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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sword%20of%20Etheria | The Sword of Etheria is an action role-playing game developed and published by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. It was originally released on June 30, 2005 for PlayStation 2 as (Over Zenith) in Japan, and as Chains of Power in Korea, followed by its release in Europe on February 24, 2006. The game was not released in North America. It was reprinted in Japan on January 26, 2006 as part of the "Konami the Best" budget label.
Plot
Setting
The Sword of Etheria is set in an alternate world where humans, gods, and spiritual beings known as "Katenas" coexist. Katenas are powerful warriors with the ability to encase themselves in full suits of armor called "Lexes". The Katenas are the envoys of the gods. The three great Katenas, chosen by the gods, are collectively referred to as "Oz".
Both humans and Katenas are overseen by the gods. As in Greek mythology, the gods are described as omnipotent, ambitious, self-serving, and power-hungry. The major source of their power is light; as they consume light, they cast parts of the world into darkness for centuries. The gods seek to destroy humanity and drain the planet's energy source, "Etheria".
Story
The story begins with three Katenas—Cain, Leon, and Almira—on a mission to investigate a physical manifestation of Etheria on the earth's surface. As they approach the apex of their mission, Almira and Leon lose control of their armor, forcing Cain to proceed alone. Cain then vanishes.
The game shifts forward fifteen years later to Fiel ("Feel" in the Japanese version), a boy who lived with his younger sister, Dorothy, and their cat, Toto. Their village is attacked by monsters called "Volo" and a group of Katenas. Dorothy is kidnapped during the attack. Fiel manages to recruit the aid of Almira and Leon, and together, they head out to rescue Dorothy. During their journey, they constantly face danger and obstacles under the eyes of the gods.
Characters
The story revolves around three main characters:
Fiel: the main male protagonist, who carries a large, powerful axe
Almira: a female Katena with a spear
Leon: a male Katena with a large claw on his left arm
Their mission is to save Fiel's sister, Dorothy, who was kidnapped by monsters. Dorothy's cat, Toto, has the ability to transform into a Lex, becoming the source of Fiel's Katena-like powers.
Throughout the game, the protagonists fight three other Katenas–Vitis, Galumn, and Juju–who are under the influence and control of the gods.
Gameplay
The Sword of Etheria is presented in a third-person perspective, with players controlling the actions of the main character, Fiel, such as interaction with objects and people. Players control Fiel during the battle while Almira and Leon are AI-controlled. The three characters fight in various surroundings including forests, villages, and dungeons. Each character is assigned a health gauge. If a character's health is reduced to zero, he or she will be incapacitated and forced to recover before returning to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVJP-FM | WVJP-FM (103.3 FM), branded on-air as Dimension 103, is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish Variety format. The music genres included in the station's programming are "merengue", "salsa", "bachata", "reggaeton", English-pop, pop-rock and "balada-pop".
WVJP is the primary station of Dimension 103, a network that includes WVJP AM 1110 and WDIN/102.9 FM, covering the western and northern area of Puerto Rico.
Licensed to Caguas, Puerto Rico, United States, it serves the Puerto Rico area. The station is currently owned by Borinquen Broadcasting Co., Inc.
External links
VJP-FM
Radio stations established in 1964
1964 establishments in Puerto Rico
Caguas, Puerto Rico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play%20the%20Game%20%281946%20TV%20series%29 | Play the Game, also known as Let's Play the Game, was one of the earliest game shows to be broadcast over an American television network, and the first known example of a television panel show. In 1941-42, CBS aired an early game show, CBS Television Quiz.
Broadcast history
Play the Game was essentially a televised version of the parlor game charades. The show was hosted by Dr. Harvey Zorbaugh, professor of educational sociology at New York University. The show aired over the DuMont Television Network on Tuesdays from 8 to 8:30 pm ET from September 24, 1946, to December 17, 1946. The show also aired on ABC from August 20, 1948, to November 6, 1948, in primetime. A previous version of the program had been broadcast locally in New York City on WNBT Channel 1 (the predecessor to WNBC-TV) in 1941.
Although broadcast on DuMont, the program was actually produced by ABC in order for that network to develop experienced crews in anticipation of its own entry into television broadcasting; in this sense, it was the first ABC television series. WABC-TV Channel 7 subsequently broadcast later episodes of the program to the New York City market during 1948.
Celebrity panelists during the DuMont Network run included Ireene Wicker, Ray Knight, and Will Mullin. There were also audience participation segments during which viewers were invited to call in their guesses to the charades being presented.
British Version
A British version (albeit as a pure panel game) aired on BBC-tv from 4 August 1947 to sometime in 1950, and was later adapted for children from 1951 to 1952. Hosts of this version included Cleland Finn, Sally Rogers, and Robert MacDermot.
Episode status
As with most DuMont programs, no episodes of this show are known to exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive or other collections. The status of the ABC version is unknown, but is likely also lost.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1946-47 United States network television schedule
1948-49 United States network television schedule
On Stage, Everybody - ABC-produced TV series which aired on DuMont station WABD in 1945
Let's Play Reporter - ABC-produced TV series which aired on DuMont station WABD in 1946
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont Television Network Historical Website: Appendix One: Programs (M-Z)
American Broadcasting Company original programming
DuMont Television Network original programming
1940s American game shows
1946 American television series debuts
1948 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
English |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCGB | WCGB (1060 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Religious format as part of The Rock Radio Network. Licensed to Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, it serves the Puerto Rico area. The station is currently owned by Calvary Evangelistic Mission, Inc. and features programming from Salem Radio Network.
History
WCGB (AM-1060) was founded in 1967 by Grace Broadcasters, Inc. The station was built in Juana Díaz. WCGB was an all-Spanish station with a Christian emphasis, but slightly secular in programming. For example, the station covered local sports, news, and politics, and it aired secular music. Yet the management also made sure that every hour of programming contained something with a religious context. For many years, the management of The Rock had desired to reach the Western side of Puerto Rico and Ponce. In 2004, Grace Broadcasters sold WCGB to Calvary Evangelistic Mission. When WCGB joined The Rock, its programming changed to a bilingual teaching format almost identical to what was already airing on WIVV and WBMJ. Most of the programming today on WCGB originates from The Rock's main studios in San Juan. However, WCGB retains a four-hour block of its own programming every weekday morning between the hours of 9 AM to 1 PM. This programming can be listened to live on a separate live stream through the Network's website.
Translator stations
External links
CGB
Radio stations established in 1967
Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico
1967 establishments in Puerto Rico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBQN | WBQN (680 AM) is a radio station licensed to San Juan, Puerto Rico, broadcasting a news-talk format. The station serves as the flagship station of the Borinquen Radio News Network and is owned by Wifredo G. Blanco-Pi (d/b/a NotiRadio Broadcasting, LLC). It is an affiliate of CNN en Español radio news network. The station is rebroadcast at 95.3 FM by translator station W237FF, also located in San Juan.
WBQN's programming is heard on over seven AM radio stations and their associated FM translators across the island:
History
The station's original call sign, WAPA, was a partial abbreviation of the station's original owners, the now-defunct Asociación de Productores de Azúcar, or Puerto Rico Sugar Grower's Association. In the late 1960s, it was acquired by Hearst Corporation. In 1991, it was acquired by NotiRadio Broadcasting (Eng. Wifredo G. Blanco-Pi, owner and his son Eng. Jorge Blanco, news director).
In 1996, NotiRadio Broadcasting acquired radio station WISO 1260 in Ponce from South Puerto Rico Broadcasting Corporation (founded by Luis Freyre in 1953); this became the second radio station of the WAPA Radio News Network.
In 2014, after 66 years of local operation, WXRF 1590 AM in Guayama (originally founded by Jose Fuster) was acquired from International Broadcasting Corporation by NotiRadio Broadcasting for $100,000, as the third radio station of WAPA Radio. On March 24, this station changed its call letters to WGYA.
On March 14, 2017, after a year off the air due to transmitter problems, NotiRadio Broadcasting resumed operations of WVOZ 1580 AM in Morovis-Manatí, rejoining the WAPA Radio News Network, since its establishment, 35 years ago in 1981. The station was acquired from International Broadcasting Corporation for $150,000. WVOZ became silent due to technical maintenance and financial reasons in April 2016.
On March 2, 2017, WAPA Radio acquired WMIA 1070 AM in Arecibo (originally owned by Abacoa Radio Corporation) for over $250,000, and the sale was completed on April 14, 2017. On May 1, WMIA became the new "WAPA Radio News Network" station, serving the northern area.
WVOZ changed its community of license from Morovis to Aguadilla, after WI3XSO's license was cancelled on May 8. The community of license move was granted on December 28, 2017. WAPA Radio was now a network of five radio stations across the island.
On June 21, 2017, WTIL 1300 AM in Mayaguez buys for a three-way swap from La Mas Z Radio, Inc., when awaiting the transaction completes, this becomes the sixth radio station of the WAPA Radio News Network on August 1. On August 3, WGYA changed back to the original WXRF call letters. On August 15, the sale of WTIL to Blanco Pi was completed.
WAPA was the only radio station to remain on the air throughout the passage of Hurricane Maria on September 20, 2017. The station helped family members contact each other by relaying messages of safety. WAPA's programming was reduced to 17 and a half hours from 4:45 AM until 9 PM, oper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS%20methods | ABS methods, where the acronym contains the initials of Jozsef Abaffy, Charles G. Broyden and Emilio Spedicato, have been developed since 1981 to generate a large class of algorithms for the following applications:
solution of general linear algebraic systems, determined or underdetermined,
full or deficient rank;
solution of linear Diophantine systems, i.e. equation systems where the coefficient matrix and the right hand side are integer valued and an integer solution is sought; this is a special but important case of Hilbert's tenth problem, the only one in practice soluble;
solution of nonlinear algebraic equations;
solution of continuous unconstrained or constrained optimization.
At the beginning of 2007 ABS literature consisted of over 400 papers and reports and two monographs, one due to Abaffy and Spedicato and published in 1989, one due to Xia and Zhang and published, in Chinese, in 1998. Moreover, three conferences had been organized in China.
Research on ABS methods has been the outcome of an international collaboration coordinated by Spedicato of university of Bergamo, Italy. It has involved over forty mathematicians from Hungary, UK, China, Iran and other countries.
The central element in such methods is the use of a special matrix transformation due essentially to the Hungarian mathematician Jenő Egerváry, who investigated its main properties in some papers that went unnoticed.
For the basic problem of solving a linear system of m equations in n variables, where , ABS methods use the following simple geometric idea:
Given an arbitrary initial estimate of the solution, find one of the infinite solutions, defining a linear variety of dimension n − 1, of the first equation.
Find a solution of the second equation that is also a solution of the first, i.e. find a solution lying in the intersection of the linear varieties of the solutions of the first two equations considered separately.
By iteration of the above approach after m steps one gets a solution of the last equation that is also a solution of the previous equations, hence of the full system. Moreover, it is possible to detect equations that are either redundant or incompatible.
Among the main results obtained so far:
unification of algorithms for linear, nonlinear algebraic equations and for linearly constrained nonlinear optimization, including the LP problem as a special case;
the method of Gauss has been improved by reducing the required memory and eliminating the need for pivoting;
new methods for nonlinear systems with convergence properties better than for Newton method;
derivation of a general algorithm for Hilbert tenth problem, linear case, with the extension of a classic Euler theorem from one equation to a system;
solvers have been obtained that are more stable than classical ones, especially for the problem arising in primal-dual interior point method;
ABS methods are usually faster on vector or parallel machines;
ABS methods provide a simpl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%3A%20Digital%20Justice | Batman: Digital Justice is a graphic novel published by DC Comics in 1990 in both hardback and paperback forms. It was written and illustrated by Pepe Moreno entirely using computer hardware, software and techniques. The story takes place outside regular DC continuity, but is not an Elseworlds title.
Plot summary
The book is set in a future Gotham City "at the end of the next century" (the 21st) dominated by high technology, particularly computer networks and their human controllers, long after the original Batman has died. The story revolves around James Gordon, Gotham City Police Department detective and grandson of Commissioner James Gordon, who takes on the identity of the Batman to free the city from a sentient computer virus crafted by the Joker, also now long dead, and to avenge the death of his partner Lena Schwartz. He is aided by a self-aware computer called the Batcomp, programmed by the late Bruce Wayne, and a robot called Alfred (after Wayne's also deceased butler Alfred Pennyworth), both residing in the Batcave under a now long-abandoned Wayne Manor. Joining Gordon in his new crusade against crime and the city's corrupt government are a teenage street-punk informant, who becomes the new Robin; and a female pop music superstar named Sheila Romero (stage name Gata), who becomes the new Catwoman and, while being his adversary at first, eventually becomes Gordon's lover and ally.
Characters
James Gordon/Batman
Lena Schwartz
Robert Chang/Robin
Harold Grover
Paul Fahmy/Know Man
Sheila Romero/Gata/Catwoman
Maria Romero/Madam X
Luke Krater/Law Man
Hiroshi Basho/Mob Lord
Jackie Becker/Media Man
1990 comics debuts
Batman graphic novels
Cyberpunk comics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterworld%20%28web%20series%29 | Afterworld is a computer-animated American science fiction series created by writer Brent V. Friedman and artist/filmmaker Michael DeCourcey.
Its naturalistic future setting, modeled after traditional Western movie motifs, presents an atypical science fiction backdrop for the narrative. Friedman served as executive producer, along with Stan Rogow.
Afterworld premiered in the United States on YouTube and Bud.tv on February 28, 2007 with the production website being launched in May, 2007. The series quickly built a loyal fanbase but did not really take off until August, 2007 when it was 're-released' on MySpace. In conjunction with that release the series was also released in Australia on the Sci Fi Channel, as a mobile podcast, and as a web series on US based Crackle.
The series was also made available by Sony Pictures Television International as 13 half-hour episodes for traditional broadcasters.
Plot
After travelling to New York City on a business trip, Russell Shoemaker wakes to find all electronic technology dead and more than 99% of the human race missing. Driven by a need to discover the truth and determined to return to his family, he embarks on a journey to his home in Seattle, while recording and telling all of the events in his journal. Afterworld is the story of Russell's trek across a post-apocalyptic America as he encounters the strange new societies rebuilding themselves. Along the way, he also attempts to solve the mystery of what caused this global event, which survivors refer to as "the Fall."
In addition to new forms of government, Russell discovers that technology has failed due to a persistent electromagnetic pulse, a product of a collection of satellites that was activated almost simultaneously to the Fall. An additional side effect of the EMP is the rapid mutation of many forms of life, including Shoemaker himself. He describes that his night vision has improved dramatically, along with his endurance. Other examples are seen in cattle Russell happens across, which are dying of a previously unheard form of necrotizing fasciitis.
Russell's journey eventually brings him to a nearly deserted San Francisco, and the headquarters of an organization known as the Parthia Group, who had developed a form of nano-technology, which identified humans with a particular genetic makeup.
Cast
Russell "The Walker" Shoemaker - Russell was an American advertising executive and the husband of Janelle and father of Kizzy, from Seattle, Washington. In hope of scoring big by spreading his campaign, he travels to New York City. The next morning he wakes up and finds all technology disabled and most of humanity has vanished. Russell resolves to start travelling home to Seattle to find out what happened to his family. During his journey he comes across many people, creating friends and enemies, as well as does his own investigative efforts into the cause of "The Fall", from what he can find, the theories he hears and also from various faction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th%20Network%20Operations%20Group | The 50th Network Operations Group (50 NOG) was a United States Air Force group assigned to the 50th Space Wing at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. 50 NOG operated the Air Force Satellite Control Network and was responsible for the 50th Space Wing's cyber and communications systems.
In December 2019, the United States Space Force was established and numbers of Air Force personnel were re-assigned to the Space Force, without transferring to the new service. The group's functions were to be taken over by the Space Force, and on 24 July 2020 it was redesignated as Space Force's Space Delta 6.
References
050
Military units and formations disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CADAM | CADAM (computer-augmented design and manufacturing) is CAD-related software that was developed by Lockheed. CADAM was originally written for IBM mainframes and later ported to UNIX workstations, including the IBM RT PC. A variant of CADAM called Micro CADAM was also developed for PCs under DOS.
History
1977: IBM agreed to sell CADAM to aerospace companies.
1981: CADAM Release 18.3 was released. It provided support for IBM mainframes running VM/CMS.
1983: CADAM Inc is formed as a subsidiary of Lockheed Corp.
1985: CADAM Inc successfully sued Adage over the CADAM look-and-feel. It was one of the first look-and-feel court cases.
1987: CADAM Inc and SDRC won a massive GM C4 benchmark. CADAM agreed to port Professional CADAM to Sun, Apollo and HP.
1989: CADAM Inc was sold to IBM. CADAM Inc, an IBM Company, was formed.
1990: Microcadam was formed. CADAM Inc developed and enhanced CADAM (mainframes) and Professional CADAM (workstations). Microcadam developed Micro CADAM. Professional CADAM was ported to IBM RS/6000. It was one of the first non-IBM applications for the workstation.
1991: There was a decision in the Soules v. CADAM court case.
1991: CADAM V3R2 Released - arguably the best release to date.
1992: IBM sold CADAM Inc to Dassault Systèmes. This entity is called "Dassault Systemes of America" (DSA). DSA maintains mainframe CADAM and Professional CADAM. Altium was created. Altium supported Micro CADAM, P-CAD and IBM CAD.
1993: An old version of Micro CADAM was made available via a free license for use on DOS PCs. Copies of this free version are still available on the internet.
1999/1998: Microcadam became CSC/Microcadam.
2000: Microcadam closed. Dassault Systèmes assumed support for Microcadam software.
2001: Protel took the name Altium.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20180415195158/http://www.cadhistory.net/
CAD history
MICROCADAM to Retire Helix Software
References
Computer-aided design software
Dassault Group
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20emulation%20service | Circuit emulation service (CES) is a telecommunication technology used to send information over asynchronous data networks like ATM, Ethernet or MPLS, so that it is received error-free with constant delay, similar to a leased line.
CES was introduced for ATM networks. As the interest for ATM is declining, most new applications work over packet-based (IP)-networks. Two commonly used protocols are SAToP (IETF RFC 4553) and CESoPSN (IETF RFC 5086).
