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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented%20programming | Service-oriented programming (SOP) is a programming paradigm that uses "services" as the unit of computer work, to design and implement integrated business applications and mission critical software programs. Services can represent steps of business processes and thus one of the main applications of this paradigm is the cost-effective delivery of standalone or composite business applications that can "integrate from the inside-out". It inherently promotes service-oriented architecture (SOA), however, it is not the same as SOA. While SOA focuses on communication between systems using "services", SOP provides a new technique to build agile application modules using in-memory services as the unit of work.
An in-memory service in SOP can be transparently externalized as a web service operation. Due to language and platform independent Web Service standards, SOP embraces all existing programming paradigms, languages and platforms. In SOP, the design of the programs pivot around the semantics of service calls, logical routing and data flow description across well-defined service interfaces. All SOP program modules are encapsulated as services and a service can be composed of other nested services in a hierarchical manner with virtually limitless depth to this service stack hierarchy. A composite service can also contain programming constructs some of which are specific and unique to SOP. A service can be an externalized system component that is accessed via any proprietary API or web service standards utilizing an in-memory plug-in technique.
While SOP supports the basic programming constructs for sequencing, selection and iteration, it is differentiated with a slew of new programming constructs that provide built-in native ability geared towards data list manipulation, data integration, automated multithreading of service modules, declarative context management and synchronization of services. SOP design enables programmers to semantically synchronize the execution of services in order to guarantee that it is correct, or to declare a service module as a transaction boundary with automated commit/rollback behavior.
Semantic design tools and runtime automation platforms can be built to support the fundamental concepts of SOP. For example, a service virtual machine (SVM) that automatically creates service objects as units of work and manages their context can be designed to run based on the SOP program metadata stored in XML and created by a design-time automation tool. In SOA terms, the SVM is both a service producer and a service consumer.
Fundamental concepts
SOP concepts provide a robust base for a semantic approach to programming integration and application logic. There are three significant benefits to this approach:
Semantically, it can raise the level of abstraction for creating composite business applications and thus significantly increase responsiveness to change (i.e. business agility).
Gives rise to the unification of integration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Crime%20Information%20Center | China Crime Information Center (, CCIC) is the central database for tracking crime-related information of China. The CCIC is maintained by the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China () since 1994.
Law enforcement agencies of China
Criminal records |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pousada%20de%20Dona%20Maria%20I | The Pousada of D. Maria is part of the Pousadas de Portugal network of lodgings, housed in the historical servants quarters/annex of the Queluz National Palace, located in the civil parish of Queluz in the municipality of Sintra in the Portuguese sub-region of Greater Lisbon.
Built in the Baroque-style, its five-stage bell tower provides an ecclesiastical appearance to the structure, due to surmounted floral finials. In age, it is contemporary with the main palace, dating from the mid-18th century. The tower is visible from many parts of the palace and from certain vantage points appears to be part of the palace itself.
History
In 1654, the estate of Queluz, which pertained to the Marquess of Castelo Rodrigo, passes into the hands of the Royal Household, and incorporated into the Casa do Infantado.
Under the direction of the Infante Peter (later to be Peter III of Portugal after his marriage to Queen Maria, in 1747, construction begins on the National Palace of Queluz (which was intended as a summer retreat). A long project, around 1758 the remodeling of the palace was under the direction of Mateus Vicente de Oliveira, who was regularly required in Lisbon, to help in the reconstruction of the city. In his place Jean Baptiste Robillon, better known for his work on the palaces gardens, acted in his place. In 1782, after Robillon's death, the project at Queluz was placed in the hands of Manuel Caetano de Sousa, with the palace expanded to provide quarters for the Royal Guard, administration, stables and other dependencies, including the Torre do Relógio (Tower Clock). The first great leap in construction at Queluz ended with the death of Peter III in 1786. The wing was originally intended to house servants and the members of the Royal Guard when the Portuguese Royal Court was in residence at Queluz.
A decade later, the Palace was converted into the official residences of the Portuguese Royal family.
On the eve of the Portuguese revolution, King Manuel II ceded the estate to the National Treasury ().
Around 1924, the spaces contiguous to the clock tower were used as a primary school.
In 1995, the Pousada D. Maria, was installed in the spaces of the tower and ancillary block, after extensive remodeling, under the direction of Carlos Oliveira Ramos. The building was named for Maria I of Portugal, whose consort (Peter III) initiated the transformation of the small estate into summer palace.
On 20 August 1996, a dispatch was opened to classify the building; on 23 October 2009, the process to classify the structure expired, under terms of the article 78, of Decree 309/2009, Diário da República, Série 1 (206).
Architecture
The building, which is a singular feature of the palace's cour d'honneur, includes one wing which is curved to match the opposite lateral wall of the cour d'honneur. The building is isolated to the northeast, across an accessway from the main body of the National Palace and the buildings of the national Anti-Aircraft Artillery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFNI | WFNI (1070 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Indianapolis, Indiana. It is owned by Emmis Communications and carries a sports format, featuring ESPN Radio programming. The studios and offices are located at 40 Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis.
