echo are ostensibly volunteers who have surrendered their minds and bodies to the organization for five-year stints, during which their original personalities are saved on hard drives, in exchange for vast amounts of money and solutions to any other problematic circumstances in their lives. Echo is unique, however, in that she remembers small amounts even after personality "wipes", and gradually develops an increasingly cognizant self-awareness and personality that's resistant to erasure. This concept allows the series to examine the notions of identity and personhood.
Within The House, opinions on such matters are divided. Dollhouse director Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams) sees her role as merely giving people what they need; programmer Topher Brink (Fran Kranz) is initially entirely scientific and amoral, apart from brief flashes of moral quandary; while Echo's mentor in The House or "handler", Boyd Langton (Harry Lennix), an ex-cop with an unknown past, expresses concern with the ethical and theological implications of the Dollhouse's technology, using his inside role as an opportunity to limit any collateral damage. Raising intriguing questions about personality and selfhood are other dolls Victor (Enver Gjokaj) and Sierra (Dichen Lachman), who despite being continually re-wiped, begin to fall in love and retain those feelings whether wiped or imprinted with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOS%20%28operating%20system%29 | gOS or "good OS" was an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation. Its CIO David Liu described that after meeting Enlightenment and open source people, he realized that his dream to bring Web 2.0 applications into mainstream use could be achieved by creating a Linux distribution that made it easy for users to access Google and Web 2.0 applications. David Liu went on to create the Chinese Twitter clone called Wozai (), leaving gOS officially defunct.
History
The company initially advertised gOS 1.0 as "An alternative OS with Google Apps and other Web 2.0 apps for the modern user." This first version of gOS (1.0.1_386) was based on Ubuntu 7.10 and the Enlightenment window manager E17.
On January 7, 2008, a test version (2.0.0-beta1) of gOS, intended to demonstrate the Everex CloudBook at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, and named gOS Rocket, was released. This version was also E17-based. The definitive second version of gOS debuted at the end February 2008, together with the launch of Everex's new CloudBook, the gBook laptop, and a new, second version of the gPC, the "encore". This version was called gOS V2 Rocket, and was completely rewritten and now based on the GNOME window manager, a built in Compositing window manager, and the Avant Window Navigator.
On April 6, 2008, Good OS launched a publicly available version of gOS, called gOS 2.9 "Space", intended for the gPC mini, This version is based on Compiz fusion, Gnome, and the Avant Window Navigator dock manager, but also uses E17 code. It has a dock with a "stack" very much like the "fan view" of Mac OS X v10.5.
On September 23, 2008, Good OS launched gOS 3 Gadgets, which is described by Good OS, as "The third and best version of gOS to date, Perfect for Netbooks". It is still based on GNOME but has replaced AWN with yet another launcher called Wbar. It introduces the full support for Wine 1.0, Picasa (using the Wine libraries) and Google Gadgets.
On December 1, 2008, Good OS announced its next operating system, Cloud. Cloud can be described as an "instant-on browser-based application environment". With Cloud, users can browse the Internet seconds after turning on their computer, and can also use it to run applications, like Skype, or a media player. Cloud shows a Dock similar to gOS 3 in the browser window, and will keep loading the main operating system (Windows, Linux, OSX) in the background. An icon in the Dock will tell the user when the main OS has finished booting in the background, and can be used to switch instantly to the main OS, when tasks not (yet) supported under Cloud are needed. A beta test program for Cloud version 1.0 was announced January 30, 2009.
On January 3, 2009, Good OS released gOS 3.1 Gadgets (SP1), or Service pack 1, a bug-fixed version of gOS 3.0. Simultaneously, the Good OS team also launched a new official forum, as a replacement for the Google discussion group used previously and faqly, which is now defunct. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbita%20palmata | Cucurbita palmata is a species of flowering plant in the squash family known by the common names coyote melon and coyote gourd. It is similar to Cucurbita californica, Cucurbita cordata, Cucurbita cylindrata, and Cucurbita digitata and all these species hybridize readily. It was first identified by Sereno Watson in 1876. These species form the only restricted xerophyte species group in the genus Cucurbita. Each member of this species group is native to the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico where they are relatively uncommon. Each group member is found in hot, arid regions with low rainfall. They prefer soil that is loose, gravelly, and well-drained. C. palmata is native to northeastern Baja California, southeastern California, and southwestern Arizona to a point near the Colorado River. The juvenile leaves of C. cylindrata, C. cordata, C. digitata, and C. palmata show a high degree of similarity, but their mature leaves are visibly different, as are their root structures. C. palmata and C. digitata are sympatric, with C. palmata separating the ranges of C. digitata at the juncture of Baja California, California, and Arizona. C. palmata fruits are diffuse green mottle that turns yellow at maturity, striped, and round.
Description
Cucurbita palmata is a sprawling vine with rough, stiff-haired stems and leaves. The dark green, light-veined leaves are sharply palmate with usually five long triangular points.
The stiff, curling yellow flowers are 6 to 8 centimeters wide. The plant bears smooth spherical or oblate squash fruits 8 to 10 centimeters wide.
The fruits may be bright yellow to dark green and may have white stripes. The fruit is distasteful and not edible.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment: Cucurbita palmata
Cucurbita palmata — U.C. Photo gallery
palmata
Flora of California
Flora of Nevada
Flora of Arizona
Flora of Baja California
Flora of Sonora
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Plants described in 1876
Squashes and pumpkins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWorks%20Plus | MacWorks Plus was a complete implementation (port) of the Macintosh Plus 128K ROM on the Apple Lisa and Macintosh XL computer systems, and introduced in August 1988. It was developed for Sun Remarketing of Cache Valley, Utah, under license from Apple Inc., by a contract developer named Chuck Lukaszewski, who was responsible for versions up through 1.1(h), which supported up to Macintosh System 6.0.3. Dafax Processing Corp. with the assistance of Query Engineering, Inc. then further developed the environment to MacWorks Plus II, which continued Macintosh system support up to System 6.0.8 with the Basic version, and introduced a Pro version to extend support to the maximum possible for any 68000 processor: System 7.5.5. Prior to MacWorks Plus, the maximum system supported by its predecessor MacWorks XL was System 3.2.
History
The design objective for MacWorks Plus was 100% compatibility with software that ran on the Macintosh Plus, which at the time was Apple's flagship product. This was a technically challenging goal because other than sharing the same Motorola 68000 processor, the underlying hardware architectures of the two systems were radically different. In order to understand how MacWorks Plus worked, it is easiest to divide the discussion into three areas: hardware interface, memory model and bootstrap protocol. These were the hardware-dependent aspects of the classic Mac OS at the time. The simplest method of transporting the Mac OS to another machine was to emulate them completely. Once achieved, the much larger hardware-independent code in the 128K ROM could execute with no modification. This is what was done with MacWorks Plus.
The goal was made possible by the existence of a hardware abstraction layer in the Macintosh Toolbox in the original Macintosh ROM, and a hardware Memory Management Unit (MMU) in the Lisa. Through a complete package of device drivers that fully implemented the Macintosh Toolbox Application Programming Interface (APIs), MacWorks Plus essentially tricked the 128K ROM code into thinking it was running on an actual Macintosh. It was also necessary to completely simulate the memory address space of a Macintosh Plus, including the behavior of certain illegal addresses that were deliberately exploited by certain applications (primarily games). Fortunately, while the Macintosh memory manager circuitry was not programmable, the Lisa featured a fully programmable hardware MMU which was a legacy of the minicomputer roots of its designers. Finally, bootloaders were written for all available floppy disk and hard disk models that were compatible with the Lisa.
MacWorks Plus consisted of some 23,000 lines of source code for the Lisa-dependent hardware interface and bootstrap code, plus an image of the 128K ROM that was licensed from Apple. It also included a standalone installer and a Control Panel that enabled a user to adjust certain Lisa specific features from inside the Mac OS user interface.
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20in%20Australian%20television | Below is a list of television-related events in 1989.
Events
December 1988 / January – Young Talent Time was rested by Network Ten during the Cricket / Australian Open season. One week into January 1989 the network announced that the show would not return. Reasons given for YTT's axing are very bad ratings. It was unable to match its rivals from Seven or Nine.
January – Nine Network launches two brand new daytime talk shows: In Melbourne Today and In Sydney Today, which later merge to become Ernie and Denise.
January – Seven Network purchases the Australian television rights to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics for $40 million.
13 January – American police drama series Hill Street Blues switches over to broadcast on ABC.
25 January – Network Ten debuts a brand new evening drama series: E Street (1989–1993).
30 January – Network Ten launches a brand new local morning series called Til Ten (1989–1991) hosted by Andrew Harwood and Joan McInnes.
6 February – The Afternoon Show (1987–1993) returns to the ABC for another year with a brand new lineup of two programmes presented by James Valentine. The two programmes include the debut of the British children's animated series Count Duckula and a repeat of the very first episode of Doctor Who to feature Tom Baker, Robot.
11 February – Long running Australian soap opera Home and Away starts airing in the UK for the very first time on ITV.
13 February – Australian investigative journalism/current affairs program Four Corners (1961–present) returns to the ABC for another year with Andrew Olle as presenter once again.
14 February – A brand new Australian sitcom called The Family Business (1989) starring Shane Withington debuts on Network Ten. The series ran for only one season and 13 episodes.
14 February – American sitcom Roseanne premieres on Network Ten.
28 February – A brand new live comedy series The Big Gig premieres on ABC (1989–1992).
28 February – Australian miniseries Edens Lost debuts on ABC at 8:30pm. The series only ran for three episodes and was shown on three days and one week with a budget of only $A3.9 million.
6 March – The Adventures of Spot, a British children's animated TV series based on the books by Eric Hill and aimed at pre-schoolers, debuts on the ABC.
7 March – Australian drama series G.P. (1989–1996) debuts on the ABC.
13 March – Australian version of the children's game show Double Dare (1989–1992) airs on Network Ten.
15 March – First episode of the new Australian police drama Police Rescue (1989–1996) airs on the ABC.
17 March – Bert Newton hosts the TV Week Logie Awards, telecast on the Seven Network for the first time.
20 March – The Bert Newton Show and new soap opera The Power, The Passion launch on the Seven Network, only shown for a few months, but later cancelled after a strong competition win with Midday with Ray Martin.
23 March – Long running Australian soap opera Home and Away begins airing on British forces television on BFBS and SSVC Television. The networks have transmi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%20in%20Australian%20television |
Events
January – The 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand are broadcast on Seven Network.
27 January – Australian longest running children's Saturday morning series Saturday Disney along with music video programme Video Smash Hits debut on Seven Network.
29 January – Welsh children's animated series Fireman Sam premieres on ABC.
29 January – Australian television and radio host Steve Vizard presents his very own national Tonight show titled Tonight Live with Steve Vizard which is shown five nights a week on Seven Network.
3 February – Paul Keane was ready to get axed from his long-running role as Des Clarke in Neighbours, but has instead opted to take a four-month hiatus and was expected to return in April. Keane's break from the show comes as cast morale is at an all-time low following the departure of several key cast members, but producers are confident that Des will return with some good storylines.
12 February – American children's animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles debuts on Seven Network.
13 February – ABC debuts a new current affairs program Lateline hosted by Kerry O'Brien.
16 February – Australian lifestyle and gardening series Gardening Australia debuts on ABC.
20 February – In Neighbours, Toby & Noelene Mangel depart.
23 February – In Neighbours, this was Bronwyn Davies' final episode.
28 February – In Neighbours, this was Hilary Robinson's final episode.
31 March – Neighbours Producers have chosen to write out the popular character of Sharon Davies – the on-screen sister to Rachel Friend's former character Bronwyn Davies, played by 19-year-old Jessica Muschamp said the exit of Neighbours may have been a "blessing in disguise." She finished her final credits in Neighbours in five weeks and after leaving the series, she went to English pantomime performances over Christmas and was considering mini-series and theatre roles in Australia.
April – Jennifer Keyte becomes the first solo woman newsreader on a commercial network in Australia when Glenn Taylor leaves the Melbourne bureau of Seven News.
9 June – Neighbours star Linda Hartley has decided to leave the hit-turned-troubled 10 TV Australia soap opera after a behind-the-scenes battle between producers Grundy Television and 10 TV Australia. Hartley had requested for a hiatus from the series to allow time to travel overseas and to pursue an opportunity for a singing career including a recording contract with Sony Music Australia, but Grundys were not keen to renew her contract, claiming the show had exceeded its casting budget. However, budget cuts ran out, negotiations broke down again and Hartley has chosen to leave the series.
2 July – Canadian children's animated series Babar based on a series of children's books by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff premieres on ABC.
15 July – After a long absence of six months, the Australian comedy series The Comedy Company returns on 10 TV Australia.
20 August - French children's animated series Bouli premieres on ABC.
3 Septem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%20in%20Australian%20television |
Events
January
2 January – British sitcom Mr. Bean starring Rowan Atkinson premieres on the ABC.
13 January – Network Ten undergoes a major rebrand, launching as "The Entertainment Network" and introducing a new logo, which remained in use until October 2018.
17 January – Seven Network's long running breakfast program Sunrise makes its first broadcast.
22 January – Australian sitcom All Together Now premieres on Nine Network.
February
8 February – French-American-Canadian animated series Inspector Gadget ends its afternoon run on ABC. The series will later shift to air on Sunday mornings on 22 December of that year.
10 February – The Simpsons debuts on Network Ten at with the first season episode, 'Bart the Genius'.
11 February – The ABC premieres the sitcom Eggshells starring Garry McDonald.
March
March – Tony Barber and Alyce Platt announced that they will quit hosting the quiz show Sale of the Century.
15 March – Steve Vizard wins the 1991 Gold Logie.
16 March – The producers of soap opera Neighbours have reported that star Beth Buchanan (sister of ex-Hey Dad star Simone) is going to leave the series when her contract expires in June.
17 March – ABC debuts a new Sunday morning children's wrapper programme called Couch Potato presented by Australian actor Grant Piro.
19 March – Australian children's series Johnson and Friends premieres in New Zealand on TVNZ's Channel 2 as part of the After 2 children's block.
April
April – Glenn Ridge and Jo Bailey replace Tony Barber and Alyce Platt on Sale of the Century.
6 April – Network Ten's troubled soap opera Neighbours is set to lose a record number of cast members as many of them have contract renewals coming up. Ian Williams, who plays medical student Adam Willis, is confirmed to be leaving, while co-star Lucinda Cowden who plays Melanie Pearson is also believed to be quitting when their contracts expire.