Reasons for circuit emulation
Examples of channels needing constant delay include time-division multiplexed (TDM) services such as the traditional digital signal (DS) and the E-carrier circuits.
The core networks are in the evolution to packet-switched networks such as Metro Ethernet, IP/Ethernet and MPLS. These packet switching-based networks provide more cost-effective communications with comparison with traditional TDM based networks (PDH, SDH), especially for Internet services.
But the legacy TDM and ATM equipment has been widely deployed in traditional telecommunication networks: private branch exchanges (PBX) in enterprise offices, PDH/SDH equipment in carrier offices and near wireless stations. Service providers seek to continue using this equipment rather than replacing it. Especially the widely deployed 2G and 2.5G base stations are using TDM based interfaces to communicate with BSC (Base Station Controller). The early deployed 3G Node B is using ATM based protocols running on PDH/SDH physical interfaces. These base stations will exist for quite a long time in evolution to LTE.
Circuit emulation service technology allows companies to easily migrate to packet-switched networks. With CES, the legacy TDM and ATM services are supported with much more cost-effective infrastructures based on low-cost and highly available Ethernet devices. This is a reverse mapping approach with regard to traditional solutions in which IP/ethernet services is carried in ATM or PDH/SDH protocols.
CES technology makes it possible to leverage the modern network technologies like MPLS or IP backbones, Metro Ethernet, WiFi, IP-DSLAM and GPON/EPON access networks.
See also
References
TDM over Ethernet Whitepaper
External links
IPITEK CES gateway and transport equipment for wireless back-haul and enterprise applications.
Zarlink Semiconductor, ZL501XX series of chips with SAToP and CESoPSN support
RAD Communications, CES gateway equipment for office and wireless applications
Cambridge Industries Group, low-cost port-intensive CES access equipment integrated with GPON/EPON access technology
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSMH | KSMH (1620 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Catholic religious radio format as a member of the Relevant Radio network. Licensed to West Sacramento, California, United States, it serves the Sacramento metropolitan area. The station is owned by Relevant Radio, Inc.
KSMH broadcasts at 10,000 watts by day, 1,000 watts at night, using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is on 28th Street in Sacramento, near the American River and The Capital Freeway.
History
KSMH originated as the expanded band "twin" of an existing station on the standard AM band. On March 17, 1997 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with AM 950 KAHI in Auburn, California authorized to move to 1620 kHz.
The expanded band operation on 1620 kHz signed on the air in February 1999 as KSMH. The FCC initially provided that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could optionally operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency. However, this deadline has been extended numerous times, and both stations have remained authorized. One restriction is that the FCC has generally required paired original and expanded band stations to remain under common ownership.
Immaculate Heart Radio bought the station only months after KSMH went on the air. In April 1999, it paid $475,000 for KSMH and KAHI. KSMH was initially located in Auburn; it moved to West Sacramento in 2001, but FCC regulations require that it continue to be co-owned with KAHI, which remains operated by the stations' former owner under a time brokerage agreement. Immaculate Heart Radio merged with Relevant Radio in 2017.
References
External links
SMH
Radio stations established in 1974
Relevant Radio stations
Catholic Church in California
West Sacramento, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20key | A paper key is a machine-readable print of a cryptographic key. The printed key can be used to decrypt data, e.g. archives or backup data. A paper key can be the result of an offline private key protocol. The offline private key can also function as a token in two-factor authentication.
The idea is that a digital key to decrypt and recover sensitive or personal data should have long-term durability and not be stored on any computer or network. The length of secure cryptographic keys restricts memorization, so the secret key takes the form of a 2D barcode, a machine-readable print. Early implementations of a paper key by the company Safeberg use a Data Matrix barcode. or human-readable base 16 digits.
The user stores the printed key in a secure location. To avoid abuse, the key can only be used in combination with a ‘normal’ password.
The user can extract the key by creating a digital photo or scan of their paper key and feeding it to cryptographic software that extracts the key to decrypt the data.
See also
Offline private key protocol
External links
Key management
Data security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalia%20%28TV%20series%29 | Animalia is an animated children's television series based on the 1986 picture book of the same name by illustrator Graeme Base. The series premiered on Network Ten in Australia on November 11, 2007, airing two seasons before ending on November 7, 2008.
Plot
The series tells the story of two human children, Alex and his friend Zoe, who stumble into the magical library which transports them to the animal-inhabited world of Animalia. Strange events have undermined the Animalian civilization, and Alex and Zoe join forces with their new friends G'Bubu the gorilla and Iggy the iguana to save Animalia from evil and comical villains.
Characters
Humans
Alex (voiced by Brooke Mikey Anderson) is a natural artist and is hardly ever seen without a sketchbook and pencil. He keeps a cool level head and is rather enthusiastic with a sense of adventure; he's also athletic and can jump very well. His ability to see forgotten portals that can transport anyone anywhere in Animalia is what makes him special.
Zoe (voiced by Katie Leigh) is a sassy and smart-mouthed but benevolent and jolly girl, Zoe met Alex by accident where she followed him to the world of Animalia. Despite a rocky start, she found a friend in Alex, who she refers to as "Sketch Boy." She is a very good storyteller, as evidenced in "Over and Beyond".
Stanley is the Librarian of the Metro Library. He made his appearances in "Hello, We must be Going", "Goodbye, We Must Be Staying", "Whistling in the Dark", "Paradise Found", "Back to the Present" and "What the World Needs Now". He is Livingstone's human counterpart, and a close friend to him.
Emma is Zoe's friend. Although she's not shown on-screen, she is heard in Zoe's PDA when she's calling her. Emma is heard in "Goodbye, We Must Be Staying". She often doesn't believe Zoe that Animalia exists.
Animalians
Note: In a nod to the book, the names of all the Animalians begin with the first letter of their species name.
G'Bubu (voiced by Chris Hobbs) is a green gorilla who lives in his treehouse home with his best friend Iggy. Still a teenager himself, G'Bubu is fun-loving and enjoys monkeying around. Despite this, he still has a sense of acumen, be it about Animalia or his family tree. He was shown to have a fear of frogs in "The Mists of Time", but conquered it when Alex, Zoe and Iggy were eaten by giant frogs (saying that "sometimes, you can't let the fear get in the way of what you've got to do!").
Iggy (voiced by Robert Mark Klein) is a Castilian-accented iguana with a slightly excitable personality. He thinks himself to be bigger than anyone else, but always gets ahead of himself. He and G'Bubu were the first to befriend Alex and Zoe when they first arrived and are always on hand to help their new friends with any problem. He also has romantic feelings for Zoe. Later in the series, his voice has been changed. In "Don Iguana", he tries to prove his bravery to Zoe by disguising himself as Don Iguana, D'Avenger of Animalia. He can camouflage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Commons%2C%20Sheffield | The Information Commons (also known as the IC) is a library and computing building in Sheffield, England, and is part of the University of Sheffield. The architects were the Edinburgh-based RMJM. The IC is located on Leavygreave Road, close to the University tram stop.
It opened on 10 April 2007 to staff and students of the University, although it was officially opened on 26 September 2007 by Harsh Srivastav, a graduate of the University and former President of the Students Union. The project was conceived and is jointly operated by the University Library and the Corporate Information and Computing Services (CiCS). Soon after opening, satirical British magazine, Private Eye questioned the appropriateness of the building's name as a "commons", pointing out that ordinary residents of Sheffield, temporary staff and visiting researchers from other universities are forbidden access.
The IC has over 1,300 study spaces, 500 computers, and carries 100,000 texts. There is an information desk and a café on the ground floor, toilets and water fountains on all levels and shower facilities on the first level. The building is open to University of Sheffield staff and students 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
On Thursday 2 February 2017, the IC hosted the University of Sheffield #1lib1ref event.
As of 2016, the Information Commons hosts the University's Digital Commons, a collaborative space to develop innovations in Digital Learning.
The Information Commons was temporary closed during the summer vacation of 2017 due to the interior refurbishment. The IC was reopened in September 2017 with alterations to interior design and layout.
References
External links
University of Sheffield guide to building
Information Commons blog
Sheffield University buildings and structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20R.%20Welch | Lloyd Richard Welch (born September 28, 1927) is an American information theorist and applied mathematician, and co-inventor of the Baum–Welch algorithm and the Berlekamp–Welch algorithm, also known as the Welch–Berlekamp algorithm.
Welch received his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois, 1951, and Ph.D. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, 1958, under advisor Frederic Bohnenblust. He worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1956–1959, Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, 1959–1965, and University of Southern California, 1965–1999. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 for "contributions to an understanding of possibilities, limitations, and design of communications coding for reliability, security, and synchronization". He is also an IEEE Fellow, and received the 2003 Claude E. Shannon Award.
References
University of Southern California faculty web page
National Academy of Engineering
Caltech thesis
AMS genealogy
American information theorists
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Possibly living people
1927 births
University of Illinois alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Southern California faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIX | ASIX Electronics Corp. () is a fabless semiconductor supplier with a focus on networking, communication, and connectivity applications. ASIX Electronics specializes in Ethernet-centric silicon products such as non-PCI Ethernet controller, USB 2.0 to LAN controller, and network SoC for embedded networking applications.
Corporate history
ASIX was founded in May 1995 in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. In 2002, ASIX announced its first USB to MII chip. In June 2007, electronicstalk.com featured the AX11005BF, billed as the industry smallest single-chip embedded Ethernet MCU. Electronicstalk.com describes powering embedded systems in a machine to machine world (M2M) in reference to the AX110xx family of chips.
ASIX Electronics introduced the industry's first:
USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet controller
Non-PCI/USB 2.0 Gigabit Ethernet controller
Single chip microcontroller with TCP/IP, 10/100 Mbit Fast Ethernet MAC/PHY, and flash
Industry smallest single chip embedded Ethernet MCU
Asix Electronics saw its revenues jump 59.3% sequentially to NT$31.5 million (US$957,000) in December 2006 on shipments of USB-to-Ethernet controller ICs for Nintendo's Wii consoles, according to market sources.
ASIX is listed as a vendor in the 2007 EDN Microprocessor Directory.
ASIX Electronics Corp:To acquire 100 pct stake in ZYWYN CORPORATION with amount of $8 million.
Products
The current offerings are as follows:
Non-PCI/PCMCIA embedded Ethernet
High-speed USB-to-LAN
Embedded network SoC
I/O connectivity
Embedded Wireless Modules
Wii LAN Adapter
ASIX manufactures the chipset in the Wii LAN Adapter. The Wii is equipped with Wi-Fi but does not include an Ethernet port; gamers can purchase a Wii LAN Adapter sold by Nintendo and other manufacturers to give Ethernet capability to the Wii.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
List of system-on-a-chip suppliers
Network interface controller (NIC)
Semiconductor industry in Taiwan
References
Taiwanese companies established in 1995
Semiconductor companies of Taiwan
Fabless semiconductor companies
Companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange
Electronics companies established in 1995
Networking hardware companies
Networking companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology%40Home | Cosmology@Home is a volunteer computing project that uses the BOINC platform and was once run at the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The project has moved to the Institut Lagrange de Paris and the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, both of which are located in the Pierre and Marie Curie University.
Goals
The goal of Cosmology@Home is to compare theoretical models of the universe to the data measured to date and search for the model that best matches it. Other goals may include:
results from Cosmology@Home can help design future cosmological observations and experiments.
results from Cosmology@Home can help prepare for the analysis of future data sets, e.g. from the Planck spacecraft.
Science
The goal of Cosmology@Home is to search for the model that best describes our Universe and to find the range of models that agree with the available astronomical and particle physics data. The models generated by Cosmology@Home can be compared to measurements of the universe's expansion speed from the Hubble Space Telescope as well as fluctuations in the cosmic background radiation as measured by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.
Method
Cosmology@Home uses an innovative way of using machine learning to effectively parallelize a large computational task that involves many inherently sequential calculations over a substantial number of distributed computers.
For any given class of theoretically possible models of the Universe, Cosmology@Home generates tens of thousands of example Universes and packages the cosmological parameters describing these Universes as work units. Each work unit represents a single Universe. When the work unit is requested by a participating computer, this computer simulates this Universe from the Big Bang until today. The result of this simulation is a list of observable properties of this Universe.
This result is then sent back and archived at the Cosmology@Home server. When a sufficient number of example Universes have been simulated, a machine learning algorithm called Pico, which was developed by the project scientists of Cosmology@Home for this purpose, learns from these example calculations how to do the simulation for any Universe similar to the example Universes. The difference is that Pico takes a few milliseconds per calculation rather than several hours. Training Pico on 20,000 examples takes about 30 minutes. Once Pico is trained, it can run a full comparison of the class of models (which involves hundreds of thousands of model calculations) with the observational data in a few hours on a standard CPU.
The Cosmology@Home application is proprietary.
Milestones
2007-06-30 Project launches for closed alpha testing - invitation only.
2007-08-23 Project opens registration for public alpha testing.
2007-11-05 Project enters beta testing stage.
2016-12-15 Project moved to the Institut Lagrange de Paris and the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, both of whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%20Science%20Center%20and%20Aquarium | The Cox Science Center and Aquarium is located in West Palm Beach, Florida. Founded in 1959, the goal of the organization is to open every mind to science through the strategic programming of interactive exhibits and engaging community-based camps and events. The Cox Center has expanded since its creation and now houses over 50 hands-on exhibits, a planetarium, a 3000 square foot aquarium, a miniature golf course, and a large exhibit space that displays a temporary travelling exhibit. The Cox Center is a member of the Association of Science-Technology Centers program, which offers a membership that is redeemable at other ASTC science and technology centers around the world. The Cox Center occupies Dreher Park alongside the Palm Beach Zoo and offers deals for entrance to both facilities.
The museum was previously known as the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium.
History
The Junior Museum of Palm Beach County was founded in 1959 by the Junior League of the Palm Beaches to focus on the natural sciences. The museum opened on October 21, 1961 with exhibits of marine and animal life, geology, and agriculture. In 1964, a planetarium dedicated by astronaut Buzz Aldrin was completed. The Museum was expanded in 1971, doubling in size to accommodate classrooms, an auditorium, and an expanded exhibit floor. Renovations were done on the theatre and auditorium in the 1980s, and the museum became known as the South Florida Science Museum in order to reflect the more broad purpose of the museum as it had developed.
In 2008, the planetarium and theatre were renovated to accommodate more visitors. The South Florida Science Museum began expanding again in 2012, adding a 3000 square foot aquarium and a 3000 square foot permanent exhibit section containing the “River of Grass” Everglades exhibit and the NOAA Science on a Sphere exhibit. The grand re-opening of the renamed South Florida Science Center and Aquarium occurred on June 6, 2013. In 2015, the West wing of the Cox Center, the Hall of Discovery, was expanded and renovated to incorporate a nanotechnology exhibit and an early childhood education room. In 2016, an 18-hole miniature golf course designed by golf course architect Jim Fazio and professional golfer Gary Nicklaus was completed and opened to the public.
On November 15, 2021, leadership for the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium announced further expansion plans and a name change as part of a $45 million expansion campaign. A $20 million lead gift by Palm Beach residents Howard Ellis Cox Jr. and Wendy Cox launched the capital campaign to take the renamed Cox Science Center and Aquarium into the future with plans for an additional 130,000 total square feet of space for programming including science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) awareness and education. The Coxs’ gift is the largest single gift in the Center’s 60-year history and serves as the keystone for the $45 million expansion campaign.
Aquarium
The “Aquariums of the Atla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvm | Zvm may refer to:
ZEN Vision:M, The ZEN Vision:M portable media player developed by Creative Technology
z/VM, IBM's VM family of virtual machine operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20R.%20Korfhage | Robert Roy Korfhage (December 2, 1930 – November 20, 1998) was an American computer scientist, famous for his contributions to information retrieval and several textbooks.
He was son of Dr. Roy Korfhage who was a chemist at Nestlé in Fulton, Oswego County, New York. Korfhage earned his bachelor's degree (1952) in engineering mathematics at University of Michigan, while working part-time at United Aircraft and Transport Corporation in East Hartford as programmer. At the same university, he earned a master's degree and Ph.D. (1962) in mathematics,
his PhD dissertation being On Systems of Distinct Representatives for Several Collections of Sets
advised by Bernard Galler (1962).
Korfhage taught mathematics at North Carolina State University (1962–64), Purdue University (1964–70), Southern Methodist University (1970–86) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences (1986–98).
Korfhage's research focused on graph theory and information retrieval. For instance, his Information Storage and Retrieval (1997) was winner of American Society for Information Science and Technology Best information science book award (1998).
In his later years, he worked on new ways of information visualization and also genetic algorithms to optimize text queries.
He died of cancer in Pittsburgh.
Books
1966: Logic and Algorithms, Wiley
1970: (with Harley Flanders) Calculus, Academic Press
1974: (with Harley Flanders and Justin Jesse Price) A Second Course in Calculus, Academic Press
1984: Discrete Computational Structures, Academic Press
1987: (with Norman E. Gibbs) Principles of Data Structures and Algorithms with Pascal, William C. Brown Publications
1997: Information Storage and Retrieval, Wiley.
References
American computer scientists
University of Michigan alumni
Purdue University faculty
Southern Methodist University faculty
University of Pittsburgh faculty
People from Fulton, Oswego County, New York
1930 births
1998 deaths
Scientists from New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repositories%20Support%20Project | The Repository Support Project (RSP) was a 7-year Jisc funded project set up to support and develop the UK network of institutional repositories. It was originally funded through to March 2009, but was then extended to run until early 2011. The project ceased on 31 July 2013.
Original project partners were:
SHERPA (organisation), University of Nottingham (lead)
Aberystwyth University
UKOLN, University of Bath
Digital Curation Centre (DCC), University of Bath
University of Southampton
The project aimed to develop a network of interoperable repositories for all kinds of research outputs and data across the UK.
References
External links
RSP Website
SHERPA Website
Educational projects
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Jisc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid%20fabric | The Wireless Grid Fabric in communication is a MIMOS Berhad innovation for WiMAX multi-hop relay networks (IEEE802.16j) for rural area communication.
The idea of the Wireless Grid Fabric involves using multihop base stations (MR-BS) to forward messages to and from the network. Each relay station (RS) covers approximately two square kilometers of area with omnidirectional antennas. Each such square is called a cell. In this scheme, the network's scalability depends not on the number of nodes but the number of cells, each of which contains several nodes.