WFNI's AM signal, 50,000 watts by day and 10,000 watts at night, went dark at midnight on August 3, 2021. Emmis Broadcasting sold the land on which the six-tower array stood, off Perry Worth Drive near Interstate 65 in Whitestown, Indiana. Emmis says it is looking for a new site for its AM transmitter but none has been found yet.
1070 AM as WIBC
Early years
The station signed on the air on October 30, 1938. Its original call sign, WIBC, stood for the owner, the Indiana Broadcasting Company. The construction permit had previously held the call letters WGVA, for Glenn Van Auken. He was the company's president. WIBC began as a 1,000-watt daytime-only station. It was sold in 1939 to H. G. Wall.
The station was approved in 1940 to broadcast at night. It moved from 1050 to 1070 kilocycles as part of the enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) in 1941. With the move, the daytime power increased to 5,000 watts. Initially independent, the station became a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System in April 1941.
WIBC was sold in 1944 to the Indianapolis News, making it the first newspaper in Indiana to own a radio station. Four years later, WIBC was separated from the Indianapolis News and sold directly to Charles M. Fairbanks and his associates, who owned the newspaper. In 1950, WIBC got a power boost to 50,000 watts by day and 10,000 watts at night.
Fairbanks attempted to start a television station on Channel 13. However, the Federal Communications Commission ruled in favor of the competing bid of the Cincinnati-based Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, which launched WLWI. Fairbanks sued, arguing that a local owner should be prioritized for the last VHF allocation available in town. Fairbanks prevailed in the initial battle to have the 1957 grant to Crosley overturned, but the FCC set aside the order in 1961. The two parties settled the dispute in 1962 when Crosley sold Fairbanks its Atlanta television station.
In 1960, WIBC added an FM station at 93.1, WIBC-FM, which initially aired an automated classical music format in its early years.
Indianapolis 500
Beginning in 1946, WIBC carried the Indianapolis 500 as a Mutual Broadcasting System affiliate, since Mutual had the rights to broadcast the motor race. WIBC establish a broadcasting tradition when the station struck a last-minute deal to provide coverage of the 1952 Indianapolis 500, with Sid Collins as the lead announcer, after Mutual pulled out as the Indianapolis 500 official broadcaster.
The next year, its coverage grew to include personalities from and was simulcast on the other major stations in town: WFBM (1260 AM), WIRE (1430 AM), WISH (1310 AM), and WXLW (1590 AM). WIBC became the fl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20technology | Media technology may refer to:
Data storage devices
Art media technology – :Category:Visual arts media
Print media technology – :Category:Printing
Digital media technology – :Category:Digital media
Electronic media technology – :Category:Digital media or :Category:Electronic publishing
Media technology university programmes
Media psychology, the field of study that examines media, technology and the effect on human behavior |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbiased%20rendering |
Within the field of computer graphics, unbiased rendering refers to any rendering technique that does not introduce systematic error, or bias, into the radiance approximation. The term refers to statistical bias, not the broader meaning of subjective bias. Because of this, an unbiased rendering technique can produce a reference image to compare against renders that use other techniques. In simple terms, unbiased rendering tries to mimic the real world as closely as possible without taking short cuts. Path tracing and its derivatives can be unbiased, whereas ray tracing was originally biased.
Mathematical definition
Mathematically speaking, the expected value (E) of an unbiased estimator is the population mean, regardless of the number of observations. The error found in a render produced by an unbiased rendering technique is due to random statistical variance, which manifests as high-frequency noise. Variance is reduced by (standard deviation by ) for data, meaning that four times as many data are needed to halve the standard deviation of the error; this makes unbiased rendering techniques less attractive for realtime or interactive applications. This means that an image produced by an unbiased renderer that appears noiseless and smooth is probabilistically correct.
A biased rendering method is not necessarily wrong, and can still produce images close to those given by the rendering equation if the estimator is consistent. These methods, however, introduce a certain bias error (usually in the form of a blur) in efforts to reduce the variance (high-frequency noise). Often biased rendering is optimized to compute faster at the cost of accuracy.
Caustics example
It is important to note that an unbiased technique cannot consider all possible paths (because there is an infinite number of them), and may not select the ideal paths for a given render (because to select certain paths over others introduces bias). Path tracing, an unbiased approach at its core, cannot consistently handle caustics generated from a point light source, as it is highly unlikely to randomly generate the singular path that directly reflects into the point.
Progressive photon mapping (PPM), a biased rendering technique, can actually handle caustics quite well. Although biased, PPM is provably consistent, meaning that as the number of samples goes to infinity, the bias error goes to zero (like an unbiased technique), and the probability that the estimate is correct reaches one.
