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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Johan%20%C3%85str%C3%B6m | Karl Johan Åström (born August 5, 1934) is a Swedish control theorist, who has made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering, computer control and adaptive control. In 1965, he described a general framework of Markov decision processes with incomplete information, what ultimately led to the notion of a Partially observable Markov decision process.
In 1995, Åström was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to identification, stochastic, and adaptive control and their incorporation in control engineering practice.
Biography
Åström was born in Östersund, Sweden, and received his M.Sc. in Engineering Physics (1957) and PhD in Automatic Control and Mathematics (1960) from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, where he also taught from 1955 to 1960 while working on inertial guidance for the Swedish National Defence Research Institute.
In 1961 Åström joined the IBM Nordic Laboratory to work on computerized process control, with tours at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York (1962) and San Jose, California (1963). After his return he led efforts in the computer control of paper manufacturing machinery. In 1965, Åström was named chair of the newly founded Department of Automatic Control at Lund University, Sweden.
From 1965 to 1999 he was chair of the Department of Automatic Control at Lund University, where he is now professor emeritus. Since 2002 he has been distinguished visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Åström is a Fellow of the IEEE, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, vice president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), and a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the ASME Rufus Oldenburger medal (1985) and the International Federation of Automatic Control Quazza Medal (1987). In 1987 he was also awarded the degree Docteur Honoris Causa from l'Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. He received in 1989 the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, in 1990 the IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award, and in 1993 the IEEE Medal of Honor for his "fundamental contributions to theory and applications of adaptive control technology".
Publications
Books
1970. Introduction to Stochastic Control. Academic Press, 1970; Dover, 2006.
1989. Adaptive Control. With B Wittenmark. Addison-Wesley, 1989.
1996. Computer-controlled Systems, Theory and Design. With B Wittenmark. Prentice Hall, 1996; Dover, 2011. (IFAC Textbook award for first edition, 1993)
2005. Advanced PID Control. With T Hägglund. ISA, 2005.
2008. Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers. With R. Murray. Princeton University Press, 2008. (IFAC Textbook award, 2011)
Papers
KJ Åström, B Wittenmark. "On self-tuning regulators," Automatica, vol. 9, pp. 185–199, 1973.
See also
Partially observable Markov decision process
References
External links
Karl Joh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Man%20%28miniseries%29 | Midnight Man is a 2008 British television serial produced by Carnival Films for the ITV network. The three-part serial stars James Nesbitt as Max Raban, a former investigative journalist who discovers an international conspiracy involving government policy groups and death squads. It co-stars Catherine McCormack as Alice Ross, a policy advisor who helps Raban, and Reece Dinsdale as Blake, the head of the death squad.
The serial was written by David Kane in response to national paranoia in the wake of the War on Terror. Kane was inspired by the way the films Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View and The Conversation reflected a post-Vietnam paranoia in the United States. The director David Drury had the predominantly nighttime-set serial filmed in the winter, to maximise the use of darkness and keep down production costs. His inspiration for the look of the serial came from The Godfather, which featured rich colours.
Reaction to the serial was generally positive; critics believed the drama was formulaic and uninspired, but appreciated the direction and acting. Nesbitt received a Best Actor nomination at the 2008 ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards.
Plot
Max Raban (played by James Nesbitt) is a former investigative journalist who lost his job when he named a source in a government scandal. The source killed herself and Raban's guilt left him estranged from his wife, Carolyn (played by Zara Turner), and daughter. The guilt manifested itself as phengophobia, a fear of daylight, which Raban seeks to cure by regularly visiting a therapist, Trevor (played by Peter Capaldi), at unsociable hours. To earn money, Raban scours dustbins for celebrity scandals, which he sells to his former editor and best friend whom he has known since university, Jimmy Kerrigan (played by Ian Puleston-Davies).
In Part 1, Raban discovers that two Iranian cousins have been murdered. Some investigation links the killings to a policy group called Defence Concern, headed by Daniel Cosgrave (played by Rupert Graves). Raban believes that Defence Concern had something to do with the killings, and recruits Cosgrave's policy advisor Alice Ross (played by Catherine McCormack) to help him uncover the truth. That night, Raban is approached in a cafe by Blake (played by Reece Dinsdale), a member of the death squad Pugnus Dei ("God's Fist"). Blake tells Raban to keep out of their business. Raban is amused and remains so as Blake makes a telephone call ordering Carolyn's death. As Blake leaves, Raban's smile fades and he runs to Carolyn's house.
Part 2 continues directly from Part 1. Raban finds Carolyn lying dead in her front doorway. The police arrive and suspect Raban of killing her. As his daughter is taken away to stay with her aunt, Raban flees the scene. He arranges to meet with Kerrigan to tell him what he has discovered. Ross accesses a confidential file that she downloaded from Cosgrave's computer and discovers the name of one of the Iranian cousins, proving Raban's claim of Def |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larabie | Larabie may refer to:
Ray Larabie (born 1970), computer font designer
See also
Larrabee (disambiguation)
Larabee (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Marco | Joseph Cecil Marco (born October 4, 1988) is a Filipino actor, model, singer and endorser who played the role of Santi Domingo in the GMA Network Philippine drama series La Vendetta and who is currently a Star Magic artist in the ABS-CBN, who appeared in Sabel, Honesto, Pasión de Amor and played Diego Torillo in Wildflower (TV series). Before this, he used to appear on several commercials like E-Aji Dip Snax, Downy and Head & Shoulders. On September 15, 2007, he was launched as part of the 15 new discoveries of GMA Artist Center, and was one of the first few who was quickly given a project via La Vendetta.
Biography
Joseph Cecil Marco, born on October 4, 1988, he is the fourth of eight children of his parents, having an elder sister who resides in California, two elder brothers, and four younger sisters. He is the nephew of DZMM anchor Tita Norma Marco.
Marco graduated high school in Faith Christian School in Cainta, Rizal in 2005 and did not finish college after he was discovered by his manager in Eastwood City. He said, "Nagulat nga po ako na first VTR ko, nakapasa agad ako." (I was surprised that I got approved on my first VTR.) during the initial presscon of La Vendetta.
Marco currently dates Russian Daria Romanova, previously dated Miss Philippines Earth 2019 Celeste Cortesi.
Career
2007–2009
After his first commercial, he came up more TV commercials with products such as Coca-Cola, E-Aji Dip Snax and Downy.
Marco signed up with GMA Artist Center in September 2007. He was one of the first of his batch to have been given a TV project when he was added to the cast of the then airing TV drama series, La Vendetta. Here, he played the role of a geek teenager Santi Domingo. At the initial phase of their presentation as new artists, Marco was able to guest at different programmes on GMA such as Showbiz Central, SOP Rules and Nuts Entertainment.
In 2007, he was included in Philippines' Cosmopolitan magazine's 2007 69 Bachelors but did not join the fashion show held at The Fort. For the fantasy TV drama, Dyesebel, he played an assistant named Joseph
2010–2014
In 2010, Marco transferred network to ABS-CBN. Marco was picked to be one of the lead cast in ABS-CBN's show Sabel as Raymond Sandoval, with Jessy Mendiola and AJ Perez. Marco also appeared in some episodes of the anthology, Maalaala Mo Kaya.
In 2014, he played the main role of Dave Martinez in the afternoon TV series entitled Pure Love, alongside Alex Gonzaga and Yen Santos.
2015–present
In March 2015, ASAP launched his newest boy group called "Harana" together with his co-members, Marlo Mortel, Bryan Santos and Michael Pangilinan with their carrier single, "Number One". He was one of the main cast of the primetime series Pasión de Amor, a Philippine remake of Pasión de Gavilanes, that aired in June 2015.
In 2016, Marco joined the cast of Dolce Amore. He played the role of River Cruz and became the new rival of Tenten to Serena's heart.
In 2017, he was cast as one of the leading men |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susunu%21%20Denpa%20Sh%C5%8Dnen | was a Japanese reality television show which aired from January 11, 1998, to September 29, 2002, on the Nippon TV network, and online from October 2009.
Description
The title means "Do not proceed! Crazy youth". "Denpa" literally means radio waves, but colloquially also refers to crazy people, in reference to instances of mentally insane people claiming to be controlled by radio waves. The title is also a pun; the predecessor of the show was called Susume! Denpa Shōnen (lit. Onward! Crazy Youth). To depict that the show had indeed moved onward, one of the characters of the title was made longer by changing the to , approximately meaning Do not proceed!.
The show is known for the extreme situations the participants were placed in. It gained high ratings, spawned a sister show, , and was controversial due to the sadistic challenges and rule changes made by the television producers if they felt the participants were doing too well. The show also received criticism for some of the show segments being staged.
The participants were usually unknown comedians who were ready to do anything to get famous. Upon application, they were chosen randomly, and were not told what the objective of their challenge was. Some of the challengers became more or less famous, while some remained relatively unknown.
The program's initial cancellation was related to a government crackdown on "torture"-themed shows, but has seen a revival on the World Wide Web from October 2009 on the streaming website Number Two Nihon Television (). Its first new "challenger" for the webcast was comedian Yoshio Kojima.
Major challenges
In the four-year course of the original program, participants completed about 20 challenges.
Amongst the best known are:
Denpa Shōnen teki Kenshō Seikatsu (; lit. "Denpa Shōnen's Prize Life"), probably the best known challenge of the show. Starting in January 1998, Nasubi, a young comedian, was forced to live for 15 months naked in an apartment in Japan and later Korea only on prizes won in sweepstakes.
Denpa Shōnen teki Mujintō Dasshutsu (; lit. "Denpa Shōnen's Desert Island Escape") and the Swam series. Two comedians were put on a desert island, with no food nor clue about where they were, and were only told that their ordeal would finish if they built a raft and reached Tokyo. After their escape from the desert island, which took them four months, they were given a swan-shaped pedalo and were told to reach Tokyo with it, and then go with the same pedalo from India to Indonesia.
Denpa Shōnen teki Africa Europa Tairiku Ōdan Hitchhike no tabi (; lit. "Denpa Shōnen's Vertical Africa-Europe Continental Hitchhike"). A comedian named Takashi Itō and a Radio DJ from Hong Kong named Tse Chiu-Yan hitchhiked from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa to Nordkapp in Norway. The two contestants were forbidden to use their travel money and thus faced starvation, dehydration and harsh weather conditions. At one point in the challenge, Itō collapsed in the Sahara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysius | Elysius is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Elysius is an artificially created being constructed by the Titanian super computer ISAAC, and possesses some of the superhuman attributes of an Eternal from Titan. She became the lover of Mar-Vell, and after his death used his genetic material to impregnate herself with Genis-Vell and Phyla-Vell.
Fictional character biography
Elysius was created by ISAAC, the sentient computer system of Titan. She serves as ISAAC's lieutenant, and aided ISAAC in its conquest of Titan.
She later aided Captain Mar-Vell, and Drax the Destroyer against ISAAC, Stellarax, Lord Gaea, and Chaos. She then began her romance with Mar-Vell. She returned to Earth with Mar-Vell and Rick Jones.
She later accompanied Mar-Vell to Denver to visit Rick Jones. She accompanied Betty Ross, Rick Jones, and Fred Sloan to Gamma Base in search of Mar-Vell and the Hulk. She departed Gamma Base with Mar-Vell.
Some time later, Elysius attended the death-watch of Captain Mar-Vell.
Later, she remained on Titan when Starfox departed for Earth to join the Avengers.
Powers and abilities
Elysius is an artificially created being patterned on and possessing some of the attributes of the Titanians, a lesser sub-branch of the long-lived offshoot of humanity called the Eternals. She has enhanced stamina, and her strength, speed, and durability are higher than that of a human, although she does not possess the ability to fly or levitate. She has limited telepathic abilities of an unrevealed nature. She keeps griffin-like creatures which obey her telepathic commands.
She uses an alien hand-weapon capable of disrupting force fields or of firing energy of an unspecified nature as bursts of concussive force. ISAAC crafted her personal sky-ship, which resembles an ancient Earth galleon but possesses the capacity of flight.
References
External links
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Elysius
Characters created by Doug Moench
Characters created by Pat Broderick
Comics characters introduced in 1978
Eternals (comics)
Marvel Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman durability or invulnerability
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength
Marvel Comics female superheroes
Marvel Comics superheroes
Marvel Comics telepaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemundo%20of%20Puerto%20Rico%20Studios | Telemundo of Puerto Rico Studios, LLC is a division of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. It develops original programming in Spanish for station WKAQ-TV in Puerto Rico.
History
On June 21, 2007, Telemundo of Puerto Rico Studios was created to produce TV programming for viewing in Puerto Rico and internationally. On September 4, 2007, the first project began with a 35-episode season of Decisiones.
Decisiones is a successful TV unitary show. Telemundo has produced more than 500 episodes in 3 countries: Mexico, U.S. (Miami, Florida), and Colombia. Decisiones began on the island, with support of the production team of Decisiones at Telemundo Network. The studios are located at the Telemundo of Puerto Rico facilities in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
On November 7, 2007, the production hosted a Gala Premier at the Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A Ferré in San Juan. The event was attended by representatives from the government, press, clients, actors and the general public. The production showed clips from the first 9 episodes and the first show's first segment.
Decisiones Puerto Rico, as it was called for local distribution, began on Monday, November the 12, 2007, on Telemundo WKAQ-TV.
External links
Telemundo
Television studios in the United States
2007 establishments in Puerto Rico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%203%20Provence-Alpes | France 3 Provence-Alpes is a regional television service, part of the France 3 network. It serves the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region from its headquarters in Marseille and secondary production centre in Antibes, along with newsrooms in Toulon and Nice. France 3 Provence-Alpes produces regional news, sport, features and entertainment programming.
History
RTF Télé-Marseille began broadcasting on 20 September 1954. In 1964, RTF was replaced with ORTF by the government, with RTF Télé-Marseille becoming ORTF Marseille Provence. After the de-establishment of ORTF on 6 January 1975, ORTF Télé-Marseille became FR3 Méditerranée. Following the establishment of France Télévisions on 7 September 1992, FR3 Méditerranée was rebranded France 3 Méditerranée.
Programming
News
France 3 Méditerranée produces daily news programmes for its two sub-regions - programming for the Côte d'Azur sub-region is produced in Antibes, with the Provence-Alpes sub-region receiving programming from Marseille. Each sub-region produces a 27-minute bulletin (midi-pile) at 1200 CET during Ici 12/13 and a main half-hour news broadcast at 1900 during Ici 19/20. Three 10-minute local bulletins for the Marseille, Côte Varoise and Nice areas are broadcast during Ici 19/20 at 1900 CET.
On 5 January 2009, a 5-minute late night bulletin was introduced, forming part of Soir 3.
On some weekends and holiday periods, as well as during major events, the Côte d'Azur and Provence-Alpes news bulletins are combined into pan-regional Méditerranée editions.
See also
France 3 Côte d'Azur
External links
Official site
03 France 3 Provence-Alpes
Television channels and stations established in 1954
Mass media in Marseille
Mass media in Antibes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHAT%20IF%20software | WHAT IF is a computer program used in a wide variety of computational (in silico) macromolecular structure research fields. The software provides a flexible environment to display, manipulate, and analyze small and large molecules, proteins, nucleic acids, and their interactions.
History
The first version of the WHAT IF software was developed by Gert Vriend in 1987 at the University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Most of its development occurred during 1989–2000 at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Other contributors include Chris Sander, and Wolfgang Kabsch. In 2000, maintenance of the software moved to the Dutch Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) in Nijmegen, Netherlands. It is available for in-house use, or as a web-based resource.
, the original paper describing WHAT IF has been cited more than 4,000 times.
Software
WHAT IF provides a flexible environment to display, manipulate, and analyze small molecules, proteins, nucleic acids, and their interactions. One notable use was detecting many millions of errors (often small, but sometimes catastrophic) in Protein Data Bank (PDB) files. WHAT IF also provides an environment for: homology modeling of protein tertiary structures and quaternary structures; validating protein structures, notably those deposited in the PDB; correcting protein structures; visualising macromolecules and their interaction partners (for example, lipids, drugs, ions, and water), and manipulating macromolecules interactively.
WHAT IF is compatible with several other bioinformatics software packages, including YASARA and Jmol.
See also
List of molecular graphics systems
Molecule editor
External links
References
Molecular modelling software
Bioinformatics software
Protein structure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20H.%20Gray | Robert Hansen Gray (March 7, 1948 - December 6, 2021) was an American data analyst, author, and astronomer, and author of The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Education
Gray attended Shimer College, a Great Books school then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1970. He went on to obtain a master's in urban planning and policy analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1980.
Career
Data analysis
In 1984, Gray founded the company Gray Data in Chicago, which provided data analysis research services and published reference cards for microcomputer software. He continued to work as a data analyst through his company Gray Consulting.
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Gray is best known for his work as an independent SETI researcher. The Atlantic called Gray "the 'Wow!' signal's most devoted seeker and chronicler, having traveled to the very ends of the earth in search of it."
The Wow! signal was detected by the Ohio State University Radio Observatory (also known as Big Ear) on August 15, 1977. The signal was so pronounced in the data, and so similar to a radio signal rather than a natural source, that SETI scientist Jerry R. Ehman circled it on the computer printout in red ink and wrote "Wow!" next to it. After hearing about the Wow! signal a few years after its detection, Gray contacted the Ohio team, visited Big Ear, and spoke with Ehman, Robert S. Dixon (director of the SETI project) and John D. Kraus (the telescope's designer).
In 1980, Gray began scanning the skies from his backyard in Chicago, using a 12-foot commercial telecommunications dish. He operated his small SETI radio observatory regularly beginning in 1983 and for the next 15 years, but did not find a trace of the Wow! signal. In 1987 and 1989 he led searches for the signal using the Harvard/Smithsonian META radio telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts. In September 1995 and again in May 1996, Gray and Kevin B. Marvel reported searches for the signal using the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico (which is an array of 27 dishes simulating a single dish with a diameter of up to 22 miles), becoming the first amateur astronomer to use the VLA, and the first individual to use it to search for extraterrestrial signals. The VLA was, until the end of the twentieth century, the most powerful radio telescope ever built. In 1998, he and University of Tasmania professor Simon Ellingsen conducted searches using the 26-meter dish at the Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory in Hobart, Tasmania. Gray and Ellingsen made six 14-hour observations where the Big Ear was pointing when it found the Wow! signal, searching for intermittent and possibly periodic signals, rather than a constant signal. No signals resembling the Wow! were detected.