30 April – ABC's live comedy series The Big Gig returns with a new series.
6 April – Network Ten's disgraced soap opera Neighbours is set to lose never more than 25 actors along with 200 crew people, being terminated from their roles as part of the severe revamp. The names were Ian Smith (Harold Bishop), Lucinda Cowden (Melanie Pearson), Stefan Dennis (Paul Robinson), Gayle and Gillian Blakeney (Caroline & Christina Aleesi), Mark Little (Joe Mangel), Kristian Schimid (Todd Landers), Jeremy Angerson (Josh Anderson), Beth Buchanan (Gemma Ramsay), Amelia Frid (Cody Willis), Ben Guerens (Toby Mangel), Miranda Fryer (Sky Bishop) and Ian Williams (Adam Willis). Joining the shamed series will be former Cleo covergirl of the year Rachel Blakely and former models Scott Michaelson and Andrew Williams.
May
13 May – Triple J presenter and radio announcer Michael Tunn takes over as presenter of the Australian weekday magazine series The Afternoon Show.
15 May – Canadian teen drama series Degrassi High, the third in the Degrassi trilogy series makes its debut on ABC.
30 May – Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20in%20Australian%20television |
Events
1 January – The Victorian television market is aggregated, with VIC TV (now WIN Television) becoming the Nine Network affiliate, Prime Television taking a Seven Network affiliation & Southern Cross Network (now Southern Cross Ten) taking the Network Ten affiliation.
3 January – The long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who airs its finale broadcast on ABC with the fourth and final part of the seventh and final serial of Season 18, Logopolis. For the rest of 1992 there were no more broadcasts of Doctor Who. In March 1993 the first serial of Season 19, Castrovalva, was broadcast. The show would finish airing on 3 March 1994.
6 January – Neighbours and Home and Away return for 1992 now both screening against each other in the 7:30 pm timeslot.
20 January – Network Ten launches weeknight "First at Five" news on its five capital city stations.
20 January – Bert Newton returns to television as host of a new talk show on Network Ten The Morning Show.
20 January – Former ABC reporter Stan Grant presents a new nightly current affairs program called Real Life on Seven Network.
27 January – Australian evening current affairs program The 7.30 Report returns to ABC for the new year.
3 February – Ex-Europe Correspondent Ian Henderson takes over as newsreader for the 7.00 pm ABC News in Victoria after Mary Delahunty left to replace John Jost for the Victoria Edition of The 7.30 Report.
3 February – Australian pioneering lifestyle program Healthy, Wealthy and Wise makes its debut and begins a seven-year run on Network Ten.
8 February – Network Ten's troubled soap opera Neighbours is another attempt to bring back to its former 1980s ratings glory, producers are ramping up the show's storylines as well as writing out four cast members while signing up three new faces. Lorraine Bayly, Jeremy Angerson, Andrew Williams and Gillian Blakeney being terminated and are all leaving the show in coming weeks – while Ben Mitchell and Felice Arena are joining the series, and former guest star and future recording artist Natalie Imbruglia is returning for an ongoing role. Producer Don Battye is confident of re-signing Melissa Bell (the current Lucy Robinson) when her contract expires mid-year, despite moves to have her swap over to Ten's other evening soap, E Street. Veteran actor Tom Oliver has been re-signed with Neighbours, with plans to romantically match up his character Lou Carpenter to now-widowed Madge Bishop (Anne Charleston). Producers are also casting for two teenagers to enter the series as Carpenter's children. Another romantic storyline being devised by writers is set to involve Lucy (Melissa Bell) and Brad Willis (Scott Michaelson).
9 February – Three of Nine Network's current affairs lineup programmes 60 Minutes, Sunday and Business Sunday return for another year.
9 February – French-American-Canadian animated series Inspector Gadget airs on ABC as a stand-alone for the very last time. The series will continue airing on Sunday mornings whe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20America%202001 | Miss America 2001, the 74th Miss America pageant, was broadcast from on the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, October 14, 2000 on ABC Network. This was the first time that the pageant took place outside its traditional month of September. It was moved to October because the 2000 Summer Olympics were held in September.
Results
Placements
Order of announcements
Top 10
Top 5
Awards
Preliminary awards
Quality of Life awards
Non-finalist awards
Delegates
1 Age as of September 2000
Judges
Lenny Krayzelburg
Randolph Duke
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Emme
Diedrich Bader
Marcia Bullard
Melanie Brock (winner of Instant Celebrity Judge contest)
References
External links
Official Results
2001
2001 beauty pageants
2000 in New Jersey
October 2000 events in the United States
Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20America%201989 | Miss America 1989, the 62nd Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, September 10, 1988 and was televised by the NBC Network. The pageant was moved a week early because of the 1988 Summer Olympics.
The winner, Minnesota's Gretchen Carlson, would later become a notable television journalist for Fox News & would later become the Chairwoman for the Miss America Organization.
Results
Order of announcements
Top 10
Top 2
Awards
Preliminary awards
Non-finalist awards
Judges
Walter Anderson
Brian Boitano
Joyce Brothers
Richard Dysart
William Farley
Eileen Ford
Eva Gabor
Phyllis George
Deborah Norville
George Peppard
Blair Underwood
Lili Fini Zanuck
Candidates
Further reading
External links
Miss America official website
1989
1988 in the United States
1989 beauty pageants
1988 in New Jersey
September 1988 events in the United States
Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%20in%20Australian%20television |
Events
18 January – Australian police drama series Blue Heelers premieres on Seven Network.
28 January – American animated series Rugrats makes its debut on ABC at 5:30 pm.
31 January – American children's action TV series Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers debuts on Seven Network.
31 January – A sequel to the Australian family film Clowning Around called Clowning Around II airs on Seven Network.
February – Derryn Hinch has taken over Ray Martin's place as host of the Australian award-winning daytime talk program Midday.
7 February – Nicky Buckley replaces Jo Bailey as Glenn Ridge's co-host on Sale Of The Century, where she would remain for the next 6 years.
10 February – American science fiction television series The X-Files makes it debut on Network Ten.
11 February – The ABC has inked a deal to sell its children's TV series Bananas in Pyjamas to various countries around the world. The series has been sold for broadcasting in the UK, Cyprus, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Portugal, Iceland, Canada, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, South Africa, Namibia and Ireland. A deal is about to be signed with a Japanese network to air the series and ABC Enterprises executives will fly over to the USA for the New York Toy Fair and talks on how to crack the lucrative US market.
27 February – Network Ten launches Heartbreak High, a brand new schoolroom drama which was a spinoff of the 1993 Australian romantic comedy feature film The Heartbreak Kid.
28 February – Australian long running children's TV series Mr Squiggle returns to ABC for a brand new series at 3:55 pm.
3 March – British long running science fiction series Doctor Who airs on ABC for the last time in its original run at 4:30 am with the fourth and final part of the sixth and final serial of Season 22 Revelation of the Daleks.
5 March – American animated series Animaniacs premieres on the Nine Network as part of their What's Up Doc? block.
21 March – Final episode of the Australian comedy series Mother and Son airs on ABC.
24 March – American sitcom Frasier starring Kelsey Grammer premieres on the Nine Network.
27 March – The Animals of Farthing Wood, a British children's animated series based on the books by Colin Dann premieres on ABC at 8:00 am as part of Couch Potato.
31 March – Australia's iconic and long running soap Home and Away begins premiering on NBC in Namibia.
10 April – Australian children's TV series Lift Off has spawned into a game show titled EC Plays Lift Off with Mr. Fish as the host and only running for 13 episodes. It will air on ABC on every Sunday morning as part of Couch Potato.
11 April – Australian children's comedy series The Ferals premieres on ABC.
11 April – Michael Tunn, the host of the ABC's Afternoon Show returns with a brand new music series called Loud as a replacement for the weekday afternoon magazine show that was axed in late 1993. The show includes music videos as well as reviews on movies and video games, feature stori |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20America%201979 | Miss America 1979, the 52nd Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 9, 1978 on NBC Network.
Kylene Barker was the first Miss Virginia to win the crown.
Results
Placements
Order of announcements
Top 10
Awards
Preliminary awards
Non-finalist awards
Delegates
Judges
Neil J. Walsh
Mary Longely
Jerry Vale
Dr. Glenn Whitesides
Eileen Dole
Ray Sach Shroder
Renee Valente
Janet Langhart
External links
Miss America official website
1979
1978 in the United States
1979 beauty pageants
1978 in New Jersey
September 1978 events in the United States
Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach%20Yourself%20Scheme%20in%20Fixnum%20Days | Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days is an introductory book by Dorai Sitaram on the Scheme programming language using the Racket Scheme implementation. It is intended as a quick-start guide for novices. It works as a concise tutorial of the Scheme language.
The text is outdated in several parts, including its introduction to macros using an unhygienic macro system.
External links
Book homepage
References
Scheme (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-CubeX | I-CubeX comprises a system of sensors, actuators and interfaces that are configured by a personal computer. Using MIDI,
Bluetooth or the Universal Serial Bus (USB) as the basis for all communication, the complexity is managed behind a variety of software tools, including an end-user configuration editor, Max (software) plugins, and a C++ Application Programming Interface (API), which allows applications to be developed in Mac OS X, Linux and Windows operating systems.
Usage is primarily focused on allowing exploration and construction of alternative physical computer interaction systems, but have most notably been adopted by music enthusiasts, as they greatly simplify musical instrument mods and creation of novel electronic musical instruments, MIDI controllers and audio control surfaces (such as presented at NIME), e.g. for electronic music generation, and visual artists, as they greatly simplify interactive installation art and electronic art (such as presented at Ars Electronica and SIGGRAPH). In both cases, it is extensively used for teaching. It allows the construction of complex interactive systems out of simpler components. I-CubeX is designed and produced by Infusion Systems.
History
I-CubeX arose out of a research project in 1995 directed by Axel Mulder at the Department of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University to address the need for better tools for artists to create interactive art and for musicians to more easily create or modify musical instruments. It was inspired by projects such as STEIM's Sensorlab. While I-CubeX helped opening up access to technology for artists interested in sensor technology, it in itself inspired others to create new technology.
The field evolved into physical computing and it was followed by the creation of a number of other generic platforms for applying sensor technology in the (performing) arts such as Arduino, as well as the development of very application specific sensors for human interfacing and human interface devices. While the focus of I-CubeX technology was initially on translating sensor signals to MIDI (Digitizer, microDig) for music enthusiasts, the transmission protocols now include Bluetooth Low Energy and WiFi (WiDig), Bluetooth Classic (Wi-microDig) and USB (WiDig, USB-microDig) so as to facilitate its use by all kinds of researchers and engineers, as well as MIDI.
See also
Electronic musical instruments
MIDI controllers
Audio control surface
Sensors
Multimodal interaction
Human computer interaction
Human interface device
Assistive technology
Brain-computer interface
References
External links
About I-CubeX
Computing input devices
Electronic musical instruments
Multimodal interaction
Sensors
Physical computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence%20of%20the%20IBM%20PC%20on%20the%20personal%20computer%20market | Following the introduction of the IBM Personal Computer, or IBM PC, many other personal computer architectures became extinct within just a few years. It led to a wave of IBM PC compatible systems being released.
Before the IBM PC's introduction
Before the IBM PC was introduced, the personal computer market was dominated by systems using the 6502 and Z80 8-bit microprocessors, such as the TRS 80, Commodore PET, and Apple II series, which used proprietary operating systems, and by computers running CP/M. After IBM introduced the IBM PC, it was not until 1984 that IBM PC and clones became the dominant computers. In 1983, Byte forecast that by 1990, IBM would command only 11% of business computer sales. Commodore was predicted to hold a slim lead in a highly competitive market, at 11.9%.
Around 1978, several 16-bit CPUs became available. Examples included the Data General mN601, the Fairchild 9440, the Ferranti F100-L, the General Instrument CP1600 and CP1610, the National Semiconductor INS8900, Panafacom's MN1610, Texas Instruments' TMS9900, and, most notably, the Intel 8086. These new processors were expensive to incorporate in personal computers, as they used a 16-bit data bus and needed rare (and thus expensive) 16-bit peripheral and support chips.
More than 50 new business-oriented personal computer systems came on the market in the year before IBM released the IBM PC. Very few of them used a 16- or 32-bit microprocessor, as 8-bit systems were generally believed by the vendors to be perfectly adequate, and the Intel 8086 was too expensive to use.
Some of the main manufacturers selling 8-bit business systems during this period were:
Acorn Computers
Apple Computer Inc.
Atari Inc.
Commodore International
Cromemco
Digital Equipment Corporation
Durango Systems Inc.
Hewlett-Packard
InterSystems
Morrow Designs
North Star Computers
Ohio Scientific
Olivetti
Processor Technology
Sharp
South West Technical Products Corporation
Tandy Corporation
Zenith Data Systems/Heathkit
The IBM PC
On August 12, 1981, IBM released the IBM Personal Computer. One of the most far-reaching decisions made for IBM PC was to use an open architecture, leading to a large market for third party add-in boards and applications; but finally also to many competitors all creating "IBM-compatible" machines.
The IBM PC used the then-new Intel 8088 processor. Like other 16-bit CPUs, it could access up to 1 megabyte of RAM, but it used an 8-bit-wide data bus to memory and peripherals. This design allowed use of the large, readily available, and relatively inexpensive family of 8-bit-compatible support chips. IBM decided to use the Intel 8088 after first considering the Motorola 68000 and the Intel 8086, because the other two were considered to be too powerful for their needs. Although already established rivals like Apple and Radio Shack had many advantages over the company new to microcomputers, IBM's reputation in business computing allowed the IBM PC archit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ei%20Compendex | Ei Compendex is an engineering bibliographic database published by Elsevier.
The name "Compendex" stands for COMPuterized ENgineering inDEX.
It covers scientific literature pertaining to engineering materials.
It started in 1884 under the name Engineering Index (Ei) and its first electronic bulletin was issued in 1967.
Elsevier purchased the parent company Engineering Information in 1998.
Coverage
Ei Compendex currently contains over 20 million records as of December 2020 and references over 5,000 international sources including journals, conferences and trade publications. Approximately 1,000,000 new records are added to the database annually from over 190 disciplines within the engineering field. Coverage is updated every week and covers the years 1970 to the present.