List of unbiased rendering methods
Path tracing
Bidirectional path tracing
Metropolis light transport and the related "energy redistribution path tracing" (ESPT)
List of unbiased renderers
Arion
Arnold
Cycles
Kerkythea
LuxRender
Mantra
Maxwell Render
Octane Render
Fstorm Render (external link)
See also
Global illumination (GI)
Physically based rendering (PBR)
Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR)
References
Bibliography
3D rendering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECpower | SPECpower_ssj2008 is the first industry-standard benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of volume server class computers. It is available from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). SPECpower_ssj2008 is SPEC's first attempt at defining server power measurement standards. It was introduced in December, 2007.
Several SPEC member companies contributed to the development of the new power-performance measurement standard, including AMD, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP, Intel, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.
See also
Average CPU power
EEMBC EnergyBench
IT energy management
Performance per watt
References
Official SPEC website
Benchmarks (computing)
Evaluation of computers
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pl:SPEC (organizacja) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad%20Magazine | Ciudad Magazine is an Argentine cable television channel owned and operated by Grupo Clarín from Buenos Aires. It can be accessed throughout the country via subscription television.
Programming
Magazine produces several programmes, mostly outdoor and gossip shows. It also carries inexpensive syndicated programming, mainly old cartoons, telenovelas soap, series and movies.
Exclusive productions
Informadisimos
Chimentero 3.0
BDV
Independent productions
El mundo de la CONMEBOL
Yes
Donna Moda
Telenovelas
: Marimar
: En Clon
: Doña Bárbara
: La Guerrera
External links
Television stations in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chippie | Chippie (hr2-Computermagazin) was a German radio program. It was one of the first programs on computer topics, produced by the Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting).
History
Chippie started in 1990. At first it was broadcast together with the youth magazine Radio unfrisiert, who won the Civis media prize that year. Later it got its own one-hour slot. The show was hosted by Claudia Bultje and Patrick Conley. Topics on the program were, for example: "Computer in Theater, Opera and Rock Concert" (2 May 1992), "Computer and Money" (5 September 1992), "Computers and Sex" (24 October 1992) and "Data Networks" (2 July 1994).
The first computer magazine in German radio was Bit, byte, gebissen (BR, 1985). Today well-known programs are the Chaosradio (RBB) and Matrix (ORF).
References
Barbara Krebs: "Chippie – das Computermagazin". In: PCpur & TEST Magazin, Vol. 5, No. 3 (March 1992): p. 154.
External links
Game Boy & Co. Interview mit Chippie-Moderator Patrick Conley (hr3, 24. November 1991)
1990 radio programme debuts
German talk radio programs
Science radio programmes
Hessischer Rundfunk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%27s%20algorithm | In the theory of elliptic curves, Tate's algorithm takes as input an integral model of an elliptic curve E over , or more generally an algebraic number field, and a prime or prime ideal p. It returns the exponent fp of p in the conductor of E, the type of reduction at p, the local index
where is the group of -points
whose reduction mod p is a non-singular point. Also, the algorithm determines whether or not the given integral model is minimal at p, and, if not, returns an integral model with integral coefficients for which the valuation at p of the discriminant is minimal.
Tate's algorithm also gives the structure of the singular fibers given by the Kodaira symbol or Néron symbol, for which, see elliptic surfaces: in turn this determines the exponent fp of the conductor E.
Tate's algorithm can be greatly simplified if the characteristic of the residue class field is not 2 or 3; in this case the type and c and f can be read off from the valuations of j and Δ (defined below).
Tate's algorithm was introduced by as an improvement of the description of the Néron model of an elliptic curve by .
Notation
Assume that all the coefficients of the equation of the curve lie in a complete discrete valuation ring R with perfect residue field K and maximal ideal generated by a prime π.
The elliptic curve is given by the equation
Define:
the p-adic valuation of in , that is, exponent of in prime factorization of , or infinity if
The algorithm
Step 1: If π does not divide Δ then the type is I0, c=1 and f=0.
Step 2: If π divides Δ but not c4 then the type is Iv with v = v(Δ), c=v, and f=1.
Step 3. Otherwise, change coordinates so that π divides a3,a4,a6. If π2 does not divide a6 then the type is II, c=1, and f=v(Δ);
Step 4. Otherwise, if π3 does not divide b8 then the type is III, c=2, and f=v(Δ)−1;
Step 5. Otherwise, let Q1 be the polynomial
.
If π3 does not divide b6 then the type is IV, c=3 if has two roots in K and 1 if it has two roots outside of K, and f=v(Δ)−2.
Step 6. Otherwise, change coordinates so that π divides a1 and a2, π2 divides a3 and a4, and π3 divides a6. Let P be the polynomial
If has 3 distinct roots modulo π then the type is I0*, f=v(Δ)−4, and c is 1+(number of roots of P in K).
Step 7. If P has one single and one double root, then the type is Iν* for some ν>0, f=v(Δ)−4−ν, c=2 or 4: there is a "sub-algorithm" for dealing with this case.
Step 8. If P has a triple root, change variables so the triple root is 0, so that π2 divides a2 and π3 divides a4, and π4 divides a6. Let Q2 be the polynomial
.
If has two distinct roots modulo π then the type is IV*, f=v(Δ)−6, and c is 3 if the roots are in K, 1 otherwise.