Writing
Gray and Marvel published a 2001 paper in The Astrophysical Journal detailing his use of the VLA in search of the signal. Gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Rubin | Andrew E. Rubin is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Rubin founded Android Inc. in 2003, which was acquired by Google in 2005; Rubin served as a Google vice president for 9 years and led Google's efforts in creating and promoting the Android operating system for mobile phones and other devices during most of his tenure. Rubin left Google in 2014 after allegations of sexual misconduct, although it was presented as a voluntary departure rather than a dismissal at first. Rubin then served as co-founder and CEO of venture capital firm Playground Global from 2015–2019. Rubin also helped found Essential Products in 2015, a mobile phone start-up that closed in 2020 without finding a buyer.
Rubin was nicknamed "Android" by his co-workers at Apple in 1989 due to a love of robots, with the nickname eventually becoming the official name of the Android operating system. Before Android Inc., Rubin also helped found Danger Inc. in 1999, another company involved in the mobile space; Rubin left Danger to work on Android in 2003, and Danger was eventually acquired by Microsoft in 2008.
In 2018, The New York Times published an article revealing the details of Rubin's 2014 departure from Google - that it had been forced rather than voluntary due to credible allegations he had sexually harassed female employees, and that Google had paid Rubin a $90 million severance package to expedite the process. Google's large severance payment attracted significant controversy.
Early life and education
Rubin grew up in Chappaqua, New York as the son of a psychologist who later founded his own direct-marketing firm. His father's firm created photographs of the latest electronic gadgets to be sent with credit card bills. He attended Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York from 1977 until 1981 and was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Utica College, Utica, New York in 1986.
Career
Andy Rubin worked at Apple from 1989 to 1992 as a manufacturing engineer.
General Magic
Rubin joined General Magic in 1992. He worked for developing Motorola Envoy as a lead engineer.
Google
After Android was acquired by Google in 2005, Rubin became the company's senior vice president of mobile and digital content, where he oversaw development of Android, an open-source operating system for smartphones. On March 13, 2013, Larry Page announced in a blog post that Rubin had moved from the Android division to take on new projects at Google, with Sundar Pichai taking over Android. In December 2013, Rubin started management of the robotics division of Google (including companies such as Boston Dynamics, which Google owned at the time). On October 31, 2014, he left Google after nine years at the company to start a venture capital firm for technology startups.
Sexual harassment allegations
According to The New York Times, while the departure was presented to the media as an amicable one where Rubin would spend more time on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique%20Business%20News | Unique Business News () is a satellite cable news channel operated by Unique Satellite TV in Taiwan. Unique Business News is the first local professional financial news network in Taiwan, which provides 24/7 news and global perspectives.
See also
Media of Taiwan
References
External links
UBN official website
Television stations in Taiwan
24-hour television news channels in Taiwan
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Taiwan Broadcasting System
Mass media in Taipei
Taiwan Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Patrick | Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt Patrick, Jr. (born 1930) is an American deprogrammer and author. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of deprogramming."
In the 1970s, Patrick and other anti-cult activists founded the Citizens' Freedom Foundation (which later became known as the Cult Awareness Network) and began offering what they called "deprogramming" services to people who wanted a family member removed from a New Religious Movement. Patrick's methods frequently involved abduction and forced confinement, which led to him facing multiple criminal charges and civil proceedings. He was eventually convicted of a number of crimes, including kidnapping, false imprisonment and conspiracy.
Early life
Ted Patrick was born in a red-light district of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in which he was surrounded by "thieves, prostitutes, murderers [and] pimps". He dropped out of high school in tenth grade to help support his family, worked a variety of jobs and opened a nightclub, then became co-chairman of the Nineteenth Ward in Chattanooga. At the age of twenty-five, he left his wife and infant son in Tennessee, and went with a friend to San Diego, California, where he became an activist for the black community. For his efforts in the Watts Riots in 1965, Patrick was awarded the Freedom Foundation Award, which ultimately led to his job as the Special Assistant for Community Affairs, under then-Governor Ronald Reagan.
Career as a deprogrammer
Despite a lack of formal education and professional training, Patrick was hired by hundreds of people (usually parents of adult children) seeking to have family members "deprogrammed". Deprogramming, a practice pioneered by Patrick, was "a private, self-help process whereby participants in unpopular new religious movements (NRMs) were forcibly removed from the group, incarcerated, and put through radical resocialization processes that were supposed to result in their agreeing to leave the group." Patrick's methods involved abduction, physical restraint, detention over days or weeks while maintaining a constant presence with the victim, food and sleep deprivation, prolonged verbal and emotional abuse, and desecration of the symbols of the victim's faith.
Patrick's career began in 1971 when Mrs. Samuel Jackson sought his help in relation to her missing son, Billy. As Billy was 19, the police and FBI would not look for him. Billy was involved with the group known as the Children of God, who had approached Patrick's own son, Michael, a week prior. Patrick contacted other people whose relatives were in the Children of God, and even pretended to join the group to study how it operated. This was when he developed his method of deprogramming. He ultimately left his full-time job in order to work on deprogramming full time.
In 1971, Patrick founded FREECOG (Parents Committee to Free Our Sons and Daughters from the Children of God) and then the more broad-ranging Citizen's Freedom Foundation, which later became the Cult Awareness Net |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDBREPORT | The PDBREPORT database is a database of anomalies and errors found in structures of biological molecules in the Protein Data Bank.
The PDBREPORTS database is a useful facility for judging the quality of protein structures in in silico protein structure bioinformatics projects, and has been used frequently by participants of the CASP homology modelling 'competition'. PDBREPORTs are made using the WHAT_CHECK software. WHAT_CHECK is the option of the WHAT IF software that validates macromolecules (especially proteins).
Many of the WHAT_CHECK options determine normality values; that is, the number of standard deviations that any given observation deviates from its mean. And in most cases such events are listed if the deviation is more than 4 sigma, which implies that one in ten thousand of the listed anomalies is genuine and not an error. The section 'validation' of the WHAT_CHECK pages explains this with more detail.
Issues
PDBREPORT entries may be seen as error reports for macromolecular structures deposited in the PDB. The term error report should be used with caution as the WHAT_CHECK software that produces the PDBREPORT flags every anomaly of four standard deviations or more as an error. Some of these reported anomalies may be genuine deviations from the mean rather than errors.
References
Structural bioinformatics
Protein structure
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949%E2%80%9350%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
All Monday–Friday Shows for all networks beginning in September 1949. In many cases, during hours when "Local Programming"is listed, stations may have been running test patterns or might have been off the air.
NOTE: This page is missing info on the DuMont Network, which started daytime transmission before any other United States television network.
Fall 1949
Winter 1949-1950
Spring 1950
Summer 1950
By network
ABC
New Series
Mr. Magic and J.J.
Not Returning From 1948 to 1949
Cartoon Teletales
The Singing Lady
CBS
Returning Series
The Chuck Wagon
Classifield Column
The Ted Steele Show
The U.N. in Action
Vanity Fair
New Series
Homemaker's Exchange
U.N. General Assembly Sessions
Not Returning From 1948 to 1949
The Adventures of Lucky Pup
Ladies Day
These Are My Children
Western Balladeer
NBC
Returning Series
Howdy Doody
New Series
Cactus Jim
Henson Baldwin's War News Digest
Judy Splinters
Not Returning From 1948 to 1949
Here's Archer
These Are My Children
Western Balladeer
Dumont
Returning series
Okay, Mother
TV Shopper
Not Returning From 1948 to 1949
Amanda
Camera Headlines
Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room
The Magic Cottage
Man in the Street
Russ Hodges' Scoreboard
The Stan Shaw Show
TV Shopper
Vincent Lopez Speaking
The Wendy Barrie Show
A Woman to Remember
See also
1949-50 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html
United States weekday network television schedules
1949 in American television
1950 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMOD | IMOD can mean:
Interferometric modulator display - a Qualcomm display technology.
iPod - Apple iPod Modification
Kaavo imod - Cloud Computing Management Application by Kaavo
IMOD (software) - a set of programs used to visualize, reconstruct and segment microscopy images.
Ministry of Defense (Israel) - Israeli Ministry of Defense.
See also
Imode (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti%20Argus | Ferranti's Argus computers were a line of industrial control computers offered from the 1960s into the 1980s. Originally designed for a military role, a re-packaged Argus was the first digital computer to be used to directly control an entire factory. They were widely used in a variety of roles in Europe, particularly in the UK, where a small number continue to serve as monitoring and control systems for nuclear reactors.
Original series
Blue Envoy, hearing aid computer
The original concept for the computer was developed as part of the Blue Envoy missile project. This was a very long-range surface-to-air missile system with a range on the order of . To reach these ranges, the missile was "lofted" in a nearly vertical trajectory at launch, flying as quickly as possible to high altitude where it suffered less drag during the subsequent long cruise toward the target. During the vertical climb, the missile's radar would not be able to see the target, so during this period it was command guided from the ground.
Argus began as a system to read the radar data, compute the required trajectory, and send that to the missile in-flight. The system not only had to develop the trajectory, but also directly controlled the control surfaces of the missile and thus had a complete control feedback system. Development was carried out by Maurice Gribble at Ferranti's Automation Division in Wythenshawe starting in 1956. The system used OC71 transistors from Mullard, originally designed for use in hearing aids. They could only be run at the low speed of 25 kHz, but this was enough for the task.
Blue Envoy was cancelled in 1957 as part of the sweeping 1957 Defence White Paper. Ferranti decided to continue the development of the computer for other uses. During a visit by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in November 1957, they set up a system with an automotive headlamp connected to a handle that could be moved by hand to shine at any point on a wall, while the computer attempted to move a second headlamp to lay on the same spot on the wall.
Prototype Argus
Ferranti continued development of the system, and during 1958 they completed a prototype of a commercial product which they showed publicly for the first time at the Olympia in November. This machine used new circuitry that ran at the much faster rate of 500 kHz. The name "Argus" (from the Greek God of that name) was assigned the next year, keeping with the Ferranti tradition of using Greek names for their computers. They selected Argus as this was the all-seeing god, appropriate for a machine that would be tasked with controlling complex systems.
The new system had a number of differences from the hearing aid machine. Among these was the introduction of interrupts to better handle timing of various events. The earlier machine was so slow that these sorts of issues were dealt with simply by checking every physical input in a loop, but with the much faster performance of the new design this was no longer appropria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer-generated%20advertising | Consumer-generated advertising is advertising on consumer generated media. This term is generally used to refer to sponsored content on blogs, wikis, forums, social networking services, and individual websites. This sponsored content is also known as sponsored posts, paid posts, or sponsored reviews. The content includes links that point to the home page or specific product pages of the website of the sponsor. Examples include Diet Coke and Mentos videos, the "Crush on Obama" video, and Star Wars fan films. Companies that have employed consumer-generated ads include Subaru North America, McDonald's, Rose Parade, and Toyota North America.
The practice of consumer-generated marketing has been in use for several years with the emergence of communal forms of information sharing including weblogs, online message boards, podcasts, interactive broadband TV, and other new media that has been adopted by consumers at the grassroots level to establish community forums for discussing their customer experiences.
Consumer-generated marketing is not the same as viral marketing or word of mouth advertising; however, the result of it achieves a high level of publicity within high relevance communities. These communities are extremely critical to the success of a brand, and normally follow the 80/20 rule, where 20% of the brand's customers account for 80% of its sales. The very act of reaching out to consumers to invite them in as co-collaborators and co-creatives, is a fundamental component of the marketing campaign. The construct naturally lends itself to other consumer-marketing activities, like "communal branding" and "communal research."
Sponsored posts
Sponsored posts have been defined as the promoted entries or posts which contain links that point to a webpage or specific product pages of the website of the sponsor for which the creator of the content receives compensation in the form of money, products, services or in other ways. As opposed to the graphical ads (in the form of banners or buttons), which have been around on websites for quite some time, the sponsored content may be in the form of feedback, reviews, opinion, videos or other content. Forrester Research uses the term sponsored conversation which refers to sponsored conversation which involves payment to bloggers and other consumers who generate the advertising, to create transparent and genuine content about the brand.
Communal marketing
Communal marketing refers to a marketing practice that incorporates public involvement in the development of an advertising/marketing campaign. Such a campaign invites consumers to share their ideas or express their articulation of what the brand means to them through their own personal stories, with the use of print media, film or audio. The resulting consumer-generated content is then incorporated into the campaign. Finally, the result of this collaboration is showcased, often in a cross-media campaign, to invite the extended community of like-minded |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eerie%2C%20Indiana%3A%20The%20Other%20Dimension | Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension is an American horror television series. It is a spin-off of Eerie, Indiana. This series aired on the Fox Kids Network in 1998.
Plot
The series revolves around best friends Mitchell Taylor and Stanley Hope. Like earlier Eerie, Indiana residents Marshall Teller and Simon Holmes, they are constantly encountering strange and out-of-this-world phenomena in their hometown. Bill Switzer played the lead character, Mitchell Taylor.
Cast
Bill Switzer as Mitchell Taylor
Daniel Clark as Stanley Hope
Deborah Odell as Mrs. Taylor
Lindy Booth as Carrie Taylor
Bruce Hunter as Edward Taylor
Neil Crone as Mr. Crawford
Development
In 1997, the earlier show Eerie, Indiana, generated a new fan base when Fox's children's programming block Fox Kids aired the series, gaining something of a cult following despite its short run. The renewed popularity of the series encouraged Fox to produce this spin-off.
Availability
The entire series is available on Freevee, Tubi (though the episode "The Young and the Twitchy" is skipped over), and YouTube.
Episodes
References
External links
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
Global Television Network original programming
1990s American children's comedy television series
1990s American comic science fiction television series
1990s American horror comedy television series
1990s American mystery television series
1998 American television series debuts
1998 American television series endings
1990s Canadian children's television series
1990s Canadian comic science fiction television series
1998 Canadian television series debuts
1998 Canadian television series endings
American children's adventure television series
American children's fantasy television series
American children's horror television series
American children's mystery television series
Canadian children's adventure television series
Canadian children's fantasy television series
Canadian children's horror television series
Canadian children's mystery television series
Canadian television spin-offs
Television shows set in Indiana
American television spin-offs
Fox Kids
Canadian horror fiction television series
Television series by Corus Entertainment
Sandman in television
Television series about teenagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaunay%20refinement | In mesh generation, Delaunay refinements are algorithms for mesh generation based on the principle of adding Steiner points to the geometry of an input to be meshed, in a way that causes the Delaunay triangulation or constrained Delaunay triangulation of the augmented input to meet the quality requirements of the meshing application. Delaunay refinement methods include methods by Chew and by Ruppert.
Chew's second algorithm
Chew's second algorithm takes a piecewise linear system (PLS) and returns a constrained Delaunay triangulation of only quality triangles where quality is defined by the minimum angle in a triangle. Developed by L. Paul Chew for meshing surfaces embedded in three-dimensional space, Chew's second algorithm has been adopted as a two-dimensional mesh generator due to practical advantages over Ruppert's algorithm in certain cases and is the default quality mesh generator implemented in the freely available Triangle package. Chew's second algorithm is guaranteed to terminate and produce a local feature size-graded meshes with minimum angle up to about 28.6 degrees.
The algorithm begins with a constrained Delaunay triangulation of the input vertices. At each step, the circumcenter of a poor-quality triangle is inserted into the triangulation with one exception: If the circumcenter lies on the opposite side of an input segment as the poor quality triangle, the midpoint of the segment is inserted. Moreover, any previously inserted circumcenters inside the diametral ball of the original segment (before it is split) are removed from the triangulation.
Circumcenter insertion is repeated until no poor-quality triangles exist.
Ruppert's algorithm
Ruppert's algorithm takes a planar straight-line graph (or in dimension higher than two a piecewise linear system) and returns a conforming Delaunay triangulation of only quality triangles. A triangle is considered poor-quality if it has a circumradius to shortest edge ratio larger than some prescribed threshold.
Discovered by Jim Ruppert in the early 1990s,
"Ruppert's algorithm for two-dimensional quality mesh generation is perhaps the first theoretically guaranteed meshing algorithm to be truly satisfactory in practice."
Motivation
When doing computer simulations such as computational fluid dynamics, one starts with a model such as a 2D outline of a wing section.
The input to a 2D finite element method needs to be in the form of triangles that fill all space, and each triangle to be filled with one kind of material – in this example, either "air" or "wing".
Long, skinny triangles cannot be simulated accurately.
The simulation time is generally proportional to the number of triangles, and so one wants to minimize the number of triangles, while still using enough triangles to give reasonably accurate results – typically by using an unstructured grid.
The computer uses Ruppert's algorithm (or some similar meshing algorithm) to convert the polygonal model into triangles suitable for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Goldberg | David Goldberg may refer to:
David E. Goldberg (born 1953), American professor of engineering and computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Theo Goldberg (born 1952), South African philosopher and director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute
David Goldberg (PARC), engineer and computer scientist known for papers on floating point arithmetic and "Unistroke" handwriting recognition in the 1990s
Dave Goldberg (1967–2015), American Internet entrepreneur
David Goldberg (psychiatrist), British academic and social psychiatrist
See also
Adam David Goldberg (born 1980), American football offensive tackle
Gary David Goldberg (1944–2013), American writer and producer for television and film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenda%20Hope | The Reverend Glenda Hope is a Presbyterian Church (USA) minister in San Francisco, California, United States. She heads San Francisco Network Ministries, a charity serving the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.
Glenda Hope was born in 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up there in a Southern Baptist family. She received a BA in English Literature from Florida State University in 1958. In 1960, she completed an MA in English Bible at the Presbyterian School of Christian Education. In 1969, after she completed a Masters of Divinity at the San Francisco Theological Seminary, She was ordained in 1970 as an assistant pastor at the Old First Presbyterian Church.
She was ordained as the second ever female Presbyterian minister in PCUSA at Old First Presbyterian Church in San Francisco in 1969 where she served until 1972. At that time, Reverend Hope with her husband, Scott Hope, founded San Francisco Network Ministries. She also served as Pastor of Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1978 to 1989.
San Francisco Network Ministries
Through San Francisco Network Ministries, Glenda has created many programs for the homeless and residents of the Tenderloin. In 1995, San Francisco Network Ministries provide affordable housing to families at 555 Ellis, housing and supportive services to sexually exploited homeless women through San Francisco SafeHouse, and drop in support services for women through The Hope Center. In 2008 SFNMHC in partnership with St. Antony’s Foundation formed Tenderloin Technology Lab (TTL) to offer computer training and digital access. Most notable, Network Ministries runs San Francisco SafeHouse for women escaping prostitution, as well as constructing a 38-unit affordable housing apartment building.
Honors and recognitions
In 1989 and 2004, she received the TenderChamp award from Central City Hospitality House.
In 1991, Rev. Hope received the E.H. Johnson Memorial Trust Fund Award for her work in the Tenderloin.