In any rural area community supported by a Wireless Grid Fabric, it is assumed that the main traffic (content) is self-created by the population (peer–to-peer), such as video streaming, VOIP, IPTV, and others which are all multicast-based. The Wireless Grid Fabric network has many advantages over other mesh technologies (i.e. WiFi-Mesh and Fixed WiMAX-Mesh), as it achieves hundreds of Mbit/s with mobility for hundreds of mobiles per service deployment.
References
Wireless networking
Malaysian inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20network%20monitoring%20systems | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable network monitoring systems. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.
Features
Legend
Product Name The name of the software, linked to its Wikipedia article.
IP SLAs Reports Support of Cisco's IP Service Level Agreement mechanism.
Logical Grouping Supports arranging the hosts or devices it monitors into user-defined groups.
Trending Provides trending of network data over time.
Trend Prediction The software features algorithms designed to predict future network statistics.
Auto Discovery The software automatically discovers hosts or network devices it is connected to.
Agentless The product does not rely on a software agent that must run on hosts it is monitoring, so that data can be pushed back to a central server. "Supported" means that an agent may be used, but is not mandatory. An SNMP daemon does not count as an agent.
SNMP Able to retrieve and report on SNMP statistics.
Syslog Able to receive and report on Syslogs.
Plugins Architecture of the software based on a number of 'plugins' that provide additional functionality.
Triggers/Alerts Capable of detecting threshold violations in network data, and alerting the administrator in some form.
WebApp Runs as a web-based application.
No: There is no web-based frontend for this software.
Viewing: Network data can be viewed in a graphical web-based frontend.
Acknowledging: Users can interact with the software through the web-based frontend to acknowledge alarms or manipulate other notifications.
Reporting: Specific reports on network data can be configured by the user and executed through the web-based frontend.
Full Control: ALL aspects of the product can be controlled through the web-based frontend, including low-level maintenance tasks such as software configuration and upgrades.
Distributed Monitoring Able to leverage more than one server to distribute the load of network monitoring.
Inventory Keeps a record of hardware and/or software inventory for the hosts and devices it monitors.
Platform The platform (Coding Language) on which the tool was developed/written.
Data Storage Method Main method used to store the network data it monitors.
License License released under (e.g. GPL, BSD license, etc.).
Maps Features graphical network maps that represent the hosts and devices it monitors, and the links between them.
Access Control Features user-level security, allowing an administrator to prevent access to certain parts of the product on a per-user or per-role basis.
IPv6 Supports monitoring IPv6 hosts and/or devices, receiving IPv6 data, and running on an IPv6-enabled server. Supports communication using IPv6 to the SNMP agent via an IPv6 address.
See also
Data Cap Integrity Act
References
Network management
Network monitor systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20caching | Database caching is a process included in the design of computer applications which generate web pages on-demand (dynamically) by accessing backend databases.
When these applications are deployed on multi-tier environments that involve browser-based clients, web application servers and backend databases, middle-tier database caching is used to achieve high scalability and performance.
In a three tier architecture, the application software tier and data storage tier can be in different hosts. Throughput of an application can be limited by the network speed. This limitation can be minimized by having the database at the application tier. Because commercial database software makes extensive use of system resources, it is not always practical to have the application and the database at the same host. In this case, a more light-weight database application can be used to cache data from the commercial database management system.
Benefits
Database caching improves scalability by distributing query workload from backend to multiple cheap front-end systems. It allows flexibility in the processing of data; for example, the data of Platinum customers can be cached while that of ordinary customers are not. Caching can improve availability of data, by providing continued service for applications that depend only on cached tables even if the backend server is unavailable. Another benefit is improved data access speeds brought about by locality of data and smoothing out load peaks by avoiding round-trips between middle-tier and data-tier.
Potential design elements
Updateable cache tables: Many cache systems are read-only which limits their usage to small segment of the applications, non-real time applications.
Bi-Directional updates: For updateable caches, updates, which happen in cache, should be propagated to the target database and any updates that happen directly on the target database should come to cache automatically.
Synchronous and asynchronous update propagation: The updates on cache table shall be propagated to target database in two modes. Synchronous mode makes sure that after the database operation completes the updates are applied at the target database as well. In case of Asynchronous mode the updates are delayed to the target database. Synchronous mode gives high cache consistency and is suited for real time applications. Asynchronous mode gives high throughput and is suited for near real time applications.
Multiple cache granularity - Database level, Table level and Result-set caching: Major portions of corporate databases are historical and infrequently accessed. But, there is some information that should be instantly accessible like premium customer's data, etc.
Recovery for cached tables: In case of system or power failure, during the restart of caching platform all the committed transactions on the cached tables should be recovered.
Tools to validate the coherence of cache: In case of asynchronous mode of update propagation, cac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20R.%20Russell | S. R. Russell can refer to:
Steve Russell (computer scientist)
Sam Russell (footballer born 1900) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS%20home%20routing | SMS Home Routing is a modification to the original GSM specifications that changed the way inbound (off-net) SMS messages are treated by mobile telecommunications networks. Adopted by the 3GPP in 2007, Home Routing was devised to enable mobile networks to offer a full range of advanced services on both inbound and outbound SMS, giving more utility to phone users and enabling operators to generate additional revenue.
The roots of the problem
The original GSM specifications provided for all outbound and cross-network messaging to pass through the home network message entity, but inbound messages generated on other networks to be sent directly to target handsets under the control of the sending network, not the home network.
This inconsistency arose from the fact that SMS was conceived as a voicemail alert system, not a person-to-person messaging system, and it put SMS out of step with most other forms of communication including voice telephony, email and MMS where the home entity has responsibility for the management of both inbound and outbound traffic.
In 2006 UK mobile operator Vodafone argued before the 3GPP that by effectively putting a large percentage of SMS traffic outside the direct control of the receiving network, the original GSM specification prevented operators from generating new revenue by offering certain types of value-added SMS services.
The Home Routing solution
Home Routing uses the recipient network Home Location Register (HLR) to change the flow of inbound off-net messages, directing them to an SMS router, rather than straight to target handsets. There, advanced services such as divert, copy, archiving and anti-spam can be applied before messages are delivered.
SMS Home Routing was standardized by the 3GPP in two forms; Non-Transparent Home Routing supporting all types of advanced SMS services and, in response to lobbying from bulk SMS service providers, Transparent Home Routing supporting a limited sub-set of advanced SMS services and the issuance of delivery receipts.
References
Text messaging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20computing | In theoretical computer science, chaos computing is the idea of using chaotic systems for computation. In particular, chaotic systems can be made to produce all types of logic gates and further allow them to be morphed into each other.
Introduction
Chaotic systems generate large numbers of patterns of behavior and are irregular because they switch between these patterns. They exhibit sensitivity to initial conditions which, in practice, means that chaotic systems can switch between patterns extremely fast.
Modern digital computers perform computations based upon digital logic operations implemented at the lowest level as logic gates. There are essentially seven basic logic functions implemented as logic gates: AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR.
A chaotic morphing logic gate consists of a generic nonlinear circuit that exhibits chaotic dynamics producing various patterns. A control mechanism is used to select patterns that correspond to different logic gates. The sensitivity to initial conditions is used to switch between different patterns extremely fast (well under a computer clock cycle).
Chaotic morphing
As an example of how chaotic morphing works, consider a generic chaotic system known as the logistic map. This nonlinear map is very well studied for its chaotic behavior and its functional representation is given by:
.
In this case, the value of is chaotic when >~ 3.57... and rapidly switches between different patterns in the value of as one iterates the value of . A simple threshold controller can control or direct the chaotic map or system to produce one of many patterns. The controller basically sets a threshold on the map such that if the iteration ("chaotic update") of the map takes on a value of that lies above a given threshold value, *,then the output corresponds to a 1, otherwise it corresponds to a 0. One can then reverse engineer the chaotic map to establish a lookup table of thresholds that robustly produce any of the logic gate operations. Since the system is chaotic, we can then switch between various gates ("patterns") exponentially fast.
ChaoGate
The ChaoGate is an implementation of a chaotic morphing logic gate developed by William Ditto, Sudeshna Sinha, and K. Murali.
A chaotic computer, made up of a lattice of ChaoGates, has been demonstrated by Chaologix Inc.
Research
Recent research has shown how chaotic computers can be recruited in fault tolerant applications, by introduction of dynamic based fault detection methods. Also it has been demonstrated that multidimensional dynamical states available in a single ChaoGate can be exploited to implement parallel chaos computing, and as an example, this parallel architecture can lead to constructing an SR like memory element through one ChaoGate. As another example, it has been proved that any logic function can be constructed directly from just one ChaoGate.
Chaos allows order to be found in such diverse systems as the atmosphere, heart beating, fluids, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPS%20AP-120B | The FPS AP-120B was a 38-bit, pipeline-oriented array processor manufactured by Floating Point Systems. It was designed to be attached to a host computer such as a DEC PDP-11 as a fast number-cruncher. Data transfer was accomplished using direct memory access.
Processor cycle time was 167 nanoseconds, giving a speed of 6 MHz. Since it could present two floating point results per cycle, one from the adder and the other from the multiplier, a capacity of 12 Megaflops was claimed for the processor.
Architecture
The processor was designed around the concept of multiple parallel processing units operating in synchronization. A single 64-bit instruction word was divided into fields, each of which instructed a particular module under the control of the CPU. The modules were as follows:
16-bit Arithmetic and Logic unit (ALU)
38-bit Floating Point Adder (FADD) (two stages)
38-bit Floating Point Multiplier (FMUL) (three stages)
Two Data Pad registers for receiving data from memory.
The processor had access to dual-interleaved core memory in which odd numbered addresses were stored in one physical bank, and even numbered addresses were stored in the other. This represented an attempt to take advantage of typical sequential fetching of memory words. Fetching sequentially from one physical bank would result in a latency of two instruction cycles before the data was loaded into the destination data pad. Interleaving allowed a sequential access to occur immediately after the previous one. Both accesses took two cycles to complete, but the overlap and dual destination pads maximized the use of the data channel.
The floating point arithmetic modules were both multi-stage processors which were driven by explicit instructions. In the two-stage adder an assembler instruction such as FADD DX,DY would load values from data pads DX and DY into stage one of the adder. A subsequent FADD instruction would be required to present the result at the adder's output. This second FADD could be a dummy with no arguments, or it could be the next calculation in a sequence. In this fashion a stream of FADD operations could be performed in a pipeline, with a new result in every instruction cycle though every addition requires two cycles.
Similarly the multiplier, a three-stage unit, required one FMUL DX,DY to begin a multiplication, followed by two more FMUL instructions to produce the result. Careful programming of the pipeline allowed the production of one result per cycle, with each calculation taking three cycles in itself.
For maximum efficiency all calculations were programmed using the assembler language supplied with the hardware. A high-level language resembling Fortran was provided for coordinating tasks and controlling data transfers to and from the host computer.
Lookup tables
In order to support typical applications in signal processing, the hardware was delivered with a pre-calculated lookup table of sine and cosine values. Sines and cosines f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALR | CALR may refer to:
Calreticulin, a protein that in humans is encoded by the CALR gene.
Chief Albert Luthuli Regiment, an infantry regiment of the South African Army
Computer-assisted legal research, a mode of legal research
Centre for Applied Language Research at the University of Southampton
Advisory Commission on Religious Freedom, part of the Spanish Ministry of Justice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20Contents | Current Contents is a rapid alerting service database from Clarivate, formerly the Institute for Scientific Information and Thomson Reuters. It is published online and in several different printed subject sections.
History
Current Contents was first published in paper format, in a single edition devoted only to biology and medicine. Other subject editions were added later. Initially, it consisted simply of a reproduction of the title pages from several hundred major peer-reviewed scientific journals, and was published weekly, with the issues containing title pages from journal issues only a few weeks previously, a shorter time lag than any service then available. There was an author index and a crude keyword subject index only. Author addresses were provided so readers could send reprint requests for copies of the actual articles.
Status
Still published in print, it is available as one of the databases included in Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science with daily updates, and also through other database aggregators.
Editions
The following editions are published:
Current Contents Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Sciences
Current Contents Arts and Humanities
Current Contents Clinical Practice
Current Contents Engineering, Technology, and Applied Sciences
Current Contents Life Sciences
Current Contents Physical Chemical and Earth Sciences
Current Contents Social & Behavioral Sciences
See also
Google Scholar
List of academic databases and search engines
External links
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Clarivate
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZNS%20%28AM%29 | KZNS (1280 kHz, The KSL Sports Zone) is a commercial AM radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah. It airs a sports radio format and is owned by Jazz Communications LLC.
Programming is simulcast on co-owned KZNS-FM 97.5, licensed to Coalville, Utah. On weekdays, KZNS-AM-FM have local hosts discussing Salt Lake City and national sports. Nights and weekends, programming is supplied by Fox Sports Radio. KZNS-AM-FM are the flagship radio stations for the Utah Jazz basketball team and the Salt Lake Bees Minor League Baseball team.
KZNS's transmitter is near the Jordan River in North Salt Lake, and their headquarters are located inside the Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City. It is a Class B radio station, running 50,000 watts by day, the maximum power for commercial AM radio stations in the U.S. But at night, to protect other stations on 1280 AM, it drops power to just 670 watts. It uses a directional antenna at all times.
History
KNAK
The station first signed on the air in February, 1945, and held the call sign KNAK. The station was owned by the Granite District Radio Broadcasting Company with studios in the Continental Bank Building on South Temple at Main Street.
KNAK first broadcast on 1400 kHz at only 250 watts. By this time, KSL was powered at 50,000 watts. KNAK was not associated with any of the big radio networks. Salt Lake City had four other radio stations, network affiliates of CBS, NBC, ABC and the Mutual Broadcasting System. In the 1950s, KNAK moved to 1280 kHz, accompanied by an increase in power to 5,000 watts by day, 500 watts at night.
KWMS
On January 16, 1976, the station's call sign was changed to KWMS. As KWMS, the station aired an all-news format. It was an affiliate of NBC Radio's "News and Information Service" (NIS), a 24 hour all-news network.
NIS was discontinued in 1977. KWMS began doing a local version of the all-news format using its own anchors and the services of the Mutual Broadcasting System.
KDYL
On July 21, 1982, the station's call letters switched to KDYL. In the early and mid 1980s, KDYL aired an all-news format. By 1986, the station had begun airing the "Music of Your Life" adult standards format, featuring big band music and adult pop songs from the 1940s, 50s and 60s. The station continued airing this format until June 27, 2000.
On June 27, 2000, the station switched to a talk radio format. It primarily carried conservative talk programming. Syndicated shows hosted by Michael Savage and Michael Medved appeared, along with "Imus in the Morning" hosted by Don Imus.
KZNS
In 2001, the station was acquired by the Simmons Media Group, which also owned popular adult contemporary station 100.3 KSFI. On November 12, 2001, KDYL's call sign was changed to KZNS. That same day, Simmons Media changed the format of the station, airing CNN Headline News in the daytime and sports talk in the afternoon and evening. Soon thereafter, sports talk programming occupied the station's entire schedule, calling itself "The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGNT | KGNT (103.9 FM) is a classic hits formatted radio station licensed to Smithfield, Utah and owned by Frandsen Media Company, LLC. The station features programming from CBS News Radio and Westwood One.
History
The station started out with the call sign KVEZ on January 10, 1983, and officially launched the following February. On September 1, 1993, the station changed its call sign to KNUC, and on March 1, 1998, to KGNT. On July 20, 2001, the station briefly switched calls to KBET. On August 16, 2001, it was reverted to KGNT.
In 2011, KGNT was granted a U.S. Federal Communications Commission construction permit to increase ERP to 6,000 watts and decrease HAAT to -47 meters.
References
External links
GNT
Classic hits radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20Concepts%20and%20Creative%20Analogies | Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought is a 1995 book by Douglas Hofstadter and other members of the Fluid Analogies Research Group exploring the mechanisms of intelligence through computer modeling. It contends that the notions of analogy and fluidity are fundamental to explain how the human mind solves problems and to create computer programs that show intelligent behavior. It analyzes several computer programs that members of the group have created over the years to solve problems that require intelligence.
It was the first book ever sold by Amazon.com.
Origin of the book
The book is a collection of revised articles that appeared in precedence, each preceded by an introduction by Hofstadter.
They describe the scientific work by him and his collaborators in the 1980s and 1990s.
The project started in the late 1970s at Indiana University.
In 1983 he took a sabbatical year at MIT, working in Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Lab.
There he met and collaborated with Melanie Mitchell, who then became his doctoral student.
Subsequently, Hofstadter moved to the University of Michigan, where the FARG (Fluid Analogies Research Group) was founded.
Eventually he returned to Indiana University in 1988, continuing the FARG research there.
The book was written during a sabbatical year at the Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica in Trento, Italy.
Publication
Upon publication, Jon Udell, a BYTE senior technical editor-at-large said:
Fifteen years ago, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid exploded on the literary scene, earning its author a Pulitzer prize and a monthly column in Scientific American. Douglas Hofstadter's exuberant synthesis of math, music, and art, and his inspired thought experiments with "tangled hierarchy," recursion, pattern recognition, figure/ground reversal, and self-reference, delighted armchair philosophers and AI theorists. But in the end, many people believed that these intellectual games yielded no useful model of cognition on which to base future AI research. Now Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies presents that model, along with the computer programs Hofstadter and his associates have designed to test it. These programs work in stripped-down yet surprisingly rich microdomains.
On April 3, 1995, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies became the first book ordered online by an Amazon.com customer.
Chapters and authors
To Seek Whence Cometh a Sequence (D.H.)
The Architecture of Jumbo (D.H.)
Numbo: A Study in Cognition and Recognition (Daniel Defays)
High-level Perception, Representation, and Analogy: A Critique of Artificial-intelligence Methodology (David Chalmers, Robert French, and D.H.)
The Copycat Project: A Model of Mental Fluidity and Analogy-making (D.H. and Melanie Mitchell)
Perspectives on Copycat: Comparisons with Recent Work (Melanie Mitchell and D.H.)
Prolegomena to Any Future Metacat (D.H.)