Step 9. If has a double root, change variables so the double root is 0. Then π3 divides a3 and π5 divides a6. If π4 does not divide a4 then the type is III* and f=v(Δ)−7 and c = 2.
Step 10. Otherwise if π6 does not divide a6 then the type is II* and f=v(Δ)−8 and c = 1.
Step 11. Otherwise the equation is not mini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorrie%20Cranor | Lorrie Faith Cranor, D.Sc. is the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and is the director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. She has served as Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, and she was formerly
a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors. Previously she was a researcher at AT&T Labs-Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University. She has authored over 110 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics.
Early life and education
Cranor was a member of the first class to graduate from the Mathematics, Science, and Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. She received a bachelor's degree in Engineering and Public Policy, master's degrees in Technology and Human Affairs, and Computer Science, and a doctorate in Engineering and Policy, all from Washington University in St. Louis.
Career
At CMU, Cranor's research has largely focused on privacy policies and passwords.
Cranor is not only a leading researcher but also a tough critic of the online ad industry's privacy initiatives. In 2008, she blasted Web companies for crafting unreadable privacy policies. She said in a report that online privacy policies take users an average of 10 minutes to read. That report also said that if every U.S. Web user read the privacy policy at every site visited, the time spent reading privacy policies would total an estimated 44.3 billion hours per year.
Cranor led the development of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project at the World Wide Web Consortium and authored the book Web Privacy with P3P. She also led the development of the Privacy Bird P3P user agent and the Privacy Finder P3P search engine.
Cranor has played a key role in building the usable privacy and security research community, having co-edited the book Security and Usability (O'Reilly 2005) and founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).
Cranor is a co-founder of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc and has authored over 150 research papers on online privacy, usable security, and other topics.
She is a member of the feminist collective Deep Lab.
Honors and awards
In 2003, she was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
In 2013, Cranor's Security Blanket won Honorable Mention in the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge presented by Science and the National Science Foundation. She gave a TEDx talk in March 2014 entitled, "What's Wrong with your pa$$w0rd."
In 2014, she was elected to ACM Fellow For contributions to research and education in usable privacy and security.
In 2016, was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit%2C%20byte%2C%20gebissen | Bit, byte, gebissen was a German radio program. It was the first program on computer topics, produced by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting). Bit, byte, gebissen was broadcast from October 1985 to September 1993.
The idea was of the radio program was born out of the boom of home computers and video game consoles starting to fascinate youngsters at the beginning of the 1980s. Another successful program on computer topics for adolescent radio listeners was Chippie from the Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting), starting in 1990.
External links
Die Zündfunk-Hall-of-Fame: Das erste Computermagazin
1985 radio programme debuts
1993 radio programme endings
German talk radio programs
Science radio programmes
Bayerischer Rundfunk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST7 | Suppressor of tumorigenicity protein 7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ST7 gene. ST7 orthologs have been identified in all mammals for which complete genome data are available.
Function
The gene for this product maps to a region on human chromosome 7 identified as an autism-susceptibility locus. Mutation screening of the entire coding region in autistic individuals failed to identify phenotype-specific variants, suggesting that coding mutations for this gene are unlikely to be involved in the etiology of autism. The function of this gene product has not been determined. Transcript variants encoding different isoforms of this protein have been described.
Interactions
ST7 has been shown to interact with ITGB1BP3 and GNB2L1.
References
Further reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERPINB6 | Serpin B6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERPINB6 gene.
See also
Serpin
References
Further reading
External links
The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: I04.011
Serine protease inhibitors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMSB%20%28FM%29 | WMSB is a radio station on 88.9 FM licensed to Byhalia, Mississippi, United States. It is a full-time repeater of the American Family Radio (AFR) network and is owned by the American Family Association, broadcasting from a tower in Chulahoma.
Prior to being sold to AFR in 2007, this station was Mississippi's first public radio station as WNJC-FM, a service of Northwest Mississippi Junior College (NMJC) in Senatobia. After 16 years, the college shuttered the station in 1988 in order to reallocate its funds for classroom expenses. It was then acquired and operated for nearly two decades by WKNO-FM in Memphis, Tennessee.
History
WNJC-FM
Northwest Mississippi Junior College applied on April 15, 1969, for a new noncommercial educational radio station to be located on the college campus. The application specified 89.9 MHz, but this was amended to 90.1 before being granted on January 28, 1970. A September 28 launch date was promoted, but this was missed, and WNJC-FM made its debut on January 4, 1971. Listeners to Mississippi's first noncommercial radio station heard music, news, and coverage of the college's athletic events. After resolving some issues that caused interference to television reception, the station was found eligible for Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants—and for membership in the new NPR. In addition, WNJC-FM also served as a training ground for student announcers and maintained a local news operation covering northern Mississippi; on one occasion, the news director was gathering a livestock report when they were chased by a bull. In 1976, the transmitter site was moved to a college-owned farm and the power increased to 18,000 watts. A construction permit was issued at the end of 1981 to move to 88.9 MHz.