Coverage of engineering subjects include nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as multiple subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
References
External links
Compendex and EI backfile
Compendex on STN
STN Compendex file summary.. PDF download. January 2014
Ei and Compendex History
Bibliographic databases in engineering
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadmill%20desk | A treadmill desk, walking desk or treadmill workstation is a computer desk that is adapted so that the user walks on a treadmill while performing office tasks. Persons using a treadmill desk seek to change the sedentary lifestyle associated with being an office worker and to integrate gentle exercise into their working day.
History
Persons with a sedentary lifestyle are at increased risk for heart disease, diabetes, and lower than average life expectancy. The desk treadmill is an exercise machine which office workers may use to get more physical activity during their work day. On the premise of increasing productivity and health, treadmill desks were designed to help users incorporate standing and walking into their work routine.
Nathan Edelson first proposed the idea of a treadmill desk. and published the first peer reviewed articles on the topic. His lightweight, portable version of a desk for use with a treadmill was patented in 1993. Edelson produced several prototypes that were used in a home and work office since the early 1990s with utilizing treadmills, stationary bicycles, and standing uptight to work. (see photos of prototypes)
Dr. Seth Roberts, a professor of psychology from UC Berkeley designed a treadmill desk in 1996, was an early user.
The New York Times credits Dr. James Levine, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic, as the popular inspiration for the treadmill desk. He developed the concept as part of his work with non-exercise activity thermogenesis, constructing a treadmill desk by placing a bedside hospital tray over a $400 treadmill.
After testing a treadmill desk in 2006 for several months under the supervision of Dr James Levine, Roger Highfield helped popularize the idea in the UK. He now uses one in the Science Museum in London and has advocated their widespread adoption.
In 2009, the TrekDesk Treadmill Desk entered the market as the first height adjustable desk with a universal design which fit any existing treadmill. In 2013, novelist Amanda Filipacchi wrote an essay for the Wall Street Journal about buying a LifeSpan Fitness treadmill desk for herself and TreadDesk's the Tread for her partner after reading about Susan Orlean having a treadmill desk .
In 2015, Move To Excellence began distributing LifeSpan Treadmill Desks in the Middle East. In 2018, the Director of the Department of Health in Abu Dhabi launched the 10k steps a day challenge while walking on a treadmill desk during the 2018 Arab Health event.
Safety and usage specifications
The recommended speed for walking on a treadmill while working at a computer is less than 2 miles per hour. To prevent injury, treadmill desks require compliance with the same ergonomic safety standards recommended for any computer desk, including placement such that the user's wrists are flat by the keyboard, their elbows form a 90-degree angle when typing, and their eyes may look forward to the monitor.
Treadmill desks are equipped with safety features to minimize the po |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2011 | National Cycle Route 11 is a bikeway in England on the UK's National Cycle Network, connecting Harlow in Essex to King's Lynn in Norfolk.
Route
Harlow to Cambridge
Harlow | Bishop Stortford | Hinxton | Sawston | Cambridge
Route 11 is planned to start in Harlow at a junction with route 1. However, aside from a short section of off road cycle path near Bishops Stortford, there is no route before Standsted Mountfitchet. Here a delisted section on country lanes heads north to near Audley End station where the listed section continues north to Ickleton and Duxford. Off road sections via Sawston lead to an off road path parallel with the railway at Great Shelford.
This section of the cycle path, about long, from Great Shelford to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, is decorated with 10,257 lines of four colours representing the nucleotide sequence of the BRCA2 gene. This gene, implicated in early-onset breast cancer, was discovered in 1994; the discoverers included scientists from nearby Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Sanger Institute, Hinxton.
This section of path also includes and commemorates the 10,000th mile of the National Cycle Network. It is fondly referred to by regular users as "The DNA path". It offers a fine view of White Hill and Clarke's Hill, which are the northernmost peaks of the Gog Magog Hills.
Route 11 intersects with National Cycle Route 51 in Cambridge.
Cambridge to King's Lynn
Cambridge | Burwell | Wicken | Ely | Downham Market | Watlington | King's Lynn
Intersects with National Cycle Route 1 near King's Lynn
Route 11 passes through the historic centre of Cambridge passing buildings including Kings College Chapel. Leaving the city, the cycle path uses the south bank of the River Cam before crossing to the north side and following the riverside path to Waterbeach station. Here there is a gap in the cycle route to Bottisham Lode. Cyclists heading further north should therefore follow route 51 via Fen Ditton, Bottisham and Lode to join route 11 again at Bottisham Lode.
The next section of the route to Wicken Fen nature reserve uses a sequence of roads, tracks and bridges across the fenland called the Lodes Way. There is a challenging footbridge with cycle channels at Burwell Lode which is very steep. At Wicken Fen there is a visitor centre with cafe and cycle hire. Route 11 then follows country lanes and the River Ouse to Ely where route 11 passes Ely Cathederal.
Leaving Ely, route 11 is signed to Little Downham, but then delisted to Ten Mile Bank as the roads are now too busy to be safe for family cycling, particularly the section on the A1101. However, this route can still be followed and is still shown on Ordnance Survey maps. This section passes the Welney Wetland Centre.
From Ten Mile Bank, route 11 mostly follows country lanes via Downham Market and Watlington to a junction with National Cycle Route 1 near Wiggenhall St Germans. Route 1 can then be followed into the centre of Kings Lynn along the east |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSS%2A | SSS* is a search algorithm, introduced by George Stockman in 1979, that conducts a state space search traversing a game tree in a best-first fashion similar to that of the A* search algorithm.
SSS* is based on the notion of solution trees. Informally, a solution tree can be formed from any arbitrary game tree by pruning the number of branches at each MAX node to one. Such a tree represents a complete strategy for MAX, since it specifies exactly one MAX action for every possible sequence of moves made by the opponent. Given a game tree, SSS* searches through the space of partial solution trees, gradually analyzing larger and larger subtrees, eventually producing a single solution tree with the same root and Minimax value as the original game tree. SSS* never examines a node that alpha–beta pruning would prune, and may prune some branches that alpha–beta would not. Stockman speculated that SSS* may therefore be a better general algorithm than alpha–beta. However, Igor Roizen and Judea Pearl have shown that the savings in the number of positions that SSS* evaluates relative to alpha/beta is limited and generally not enough to compensate for the increase in other resources (e.g., the storing and sorting of a list of nodes made necessary by the best-first nature of the algorithm). However, Aske Plaat, Jonathan Schaeffer, Wim Pijls and Arie de Bruin have shown that a sequence of null-window alpha–beta calls is equivalent to SSS* (i.e., it expands the same nodes in the same order) when alpha–beta is used with a transposition table, as is the case in all game-playing programs for chess, checkers, etc. Now the storing and sorting of the OPEN list were no longer necessary. This allowed the implementation of (an algorithm equivalent to) SSS* in tournament quality game-playing programs. Experiments showed that it did indeed perform better than Alpha–Beta in practice, but that it did not beat NegaScout.
The reformulation of a best-first algorithm as a sequence of depth-first calls prompted the formulation of a class of null-window alpha–beta algorithms, of which MTD(f) is the best known example.
Algorithm
There is a priority queue OPEN that stores states or the nodes, where - node identificator (Dot-decimal notation is used to identify nodes, is a root), - state of the node (L - the node is live, which means it's not solved yet and S - the node is solved), - value of the solved node. Items in OPEN queue are sorted descending by their value. If more than one node has the same value of , a node left-most in the tree is chosen.
OPEN := { (e, L, inf) }
while true do // repeat until stopped
pop an element p=(J, s, h) from the head of the OPEN queue
if J = e and s = S then
STOP the algorithm and return h as a result
else
apply Gamma operator for p
operator for is defined in the following way:
if s = L then
if J is a terminal node then
(1.) add (J, S, min(h, value(J))) to OPEN
else if J is a MIN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBOO | WBOO (102.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Reedsburg, Wisconsin, United States, the station is owned by Magnum Communications.
Programming
WBOO features adult contemporary music from Westwood One, News from Fox News Radio in addition to local sporting events. It previously carried adult contemporary music from ABC Radio.
The call letters were changed from WBDL to WBOO on August 24, 2021 in a swap with the former WBOO-LP, a television station at Elk Mound that Magnum Radio then sold to Morgan Murphy Media.
References
External links
BOO
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Wisconsin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porn%202.0 | Porn 2.0, named after "Web 2.0", refers to pornographic websites featuring user-generated content, including social networking features such as user-based categorizing, webcam hosting, blogs and comments. This is in contrast to the static content offered by "Web 1.0" porn sites. Porn 2.0 sites may offer features similar to mainstream Web 2.0 services such as video communities, (Metacafe, Vimeo, YouTube) social sites, (Tumblr, Twitter), general blogging platforms, (Blogger, DailyBooth, Lookbook.nu) and photo hosting services (Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa).
Since their inception, Porn 2.0 Web sites have gathered great popularity, but have meanwhile encountered various legal and other difficulties. Among these difficulties are concerns about the digital content copyright, trade media and affiliating partnership advertising. Other concerns include the idea of sharing versus privacy and the legal ramifications of large quantities of free, user-generated pornographic content on the Internet.
Monetization
Unlike Web 2.0 ventures such as Facebook, Myspace or YouTube, Porn 2.0 has yet to find a strategy that proves to be commercially profitable. High server costs from hosting the large amount of user-generated content paired with little to no user-generated income puts Porn 2.0 websites in a challenging financial position. Because Porn 2.0 services have, so far, been free of charge to users, the only source of revenue for these sites is from advertising placement.
Controversies
Copyright issues
One of the central issues to Porn 2.0 is Copyright infringement. Porn 2.0 websites have come under attack as being potentially harmful to the economics of more traditional pornography outlets such as DVD sales and monthly paid subscription adult sites.
Privacy
It is possible that users upload material without the model's consent. This is usually prohibited by the site's Terms of Use, although some sites such as Voyeurweb allow non-consensual photos and move offices frequently to avoid the legal issues this might otherwise entail. Photos and videos of non-consenting models are often obtained through the use of hidden cameras and the sexualization of their nudity. A woman going nude for a shower at her gym, for example, may be filmed without her knowledge and have the video distributed as porn.
Uploading of porn of a person without their consent driven by spite is called revenge porn and has become a significant societal issue since.
Porn 3.0
For Porn 3.0, news media often suggest the usage of 3D stereoscopy, multi-angle DVD, neural impulse actuators, and peripheral controller and devices similar to game controller vibration or Teledildonics, eliminating less probable technologies such as holograms.
Notes
Erotica and pornography websites
Video hosting
Web 2.0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk%20Martinez | Kirk Martinez is a Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton UK. He gained a BSc in Physics from the University of Reading and a PhD in Image Processing in the department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex. While Arts Computing Lecturer at Birkbeck College London (1987–96) he pioneered the digital imaging of paintings together with The National Gallery, London in the European project VASARI (1980s). This led to development of art imaging projects to print accurate art books (MARC project), view high detail images on the web (Viseum project) and find art images online (Artiste, SCULPTEUR and eCHASE). He has published this research in books on image processing and computer architecture as well as Transactions of the IEEE on content-based image retrieval He was an advisor on the imaging and image processing required for the Archimedes Palimpsest. Recent research led to a new imaging system for ancient seals together with Oxford University - which is helping to capture and read historic texts.
He is one of the founders of the Electronics and the Visual Arts: EVA Conferences. He helped to found the Earth and Space Science Informatics focus group of the American Geophysical Union, is on the executive committee and has run ten annual sessions on applying sensor networks to earth science. In 2017 he received the AGU's Leptoukh award for contributions to this area.
He is the co-founder of the VIPS (software) image processing package together with John Cupitt (National Gallery London and now Imperial College London). This is used widely and available as a standard package in Linux distributions as well as for Microsoft Windows/OS X. It is known for mosaicing, colour and parallel processing/performance. It has become the fastest way to generate thumbnails and resize images on web servers so is in use in Wikipedia itself and sites such as Booking.com.
His current research is on Environmental Sensor Networks
which are wireless sensor networks for studying/monitoring the environment, particularly in relation to glaciers
and climate change (Glacsweb project). This research featured on BBC technology news and the BBC's News, it was the first wireless sensor network designed to be used in/under glaciers. His work to test the technology for landslide detection was also on BBC news. In 2014 he deployed what was probably the first low power, sub-GHz, 6LoWPAN fully-IP based Internet of Things environmental sensor network in the Cairngorms.
External links
His home page
Glacsweb
The VASARI project
References
1962 births
Living people
English computer scientists
Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
Academics of the University of Southampton
British computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2012 | National Cycle Route 12 is part of the National Cycle Network managed by the charity Sustrans. It currently has a length of but is incomplete. When fully constructed it will run from Enfield Lock (London) to Grimsby (Lincolnshire) in the United Kingdom.
Route
Enfield to Hatfield
Enfield | Potter's Bar | Hatfield |
The route starts at Enfield Lock at the junction with National Cycle Route 1. The route is open and signed through Enfield to Chase Farm via Forty Hall Country Park. This section has recently been extended through new woodland for approximately 2 miles eastwards, but not yet through to Hadley Wood. For now, there is a possible route via this new path and then along Ferny Hill, but this road is steep (westbound), busy and has a 60mph speed limit.
At Hadley Wood station, route 12 starts again as The Great North Way and is continuous to north of Letchworth at the Hertfordshire county boundary. There is a short cut cycle route direct from the station to Waggon Road. The route is on road from Hadley Wood to Dancers Lane, then a bridleway to South Mimms services.
At South Mimms route 12 has an entrance to South Mimms Services, the service station on the M25 and A1(M) motorways. North of South Mimms the route is mostly on segregated path to Hatfield.
Hatfield to Arlesey
Hatfield | Welwyn Garden City | Stevenage | Letchworth | Arlesey
In Hatfield there is a spiral bridge and a scenic off-road section through Streamwoods. delisted due to two gates which block use by tricycles and tandems. It can be avoided by following the cycle path along Travellers Lane and Woods Ave. The route passes on road through Old Hatfield and near to Mill Green Museum (watermill), the off-road section then continuing into Welwyn Garden City. This section is shared in part with National Cycle Route 61. The cycle route then winds through the quiet streets of the Handside part of Welwyn Garden City to reach an off-road path through Sherrardspark Wood up to the Great North Road.