Tabletop, BattleOp, Ob-Platte, Po |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Shuttle%20Service | The City Shuttle Service was a network of bus services in Singapore between May 1975 and April 2007 by NTUC Comfort and Singapore Shuttle Bus. It was purchased by Trans-Island Bus Services, a former subsidiary of Singapore Shuttle Bus, in 1987.
History
The City Shuttle Service (CSS) was an initiative introduced on 16 May 1975 by the Singapore government, as part of a park & ride scheme aimed at reducing traffic congestion in the city. It was originally hoped that car owners would park at designated car parks and transfer to CSS bus services to enter the central business district (CBD).
Eleven inaugural services commenced operations by with NTUC Comfort operating four (1, 4, 6, 11) and Singapore Shuttle Bus (SSB) seven (2, 3, 5, 7–10), which plied between 16 fringe car parks, 7 city area termini and 49 selected bus stops with 88 25-30 seater single door Mercedes-Benz buses. However, the initial arrangement was not popular with car owners and the scheme was terminated, resulting in the company being allowed to operate regular services that extended into the housing estates and had reduced to nine services (six services operated by SSB and the three by NTUC Comfort). As the purpose of the CSS scheme was to serve working commuters, no services were operated on Sundays and public holidays. The bus services that extended towards the housing estates in 1976 are as follows:
1: Extended from National Stadium Carpark E and Holland Road Fringe Carpark to Queensway and Marine Terrace
2: Extended from Holland Road Fringe Carpark to Holland Drive
3: Extended from Chancery Lane Fringe Carpark to St Michael's
4: Diverted to terminate at Marine Terrace and extended to New Bridge Road
5: Extended from Whitley Road Fringe Carpark to Sin Ming
6: Extended from Serangoon Road Fringe Carpark and Outram Park to Bukit Merah and Circuit Road
7: Extended from Kampong Java Fringe Carpark to St Michael's
8: Extended from National Stadium Carpark E to Bedok South and Bedok
9: Extended from Serangoon Road Fringe Carpark to Geylang Lorong 1
On 25 June 1988, NTUC Comfort withdrew routes 1 and 4, citing a decline in commuter demand due to the MRT's opening. Its remaining service (route 6) ran until 1990, when the buses used reached the end of their permitted lifespans.
The initial fleet was replaced with larger DAF SB220 and Nissan Diesel buses. CSS was the first bus operator in Singapore to introduce senior concessionary fares, a scheme that was eventually extended to other bus operators. On 12 March 1987, SSB was purchased by Trans-Island Bus Services.
SSB provided public transport from the housing estates to the CBD areas. Services operated from interchanges and terminals like the Bedok and Bukit Merah bus interchanges as well as the Holland Drive, St Michael's and Sin Ming Road bus terminals. The services operated from 06:00 to 19:30 and did not operate on Sundays and public holidays. These services were renumbered into "6xx" in 1997 with the introduction of standardis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLK2 | Kallikrein-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KLK2 gene, and is particularly associated with prostatic tissue.
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The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: S01.161 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris%20network%20virtualization%20and%20resource%20control | Solaris network virtualization and resource control is a set of features originally developed by Sun Microsystems as the OpenSolaris Crossbow umbrella project, providing an internal network virtualization and quality of service framework within the Solaris Operating System.
Major features of the Crossbow project include:
Virtual NIC (VNIC) pseudo-network interface technology
Exclusive IP zones
Bandwidth management and flow control on a per interface and per VNIC basis
Description
The Crossbow project software, combined with next generation network interfaces like xge and bge, enable network virtualization and resource control for a single system. By combining VNICs with features such as exclusive IP zones or the Sun xVM hypervisor, system administrators can run applications on separate virtual machines to improve performance and provide security.
Resource management and flow control features provide bandwidth management and quality of service for packet flows on separate virtual machines. You can allocate bandwidth amounts and manage data flows not only for the physical network interface but also for any containers configured on the interface. The Crossbow resource control features enable increased system efficiency and the ability to limit the amount of bandwidth consumed by a process or virtual machine.
Features of the Crossbow project
This section briefly describes the main features of the Crossbow network virtualization and resource control project. For further details on each feature, see the Oracle Solaris 11 Network Virtualization and Network Resource Management white paper.
VNIC
A VNIC is a pseudo network interface that is configured on top of a system's physical network adapter, also called a network interface controller (NIC). A physical interface can have more than one VNIC. Each VNIC operates like and appears to the system as a physical NIC. The individual VNIC is assigned a media access control address (MAC address), which can be configured to a value other than the default MAC address assigned to the physical NIC. You can use the resource control features of Crossbow to allocate separate bandwidths to the individual VNICs. Moreover, you can configure a virtual machine, such as an exclusive IP zone or xVM domain on top of a VNIC.
Virtual switch
When the first VNIC is created on a system, a virtual switch is also created above the physical interface. Though not directly accessible to the user, the virtual switch provides connectivity between all VNICs configured on the same physical interface, enabling the virtual network in a box scenario. The virtual switch forwards packets between the system's VNICs. Thus, packets from an internal VNIC source never have to pass to the external network to reach an internal network destination.
Exclusive IP zones
An exclusive IP zone is a separate instance of a full TCP/IP stack, which functions as a non-global zone. Each exclusive IP zone is built upon a physical network interface and has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20Dance | Club Dance is a TV show that aired on The Nashville Network from April 1, 1991 to February 5, 1999 for a total of 1,848 episodes, with re-runs until June 28, 1999
The show was filmed in Knoxville, Tennessee set at a fictional "White Horse Cafe". The show was hosted by Shelley Mangrum, a former Miss Tennessee, and co-hosted by Phil Campbell. The cast consisted of enthusiastic unpaid local dancers and visiting professional dancers and dance groups from all over the United States, creating a unique atmosphere of mixing of styles and traditions. Within the limits of the script, the dancers were free to behave and respond to the music as if in a real dance venue.
The show included a wide variety types of country dances lead and follow partner dances, choreographed dances, and line dances, as well as some others, most notably West Coast Swing, which due its slotted style allowed for dancing between tables and in other confined spaces.
The show was accompanied with the monthly newsletter Club Dance: Behind the Scenes. It was produced by Knoxville-based CineTel Productions.
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Dance television shows
1991 American television series debuts
1999 American television series endings
The Nashville Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Bailey | Tim Bailey (born 19 February 1963) is an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter, sports reporter and weather reporter, best known for his more than 30 year association with Network 10.
Biography and career
Early journalism career
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, on 19 February 1963, Bailey started his career as a journalist with the newspaper Hobart Mercury, where two generations of his family had worked. Bailey covered industrial relations and environmental issues before moving into the sports department, covering cricket, football, golf and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. He then headed to the Gold Coast, where he wrote for the Gold Coast Bulletin for four years and establishing his own news agency domestically and internationally.
Radio
He then entered a media career in radio with the Gold Coast Station Sea FM, later he worked in radio in Sydney as a sportscaster on network 2Day FM. His program was The Morning Crew with co-host Wendy Harmer.
Television
In 1990, he started in television as a reporter for Network Ten on Good Morning Australia with Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Mike Gibson. In 2000 he hosted The $20 Challenge.
In 1993 he began hosting a children's morning show called 'The Big Breakfast'.
Sports coverage
He subsequently made a return to Network Ten, initially taking up a television role on Good Morning Australia (GMA), before becoming a host and presenter on many programs including Totally Wild, The Chilli Factor, The Big Breakfast, Airtime Basketball and the Vodafone Beach Volleyball tour. His sports coverage has included the Commonwealth Games, Melbourne Cup, Bathurst 1000 and Indycar racing.
Weather presentation
Bailey remains best known for his long association with Network Ten starting in 1980, working as their weather presenter from 1991, and was renowned as being "Australia's most trusted weather man". He presented the weather on-location around New South Wales for 10 News First. Bailey also acted as a cover reporter for the network. Bailey was let go from his position in August 2020 as part of a large restructure at Network Ten. His redundancy took effect from 11 September 2020. Bailey stated of his sacking:20 minutes after I was sacked from Channel 10, my phone rang, and before I had a chance to fall down, a bloke by the name of Benny Fordham picked me up. Him and his boss, who is the best wrangler of a Lazy Susan in Sydney – Tommy Malone – offered me a job. I am proud, pumped and privileged to be part of the family. He also admitted that it had hit him 'right between the eyes, a knife through the back and through the heart, it’s the best description of it. It was brutal and I was very, very sad.'
On 21 September 2020, he commenced presenting the weather for morning and drive programs on Sydney radio station 2GB until July 2021, where he decided to move to the Gold Coast.
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External links
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/ten-network-cuts-fans-crushed-by-weatherman-tim-baileys-axing/new |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1M1 | AP-1 complex subunit mu-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AP1M1 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is the medium chain of the trans-Golgi network clathrin-associated protein complex AP-1. The other components of this complex are beta-prime-adaptin, gamma-adaptin, and the small chain AP1S1. This complex is located at the Golgi vesicle and links clathrin to receptors in coated vesicles. These vesicles are involved in endocytosis and Golgi processing.
Interactions
AP1M1 has been shown to interact with VAMP4 and AP1G1.
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Further reading
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill%20Switch%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Kill Switch" is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered in the United States on the Fox network on February 15, 1998. It was written by William Gibson and Tom Maddox and directed by Rob Bowman. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Kill Switch" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.1, being watched by 18.04 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly positive reviews from television critics, with several complimenting Fox Mulder's virtual experience. The episode's name has also been said to inspire the name for the American metalcore band Killswitch Engage.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Mulder and Scully become targets of a rogue AI capable of the worst kind of torture while investigating the strange circumstances of the death of a reclusive computer genius rumored to have been researching artificial intelligence.
"Kill Switch" was co-written by cyberpunk pioneers William Gibson and Tom Maddox. The two eventually wrote another episode for the show: season seven's "First Person Shooter". "Kill Switch" was written after Gibson and Maddox approached the series, offering to write an episode. Reminiscent of the "dark visions" of filmmaker David Cronenberg, the episode contained "many obvious pokes and prods at high-end academic cyberculture." In addition, "Kill Switch" contained several scenes featuring elaborate explosives and digital effects, including one wherein a computer-animated Scully fights nurses in a virtual hospital. "Kill Switch" deals with various "Gibsonian" themes, including alienation, paranoia, artificial intelligence, and transferring one's consciousness into cyberspace, among others.
Plot
At a diner in Washington, D.C., a man tries to access files on a laptop computer, but is repeatedly denied. Meanwhile, several drug dealers receive anonymous phone calls about the whereabouts of their competitors; they are told that they are at the same diner. Two U.S. Marshals receive a similar phone call about an escaped prisoner. The drug dealers arrive in pairs as the man attempts to gain access to the files. Just as he does, the two Marshals appear and a shootout ensues.
Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) arrive and identify the bodies of the drug dealers. Mulder also identifies the man with the laptop as Donald Gelman, "a Silicon Valley folk hero" who aspired to create an artificial intelligence. Mulder takes Gelman's laptop and finds a CD inside. When he puts it into the car stereo, it plays "Twilight Time" by The Platters. However, the agents take it to the Lone Gunmen, who discover that the disc contains a larg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Person%20Shooter%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "First Person Shooter" is the thirteenth episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on February 27, 2000. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "First Person Shooter" was watched by 15.31 million people in its initial broadcast, with a 9.3 Nielsen household rating. The episode received mostly negative reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, The Lone Gunmen summon Mulder and Scully to the headquarters of a video game design company after a new virtual reality game, which the Gunmen helped design, is taken over by a bizarre female computer character whose power is much more than virtual.
"First Person Shooter" was written by noted authors William Gibson and Tom Maddox, and directed by series creator Chris Carter. In addition, the episode serves as the spiritual successor to Gibson and Maddox's earlier episode "Kill Switch." Gibson was motivated to write the episode after the success of "Kill Switch." The episode featured several elaborate special effects sequences that nearly put the episode over budget.
Plot
The episode opens with three men, fitted with futuristic combat gear and automatic weapons, entering the virtual reality game First Person Shooter. In a control room, Ivan and Phoebe, the game's programmers, are monitoring the players' vital signs. Only one of the players makes it to the second level of the violent game, where he encounters a female character in a leather outfit. She introduces herself as Maitreya, stating, "This is my game". She then kills the player with a flintlock pistol.
Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) visit the headquarters of First Person Shooters developers in Inland Empire, California, where they meet the Lone Gunmen, who work as consultants for the game. They look at the body of the player, which clearly displays a gunshot wound. Ivan claims there is no way a real gun could have been brought into the highly-secured building. The agents are shown a video from the game, featuring the female character who killed the player. Mulder takes the printout of the character and shows it to a detective, as he believes she is the killer.
Darryl Musashi, a famous computer hacker, arrives at the building and enters the game to kill Maitreya. However, the character, now dressed as a Japanese swordswoman, cuts off Musashi's head and hands with a large medieval sword. Mulder receives a call from the Sheriff's Department that a woman similar to the one in the printout has been picked up. The woman, a stripper named Jade Blue Afterglow, tells the agents that she was paid by a medical imaging faci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRC%20railcar | The DRC (Diesel Rail Car) was a class of railmotor operated by the Victorian Railways on its country rail network in Victoria, Australia. The cars were built by Tulloch Limited in New South Wales, and featured aluminium and steel construction, air-conditioning, and twin diesel engines with hydraulic transmissions.
History
The first railcars of this type were built in 1970 for the New South Wales Government Railways as 1200 class railcars. The Victorian Railways decided to order two railcars of the same design, to replace the 280hp Walker railmotors then in use. The first DRC entered service in May 1971, classified DRC40, followed by DRC41 on November 1971.
The NSW fleet suffered numerous failures in service, and by 1974 the NSW Public Transport Commission had decided to withdraw the cars from service. Eight of them were converted to loco-hauled carriages in 1982, and used on the South Coast Daylight Express until January 1991, and on Moss Vale and Goulburn services until November 1993.
In 1974, the Victorian Railways purchased two of the withdrawn NSW 1200-class cars and modified them for Victorian use. They entered service as DRC42 (formerly PCH 1224) and DRC43 (formerly PCH 1227) in August and December 1975 respectively. Problems with reliability had emerged by the late 1970s, and a modification program was carried out at the Bendigo Workshops in 1983 and 1984. In 1984, four Harris suburban carriages were converted to MTH carriages for use as trailers with the DRC railcars.
In the 1980s, the DRC railcars were the fastest train in Australia by average speed, running the 107 kilometres from Ararat to Hamilton on Mondays and Saturdays in 72 minutes, an average of 89 km/h. The railcars were regularly used on the Stony Point service after 1984, following the reintroduction of passenger services on that line, but by the early 1990s, regular failures saw them replaced by locomotive-hauled trains.
The DRCs were also used on the Leongatha line for a few years, after the line was reopened in 1984, but were replaced by a locomotive-hauled train towing three MTH carriages. The reliability problem was later solved, but the fleet was withdrawn on 2 July 1994, as a result of the introduction of the Goninan-built Sprinter railcars.
Technical details
The features of the DRC railcar.
No .1 end looking towards No .2:
Driver's cab
Luggage and guard's compartment
First-class compartment: 20 rotating and reclining seats,
Second-class compartment: 28 rotating seats, 8 fixed seats - 4 at each end
No.2 end:
Exit doors
Male and Female Toilets
Driver's cab and seat for one person (Guard)
Today
All four DRC cars still remain today. DRC40 is preserved and operational at the Daylesford Spa Country Railway, and DRC43 is stored in a deactivated condition at the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre. DRC41 and 42 are privately owned and stored at Newport Workshops.
Model Railways
HO Scale
In 2013, Trainbuilder released a series of DRC rail motors for $1,195 each. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Association%20for%20International%20Education | The European Association for International Education (EAIE) is a European centre for expertise, networking and resources in the internationalisation of higher education. It is a non-profit, member-led organisation serving individuals actively involved in the internationalisation of their institutions through training, conferences, research and knowledge acquisition and sharing. The EAIE is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and has approximately 3000 members from over 80 different countries, the majority of which are located in Europe.
History
In the late 1980s, European international educators realised the need for a European member association dedicated to those working in the field of international education. In 1989 the EAIE was created as a result of the Founding Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Conference attracted around 600 professionals inspired by the idea of joining a network of international educators. The original working title of the Association was the "European Association for International Education Administrators". However, this was later changed to the European Association for International Education when the organisation was officially created.
Conferences
The EAIE Annual Conference is the primary event through which the Association brings professionals to discuss the latest trends in international education. The conference is the largest international higher education event of its kind in Europe and is hosted in a different European city each year. In 2023 it was held in Rotterdam.
Publications
The EAIE publishes various publications on topics concerning the internationalisation of higher education.
Forum magazine is the flagship member magazine of the Association, published three times per year, with a readership of circa 3000. The first issue of Forum was published in 1999. In 2012, the magazine incorporated a thematic approach, tackling one prominent topic within international education per issue.
Pathways to Practice is EAIE's e-publication series, published several times a year and offers detailed step-by-step guides to implementing essential internationalisation practices.
The EAIE Barometer is the largest and most geographically representative study of its kind ever undertaken in Europe. The research focuses on the current state of affairs regarding internationalisation of higher education in Europe as viewed by professionals directly involved in this work.
The Journal of Studies in International Education is a peer-reviewed journal for higher education administrators, educators, researchers and policymakers. Volumes are published five times per year and articles vary from 4000 to 6000 words in length. The EAIE is part of the Association for Studies in International Education (ASIE) which is responsible for the Journal.
The EAIE also publishes series and stand-alone publications on some of the biggest trends and issues facing international higher education today, like international admissions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve%20estimator | In statistics, sieve estimators are a class of non-parametric estimators which use progressively more complex models to estimate an unknown high-dimensional function as more data becomes available, with the aim of asymptotically reducing error towards zero as the amount of data increases. This method is generally attributed to Ulf Grenander.
Method of sieves in positron emission tomography
Sieve estimators have been used extensively for estimating density functions in high-dimensional spaces such as in Positron emission tomography (PET). The first exploitation of Sieves in PET for solving the maximum-likelihood image reconstruction problem was by Donald Snyder and Michael Miller, where they stabilized the time-of-flight PET problem originally solved by Shepp and Vardi.