Even though WNJC-FM had gone on the air in 1971, it was the only Mississippi-based public radio station for more than a decade. In the early 1980s, this began to change. The J. C. Maxwell Broadcasting Group was formed to build a minority-oriented public station in Jackson, which went on the air as WMPR in late 1983. Simultaneously, the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television began planning and securing funds for an eight-transmitter network to carry NPR programming across the state; the first seven transmitters in Public Radio Mississippi, comprising the entire network save Jackson, began that November.
Purchase by WKNO
In 1988, the community college opted to close WNJC-FM and reallocate its budget to classroom and curricular needs, effective August 1; the college's president called the decision "difficult". By November, the Memphis Community Television Foundation, parent of Memphis public radio station WKNO-FM, had filed to purchase the facility from NMJC.
Some changes were made in the WKNO-FM lineup coinciding with the integration of the new transmitter, with Performance Today and Monitoradio dropped to add Fresh Air. The station returned as a nearly full-time repeater of WKNO-FM on April 3, 1989; the only opt-o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLMW | WLMW FM 90.7 is a Christian radio station licensed to Manchester, New Hampshire, and owned by Knowledge for Life. WLMW airs programming from American Family Radio as well as some local programs. Al Kaprielian is the station's on-air meteorologist.
References
External links
American Family Radio stations
LMW
Manchester, New Hampshire
Radio stations established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape%20from%20Paradise%20City | Escape From Paradise City is a 2007 computer game created by Danish studio Sirius Games, the sequel to 2004's Gangland. Published by CDV Software Entertainment in North America and by Focus Home Interactive in Europe, it was released in October 2007.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
cdv Entertainment
Dystopian video games
2007 video games
Focus Entertainment games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Organized crime video games
Real-time strategy video games
Video games developed in Denmark
CDV Software Entertainment games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xp64 | XP64 may refer to:
An experimental series of British Railways passenger coaches
Windows XP64 computer operating system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clergy%20of%20the%20Church%20of%20England%20database | The Clergy of the Church of England database (CCEd) is an online database of clergy of the Church of England between 1540 and 1835.
The database project began in 1999 with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is ongoing as a collaboration between King's College London, the University of Kent and Durham University. As of September 2014, the database contained nearly 1.5 million evidential records about the careers of Church of England clergy, and the public version of the database had information on over 155,000 individuals.
Notable people
The CCEd has had three joint-directors since 1999:
Professor Arthur Burns, King's College London
Professor Kenneth Fincham, University of Kent
Professor Stephen Taylor, Durham University
The technical research was supervised by Harold Short, Director of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London.
See also
Clerical Guide or Ecclesiastical Directory
References
External links
Online person databases
King's College London
University of Kent
Durham University
Databases in England
1999 establishments in England
16th century in England
17th century in England
18th century in England
19th century in England
Religion databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a process is an instance of a computer program that is being executed. A process always exists in exactly one process state. A process that is blocked is one that is waiting for some event, such as a resource becoming available or the completion of an I/O operation.
In a multitasking computer system, individual tasks, or threads of execution, must share the resources of the system. Shared resources include: the CPU, network and network interfaces, memory and disk.
When one task is using a resource, it is generally not possible, or desirable, for another task to access it. The techniques of mutual exclusion are used to prevent this concurrent use. When the other task is blocked, it is unable to execute until the first task has finished using the shared resource.
Programming languages and scheduling algorithms are designed to minimize the over-all effect blocking. A process that blocks may prevent local work-tasks from progressing. In this case "blocking" often is seen as not wanted. However, such work-tasks may instead have been assigned to independent processes, where halting one has no or little effect on the others, since scheduling will continue. An example is "blocking on a channel" where passively waiting for the other part (no polling or spin loop) is part of the semantics of channels. Correctly engineered any of these may be used to implement reactive systems.
Deadlock means that processes pathologically wait for each other in a circle. As such it is not directly associated with blocking.
Once the event occurs for which the process is waiting ("is blocked on"), the process is advanced from blocked state to an imminent one, such as runnable.
See also
Concurrent computing
Data dependency
Deadlock
Non-blocking algorithm
Race condition
Scheduling (computing)
References
Computing terminology
Inter-process communication
Input/output
Scheduling (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20ANC%20Voters%20Network | The Progressive ANC Voters Network (PAVN) is a sub-party voting bloc organization that was formed by AIDS activist Zackie Achmat and other card-carrying members of the African National Congress on March 28, 2007. It is meant to push for greater representation and furtherance of progressivist ideals within the party.
Criticism
The creation of the network was initially criticized by leaders of the ANC and the South African Communist Party. However, the network's invitation to the President and NEC of the ANC received a reply from the office of then-Secretary-General Kgalema Motlanthe (later ANC Deputy President and then President of South Africa) which indicated his support for the organization.