In 2001, she was recognized as an Unsung Hero of Compassion from the Dalai Lama.
In 2004, she was honored in the American House of Representatives by Lynn Woolsey.
In 2007, she was given an honorary degree from the University of San Francisco.
On February 12, she will be honored by Cameron House of San Francisco Chinatown for the Excellence in Service and Leadership at their annual Soul & Elegance fundraiser.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Florida State University alumni
American Presbyterian ministers
Union Presbyterian Seminary alumni
Leaders of Christian parachurch organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynna%20Asistio | Alynna Alexandra Asistio (born September 27, 1991) is a Filipina actress. She was a contract artist of GMA Network and moved to ABS-CBN in August 2013. She is known for her roles in the GMA network's shows like the telefantasya Mga Mata ni Anghelita, Who's Your Daddy Now? and La Vendetta. She appeared on ABS-CBN's game show Minute-to-Win-It. She also appeared on the weekend drama anthology Maalaala Mo Kaya.
Personal life
She is the daughter of actress Nadia Montenegro and former Caloocan Mayor, Macario "Boy" Asistio, Jr. and the niece of Hazel Ann Mendoza. Asistio has dated high-profile Philippine actors such as Mark Herras and Derek Ramsay. Asistio is of Spanish descent on her mother's side. Asistio lives in Ayala Heights in Quezon City.
Filmography
Television
Films
References
External links
Alynna Asistio at iGMA.tv
1991 births
Living people
Actresses from Metro Manila
Filipino child actresses
Filipino film actresses
Filipino people of Spanish descent
People from Caloocan
GMA Network personalities
ABS-CBN personalities
Star Magic personalities
Viva Artists Agency
Actors from Caloocan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Stations%20Radio%20Networks | United Stations Radio Networks (USRN) is a radio network that provides a variety of radio programs and programming services for radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. It is based in New York City.
History
The company was founded in February 1994 by pop icon Dick Clark and radio veterans Nick Verbitsky and Ed Salamon. Verbitsky continued to serve as the company's CEO, while Andy Denemark serves as the Vice President of Programming and plays a large role in company contributions.
The similarly named "United Stations Radio Network" (singular), also founded by Clark, Verbitsky, and Salamon in 1980, bought the RKO Radio Networks in 1985 and eventually merged with CBS Radio and the original incarnation of Westwood One.
In 2023, Gemini XIII, a company established by executives formerly with Dial Global and Cadence13, agreed to purchase United Stations.
Programming
USRN's entertainment program offerings include Rewind with Gary Bryan, America's Greatest Hits with Scott Shannon, Nights With Alice Cooper, The House of Hair, various programs hosted by Tom Kent, Lex and Terry, Absolutely 80s with Nina Blackwood, Open House Party, Dick Bartley's Classic Hits, Rock & Roll's Greatest Hits also hosted by Bartley, the Lou Brutus shows hardDrive and hardDriveXL, The Sandy Show, Rick Jackson's Country Classics, and reruns of Dick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember and the daily Music Calendar. The company also co-manages, along with iHeartMedia, the Your Smooth Jazz network provided by Broadcast Architecture.
United Stations distributes Bloomberg Radio's 24-hour and short-form business news programming. Weather information is sourced from AccuWeather, whose forecasts USRN has distributed since 2009 (taking over the distribution from the original Westwood One). Previously, Al Roker and John Wetherbee ran USRN's weather division.
Other services include a morning prep service known as "Pulse of Radio", as well as comedy programming. United Stations distributes college football broadcasts from Touchdown Radio Productions.
In response to Gemini XIII's acquisition of United Stations, Nights with Alice Cooper departed the network in September 2023.
References
External links
1994 establishments in the United States
American radio networks
Dick Clark
Mass media companies based in New York City
National Football League on the radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENTOR%20routing%20algorithm | The MENTOR routing algorithm is an algorithm for use in routing of mesh networks, specifically pertaining to their initial topology. It was developed in 1991 by Aaron Kershenbaum, Parviz Kermani, and George A. Grove and was published by the IEEE.
Complexity
Empirical observation has shown the complexity class of this algorithm to be O(N²), or quadratic. This represents "a significant improvement over currently used algorithms, [while still yielding] solutions of a quality competitive with other, much slower procedures."
Methodology
The algorithm assumes three things are conducive to low-"cost" (that is, minimal in distance travelled and time between destinations) topology: that paths will tend to be direct, not circuitous; that links will have a "high utilization"—that is, they will be used to nearly their maximum operating capacity; and that "long, high-capacity links [will be used] whenever possible."
The overall plan is to send traffic over a direct route between the source and destination whenever the magnitude of the requirement is sufficiently large and to send it via a path within a tree in all other cases. In the former case, we are satisfying all three of our goals--we are using a direct path of high utilization and high capacity. In the latter case we are satisfying at least the last two objectives as we are aggregating traffic as much as possible.
The minimum spanning tree on which traffic flows in the latter case is heuristically defined by Dijkstra's algorithm and Prim's algorithm.
References
Aaron Kershenbaum, Parviz Kermani, George A. Grover. "MENTOR: An Algorithm for Mesh Network Topological Optimization and Routing", IEEE Transactions on Communications, April 1991. Accessed November 4, 2007.
Routing algorithms
Mesh networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win%E2%80%93stay%2C%20lose%E2%80%93switch | In psychology, game theory, statistics, and machine learning, win–stay, lose–switch (also win–stay, lose–shift) is a heuristic learning strategy used to model learning in decision situations. It was first invented as an improvement over randomization in bandit problems. It was later applied to the prisoner's dilemma in order to model the evolution of altruism.
The learning rule bases its decision only on the outcome of the previous play. Outcomes are divided into successes (wins) and failures (losses). If the play on the previous round resulted in a success, then the agent plays the same strategy on the next round. Alternatively, if the play resulted in a failure the agent switches to another action.
A large-scale empirical study of players of the game rock, paper, scissors shows that a variation of this strategy is adopted by real-world players of the game, instead of the Nash equilibrium strategy of choosing entirely at random between the three options.
References
See also
Bounded rationality
Game theory
Computational learning theory
Heuristics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALD | WALD (1080 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Johnsonville, South Carolina. The station is part of the Worship and Word Network and is owned by Glory Communications, Inc., based in St. Stephen, South Carolina. It carries an Urban Gospel radio format including Christian talk and teaching programs. WALD serves an area of South Carolina located between Charleston, Myrtle Beach and Florence.
WALD is a daytimer station. By day, it is powered at 9,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. But because AM 1080 is a clear channel frequency reserved for KRLD Dallas and WTIC Hartford, WALD must sign off at sunset to avoid interference. During critical hours, the station broadcasts at 2,700 watts.
WALD programming is simulcast on FM translator station W254DG at 98.7 MHz in Scranton, South Carolina.
References
External links
ALD
Radio stations established in 2000
ALD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eirpac | EIRPAC is Ireland's packet switched X.25 data network. It replaced Euronet in 1984. Eirpac uses the DNIC 2724. HEAnet was first in operation via X.25 4.8Kb Eirpac connections back in 1985. By 1991 most Universities in Ireland used 64k Eirpac VPN connections. Today Eirpac is owned and operated by Eircom but does not accept new applications for Eirpac: no reference is made on the products-offering on their website They began the process of migrating existing customers using more capable forms of telecommunications back in late April 2004.
In 2001 Eirpac had approximately 5,000 customers dialing in daily via switched virtual circuits although those numbers have been declining rapidly. Eirpac is still an important element for data transfer in Ireland with numerous banks (automatic teller machines), telecoms switches, pager systems and other networks that utilise permanent virtual circuits.
Connecting to Eirpac can be done using a simple AT compatible modem. The dial in number is 1511 + baud rate. So for example to connect at 28,800 bit/s would be ATDT 15112880. The user would then have to authenticate with their Eirpac NUI. The NUI (Network User Identification) consists of a name and password provided by Eir.
Sources
External links
Official website
Computer networking
Internet in Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aastha%20TV | Aastha is an Indian spiritual Television channel, owned by Acharya Balkrishna in India. Established in 2000, it is owned by Aastha Broadcasting Network Ltd. The network's directors are Santosh Kumar Jain and Prabhat Kumar Jain. In 2005, the channel started the broadcast of Aastha International through UK affiliate as it had done previously in the United States as a 24x7 service on the DTH platform of BSkyB in UK. By 2006 it was reaching 160 countries around the world.
Its programs feature spiritual discourses, socio-cultural ceremonies and religious events, accompanied by meditation techniques and devotional music. They include information about places of pilgrimage, festivals, and vedic science, such as Yoga, Ayurveda, astrology.
Notable Religious Leaders and Saint Regious leadersspeakers
Notable former and current hosts and speakers include:
Swami Ramdev
Acharya Balkrishna
Morari Bapu
Rameshbhai Oza
Pradeep Mishra
Devkinandan Thakur
Devi Chitralekhaji
Mahesh Gugruji
Rakesh Jhaveri
Deepakbhai Desai
Sukhabodhananda
Sister Shivani
Rajiv Dixit
Avdhoot Shivanand
See also
Swami Ramdev
Acharya Balkrishna
References
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/baba-ramdev-aide-balkrishan-owns-99-9-of-aastha-channel/articleshow/8796616.cms
External links
Religious television channels in India
Hindi-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2000
Indian direct broadcast satellite services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexCAN | FlexCAN is an embedded network architecture that extends Controller Area Network (CAN). It was designed by Dr. Juan Pimentel at Kettering University. It was inspired by FlexRay and the need to provide more deterministic behavior over the CAN network. Its focus is on redundancy at the hardware level, and time-based prioritized communication at the protocol level.
Benefits of FlexCAN
FlexCAN is similar to CAN except for the following improvements:
Deterministic Behavior
Increased reliability
External links
FlexCAN: A Flexible Architecture for Highly Dependable Embedded Applications
Serial buses
CAN bus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Manufacturing%20Sciences | The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership based consortium. Membership is limited to network of industrie, government, non-profit organizations and academia partners to develop, demonstrate, and transition innovative technologies efficiently, with resources minimization.
NCMS brings together project teams made up of technology providers, suppliers, and users to perform research and development (R&D). These project teams often include cross-industry participants.
Mission
The NCMS mission is to lead the rapid development of cross-industry R&D programs to build the global competitiveness of its manufacturing industry partners.
Origin
NCMS was formed in 1986 by executive order President Ronald Reagan. NCMS was created to help revitalize the machine tool industry but has grown to include all sectors of North American manufacturing.
Locations
NCMS is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and with offices in the following cities:
Washington, DC
Bremerton, Washington
Farmington Hills, Michigan
References
External links
NCMS Home Page National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
Research institutes established in 1986
Research institutes in the United States
1986 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Bracelin | Gregory Lee Bracelin (born April 16, 1957) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He attended De Anza Senior High School.
References
External links
Stats at databasefootball.com
1957 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Lawrence, Kansas
Players of American football from Kansas
American football linebackers
California Golden Bears football players
Denver Broncos players
Oakland Raiders players
Baltimore Colts players
Indianapolis Colts players
Sportspeople from Kansas
De Anza High School alumni
Players of American football from Richmond, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCOD | KCOD (1450 AM) was a radio station licensed to Palm Springs, California, United States. It served the Coachella Valley area. The station was last owned by College of the Desert. Programming was also simulcast on translator station K260DE (99.9 FM) in Palm Desert.
The transmitter and broadcast tower were located between Palm Springs and Cathedral City on Dinah Shore Drive. According to the Antenna Structure Registration database, the tower was tall.
History
The station began broadcasting in 1954, and held the call sign KPAL. On February 9, 1971, its call sign was changed to KPSI. KPSI aired a middle of the road (MOR) format in the 1970s. By 1983, the station had adopted a talk format.
On September 1, 1997, its call sign was changed to KGAM and on September 15, it adopted an adult standards format. In 1998, talk programming was added during the day and it eventually returned to a full-time news-talk format, airing syndicated talk shows, with hosts such as Michael Savage, G. Gordon Liddy, and Dave Ramsey. It also aired CNN Headline News and Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee mornings and broadcast Los Angeles Lakers, Angels, and Oakland Raiders games.
On February 2, 2010, the station's call sign was changed to KPTR, and it became a progressive talk station, a format and call sign transferred from 1340 AM (which became KWXY). R & R donated KPTR to College of the Desert on November 1, 2016. The college elected to operate the station as a noncommercial station; in preparation for the change, R & R took KPTR silent on July 10, 2016. The progressive talk format was relocated to KWXY; that station would go silent as well one month later.
KPTR changed its call letters to KCOD on January 8, 2017; in a December 2016 filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), College of the Desert said that it would return the station to the air by April. The station resumed broadcasting May 27, 2017. College of the Desert had already operated KCOD since 2011 as an Internet radio station from studios on the college's campus in Palm Desert; in 2018, KCOD moved to the adjacent former KEZN studios.
After having been silent since August 6, 2020, KCOD and K260DE's licenses were surrendered on August 2, 2021, and were cancelled the following day.
Translator
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DKCOD (Facility ID: 35496)
FCC History Cards for KCOD (covering 1950-1981 as KPAL / KPSI)
COD
Mass media in Riverside County, California
Culture of Palm Springs, California
Radio stations established in 1954
Radio stations disestablished in 2021
1954 establishments in California
2021 disestablishments in California
COD
Defunct radio stations in the United States
COD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode | The bibcode (also known as the refcode) is a compact identifier used by several astronomical data systems to uniquely specify literature references.
Adoption
The Bibliographic Reference Code (refcode) was originally developed to be used in SIMBAD and the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), but it became a de facto standard and is now used more widely, for example, by the NASA Astrophysics Data System, which coined and prefers the term "bibcode".
Format
The code has a fixed length of 19 characters and has the form
YYYYJJJJJVVVVMPPPPA
where YYYY is the four-digit year of the reference and JJJJJ is a code indicating where the reference was published. In the case of a journal reference, VVVV is the volume number, M indicates the section of the journal where the reference was published (e.g., L for a letters section), PPPP gives the starting page number, and A is the first letter of the last name of the first author. Periods (.) are used to fill unused fields and to pad fields out to their fixed length if too short; padding is done on the right for the publication code and on the left for the volume number and page number. Page numbers greater than 9999 are continued in the M column. The 6-digit article ID numbers (in lieu of page numbers) used by the Physical Review publications since the late 1990s are treated as follows: The first two digits of the article ID, corresponding to the issue number, are converted to a lower-case letter (01 = a, etc.) and inserted into column M. The remaining four digits are used in the page field.
Examples
Some examples of bibcodes are:
See also
Digital object identifier
References
Index (publishing)
Identifiers
Electronic documents
Computational astronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest%20KACE | Quest KACE, formerly Dell KACE, is a company that specializes in computer appliances for systems management of information technology equipment. It also provides software for security, application virtualization, and systems management products. Established in 2003, KACE was headquartered in Mountain View, California with offices in Europe and Asia.
History
KACE started in 2003 when Rob Meinhardt and Marty Kacin founded and self-funded the company for over two years. KACE subsequently received venture capital funding from Sigma Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Focus Ventures. KACE developed appliances designed to help IT personnel more efficiently provision, manage, secure, and service network-connected devices.
In 2007, their competitors included Altiris, Novell ZENworks, BigFix, LANDesk, as well as, products for other larger companies.
On February 11, 2010, KACE announced its acquisition by Dell. KACE family appliances were then sold by Dell. In 2012, KACE became a part of the Dell Software group.
On November 1, 2016, Francisco Partners and Elliot Management acquired the Dell Software Group, which was re-launched as Quest Software. KACE products are currently part of the Quest Software portfolio.
Architecture
Since before the company's acquisition by Dell, KACE appliances were sold as physical Dell PowerEdge servers with open-source software technologies. All appliances are available as virtual appliances that can run on VMware ESX, VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V. Trial versions of the appliances can also run on VMware Player. The appliances are currently not available as physical appliances.
KACE uses FreeBSD, and all collected data is stored in a number of MariaDB databases. Although, all management of the device and the data in the system goes (only) via the web-GUI, users have developed their own interfaces with other management systems by accessing the databases directly. It is also possible to integrate a KACE appliance in third party IT management suites.
References
System administration
Remote administration software
Configuration management
Software companies established in 2003
2003 establishments in California
Quest Software
Dell acquisitions
2010 mergers and acquisitions
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%20Chamber%20Orchestra | The Hobart Chamber Orchestra (HCO) is a chamber orchestra based in Hobart, Tasmania. HCO was formed by a group of Hobart string players and conductor Reg Chapman in 1987. Annual programming of at least four concerts provides performance opportunities for student musicians, musicians pursuing other careers and semi-professional and retired musicians. The ensemble also provides soloist performance opportunities for Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra members and exceptional music graduates alike and regularly collaborates with the Tasmanian Chorale and soloists to perform choral repertoire. Guest conductors have included Myer Fredman, Jean-Louis Forestier, Christopher Martin, Gary Wain, Phillip Taylor and Joseph Ortuso, and the orchestra regularly performs under the direction of violinist, Peter Tanfield. The HCO has commissioned works by composers including Matthew Dewey, Don Kay, Dylan Sheridan and Thanapoom Sirichang.
References
External links
Official website
Australian orchestras
Organisations based in Tasmania
Chamber orchestras
Musical groups established in 1987
1987 establishments in Australia
Music in Tasmania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandip%20Chakrabarti | Sandip Chakrabarti is an Indian astrophysicist. He developed a computer model to show how life on earth could have originated in outer space.
Education
He started his education in Lalit Mohan Shyam Mohini High School in Malda. After finishing his Bachelor of Science from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur in Physics Honours in 1979 (and becoming topper of Calcutta University) he went to IIT, Kanpur to complete his M.Sc. Degree in Physics in 1981. He joined the Physics Dept. of the University of Chicago in 1981 to complete PhD work. Soon he completed a paper with Robert Geroch and X.B. Liang on a Theorem on "Time like Curves of limited acceleration in General Relativity", and under S. Chandrasekhar's supervision solved the Dirac equation for massive particles with spin in Kerr geometry.
Subsequently, he concentrated on black hole astrophysics, received his Ph.D. in 1985 and went to Caltech as a R.C. Tolman Fellow. Major work in this period includes finding Natural Angular Momentum distribution of barotropic flow around black holes, nucleosynthesis around black holes.
Career
After a brief period at ICTP, Trieste, where Chakrabarti completed a few definitive work on the formation of shocks in transonic/advective flows around black holes, he joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, and S.N. Bose National Centre. Currently, he is the Director of Indian Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata, which he founded in 1999. He was at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre (1994-1995) as a Senior Associate selected by National Research Council.