Shepp and Vardi's introduction of Maximum-likelihood estimators in emission tomography exploited the use of the Expectation-Maximization algorithm, which as it ascended towards the maximum-likelihood estimator developed a series of artifacts associated to the fact that the underlying emission density was of too high a dimension for any fixed sample size of Poisson measured counts. Grenander's method of sieves was used to stabilize the estimator, so that for any fixed sample size a resolution could be set which was consistent for the number of counts. As the observe PET imaging time would go to infinity, the dimension of the sieve would increase as well in such a manner that the density was appropriate for each sample size.
See also
Nonparametric regression
References
External links
Estimator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve%20method | Sieve method, or the method of sieves, can mean:
in mathematics and computer science, the sieve of Eratosthenes, a simple method for finding prime numbers
in number theory, any of a variety of methods studied in sieve theory
in combinatorics, the set of methods dealt with in sieve theory or more specifically, the inclusion–exclusion principle
in statistics, and particularly econometrics, the use of sieve estimators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Saturdays | The Secret Saturdays is an American animated television series created by Canadian cartoonist Jay Stephens for Cartoon Network. It debuted on October 3, 2008, in the United States. The series follows the adventures of the Saturdays, a family of cryptozoologists that work to keep the truth about cryptids from getting out, to protect both the human race and the creatures themselves. The Saturdays travel the Earth searching for cryptids to study and battling twisted villains like the megalomaniac V. V. Argost. The series is influenced by 1960s-era Hanna-Barbera action series and is combined with Jay Stephens's own personal interest in cryptozoology. The show finished its run on January 30, 2010, but aired reruns on Boomerang from December 5, 2011, to June 1, 2014.
The Secret Saturdays was the first Cartoon Network original series to be broadcast in high-definition.
Plot
The Secret Saturdays revolves around the titular Saturdays, a family of cryptozoologists consisting of parents Doc and Drew Saturday and their 11-year-old son, Zak Saturday. The Saturdays are members of the Secret Scientists, a global organization with the goal of studying and safeguarding sciences considered too dangerous to be general public knowledge. As the foremost experts in cryptids, the Saturdays are responsible for studying and protecting cryptids around the world, while also keeping their existence a secret from the rest of humanity and averting cryptid-related threats. The Saturdays travel in their airship with their cryptid companions Fiskerton, Komodo, and Zon, while the young Zak Saturday strives to help his parents with their missions and to master his mysterious innate ability to influence and control the actions of cryptids.
At the beginning of the series, the Secret Scientists are attacked en masse by V. V. Argost, the masked host of the cryptid-centric television series V. V. Argost's Weird World and a longtime enemy of the Secret Scientists. Argost and his henchmen steal the pieces of the Kur Stone, a Sumerian artifact which can lead its wielder to the location of Kur, an allegedly all-powerful cryptid. In the first season of the show, the Saturdays are also pitted against bounty hunter Leonidas Van Rook and his apprentice, who is later revealed to be Drew's long-lost brother Doyle Blackwell, who was separated from her after their parents died in an accident in the Himalayas. The Saturdays also discover an ancient mirror which leads to a dimension made of antimatter, and encounter their evil counterparts, whom Zak dubs the "Mondays." At the end of the first season, the Saturdays and Argost race to Kur's supposed resting place in Antarctica, only to discover that Kur is actually Zak; when the Kur stone first shattered years ago, Kur's soul entered Zak's unborn body, which is the origin of Zak's cryptid-influencing powers.
In the second season, Argost, taking an interest in Zak as the true Kur, bargains with Zak to teach him how to use his powers. Meanwhile, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Stenberg | Jan Stenberg (1939–2015) was a Swedish businessperson and chairman of the board of Stepstone, Cygate Måldata, Service Factory, Marratech, Spring Mobil, Q-matic and Tific.
Stenberg was educated with a law degree from the University of Stockholm in 1964, and joined Ericsson in 1967. He held a number of positions in Ericsson, including vice president before being hired as chief executive officer of SAS Group in 1994, a position he held until 2001. He was also chairman of TeliaSonera (1999–2000) and was announced as chairman of the would-be merger between Telia and Telenor, had the merger not failed.
Stenberg served on a multitude of boards and has held a number of higher executive positions in different corporations. At Ericsson alone—a career which lasted 25 years—Stenberg had served as the Executive Vice President of the Ericsson Group, the General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Directors, the President of Ericsson Cables AB and the Head of Business Area Cables. Starting in 1985 and ending 1990, Stenberg was the Head of Business Area Public Telecommunications for Ericsson and, in 1992, Stenberg left Ericsson. The boards that Stenberg served on and chaired are also many. He served as the chairman of the board of directors for Service Factory AB, B2 Bredband AB, Stepstone ASA, Cygate AB, Karolinska University Hospital and ETOUR. These enterprises were mainly telecom and information technology companies. Stenberg was additionally a director of the Supervisory Board for Lufthansa and the Royal Swedish Opera.
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1939 births
SAS Group people
Swedish airline chief executives
2015 deaths
Stockholm University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20Recorder | Total Recorder is digital audio editor software from High Criteria, Inc. which is able to record any sound coming through a computer soundcard. In addition to recording through a soundcard, Total Recorder is able to record digital sound directly through its virtual sound driver. This driver provides an advantage of recording audio reproduced by an external program (including Internet broadcasts) directly in digital format, i.e. without digital-analog-digital conversions leading to loss of quality, and even in those cases when a computer soundcard has no loop-back line (e.g. Stereo Mix, "What you hear"). Total Recorder is a shareware program. Evaluation version of Total Recorder is a fully functional version of the program, with the exception that an audible noise will be inserted about every 60 seconds.
Editions
Total Recorder is offered in four editions: Standard, Professional, Developer and VideoPro (beginning with the version 8.0 of Total Recorder). In dependence of edition different functionalities are available.
Supported formats
Video
AVI
WMV (Windows Media Video)
FLV (Flash Video)
MOV (for playback only)
MPEG-4
3GP
Audio
PCM (uncompressed)
RIFF-WAV (Compressed and uncompressed)
MP3
WMA
Ogg Vorbis
FLAC (Monkey's Audio)
APE
AAC audio within MPEG-4
3GP
Features
Recording of audio and video from different sources, sound format conversion, sound editing, sound processing, background recording (ripping), timeshifting, cue-sheet file supporting, splitting, tagging, file name generation, etc.
Add-ons
The following free and trial add-ons are available: Audio Restoration Add-On, Automatic Gain Control and Speech Enhancement Add-On, Spectrum Analyzer and Graphic Equalizer Add-On, Digital Mixer Add-On, Ogg Vorbis Support Add-On, Send to iTunes/iPod Add-On, Streaming Add-on. They can be used for removing distortions such as clicks, crackles, providing high-quality restoration of audio recorded from LPs, tapes and microphones, enhancing the recording and playback of both the music and the spoken word, mixing operations and performing other sound processing.
ScrptExec Utility
ScrptExec is a free command line utility designed to execute simple scripts. ScrptExec can be useful to simulate user keyboard input in a window (e.g. you can use it to enter a user name and a password on a web page) or automatically reply to a pop-up message (e.g. you can use it to reply to messages such as "Do you want to close all tabs?" or "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?" that prevent you from closing the Internet Explorer window), etc.
Reviews
"A cult favorite, Total Recorder impresses not with its interface or list of features but with its precise ability to record and save any sounds coming across your PC.... The only hassle with Total Recorder is that it usually gives files generic names, and it doesn't have a title lookup engine, so you'll need to tag tracks by hand." - Troy Dreier, PC Magazine.
"One major attraction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse%20Sonar | Mouse Sonar is a computer accessibility feature available in Microsoft Windows versions since Windows ME.
When Mouse Sonar is enabled, releasing the Ctrl key causes several concentric circles to appear around the pointer for a short time.
This may be especially useful to locate the pointer on contrast-rich or colorful background.
The Mouse Sonar feature is disabled by default, and it may be turned on using the Mouse Control Panel applet (details may vary with different Windows versions).
Programmatically, the Mouse Sonar state may be accessed with the SystemParametersInfo Windows API function in conjunction with the symbolic value SPI_GETMOUSESONAR (= 0x101C, used to retrieve state information) or SPI_SETMOUSESONAR (= 0x101D, used to enable or disable the feature) for the first function parameter, defined in most newer Windows header files.
Windows components |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation%20function | Activation function of a node in an artificial neural network is a function that calculates the output of the node (based on its inputs and the weights on individual inputs). Nontrivial problems can be solved only using a nonlinear activation function. Modern activation functions include the smooth version of the ReLU, the GELU, which was used in the 2018 BERT model, the logistic (sigmoid) function used in the 2012 speech recognition model developed by Hinton et al, the ReLU used in the 2012 AlexNet computer vision model and in the 2015 ResNet model.
Comparison of activation functions
Aside from their empirical performance, activation functions also have different mathematical properties:
Nonlinear When the activation function is non-linear, then a two-layer neural network can be proven to be a universal function approximator. This is known as the Universal Approximation Theorem. The identity activation function does not satisfy this property. When multiple layers use the identity activation function, the entire network is equivalent to a single-layer model.
Range When the range of the activation function is finite, gradient-based training methods tend to be more stable, because pattern presentations significantly affect only limited weights. When the range is infinite, training is generally more efficient because pattern presentations significantly affect most of the weights. In the latter case, smaller learning rates are typically necessary.
Continuously differentiable This property is desirable (ReLU is not continuously differentiable and has some issues with gradient-based optimization, but it is still possible) for enabling gradient-based optimization methods. The binary step activation function is not differentiable at 0, and it differentiates to 0 for all other values, so gradient-based methods can make no progress with it.
These properties do not decisively influence performance, nor are they the only mathematical properties that may be useful. For instance, the strictly positive range of the softplus makes it suitable for predicting variances in variational autoencoders.
Mathematical details
The most common activation functions can be divided into three categories: ridge functions, radial functions and fold functions.
An activation function is saturating if . It is nonsaturating if it is not saturating. Non-saturating activation functions, such as ReLU, may be better than saturating activation functions, as networks using are less likely to suffer from the vanishing gradient problem.
Ridge activation functions
Ridge functions are multivariate functions acting on a linear combination of the input variables. Often used examples include:
Linear activation: ,
ReLU activation: ,
Heaviside activation: ,
Logistic activation: .
In biologically inspired neural networks, the activation function is usually an abstraction representing the rate of action potential firing in the cell. In its simplest form, this function is binary—th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICL%20Series%2039 | The ICL Series 39 was a range of mainframe and minicomputer computer systems released by the UK manufacturer ICL in 1985. The original Series 39 introduced the "S3L" (whose corrupt pronunciation resulted in the name "Estriel") processors and microcodes, and a nodal architecture, which is a form of Non-Uniform Memory Access .
Origins
The Series 39 range was based upon the New Range concept and the VME operating system from the company's ICL 2900 line, and was introduced as two ranges:
Series 39 "Estriel" systems (Series 39 Level 40 and above, including multinodes), which replaced previous mid-range and large processors from the 2900 range, and needed a full computer room environment
Series 39 DM1 systems (up to Series 39 Level 30), which were intended to replace the smaller processors such as the ICT1901/2, the ICL2903/4 and the ME29 ranges. These brought mainframe class operating system facilities into the office environment, a first for ICL
Design
The original Series 39 introduced the "S3L" processors and microcodes, and a nodal architecture (see ICL VME) which is a form of Non-Uniform Memory Access which allowed nodes to be up to apart.
The Series 39 range introduced Nodal Architecture, a novel implementation of distributed shared memory that can be seen as a hybrid of a multiprocessor system and a cluster design. Each machine consists of a number of nodes, and each node contains its own order-code processor and main memory. Virtual machines are typically located (at any one time) on one node, but have the capability to run on any node and to be relocated from one node to another. Discs and other peripherals are shared between nodes. Nodes are connected using a high-speed optical bus (Macrolan) using multiple fibre optic cables, which is used to provide applications with a virtual shared memory. Memory segments that are marked as shared (public or global segments) are replicated to each node, with updates being broadcast over the inter-node network. Processes which use unshared memory segments (nodal or local) run in complete isolation from other nodes and processes.
The semaphore instructions prove their worth by controlling access to the shared writable memory segments while allowing the contents to be moved around efficiently.
Overall, a well configured Series 39 with VME had an architecture which can provide a significant degree of proofing against disasters, a nod to the abortive VME/T ideas of the previous decade.
All Series 39 machines were supported by a set of waist height peripheral 'Cabinets' (connected via fibre optic cables via one or more Multi Port Switch Units or MPSU's) providing disk storage capabilities:-
Cabinet 2 - these were the main Disk Storage Cabinets holding a pair of 330Mb 8 inch "Swallow" Hard Drives
Cabinet 3 - these were an expansion cabinet to the Cabinet 2 and could hold up to four more 330Mb 8 inch "Swallow" Hard Drives
Cabinet 4 - these were a bridge cabinet would was used to connect Series 39 t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depths%20of%20Peril | Depths of Peril is a fantasy, single-player action RPG computer game. It was developed by Soldak Entertainment and was released on September 5, 2007. Depths of Peril is set in the fictional lands of Aleria. In the game, the protagonist is a faction leader in the barbarian city of Jorvik. The player's main goal is to protect the city from the rampaging hordes beyond the walls, and to become leader of Jorvik. There are other factions vying for control of Jorvik however, and depending on the player's actions they will either become friends, or hinder the protagonist's progress.
Reception
Since its release, the game has generally been received warmly by reviewers and gamers. One notable disappointment among reviewers and fans is the lack of multiplayer. The reason for no multiplayer, according to Steven Peeler, lead designer and programmer of Depths of Peril, is that they wanted to focus on the singleplayer experience first, before attempting multiplayer. Peeler hopes to include multiplayer in a future expansion pack.
Gallery
Modding
Soldak Entertainment has also released a modding SDK for Depths of Peril. The mod allows players to directly impact the way the game is played, from basic things such as raising or lowering the game difficulty to changing game dynamics (e.g. lowering or increasing damage done/taken, or increasing the size of your adventuring party).
Related games
Soldak Entertainment has published 2 subsequent games based on the Depths of Peril storyline and game engine. Din's Curse is a single or cooperative multiplayer dungeon-delving role-playing game without the political aspects of Depths of Peril, and Kivi's Underworld is a single-player hack-n-slash arcade-style adventure game. Both games expand on the storyline and universe introduced in Depths of Peril. Din's Curse introduces improved 3D graphics and the ability to host games for multiplayer play to the game engine.
References
External links
Official Depths of Peril website
Interview at Gamezone
Post release interview with RPG Codex
2007 video games
Action role-playing video games
Indie games
MacOS games
Role-playing video games
Single-player video games
Soldak Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games with isometric graphics
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20for%20Web%20Description%20Resources | The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) is the W3C recommended method for describing Web resources.
It specifies a protocol for publishing metadata about Web resources using RDF, OWL, and HTTP.
The initial working party was formed in February 2007 with the W3C Content Label Incubator Group's 2006 work as an input. On 1 September 2009 POWDER became a W3C recommendation and the Working Group is now closed.
POWDER supersedes the previous W3C specification PICS.
References
External links
Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Primer
Network protocols
Media content ratings systems
Net neutrality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univa | Univa was a software company that developed workload management and cloud management products for compute-intensive applications in the data center and across public, private, and hybrid clouds, before being acquired by Altair Engineering in September 2020.
Univa software manages diverse application workloads and resources, helping enterprises scale and automate infrastructure to maximize efficiency and throughput while also helping them manage cloud spending.
Univa’s primary market was High Performance Computing (HPC). Its products were used in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, life sciences, energy, government labs and universities. Univa software was used to manage large-scale HPC, analytic, and machine learning applications across these industries.
Products and services
Univa developed, sold, and supported Univa Grid Engine software, Univa's version of the popular Grid Engine workload manager. Univa also offered Navops Launch, a solution providing cloud migration, cloud automation, and cloud spend management for users of Univa Grid Engine.
Univa announced in January 2011 that it hired personnel formerly working for Oracle and Sun Microsystems on Grid Engine development. On April 12, 2011, Univa rolled out its initial commercial release of Univa Grid Engine based on open source Grid Engine. The commercial released offered new functionality related to performance, and resource control for small and large clusters and provided enterprise customers with support services.
On October 22, 2013 Univa announced it acquired the intellectual property, copyrights and trademarks pertaining to the Grid Engine technology from Oracle and that it would support Oracle Grid Engine customers.
Univa announced Navops in May 2016, a new business unit with products enabling enterprises to easily migrate to the cloud or deploy hybrid clouds. Among the public clouds supported by Navops Launch are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
Navops Launch provides cloud automation features to dynamically configure cloud-based Univa Grid Engine clusters and scale them based on application workloads and configurable policies. Navops Launch also provides cloud spend management features to help organizations monitor and manage cloud spending by extracting information from cloud-specific APIs. Organizations can use Navops Launch to manage spending by project, group, department, and cost-center.
Univa enhanced both Univa Grid Engine and Navops Launch, supporting new operating environments, machine architectures, and cloud providers. Key areas of focus for both Univa Grid Engine and Navops Launch have been around performance and scalability. Both were demonstrated by a well-publicized one million core cluster deployment in AWS announced in June 2018. Other areas of focus have been around managing containerized and GPU-aware application workloads.
Univa offered support services, education services, and consulting services rel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Union%20Area%20School%20District | The Mount Union Area School District is a public school district based in Mount Union, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses approximately 151 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 9,678. The school district includes all of Mount Union borough, Mapleton borough, Shirley Township and Union Township in Huntingdon County. The school district also includes Kistler borough, Newton Hamilton borough, and Wayne Township, all located in Mifflin County.
Schools
Mount Union Area Senior High School - (Grades 9-12)706 N. Shaver StreetMount Union, Pennsylvania 17066
Mount Union Area Junior High School - (Grades 6-8) Pine StreetMount Union, Pennsylvania 17066
Starting in 2020-2021, there will be two elementary schools in the district after the closing of Mapleton-Union Elementary School.
Kistler Elementary School - (Grades K-2) Report Card 2010 154 School StreetMount Union, Pennsylvania 17066
Shirley Township Elementary School - (Grades 3-5) Report Card 14188 2nd StreetMount Union, Pennsylvania 17066
Career & Technology Centers
High school students can attend Huntingdon County Career & Technology Center - Mill Creek - Grades 10-12
Extracurriculars
The district offers a variety of clubs, activities and sports.