North-west of Welwyn Garden City from Ayot Green, where there is a junction with NCN57, NCN12 follows quiet country lanes but with some very steep hills (northbound) near Codicote. There is a useful bike shop and cafe, Spokes, just north of Codicote. It passes Knebworth House and then descends to join the off-road cycle path network through Stevenage and Old Stevenage. Another rural section, mostly off-road and partly unsurfaced leads to Letchworth where there is a choice of either a route to the east between Baldock and Letchworth or via the centre of Letchworth Garden City. This latter route takes in the UK's first gyratory roundabout. North of the county boundary the route can be followed mostly on road to Arlesey station.
Arlesey to Huntingdon
Arlesey | Biggleswade | St Neots |Huntingdon
This section of the route is incomplete until the southern edge of Biggleswade. It is possible to follow bridleways to the west of Vine Farm and then east of the windfarm, joinin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2016 | National Cycle Route 16, part of the National Cycle Network, connects Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire to Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Route
Bishop's Stortford to Shoeburyness
Bishop Stortford | Little Dunmow | Braintree | Basildon | Southend on Sea | Shoeburyness
This route is still under development.
See also
details of Braintree to Little Dunmow section
details of Basildon to Shoeburyness section
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KURM%20%28AM%29 | KURM (790 AM) is a radio station broadcasting both News Talk Information and Brokered programming formats. Licensed to Rogers, Arkansas, United States, it serves the Fayetteville (North West Arkansas) area. The station is currently owned by KERM, Inc. 790 AM is a Regional broadcast frequency.
Station owner Kermit Womack is the father of Arkansas Congressman Steve Womack.
External links
KURM's official website
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Brokered programming
URM
Radio stations established in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy%20%28computational%20biology%29 | Galaxy is a scientific workflow, data integration, and data and analysis persistence and publishing platform that aims to make computational biology accessible to research scientists that do not have computer programming or systems administration experience. Although it was initially developed for genomics research, it is largely domain agnostic and is now used as a general bioinformatics workflow management system.
Functionality
Galaxy is a scientific workflow system. These systems provide a means to build multi-step computational analyses akin to a recipe. They typically provide a graphical user interface for specifying what data to operate on, what steps to take, and what order to do them in.
Galaxy is also a data integration platform for biological data. It supports data uploads from the user's computer, by URL, and directly from many online resources (such as the UCSC Genome Browser, BioMart and InterMine). Galaxy supports a range of widely used biological data formats, and translation between those formats. Galaxy provides a web interface to many text manipulation utilities, enabling researchers to do their own custom reformatting and manipulation without having to do any programming. Galaxy includes interval manipulation utilities for doing set theoretic operations (e.g. intersection, union, ...) on intervals. Many biological file formats include genomic interval data (a frame of reference, e.g., chromosome or contig name, and start and stop positions), allowing these data to be integrated.
Galaxy was originally written for biological data analysis, particularly genomics. The set of available tools has been greatly expanded over the years and Galaxy is now also used for gene expression, genome assembly, proteomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics and host of other disciplines in the life sciences. The platform itself is actually domain agnostic and can be applied, in theory, to any scientific domain, such as cheminformatics. For example, Galaxy servers exist for image analysis, computational chemistry and drug design, cosmology, climate modeling, social science, and linguistics.
Finally, Galaxy also supports data and analysis persistence and publishing. See Reproducibility and Transparency below.
Project Goals
Galaxy is "an open, web-based platform for performing accessible, reproducible, and transparent genomic science."
Accessibility
Computational biology is a specialized domain that often requires knowledge of computer programming. Galaxy aims to give biomedical researchers access to computational biology without also requiring them to understand computer programming. Galaxy does this by stressing a simple user interface over the ability to build complex workflows. This design choice makes it relatively easy to build typical analyses, but more difficult to build complex workflows that include, for example, looping constructs. (See Apache Taverna for an example of a data-driven workflow system that supports loopin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar%20transistor%20biasing | Bipolar transistors must be properly biased to operate correctly. In circuits made with individual devices (discrete circuits), biasing networks consisting of resistors are commonly employed. Much more elaborate biasing arrangements are used in integrated circuits, for example, bandgap voltage references and current mirrors. The voltage divider configuration achieves the correct voltages by the use of resistors in certain patterns. By selecting the proper resistor values, stable current levels can be achieved that vary only little over temperature and with transistor properties such as β.
The operating point of a device, also known as bias point, quiescent point, or Q-point, is the point on the output characteristics that shows the DC collector–emitter voltage (Vce) and the collector current (Ic) with no input signal applied.
Bias circuit requirements
A bias network is selected to stabilize the operating point of the transistor, by reducing the following effects of device variability, temperature, and voltage changes:
The gain of a transistor can vary significantly between different batches, which results in widely different operating points for sequential units in serial production or after replacement of a transistor.
Due to the Early effect, the current gain is affected by the collector–emitter voltage.
Both gain and base–emitter voltage depend on the temperature.
The leakage current also increases with temperature.
A bias circuit may be composed of only resistors, or may include elements such as temperature-dependent resistors, diodes, or additional voltage sources, depending on the range of operating conditions expected.
Signal requirements
For analog operation of a class-A amplifier, the Q-point is placed so the transistor stays in active mode (does not shift to operation in the saturation region or cut-off region) across the input signal's range. Often, the Q-point is established near the center of the active region of a transistor characteristic to allow similar signal swings in positive and negative directions.
For digital operation, the Q-point is instead chosen so the transistor switches from the "on" (saturation) to the "off" (cutoff) state.
Thermal considerations
At constant current, the voltage across the emitter–base junction VBE of a bipolar transistor decreases by 2 mV (silicon) and 1.8 mV (germanium) for each 1 °C rise in temperature (reference being 25 °C). By the Ebers–Moll model, if the base–emitter voltage VBE is held constant and the temperature rises, the current through the base–emitter junction IB will increase, and thus the collector current IC will also increase. Depending on the bias point, the power dissipated in the transistor may also increase, which will further increase its temperature and exacerbate the problem. This deleterious positive feedback results in thermal runaway. There are several approaches to mitigate bipolar transistor thermal runaway. For example,
Negative feedback can be built int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s%20the%20Story%20%28disambiguation%29 | What's the Story was a DuMont Television Network game show (1951-1955), and it also may refer to:
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?, an album by Oasis
Hey Tony! What's the Story?, an American pornographic movie
Kevin Bridges: What's the Story?, a British television programme
"What's the Story in Balamory", the theme tune to British children's television show Balamory
What's The Story? a topical radio panel show made by Tidy Productions for BBC Radio Wales, hosted by Tom Price |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20and%20Robotics | The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) is a laboratory of the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO). Located in Bangalore, Karnataka, involved in the Research & Development of high quality Secure Communication, Command and Control, and Intelligent Systems. CAIR was founded by Arogyaswami Paulraj. CAIR is the primary laboratory for R&D in different areas of Defence Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
History
CAIR was established in October 1986. Its research focus was initially in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, and Control systems. In November 2000, R&D groups working in the areas of Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence (C3I) systems, Communication and Networking, and communication secrecy in Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) were merged with CAIR.
CAIR, which was operating from different campuses across Bangalore has now moved .
Projects
DRDO NETRA, software to intercept online communications.
SecOS, Secure Operating System
Muntra - unmanned ground vehicle manufactured at the Ordnance Factory Medak.
External links
CAIR Home Page
Robot soldiers!
Defence Research and Development Organisation laboratories
Artificial intelligence laboratories
Research institutes in Bangalore
Laboratories in India
1986 establishments in Karnataka
Research institutes established in 1986
Robotics in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12Riven%3A%20The%20Psi-Climinal%20of%20Integral | 12Riven: The Psi-Climinal of Integral is a visual novel video game developed by KID, CyberFront, and SDR Project, and released on March 13, 2008, for the PlayStation 2 and April 16, 2009, for the PlayStation Portable. There is a regular edition, and a special edition which included the game's original soundtrack. KID are known for producing the Memories Off series, and the Infinity series which includes Never 7: The End of Infinity, Ever 17: The Out of Infinity, and Remember 11: The Age of Infinity. When KID declared bankruptcy in November 2006, production on the game was halted until CyberFront took over and resumed production.
The game had two different PC releases on April 4, 2008. It was released as a standalone product and as a part of the Infinity Plus pack (which includes PC versions of Never 7: The End of Infinity, Ever 17: The Out of Infinity, Remember 11: The Age of Infinity and 12Riven). A port for Android and iOS was announced by Cyberfront in 2012 but was ultimately not released as Cyberfront was dissolved in 2013.
Gameplay
12Riven is a visual novel in which the player makes progress by reading the game's story. At certain points during conversations with other characters, the player is given a set of choices. Depending on what the player chooses, the story diverges into different branches, eventually leading to different endings; there is only one "true ending".
Plot
Characters
Player characters
Others
.
.
.
.
.
.
Story
The story of 12Riven takes place on May 20, 2012, with high school student Renmaru Miyabidō biking his way speedily towards the abandoned building after receiving a message on his cellphone that Myū, an old friend of his, would die at the building's top level today at noon. When he gets there, he checks his wristwatch and sees that it is 11:24 AM.
Elsewhere, police detective Narumi Mishima is on her motorcycle heading towards the same location. She has received a request from a friend and coworker asking her to help save a girl named "Myū" at Integral. Narumi must save Myū to prevent the execution of the . Narumi has never heard of this phrase before, moreover, the message was sent with the "XXX Lv6" marking. This was a rating scale for the severity of a situation and a level 6 marking has never been used. Even a large scale terrorist threat was set at level 5. The message also indicated to Narumi that someone named Renmaru may be there, that he will be on her side.
Renmaru finds nothing at the observation deck of the building, but when he goes outside onto the opening of the building, he finds Myū injured on the ground. Renmaru also finds her attacker there but is unable to defeat him because every time Renmaru tries to connect a blow, he is thrown onto the ground himself by some unknown force. At this point, Myū's attacker draws out a gun, he takes Myū and threatens Renmaru to leave the place quietly after he counts to ten with his eyes closed. Renmaru does not know what to do and stands ther |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%20in%20Australian%20television |
Events
1 January – Australia Live, a four-hour celebration welcoming a year of celebrations for Australia's bicentennial of European settlement airs on the ABC, SBS, the Nine Network and regional solus stations. It also aired in the U.S. on A&E.
2 January – Imparja starts broadcasting to remote Central Australia via satellite It would have its official launch on 15 January.
17 January – The first episode of Home and Away one of the longest running Australian TV soaps since Neighbours airs on Seven Network
24 January – Ten launches Richmond Hill, a Grundy Organisation production, created by Reg Watson. Billed as a sister-soap to Neighbours, it airs on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 19:30-20:30.
January – Five months after Countdown'''s demise, Molly Meldrum returns to television and joins Nine's Hey Hey It's Saturday as part of the weekly Molly's Melodrama segment.
18 January – A Current Affair launches on the Nine Network after a ten-year absence, hosted by Jana Wendt.
24 January – Network Ten unveils new logo, the "X" logo.
February – Seven Network launches Family Feud.
8 February – Canadian teen drama series Degrassi Junior High, the second in the Degrassi trilogy series debuts on the ABC.
16 February – The Comedy Company starring Mark Mitchell (Con The Fruitier), Glenn Robbins (Uncle Arthur), Mary-Anne Fahey (Kylie Mole), Ian McFayden, Kim Gyngell (Col'n Carpenter), Chris Keogh, Russell Gilbert, Siobhan Tuke, Paula Gardener and Peter Rowsthorn debuts on Channel Ten (1988–1990).
7 March – The ABC begins airing their only Rankin/Bass animated series, The Comic Strip.
12 March – Nine Network broadcasts its Australian premiere of the American police procedural television series 21 Jump Street.
20 March – The Nine Network takes over the Rugby league rights from Network Ten, which they continue to broadcast to the present day.
26 March – In Neighbours, Daphne Clarke becomes the first character in history to die to do so after being in a coma in a car crash four months earlier.
28 March – The ABC's current affairs program Four Corners presents a television special called Wither the ABC? which was a debate over the future direction of the national broadcaster. Hosted by Andrew Olle there will be interviews with ABC managing director David Hill, Gareth Evans, Max Walsh, Terry Hayes, Peter Luck and Ted Thomas.
28 March – Blah Blah Blah a new Australian comedy series premieres on Australian Broadcasting Corporation at 9:50pm and at 10:45pm. It was hosted by Andrew Denton which also marked his very first hosting role.
18 April – The ABC launches an afternoon block for younger children at 4:30 pm called Stop at this Station. This block will include animated television series from overseas such as Alias the Jester and the live-action series Tales from Fat Tulip's Garden.
25 April – The 10:30 pm timeslot becomes an unlikely battle ground as Graham Kennedy returns to the Nine Network after a 13 years absence to co-host Graham Kennedy's News Show (re-titled Gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2013 | The National Cycle Route 13 is a cycling route that is part of the National Cycle Network in the United Kingdom. It connects Tower Bridge in London with Fakenham in Norwich.
Overview
This route is still under development
This route links with the proposed NCR 16 near Basildon, it follows NCR 1 from Chelmsford to Hadleigh, it links with NCR 51 at Bury St Edmunds and then links again with NCR 1 near Fakenham
Route
London to Chelmsford
Tower Bridge | Wapping | Limehouse | Poplar | Blackwall | Royal Victoria Dock | Beckton | Dagenham | Tilbury | Stanford-le-Hope | Basildon | Chelmsford
This route section is still under development.
The route starts at the Tower Bridge, then follows the north bank of the River Thames heading eastwards, to Wapping, Limehouse, Poplar
and Blackwall. Then it passes the Royal Victoria Docks to head via an off-road route towards the A13. It then joins the Cycle Superhighway 3 beside the A13 to head to Rainham, Greater London.
On the Thurrock side, some small sections of National Cycle Network Route 13 are open, but this is mainly a work in progress. The current highlights of the route are Grays Riverside, Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve and the recently completed surfacing of the Mardyke Way (following the Mardyke (river)) between Ship Lane and Stifford Bridge.
The riverside paths on both sides of the river are spectacular walking routes, but they are not currently open to cyclists (with a few exceptions).
Chelmsford to Bury St Edmunds
Chelmsford | Colchester | Sudbury | Lavenham | Bury St Edmunds |
This section of the route is under development.
Only a short section near Sudbury is motor-traffic free, following a disused railway route to Long Melford.
It then heads along the roads, to Lavenham, Cockfield, Suffolk, before entering Bury St Edmonds (via the small village of Rushbrooke). Some sections in the market town are motor-traffic free.