Research
The main focus of Chakrabarti's research is the hydrodynamic and radiative properties of astrophysical flows around black holes and other compact objects. He showed that the accreting matter must be transonic and should have standing, oscillating and propagating shocks. He and his collaborators studied many aspects of these flows and showed that the black hole accretion must have non-Keplerian component which plays a major role in deciding the observational properties. He wrote the first monograph on "Theory of Transonic Astrophysical Flows" (World Scientific Pub. Co., Singapore; 1990). He has completed over 650 research articles and written or edited several books and conference volumes. Forty Eight students have completed Ph.D. Thesis under his supervision.
Chakrabarti was the first scientist to suggest that Gamma-ray bursts are the birth cry of black holes at his presentation in 1995, third Hunsville, Alabama Conference. In 2013, Scientists observed a conclusive evidence of this birth cry. He is also the first to suggest (1992-1996) that the accretion disks in an extreme mass ratio binaries could change the gravitational wave signals.
References
Living people
Indian astrophysicists
20th-century Indian astronomers
University of Calcutta alumni
1958 births
Scientists from Kolkata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinschmidt%20Inc | Kleinschmidt Inc. was established in 1931 by Edward Kleinschmidt. It is a privately owned firm that provides electronic commerce, electronic data interchange, and value-added network services. Its headquarters are in Deerfield, Illinois.
Edward Kleinschmidt was one of the inventors of the teleprinter, one of the first electronic commerce devices.
History
1893 - Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt started working with telegraphy;
1898 - Edward E Kleinschmidt opened his own experimental shop;
1906 - George Seely joined Kleinschmidt’s shop with a partially developed block system for electric trolley car railways;
1910 - Exhibited at the Association of American Railroads Communications Convention;
1910 - Kleinschmidt started to receive multiple patents;
1914 - Kleinschmidt Electric Company was founded;
1924 - Kleinschmidt Electric merged with the Morkrum Company to form Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Corporation;
1928 - The company name was changed to Teletype Corporation;
1930 - The Teletype Corporation was sold to AT&T for $30,000,000 in stock;
1931 - Kleinschmidt Laboratories Inc. was founded;
1944 - Edward E. Kleinschmidt demonstrated his lightweight teleprinter at the Chief Signal Officer;
1949 - The Kleinschmidt 100-words-per-minute typebar page printer was made the standard for the Military;
1956 - Kleinschmidt Laboratories Inc. merged with Smith Corona which merged with Marchant Calculating Machine Company shortly thereafter, forming SCM;
1979 - Started to provide Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Car Location Message (CLM) services;
1986 - Hanson Trust acquired SCM Corporation. Harry S. Gaples, then Kleinschmidt division president, purchased the division from Hanson Trust.
See also
Edward Kleinschmidt
Electronic commerce
Electronic Data Interchange
Enterprise Application Integration
Supply Chain Management
Teletypewriter
Value-added network
References
External links
Companies based in Deerfield, Illinois
Networking companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHN | GHN or ghn may refer to:
G.hn, a networking standard
GHN (news agency), a Georgian news agency
Ghanongga language, ISO 639-3 ghn
Global Heritage Network, for preservation of cultural sites
Growth hormone 1
Guanghan Airport, Sichuan, China, IATA code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCVR%20%28AM%29 | KCVR (1570 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Lodi, California. It airs Punjabi language programming and is owned by Punjabi American Media, LLC. Punjabi is a language spoken in parts of India and Pakistan. KCVR's programming is simulcast on KIID 1470 AM in Sacramento, KWRU 1300 AM in Fresno, KLHC 1350 AM in Bakersfield and KOBO 1450 AM in Yuba City.
KCVR is powered at 5,000 watts by day, reducing power to 500 watts at night to avoid interfering with other stations on AM 1570. It uses a directional antenna at all times. The transmitter is on Alpine Road in Lodi. The station covers the Stockton metropolitan area and the daytime signal covers parts of the Sacramento metropolitan area.
History
In 1946, KCVR signed on the air. It was originally owned by Central Valley Radio, whose initials gave the station its call sign. At first, KCVR was a daytimer, powered at 500 watts and required to go off the air at sunset.
On September 16, 1948, the Federal Communications Commission authorized KCVR to increase its power to 1,000 watts but still broadcasting only in the daytime.
In the 1960s, KCVR adopted a Spanish language format, largely of Regional Mexican music. Jose Tapia was the station's principal personality from 1955 until 1963. In 1966, Spanish language personalities on KCVR included Tapia (who hosted "Asi Es Mi Tierra" five hours per week), Augie Soto (who hosted "Melodias del Valle" from 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays), Alex Vasquez (who hosted "Programa Latino America"), Carlos Montano (who hosted "La Hora del Hogar"), Tony Zuniga (who hosted "Atarceder Musical" and Tina Rodriguez (who hosted "Sobremesa Musical" on weekdays from 1 to 2 p.m. and "Rincon Norteno" from 2 to 3 p.m. weekdays).
On June 3, 2015, KCVR changed the format to Spanish contemporary hit radio, simulcasting KCVR-FM 98.9 MHz licensed to Columbia, California. Effective August 6, 2020, KCVR was acquired by Punjabi American Media, as part of a network of six Central California AM stations broadcasting Punjabi language programming.
References
Previous logo
External links
CVR (AM)
CVR (AM)
Radio stations established in 1946
1946 establishments in California
Entravision Communications stations
Regional Mexican radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20log | A security log is used to track security-related information on a computer system. Examples include:
Windows Security Log
Internet Connection Firewall security log
According to Stefan Axelsson, "Most UNIX installations do not run any form of security logging software, mainly because the security logging facilities are expensive in terms of disk storage, processing time, and the cost associated with analyzing the audit trail, either manually or by special software."
See also
Audit trail
Server log
Log management and intelligence
Web log analysis software
Web counter
Data logging
Common Log Format
Syslog
References
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashsort | Flashsort is a distribution sorting algorithm showing linear computational complexity for uniformly distributed data sets and relatively little additional memory requirement. The original work was published in 1998 by Karl-Dietrich Neubert.
Concept
Flashsort is an efficient in-place implementation of histogram sort, itself a type of bucket sort. It assigns each of the input elements to one of buckets, efficiently rearranges the input to place the buckets in the correct order, then sorts each bucket. The original algorithm sorts an input array as follows:
Using a first pass over the input or a priori knowledge, find the minimum and maximum sort keys.
Linearly divide the range into buckets.
Make one pass over the input, counting the number of elements which fall into each bucket. (Neubert calls the buckets "classes" and the assignment of elements to their buckets "classification".)
Convert the counts of elements in each bucket to a prefix sum, where is the number of elements in bucket or less. ( and .)
Rearrange the input so all elements of each bucket are stored in positions where .
Sort each bucket using insertion sort.
Steps 1–3 and 6 are common to any bucket sort, and can be improved using techniques generic to bucket sorts. In particular, the goal is for the buckets to be of approximately equal size ( elements each), with the ideal being division into quantiles. While the basic algorithm is a linear interpolation sort, if the input distribution is known to be non-uniform, a non-linear division will more closely approximate this ideal. Likewise, the final sort can use any of a number of techniques, including a recursive flash sort.
What distinguishes flash sort is step 5: an efficient in-place algorithm for collecting the elements of each bucket together in the correct relative order using only words of additional memory.
Memory efficient implementation
The Flashsort rearrangement phase operates in cycles. Elements start out "unclassified", then are moved to the correct bucket and considered "classified". The basic procedure is to choose an unclassified element, find its correct bucket, exchange it with an unclassified element there (which must exist, because we counted the size of each bucket ahead of time), mark it as classified, and then repeat with the just-exchanged unclassified element. Eventually, the element is exchanged with itself and the cycle ends.
The details are easy to understand using two (word-sized) variables per bucket. The clever part is the elimination of one of those variables, allowing twice as many buckets to be used and therefore half as much time spent on the final sorting.
To understand it with two variables per bucket, assume there are two arrays of additional words: is the (fixed) upper limit of bucket (and ), while is a (movable) index into bucket , so .
We maintain the loop invariant that each bucket is divided by into an unclassified prefix ( for have yet to be mov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-RTOS | TI-RTOS is an embedded tools ecosystem created and offered by Texas Instruments (TI) for use across a range of their embedded system processors. It includes a real-time operating system (RTOS) component named TI-RTOS Kernel (formerly named SYS/BIOS, which evolved from DSP/BIOS), networking connectivity stacks, power management, file systems, instrumentation, and inter-processor communications like DSP/BIOS Link. It is free and open-source software, released under a BSD license.
TI-RTOS can be used within TI's Code Composer Studio integrated development environment (IDE), IAR Systems' IAR Embedded Workbench, and the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Separate versions of TI-RTOS are provided to support TI's MSP43x (including MSP432), SimpleLink Wireless MCU, Sitara, Tiva C, C2000, and C6000 lines of embedded devices.
TI-RTOS provides system services to an embedded application such as preemptive multitasking, memory management and real-time analysis. TI-RTOS can be used in different microprocessors, with different processing and memory constraints. It is supported by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) libraries such as wolfSSL.
History
The roots of TI-RTOS were originally developed by Spectron Microsystems (a subsidiary of Dialogic Corporation) as the first RTOS developed specifically for digital signal processors and was named SPOX. Spectron eventually also developed a second product named BIOSuite that included a real-time kernel and various associated tools.
Spectron Microsystems was eventually acquired by Texas Instruments and the SPOX and BIOSuite products were merged into one microkernel product named DSP/BIOS. The DSP/BIOS RTOS product underwent significant changes to its application programming interface (API) in version 6.0. With the release of version 6.3 in August 2010, DSP/BIOS was renamed SYS/BIOS to reflect its support for microcontrollers beyond DSPs. With the release of version 6.40 in April 2014, SYS/BIOS was renamed TI-RTOS Kernel and made a component of the TI-RTOS product suite.
TI-RTOS 1.00 was released initially in July 2012. for TI's microprocessors The 2.00 release of TI-RTOS in April 2014 completed the renaming process and integrated the TI-RTOS Kernel and other components under one software umbrella.
Component overview
TI-RTOS consists of these components, some of which are unavailable for all embedded target families:
TI-RTOS Kernel – Embedded RTOS formerly named SYS/BIOS
TI-RTOS Drivers and Board Initialization – Target-specific device drivers. Drivers include Ethernet, general-purpose input/output (GPIO), I²C, I²S, pulse-width modulation (PWM), Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART), Universal Serial Bus (USB), Watchdog timer, and Wi-Fi.
TI-RTOS Network Services – Stacks to support the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols
TI-RTOS Interp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJPG | KJPG (1050 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Catholic radio format as a network affiliate of Relevant Radio. Licensed to Frazier Park, California, it serves the Bakersfield metropolitan area. The station is owned by Relevant Radio, Inc., which is based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
By day, KJPG is powered at 10,000 watts using a directional antenna with a three-tower array. But because 1050 AM is a Mexican clear-channel frequency reserved for XEG in Monterrey, KJPG must sign off at night to avoid interference. The transmitter is off South Wheeler Ridge Road at Legray Road in Wheeler Ridge, California. Programming is heard around the clock on 80-watt FM translator K294DK at 106.7 MHz in Bakersfield.
History
The station began broadcasting in 1994, holding the call sign KKGO. It aired a classical music format as part of a simulcast with KKGO-FM in Los Angeles. In June 1996, the station ended its simulcast with KKGO-FM, but continued to air a classical music format independently. On August 30, 1996, the station's call sign was changed to KTRJ.
In November 1999, the station's call sign was changed to KMAP, and it began airing Christmas music. The station briefly returned to airing classical music in January 2000 before becoming a Radio Disney affiliate in March.
In 2003, the station was sold to IHR Educational Broadcasting for $700,000, and it adopted a Catholic talk format as an affiliate of Immaculate Heart Radio. On April 11, 2005, the station's call sign was changed to KJPG.
In 2017, Immaculate Heart Radio merged with Relevant Radio and KJPG became a Relevant Radio network affiliate.
Translator
KJPG is also heard at 106.7 MHz, through a translator in Bakersfield, California.
References
External links
JPG
Catholic radio stations
Radio stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in California
Relevant Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queue%20automaton | A queue machine, queue automaton, or pullup automaton (PUA) is a finite state machine with the ability to store and retrieve data from an infinite-memory queue. It is a model of computation equivalent to a Turing machine, and therefore it can process the same class of formal languages.
Theory
A queue machine can be defined as a six-tuple
where
is a finite set of states;
is the finite set of the input alphabet;
is the finite queue alphabet;
is the initial queue symbol;
is the start state;
is the transition function.
A machine configuration is an ordered pair of its state and queue contents , where denotes the Kleene closure of . The starting configuration on an input string is defined as , and the transition from one configuration to the next is defined as:
where is a symbol from the queue alphabet, is a sequence of queue symbols (), and . Note the "first-in-first-out" property of the queue in the relation.
The machine accepts a string if after a finite number of transitions the starting configuration evolves to exhaust the string (reaching the null string ), or otherwise stated, if
Turing completeness
We can prove that a queue machine is equivalent to a Turing machine by showing that a queue machine can simulate a Turing machine and vice versa.
A Turing machine can be simulated by a queue machine that keeps a copy of the Turing machine's contents in its queue at all times, with two special markers: one for the Turing machine's head position, and one for the end of the tape; its transitions simulate those of the Turing machine by running through the whole queue, popping off each of its symbols and re-enqueing either the popped symbol, or, near the head position, the equivalent of the Turing machine transition's effect.
A queue machine can be simulated by a Turing machine, but more easily by a multi-tape Turing machine, which is known to be equivalent to a normal single-tape machine.
The simulating queue machine reads input on one tape and stores the queue on the second, with pushes and pops defined by simple transitions to the beginning and end symbols of the tape. A formal proof of this is often an exercise in theoretical computer science courses.
Applications
Queue machines offer a simple model on which to base computer architectures, programming languages, or algorithms.
See also
Computability
Turing machine equivalents
Deterministic finite automaton
Pushdown automaton
Tag system
Manufactoria, a browser flash game tasking the player with implementation of various algorithms using a queue machine model.
References
Automata (computation)
Models of computation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odlyzko%E2%80%93Sch%C3%B6nhage%20algorithm | In mathematics, the Odlyzko–Schönhage algorithm is a fast algorithm for evaluating the Riemann zeta function at many points, introduced by . The main point is the use of the fast Fourier transform to speed up the evaluation of a finite Dirichlet series of length N at O(N) equally spaced values from O(N2) to O(N1+ε) steps (at the cost of storing O(N1+ε) intermediate values). The Riemann–Siegel formula used for
calculating the Riemann zeta function with imaginary part T uses a finite Dirichlet series with about N = T1/2 terms, so when finding about N values of the Riemann zeta function it is sped up by a factor of about T1/2. This reduces the time to find the zeros of the zeta function with imaginary part at most T from
about T3/2+ε steps to about T1+ε steps.
The algorithm can be used not just for the Riemann zeta function, but also for many other functions given by Dirichlet series.
The algorithm was used by to verify the Riemann hypothesis for the first 1013 zeros of the zeta function.
References
This unpublished book describes the implementation of the algorithm and discusses the results in detail.
Analytic number theory
Computational number theory
Zeta and L-functions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signals%20%28Singapore%20Army%29 | Signals is the formation of the Singapore Army responsible for communications on multiple platforms and local networking on the battlefield. It also supports the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) by developing the capacity for network-centric warfare in the form of Integrated Knowledge-based Command and Control (IKC2) and Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) operations.
History
The Signals formation originated in 1954 when the Signals Corps of the Singapore Volunteer Corps was reorganised to form the Independent Brigade Signal Squadron of the Singapore Military Forces. When Singapore merged with the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, the squadron was absorbed into the Malaysian Armed Forces as the 4th Federal Infantry Brigade Signal Squadron based at Fort Canning in Singapore. When the Malaysian Army's Royal Signals Regiment was reorganised in 1965, the squadron was renamed the 4th Malaysian Signal Squadron.
Following the separation of Singapore from Malaysia in August 1965, the 4th Malaysian Signal Squadron continued to operate in Singapore and the 56 Singaporeans (2 officers and 54 men) in the squadron continued serving until they were mustered out on 28 February 1966. On 1 March 1966, the Singaporeans who used to be in the 4th Malaysian Signal Squadron gathered at Beach Road Camp to form the 1st Signal Corps of the Singapore Armed Forces. In June 1966, the Singapore Armed Forces established a Communications and Electronics (C&E) Department in the General Staff Division of the Ministry of the Interior and Defence (MID) at Pearl's Hill.
On 6 February 1967, the MID Signal Battalion was created with personnel from the 1st Signal Corps forming the nucleus of the unit. The battalion's commanding officer was Captain Winston Choo, who later became Singapore's first defence chief.
On 28 March 1967, the SAFTI Signal Wing was established at Pasir Laba Camp to train signallers in signal communications and voice procedures. In 1968, the SAFTI Signal Wing became a separate unit and was renamed School of Signals.
The C&E Department was re-staffed and renamed HQ C&E in August 1970. In the same year, the former Ministry of the Interior and Defence (MID) split into the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), so the MID Signal Battalion was renamed MINDEF Signal Battalion. The Signals formation also received the state colours and its regimental colours on 22 January 1977 from President Benjamin Henry Sheares.
On 1 February 1977, the 6th Signal Battalion (6 SIG) was created as a reserve signals battalion for the 6th Division (6 DIV). On 9 October 1978, the 9th Signal Battalion (9 SIG) was formed in Slim Barracks to train reservist signallers for the 9th Division (9 DIV).
On 1 March 1982, HQ C&E was reorganised to form HQ Signals. HQ Signals relocated to Stagmont Camp in 1988. Stagmont Camp, which used to be known as Kranji Wireless Station when it was used by the British Armed Forces as a high frequency transmittin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20Business%20Network | The Sustainable Business Network (SBN) is a membership-based social enterprise located in Auckland, New Zealand. The network was created in October 2002 by founder and CEO Rachel Brown.
History
The network was founded by Rachel Brown in 2002, who continues to serve as the CEO. It is a forum for businesses, government groups and organizations throughout New Zealand who are interested in sustainable business practices, and sustainable development. The ultimate goal of the SBN is to make New Zealand a model sustainable nation and maintains 500 member companies.
Members are offered networking, educational and organizational opportunities in order for them to reach their sustainability goals. SBN helps its members collaborate and learn, profile stories, connect, and access practical support.
Campaign for sustainable KiwiSaver options
In January 2015, Chief Executive Rachel Brown asserted there was strong demand for an ethical and sustainable KiwiSaver provider which was not being met by the current market, claiming a mismatch between their criteria and the options being presented through ethical funds at the time. A survey the SBN had conducted of 1,400 people in June 2014 indicated that 90 percent of people wanted a sustainable Kiwisaver option, while 97 percent would actually move to one if the rate of return were the same as conventional schemes. Brown had stated that she was in talks with a number of banks interested in setting up green KiwiSaver funds, which she hoped would launch in 2016.