Music
Mount Union participates in competitive marching band in the Tournament of Bands Circuit. The group has earned much recognition within the circuit for numerous competitive victories. Additionally, the band has performed in highly visible parades such as: The West Virginia Strawberry Festival, New York City Veterans’ Day Parade, and the Washington D.C. Centennial Parade for the Boy Scouts of America.
Additionally, Mount Union was formerly home to a County-Wide Indoor Percussion Ensemble, known as Darkhorse Percussion, which hosted students from across Huntingdon County. Since 2022, the unit has been hosted by the Juniata Valley School District because Mount Union no longer saw fit to officially support the ensemble despite not having supported it for several years.
The unit formed in 2015 and is composed of students from Southern Huntingdon County School District, Juniata Valley School District, Williamsburg Community School District, Huntingdon Area School District and Mount Union Area School District. The unit is a four time Atlantic Coast Champion In 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022. The unit competes in the Tournament Indoor Association, sponsored by the National Judges Association.
References
External links
Mount Union Area School District
PIAA
Tournament of Bands
School districts in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
School districts in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions%20of%20a%20Matchmaker | Confessions of a Matchmaker is an American reality television series broadcast by the A&E Network.
The show, set in Buffalo, New York, premiered on June 16, 2007 and ran its first thirteen episodes throughout the summer of 2007. There was no second season.
This "pioneering" show is said to have started the genre that includes The Millionaire Matchmaker.
Premise
The show which is set in Buffalo, New York, follows real life matchmaker Patti Novak as she tries to set up dates for her clients looking for love. A reviewer in The New York Times described Novak as, "plainspoken, but not rude, a classic dispenser of tough love." Each episode starts with Patti interviewing two new clients and questioning them on various topics, including why they have not been lucky in love in the past.
Next, Patti sets up her two new clients with two of her pre-existing clients. Each person goes on their date and the next day they are called by Patti and told to meet with her in her office. Sometimes, if the date goes well Patti tells her clients the good news that their date would like to see them again.
If the date goes poorly however, Patti is usually scolding her clients and telling them what they must do the next time to improve. If the first date does go poorly then the person is set up on a second date. If Patti's client does poorly on their date again and fails to improve, then they are usually dropped as a client.
Critical reception
A reviewer for The Buffalo News pointed out that while the show often humiliated the matchmaker's single, often overweight, and not especially financially successful clients, they were aware of what they were letting themselves in for, and the episodes were often "laugh-out-loud funny." The reviewer for the Associated Press described the show's use of "real people who have real problems finding someone to love," and praised Novak's "spirit and refreshing honesty."
Patti Novak
Novak was a professional matchmaker in Buffalo, New York.
Novak's career as a matchmaking guru continued after the show was terminated. Novak published a book, Get Over Yourself: How to Get Real, Get Serious, and Get Ready to Find True Love, co-authored with Laura Zigman.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20080108125659/http://www.aetv.com/confessions-of-a-matchmaker/
American dating and relationship reality television series
2007 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
A&E (TV network) original programming
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Buffalo, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20Awake%20Mode | In the context of wireless networking, Constant Awake Mode (CAM) is a mode that is intended for devices when power is not an issue, such as when AC power is available to a device. This mode provides the best connectivity from the user perspective. CAM is also appropriate when a portable device will be used for only a short time that the battery can easily accommodate. This is the most commonly used mode, and can be contrasted with power saving modes, which may or may not be offered by a particular device.
References
Electric power |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational%20database | Operational database management systems (also referred to as OLTP databases or online transaction processing databases), are used to update data in real-time. These types of databases allow users to do more than simply view archived data. Operational databases allow you to modify that data (add, change or delete data), doing it in real-time. OLTP databases provide transactions as main abstraction to guarantee data consistency that guarantee the so-called ACID properties. Basically, the consistency of the data is guaranteed in the case of failures and/or concurrent access to the data.
History
Since the early 1990s, the operational database software market has been largely taken over by SQL engines. In 2014, the operational DBMS market (formerly OLTP) was evolving dramatically, with new, innovative entrants and incumbents supporting the growing use of unstructured data and NoSQL DBMS engines, as well as XML databases and NewSQL databases. NoSQL databases typically have focused on scalability and have renounced to data consistency by not providing transactions as OLTP system do. Operational databases are increasingly supporting distributed database architecture that can leverage distribution to provide high availability and fault tolerance through replication and scale out ability.
The growing role of operational databases in the IT industry is moving fast from legacy databases to real-time operational databases capable to handle distributed web and mobile demand and to address Big data challenges. Recognizing this, Gartner started to publish the Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems in October 2013.
List of operational databases
Notable operational databases include:
Use in business
Operational databases are used to store, manage and track real-time business information. For example, a company might have an operational database used to track warehouse/stock quantities. As customers order products from an online web store, an operational database can be used to keep track of how many items have been sold and when the company will need to reorder stock. An operational database stores information about the activities of an organization, for example customer relationship management transactions or financial operations, in a computer database.
Operational databases allow a business to enter, gather, and retrieve large quantities of specific information, such as company legal data, financial data, call data records, personal employee information, sales data, customer data, data on assets and many other information. An important feature of storing information in an operational database is the ability to share information across the company and over the Internet. Operational databases can be used to manage mission-critical business data, to monitor activities, to audit suspicious transactions, or to review the history of dealings with a particular customer. They can also be part of the actual process of making and fulfilling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational%20system | An operational system is a term used in data warehousing to refer to a system that is used to process the day-to-day transactions of an organization. These systems are designed in a manner that processing of day-to-day transactions is performed efficiently and the integrity of the transactional data is preserved.
Synonyms
Sometimes operational systems are referred to as operational databases, transaction processing systems, or online transaction processing systems (OLTP). However, the use of the last two terms as synonyms may be confusing, because operational systems can be batch processing systems as well.
Any enterprise must necessarily maintain a lot of data about its operation.
See also
Operating system (OS)
Data warehouses versus operational systems
Operational data store, a database used for operational reporting, and as a source of data for a data warehouse
Data warehousing
Data management
Business intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatoslav%20Zabelin | Sviatoslav Zabelin (born September 23, 1950) is a Russian environmentalist. He is founder of the environmentalist network Socio-Ecological Union. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993.
References
Russian environmentalists
Russian biologists
Living people
1950 births
Goldman Environmental Prize awardees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scannerless%20Boolean%20Parser | The Scannerless Boolean Parser is an open-source scannerless GLR parser generator for boolean grammars. It was implemented in the Java programming language and generates Java source code. SBP also integrates with Haskell via LambdaVM.
External links
SBP: the Scannerless Boolean Parser
SBP LDTA'06 article
WIX - wiki markup parser in SBP Haskell
Parser generators
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVL | HVL may refer to:
Half-value layer, in radiometry
Hardware verification language, in computer science
HeavyLift International, a defunct Emirati cargo airline
Hurstville railway station, in Sydney, Australia
Hutt Valley Line, a rail line in New Zealand
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, the abbreviation derived from its Norwegian name |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201981%29 | Odirlei de Souza Gaspar (born 18 May 1981) is a retired Brazilian football player.
Honours
Individual
Liechtensteiner Footballer of the Year: 2007–08
References
External links
Brazilian FA Database
FC Vaduz profile
Career History at ASF
1981 births
Living people
Footballers from São Paulo (state)
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Brazilian men's footballers
Esporte Clube São Bento players
1. FC Nürnberg II players
FC Lugano players
FC Vaduz players
AC Bellinzona players
FC Lausanne-Sport players
FC Chiasso players
FC Wohlen players
Swiss Super League players
Swiss Challenge League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Men's association football forwards
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravis | Gravis may refer to:
Advanced Gravis Computer Technology, manufacturer of computer peripherals, soundcards and joysticks
Dynamic Sport Gravis, a Polish paraglider design
Gravis (Ninjago), a character in Ninjago
Gravis, an alien in the Doctor Who story Frontios
Myasthenia gravis, a long-term neuromuscular disease |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20and%20keep | Bill and keep (B&K or BAK), also known as net payment zero, is a pricing arrangement for the interconnection (direct or indirect) of two telecommunications networks under which the reciprocal call termination charge is zero. That is, each network agrees to terminate calls from the other network at no charge.
Bill and keep represents an approach to interconnection charging in which networks recover their costs only from their own customers rather than from the sending network. Such an arrangement acts to remove the wholesale cost barrier to retail pricing for off-network calls and has been proven to result in significantly higher levels of calling activity.
On October 27, 2011, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced that it would adopt a bill-and-keep framework for all telecommunications traffic exchanged with local exchange carriers as part of an effort to reduce arbitrage practices such as traffic pumping and phantom traffic, encourage the deployment of IP-based networks, and reduce artificial competitive distortions between wireline and wireless carriers.
In the European mobile telecommunications sector, in the absence of a bill and keep arrangement, wholesale markets have traditionally applied the calling party pays principle, in which an originating network pays the terminating network a charge called the mobile termination rate or fixed termination rate for calls to the terminating network. The mobile termination rates paid under the mobile termination rate model, therefore, act as a cost floor to retail pricing, preventing lowering of prices and innovation of retail propositions. In many countries including the UK, the mobile termination rate model has led to a high level of regulatory activity aimed at capping mobile termination rates at a competitive level, which inevitably acts to reinforce the cost floor rather than being pro-competitive.
Although bill and keep has gained momentum, some drawbacks have been identified, such as issues related to the quality of service offered to the end user.
References
Telephony
Telecommunications Billing Systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%2010%20%28Uruguay%29 | Channel 10 (legally known as SAETA TV Canal 10) is an Uruguayan free-to-air television network based in Montevideo, founded in 1956 by Raul Fontaina as the first TV broadcaster in the country and the fourth in Latin America. SAETA ("Arrow") is a backronym for "Anonymous Society of Television Broadcasting and Appendants" (Sociedad Anónima Emisora de Televisión y Anexos). The channel is owned by Grupo Fontaina - De Feo.
Programming
Current
Original programming
Informativo Carve (radio news)
Subrayado (news)
Got Talent Uruguay (talent show)
Arriba gente (magazine)
La mañana en casa (magazine)
La tarde en casa (magazine)
Puglia invita (interviews)
Consentidas (interviews)
Vida y obra (interviews)
Día cero (documentaries)
La peluquería de don Mateo (entertainment)
Polémica en el bar (talk show)
Punto Penal (sports magazine)
Mejor con música (music)
¿Quién quiere ser millonario? (quiz show)
Got Talent Uruguay (talent show)
La Voz Uruguay (singing competition)
La Voz Kids Uruguay (singing competition)
Acquired programming
Caso Cerrado (court show; Telemundo)
Blue Bloods (fiction; CBS)
CSI: Miami (fiction; CBS)
FBI (fiction; CBS)
The Mentalist (fiction; CBS)
Bir Zamanlar Çukurova / Tierra amarga (fiction; ATV)
Sefirin Kızı / La hija del embajador (fiction; Star TV)
Former
Original programming
Decalegrón (comedy)
MasterChef (talent show)
Pasapalabra (game show)
Escape perfecto (game show)
El juego del año (game show)
Salven el millón (game show)
Bien de bien (game show)
Bendita TV (entertainment)
Caleidoscopio (interviews)
Debate abierto (interviews)
Dicho y hecho (interviews)
Zona urbana (political)
Deporte total (sports magazine)
Charoná TV (children show)
Porque te quiero así (telenovela)
Dance! La fuerza del corazón (telenovela)
Bienes gananciales (comedy)
Temporario (series)
Acquired programming
Ahora caigo (game show; Antena 3)
The Simpsons
İstanbullu Gelin / Sureya (fiction; Star TV)
Kadın / Coraje de mujer (fiction; Fox Turkey)
Kırgın Çiçekler / Flores de cristal (fiction; ATV)
Kızım / ¿Y tú quién eres? (fiction; TV8)
Meryem (fiction; Kanal D)
Antenna
Channel 10's transmitting antenna, measuring 187 meters in height, is called the Saeta Tower. It was built and inaugurated sometime after the channel moved to its current address. It stems from the idea and subsequent efforts of Milton Fontaina. Today it is the highest structure in Montevideo and can be seen from many parts of the city. Over the past 5 years, Channel 12, of Uruguay, rent a portion of the antenna to transmit their programming.
Logo
In 1972, the channel adopted a new logo depicting the number 10 surrounded by a CRT shape, with the number 1 depicting an arrow, and the number 0 identical to the American network CBS Eye logo. A blue background was used with the advent of color television. In 1992, the central sphere of the 0 became colorized. In 2002, the arrow 1 was removed, and the Uruguayan flag was adopted as backg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRZA | KRZA (88.7 FM) is a National Public Radio-affiliated station in Alamosa, Colorado. It primarily features National Public Radio programming.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
External links
KRZA official website
NPR member stations
Community radio stations in the United States
RZA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVOV | KVOV (90.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Carbondale, Colorado. The station is owned by Colorado Public Radio (CPR), and airs CPR's "Classical Music" network, originating from KVOD in Denver, Colorado.
Translators
The station's signal is relayed by the following translator stations.
External links
cpr.org
VOV
VOV
Classical music radio stations in the United States
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1964 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSJD | KSJD (91.5 FM), is a National Public Radio-affiliated station in Cortez, Colorado. It primarily features National Public Radio programming. The station is currently owned by Community Radio Project.
Translators
In addition to the main station, KSJD is relayed by an additional two translators to widen its broadcast area. It is also digitally relayed to Rico, Colorado with an FM frequency of 89.5.
Location
The station is based in the historic Montezuma Valley National Bank building in Cortez, Colorado.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
KSJD official website
KSJD
SJD
Community radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVNF | KVNF (90.9 FM), is a National Public Radio-affiliated community radio station in Paonia, Colorado. It features locally hosted music programming, independently produced public radio programs, local news and interviews, as well as National Public Radio programming. KVNF serves Western Colorado via two stations with full-power licenses (KVNF 90.9 FM and KVMT 89.1 FM) and five translators. All transmitters carry the same programming and are needed to cover KVNF's large and mountainous listening area.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
External links
KVNF official website
KVNF
Community radio stations in the United States
VNF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgey%20Didge | Ridgey Didge was a popular Network Ten magazine television programme for children in Australia. The name is an Australian slang term meaning honest, true or the real thing.
Format
A long-running series of 52-minute programmes, each studio-based episode was intended to be an entertaining voyage of adventure and discovery for the viewers, constantly covering new topics reflecting Australian life and culture. Location segments added to the mix. One episode recorded sealing a time capsule to commemorate Australia's bicentennial in 1988; the capsule was opened in 2001.
Presenters
A team of presenters hosted each programme:
Jared Robinsen
Rebecca Hetherington (daughter of Norman Hetherington)
Simon Watt
Danny Carretti
Chris Harriott
Ashley Paske
They were joined by puppet characters
Shaun the Sheep (operated by Danny Carretti)
Buzz the Blowfly (operated by Simon Watt)
Other presenters of regular segments:
Dr. Glenn Singleman (medicine)
Dean Taylor (art)
Catchphrase
The lyrics in the signature tune repeated the words ridgey didge several times which became a catchphrase amongst the target audience. This was accompanied with a hand gesture. The three middle fingers of the right hand were closed, leaving the thumb and little finger extended; the hand was then twisted from side to side in time with the rhythm of the music.
Transmission
The show aired between 1987 and 1989, Monday to Friday at 4 p.m. on Network TEN!
The competition
Wombat — Seven Network
C'mon Kids — Nine Network
Play School — ABC Television
Production crew
Produced by the in-house production department based at the TEN studios in North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia:
Executive producer — Ian Fairweather
Producer — Penni-Anne Smith
Production manager — Dawn Aronie
Writers — Tammy Burnstock, Simon Watt
Location director — Lou Petho
Production assistant — Michael Carrington
Production assistant — Deborah Kingsford
External links
wiktionary:ridgy-didge
Facebook page
Network 10 original programming
Australian children's television series
Australian non-fiction television series
1987 Australian television series debuts
1989 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20Programmatic%20Interface | In computing, the User Programmatic Interface (UPI), also known as the User Program Interface, consists of a set of C-language software APIs which provide the lowest-level API-based interface to the Oracle database.
Overview
UPI offers a procedural API for not only performing certain database administration tasks (such as system startup and shutdown), but also for using PL/SQL or SQL to query, access, and manipulate data. The UPI library, an undocumented API used internally by Oracle, deals directly with the Two-Task Common (TTC)
aspect of the Oracle Client software stack.
UPI-based applications
Several Oracle database applications depend on UPI, including:
Oracle Forms
SQL*Plus (also uses OCI)
Oracle Corporation's data-import and -export (IMP/EXP) utilities
UPI-Based Libraries
Several libraries depend on UPI, including:
Oracle's FormsAPI
The Oracle Call Interface Library
Oracle's SQLLIB (used by Oracle's Embedded SQL Precompilers)
External links
Oracle SQL*Net Overview (includes basic UPI information)
References
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Morning | Ontario Morning is a Canadian radio program, which airs as the CBC Radio One local morning program for non-metropolitan markets in Southern Ontario. While the network's main stations in Toronto, Ottawa, Waterloo Region, Windsor and London each produce their own city-oriented morning programs, nearly all Radio One rebroadcasters in smaller markets air Ontario Morning in place of their host station's program.
The program is produced from the studios of CBLA-FM at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, although it does not air on that station's primary transmitter in Toronto.
Ramraajh Sharvendiran is the program's host as of May 2022. Past hosts have included Sue Prestedge, Jane Hawtin, Joe Coté, Avril Benoit, Dave Seglins, Erika Ritter, Lorne Saxberg, Martina Fitzgerald, Wei Chen and Julianne Hazlewood.
References
External links
Official website
CBC Radio One programs
Canadian talk radio programs
1990s Canadian radio programs
2000s Canadian radio programs
2010s Canadian radio programs
2020s Canadian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNIJ | WNIJ (89.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to DeKalb, Illinois. The station is owned by Northern Illinois University, and is the flagship of Northern Public Radio's news/talk network, airing NPR news and adult album alternative) music programming.