Bury St Edmunds to Fakenham
Bury St Edmunds | Thetford | Watton | Dereham | Fakenham
It then heads on mainly minor roads to Great Barton, Great Livermere, Honington, Suffolk, Coney Weston and Knettishall. Where it meets Regional Route 30 from Diss, Mellis and Eye, Suffolk. Then both cycle routes head towards Thetford. After Croxton, Norfolk, Regional Route 30 leads west to Brandon, Suffolk.
Route 13 carries on mainly minor roads towards East Wretham and Stonebridge, Norfolk, where it briefly meets and follows (for 3.5miles) the (long distance footpath) Peddars Way. It then heads towards Thompson, Norfolk, Watton, Norfolk, Bradenham, Norfolk, East Dereham, Gressenhall and Brisley. After the small village of Gately, it meets National Cycle Route 1 heading to Fakenham.
A feature of this 30-mile signed route is that it passes through the distinctive Breckland landscape of Mid-Norfolk.
See also
Sustrans information on Route 13
The Brecks
Mid Norfolk leaflet
References
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGOL | CGOL (pronounced "see goll") is an alternative syntax featuring an extensible algebraic notation for the Lisp programming language. It was designed for MACLISP by Vaughan Pratt and subsequently ported to Common Lisp.
The notation of CGOL is a traditional infix notation, in the style of ALGOL, rather than Lisp's traditional, uniformly-parenthesized prefix notation syntax. The CGOL parser is based on Pratt's design for top-down operator precedence parsing, sometimes informally referred to as a "Pratt parser".
Semantically, CGOL is essentially just Common Lisp, with some additional reader and printer support.
CGOL may be regarded as a more successful incarnation of some of the essential ideas behind the earlier LISP 2 project. Lisp 2 was a successor to LISP 1.5 that aimed to provide ALGOL syntax. LISP 2 was abandoned, whereas it is possible to use the CGOL codebase today. This is because unlike LISP 2, CGOL is implemented as portable functions and macros written in Lisp, requiring no alterations to the host Lisp implementation.
Syntax
Special notations are available for many commonly used Common Lisp operations. For example, one can write a matrix multiply routine as:
CGOL has an infix . operation (referring to Common Lisp's cons function) and the infix @ operation (referring to Common Lisp's append function):
a.(b@c) = (a.b)@c
The preceding example corresponds to this text in native Common Lisp:
(EQUAL (CONS A (APPEND B C)) (APPEND (CONS A B) C))
CGOL uses of to read and set properties:
The preceding example corresponds to this text in native Common Lisp:
(PUTPROP X (GET (GET Y RELATIVE) 'BROTHER) 'FATHER)
This illustrates how CGOL notates a function of two arguments:
\x,y; 1/sqrt(x**2 + y**2)
The preceding example corresponds to this text in native Common Lisp:
(LAMBDA (X Y) (QUOTIENT 1 (SQRT (PLUS (EXPT X 2) (EXPT Y 2)))))
The syntax of CGOL is data-driven and so both modifiable and extensible.
Status and source code
CGOL is known to work on Armed Bear Common Lisp.
The CGOL source code and some text files containing discussions of it are available as freeware from Carnegie-Mellon University's Artificial Intelligence Repository.
References
Lisp programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDR%20Schema | XML-Data Reduced (XDR) is a discontinued schema language for specifying and validating XML documents.
In January 1998, Microsoft, the University of Edinburgh and others submitted a proposal for an XML schema language called XML-Data to the World Wide Web Consortium. XML-Data Reduced was a subset of XML-Data, with some corrections and amendments submitted in July 1998.
The XML Schema effort in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) received several other proposals, and while the final result has some similarities to the XML-Data proposal, it is significantly different. XDR was implemented in SQL Server 2000 and BizTalk Server 2000. Once the XML Schema Definition was finalized in 2001, Microsoft products and tools added support for it, and XDR was gradually phased out.
Microsoft XML Core Services provided XDR schema support from versions 2.0 up to—but not including—version 6.0.
See also
XML Schema Language Comparison - Comparison of other XML Schema languages (not XDR).
List of XML Schemas - list of XML schemas in use on the Internet sorted by purpose
External links
XDR Schema Data Types Reference
References
XML |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lycaenid%20genera | The large butterfly family Lycaenidae contains the following genera:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Lycaenidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Alliance | Climate Alliance is a European network of cities, towns and counties founded in 1990 committed to the protection of the world's climate. The European Secretariat of Climate Alliance is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and in Brussels, Belgium. Climate Alliance has members in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland,d, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine.
Purpose and aims
The nearly 2,000 members from more than 25 European countries aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at their source. Their allies are the indigenous peoples of the rainforests. The indigenous partners are represented by COICA, the Coordination of Indigenous Organisations of the nine neighbouring countries of the Amazon Basin.
By joining Climate Alliance, cities and municipalities embrace the association's goals:
To strive for a 95 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 compared to 1990 levels, in line with IPCC recommendations.
To implement effective and comprehensive climate action in accordance with Climate Alliance principles.
To promote climate justice together with indigenous peoples by supporting their rights, protecting biodiversity and abstaining from the use of unsustainably managed timber.
Foundation pillars of local climate protection are energy savings and efficient energy use as well as renewable energy sources and environment-friendly mobility. Climate Alliance advises cities and municipalities on the implementation of climate protection strategies and develops recognised tools for standardised recording of energy consumption and emissions. Furthermore, Climate Alliance develops and coordinates projects and campaigns, which address different target groups. Besides of own activities Climate Alliance is partner of further campaigns and steps also into political actions. On national and international level it stands up for European local authorities engaged in climate protection and supports organisations of Indigenous peoples.
External links
Homepage of Climate Alliance: English and German
Campaign: ZOOM – Kids on the Move
Local Authorities acting for the MDGs — Europe for more development
Energy and CO2 Monitoring
The Covenant of Mayors
Alleanza per il Clima Italia
Environmental organisations based in Germany
Environmental organizations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Germany
Climate change policy
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Linux | Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds to create a new free operating system kernel. The resulting Linux kernel has been marked by constant growth throughout its history. Since the initial release of its source code in 1991, it has grown from a small number of C files under a license prohibiting commercial distribution to the 4.15 version in 2018 with more than 23.3 million lines of source code, not counting comments, under the GNU General Public License v2.
Events leading to creation
After AT&T had dropped out of the Multics project, the Unix operating system was conceived and implemented by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (both of AT&T Bell Laboratories) in 1969 and first released in 1970. Later they rewrote it in a new programming language, C, to make it portable. The availability and portability of Unix caused it to be widely adopted, copied and modified by academic institutions and businesses.
In 1977, the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) was developed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) from UC Berkeley, based on the 6th edition of Unix from AT&T. Since BSD contained Unix code that AT&T owned, AT&T filed a lawsuit (USL v. BSDi) in the early 1990s against the University of California. This strongly limited the development and adoption of BSD.
Onyx Systems began selling early microcomputer-based Unix workstations in 1980. Later, Sun Microsystems, founded as a spin-off of a student project at Stanford University, also began selling Unix-based desktop workstations in 1982. While Sun workstations didn't utilize commodity PC hardware like Linux was later developed for, it represented the first successful commercial attempt at distributing a primarily single-user microcomputer that ran a Unix operating system.
In 1983, Richard Stallman started the GNU project with the goal of creating a free UNIX-like operating system. As part of this work, he wrote the GNU General Public License (GPL). By the early 1990s, there was almost enough available software to create a full operating system. However, the GNU kernel, called Hurd, failed to attract enough development effort, leaving GNU incomplete.
In 1985, Intel released the 80386, the first x86 microprocessor with a 32-bit instruction set and a memory management unit with paging.
In 1986, Maurice J. Bach, of AT&T Bell Labs, published The Design of the UNIX Operating System. This definitive description principally covered the System V Release 2 kernel, with some new features from Release 3 and BSD.
In 1987, MINIX, a Unix-like system intended for academic use, was released by Andrew S. Tanenbaum to exemplify the principles conveyed in his textbook, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. While source code for the system was available, modification and redistribution were restricted. In addition, MINIX's 16-bit design was not well adapted to the 32-bit features of the increasingly cheap and popular Intel 386 architecture for personal computers. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Ableson | Bruce Ableson (born September 16, 1963 in New York) is an American computer programmer and website developer. He is best known as the inventor of Open Diary, the first online blogging community.
Ableson was raised in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, and graduated from Birmingham Groves High School. During high school, he worked as editor of the Groves Scriptor, became an Eagle Scout, and appeared in several short Super 8 films produced by schoolmate Ted Raimi.
After graduating from Michigan State University with a degree in Telecommunications, Ableson worked for several years as a systems consultant and programmer. During this time, Ableson developed Open Diary, which launched on October 20, 1998. Ableson built the first system for blog comments, and innovated the use of friend's list privacy settings and activity feeds on the site.
These features have led some to credit Ableson's site and inventions to be the beginnings of social networks and social media.
References
External links
Chicago Tribune: Journal Writers Go Public with Personal Experiences
Los Angeles Times: Teens Go Online to Post Their Innermost Thoughts - Anonymously
Washington Post: Teen Diaries, Online
1963 births
Living people
American computer programmers
Michigan State University alumni
Birmingham Groves High School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chowder%20episodes | Chowder is an American animated television series created by C. H. Greenblatt for Cartoon Network. The series centers on Chowder, an aspiring young boy who hopes to one day become a professional chef. Chowder is the apprentice of Mung Daal, Chowder's caretaker and seasoned professional chef, who lives with his wife, Truffles, in the bustling community of Marzipan City. Mung Daal's catering company also employs his assistant, Shnitzel, who speaks only in gibberish. The catering company's greatest rival is a business owned by the surreptitious Endive and her junior apprentice, Panini. Panini has a remarkable romantic interest in Chowder despite his repeated attempts to explain that he is not interested in her. Throughout his journey, Chowder also interacts with Gazpacho, a middle-aged fruit salesman who often gives him advice, and his pet Kimchi, a gas cloud who speaks unintelligibly to Chowder.
Chowder ran for a total of 49 episodes (93 segments). The first season, which consists of 20 episodes, premiered on November 2, 2007, with "Burple Nurples/Shnitzel Makes a Deposit", and concluded on July 24, 2008, with "The Apprentice Games". Two more seasons were produced, with the series finale, "Chowder Grows Up", airing on August 7, 2010.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2007–08)
Season 2 (2008–09)
Season 3 (2009–10)
References
External links
List of Chowder episodes at TV.com
List of Chowder episodes at Epguides
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes
Chowder (TV series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSPH | KSPH (92.9 FM, "KHCB Radio Network") is a radio station broadcasting a Christian Radio format. Licensed to Springhill, Louisiana, United States, it serves areas such as Texarkana, Magnolia, Haynesville, Cotton Valley, and Plain Dealing.
Originally KTKC, the station was owned by Metropolitan Radio Group from May 1997 until December 2008. Gary Acker, the owner of Metropolitan Radio Group died in August 2000,, and Mark Acker has been selling off the radio stations, acting as personal representative for the estate.
The station was bought in December 2008 by Leon Hunt (owner of KJVC in Mansfield, Louisiana) and continued to broadcast country music. He acquired the station along with KBSF for a reported $175,000
In 2010, KTKC began simulcasting the AM sister station that was programmed with adult standards, so people in Springhill, Louisiana and the surrounding areas could choose to hear artists like Frank Sinatra and Michael Bublé on either AM or FM. 1460 was the granted the KTKC calls, dropping the long held KBSF, requiring this facility to add the -FM suffix.
Houston Christian Broadcasters acquired KTKC-FM and sister station KTKC from Leon Hunt effective May 31, 2018, at a purchase price of $200,000. The new owners changed the station's call sign to KSPH that same day, and began simulcasting programming from the primary KHCB-FM in the Houston, Texas area as a part of the KHCB Radio Network.
References
External links
KSPH's official website
Christian radio stations in Louisiana
Webster Parish, Louisiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJRT | KJRT (88.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a religious radio format. Licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States, the station is currently owned by the Kingdom Keys Network.
Repeaters
KJRT's programming is also heard on seven other full powered stations.
Translators
KJRT also has six low-powered translators throughout the Texas panhandle.
External links
JRT
JRT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI%20ASC%20X9.95%20Standard | The ANSI X9.95 standard for trusted timestamps expands on the widely used - Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time-Stamp Protocol by adding data-level security requirements that can ensure data integrity against a reliable time source that is provable to any third party. Applicable to both unsigned and digitally signed data, this newer standard has been used by financial institutions and regulatory bodies to create trustworthy timestamps that cannot be altered without detection and to sustain an evidentiary trail of authenticity. Timestamps based on the X9.95 standard can be used to provide:
authenticity: trusted, non-refutable time when data was digitally signed
integrity: protection of the timestamp from tampering without detection
timeliness: proof that the time of the digital signature was in fact the actual time
an evidentiary trail of authenticity for legal sufficiency
A superset of the IETF's RFC 3161 protocol, the X9.95 standard includes definitions for specific data objects, message protocols, and trusted timestamp methods, such as digital signature, MAC, linked token, linked-and-signature and transient-key methods. X9.95 compliance can be achieved via several technological approaches, such as transient-key cryptography. Several vendors market X9.95-compliant systems.
Definitions
In an X9.95 trusted timestamp scheme, there are five entities: the time source entity, the Time Stamp Authority, the requestor, the verifier, and a relying party.
Time source entity - Most countries have an official source of time and this has been codified over the last hundred years through any number of Mutual Recognition Agreement's and Legal Metrological Agreements (see http://www.oiml.org for more information on Legal Metrology). Why this is important is now that the Internet has made it possible to reach directly into the laboratory that operates the official source of time for that jurisdiction, the many layers of "middlemen” who stood between the end-user and the source of time are now gone. As such, time that can be shown as traceable to the specific national measurement institute or master clock of that jurisdiction is the only source that provides the approved "Time Calibration Source" for X9.95. Examples include NIST in the US and Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). Other regulatory frameworks also require that time that is moved through the Network Time Protocol ntp is properly certified and authenticated meaning unauthenticated use of time from any provider will fail X9.95 requirements for obtaining time in a provable manner.