Online green business course
In January 2015, it was announced that the New Zealand Marketing Association in conjunction with the SBN, and GoodSense Learning, were planning to launch an online professional course in green marketing called "Sustainable Marketing Online".
Organisation
Transformation areas
SBN focuses its activity around four transformation areas it sees as especially critical for New Zealand:
Renewables: enabling the use of renewable energy
Community: building thriving communities
Mega efficiency: maximising the use of all resources
Restorative: enhancing New Zealand's natural capital
All of the SBN's projects and activities are aligned with one or more of these transformation areas.
Membership
Members are given access to resources and knowledge that facilitate them to become a more sustainable business. A membership fee is paid to the SBN based on the organization's turnover. Once a member, the company is introduced into the network of other SBN members where they can share each other's knowledge and come to events to hear other members speak. Members are profiled on the SBN membership directory, receive discounts on national events, and are invited to participate in the NZI National Sustainable Business Network Awards as business transformation projects.
Members also have access to SBN tools such as the Get Sust Online assessment tool which allows companies to track progress, see where they could improve, how they stack against other c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSP/BIOS%20Link | DSP/BIOS Link or DSPLINK is an interprocessor or inter-process communication (IPC) scheme to pass messages and data in multiprocessing systems. In the case of the DaVinci digital signal processor (DSP) family from Texas Instruments, this scheme allows passing messages and data between an ARM client and a DSP server. DSPLINK can be used to implement a layer of software abstraction called a remote procedure call (RPC) that allows a remote function on the DSP to appear as local function calls in the ARM application code. The Codec Engine IPC communication layer is implemented using a RPC call scheme built on DSP/BIOS LINK.
Overview
DSP/BIOS LINK is implemented using shared memory and internal interrupts from the ARM to the DSP and vice versa.
The shared memory protocol for IPC is implemented as follows:
The ARM and DSP are programmed to a predetermined memory address where a message will be sent from the ARM to the DSP; and another for messages sent from the DSP to the ARM.
One processor sends messages to the other by writing the message into the pre-determined address and then sending an interrupt to signal the other processor that a new message is available. When transferring data buffers, only a pointer to a given buffer needs to be passed since the buffer resides in shared memory that is accessible to both the processors. ARM buffer addresses must be translated into physical addresses when being presented to the DSP, as the DSP does not have an MMU or a concept of virtual addressing.
Once the processor receiving the message has read it, it marks a flag in shared memory to indicate that the message memory is now available to be rewritten with another message.
The DSP included in many DaVinci-based devices generally runs TI's DSP/BIOS RTOS. When multiple, heterogeneous cores are included in the device (e.g. DM644x), DSP/BIOS Link drivers run on both the ARM processor and the DSP to provide communication between the two.
Operating systems
A number of ARM9 operating systems support DSP/BIOS Link drivers:
Montavista Linux
TimeSys Linux
Mentor Graphics Nucleus OS
Green Hills Software Integrity RTOS
QNX Neutrino
Windows CE
LEOs (RTOS)
See also
TI-RTOS
External links
Programming Details of Codec Engine for DaVinciTechnology (Whitepaper)
Using a multicore RTOS for DSP applications
DSP/BIOS Link WebEx Presentations
References
Inter-process communication
Digital signal processors
Texas Instruments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthusiast%20System%20Architecture | The Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) specification is a royalty-free protocol for two-way communication of PC components. Announced in 2007, ESA is used for monitoring temperature of computer hardware components such as the computer case and power supply unit. The first and last official release of the ESA specification is version 1.0, released in 2007. The ESA USB specification was created by a joint venture between Microsoft, Nvidia, Logitech and several other companies. The protocol remains open and royalty-free; but, no manufacturers are currently utilizing its specification at this time. The last known devices to utilize the ESA specifications were the Dell XPS 730x and Alienware Area-51 ALX computer systems that utilized the ESA specification to control its fans, LEDs, and motorized doors as well as the monitoring of available Water cooling systems such as the Dell XPS 730x's Dell H2Ceramic Cooling System.
The ESA specification is built around the current USB human interface device class specification and ESA was sent to the USB Implementers Forum HID subcommittee for discussion and approval in early 2007. The USBIF approved and inserted the ESA specification into the USB HID specifications as an extension in late 2007 (reference paper needed). All ESA-certified devices must pass USB 2.0 logo compliance. Readings of temperature, voltage, current, power, activity level, water level, status, position and so on can be monitored via USB Implementers Forum specifications. At the time of release, these devices could be controlled and monitored via the nTune application, while operating mode, voltages, rpm while also allowing these devices to be adjusted in the utility.
ESA devices have a microcontroller that integrates a USB 2.0-compliant full-speed device controller and ESA-compliant hardware components connects to the motherboard via a USB cable. ESA-compliant hardware components are seen as 'Collections'. Within the collections there are 'Zones'. Sensors and controls are organized into zones.
Only one software implementation exists; it is Nvidia's proprietary "System Tools with ESA Support" which only works on nForce-based motherboards and only runs on Windows.
See also
System monitor
Nvidia System Tools
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20071018025526/http://www.nvidia.com/esa (Page no longer exists)
Tech Brief
Certification Requirements
Press Release November 5, 2007
Press Release March 13, 2008
Computer-related introductions in 2007
Nvidia
Open standards
USB
Communications protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDAIS%20algorithms | XDAIS or eXpressDsp Algorithm Interoperability Standard is a standard for algorithm development by Texas Instruments for the TMS320 DSP family. The standard was first introduced in 1999 and was created to facilitate integration of DSP algorithms into systems without re-engineering cost. The XDAIS standard address the issues of algorithm resource allocation and consumption on a DSP. Algorithms that comply with the standard are tested and awarded an "eXpressDSP-compliant" mark upon successful completion of the test.
The standard consists of a set of general rules and guidelines that should be applied to all algorithms. For instance, all XDAIS compliant algorithms must implement an Algorithm Interface, called IALG. For those algorithms utilizing DMA, the IDMA interface must be implemented. Further, specific rules are provided for each family of TI DSP.
Problems are often caused in algorithm by hard-coding access to system resources that are used by other algorithms. XDAIS prohibits the use of this type of hard-coding. Instead, XDAIS requires a standard API for the application to call a particular algorithm class. This API is defined in the xDM standard, also referred to as the VISA APIs (video, imaging, speech and audio).
A XDAIS developer's kit provides the standard itself, example code, and a demonstration.
Benefits of XDAIS over non-standardised approaches include:
Significant reduction in integration time as algorithms do not trash each other's resources
Easy comparison of algorithms from multiple different sources in the same application
Access to broad range of compliant algorithms available from multiple TI DSP Third Parties eliminates need to custom develop complex algorithms
Algorithms work out-of-the-box with eXpressDSP Multimedia Framework Products, such as Codec Engine (TI)
See also
eXpressDsp
External links
XpressDSP Algorithm Standard – xDAIS Developer’s Kit and xDM
TMS320 DSP Algorithm Standard Developer’s Guide
Texas Instruments
Digital signal processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RefDB | RefDB is a client/server reference database and bibliography tool for markup languages like SGML, XML, and LaTeX. It is suitable for standalone use for the purpose of self-archiving, but can be used as an institutional repository as well. Data storage proper is done in one of several supported SQL database engines. RefDB runs on Unix-like operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris) and on Windows/Cygwin. RefDB is licensed under the GPL.
The data storage is managed by an application server accessed through command-line clients with a query language, a PHP-based web interface, a SRU interface, or by custom programs using one of the available client libraries.
RefDB supports such bibliographic formats as BibTeX, Endnote, RIS, ISI, MODS XML, PubMed, Medline, MARC, and Copac and can create output in these formats, or as TEI, DocBook, HTML, or XHTML documents. RefDB can process DocBook, TEI, or LaTeX documents and automatically insert and format bibliographies according to the specifications of a journal or a publisher.
Text editor extensions are provided for Emacs and for Vim to integrate editing, searching, and citing references as well as transforming your documents into your familiar XML, SGML, or LaTeX authoring environment.
See also
Comparison of reference management software
References
External links
Official RefDB website
SourceForge project page
Free reference management software
Free institutional repository software
Library 2.0
Free BibTeX software
Free software programmed in PHP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20Central%20Railroad%20System | The Ohio Central Railroad System is a network of ten short line railroads operating in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. It is owned by Genesee & Wyoming
Headquartered in Coshocton, Ohio, the system operates of track divided among 10 subsidiary railroads. Most of the system's routes were divested from Class I railroads and connect industries to the Class I railroads.
The Ohio Central operates on track owned by other entities, including a line from Newark, Ohio to Mount Vernon, Ohio owned by CSX and the old Panhandle Route, owned by the State of Ohio.
Railroads in the system
Ohio Central's rail system comprises
Ohio Central Railroad
Ohio Southern Railroad
Columbus and Ohio River Rail Road, the former Pennsylvania Railroad Panhandle Route
Mahoning Valley Railway
Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad
Ohi-Rail Corporation
Warren & Trumbull Railroad
Youngstown & Austintown Railroad
Youngstown Belt Railroad
Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Railroad
Aliquippa & Ohio River Railroad
Steam operations
As well as being a regular revenue railroad, the Ohio Central had its own steam department that operated steam locomotives for tourist trains, excursions, and special events. When owner Jerry Joe Jacobson sold OHCR in 2008, he maintained ownership of the antique equipment, including the collection of steam locomotives. He built the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio to house that equipment. The collection includes the following:
Operational:
Canadian National 1551
Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad 13
Grand Trunk Western 6325
Southern Wood Preserving Company 3
Canadian Pacific 1293
Lake Superior and Ishpeming 33
Awaiting restoration:
Canadian National 96
Canadian Pacific 1278
Nickel Plate Road 763
Former engines:
Baldwin Locomotive Works 26, was traded for Canadian National 1551 in 1986 to Steamtown.
Reading 2100, sold in 1998 to Tom Payne, and it was moved to St. Thomas, Ontario.
Mississippian Railway 76, sold in 2005 to the Steam Railroading Institute of Owosso, Michigan.
Jerry Jacobson died in 2017 at the age of 74.
Acquisition by Genesee and Wyoming
On August 5, 2008, Genesee & Wyoming announced an agreement to purchase the Ohio Central System for $219 million. Approval was granted by the Surface Transportation Board on December 30, 2008.
Notes
References
External links
Ohio Central Railroad official webpage - Genesee and Wyoming website
United States railroad holding companies
Genesee & Wyoming
2008 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagoda%20%28data%20structure%29 | In computer science, a pagoda is a priority queue implemented with a variant of a binary tree. The root points to its children, as in a binary tree. Every other node points back to its parent and down to its leftmost (if it is a right child) or rightmost (if it is a left child) descendant leaf. The basic operation is merge or meld, which maintains the heap property. An element is inserted by merging it as a singleton. The root is removed by merging its right and left children. Merging is bottom-up, merging the leftmost edge of one with the rightmost edge of the other.
References
J. Francon, G. Viennot, and J. Vuillemin, Description and analysis of an efficient priority queue representation, Proc. 19th Annual Symp. on Foundations of Computer Science. IEEE, 1978, pages 1–7.
R. Nix, An Evaluation of Pagodas, Res. Rep. 164, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale Univ. 1988?
Priority queues |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapidly%20exploring%20random%20tree | A rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) is an algorithm designed to efficiently search nonconvex, high-dimensional spaces by randomly building a space-filling tree. The tree is constructed incrementally from samples drawn randomly from the search space and is inherently biased to grow towards large unsearched areas of the problem. RRTs were developed by Steven M. LaValle and James J. Kuffner Jr.
They easily handle problems with obstacles and differential constraints (nonholonomic and kinodynamic) and have been widely used in autonomous robotic motion planning.
RRTs can be viewed as a technique to generate open-loop trajectories for nonlinear systems with state constraints. An RRT can also be considered as a Monte-Carlo method to bias search into the largest Voronoi regions of a graph in a configuration space. Some variations can even be considered stochastic fractals.
RRTs can be used to compute approximate control policies to control high dimensional nonlinear systems with state and action constraints.
Description
An RRT grows a tree rooted at the starting configuration by using random samples from the search space.
As each sample is drawn, a connection is attempted between it and the nearest state in the tree.
If the connection is feasible (passes entirely through free space and obeys any constraints), this results in the addition of the new state to the tree.
With uniform sampling of the search space, the probability of expanding an existing state is proportional to the size of its Voronoi region.
As the largest Voronoi regions belong to the states on the frontier of the search, this means that the tree preferentially expands towards large unsearched areas.
The length of the connection between the tree and a new state is frequently limited by a growth factor.
If the random sample is further from its nearest state in the tree than this limit allows, a new state at the maximum distance from the tree along the line to the random sample is used instead of the random sample itself.
The random samples can then be viewed as controlling the direction of the tree growth while the growth factor determines its rate.
This maintains the space-filling bias of the RRT while limiting the size of the incremental growth.
RRT growth can be biased by increasing the probability of sampling states from a specific area.
Most practical implementations of RRTs make use of this to guide the search towards the planning problem goals.
This is accomplished by introducing a small probability of sampling the goal to the state sampling procedure.
The higher this probability, the more greedily the tree grows towards the goal.
Algorithm
For a general configuration space C, the algorithm in pseudocode is as follows:
Input: Initial configuration qinit, number of vertices in RRT K, incremental distance Δq
Output: RRT graph G
G.init(qinit)
for k = 1 to K do
qrand ← RAND_CONF()
qnear ← NEAREST_VERTEX(qrand, G)
qnew ← NEW_CONF( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20other%20networks | Enhanced other networks (EON) is a radio system used to deliver traffic information to enabled devices. It is a component of the European Radio Data System (RDS).
The system delivers traffic information (TP and TA) to enabled devices, by interrupting the current stream of media (radio, cd, etc.) and sends the traffic message.
References
External links
A Guide to the Radio Data System
Broadcast engineering
Radio technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20power%20system | An electric power system is a network of electrical components deployed to supply, transfer, and use electric power. An example of a power system is the electrical grid that provides power to homes and industries within an extended area. The electrical grid can be broadly divided into the generators that supply the power, the transmission system that carries the power from the generating centers to the load centers, and the distribution system that feeds the power to nearby homes and industries.
Smaller power systems are also found in industry, hospitals, commercial buildings, and homes. A single line diagram helps to represent this whole system. The majority of these systems rely upon three-phase AC power—the standard for large-scale power transmission and distribution across the modern world. Specialized power systems that do not always rely upon three-phase AC power are found in aircraft, electric rail systems, ocean liners, submarines, and automobiles.
History
In 1881, two electricians built the world's first power system at Godalming in England. It was powered by two water wheels and produced an alternating current that in turn supplied seven Siemens arc lamps at 250 volts and 34 incandescent lamps at 40 volts. However, supply to the lamps was intermittent and in 1882 Thomas Edison and his company, Edison Electric Light Company, developed the first steam-powered electric power station on Pearl Street in New York City. The Pearl Street Station initially powered around 3,000 lamps for 59 customers. The power station generated direct current and operated at a single voltage. Direct current power could not be transformed easily or efficiently to the higher voltages necessary to minimize power loss during long-distance transmission, so the maximum economic distance between the generators and load was limited to around half a mile (800 m).
That same year in London, Lucien Gaulard and John Dixon Gibbs demonstrated the "secondary generator"—the first transformer suitable for use in a real power system. The practical value of Gaulard and Gibbs' transformer was demonstrated in 1884 at Turin where the transformer was used to light up of railway from a single alternating current generator. Despite the success of the system, the pair made some fundamental mistakes. Perhaps the most serious was connecting the primaries of the transformers in series so that active lamps would affect the brightness of other lamps further down the line.
In 1885, Ottó Titusz Bláthy working with Károly Zipernowsky and Miksa Déri perfected the secondary generator of Gaulard and Gibbs, providing it with a closed iron core and its present name: the "transformer". The three engineers went on to present a power system at the National General Exhibition of Budapest that implemented the parallel AC distribution system proposed by a British scientist in which several power transformers have their primary windings fed in parallel from a high-voltage distribution line. The system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFRZ | KFRZ is a radio station broadcasting from Green River, Wyoming, serving southwestern Wyoming. Broadcasting a country music format, the station is part of The Radio Network, which includes sister stations KUGR, KYCS, and KZWB. KFRZ broadcasts satellite fed music from Westwood One formerly the Jones Radio Network. Like its sister stations, KFRZ has local news throughout the day, and sports highlights as well. The station is currently owned by Wagonwheel Communications Corp.
Signal
Like its sister FM stations, KFRZ broadcasts from a tower on Wilkins Peak located between Rock Springs and Green River. KFRZ's tower also houses KZWB's transmitter as well.
KFRZ can be heard throughout Sweetwater County, and in parts of northern Utah. KFRZ's signal begins fading at the Uinta County line to the west. KFRZ's tower is located above sea level on Wilkins Peak. KFRZ was once a class C station, carrying 90,000 watts. It downgraded to C1, carrying 11,000 watts.
References
External links
FRZ
Country radio stations in the United States
Green River, Wyoming
Sweetwater County, Wyoming
Radio stations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Data%20East%20games | This is a list of video and pinball games released by Data East.