External links
Northern Public Radio
NIJ
DeKalb, Illinois
Northern Illinois University
NPR member stations
NIJ
Radio stations established in 1954 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Chalk%20%28entrepreneur%29 | David Ian Chalk (born 1959) is a Canadian technology entrepreneur, cyber security specialist, and media personality who hosted the syndicated Dave Chalk's Computer Show, and its subsequent incarnations Dave Chalk Computer Life, Dave Chalk Connected Live, Dave Chalk Connected, and Dave Chalk Connected (In-flight).
Early life
Chalk was born in Croydon, England in September 1959 and relocated with his family to British Columbia, Canada. He had dyslexia, face blindness, and other conditions he acquired from brain damage at birth.
Education
Chalk completed high school, but did not finish his university degree.
Chalk was granted an Honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of the Fraser Valley’s Alumni Association board."
In May 2021 Chalk learned to read and spell; the entirety of his instruction was captured on film.
Career highlights
Chalk established one of the longest-running technology shows in Canada ("Dave Chalk's Computer Show").
He is the founder of more than 15 successful companies including Doppler Computer Superstores, Chalk Media, Decision-Zone Cyber Defence Technology, Trees Matter, New Century Video Streaming, and CalmWear™ Compression Clothing for Autism and most recently he helps create Mentorship programs within organizations.
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Canadian radio personalities
Living people
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Canadian businesspeople
BlackBerry Limited people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20C.%20Clarke%27s%20Mysterious%20World | Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World is a thirteen-part British television series looking at unexplained phenomena from around the world. It was produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network and first broadcast on 6 September 1980.
Each program is introduced and book-ended by author and inventor of the communications satellite Arthur C. Clarke in short sequences filmed in Sri Lanka. The bulk of the episodes are narrated by Gordon Honeycombe. The series was produced by John Fanshawe and John Fairley, and directed by Peter Jones, Michael Weigall and Charles Flynn. It also featured a unique soundtrack composed by British artist Alan Hawkshaw.
In 1980, Book Club Associates published a hardcover book with the same name, authored by Simon Welfare and John Fairley, where the contents of the show were further explored. It featured an introduction written by Clarke as well as his remarks at the end of each chapter or topic. In 1985, a paperback of this book was released by HarperCollins Publishers.
The series was followed by Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers in 1985 and Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe in 1994.
Episodes
Home release
In January 2008 the original series was released on DVD in the UK by Network and Granada. It features all of the 13 original episodes unedited and remastered.
A collection DVD Box Set of all three Arthur C. Clarke documentary series, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers and Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe was released in July 2013 by Visual Entertainment, which also re-released them separately in September 2013.
See also
In Search of... – a similar U.S. television show hosted by Leonard Nimoy beginning in the late 1970s
References
Shirlow, R. (2021). Revisiting the mysterious world of Arthur C Clarke. Fortean Times no. 410[Oct.]: 32–39.
Shirlow, R. (2021). Revisiting Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World: part 2. Fortean Times no. 411[Nov.]: 42–47.
Shirlow, R. (2021). Revisiting Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World: part 3. Fortean Times no. 412[Dec.]: 44–49.
External links
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
1980 British television series debuts
1980 British television series endings
ITV documentaries
UFO-related television
Paranormal television
Cryptozoological television series
Television series by Arthur C. Clarke
Television series by ITV Studios
Television series by Yorkshire Television
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror%20Hospital | Horror Hospital (also known as Computer Killers) is a 1973 British science-fiction comedy-horror film directed by Antony Balch and starring Robin Askwith, Michael Gough, Dennis Price and Skip Martin.
In the film, a failed songwriter decides to take a vacation at a health farm. His hosts actually want to lobotomize him, in order to turn him into an obedient zombie slave.
Plot
When attempts to break into the pop business leave him with nothing but a bloody nose, songwriter Jason Jones decides to take a break with 'Hairy Holidays', an outfit run by shifty, gay travel agent Pollock. After failing to chat Jason up, Pollock sends him to pseudo-health farm Brittlehurst Manor.
On the train journey there, Jason meets Judy who is travelling to the same destination to meet her long-lost aunt. Both are unaware that the health farm (i.e. "Horror Hospital") is a front for Dr. Storm and his lobotomy experiments that turn wayward hippies into his mindless zombie slaves.
The wheelchair-using doctor surrounds himself with an entourage that includes Judy's aunt, erstwhile brothel madam Olga, dwarf Frederick and numerous zombie biker thugs. Dr. Storm also has a Princess car, fitted with a giant blade that decapitates escapees and interfering parties. Abraham arrives at the Horror Hospital "looking for his chick" and is promptly whacked around the head by the motorcycle zombies. Frederick, fed up at literally being Storm's whipping boy, helps the kids escape – paving the way for the 1970s youth to put the final spanner/wrench in the works to Storm's scheme.
Cast
Michael Gough – Dr. Christian Storm
Robin Askwith – Jason Jones
Vanessa Shaw – Judy Peters
Ellen Pollock – Aunt Harris
Dennis Price – Mr. Pollack
Skip Martin – Frederick
Kurt Christian – Abraham Warren
Barbara Wendy – Millie
Kenneth Benda – Carter
Martin Grace– Bike Boy
Colin Skeaping – Bike Boy
George Herbert – Laboratory Assistant
Susan Murphy – Lobotomy Victim Number 1.
James Boris IV – "Mystic" Band Member (as James IV Boris)
Alan Laurence Hudson – "Mystic" Band Member (as Allan "The River" Hudson)
Simon Lust – "Mystic" Band Member
Alan Watson – Transvestite in Club (uncredited)
Antony Balch – Bearded Man in Club/Bike Boy (uncredited)
Ray Corbett – Hunting Man (uncredited)
Richard Gordon – Man in Club (uncredited)
Production
After the success of his feature film debut Secrets of Sex (1969), an anthology sex film that flirted with horror themes, Antony Balch envisioned his second film as an out-and-out horror film and one with a continuous narrative. Location filming was undertaken in and around Knebworth House near Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
Writing
The script was written by Balch and his friend Alan Watson during the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, although the film's title was thought up before the plot. Among Watson's ideas for the Horror Hospital script was the lethal Rolls-Royce, with its giant blade that decapitated people as it drove by.
Filming
The film was shot durin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCC%20Alliance | The DCC Alliance (DCCA) was an industry association designed to promote a common subset of the Debian Linux operating system that multiple companies within the consortium could distribute. It was founded by Ian Murdock in 2005 and was wound up in 2007.
History
The main force behind the DCC Alliance was Ian Murdock, the original founder of the Debian project. The DCC Alliance was formed whilst Murdock was CEO of Progeny Linux Systems, and he remained the key spokesperson for the consortium during their visible existence. The founding of the DCC Alliance was announced at LinuxWorld San Francisco on the 9 August 2005, following a number of pre-announcements.
The stated intention was to assemble a standards-based core of Debian, provide a predictable release cycle and Linux Standards Base compliance.
DCC Alliance shipped their first code 6 months after the original pre-announcements, providing a Linux Standards Base (LSB) 3.0 compliant set of program packages based on those available from Debian.
The Alliance's primary goals were to:
Assemble a 100 percent Debian common core that addresses the needs of enterprise business users
Maintain certification of the common core with the Free Standards Group open specification, the Linux Standard Base
Use the Alliance's combined strength to accelerate the commercial adoption of Debian
Work with the Debian project to ensure predictable release cycles and features important to commercial adoption
Membership
There were two classes of membership in the DCC Alliance:
Members, those organisation creating products based on the DCC-provided core subset of packages.
Knoppix, LinEx, Linspire, MEPIS, Progeny, Sun Wah Linux, Xandros
Associate Members, Independent software vendors, hardware vendors, OEMs and community partners providing related support or business.
credativ, Skolelinux, UserLinux
Membership remained open to additional organizations with an interest in Debian-based solutions. The most visible absent from any involvement was the Ubuntu distribution who declined to join the Alliance. The Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth, stated in 2006 that he did not believe that the DCC Alliance had any future.
One of the founding members, MEPIS, later left the DCCA, citing "creative differences". MEPIS transitioned their SimplyMEPIS Linux distribution from a Debian Unstable/DCCA-provided core to an Ubuntu-based one.
In 2006 Ian Murdock left the DCC Alliance to chair the Linux Standard Base workgroup and later moved his employment to Sun Microsystems. In 2007, Progeny, the original driver behind the consortium was wound up. In 2006, Xandros was still claiming that Xandros "leads the engineering team at the DCCA".
Name
When originally formed, the names given to the media were that of the "Debian Core Consortium", and then "Debian Common Core". Following trademark notification from the Debian project, the name was withdrawn and replaced—without a formal announcement—by "DCC Alliance". Ian Murdock explain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noorin%20TV | Noorin TV (), sometimes shortened as NTV, is a private non-governmental satellite television network that broadcasts from Kabul in Afghanistan. The service was launched in 2007.
Noorin broadcasts news, cartoons, films, dramas, music, and many other type of programmes. Their goal is to integrate western influence in Afghan television and create a modern bench mark for how television network stations are run in Afghanistan.
The channel is available in Afghanistan and Europe through the Turksat 3A satellite. They also have a radio station, called Noorin FM, available throughout Afghanistan on 94.4FM. The channel airs Hindi serials dubbed in Persian and Dari such as Kahiin To Hoga. It is the fifth most watched channel in Afghanishtan, Lemar TV being the fourth.
See also
List of Afghan TV Channels
References
Television stations in Afghanistan
Persian-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Mass media in Kabul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNPR | Connecticut Public Radio, commonly known as WNPR, is a network of public radio stations in the state of Connecticut, western Massachusetts, and eastern Long Island, affiliated with NPR (National Public Radio). It is owned by Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, which also owns Connecticut Public Television (CPTV).
The radio network airs primarily news and talk from NPR along with several locally produced programs. It is headquartered with CPTV in Hartford, and operates an additional studio in New Haven.
History
In the early 1970s, WTIC in Hartford dropped its longtime classical music format in favor of adult contemporary music, and sold its library to CPTV. Looking for a way to put the library to use, CPTV decided to get into radio. At the time, while Hartford got a fairly decent signal from WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts, and much of southwestern Connecticut was covered by WNYC-AM-FM in New York City, most of the rest of the state did not even get a grade B signal from an NPR station. New Haven, for instance, had to content itself with a translator of WFCR on 90.5 FM. Finding available frequencies proved difficult, however. In addition to the crowded state of the noncommercial end of the FM dial in the Northeast, there was a considerable glut of 10-watt stations in the state. Ultimately, CPTV bought the 90.5 frequency from the Friends of WFCR, the New Haven group that owned the WFCR translator, and used it as the linchpin for what would become Connecticut Public Radio.
The network's first station, WPBH, signed on in June 1978. The station was licensed to Meriden, halfway between Hartford and New Haven, in order to serve both cities (Hartford and New Haven, then as now, are separate radio markets). CPBI originally wanted the WNPR calls, but the FCC turned it down due to objections from WPLR in New Haven, which claimed the calls sounded too similar. It became WPKT in 1984 after board chairman Homer D. Babbidge Jr. requested the FCC change the call letters to honor CPBN head Paul K. Taff.
WNPR (89.1 FM) in Norwich followed in 1981, WEDW-FM (88.5 FM) in Stamford in 1985 and WRLI-FM (91.3 FM) on Long Island in 1993.
On September 15, 2011, WPKT and WNPR swapped call signs. Although 90.5 FM has always been the flagship station, the network had been using WNPR as its on-air name since the 1990s.
For the first 20 years of its existence, the network broadcast a mix of classical music, jazz and NPR talk. However, starting in the late 1990s, WNPR began gradually increasing the news programming on its schedule. One of the first casualties of this change was the popular classical music program Morning pro musica, which was fed from WGBH-FM in Boston. The program had aired on WNPR as part of the terms by which the Friends of WFCR sold the 90.5 frequency to CPBI. However, by the late 1990s, this resulted in WNPR only being able to run the first hour of Morning Edition. Ultimately, WNPR decided to cancel Morning pro musica, even though network execu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZJR | WZJR (91.7 FM) is a radio station in Portland, Indiana. It was originally established in 1996 as WBSJ by Ball State University It primarily featured National Public Radio programming. The transmitter for WBSJ failed in January 2019. Ball State University, the license owner, chose not to replace it due to cost. In April 2020, Ball State University announced its intention to sell WBSJ to Jayland Radio, Inc. for $40,702.43; the sale was consummated on August 31, 2020.
References
External links
Indiana Public Radio official website
ZJR
Radio stations established in 1998
1998 establishments in Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSOM | WSOM (89.5 FM) is a radio station in Franklin, Indiana, United States. Owned by Inter Mirifica, Inc., the station is part of its regional Catholic Radio Indy network.
The station was built as WFCI by Franklin College in 1960. WFCI was originally a student-programmed station, which broadcast various music formats over the years as well as Franklin College sports events. After a license challenge in 2004, WFCI entered an agreement to rebroadcast public radio station WFYI-FM in Indianapolis. In 2022, Franklin College sold the station, which had become redundant in its coverage area and sports broadcasts.
History
WFCI began broadcasting at 89.3 MHz on October 15, 1960. Broadcasting from a tower emblazoned with the call letters atop Yandell Cline Hall on the FC campus, the station's initial programming featured classical music, educational features, and local college and high school sports events.
Like many noncommercial educational stations of the time, WFCI initially broadcast with 10 watts. However, by the late 1970s, the station began exploring a power increase. In May 1976, the station applied to move to 89.5 MHz and increase its power to 4,000 watts. The move was prompted when a co-channel college radio station in Louisville, Kentucky, offered to donate its 3,000-watt transmitter to Franklin College as it pursued a power increase of its own. The proposed technical changes met with a detractor: WRTV, the channel 6 television station in Indianapolis. Channel 6, between 82 and 88 MHz, is adjacent to the noncommercial educational reserved band. WRTV warned that the WFCI power boost would impair reception of its signal in Franklin. The WRTV dispute dragged on, with the WFCI improvements in the balance, until the two parties settled in 1981; WRTV dropped its opposition and the station cut back its planned increase to 500 watts. After having been with the station since its beginning, founding director Raymond Cowan retired at the end of the 1984–85 school year.
It would not be until 1985, however, that the power increase finally occurred. After being silent all year, WFCI activated a new transmitter facility on the WTTV tower near Trafalgar and increased its power to 1,000 watts that October. By this time, the station was airing a contemporary hit radio format tailored to a student audience.
WFCI shifted toward a more typical alternative rock music format in the 1990s, putting it up against Indianapolis station WRZX (103.3 FM).
Partnership with WFYI
In the summer of 2004, several Indiana radio station licenses were challenged by Hoosier Public Radio of Greenfield, run by Marty Hensley. These school-operated stations, including WFCI, did not broadcast a full 24-hour day, and Hoosier tried to force them into sharing time with them on their frequencies by way of a little-used Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule. This produced a problem for WFCI, because it was entirely run by student DJs. In the wake of the challenge, WFCI began broadcasti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Hugunin | Jim Hugunin is a software programmer who created the Python programming language extension Numeric (ancestor to NumPy), and later created Python implementations for the Java Platform (Jython) and for Microsoft .NET platform (IronPython); he has also co-designed the AspectJ extension for the Java programming language. He worked for Microsoft from 2004 to 2010, mainly on IronPython and Dynamic Language Runtime.
In October 2010, after Microsoft abandoned the IronPython project, Hugunin left Microsoft to work for Google.
On his personal website, he described Microsoft's decision regarding IronPython as "a catalyst but not the cause of my leaving the company", and said that having "a healthy relationship with Open Source code and communities" at Microsoft was "possible" but "felt like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole". According to LinkedIn, Jim left Google in May 2013.
In December 2017, Jim launched a beta version of a cloth simulator called Artful Physics.
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Java (programming language)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNNB | KNNB (88.1 FM) is a public radio station in Whiteriver, Arizona. It primarily features local programming for the Apache Native American community, plus networked programming from National Public Radio and Native Voice One.
External links
KNNB reference
NPR member stations
NNB
Native American radio
Apache culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUYI | KUYI 88.1 FM, is a Native American Public Radio station in Keams Canyon, Arizona. The station, founded in 2000, primarily features locally produced programming for the Hopi, Tewa, and Navajo Native American tribal residents, surrounding communities in Northern Arizona, the Four Corners areas and streaming worldwide. Other network programming is provided by Native Voice One. Top of the hour news updates from National Public Radio are aired Monday through Friday. Its musical programming is a mix of traditional Hopi and modern music.
As of August 2012, KUYI was broadcasting to an audience estimated at 9,000 people. Its programs include a junior and senior high school class that broadcasts in Hopi, a morning Sunday show aimed at small children, and cultural discussions for adults that are held according to the lunar calendar, in keeping with Hopi tradition.
The station's name, Kuyi, is also the Hopi word for "water." A language revitalization project, The Shooting Stars Hopi Lavayi Radio Project, has been developed with the Polacca Head Start Center, broadcasting in the First Mesa Dialect for students.
As of 2009, all programs were produced by Hopi tribal members. Other local programming has included a weekly teen program by students of Hopi High School, and a health program in partnership with the Hopi Health Care Center. In 2007, the station began presenting Annual "Listeners' Choice" awards. The categories for 2010 were: Best Traditional Artist, Best Female Artist, Best Male Artist, and Best Contemporary Artist; the awards celebration was held at the Hopi Cultural Center.
The station played an important role in emergency response in 2010, due to its "69,000 watt signal [that] echoes across the canyons and bounces off the mesas that make up the 1.5 million acre reservation." In January 2010, the Hopi reservation was without power for two days as the result of a winter storm. KUYI stayed on the air, even when larger radio stations in Flagstaff, Arizona were not operational, and provided emergency information to four counties.
Floods in July 2010 left the First Mesa Consolidated Villages without potable water or sewage. KUYI was able to keep its listeners informed for the three days it took for water trucks to arrive.
References
External links
KUYI: Official Website
KUYI: Facebook
KUYI: Twitter
Native American radio
UYI
KUYI
Native American language revitalization
Hopi culture
UYI
Navajo mass media
Hopi
Tewa
2000 establishments in Arizona
Radio stations established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGHR | KGHR (91.3 FM), is a Non-Commericial Radio station in Tuba City, Arizona. It primarily features Native American information and entertainment including locally produced programming for the Native American tribal residents and surrounding communities in Northern Arizona, Monument Valley, and Grand Canyon area. Other network programming is provided by Koahnic Broadcast Corporation's National Native News, Native Voice One, Mainstream, Indigefy and more.