References
External links
PAVN
YouTube channel
Progressivism in South Africa
African National Congress
Political party factions in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadic%20closure | Triadic closure is a concept in social network theory, first suggested by German sociologist Georg Simmel in his 1908 book Soziologie [Sociology: Investigations on the Forms of Sociation]. Triadic closure is the property among three nodes A, B, and C (representing people, for instance), that if the connections A-B and A-C exist, there is a tendency for the new connection B-C to be formed. Triadic closure can be used to understand and predict the growth of networks, although it is only one of many mechanisms by which new connections are formed in complex networks.
History
Triadic closure was made popular by Mark Granovetter in his 1973 article The Strength of Weak Ties. There he synthesized the theory of cognitive balance first introduced by Fritz Heider in 1946 with a Simmelian understanding of social networks. In general terms, cognitive balance refers to the propensity of two individuals to want to feel the same way about an object. If the triad of three individuals is not closed, then the person connected to both of the individuals will want to close this triad in order to achieve closure in the relationship network.
Measurements
The two most common measures of triadic closure for a graph are (in no particular order) the clustering coefficient and transitivity for that graph.
Clustering coefficient
One measure for the presence of triadic closure is clustering coefficient, as follows:
Let be an undirected simple graph (i.e., a graph having no self-loops or multiple edges) with V the set of vertices and E the set of edges. Also, let and denote the number of vertices and edges in G, respectively, and let be the degree of vertex i.
We can define a triangle among the triple of vertices , , and to be a set with the following three edges: {(i,j), (j,k), (i,k)}.
We can also define the number of triangles that vertex is involved in as and, as each triangle is counted three times, we can express the number of triangles in G as .
Assuming that triadic closure holds, only two strong edges are required for a triple to form. Thus, the number of theoretical triples that should be present under the triadic closure hypothesis for a vertex is , assuming . We can express .
Now, for a vertex with , the clustering coefficient of vertex is the fraction of triples for vertex that are closed, and can be measured as . Thus, the clustering coefficient of graph is given by , where is the number of nodes with degree at least 2.
Transitivity
Another measure for the presence of triadic closure is transitivity, defined as .
Causes and effects
In a trust network, triadic closure is likely to develop due to the transitive property. If a node A trusts node B, and node B trusts node C, node A will have the basis to trust node C. In a social network, strong triadic closure occurs because there is increased opportunity for nodes A and C with common neighbor B to meet and therefore create at least weak ties. Node B also has the incentive to bring A and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBMP | KBMP (90.5 FM, "Bott Radio Network") is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Enterprise, Kansas, United States. The station, established in 2002, is currently owned by the Bott Broadcasting Company and the broadcast license is held by Community Broadcasting, Inc.
Programming
KBMP broadcasts a religious radio format as part of the Bott Radio Network. The station features Bible teaching plus programming from several Christian news and information sources.
History
This station received its original construction permit for a new FM station broadcasting at 90.5 MHz from the Federal Communications Commission on March 15, 1999. The new station was assigned the call letters KBMP by the FCC on April 30, 1999.
In May 1999, Solid Rock Broadcasting, Inc., reached an agreement to sell the permit for this still-under construction station to the American Family Association. The deal was approved by the FCC on July 13, 1999, and the transaction was consummated on August 17, 1999.
In August 2001, KBMP applied for a main studio waiver allowing the station to be operated and programmed from outside the station's coverage area. On October 31, 2002, the FCC granted this authority to the station. KBMP also received its license to cover from the FCC on October 31, 2002. The station was an affiliate of American Family Radio.
In August 2005, the American Family Association reached an agreement to sell this station to the Bott Radio Network through their Community Broadcasting, Inc., subsidiary as part of a two-station deal valued at $30,000. The deal was approved by the FCC on November 8, 2005, and the transaction was consummated on January 26, 2006.
Construction permit
In September 2007, KBMP applied to the FCC for authorization to upgrade to Class C1 and increase its effective radiated power to 100,000 watts. The FCC granted a construction permit for the changes on November 4, 2008. The permit expired on November 4, 2011.
References
External links
KBMP official website
Radio stations established in 2002
Dickinson County, Kansas
Moody Radio affiliate stations
2002 establishments in Kansas
Bott Radio Network stations
BMP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bott%20Radio%20Network | The Bott Radio Network is a network of Christian radio stations in the United States, broadcasting Christian talk and teaching programs.
Programs heard on the Bott Radio Network include Love Worth Finding with Adrian Rogers, In Touch with Charles Stanley, Turning Point with David Jeremiah, Back to the Bible with Bryan Clark, Truth for Life with Alistair Begg, Jay Sekulow Live, Janet Mefferd Today and Running to Win with Erwin Lutzer.
Affiliate stations
The Bott Radio Network currently operates 121 stations in 14 states.
Note: Markets currently listed in this table are each station's marketed city, not actual city of license, and callsigns currently listed are for the related full-power station, not the actual translator on that frequency.