Video games
Arcade
Super Break (1978)
Space Fighter (1978)
Super Break 2 (1978)
Astro Fighter (1979)
Mad Alien (1980, a.k.a. Mad Rider and Highway Chase)
Sengoku Ninja Tai (1980)
Terranean (1980)
Astro Fantasia (1981)
Manhattan (1981)
Tournament Pro Golf (1981, a.k.a. Pro Golf and 18 Hole Pro Golf)
Treasure Island (1981)
BurgerTime (1982)
Bump 'n' Jump (1982)
Disco No. 1 (1982)
Lock 'n' Chase (1982)
Zoar (1982, a.k.a. Mission X)
Pro Tennis (1982)
Boomer Rang'r (1983)
Tag Team Wrestling (1983)
Pro Bowling (1983)
Pro Soccer (1983)
Rootin' Tootin''' (1983, a.k.a. La-Pa-Pa)Super Doubles Tennis (1983)B-Wings (1984)Cobra Command (1984)Kamikaze Cabbie (1984, a.k.a. Yellow Cab)Karate Champ (1984)Kung-Fu Master (1984)Liberation (1984, a.k.a. Dual Assault)Mysterious Stones (1984)Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory (1984)Scrum Try (1984)Zaviga (1984)Metal Clash (1985)Performan (1985)Ring King (1985)Road Blaster (1985)Shootout (1985)BreakThru (1986)Darwin 4078 (1986)Express Raider (1986, a.k.a. Western Express)Fire Trap (1986)Last Mission (1986)Lock-On (1986)Shackled (1986)Side Pocket (1986)Zippy Bug (1986)Captain Silver (1987)Garyo Retsuden (1987)Gondomania (1987)Heavy Barrel (1987)Karnov (1987)Oscar: Psycho-Nics (1987)The Real Ghostbusters (1987)SRD: Super Real Darwin (1987)Wonder Planet (1987)Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja (1988)Bloody Wolf (1988)Chelnov (1988)Cobra Command (1988)Hippodrome (1988, a.k.a. Fighting Fantasy)RoboCop (1988)Stadium Hero (1988)Act-Fancer: Cybernetick Hyper Weapon (1989)Midnight Resistance (1989)Sly Spy (1989)Vapor Trail: Hyper Offence Formation (1989)The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy (1990)Gate of Doom (1990)Super BurgerTime (1990)Trio The Punch - Never Forget Me... (1990)Batman (1990) (Developed By Atari Games and Midway Games) Captain America and the Avengers (1991)China Town (1991)Desert Assault (1991)Hop A Tic Tac Toe (1991)Joe & Mac (1991)Lemmings (1991, Arcade prototype version)Mutant Fighter (1991)RoboCop 2 (1991)Rohga: Armor Force (1991)Tumblepop (1991)Two Crude (1991)Boogie Wings (1992)Diet Go! Go! (1992)Dragon Gun (1992)Nitro Ball (1992)Wizard Fire (1992)Fighter's History (1993)Heavy Smash (1993)High Seas Havoc (1993)Night Slashers (1993)Spinmaster (1993)Karnov's Revenge (1994)Joe & Mac Returns (1994)Locked 'n Loaded (1994)Street Slam (1994)Tattoo Assassins (1994)(Cancelled)Windjammers (1994)Avengers in Galactic Storm (1995)Backfire! (1995)Dunk Dream 95 (1995, a.k.a. Hoops 96)Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty (1995)Ghostlop (1996)Magical Drop II (1996)Mausuke no Ojama the World (1996)Skull Fang Ku-u-ga Gaiden (1996)Stadium Hero '96 (1996) Air Walkers (1996)Magical Drop III (1997)
Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment SystemB-Wings (1985)BurgerTime (1985)Bump 'n' Jump (1986)Karate Champ (1986)Tag Team Pro Wrestling (1986)BreakThru (1987)Golf Club: Birdie Rush (1987)Karnov (1987)Kid Niki: Radical Ninja (1987)Ring King (1987)Santa Claus no Takarabako (1987)Side Pocket (1987)Ta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HABU%20equivalent | The HABU equivalent is a unit of measurement used by United States Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program to evaluate the performance of large computers systems.
"The [HPCMP method for measuring system performance] is as follows: the ratio of time [for a given benchmark application] at a target processor count provides a relative measure of the system's performance on that application test case compared with the DoD standard system, stated in Habu-equivalents. Habu, the first DoD standard system, is an IBM POWER3 formerly located at the US Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) Major Shared Resource Center. One Habu-equivalent is the performance of 1,024 system-under-study processors compared with 1,024 Habu processors.
References
Standards of the United States
Benchmarks (computing)
Equivalent units |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Pascal%20and%20Delphi | Devised by Niklaus Wirth in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Pascal is a programming language. Originally produced by Borland Software Corporation, Embarcadero Delphi is composed of an IDE, set of standard libraries, and a Pascal-based language commonly called either Object Pascal, Delphi Pascal, or simply 'Delphi' (Embarcadero's current documentation refers to it as 'the Delphi language (Object Pascal)'). Since first released, it has become the most popular commercial Pascal implementation.
While developing Pascal, Wirth employed a bootstrapping procedure in which each newer version of the Pascal compiler was written and compiled with its predecessor. Thus, the 'P2' compiler was written in the dialect compilable by 'P1', 'P3' in turn was written in 'P2' and so on, all the way till 'P5'. The 'P5' compiler implemented Pascal in its final state as defined by Wirth, and subsequently became standardised as 'ISO 7185 Pascal'.
The Borland dialect, like the popular UCSD Pascal before it, took the 'P4' version of the language as its basis, rather than Wirth's final revision. After much evolution independent of Standard Pascal, the Borland variant became the basis for Delphi. This page goes over the differences between Delphi and Standard Pascal. It does not go into Delphi-specific extensions to the language, which are numerous and still increasing.
Exclusive features
Following features are mutually exclusive.
The Standard Pascal implementation is not accepted by Delphi and vice versa, the Delphi code is not acceptable in Standard Pascal.
Modulo with negative dividend
Standard Pascal has an Euclidean-like definition of the mod operator whereas Delphi uses a truncated definition.
Nested comments
Standard Pascal requires that the comment delimiters { and the bigramm (*, as well as } and *) are synonymous to each other.
In Delphi, however, a block comment started by { must be closed with a }.
The bigramm *) will only close any comment that started with (*.
This scheme allows for nested comments at the expense of compiler complexity.
Procedural data types
The way procedures and functions can be passed as parameters differs:
Delphi requires explicit procedural types to be declared where Standard Pascal does not.
Conversion of newline characters
Various computer systems show a wide variety how to indicate a newline.
This affects the internal representation of text files which are composed of a series of “lines”.
In order to relieve the programmer from any associated headaches, Standard Pascal mandates that reading an “end-of-line character” returns a single space character.
To distinguish such an “end-of-line” space character from a space character that is actually genuine payload of the line, EOLn becomes true.
Delphi does not show this behavior.
Reading a newline will return whatever character sequence represents a newline on the current host system, for example two char values chr(13) (carriage return) plus chr(10) (line feed).
Additional or mis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Developer%20Studio | Oracle Developer Studio, formerly named Oracle Solaris Studio, Sun Studio, Sun WorkShop, Forte Developer, and SunPro Compilers, is the Oracle Corporation's flagship software development product for the Solaris and Linux operating systems. It includes optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers, libraries, and performance analysis and debugging tools, for Solaris on SPARC and x86 platforms, and Linux on x86/x64 platforms, including multi-core systems.
Oracle Developer Studio is downloadable and usable at no charge; however, there are many security and functionality patch updates which are only available with a support contract from Oracle.
Version 12.4 added partial support for the C++11 language standard. All C++11 features are supported except for concurrency and atomic operations, and user-defined literals. Version 12.6 supports the C++14 language standard.
Languages
C
C++
Fortran
Supported architectures
SPARC
i86pc (x86 and x86-64)
Components
The Oracle Developer software suite includes:
C, C++, and Fortran compilers and support libraries
dbx and frontends
lint
A NetBeans-based IDE
Performance Analyzer
Thread analyzer
Sun performance library
Distributed make
Compiler optimizations
A common optimizing backend is used for code generation.
A high-level intermediate representation called Sun IR is used, and high-level optimizations done in the iropt (intermediate representation optimizer) component are operated at the Sun IR level. Major optimizations include:
Copy propagation
Constant folding and constant propagation
Dead code elimination
Interprocedural optimization analysis
Loop optimizations
Automatic parallelization
Profile-guided optimization
Scalar replacement
Strength reduction
Automatic vectorization, with -xvector=simd
OpenMP
The OpenMP shared memory parallelization API is native to all three compilers.
Code coverage
Tcov, a source code coverage analysis and statement-by-statement profiling tool, comes as a standard utility. Tcov generates exact counts of the number of times each statement in a program is executed and annotates source code to add instrumentation.
The tcov utility gives information on how often a program executes segments of code. It produces a copy of the source file, annotated with execution frequencies. The code can be annotated at the basic block level or the source line level. As the statements in a basic block are executed the same number of times, a count of basic block executions equals the number of times each statement in the block is executed. The tcov utility does not produce any time-based data.
GCCFSS
The GCC for SPARC Systems (GCCFSS) compiler uses GNU Compiler Collection's (GCC) front end with the Oracle Developer Studio compiler's code-generating back end. Thus, GCCFSS is able to handle GCC-specific compiler directives, while it is also able to take advantage of the compiler optimizations in the compiler's back end. This greatly facilitates the porting of GCC-based applica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Interest%20Group%20on%20Information%20Retrieval | SIGIR is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. The scope of the group's specialty is the theory and application of computers to the acquisition, organization, storage, retrieval and distribution of information; emphasis is placed on working with non-numeric information, ranging from natural language to highly structured data bases.
Conferences
The annual international SIGIR conference, which began in 1978, is considered the most important in the field of information retrieval. SIGIR also sponsors the annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) in association with SIGWEB, the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and the International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) in association with SIGKDD, SIGMOD, and SIGWEB.
SIGIR conference locations
Awards
The group gives out several awards to contributions to the field of information retrieval. The most important award is the Gerard Salton Award (named after the computer scientist Gerard Salton), which is awarded every three years to an individual who has made "significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval". Additionally, SIGIR presents a Best Paper Award to recognize the highest quality paper at each conference. "Test of time" Award is a recent award that is given to a paper that has had "long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of information retrieval research, across subareas of information retrieval research, and outside of the information retrieval research community". This award is selected from a set of full papers presented at the main SIGIR conference 10–12 years before.
SIGIR Academy
The ACM SIGIR Academy is a group of researchers honored by SIGIR. Each year, 3-5 new members are elected (in addition to other "very senior members of the IR community" who will be "automatically" inducted) for having made significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval and influencing the research of others. These are the principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the discipline and/or industry through significant research, innovation, and/or service.
Inductees by year
Here are the inductees into the SIGIR Academy by year:
See also
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
References
External links
SIGIR awards website
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups
Information retrieval organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gumbo%20Pot | The Gumbo Pot is a compilation album presented by rapper, Celly Cel. The album was released in 2006 for the Independent Music Network and was the fourth album released by Celly Cel in 2006. This compilation album features guest like Lil' Jon, Devin the Dude, Tech N9ne, Twista, Juvenile, Fat Pat, Crooked I, Al Kapone, Fiend and C-Note.
Track listing
"Back Up" feat. Lil Jon & Nitro – 4:31
"On tha Block" – 3:46
"Straight Boss" feat. Crooked I – 4:34
"Luv It Man" feat. Fat Pat, Mr. 3-2 & Billy Cook – 4:09
"Toast" feat. Devin the Dude, Twista & Fel 4:04
"I Do" feat. Tech N9ne, Popper & Boy Big – 3:46
"From the Back" feat. Al Kapone 3:38
"Brooklyn Nights" feat. Webbafied 3:00
"Hoe's & Tramps" feat. Fiend & H-Hustla – 3:35
"Gimme My C" feat. Clover King Badge Busta – 4:29
"Frontline" feat. Cool Nutz – 3:54
"Boppers on Da Floor" feat. S.B. & Lady Ace – 4:16
"Lets Get Thizzed" feat. Funk Daddy & Santo Valentino – 4:07
"Ak Ripper" feat. Juvenile & C-Note – 3:02
"Shakedown" feat. C-Note, Trae & Anka Man – 4:11
"State 2 State" feat. Hobo Tone & Hustlamade Bugz – 3:07
"I Got a Dolla" feat. Goodfella – 3:43
"Southside Reppin" feat. Young Meez & Dirty – 4:05
Celly Cel albums
2006 compilation albums
Gangsta rap compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainsaw%20%28log%20file%20viewer%29 | Chainsaw is a java-based GUI software tool to view and analyze computer log files – specifically logs generated by the Log4j logging system. Both Log4j and Chainsaw are Open source projects under Apache Software Foundation. The latest release is Chainsaw v2. Chainsaw can read log files formatted in Log4j's XMLLayout, receive events from remote locations, read events from a DB, or work with JDK 1.4 logging events.
License
The project is licensed under Apache License, V 2.0. Dependencies may not follow the same licensing.
Alternatives
Open Source License
glogg
Lilith
LogExpert
OtrosLogViewer
Logbert
Commercial License
BareTail
LogMX
LogViewPlus
ReflectInsight Log Viewer
References
External links
Apache Logging Services Chainsaw v2 Home
JavaDoc API reference for Chainsaw v2
Apache Software Foundation
Java (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20Ring%20Protocol | The Metro Ring Protocol (MRP) is a Layer 2 resilience protocol developed by Foundry Networks and currently being delivered in products manufactured by Brocade Communications Systems and Hewlett Packard. The protocol quite tightly specifies a topology in which layer 2 devices, usually at the core of a larger network, are configured and as such is able to achieve much faster failover times than other Layer 2 protocols such as Spanning Tree.
See also
ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection Switching
EAPS, Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching
Internet protocols
Link protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%20in%20paleontology |
Plants
Angiosperms
Arthropods
Insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named non-avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
The dubious family, Ornitholestidae is named by Gregory Scott Paul.
Newly named birds
Pterosaurs
New taxa
References
Paleontology
Paleontology 8 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWWN | KWWN (1100 AM) is a radio station licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The station is owned by Lotus Communications. Programming includes the UNLV Rebels football and men's basketball teams, the Las Vegas Aces, ESPN Radio talk shows and play-by-play, and various local talk shows. Its studios are located in the unincorporated community of Spring Valley in Clark County and its transmitter is located in North Las Vegas.
Station history
KWWN officially signed on in December 2007, and was running tests of its transmitter for several months. These tests were mainly to arrange the nighttime directional signal of the station, so it would not interfere with nearby KNZZ or other stations on 1100 kHz. While testing, the station ran at half power (10,000 watts day and 1,000 watts night) to further limit the possibility of interference. 1100 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency, on which WTAM in Cleveland, Ohio is the dominant Class A station. KWWN is currently running at its normal power.
Originally, KWWN simulcast sister station KBAD. Sometime in 2008, the simulcast ended; KBAD became the local affiliate of Fox Sports Radio, while KWWN picked up the ESPN Radio affiliation. KENO, which had been the FSR station, joined ESPN Deportes Radio.
KWWN is the flagship station of the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association. Before the start of the 2018–19 season, the station was named as an affiliate of the Los Angeles Lakers Radio Network as Las Vegas doesn't have a team in the National Basketball Association
References
External links
WWN
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Nevada
Lotus Communications stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJAN-FM | CJAN-FM is a Canadian radio station, which airs at 99.3 FM in Val-des-Sources, Quebec. The station, branded as FM 99.3, is a commercial broadcasting radio with local talk and variety music programming.
CJAN originally began broadcasting on the AM dial in 1972, until it moved to its current FM frequency in 2002.
References
External links
CJAN-FM
Val-des-Sources
Jan
Jan
Jan
Radio stations established in 1972
1972 establishments in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20G.%20Fraser | Alexander G. Fraser (8 June 1937 – 13 June 2022), also known as A. G. Fraser and Sandy Fraser, was a noted British-American computer scientist.
Fraser received his B.Sc. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Bristol University in 1958, and his Ph.D. in Computing Science from Cambridge University in 1969. Between degrees he worked at Ferranti, where he was responsible for compiler development, and designed and implemented an operating system.
From 1966 to 1969 he was Assistant Director of Research at Cambridge, where in 1967 he designed and implemented the Titan computer's file system, and worked on file archival, privacy, and persistent names. He moved to AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1969 where he invented cell-based networks that anticipated Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and co-developed a reduced instruction set computer prototype with techniques for instruction set optimization. He subsequently became director of its Computing Science Research Center (1982), Executive Director (1987), and Associate Vice President for Information Science Research (1994). As Vice President for Research, he founded AT&T Laboratories in 1996, and in 1998 was named AT&T Chief Scientist. After his retirement in 2002 he established Fraser Research.
Fraser was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society and IEEE for contributions and leadership in the design of switched virtual circuit networks. He has received the 1989 Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award "for contributions to computer communications and the invention of virtual-circuit switching", the 1992 SIGCOMM Award for "pioneering concepts, such as virtual circuit switching, space-division packet switching, and window flow control", and the 2001 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal "for pioneering contributions to the architecture of communication networks through the development of virtual circuit switching technology".
References
1937 births
2022 deaths
American computer scientists
British computer scientists
Computer systems researchers
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Scientists at Bell Labs
Fellows of the British Computer Society
People from Surrey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quote.com | Quote.com is an online marketplace for insurance. It was founded in 1993. It has been owned by Dan Wesley since 2013.
History
In 1997, the company was selected to provide financial market data to ClariNet Communications.
In 1999, Lycos acquired Quote.com for $78.3 million in stock. At that time, about 10,000 people subscribed to the service, which cost between $25 and $100 per month.
In 2006, Interactive Data Corporation acquired the website and related assets for $30 million.
References
Financial services companies established in 1993
Internet properties established in 1993
Web portals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20Liberation%20Prisoners%20Support%20Network | The Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network (ELPSN), also known as Spirit of Freedom, is a network to provide information on people imprisoned for direct action relating to campaigns on environmental and other issues. It includes earth liberationists, animal liberationists, those fighting on anti-war, anti-nuclear and peace issues, indigenous struggles, anti-fascism, land rights, ploughshares and more.
History
The network was set up in the UK in 1993 after the growth of the UK Earth First! and Earth Liberation Front (ELF) groups. At that time there was a sharp rise in the number of actions relating to the environment and a corresponding rise in the number of arrests. The network was initially called the (H)ELP Support Group. The name was chosen to be non-sectarian and neither linked to the ELF or Earth First!. The name changed in 1994 when Noel Molland of Green Anarchist magazine took over the group. In 1995 Molland was arrested and convicted for Conspiracy to Incite Criminal Damage in the GANDALF trial.
Since that time the network has spread internationally. It provides regular news on current prisoners and contact details of their support networks. It currently features a variety of prisoners, from various anonymous leaderless resistance movements and established groups such as the ELF (including the Green Scare prisoners), Animal Liberation Front, MOVE, SHAC 7, Antifa, Lecce Five and the SNGP campaigners.
See also
Earth Liberation Front Press Office
Vegan Prisoners Support Group (VPSG)
Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group (ALFSG)
Further reading
Leslie Pickering. Earth Liberation Front: 1997-2002, Arissa Media Group, 2006. .
Best, Steven and Nocella, Anthony J. Igniting A Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, AK Press, 2006.
Rosebraugh, Craig. Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front Lantern Books, 2004.
References
External links
North American Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network (NAELPSN)
Vegan Prisoners Support Group (VPSG)
Earth Liberation Front
Prison-related organizations
Prisoner support |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicane | Musicane was a social shopping and discovery network founded by internet entrepreneurs Sudhin Shahani, Kale McNaney, and Josh Zibit. Users could feature, recommend, and find new music and products through feeds and themed mixes, and broadcast to all their existing online communities. Every user had their own Musicane widget which could be embedded on websites, social network pages, and blogs. The widgets directly retailed music and physical products and contained all the user's featured items, mixes and media. Musicane offered all their users affiliate commissions on all music they helped sell.