Time Stamp Authority (TSA) - The issuer of timestamps, which can be internal to an organization or a third party or external (as in an Internet-based service). The TSA receives its provable "trusted time" from one or more reliable time sources and generates the timestamps requested from it according to the X9.95 scheme.
requestor - The entity requesting a timestamp.
verifier - The entity th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20M.%20Harland | David M. Harland is an author and space historian. He lives in Scotland. Previously, he was a computer scientist at the University of Glasgow and worked on the Rekursiv project for Linn Products.
Publications
Polymorphic Programming Languages : Design and Implementation (1984)
Concurrency and Programming Languages (1986)
REKURSIV: Object-oriented Computer Architecture (1988)
The Space Shuttle: Roles, Missions and Accomplishments (1998)
Jupiter Odyssey: the Story of NASA's Galileo Mission (2000)
The Earth in Context: a Guide to the Solar System (2001)
Creating the International Space Station (2002)
Mission to Saturn: Cassini and the Huygens Probe (2002)
The Big Bang: a View from the 21st Century (2003)
The Story of the Space Shuttle (2004)
The Story of Space Station Mir (2005)
Water and the Search for Life on Mars (2005)
Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook (2006) with Richard W. Orloff
Apollo EECOM: Journey of a Lifetime Sy Liebergot (2006)
Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rockets and Space Probes (2006)
Cassini at Saturn: Huygen Results (2007)
The First Men on the Moon: the Story of Apollo 11 (2007)
Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: The Golden Era, 1957-1982 (2007) with Paolo Ulivi
Exploring the Moon: the Apollo Expedition (2008)
Robotic Exploration of the Solar System. Part 2, Hiatus and Renewal 1983-1996 (2009) with Paolo Ulivi
How NASA Learned to Fly in Space: An Exciting Account of the Gemini Missions (2010)
Apollo 12: on the Ocean of Storms (2011)
Paving the Way for Apollo 11 (2011)
Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part 3: Wows and Woes, 1997-2003 (2012) with Paolo Ulivi
NASA Gemini, 1965-1966 (2015) with W. David Woods
Enhancing Hubble's Vision: Service Missions that Expanded Our View of the Universe (2016) with David Shayler
Moon: from 4.5 Billion Years Ago to the Present (2016)
Universe: from 13.8 Billion Years Ago to the Infinite Future (2019)
Mars: from 4.5 Billion Years Ago to the Present (2018)
Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part 4: The Modern Era, 2004-2013 (2014) with Paolo Ulivi
References
David M. Harland's home page
WorldCat results for David M. Harland
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIZZ-FM | CIZZ-FM (98.9 FM) is a radio station in Red Deer, Alberta. Owned by Stingray Group, it broadcasts a classic rock format branded as Z98.9.
As CKRD-FM, the station was a network affiliate of CBC Stereo from 1977 to 1981.
In April 2021, CIZZ began to serve as the originating station for Rock of the West, a networked evening program airing on Stingray's classic rock stations in Alberta and British Columbia. It is hosted by the station's afternoon host Travis Currah, and modelled after the Rock of the Atlantic program networked by CFRQ-FM.
References
External links
IZZ
IZZ
IZZ
Radio stations established in 1965
1965 establishments in Alberta
Former Corus Entertainment subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Sunday%20%282007%29 | The 2007 Cyber Sunday was the fourth annual Taboo Tuesday/Cyber Sunday professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown!, and ECW brand divisions. The event took place on October 28, 2007, at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. The most important feature of Cyber Sunday was the ability for fans to vote online through WWE.com on certain aspects of every match. While it was the fourth event in this interactive PPV's chronology, it was only the second titled Cyber Sunday as the first two events were titled Taboo Tuesday.
The main match on the SmackDown! brand was Batista versus The Undertaker for the World Heavyweight Championship, which Batista won by pinfall after executing a Batista Bomb. The special guest referee, which was either Stone Cold Steve Austin, John "Bradshaw" Layfield, or Mick Foley. The predominant match on the Raw brand was for the WWE Championship between Randy Orton and the fans' choice of either Shawn Michaels, Jeff Hardy, or Mr. Kennedy. The voting for the event started on October 9, 2007, and ended during the event.
Most of the existing feuds continued after the event. Notably, Shawn Michaels would continue to feud with Randy Orton over the WWE Championship, which led to a match at Survivor Series for the championship, which Orton won. After losing to Batista, Undertaker challenged Batista to a Hell in a Cell match at Survivor Series for the World Heavyweight Championship, which Batista won after Edge interfered. Edge then became a part of the feud and it became a Triple Threat match at Armageddon for the World Heavyweight Championship, which Edge won. After beating Umaga in a Street Fight, Triple H faced off against Umaga in a Survivor Series match. Triple H's team won the match and their feud ended.
The event had 194,000 buys, down from the Cyber Sunday 2006 figure of 228,000 buys.
Production
Background
Cyber Sunday, originally known as Taboo Tuesday, was an annual pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) since 2004. A unique feature of the event was the ability for fans to vote on certain aspects of every match. Because of this, the event was billed as an "interactive pay-per-view." The 2007 event was the second event to be titled Cyber Sunday, but the fourth overall in the Taboo Tuesday/Cyber Sunday chronology. It was scheduled to be held on October 28, 2007, at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. While the previous three years' events were produced exclusively for the Raw brand, the 2007 event featured wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown!, and ECW brands, as following WrestleMania 23 earlier in April, WWE discontinued brand-exclusive PPVs.
It was also the last Cyber Sunday PPV in 4:3 format until January 2008 when all WWE shows went in high definition.
Storylines
The main feud heading into Cyber Sunday on the Raw brand was between Randy Orton and Shawn Michaels, with the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Vajda | Steven Vajda (20 August 1901 – 10 December 1995) was a Hungarian-British mathematician who contributed to the development of mathematical programming and operational research. He was a member of a circle of researchers that included George Dantzig, Abraham Charnes, W.W. Cooper, William Orchard-Hays, Martin Beale and others. He worked and taught as an actuary and as a mathematician in operational research from 1925 to 1995.
From 1939 until his death in 1995, he lived in the U.K. where he was a defence scientist with the Royal Naval Scientific Service, and a professor at Birmingham and Sussex Universities. He was a Companion of the Operational Research Society, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and a member of the Mathematical Association.
He is the author or coauthor of at least a dozen books on mathematical programming, game theory, manpower planning and statistics and of many journal publications and conference papers.
Early life
Steven (originally István) Vajda was born in Budapest in 1901, to Josef and Aurelia Wollak. His family moved to Vienna in 1903, and it was in this city that Steven was raised and educated. He read mathematics and received a Dr. Phil. Degree in 1925 from the University of Vienna. One of his first appointments was in Romania where he was an actuarial advisor to the Romanian government. He eventually returned to Vienna to continue his work as an actuary and was married there in 1929.
In 1939, Steven, wife Eva and their two children, Hedy and Robert, fled the Nazi regime that had taken over Austria in the 1938 Anschluss. The children were sent to Sweden and Eva was admitted to the UK as a domestic servant. Steven’s friend Karl Popper had already left Austria and, as a New Zealand resident and lecturer in philosophy at Canterbury University College, he found Steven a job and helped him to obtain the necessary travel documents. Steven was then able to enter England because he was merely in transit. The plan was to reunite the family in England and then leave for New Zealand, but before that could happen, the Second World War started and the Vajdas were briefly interned as "enemy aliens". They were housed in a camp on the Isle of Man with other refugees from across Europe. The internees organized a school for their children and, of course, Steven taught mathematics. Most of the internees were released after several months and Steven found employment as an actuary.
Career in the United Kingdom
Meanwhile, mathematicians were in demand to staff the newly formed military operational research groups. H. Seal who was with the Admiralty O.R. group, had read Steven’s research publications in the Bulletin des actuaires suisses, and when he found that Steven was in England he sought him out and proposed that he join the war effort. After much bureaucratic manoeuvring, Steven joined the Royal Naval Scientific Service of the British Admiralty. When the war |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakush%C5%8D%21%20Star%20Monomane%20Shitenn%C5%8D | is a Nintendo Family Computer life simulation video game that portrays the life of either a musician or a famous performer of the style of Japanese theatre. The object is to gain popularity while performing concert tours through the fictional city. Celebrity challenges are included in the game; they are considered to be miniature games like swimming and kicking a giant ball into a goal in a manner similar to soccer. While these games are fun to play, losing results in a loss of popularity points similar to performing terribly at a concert.
Gameplay
Appeasing senior citizens by performing gigs at the nursing home is another way to gain popularity. Otherwise, they will criticize the player's music or theatre styles. After gaining the respect of the elderly, the mad faces turn into frowns, and eventually smiles. Television appearances come in the form of talent shows, televised concerts, and several other surprises. The goal is to convert all stadiums and concert venues to the player's colors. In addition to popularity meters for the players, music styles have their own popularity meters. Smiles with the player's colors determine which music styles are best liked by the player's fans. This determine what music or theatre styles to play and which ones to avoid in certain concert venues.
In the talent contest, the show is like a tournament where four people compete in a semi-final format. After the judges give their scores, the two players with the lowest scores are eliminated. The players with the highest scores end up competing in a final round where the highest scoring player is the winner and receives popularity points. During the performance, the player chooses a musical style or styles and must improvise the lyrics. During a televised concert, the game proceeds like in a normal concert. The only difference is that an increased number of popularity points are rewarded for a successful concert.
Element of luck
After drawing a certain combination on the dice, the player must go to a nursing home and impress a grandmother with a musical or theatre performance. If the player can impress the grandmother, then the player is accepted more by the elderly people. However, the elderly people can get grumpy again if the player makes the grandmother angry each time the player has to perform at the nursing home again. All the text in the game is in Japanese. Other combinations of the letter and number dice can create or ruin a player's popularity along with other side effects.
The dice combination "A-1" is the best combination and it causes a rapid rise in popularity, which means more fans show up to the lucky person's concerts. Getting an "F-5" is the worst combination and will result in a loss of popularity. However, all other combinations can have negative, neutral, or positive results for the player. Guessing about the result of the dice throw is all the fun of trying to get popularity for the band and greater appreciation from different age groups. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAST%20%28AM%29 | KAST (1370 AM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Astoria, Oregon. The station is owned by OMG FCC Licenses, LLC. The programming of the station is news–talk, with local programming during drive time hours and at noon, and syndicated programs including Laura Ingraham and Lars Larson the remainder of the day.
History
KAST was originally on 1370 kHz then moved to 1200 kHz in 1939. In 1941 it moved to 1230 kHz as a result of the NARBA agreement. It moved back to 1370 kHz in 1950.
Robert D. Holmes served as a station manager at KAST in the 1930s, prior to serving as Governor of Oregon.
Expanded Band assignment
On March 17, 1997 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with KAST authorized to move from 1370 to 1700 kHz.
A Construction Permit for the expanded band station was assigned the call letters KCHT on December 22, 1997. However this station was never built, and its Construction Permit was cancelled on January 15, 2004.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KAST (covering 1934-1980)
AST
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Astoria, Oregon
Radio stations established in 1935
1935 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi%20Gojobori | is a Japanese molecular biologist, Vice-Director of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) at NIG, in Mishima, Japan. Gojobori is a Distinguished Professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He is a Professor of Bioscience and Acting Director at the Computational Bioscience Research Center at KAUST.
He has also been co-appointed as the Special Research Consultant of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and acts as a visiting professor of Keio University, University of Tokyo, and Tokyo Institute of Technology.
He is an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), a Member of Academia Europea and an Academician Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican.
Education
Gojobori finished his Ph.D. in Theoretical Population Genetics (1979) at Kyushu University, Japan. He was a research associate and research assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) for 4 years (1979–1983). He was also visiting assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1985, 1986) and visiting research fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London (1989).
Research
He is the Founding Editor of the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, the Executive Editor of the journal Gene, Academic Editor of FEBS Letters, Associate Editor of Molecular Biology and Evolution and PLOS Genetics, and Section Editor of Computer Genomics in BMC Genomics. He has served on the editorial boards of 6 international journals including GigaScience. Previously he was the Editor of Journal of Molecular Evolution for 8 years (1995–2003). He is leader of the Japanese team of the H-Invitational international consortium who was tasked with creating a database linking the 21,037 validated human genes to their biological function.
Gojobori has worked extensively on the rates of synonymous and non-synonymous substitutions, positive selection, horizontal gene transfer, viral evolution, genome evolution, and comparative gene expression. In recent years, he has focused on the evolution of the brain and central nervous system, and COVID-19 or virus transmissions.
Gojobori has served as the Program Director of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) of the Government of Japan and is the Science Officer of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture, and Technology (MEXT). He has contributed to databases such as DDBJ/GenBank/EMBL and the H-Invitational human gene database.
He has had more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed international journals on comparative and evolutionary genomics. Gojobori has also contributed to the GenBank database construction as well as the H-Invitational human gene database.
Honors
Prof. Gojobori is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and Fellow of the American Association for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol%C3%A1n | The Volán companies () were a network of transit companies operating intercity, international and city bus lines in Hungary. One Volán company generally served only the area of a specific county. The companies formed from the merger of regional Auto Transit Companies () and Cargo Shipping Companies ().
See also
Budapesti Közlekedési Központ
BKV Zrt.
References
Public transport companies in Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetta%20International | Jetta International was an American original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and designer of computer laptops, mainly operating in the East Coast. The company was established in 1991, and was based in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, (close to Princeton), where its only manufacturing plant is located.
Jetbook, the laptop series manufactured by Jetta, had Intel microprocessors and was supplied with a customizable selection of software. Jetbooks were known in the open source community due to their ability to be purchased without a pre-installed operating system.
References
External links
Official website (defunct)
1991 establishments in New Jersey
Electronics companies established in 1991
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Science%20Tripos | The Computer Science Tripos (CST) is the undergraduate course in computer science offered by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. It evolved out of the Diploma in Computer Science, the world's first taught course in computer science, which started in 1953. Successful candidates are awarded a Bachelor of Arts (BA) honours degree after three years or, a combined BA + Master of Engineering (MEng) honours degree after four years of study, though admission to the fourth year is usually contingent on attaining a first-class result in the third year.
Notable alumni
Aubrey de Grey
Demis Hassabis
Simon Tatham
References
Tripos
Academic courses at the University of Cambridge
Computer science education in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20Quintana | Villa Quintana is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Donna Cruz and Keempee de Leon. It premiered on November 6, 1995. The series concluded on January 24, 1997 with a total of 318 episodes. It was replaced by Pobre niña rica in its timeslot.