References
External links
Bott Radio Network's official website
Bott Radio Network's webcast
Bott Radio Network on iHeartRadio
Christian radio stations in Nebraska
Christian radio stations in Missouri
American radio networks
Bott Radio Network stations
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar%20Data%20Systems | Pillar Data Systems, a computer data storage company headquartered in San Jose, California, developed midrange and enterprise network storage systems. Pillar Data employed 325 people and sold its products to organizations in the financial services, healthcare, government and legal industries. Its primary product-offering was the Axiom platform.
History
Formerly Digital Appliance Storage Systems Israel, Pillar Data Systems was created in July 2001 with funding from Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation.
University of California Berkeley and Stanford University alumnus Mike Workman founded and later became CEO and chairman of the company. By 2005, it had over $150 million in financing.
The Pillar Axiom product integrated storage area networks (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS), supporting management of tiered storage on one platform.
Axiom supported any combination of iSCSI SAN, Fibre Channel SAN or Network File System (NFS) NAS. Pillar also offered products for Microsoft Exchange Server, Oracle Database, OracleVM, and VMware data.
Pillar directly competed against EMC Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems, NetApp, 3PAR, Isilon, Coraid, BlueArc and Compellent Technologies in the midrange-storage hardware-industry.
Pillar had partnerships with Symantec, FalconStor, and Data Domain for data de-duplication. Pillar also had partnerships with Oracle Corporation and with VMware.
Oracle announced on June 29, 2011, that it would acquire Pillar Data.
The acquisition was done with no up-front payment, since Pillar owed Ellison and his affiliates $544 million.
The press noted that Workman did not appear at the announcement event.
The acquisition took effect on July 18, 2011.
References
External links
Pillar Data Systems official website
Computer companies established in 2001
Computer companies disestablished in 2011
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Companies based in San Jose, California
Storage Area Network companies
Computer storage companies
Oracle acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201950 | A list of films produced in Japan in 1950 (see 1950 in film).
See also
1950 in Japan
References
External links
Japanese films of 1950 at the Internet Movie Database
1950
Lists of 1950 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201951 | A list of films released in Japan in 1951 (see 1951 in film).
See also
1951 in Japan
References
External links
Japanese films of 1951 at the Internet Movie Database
1951
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201952 | A list of films released in Japan in 1952 (see 1952 in film).
See also
1952 in Japan
References
Footnotes
Sources
External links
Japanese films of 1952 at the Internet Movie Database
1952
Japanese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201953 | A list of films released in Japan in 1953 (see 1953 in film).
See also
1953 in Japan
References
Footnotes
Sources
External links
Japanese films of 1953 at the Internet Movie Database
1953
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201954 | A list of films released in Japan in 1954 (see 1954 in film).
List of films
See also
1954 in Japan
References
Footnotes
Sources
External links
Japanese films of 1954 at the Internet Movie Database
1954
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201955 | A list of films released in Japan in 1955 (see 1955 in film).
See also
1955 in Japan
References
Bibliography
External links
Japanese films of 1955 at the Internet Movie Database
1955
Lists of 1955 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201956 | A list of films released in Japan in 1956 (see 1956 in film).
See also
1956 in Japan
References
Sources
External links
Japanese films of 1956 at the Internet Movie Database
1956
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201957 | A list of films released in Japan in 1957 (see 1957 in film).
See also
1958 in Japan
References
Footnotes
Sources
External links
Japanese films of 1957 at the Internet Movie Database
1957
Lists of 1957 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201958 | A list of films released in Japan in 1958 (see 1958 in film).
See also
1958 in Japan
References
Footnotes
Sources
External links
Japanese films of 1958 at the Internet Movie Database
1958
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201959 | A list of films released in Japan in 1959 (see 1959 in film).
See also
1959 in Japan
References
Footnotes
Sources
External links
Japanese films of 1959 at the Internet Movie Database
1959
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201962 | A list of films released in Japan in 1962 (see 1962 in film).
List of films
See also
1962 in Japan
References
Footnotes
Sources
External links
Japanese films of 1962 at the Internet Movie Database
1962
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201975 | A list of films released in Japan in 1975 (see 1975 in film).
See also
1975 in Japan
1975 in Japanese television
External links
Japanese films of 1975 at the Internet Movie Database
1975
Lists of 1975 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201978 | A list of films released in Japan in 1978 (see 1978 in film).
See also
1978 in Japan
1978 in Japanese television
External links
Japanese films of 1978 at the Internet Movie Database
1978
Lists of 1978 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201984 | A list of films released in Japan in 1984 (see 1984 in film).
See also
1984 in Japan
1984 in Japanese television
External links
Japanese films of 1984 at the Internet Movie Database
1984
Lists of 1984 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201992 | A list of films released in Japan in 1992 (see 1992 in film).
See also
1992 in Japan
1992 in Japanese television
External links
Japanese films of 1992 at the Internet Movie Database
1992
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%201994 | A list of films released in Japan in 1994 (see 1994 in film).
See also
1994 in Japan
1994 in Japanese television
External links
Japanese films of 1994 at the Internet Movie Database
1994
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%202005 |
Highest-grossing films
List of films
A list of films released in Japan in 2005 (see 2005 in film).