History
KGHR was assigned its callsign on December 7, 1989. The station initially broadcast on 91.5 MHz and took years to come to air, requiring various construction permit extensions and replacements. It was not until February 1993 that KGHR applied for a license to cover. In 2003, the station filed to move to 91.3; it doubled its power in 2006.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
External links
KGHR Official Website
GHR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWIT | KWIT (90.3 FM) is the National Public Radio member station for Sioux City, Iowa and northwestern Iowa. It airs a mix of NPR programming and classical music. Owned by Western Iowa Tech Community College, it operates a full-time satellite, KOJI (90.7 FM) in Okoboji, Iowa. It is the largest NPR station in Iowa that is not a part of Iowa Public Radio.
KWIT signed on for the first time on January 31, 1978. Prior to then, most of the area got grade B coverage from WOI in Ames, and from KUSD in Vermillion, South Dakota.
After several years of branding as "KWIT-KOJI", in 2017 it adopted the on-air name "Siouxland Public Media".
Syndicated Shows
Iowa Basement Tapes
Iowa Basement Tapes is an American weekly hour-long radio program created by host Kristian Day and produced in collaboration with KFMG-LP (98.9 FM). The show focuses on Iowa's history in punk rock, garage, metal, and electronic. It is syndicated on KWIT (90.3FM) and KOJI (90.7FM) broadcasting on Fridays from 11PM to Midnight.
External links
KWIT official website
NPR member stations
WIT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Kansas | Radio Kansas is a network of public radio stations serving central Kansas. The network is based at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson. It comprises flagship KHCC-FM (90.1 FM in Hutchinson, also serving Wichita) and two full-time satellites, KHCD (89.5 FM) in Salina and KHCT (90.9 FM) in Great Bend. The three stations air a mix of classical music and American Public Media programming including BBC news.
History
The flagship station, KHCC, was licensed July 14, 1972 and first signed on air September 11, 1972 as an 80-watt student station operated by what was then Hutchinson Junior Community College. In 1978, HJCC hired its first professional station manager, David Horning, as part of an effort to upgrade the station to an NPR member. On July 1, 1979, KHCC increased power to a full 100,000 watts and joined NPR, becoming Kansas' third full NPR member. This also made Wichita one of the smallest markets with two competing NPR member stations. KHCC brought NPR programming to several Wichita suburbs who, at the time, got only a marginal signal from the market's other NPR member, KMUW; that station would not upgrade to full power until 1987.
KHCD was added on January 28, 1988, followed by KHCT on August 3, 1992. More or less out of necessity, when KHCT signed on, KHCC rebranded itself as "Radio Kansas." Radio Kansas now serves a broadcast area with over one million, with a combined footprint covering most of the densely populated area of central Kansas.
Radio Kansas began broadcasting in the HD Radio format in 2006, one of the first NPR members to do so. In 2012, it signed on three additional HD streams on all three stations. HD2 ("New Grass Valley") is a full-time folk and bluegrass station, HD3 airs contemporary instrumental music ("The Breeze") and HD4 airs jazz ("Radio Kansas Jazz").
References
External links
Official website
KHCC-FM
NPR member networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Plains%20Public%20Radio | High Plains Public Radio is a network of public radio stations serving the High Plains region of western Kansas, the Texas Panhandle, the Oklahoma Panhandle and eastern Colorado. Operated by the Kanza Society, it is headquartered in Garden City, Kansas and operates an additional studio in Amarillo, Texas.
History
The Kanza Society was founded in 1977. The network's flagship station, KANZ (91.1 FM) in Garden City, signed on in 1980 from a studio at a converted elementary school in nearby Pierceville. Since then, HPPR has added eleven other full-power stations in Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas, as well as low-powered translators in Kansas and Texas. Most of these areas had never been previously served by an NPR station.
HPPR's coverage area is made up mostly of rural areas and small towns; by far the largest urban center is Amarillo.
The network offers two HD Radio subchannels. HD1 is a simulcast of the analog signal's NPR/classical/jazz format. HD2 is "HPPR Connect," which provides an extended schedule of news programming. Both channels are streamed live on the Internet.
Stations
Low power translators
High Plains Public Radio also has low-powered repeaters throughout western Kansas, as well as the northern panhandle of Texas.
External links
NPR member networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEBF | WEBF (88.3 FM) is a K-LOVE-affiliated radio station in Lerose, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by Hour of Harvest, Inc. and features programming from K-Love. The station is also broadcast on HD radio.
In 2006, Governor Ernie Fletcher honored the station with the Arts Broadcasting Award..
History
The station went on the air as WSPE on 8 January 1999, owned by the Owsley County Schools with studios at Owsley County High School. On 31 July 2001, the station changed its call sign to WOCS, and on 23 March 2011, the station changed its call sign again to the current WEBF.
From 2001 to 2011, then-WOCS served as a repeater for Morehead State University's NPR station, WMKY. However, in 2011, Owsley County Schools sold the station to Hour of Harvest, who then leased the station to K-LOVE.
References
External links
K-Love radio stations
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Kentucky
EBF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMKY | WMKY (90.3 FM) is a National Public Radio-affiliated station in Morehead, Kentucky. It primarily features National Public Radio programming. Its coverage area extends from the Lexington metropolitan area in the west to the Huntington-Ashland metropolitan area in the east and from southern Ohio in the north to Hazard, Kentucky in the south.
External links
WMKY official website
NPR member stations
MKY
Morehead State University
College radio stations in Kentucky |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKMS-FM | WKMS-FM (91.3 FM), is a non-commercial National Public Radio-affiliated station operated by Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. WKMS features a variety of NPR programming and local music shows including classical music, bluegrass, alternative rock, jazz, electronica and world music. WKMS signed on for the first time on May 11, 1970, as a non-commercial, educational FM station licensed to MSU.
Overview
The station now broadcasts in analog FM stereo and HD Digital on 91.3 MHz, with 100,000 watts of analog and 1,000 watts of digital power, from antennas nearly 600 feet above average terrain currently located at the Land Between the Lakes, and streams these signals on the internet. The station also operates translators in Paducah, Madisonville, and Murray. In 2009, WKMS installed repeater services for Madisonville as well as Fulton, which also covers Martin and Union City, Tennessee.
The station's signal reaches southernmost Illinois, far western Kentucky, and northwestern Tennessee. Listeners elsewhere can visit wkms.org to hear its programs.
The station offers two separate channels of programming on its digital signal: HD-1 simulcasts programming on analog 91.3 FM, while HD-2 offers classical music programming 24 hours a day. WKMS has emergency auxiliary transmitters at its tower on the site of the former Mont, Kentucky in the Land Between the Lakes territory, and at its studios on the eighth floor of Price Doyle Fine Arts Center at MSU.
WKMS also broadcasts programming from American Public Media, the Public Radio Exchange, the BBC, the Associated Press, independent producers from around the nation, and local content by staff or volunteers. WKMS News is a contributing correspondent to the Kentucky Public Radio News Exchange and a partner in funding the Kentucky Capitol Bureau.
History
Early history
In 1948 WNBS radio owner Chuck Shuffett gave the Murray State drama department an hour a week of airtime on his station to broadcast plays adapted for radio. It was not until October 4, 1949, though, that the first broadcast from what was then Murray State College was heard, with Murray State College on the Air. The studio from which the program was broadcast consisted of a handmade control board located in the old Economics room on the third floor of Wilson Hall. The title of the show was changed in the 1950s to The Thoroughbred Hour and broadcast nightly half-hour segments. The content changed from radio drama to campus information. The Thoroughbred Hour was under the direction of Charles Henry Stamps through the use of a telephone line.
In 1962, The Thoroughbred Hour'''s staff was split into an audio department and a technical department under the direction of a student program director and a student chief engineer. In the early 1960s, a news department was added, emphasizing in-depth, on-the-spot reporting for the Jackson Purchase region of southwestern Kentucky. In 1964 an official station manager, program director and engineer wer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Intelligence%202.0 | Business Intelligence 2.0 (BI 2.0) is a development of the existing business intelligence model that began in the mid-2000s, where data can be obtained from many sources. The process allows for the querying of real-time corporate data by employees, but approaches the data with a web browser based solution. This is in contrast to previous proprietary querying tools that characterizes previous BI software.
Overview
The growth in service-oriented architectures (SOA) is one of the main factors for the development of BI 2.0, which is intended to be more flexible and adaptive than normal business intelligence. Data exchange processes also differ, with XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language), Web Services and various Semantic Web ontologies enable using data external to an organization, such as benchmarking type information.
Business Intelligence 2.0 is believed to have been named after Web 2.0, although it takes elements from both Web 2.0 (a focus on user empowerment and community collaboration, technologies like RSS and the concept of mashups), and the Semantic Web, sometimes called “Web 3.0” (semantic integration through shared ontologies to enable easier exchange of data).
According to analytics expert Neil Raden, BI 2.0 also implies a move away from the standard data warehouse that business intelligence tools have used, which “will give way to context, contingency, and the need to relate information quickly from many sources.”
See also
Enterprise bookmarking
Linked data
Object-based
Ontology alignment
Relationship extraction
Semantic grid
Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL)
Semantic wiki
Social BI
Spreadmart
Synonym ring
People
Don Tapscott
David Weinberger
References
Further reading
Interviews
Business intelligence
Cloud applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJJP | KJJP (105.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Amarillo, Texas. The station is owned by Kanza Society, Inc., and is an affiliate of the High Plains Public Radio network.
History
The station began broadcasting December 6, 1991, airing an easy listening format, and held the call sign KAEZ. It adopted a soft AC format in 1993. In 1999, the station was sold to KXOJ, Inc. for $750,000, and it adopted a Christian contemporary format. The station was branded "The Breeze".
In 2004, the station was sold to Kanza Society Inc. for $1.25 million and it became an affiliate of High Plains Public Radio. On October 8, 2004, its call sign was changed to KJJP. Although Amarillo is the largest urban center in the HPPR coverage area, this was the first time most of the area had received a clear signal from an NPR station. The region had already been served by HPPR repeater KTXP in nearby Bushland, but it operated at only 1,000 watts; its signal was so weak that HPPR had to install a low-powered translator serving Amarillo itself at 94.9 FM.
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External links
hppr.org
NPR member stations
JJP
Radio stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4690%20Operating%20System | 4690 Operating System (sometimes shortened to 4690 OS or 4690) is a specially designed point of sale (POS) operating system, originally sold by IBM. In 2012, IBM sold its retail business, including this product, to Toshiba, which assumed support. 4690 is widely used by IBM and Toshiba retail customers to run retail systems which run their own applications and others.
4690 is the successor product to IBM 4680 OS, which was in use by IBM customers since 1986. The original 4680 OS was based on Digital Research's Concurrent DOS 286, a system thereafter renamed to FlexOS 286 in November 1986.
In July 1993, IBM adopted FlexOS version 2.32 as the basis of their 4690 OS version 1. FlexOS 2.32 supported 286 (Intel 80286) and 386 (Intel 80386) modes and had no limit on applications running concurrently.
In 1995, IBM licensed IMS REAL/32 7.50, a derivative of Digital Research's Multiuser DOS and thereby a successor to Concurrent DOS 386, to bundle it with their 4695 POS terminals.
According to the article "The Year of the Store?", IHL Consulting Group/RIS News, IBM 4690 OS still had a market share of 12% in the POS register client market in June 2005, when IBM was starting to phase it out in favor of IBM Retail Environment for SUSE (IRES).
IBM continued to maintain 4690 OS until April 2015, with the most recent version released by IBM in May 2012 being IBM 4690 OS Version 6 Release 3, which was supported until 2017 under special contracts with big-name companies.
Meanwhile, Toshiba has released Toshiba 4690 OS Version 6 Release 4 (V6R4) in January 2014, and Version 6 Release 5 (V6R5) in January 2016. In 2018, a Linux-based successor of 4690 OS, named TCx Sky and codeveloped with Wind River Systems, was launched. Soon after, Toshiba discontinued 4690 OS for new customers; it is, however, still supported under service contracts signed between Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions and stores still using 4690 OS on their POS terminals. The latest security update (CSD Level 2010) was released in December 2020, only for 4690 OS Version 6 Release 5.
Retailers are using the 4690 Operating System for their operations because of its many retail-specific and reliability features. In addition to running on IBM hardware, third-party vendors have exploited the 4690 features on competitive hardware.
Supported hardware
4690 supports many POS terminal devices, store controller servers, and combination controller–terminals. The 4690 documentation contains a list of supported POS devices, some in use over 20 years. The family of IBM Universal Serial Bus (USB) POS devices that 4690 supports includes keyboards, displays, and cash drawers. 4690 also supports other input/output (I/O) devices designed and conforming to IBM's USB POS device interface specifications. IBM makes interface specifications available to third-party vendors to enable them to connect their devices to POS terminals using RS-485, RS-232, and USB connections.
IBM provides a Controller Matrix document wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KETR | KETR (88.9 FM) is a 100-kW noncommercial broadcast radio station operating in Commerce, Texas, licensed to Texas A&M University-Commerce. A member of the National Public Radio network, the station serves nearly 250,000 Northeast Texas homes. The staff is composed of radio professionals and Texas A&M-Commerce students who major in either journalism or mass communication studies. KETR also produces original long-form and short-form radio programming.
History
KETR began in the early 1970s as the director of the East Texas State University radio-television program, Dr. David Rigney, developed an FCC application for an FM station that would be a teaching laboratory for students. KETR's first broadcast went on the air on April 7, 1975. The station operated in a former classroom on the first floor of the Journalism Building, with Phil Ebensberger, a veteran Texas commercial radio broadcaster, as general manager and morning-show host. The weekday programming originally emphasized local news, information, and middle-of-the-road music from early-morning sign-on to early afternoon; classical music in the early afternoon (this was soon replaced by jazz); National Public Radio’s All Things Considered in the late afternoon; various public affairs programs in the early evening, including live broadcasts of Commerce City Commission meetings; and Freeform, a student-hosted rock music program from 9 pm to midnight. Weekend programs predominantly featured classical music or opera, such as the long-running Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcasts.
In 1977, the station moved from its quarters in the Journalism Building to new studios in the Performing Arts Center, where it shared facilities with the Radio-TV program. KETR remained in the Performing Arts Center until it moved to new facilities in Binnion Hall in 2008. In the early 1980s, after Ebensberger departed, general manager Bill Oellermann obtained FCC approval and a grant to raise KETR’s tower height and to increase power from about 10,000 watts to 100,000 watts. This increased the station’s broadcast range from about 20 miles to 75 miles. After moving away from National Public Radio programming in the mid-1980s, KETR once again features All Things Considered and Morning Edition, among other NPR programs. KETR was one of the original stations carrying Morning Edition when it debuted in 1979.
Local programs
KETR has several programs that focus on Commerce and the Northeast Texas area. Counties that are typically covered with local news in addition to Hunt County, where Commerce is located, are neighboring Rockwall, Collin, Fannin, Hopkins, Delta, and Rains Counties.
Among the local shows are:
Notably Texan' is focused on Texas music and Texas musicians with host Matt Meinke. North by Northeast is a weekly call-in show presenting "Stories that matter to Northeast Texas". Topics include development, education, health care, the environment, and the economy. Sports and fine arts are also featured.Outdoors Wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa%20Public%20Radio | Marfa Public Radio is a network of public radio stations serving the Big Bend region of Far West Texas. Headquartered in Marfa, Texas, it is a member of National Public Radio.
Marfa Public Radio broadcasts on four frequencies in the Big Bend–flagship KRTS 93.5 FM in Marfa and full-time satellites KRTP 91.7 FM in Alpine, KDKY 91.5 FM in Marathon, and KOJP 95.3 FM in Presidio. Marfa Public Radio also operates KXWT, the NPR member for Odessa, Midland and the Permian Basin. The station features news and talk programming from NPR, plus local affairs and original music programs from the Big Bend.
History
In 2010/2011, approximately half of the station's budget came from the CPB. The station came into its own in 2011, when the Rock House fire broke out during its spring pledge drive. For the next three weeks, the station was a vital source of information about weather conditions, road conditions and evacuations. That coverage played a role in the pledge drive being the most successful in the station's history up to that point. It has since received significant support from across Texas, enabling it to hire a full-time news staff for the first time.
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See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
NPR member stations
RTS
Community radio stations in the United States
Marfa, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20step%20algorithm | A sequence step algorithm (SQS-AL) is an algorithm implemented in a discrete event simulation system to maximize resource utilization. This is achieved by running through two main nested loops: A sequence step loop and a replication loop. For each sequence step, each replication loop is a simulation run that collects crew idle time for activities in that sequence step. The collected crew idle times are then used to determine resource arrival dates for user-specified confidence levels. The process of collecting the crew idle times and determining crew arrival times for activities on a considered sequence step is repeated from the first to the last sequence step.
See also
Computational resource
Linear scheduling method
References
Further reading
Photios G. Ioannou and Chachrist Srisuwanrat Sequence Step Algorithm for Continuous Resource Utilization in Probabilistic Repetitive Projects
Scheduling algorithms
Network theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLGU%20%28FM%29 | KLGU (90.3 FM) is a radio station located in Saint George, Utah, and is a part of the K-Love network. The station broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music format, broadcasting with a 2,000-watt transmitter. The station services southwest Utah, western Arizona and adjoining areas of Clark County and Lincoln County, Nevada.
History
The station was assigned the call letters KZBS on 2004-03-29. On 2005-07-01, the station changed its call sign to KSGU. On November 1, 2005, KSGU became the sixth station in the Nevada Public Radio family, simulcasting KNPR in Las Vegas.
In April 2020, Nevada Public Radio sold KSGU to the Educational Media Foundation for $382,000; EMF's lone presence in the city was a translator prior to the sale. The call letters were changed to KLGU on June 11, 2020, coincident with the consummation of the sale, and the station began broadcasting K-Love, which had previously aired on the translator. Public radio service continued to St. George through repeaters for KUER-FM and Utah Public Radio.
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External links
K-Love radio stations
Radio stations established in 2006
2006 establishments in Utah
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
LGU (FM) |
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