A remake aired from November 4, 2013 to June 6, 2014.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Donna Cruz as Lynette Quintana
Keempee de Leon as Isagani Samonte
Supporting cast
Tony Mabesa as Manolo Quintana
Joel Torre as Robert Quintana
Chanda Romero as Lumeng Samonte
Pen Medina as Felix Samonte
Isabel Rivas as Stella Quintana
Isabel Granada as Rochelle Quintana
Lander Vera Perez as Jason Quintana
Jessa Zaragoza as Patrice
Richard De Dios as Paking
Timmy Cruz as Elena Malvar
Mia Gutierrez as Amparing
Philip Lazaro as Danica
Fame delos Santos as Leny
Carmen Enriquez as Guada
Archie Adamos as Gaston
Mel Kimura as Ditas
Onemig Bondoc as Alfon
Naty Santiago as Syon
Accolades
References
External links
1995 Philippine television series debuts
1997 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television series by Viva Television
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Reusch | Ron Reusch is a Canadian sportscaster, active mostly from the 1960s through to 2006.
While living in Germany from 1959 to 1967, he worked for CBS Europe, the Canadian Forces Network, and a variety of German radio and television outlets.
When he returned to Canada, he started working for a radio station called CKGM in Montreal, and for years was part of the English broadcast crews of both the Montreal Canadiens and Montreal Expos. He worked for many years on the CTV Television Network and its Montréal affiliate, CFCF-TV, where he covered a variety of sports.
He was part of thirteen Olympic broadcasts, beginning with 1968 in Grenoble, France for CBS, where he broadcast ice hockey. For CTV, he covered the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York (ice hockey), the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta (ice hockey), the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain (baseball), and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway (speed skating).
Previously, he did play-by-play for CTV's coverage of the first three Canada Cup hockey tournaments, and he served as the colour commentator to Dan Kelly's play-by-play for CTV's NHL coverage for the 1984–85, 1985–86 seasons, and the 1987 Canada Cup.
During the firing of Marguerite Corriveau, a weatherperson for the station, Reusch emphasized that CFCF principal owner Jean Pouliot was a pro-unionist and that any statements he made beforehand were misinterpreted.
References
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian colour commentators
Canadian expatriates in Germany
Canadian people of German descent
Canadian sports announcers
Canadian television sportscasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Montreal Canadiens announcers
Montreal Expos announcers
National Hockey League broadcasters
Mass media people from Montreal
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gibson%20bibliography | The works of William Gibson encompass literature, journalism, acting, recitation, and performance art. Primarily renowned as a novelist and short fiction writer in the cyberpunk milieu, Gibson invented the metaphor of cyberspace in "Burning Chrome" (1982) and emerged from obscurity in 1984 with the publication of his debut novel Neuromancer. Gibson's early short fiction is recognized as cyberpunk's finest work, effectively renovating the science fiction genre which had been hitherto considered widely insignificant.
At the turn of the 1990s, after the completion of his Sprawl trilogy of novels, Gibson contributed the text to a number of performance art pieces and exhibitions, as well as writing lyrics for musicians Yellow Magic Orchestra and Debbie Harry. He wrote the critically acclaimed artist's book Agrippa (a book of the dead) in 1992 before co-authoring The Difference Engine, an alternate history novel that would become a central work of the steampunk genre. He then spent an unfruitful period as a Hollywood screenwriter, with few of his projects seeing the light of day and those that did being critically unsuccessful.
Although he had largely abandoned short fiction by the mid-1990s, Gibson returned to writing novels, completing his second trilogy, the Bridge trilogy at the close of the millennium. After writing two episodes of the television series The X-Files around this time, Gibson was featured as the subject of a documentary film, No Maps for These Territories, in 2000. Gibson has been invited to address the National Academy of Sciences (1993) and the Directors Guild of America (2003) and has had a plethora of articles published in outlets such as Wired, Rolling Stone and The New York Times. His third trilogy of novels, Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007) and Zero History (2010) have put Gibson's work onto mainstream bestseller lists for the first time.
Novels
Sprawl trilogy:
Neuromancer (1984)
Count Zero (1986)
Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)
The Difference Engine (1990; with Bruce Sterling)
Bridge trilogy:
Virtual Light (1993)
Idoru (1996)
All Tomorrow's Parties (1999)
Blue Ant trilogy:
Pattern Recognition (2003)
Spook Country (2007)
Zero History (2010)
Jackpot trilogy:
The Peripheral (2014)
Agency (2020)
Jackpot (TBD)
Short fiction
Collected
"Burning Chrome" (1986, preface by Bruce Sterling):
"Johnny Mnemonic" (May 1981, Omni)
"The Gernsback Continuum" (1981, Universe 11)
"Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (Summer 1977, UnEarth 3)
"The Belonging Kind", with John Shirley (1981, Shadows 4)
"Hinterlands" (October 1981, Omni)
"Red Star, Winter Orbit", with Bruce Sterling (July 1983, Omni)
"New Rose Hotel" (July 1984, Omni)
"The Winter Market" (November 1985, Vancouver)
"Dogfight", with Michael Swanwick (July 1985, Omni)
"Burning Chrome" (July 1982, Omni)
Uncollected
"Tokyo Collage" in SF Eye, August 1988.
"Tokyo Suite" in Penthouse (Japanese edition) 1988/5-7. Early version of “Tokyo Collage”, tran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20and%20Intractability | Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness is a textbook by Michael Garey and David S. Johnson.
It was the first book exclusively on the theory of NP-completeness and computational intractability. The book features an appendix providing a thorough compendium of NP-complete problems (which was updated in later printings of the book). The book is now outdated in some respects as it does not cover more recent development such as the PCP theorem. It is nevertheless still in print and is regarded as a classic: in a 2006 study, the CiteSeer search engine listed the book as the most cited reference in computer science literature.
Open problems
Another appendix of the book featured problems for which it was not known whether they were NP-complete or in P (or neither). The problems (with their original names) are:
Graph isomorphism
This problem is known to be in NP, but it is unknown if it is NP-complete.
Subgraph homeomorphism (for a fixed graph H)
Graph genus
Chordal graph completion
Chromatic index
Spanning tree parity problem
Partial order dimension
Precedence constrained 3-processor scheduling
This problem was still open as of 2016.
Linear programming
Total unimodularity
Composite number
Testing for compositeness is known to be in P, but the complexity of the closely related integer factorization problem remains open.
Minimum length triangulation
Problem 12 is known to be NP-hard, but it is unknown if it is in NP.
Reception
Soon after it appeared, the book received positive reviews by reputed researchers in the area of theoretical computer science.
In his review, Ronald V. Book recommends the book to "anyone who wishes to learn about the subject of NP-completeness", and he explicitly mentions the "extremely useful" appendix with over 300 NP-hard computational problems. He concludes: "Computer science needs more books like this one."
Harry R. Lewis praises the mathematical prose of the authors: "Garey and Johnson's book is a thorough, clear, and practical exposition of NP-completeness. In many respects it is hard to imagine a better treatment of the subject." Also, he considers the appendix as "unique" and "as a starting point in attempts to show new problems to be NP-complete".
Twenty-three years after the book appeared, Lance Fortnow, editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Transactions on Computational Theory, states: "I consider Garey and Johnson the single most important book on my office bookshelf. Every computer scientist should have this book on their shelves as well. [...] Garey and Johnson has the best introduction to computational complexity I have ever seen."
See also
List of NP-complete problems
References
Computer science books
1979 non-fiction books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby%20%28Supernatural%29 | Ruby is a demon on The CW Television Network's Supernatural portrayed mainly by actresses Katie Cassidy and Genevieve Cortese. Created by the writers to expand on the characterization of demons within the series, she first appears in the third season, wherein she assists series protagonists Sam and Dean Winchester in fighting her fellow demons. By the fourth season, she has won Sam's trust and begins training him to kill demons with his psychic powers, though Dean remains fearful of ulterior motives. The character is killed at the end of the fourth season. In the fifteenth season, Ruby returns through flashbacks and a visit to the Empty, the angels' and demons' afterlife.
Though the fans at first reacted negatively towards Cortese replacing Cassidy after the third season, Cortese and creator Eric Kripke felt that they became more accepting as the fourth season progressed. While fan response to the character was mixed overall, critical reception was generally negative. A common criticism was underwhelming performances by Cassidy and Cortese.
Plot
Debuting in the third season premiere "The Magnificent Seven", Ruby (Katie Cassidy) trails Sam Winchester—a hunter of supernatural creatures—and eventually rescues him from a group of demons, whom she kills with her unique demon-killing knife. She reveals her identity to Sam in "The Kids Are Alright", but claims to be different from other demons and wants to help Sam fight them. In return for his cooperation, she promises to save his brother Dean from the Faustian deal he had made to resurrect Sam in the second season finale "All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 2". However, she refuses to tell Sam her motives. Though he distrusts her and Dean wants to kill her before she can harm them, Sam decides to let her continue to help him with both saving Dean and fighting the hundreds of other demons who—like Ruby—escaped Hell in the second-season finale.
Ruby's credibility builds throughout Season 3. In "Sin City", she restores power to the Colt for the Winchesters to use in their war against demons. The episode "Malleus Maleficarum" provides her backstory, revealing that she had been a witch during the Plague who sold her soul to a demon. She confides in Dean that, unlike other demons, she still remembers what it is like to be human, citing this trait as the reason she is helping the brothers against other demons. She returns in "Jus in Bello" to save the brothers from an attacking horde of demons. Upon learning that they have lost the Colt, she decides to perform a spell that will destroy all the demons in the area, including herself. However, because the spell requires a human virgin's heart, Dean does not allow her to perform it. Although the plan he comes up with instead saves himself and his brother, the people they leave behind get killed by demons pursuing Sam and Dean, which Ruby uses to rebuke the brothers for not listening to her.
Contrary to her promise to Sam, Ruby tells Dean that she cannot actually sav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTSS | CTSS may refer to:
Cathepsin S, a human enzyme
Center for Terrorism & Security Studies at UMass Lowell, US
Clementi Town Secondary School, Singapore
Compatible Time-Sharing System, a computer operating system
Cray Time Sharing System, a computer operating centre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%20X%20Snow%20Leopard | Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.
Snow Leopard was publicly unveiled on June 8, 2009 at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. On August 28, 2009, it was released worldwide, and was made available for purchase from Apple's website and retail stores at the price of US$29 for a single-user license. As a result of the low price, initial sales of Snow Leopard were significantly higher than that of its predecessors whose price started at US$129. The release of Snow Leopard came nearly two years after the launch of Mac OS X Leopard, the second longest time span between successive Mac OS X releases (the time span between Tiger and Leopard was the longest).
The goals of Snow Leopard were improved performance, greater efficiency and the reduction of its overall memory footprint, unlike previous versions of Mac OS X which focused more on new features. Apple famously marketed Snow Leopard as having "zero new features". Its name signified its goal to be a refinement of the previous OS X version, Leopard. Much of the software in Mac OS X was extensively rewritten for this release in order to take full advantage of modern Macintosh hardware and software technologies (64-bit, Cocoa, etc.). New programming frameworks, such as OpenCL, were created, allowing software developers to use graphics cards in their applications. It was also the first Mac OS release since System 7.1.1 to not support Macs using PowerPC processors, as Apple dropped support for them and focused on Intel-based products. As support for Rosetta was dropped in Mac OS X Lion, Snow Leopard is the last version of Mac OS X that is able to run PowerPC-only applications.
Snow Leopard was succeeded by OS X Lion (version 10.7) on July 20, 2011. For several years, Apple continued to sell Snow Leopard at its online store for the benefit of users that required Snow Leopard in order to upgrade to later versions of OS X. Snow Leopard was the last version of Mac OS X to be distributed primarily through optical disc, as all further releases were mainly distributed through the Mac App Store introduced in the Snow Leopard 10.6.6 update.
Snow Leopard was the last release of Mac OS X to support the 32-bit Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo CPUs. Because of this, Snow Leopard still remained somewhat popular alongside OS X Lion, despite its lack of continued support, mostly because of its ability to run PowerPC-based applications.
Snow Leopard was also the last release of Mac OS X to ship with a welcome video at first boot after installation. Reception of Snow Leopard was positive; see the section below.
System requirements
Apple states the following basic Snow Leopard system requirements are:
Mac computer with an Intel processor (IA-32). "Yonah" processors such as Core Solo and Core Duo can run only 32-bit applications; later x86-64 architecture processors such as Core 2 Duo, Core i5 and i7 are a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%20P%C3%A9rez%20de%20Manosalbas | Santiago Pérez de Manosalbas was a Colombian educator, lawyer, diplomat, writer, journalist, and statesman who was President of the United States of Colombia between 1874 and 1876.
Biographic data
Pérez was born in Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca, on May 23, 1830, in what was then the Republic of New Granada. Born to a family of farmers, his parents were Felipe Pérez and Rosa Manosalbas. He died while in exile in Paris on August 5, 1900, at the age of 70.
He was buried in the Batignolles Cemetery in Paris and there he rested until 1952, when his remains were repatriated and buried in the Central Cemetery of Bogotá.
Early life
The Pérez de Manosalbas was not a family of means, and Santiago and his brother Felipe Pérez went to the local public school in Zipaquirá, but they excelled beyond their teachers’ expectations. When the Director of Public Instruction Lorenzo María Lleras went to Zipaquirá to visit the school, he was impressed by Santiago and Felipe’s talent and potential. Lleras decided to help them and took them with him to Our Lady of the Rosary University, where he was the rector. He later took them to the “Colegio del Espíritu Santo”, a higher education school, which Lleras had founded. There, Pérez studied jurisprudence and on May 23, 1830, he received his law degree, although he never professed this occupation, as he was a man of letters and politics.
Private life
Pérez was married to Tadea Triana Silva; together they had four children, Santiago, Paulina, Eduardo and Amelia. Amelia married Clímaco Calderón, future President of Colombia. Eduardo became a diplomat. Santiago followed in his fathers footsteps, becoming a writer, politician, diplomat, and journalist.
Career as an educator
Pérez started his true calling as an educator working as a teacher in Spanish and Spanish literature while studying law in the Colegio del Espíritu Santo. In 1857 together with his brother Felipe, they established the Colegio Pérez Hermanos, a learning institution that taught such people as the linguist Rufino José Cuervo.