In September 2006, The Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am joined Musicane as head of the company's marketing department.
Musicane garnered attention for partnering with Lil Wayne to sell Tha Carter III Direct-to-Fan via his website and widget and spreading 54,000 widgets in 1 week. They also distributed Saul Williams' album Niggy Tardust. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor came out in support of the company's distribution services in an interview with New York Magazine.
Musicane ceased operations in 2009.
Artists Using Musicane
The Black Eyed Peas
Saul Williams
Lil' Wayne
Sugarland
Jason Mraz
Ashanti
Teddy Geiger
Brazilian Girls
Steve Aoki
Elvis Costello
Julianne Hough
Carter's Chord
Henry Rollins
A Change of Pace
2 Pistols
Prima J
Beer For My Horses
Def Leppard
Night Ranger
Thenewno2
References
External links
Musicane official site
Defunct television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNOG | KNOG (91.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish language Christian format. It is licensed to Nogales, Arizona. The station is currently owned by World Radio Network, Inc.
The call letters KNOG previously were issued to an AM station in Nogales on 1340 kHz that operated between 1948 and 1965.
From 1974 until March 20, 1985, the call letters, KNOG were issued to a college radio station. This was Northern Montana College (now MSU-Northern) located in Havre Montana. The call letters were changed to KNMC
FM translators
The following FM translators are authorized to rebroadcast KNOG.
References
External links
Radio stations established in 1995
Nogales, Arizona
NOG
NOG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAWC-FM | KAWC-FM (88.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a News-Talk and Information programming, along with a few classical music and jazz programs. Licensed to Yuma, Arizona, United States, it serves the Yuma area. The station is currently owned by Arizona Western College and features programming from National Public Radio and Public Radio International.
Since November 2013, KAWC-FM's programming has been simulcast on 88.9 KAWP in Parker, Arizona
External links
AWC-FM
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1970
1970 establishments in Arizona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYRM | KYRM (91.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish Religious format. Licensed to Yuma, Arizona, United States, it serves the Yuma area. The station is owned by World Radio Network, Inc..
External links
YRM
YRM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspase%206 | Caspase-6 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CASP6 gene.
CASP6 orthologs have been identified in numerous mammals for which complete genome data are available. Unique orthologs are also present in birds, lizards, lissamphibians, and teleosts. Caspase-6 has known functions in apoptosis, early immune response and neurodegeneration in Huntington's and Alzheimer's disease.
Function
This gene encodes a protein that is a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme. This protein is processed by caspases 7, 8 and 10, and is thought to function as a downstream enzyme in the caspase activation cascade. Caspase 6 can also undergo self-processing without other members of the caspase family. Alternative splicing of this gene results in two transcript variants that encode different isoforms.
Caspase-6 plays a role in the early immune response via de-repression. It reduces the expression of the immunosuppressant cytokine interleukin-10 and cleaves the macrophage suppressing IRAK-M.
With respect to neurodegeneration, caspase-6 cleaves HTT in Huntington's and APP in Alzheimer's disease. Resulting in both cases in protein aggregation of the fragments.
Interactions
Caspase 6 has been shown to interact with Caspase 8.
See also
The Proteolysis Map
Caspase
References
Further reading
External links
The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: C14.005
EC 3.4.22
Caspases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup%20Express | Catalogic DPX (formerly BEX or Backup Express) is an enterprise-level data protection tool that backs up and restores data and applications for a variety of operating systems. It has data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity planning capabilities. Catalogic DPX protects physical servers or virtual machines on VMWare vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors, supports many database applications, including Oracle, SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, and SAP HANA. DPX supports agent-based or agent-less backups. Users can map to and use a backed up version of the database if something goes wrong with the primary version. DPX is managed from a single console and catalog. This allows for centralized control of both tape-based and disk-based data protection jobs across heterogeneous operating systems. DPX can protect data centers, remote sites and supports recovery from DR. DPX can protect data to disk, tape or cloud. It is used for various recovery use cases including file, application, BMR, VM or DR. DPX can spin up VMs from backup images, recover physical servers, bring up applications online from snapshot based backups, it can be used to recover from Ransomware.
Supported applications
According to the DPX Interface Guide, DPX contains interfaces to the following software and database management systems: DB2, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Micro Focus Groupwise, Micro Focus Open Enterprise Services (OES), Oracle, SAP, SharePoint, and SQL Server. For Oracle, DPX provides cloning capabilities. For Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and Oracle, DPX provides read/write access to recovery points. SQL log truncation, Rollback in time, point in time recovery for SQL, granular recovery of Exchange, SharePoint and SQL is available.
Storage media
DPX uses tape, tape library (jukebox), virtual tape library (VTL), disk (local, NetApp, Dell EMC, HP, Data Domain), disk-to-disk-to-tape, cloud as a backup target. DPX will back up to any disk with or NetApp FAS storage.
Structure
DPX infrastructure has three types of components:
Master Server Controls all backup management tasks, catalog, scheduling, job execution, and distributed processing.
Device Server; Advanced Server; Open Storage Server; or Server Handles backup media – either tape or disk.
Client Node Any computer in a DPX enterprise from which data is backed up is considered a DPX client node.
Catalogic Software history
In October 2013, Syncsort sold its data protection business to an investor group led by Bedford Venture Partners and Windcrest Partners. The spun off Data Protection business is now called Catalogic Software, the company that produces Catalogic DPX.
On 4 June 2018, it was reported that Catalogic Software had taken an equity stake in the European data protection company Storware.
See also
List of backup software
References
Syncsort Data Protection is Now Catalogic Software, October 2014*
Catalogic DPX 4.7.0 January 2021*
Backup software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Neptune | Neptune, also known as Sun Multithreaded 10 GbE, is a dual 10 Gbit/s, multithreaded, PCIe x8-based network interface controller for 10 Gigabit Ethernet. It was developed and originally produced by Sun Microsystems, and later licensed to Marvell Technology Group in 2007.
A Neptune-based NIC is integrated in UltraSPARC T2 CPUs (Network Interface Unit, or NIU).
NIC Features
References
External links
Sun's Neptune Specs
Networking hardware
Sun Microsystems hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLWX%20%28FM%29 | WLWX (88.1 FM) is a radio station that, until November 2020, was broadcasting the K-Love Classics Christian classic hits format. Upon the network's closure, the station began airing K-LOVE Christmas, a seasonal branding of EMF. Licensed to Wheaton, Illinois, United States, it serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), which acquired it from Wheaton College in 2017.
History
Wheaton College's first carrier-current AM station went on the air in 1947 as WHON. It moved to become licensed 88.1 FM WETN in 1962. In 1979, the station was authorized to raise its power to 250 watts. Originally operating just 23 hours a week, the station began broadcasting 24 hours a day in 1984.
EMF purchased the license for WETN from Wheaton College effective February 28, 2017 for $150,000. The station changed its call sign to WAIW on March 1, 2017, and carried the Air 1 Christian Hits format until August 2018, when it flipped to the Christian classic hits K-Love Classics format.
Under the K-LOVE Classics branding, WAIW aired music by artists such as Bryan Duncan, Amy Grant, Keith Green, Michael W. Smith, 4 Him, and Steven Curtis Chapman. On January 1, 2021, WAIW started airing K-LOVE 90's.
On January 11, 2021, WAIW swapped call signs with EMF's Winchester, Virginia-based WLWX.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WLWX
LWX
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Wheaton, Illinois
Wheaton College (Illinois)
Radio stations established in 1947
1947 establishments in Illinois
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
LWX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNDZ | WNDZ (750 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station broadcasting an ethnic brokered programming format. Licensed to Portage, Indiana, it serves the Chicago metropolitan area. The station is owned by Newsweb Corporation with studios on North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago.
WNDZ is a daytimer station. It transmits 15,000 watts. To send its signal toward Chicago from its transmitter site, it uses a directional antenna with a three-tower array. But because 750 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A station WSB Atlanta, WNDZ must go off the air at sunset to avoid interference. The towers are on Bay Road at Robbins Road in Portage.
Programming
WNDZ is a brokered programming station, where hosts pay for their time on the air and may advertise their products and services or seek donations. Much of WNDZ's ethnic shows are in Slavic languages including Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian. Other Eastern European languages including Romanian and Albanian.
Spanish-language and English-language religious radio shows are also heard, some of them from the EWTN Network, a Catholic programming service. Automated Adult Contemporary music (in English) fills the rest of the airtime.
History
WNDZ began broadcasting on May 13, 1987, as a daytime-only station, running 2,500 watts, and was owned by Universal Broadcasting, with Rick Schwartz as its first General Manager. The business office and studios were located in Lansing, Illinois. They are currently on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. The station originally aired a mixture of religious and ethnic programming. In 1992, the station was sold to Douglas Broadcasting, for $2 million.
In 1994, the station joined Douglas Broadcasting's new AsiaOne network. In 1997, the station's power was increased to 5,000 watts. In late May 1998, the station switched from brokered programming to the motivational "Personal Achievement Radio" network, which moved from WYPA 820. Later that year, the station was purchased by Z-Spanish Radio. In 2000, Z-Spanish Radio was acquired by Entravision Communications.
In 2004, Entravision Communications sold the station to Newsweb Corporation, along with 99.9 FM WRZA, for $24 million. In 2007, the station's power was increased to 15,000 watts. The format has remained brokered for most of the station's history, even during the time it was owned by Entravision.
References
External links
Portage, Indiana
Radio stations established in 1987
NDZ
Brokered programming
1987 establishments in Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTMR | WTMR (800 AM) is a radio station broadcasting brokered programming, mainly religious programming. Licensed to Camden, New Jersey, United States, it serves the Philadelphia area. WTMR is owned by Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc., through licensee Beasley Media Group, LLC, and features programming from Westwood One. The transmitter site is in Camden, while studios and offices are located in the "555 Building" in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
History
The station began operations November 1, 1948, as WKDN. It was originally owned by Ranulf Compton, and was a 1,000-watt, daytime-only station that broadcast middle-of-the-road music. The call letters became WTMR after the station was sold in 1968. By the early 1970s, WTMR's power had been increased to 5,000 watts. In 1975, the station began phasing out pop music in favor of religious programming. It was granted a license to operate at night during the 1980s.
External links
TMR
Radio stations established in 1948
TMR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNJC | WNJC (1360 AM) was a radio station broadcasting brokered programming. Licensed to Washington Township, New Jersey, it serves the southeastern portions of the Philadelphia radio market (due to WPAZ, which covers the northwestern portions of the metro at 1370), and is currently owned by Forsythe Broadcasting, LLC.
History
The station originally bore the callsign WWBZ and was licensed to Vineland, New Jersey. WWBZ operated from 1946 to 1989, then went silent. On September 1, 1990, it moved to, and petitioned to change its city of license to Washington Township and returned to the air as WVSJ ("Voice of South Jersey"), carrying mostly talk programming. WVSJ was one of the first Philadelphia-area stations to carry Rush Limbaugh on weekdays, but lost rights to the program when it was picked up by WWDB. In 1992, the station adopted a country music format and became WNJC ("New Jersey Country"), shifted to Spanish-language programming by 1994, then evolved into its current brokered format.
In 1994, the station was purchased by radio engineer Michael Venditti and his partner John Forsythe to create Forsythe Broadcasting, Inc. Michael Venditti died of cancer in April 1998 and his wife Joan took over as partner. The studio was located on 1893 Hurffville Rd. in Deptford from 1994 till 2005. In November 2005, the station moved to 123 Egg Harbor Rd in Washington Township, where it remained until May 2017.
In June 2017, the station was rescued from going dark by Antonio Muniz and Javier Machorro. The new studio is located at 401 Cooper Landing Road in Cherry Hill. The station is now being marketed as a multicultural station. Spanish-language format is heard daily from 6:00am to 4:00pm, followed by English-language "Today's Hits & Yesterday's favorites" along with brokered programming.
References
External links
Official website
Radio stations established in 1946
Radio stations disestablished in 2023
NJC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20School%20of%20Economics | The Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) is an institution for research and graduate education in economics, finance, data science, and the social sciences located in Barcelona, Spain.
The school's academic offer includes Master's degrees as well as summer schools, professional courses, and in-company training.
BSE research has been ranked among the top Economics Departments in the world.
The school is accredited by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU).
History
Established as the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE), the institution was legally recognized by the Government of Catalonia in October 2006 as a foundation dedicated to higher education.
The School was created with the objective to foster scientific cooperation between four existing academic and research units in Barcelona:
Universitat Pompeu Fabra— Department of Economics and Business
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona — Unit of Economic Analysis
Institute for Economic Analysis
Centre for Research in International Economics
The School's board of trustees includes both private and public institutions.
The school changed its name to Barcelona School of Economics in 2021.
Scientific Council
The BSE Scientific Council works with faculty and administrators to ensure the quality of teaching, research, and admissions procedures. The council is made up of leading academics, including several Nobel Laureates in Economics.
The first chair of the Scientific Council was Hugo Sonnenschein (1940-2021), President Emeritus of the University of Chicago, who held the position from 2008 until 2021.
Members of the Barcelona School of Economics Scientific Council
Daron Acemoglu, MIT
Aloisio Araujo, IMPA and Fundação Getulio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro)
Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University
Chong-En Bai, Tsinghua University
Richard Blundell, University College London
Janet Currie, Princeton University
Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles
Darrell Duffie, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Raquel Fernández, New York University
Oliver Hart, Harvard University, Nobel Laureate
James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate
Bengt Holmström, MIT, Nobel Laureate
Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University
Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota
Anne Krueger, The Johns Hopkins University
Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University
Robert Lucas, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate
Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University
Eric S. Maskin, Harvard University Nobel Laureate
Preston McAfee, former Chief Economist of Microsoft
Roger Myerson, University of Chicago Nobel Laureate
Juan Pablo Nicolini, United States Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Edward C. Prescott, University of Arizona, Nobel Laureate
Hélène Rey, London Business School
John Roberts, Stanford University
Alvin Roth, Stanford University, Nobel Laureate
Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University and New York University
Thomas J. Sarge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sunny%20Side%20Up%20Show | Sunny Side Up (previously known as The Sunny Side Up Show) is a defunct television programming block which premiered on Sprout on September 26, 2007 and ended on August 11, 2017. Each week, a new theme was introduced, including food, Halloween, animals, construction, fall, opposites, and birthdays. Sunny Side Up aired at 9:00 AM Eastern/8:00 AM Central until 12:00 PM Eastern/11:00 AM Central each weekday morning. The hosts of Sunny Side Up played games, sang songs, told stories, and showed birthday cards or artwork.
Sunny Side Up was Sprout's morning program. It was produced live every weekday, and hosted by a human host along with Chica, a chicken puppet who later got her own show. Before moving to a "city apartment" set, the show took place on a set dubbed The Sunshine Barn and decorated with farm-themed objects. The hosts were Carly and Tim. Each hosted the show for one week with each week's host being announced late in the previous week. Each week's host introduced programs, read birthdays, led activities related to the week's theme, and read messages sent in by individual "Sproutlet" viewers through the Sprout website. There were daily activities such as "The Good Egg Awards" (renamed "The Kindness Kid Awards") celebrating viewers' accomplishments, and "Sproutlet Stories" allowed "Sproutlets" to tell different stories with different plots, characters, and settings.
The theme tune from 2007 to 2013 was Brand New Day, but from 2013 to 2015 it was Chica's Here.
Some episodes of the show were supposedly archived by IMDb and on-demand services since Sprout rebranded, and few can even be found on YouTube.
Origins and history
Andrew Beecham, Sprout's senior vice president of programming, knew he wanted a live show, so executives agreed that a live show with guest appearances from Sprout characters, viewer submissions, and weekly themes would be perfect for Sprout. The block first premiered on September 26, 2007, two years exact after the Sprout channel launched with Kelly Vrooman and Kevin Yamada alongside Chica the puppet chicken as the first hosts, Sean Roach joined the founding trio of presenters the following year.
On September 25, 2010, to celebrate the launch of the Sprout original series Noodle and Doodle, the block expanded to include Saturday and Sunday weekend morning broadcasts instead of just taking the weekend off and handing over to The Let’s Go Show, another Sprout programming block at the time. It was around the time that the set was remodeled, now featuring a green flower-shaped clock and a red and blue crate.
For several years, The Sunny Side Up Show was taped at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before moving to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City in 2014, as Sprout was acquired by NBCUniversal the previous year, in a studio not too far from The Roots' wardrobe rack. Since the move to New York, Sprout started snagging celebrity guest stars to appear on the program after they appeared on The Today Show.
S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20data%20integration | Core data integration is the use of data integration technology for a significant, centrally planned and managed IT initiative within a company. Examples of core data integration initiatives could include:
ETL (Extract, transform, load) implementations
EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) implementations
SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) implementations
ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) implementations
Core data integrations are often designed to be enterprise-wide integration solutions. They may be designed to provide a data abstraction layer, which in turn will be used by individual core data integration implementations, such as ETL servers or applications integrated through EAI.
Because it is difficult to promptly roll out a centrally managed data integration solution that anticipates and meets all data integration requirements across an organization, IT engineers and even business users create edge data integration, using technology that may be incompatible with that used at the core. In contrast to a core data integration, an edge data integration is not centrally planned and is generally completed with a smaller budget and a tighter deadline.
See also
data integration
edge data integration
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20080310212808/http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1171085,00.html
Data management
Data integration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECache | eCache was a digital gold currency (DBC) provider that operated over the Tor network from 2007–2014.
eCache was completely anonymous just like physical cash. The eCache mint which issued the certificates didn't store any transaction details or personally identifiable information that was requested from the mint or any other user.
References
DGC Magazine Interview with eCache's operators
Digital currencies
Financial cryptography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Label%20%28computer%20science%29 | In programming languages, a label is a sequence of characters that identifies a location within source code. In most languages, labels take the form of an identifier, often followed by a punctuation character (e.g., a colon). In many high-level languages, the purpose of a label is to act as the destination of a GOTO statement. In assembly language, labels can be used anywhere an address can (for example, as the operand of a JMP or MOV instruction). Also in Pascal and its derived variations. Some languages, such as Fortran and BASIC, support numeric labels. Labels are also used to identify an entry point into a compiled sequence of statements (e.g., during debugging).
C
In C a label identifies a statement in the code. A single statement can have multiple labels. Labels just indicate locations in the code and reaching a label has no effect on the actual execution.