During the second administration of president Manuel Murillo Toro he was appointed Director of Public Instruction while also working as rector of the National University of Colombia. In his prominent role as Director of Public Instruction he fomented education and the construction of new schools.
Comisión Corográfica
In 1852, Pérez joined the Comisión Corográfica, a state funded expedition led by Agustin Codazzi whose goal was to map out the entire country and collect information on its inhabitants. Pérez worked as secretary of the expedition, replacing Manuel Ancízar, who had fallen ill along the trip. His mission was to record events, places, descriptions, statistics, and other valuable information of the places they went to. During his time in the commission, he traveled to Neiva, Mariquita, Chocó, Casanare, Bogotá, and the territory of the Caquetá. He published his studies in the newspaper El Neo-Granadino, and wrote a memoir on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternaria%20allii | Alternaria allii is a fungal pathogen on leaves of Allium cepa in Puerto Rico.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
allii
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Fungi described in 1927 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Matching%20Service | National Matching Services (NMS) specializes in the development and administration of Matching Programs. NMS was founded in 1985, after developing sophisticated matching algorithms and software for the placement of physicians into residencies in the US. Since then, NMS has implemented Matching Programs in a number of industries and professions, including osteopathic medicine, psychology, dentistry, pharmacy, and optometry. NMS is headquartered in Toronto.
Matching Programs place applicants into positions based on lists of preferred choices submitted by applicants and recruiters. A Matching Program eliminates premature decisions based on incomplete information by allowing all offers, acceptances or rejections to occur at the same time. Therefore many common adverse situations are eliminated from the recruitment process, such as applicants hoarding multiple offers, applicants reneging on a prior acceptance in order to accept a more preferred subsequent offer, and recruiters overfilling the number of positions available. Applicants and recruiters benefit from having full choice of all potential placements. The best strategy for both applicants and recruiters is to submit preference lists that reflect their true preferences.
References
Employment agencies of Canada
Medical education in the United States
Public employment service
Medical and health organizations based in Ontario
Stable matching |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFOT | WFOT (89.5 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Lexington, Ohio, featuring a Catholicm–based format as a repeater station in the Annunciation Radio network. Owned by Our Lady of Guadalupe Radio, Inc. (d/b/a Annunciation Radio), the station serves the Mansfield, Ashland and Mount Vernon areas as an affiliate of EWTN Radio and Ave Maria Radio. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WFOT's programming is available online.
History
WFOT began in February 2007 as a near-simulcast of WVKO in Columbus from 2007 to 2011 and then WVSG in Columbus from 2011 until July 2013 when it was part of St. Gabriel Radio. St. Gabriel Radio began broadcasting in 2005 on the former WUCO (now WDLR) in Marysville, Ohio until 2010. Though WUCO was the first to air Catholic programming for the Columbus Diocese, this made WFOT the second such station in that diocese.
In June 2013 Annunciation Radio purchased WFOT which on July 11, 2013 at 3:00 pm, programming transitioned from St. Gabriel Radio to Annunciation Radio. Sale and transfer of license of WFOT was granted by the FCC on June 24, 2013, thus making WFOT the fifth full-time Catholic station in the Toledo Diocese and the third station in Annunciation's regional network.
External links
Catholic radio stations
FOT
Radio stations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambric | Ambric, Inc. was a designer of computer processors that developed the Ambric architecture. Its Am2045 Massively Parallel Processor Array (MPPA) chips were primarily used in high-performance embedded systems such as medical imaging, video, and signal-processing.
Ambric was founded in 2003 in Beaverton, Oregon by Jay Eisenlohr and Anthony Mark Jones. Eisenlohr previously founded and sold Rendition, Inc. to Micron Technology for $93M, while Jones is a leading expert in analog, digital, and system IC design and is the named inventor on over 120 U.S. patents. Jones was also the founder of a number of companies prior to Ambric, and has since co-founded Vitek IP with technology and patent expert Dan Buri in 2019. Ambric developed and introduced the Am2045 and its software tools in 2007, but fell victim to the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Ambric's Am2045 and tools remained available through Nethra Imaging, Inc., which closed in 2012.
Architecture and programming model
Ambric architecture is a massively parallel distributed memory multiprocessor, based on the Structural Object Programming Model. Each processor is programmed in conventional Java (a strict subset) and/or assembly code. The hundreds of processors on the chip send data and control messages to one another through an interconnect of reconfigurable, self-synchronizing channels, which provide both communication and synchronization. The model of computation is very similar to a Kahn process network with bounded buffers.
Devices and tools
The Am2045 device has 336 32-bit RISC-DSP fixed-point processors and 336 2-kibibyte memories, which run at up to 300 MHz. It has an Eclipse-based integrated development environment including editor, compiler, assemblers, simulator, configuration generator, source-code debugger and video/image-processing, signal-processing, and video-codec libraries.
Power and performance
The Am2045 delivers 1 TeraOPS (Operations Per Second) and 50 Giga-MACs (Multply-Accumulates per second) of fixed-point processing with 6-12W of power consumed (dependent on the application).
Applications
Ambric's MPPA devices were used for high-definition, 2K and 4K video compression, transcoding and analysis, image recognition, medical imaging, signal-processing, software defined radio and other compute-intensive streaming media applications, which otherwise would use FPGA, DSP and/or ASIC chips. The company claimed advantages such as higher performance and energy efficiency, scalability, higher productivity due to software programming rather than hardware design, and off-the-shelf availability.
Video codec libraries were available for a variety of professional camera and video editing formats such as DVCPRO HD, VC-3 (DNxHD), AVC-Intra and others.
An X-Ray customer system employs over 13,000 cores contained in 40 Am2045 chips, doing 3D reconstruction, in under 500W, in a single ATCA chassis.
Related
Other MPPAs include picoChip and IntellaSys, and the UC Davis's AsAP research chip. Com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Teletoon%20Retro | Teletoon Retro aired programs primarily from Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. Animation along with live action shows and Canadian-produced shows. Select programs from Cartoon Network were aired during the channel's later years.
Other Programming
Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV series) (2008-2013)
Beetlejuice (TV series) (2009 - 2013)
Bobby's World (2012 - 2015)
Care Bears (TV series) (2009 - 2015)
Casper The Friendly Ghost (2008 - 2009)
Fantastic Four (2008 - 2009)
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (2007 - 2009)
Felix the Cat (2011 - 2013)
For Better Or For Worse
Garfield and Friends (2011 - 2015)
G.I Joe (2008 - 2009)
Gumby (2014 - 2015)
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2010 - 2015)
Inspector Gadget (2008 - 2013)
Jem and the Holograms (2011 - 2015)
My Pet Monster (2011 - 2015)
Ned's Newt (2012 - 2015)
ReBoot (2008 - 2015)
She-Ra: Princess of Power (2010 - 2013)
Super Friends (2008 - 2011)
Spiderman (2008 - 2013)
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (2009-2013)
Stop the Smoggies (2014 - 2015)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) (2012 - 2015)
The Adventures of Tintin (TV series) (2011 - 2015)
The Berenstain Bears (2003 TV series) (2013-2015)
The Little Lulu Show (2011 - 2013)
The Mighty Hercules (2012 - 2015)
The New Adventures Of Batman (2008 - 2009)
The New Adventures of Superman (TV series) (2008 - 2009)
The Pink Panther (2009 - 2013)
The Real Ghostbusters (2008 - 2013)
The Transformers (TV series) (2009 - 2013)
The Woody Woodpecker Show (2007 - 2009)
Thundercats (2009 - 2015)
References
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKPB | WKPB (89.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Henderson, Kentucky. The station is owned by Western Kentucky University, and is an affiliate of the WKU Public Radio network.
History of call letters
The call letters WKPB were earlier assigned to an FM station in Knoxville, Tennessee. Owned by the Knoxville Publishing Company (The Knoxville Journal newspaper), it began broadcasting October 15, 1947, on 93.3 MHz. This station ceased operations 18 months later, on April 15, 1949, with the Journal citing the uncertainty created by the advent of television. The newspaper sold its equipment to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (which started WUOT using it that fall) and its records to the general public.
References
External links
wkyufm.org
KPB
NPR member stations
Western Kentucky University
Henderson, Kentucky
College radio stations in Kentucky
1989 establishments in Kentucky
Radio stations established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie%20Severino | Horacio "Howie" Gorospe Severino (born July 18, 1961) is a Filipino broadcast journalist, anchor, host, documentarist and podcaster who is currently working in GMA Network. He is best known for his work with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, The Probe Team, and i-Witness. He has worked in print, television, and online media.
Background
Education
He has said he wanted to be a journalist ever since he was in fifth grade. He graduated from Tufts University in Massachusetts with a history degree, magna cum laude, and received his master's degree from University of Sussex in the United Kingdom in Environment, Development, and Policy.
As a college student in Boston in the early 1980s, he got to know Benigno Aquino Jr., then in exile. After Aquino's assassination in 1983, Severino returned home to teach at his alma mater Ateneo de Manila High School, and join the anti-Marcos movement. He was arrested while taking pictures of a police dispersal of a student barricade in front of Ateneo campus on January 25, 1985, the same day as Lino Brocka and Behn Cervantes. Severino was detained for eight days in Fort Bonifacio, which was at the time a dreaded army camp and not yet the high-end commercial and residential hub that it is today.
Career
Severino was a campus journalist at Tufts University for all four years in college. In the Philippines, he began his journalism career as a newspaper reporter and magazine writer in 1988. He became a co-founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) in 1989; established himself as a leading documentary filmmaker; and, in 2009, was named editor-in-chief of GMA News Online, GMA Network's news website. He stepped down in 2014 after five years, and was appointed GMA Network's vice president for Professional Development in May 2014.
On TV, he was on Probe Team for four years with Cheche Lazaro before joining I-Witness, now one of the longest-running public affairs programs in the Philippines.
He set up the PCIJ's Environment Desk, built credentials as a leading environmental journalist, and worked closely with Ramon Magsaysay awardee Sheila Coronel. He still produces environmental documentaries for I-Witness and often appears on television riding his mountain bike.
Online, he was the first blogger on GMA's web platforms. His journalistic exploration of emerging media culminated in 2009 with his appointment as GMA Network's vice president for Multimedia Journalism and his subsequent assignment to helm GMA News Online.
As GMA News Online's editor-in-chief, Severino and his team pioneered in the Philippines the use of Google Maps for disaster coverage, Twitter for breaking news, and crowdsourcing for news gathering.
Along with fellow I-Witness documentarist Kara David, Severino became the anchor of GMA News TV's noontime newscast News to Go in 2011, until its conclusion on 2019.
On April 8, 2021, he started hosting his own podcast The Howie Severino Podcast. It is the first podcast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Hambrick | Mike Hambrick (born in Tyler, Texas) is an American television anchor, reporter, and correspondent who has worked on network television stations such as WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., KTVT-TV in Dallas, KTAR-TV (now KPNX) in Phoenix, WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and WBAL-TV in Baltimore in 1975. Hambrick was also a news anchor for WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, where he also served as managing editor.
Early life
Hambrick grew up in Northeast Texas, where he began his broadcasting career. At age 15, he worked for his local radio station broadcasting disk jockey. Hambrick's TV news career to him to Memphis, Cleveland, Dallas-Ft.Worth, Washington, D.C., and New York. He retired from TV News after many years in Washington, D.C.
Family
He is brother to veteran newscasters Judd Hambrick, and John Hambrick, and the uncle of newscaster Jack Hambrick (John's son). Hambrick is divorced. He has three children and six grandchildren.
Awards and honors
Hambrick has won a number of awards for his work, which include:
Several Emmy awards
Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Broadcasting for his documentary about the D-Day invasion during the World War II
America's Business News anchor
America’s Business with Mike Hambrick was a one-hour weekly news and information program. Hambrick's second nationally syndicated radio program was Freedomline with Mike Hambrick and was acclaimed by Radio America Network as "an exceptional newsmagazine program and an important voice the defense of the rights of individuals."
References
Sources
America's Business News summary and Mike Hambrick Biography
America's Business News Official Website
1949 births
Television personalities from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Living people
People from Mount Pleasant, Texas
American television reporters and correspondents
Television anchors from Baltimore
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacoma%20Knight%20in%20Bizyland | Cacoma Knight in Bizyland, known in Japan as is a Super NES video game created by Datam Polystar. Seta USA created the English version of the game. The Japanese version is copyrighted in 1992, and the English version is copyrighted in 1993. The title is a pun on , meaning "must surround".
The player may control one of three characters, Jack ( in the Japanese version), Jean (), or RB93 (), in a puzzle game. the queen of a country called Lasyland, has cast a spell and trapped Princess Ophelia in a mirror, causing the Kingdom of Bizyland () to become gray and dismal. King Cacoma calls on the player(s) to save the princess and the kingdom.
Gameplay
Cacoma Knight is a hybrid of Qix and anime elements. Each level is a single screen. The first image that the player sees is a landscape, for example, a forest or a town. The image will then fade into a "corrupt" version of the landscape, for example, the trees become rotten and buildings become ruined. Each screen has a "Qualify" target that shows how much of the screen must be cleared before the game continues to the next level. The player can then use the Magical Chalk to section off an area of the landscape, using either the borders of existing cleared sections or the borders of the screen. When a full shape is completed with no holes in its borders, the smaller of the two sections created is "purified" and returned to the original state shown at the beginning of the level. In the cleared section, there may be power-ups or items that increase the point score of the player. Therefore, a greater "% Cleared" score means more points and power-ups will be rewarded, so it is beneficial to the player to attempt to clear as much of the screen as possible before exceeding the Qualify target.
Enemies can impede progress of the player and come in various shapes, sizes and speeds. Some enemies can only move along the borders of the screen and the chalk lines that the player creates, others have free rein of the screen within given borders. Enemies can be destroyed by trapping them within an area of chalk, however, they will repopulate quickly thereafter. The player must avoid getting hit by enemies. If the player allows the character to get hit by the enemies too many times (based on the difficulty), they will be brought to a continue screen. Continuing costs one Credit, of which the player has a predetermined amount based on the difficulty that they are playing on. If the player runs out of the Credits, the game ends.
A visual measure of progress is implemented between rounds in the game (a round includes several landscapes that the player must complete). When a player completes a round, an incomplete image is shown which is slowly filled in as the player completes more and more rounds.
Further reading
References
1992 video games
Affect (company) games
Cooperative video games
Datam Polystar
Puzzle video games
SETA Corporation games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment Sy |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.