Function labels
Function labels consist of an identifier, followed by a colon. Each such label points to a statement in a function and its identifier must be unique within that function. Other functions may use the same name for a label. Label identifiers occupy their own namespace – one can have variables and functions with the same name as a label.
void foo(int number)
{
if (number < 0)
goto error;
bar(number);
return;
error:
fprintf(stderr, "Invalid number!\n");
}
Here error is the label. The statement goto can be used to jump to a labeled statement in the code. After a goto, program execution continues with the statement after the label.
Switch labels
Two types of labels can be put in a switch statement. A case label consists of the keyword case, followed by an expression that evaluates to integer constant. A default label consists of the keyword default. Case labels are used to associate an integer value with a statement in the code. When a switch statement is reached, program execution continues with the statement after the case label with value that matches the value in the parentheses of the switch. If there is no such case label, but there is a default label, program execution continues with the statement after the default label. If there is no default label, program execution continues after the switch.
switch (die)
{
default:
printf("invalid\n");
break;
case 1:
case 3:
case 5:
printf("odd\n");
break;
case 2:
case 4:
case 6:
printf("even\n");
break;
}
Within a single switch statement, the integer constant associated with each case label must be unique. There may or may not be a default statement. There is no restriction on the order of the labels within a switch. The requirement that case labels values evaluate to integer constants gives the compiler more room for optimizations.
Examples
Javascript
In JavaScript language syntax statements may be preceded by the label:
top: //Label the outermost for-loop.
for (var i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j < 4; j++) {
if (j === 3 && i === 2) {
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Performance%20Computing%20Modernization%20Program | The United States Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) was initiated in 1992 in response to Congressional direction to modernize the Department of Defense (DoD) laboratories’ high performance computing capabilities. The HPCMP provides supercomputers, a national research network, high-end software tools, a secure environment, and computational science experts that together enable the Defense laboratories and test centers to conduct research, development, test and technology evaluation activities.
The program was administered by the Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering (now called the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering) through FY2011, at which point it was transferred to the office of the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, where it is managed by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology.
The program comprises three primary elements: DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs), which provide large scale supercomputers and operations staff; Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN), a nationwide high speed, low latency, R&D network connecting the centers and major user communities; and a collection of efforts in software applications to develop, modernize, and maintain software to address DoD's science and engineering challenges. The current director of the program is Dr. Jerry Ballard, who was appointed to the position in January 2022.
DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers
The HPCMP funds and oversees the operation of five supercomputing centers, called DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers, or DSRCs. The centers are operated by the Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS, the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, MD, the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command in Stennis Space Center, MS, the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, OH, and Maui High Performance Computing Center in Maui, HI. The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) in Fairbanks, AK was a sixth DSRC until funding for it was discontinued in 2011.
Each center hosts large-scale supercomputers, high-speed networks, multi-petabyte archival mass storage systems, and computational experts. The centers are managed by the HPCMP Assistant Director for Centers, who also funds program-wide activities in user support (the HPC Help Desk) and scientific visualization (the Data Analysis and Assessment Center, or DAAC).
Defense Research and Engineering Network
The Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) — a high-speed national computer network for US Department of Defense (DoD) computational research, engineering, and testing — is a significant component of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP).
DREN is DoD’s premier wide area network (WAN) for research, test and engineering missions. DREN is a high-speed, high-capacity, low-latency, low-jitter nationwide computer network i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20data%20integration | An edge data integration is an implementation of data integration technology undertaken in an ad hoc or tactical fashion. This is also sometimes referred to as point-to-point integration because it connects two types of data directly to serve a narrow purpose. Many edge integrations, and actually the vast majority of all data integration, involve hand-coded scripts. Some may take the form of Business Mashups (web application hybrids), Rich Internet applications, or other browser-based models that take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies to combine data in a Web browser.
Examples of edge data integration projects might be:
extracting a list of customers from a host Sales Force Automation application and writing the results to an Excel spreadsheet
creating a script-driven framework for managing RSS feeds
combining data from a weather Web site, a shipping company's Web site, and a company's internal logistics database to track shipments and estimated arrival times of packages
It has been claimed that edge data integration do not typically require large budgets and centrally managed technologies, which is in contrast to a core data integration.
See also
core data integration
Business Mashups
Rich Internet application
Web 2.0
Yahoo! Pipes
Microsoft Popfly
IBM Mashup Center
References
Data management
Data integration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Life%20%28TV%20program%29 | Real Life was an Australian current affairs television program that aired on the Seven Network from 20 January 1992 to 1 December 1994.
Its format was similar to other tabloid current affairs shows airing at the time, these being A Current Affair and Hinch, which had recently been axed by the Seven Network and picked up by Network Ten. It was mainly presented by Stan Grant and the reporters included former Network Ten newsreader Eric Walters and Edwina Gatenby.
While generally not being as successful as its Nine competitor, it was popular enough for Nine to install Ray Martin as the host of A Current Affair in 1994 and it did win the Logie Award for Most Popular Current Affairs Program in that year. At the end of 1994, the show was replaced with Today Tonight, a state-based current affairs program as opposed to Real Life which was a nationally airing show.
References
External links
Australian non-fiction television series
Seven News
1992 Australian television series debuts
1994 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRAP | KRAP (1350 AM) is a radio station licensed to Washington, Missouri.
Station and programming
Originally put on the air by then-owner Ken Kuenzie as KSLQ in 1985, the station changed its callsign to KWMO in July 1998 under the new owner Brad Hildebrand. The station changed its call sign once more on July 28, 2014 to the current KRAP.
KRAP transmits from Warren County about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the Missouri River and downtown Washington. As a sports station, KRAP featured the CBS Sports Radio Network. KRAP also broadcast local and regional sports play-by-play including St. Louis Blues Hockey, Kansas City Chiefs football as well as high school, college, and minor league sports teams.
On June 24, 2018, KRAP changed formats from sports to hot adult contemporary, branded as "Westplex 107.1" (simulcast on translator K296HA Washington, Missouri).
Call sign meaning
In 2014, the station gave itself the self-aware callsign KRAP, saying on their website: "Our signal is KRAP. Our studios are KRAP. Even our staff is KRAP."
Previous logo
References
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RAP
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSC | SCSC is an acronym which may refer to:
Safety-Critical Systems Club the UK's professional network for sharing knowledge about safety-critical systems
Santa Clara Swim Club, a youth swim team in Santa Clara, CA.
Sheffield City Swimming Club, a swimming club based in Sheffield
Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, an organization composed of the chiefs of many Scottish clans
State Civil Service Commission
Superconducting Super Collider, a cancelled particle accelerator
South Carolina State College, the old name of South Carolina State University
See also
SC2 (disambiguation)
SC (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Blackwell | Deborah Blackwell (June 15, 1950 – January 31, 2014) was an American television network executive who was primarily responsible for the rise of soap opera centric cable network, SOAPnet, having joined as general manager in 2001.
With Blackwell as general manager, the channel grew in distribution to more than 67 million homes and secured rights from NBC and CBS (in addition to owner ABC) to run same-day daytime soap opera episodes. During Blackwell's time as the head of SOAPnet, the channel acquired primetime shows such as One Tree Hill and The O.C. These joined earlier acquisitions Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Dallas. SoapNet also extended its stable of original programming, including developing its first scripted show, a spinoff of General Hospital: Night Shift, and reality series The Fashionista Diaries''.
Blackwell left SOAPnet in October 2007. Brian Frons succeeded her in overseeing operations.
Blackwell died in Virginia at the age of 63 on January 31, 2014. For seven years, she suffered from Pick's disease, a rare neurodegenerative disease.
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1950 births
2014 deaths
American television executives
Women television executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIGO%20%28AM%29 | WIGO (1570 AM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station with some paid brokered programming. Licensed to Morrow, Georgia, it serves the Atlanta metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by MCL/MCM Georgia, LLC.
History
The station operating at 1570 kHz in the Atlanta area first began broadcasting as WCPK, a 1,000-watt daytime-only outlet licensed to College Park, Georgia, on March 21, 1959. The station changed its call letters to WEAS—using a designation freshly vacated by 950 AM, causing confusion—in March 1960, then to WEAD on January 1, 1961; it was a "good music" station with studios at a Hilton Inn near Atlanta International Airport, in Hapeville. College Park Broadcasting Corporation, the original licensee, filed for bankruptcy in 1963, and the station was sold at public auction that April; the buyer was Metro Atlanta Broadcasting. The call letters were changed to WAIA, reflecting its airport location, in 1964.
In 1965, WAIA was acquired by John R. Dorsey for $60,000. A year later, WAIA became WBAD, a Top 40 outlet. The station changed call letters to WSSA and format to country in October 1968, the same month it was acquired by Clayton Broadcasting Company. Two years later, it was authorized to change its city of license to Morrow and increase power to 5,000 watts.
In 1974, WSSA was acquired by Jim Beattie and Jim Simmons, a former station owner elsewhere on the East Coast and a North Carolina auto dealer, respectively. The station continued its country format and also aired NASCAR Winston Cup Series races. By 1978, the station was entirely owned by Simmons, and he sold it to the Piper brothers doing business as South Atlanta Broadcasting in a $345,000 transaction.
The station began airing specialty programs of contemporary Christian music and Christian rock in 1981. A year later, control of the licensee was sold to Wings Radio, in which the Pipers owned a 50 percent stake. The Wings organization was named for Isaiah 40:31 ("but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."), and the group programmed the station with an entirely Christian format as well as services from more than 50 local churches and news and features for residents of Clayton County.
After changing to talk programming, WSSA adopted a Christian country format in 1995, branded as "God's Country". Southern gospel music was added a year later. Saints, Inc., acquired control of WSSA in 1998.
In the early 2000s, a local marketing agreement was reached with Ritmo Latino, which programmed the station in Spanish. That LMA, and an option to buy the station, were acquired by MCL/MCM in January 2005. The group then bought the station itself for $1.75 million in 2006. The station's call letters were changed to WIGO, reviving a designation that had been used for decades at 1340 AM, the first 24-hour R&B music station in the city.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNYH | WNYH (740 AM) is a radio station licensed to Huntington, New York, it serves the Long Island area and broadcasts brokered programming from The Overcomer Ministry. The station is owned by Win Radio Broadcasting Corporation.
Since 740 AM is a Canadian clear-channel frequency, WNYH reduces its broadcast power to 43 watts at sunset in order to protect CFZM in Toronto. This results in a limited, approximately 20 square-mile coverage area centered upon Huntington Station for the station at night.
History
The station signed on as WGSM on September 1, 1951 with studios originally in the Sammis Building on New York Avenue in Huntington. Edward J. Fitzgerald founded the station and Jack Ellsworth (WALK, WLIM) was the original Program Director. In early 1968, the station moved its studios and offices to 900 Walt Whitman Road (Rt. 110) in Melville, New York near the Northern State Parkway. In autumn 1968, Bill Ayres (WABC, WPLJ) and Pete Fornatale (WFUV, WNEW-FM, 92.3 K-Rock) hosted a religious show aimed at young people. Over the years, the station has sported many formats and been owned by many radio groups.
On May 22, 1995, WGSM switched from soft adult contemporary to country, with local band showcases on the weekend. Then the station simulcast WMJC 94.3; a short time later, new ownership and GM approved the station's switch to becoming the New York area's first Radio Disney affiliate in 1997. WGSM lost the Radio Disney affiliation in December 1998 after WQEW became New York City's Radio Disney affiliate. At that time, WGSM began simulcasting the Adult Standards format of sister station WHLI 1100 AM.
In 2001, WGSM was sold to K Communications for $2.5 million. The format was changed to Korean language programming. Over the next few years, WGSM spent a lot of time on and off the air. In 2004, a Korean group was contacted by two local radio broadcasters, to lease the station. The two met in his Flushing broadcast center, and presented a proposal to Kwon and two associates to lease the station---then still known as WGSM, to flip it to country, with a secret formatics (A blend of Country-Rock) to be confidential until the station was announced operational again. The station was playing Korean language and music. The station was then sold to Win Radio Broadcasting Corporation and changed call letters to WNYH on September 1, 2005.
WNYH began playing an oldies format featuring music from the mid-1940s through the early 1980s.
On October 21, 2008, much of WNYH's broadcast day was leased to One Caribbean Radio, who previously bought time on WSNR 620 AM in Jersey City. Self-proclaimed "Global Mix" music aired sunrise – 10 am and 3 pm – sunset. Between the hours of 10 am and 3 pm programming varied and included infomercials, oldies music, Caribbean music, and brokered talk shows. All the One Caribbean Radio programming was terminated in late March 2009 for an unknown reason, and moved to WSKQ 97.9 FM HD2.
On January 1, 2011 the format was replaced by Rad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRTU | WRTU (89.7 FM), branded on-air as Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, is a National Public Radio member station broadcasting a variety format, together with programming from NPR, PRX, the BBC and other distributors. Licensed to San Juan, Puerto Rico, the station is currently owned by the University of Puerto Rico.
WRTU's programming can also be heard in Mayagüez on WRUO 88.3 FM.
See also
Radio Colegial: University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
WPUC-FM: Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
External links
WRTU 89.7 Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico
WRTU Webcast
RTU
Radio stations established in 1980
University of Puerto Rico
NPR member stations
1980 establishments in Puerto Rico
Public broadcasting in Puerto Rico
Campus, college, student and university radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadao%20Kasami | was a noted Japanese information theorist who made significant contributions to error correcting codes. He was the earliest to publish the key ideas for the CYK algorithm, separately discovered by Daniel Younger (1967) and John Cocke (1970).
Kasami was born in Kobe, Japan, and studied electrical engineering at Osaka University, where he received his B.E. degree in 1958, M.E. in 1960, and Ph.D. in 1963. He then joined the faculty, teaching until 1994, and was dean 1990–1992. He was subsequently professor in the Graduate School of Information Science at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology 1992–1998, and professor of information science at Hiroshima City University 1998–2004.
Kasami was an IEEE Fellow, and received the 1987 Achievement Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communications Engineers of Japan and the 1999 IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award.
See also
CYK algorithm
Kasami code
References
1930 births
2007 deaths
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Japanese computer scientists
Japanese information theorists
Osaka University alumni
People from Kobe
Academic staff of Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java-gnome | java-gnome is a set of language bindings for the Java programming language for use in the GNOME desktop environment. It is part of the official GNOME language bindings suite and provides a set of libraries allowing developers to write computer programs for GNOME using the Java programming language and the GTK cross-platform widget toolkit.
Development
Originally released on 08.10.1999 as version 0.2, it included the first bindings for Gnome and GTK. Up until version 2.0, java-gnome was written by a project team. The current version 4.0 was originally an internal project of Operational Dynamics, a change management consultancy group.
From 1999, the so-called 2.X series was the main project. After being abandoned by the main team for a time, the project was given to a new developer in 2006, due to development problems that came from many maintenance issues.
The last release of 2.0 versions (which continued the same project from version 0.2) was version 2.16.2 (called the 2.x series). The coverage of these series never made it past GTK 2.6. This update was declared as “end of life” for the old project and was no longer maintained, and any contribution patches for versions older than 4.0 are no longer accepted.
Both 2.0 and 4.0 updates have similar style of coding, while package spaces, classes, and method names are different. Internals of project were changed from version 4.0, so they can't be accessed publicly.
Currently, the project is maintained by "Java-gnome hackers". The leader of this latest team is Andrew Cowie, one of the principal architects for the java-gnome project.
Functions
Java-gnome uses Java programming language and Java based class system for creation of GUI parts. Each implemented package has a different function; packages used in version 4.0 are:
GTK - The widget toolkit itself.
GDK - Contains low level drawing primitives. The majority of drawing is done by Cairo.
Glib and Gobject - Containers for the rest of infrastructure that allow the use of OOP.
Pango - Text layout engine.
ATK - Accessibility toolkit that allows extra control with computer controls.
GtkSourceView - Source code highlighter.
LibNotify - Warning notifier.
GtkSpell - Spellchecker.
LibUnique - Library that helps to maintain one working instance of an application.
Support
Java-gnome is only supported in Linux and Unix distributions, unlike most other GTK bindings, that are supported by other systems. Distribution specific instructions are available for:
Gentoo linux
Arch linux
Debian linux
Ubuntu linux
Semi-finished instructions are available for Open Solaris and Fedora Core Linux distributions.
Licensing
Java-gnome is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
Example
To compile a java-gnome class it's necessary to add the gtk-4.1.jar jar in the classpath. The jar is available on Debian (and all Debian-based distributions) in the libjava-gnome-java package, which can be found in the offici |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina%20Public%20Library | The Regina Public Library is the citywide public library system of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Services
Information and reference services
Access to full text databases
Community information
Internet access
Reader's advisory services
Programs for children, youth and adults
Delivery to homebound individuals
Interlibrary loan
Free downloadable audiobooks
The Regina Public Library is established under the provisions of The Public Libraries Act, 1996. The general management, regulation, and control of the Library is vested in the Regina Public Library Board. The Board consists of the Mayor of Regina and eight members of the public appointed by the City Council for two-year terms.
Locations
Regina Public Library has nine locations and provides service in the form of resources, programs, and client and staff interactions.
Film Theatre
The RPL Film Theatre, which is located at the Central Library, screens world cinema - up to fifteen films a month. The Film Theatre provides a wide range of films to accommodate a range of tastes and is the only cinema in the city to present contemporary and alternative cinema: Canadian, foreign and independent films and documentaries.
Dunlop Art Gallery
The Dunlop Art Gallery, located at Central Library and Sherwood Village Library, is dedicated to presenting, researching, and engaging a diverse range of visual arts and culture.
Prairie History Room
The Prairie History Room is a specialized collection of research and genealogical materials focusing on the history and development of the Prairies from pre-settlement times to present day. The room is located on the main floor of Central Library.
Special literacy services
The library also offers special literacy services and programs for all ages. The unit is located on the second floor of Central Library.
Branches
Regina Public Library has nine branches.
Central Library
Central Library is located in downtown Regina, on 12th Avenue between Lorne and Smith Street, across Lorne Street from Victoria Park and on the site of the second Carnegie Library. "On December 5, [1962,] the...[current] Central Library was officially opened." In Canada as in the UK, Ireland and the USA, public libraries were amply endowed by the Carnegie foundation and burgesses soon took for granted and the public quickly demanded that such services continue to be funded and provided. In other jurisdictions — Australia is a notably deficient one — where Carnegie did not offer such endowment, the concept of public libraries is largely alien. Sydney, a city of some 2 million, for example, has a public library substantially smaller than that of Regina, a city of some 200 thousand. Its precedent was built after the Regina Cyclone destroyed the original, on the same and today's site (see Regina's historic buildings and precincts).
"It is the largest of the nine libraries in the system, and it is a social and informational hub in the heart of downtown Regina. Central maintains an extensive |
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