External links
Japanese films of 2005 at the Internet Movie Database
2005 in Japan
2005 in Japanese television
List of 2005 box office number-one films in Japan
2005
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%202006 | A list of films released in Japan in 2006 (see 2006 in film).
Highest-grossing films
List of films
External links
Japanese films of 2006 at the Internet Movie Database
2006 in Japan
2006 in Japanese television
List of 2006 box office number-one films in Japan
2006
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%202007 |
Highest-grossing films
List of films
A list of films released in Japan in 2007 (see 2007 in film).
External links
Japanese films of 2007 at the Internet Movie Database
2007 in Japan
2007 in Japanese television
List of 2007 box office number-one films in Japan
2007
Japanese
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Japanese%20films%20of%202008 |
Highest-grossing films
List of films
A list of films produced in Japan in 2008 (see 2008 in film).
External links
Japanese films of 2008 at the Internet Movie Database
2008 in Japan
2008 in Japanese television
List of 2008 box office number-one films in Japan
2008
Lists of 2008 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whrrl | Whrrl was a social location-based service developed by the Seattle-based company Pelago, Inc. Whrrl had a recommendation engine that uses algorithms and users' votes to surface relevant recommendations.
On June 30, 2010, Whrrl launched its Society Rewards Program, designed to close the gap between a brand's online social media and real-world presence with its first partner, Murphy USA Oil.
Groupon announced that it had purchased Whrrl on April 18, 2011. As Whrrl dissipates, it is being speculated that Groupon will leverage location based social networking or "check-ins" on their popular group coupon site.
Site overview
The service was launched in October 2007 as a geosocial networking and discovery site that allows both web and mobile users to find, explore, share, meet up at, and rate points-of-interest in their cities.
Pelago's first product, Whrrl, was launched on July 10, 2008. Whrrl v1.0 was a location-based social networking and discovery application for the iPhone, Blackberry and numerous other mobile phones.
Pelago launched Whrrl 2.0, an 'on-the-go' storytelling application for the iPhone and web on March 16 at South by Southwest.
Whrrl 3.0 was launched at SXSW on March 11, 2010 with a promise: "We'll save you from Farmville." Press release here .
Pelago, Inc.
The company was founded by Amazon.com veterans Jeff Holden and Darren Vengroff.
In November 2006, Pelago, Inc completed Series A financing backed by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; Trilogy Equity Partners; and Bezos Expeditions. It is also the first product to be financially backed by the iFund.
In May 2008, Pelago announced a second round of funding totaling US$15 million led by Deutsche Telekom, followed by India-based Reliance Technology Ventures and DAG Ventures.
In April 2011, Pelago was acquired by Groupon and the Whrrl service was discontinued.
References
External links
Official website
American review websites
Android (operating system) software
BlackBerry software
Discontinued iOS software
American social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2007
Geosocial networking
Mobile social software |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarylpyrimidines | Diarylpyrimidines (DAPY) and diaryltriazines (DATA) are two closely related classes of molecules resembling the pyrimidine nucleotides found in DNA. They show great potency in inhibiting the activity of HIV reverse transcriptase. Several compounds in this class are non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors used clinically in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, notably etravirine and rilpivirine.
References
Antiretroviral drugs
Pyrimidines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halcyon%20Days%20%28book%29 | Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers is a digital book edited by James Hague and published in 1997. The book was originally formatted using HTML and sold via mail-order, shipped on a floppy disk by Dadgum Games for USD$20. In 2002, Halcyon Days was made freely available on the web. The book continued to be sold by Dr. Dobb's Journal, on a CD-ROM also containing Susan Lammers's Programmers at Work, until Dr. Dobb's shut down at the end of 2014.
The introduction to Halcyon Days is written by John Romero who told Wired News the interviews were "like hearing messages from old gods."
Halcyon Days has since become a common reference for writings on game history, including Racing the Beam (MIT Press, 2009), and Retrogame Archeology (Springer, 2016).
Interviewees
Ed Averett: Magnavox Odyssey² games
Danielle Bunten Berry: M.U.L.E., The Seven Cities of Gold
Stephen C. Biggs
Adam Billyard
Bill Budge: Raster Blaster, Pinball Construction Set
Chris Crawford: Eastern Front, Legionnaire
Steve DeFrisco
David Fox: Rescue on Fractalus!
Jon Freeman & Anne Westfall
Gary Gilbertson
Marc Goodman: The Bilestoad
Dan Gorlin: Choplifter
Tom Griner
Steve Hales: Fort Apocalypse
John Harris
Eugene Jarvis
David Lubar
Scott Ludwig
Archer Maclean
Jeff Minter
Brian Moriarty
Doug Neubauer: Star Raiders, Solaris
Philip Price
Warren Robinett: Adventure
Ed Rotberg: Battlezone, Blasteroids, S.T.U.N. Runner
Warren Schwader: Sammy Lightfoot
Paul Shirley: Spindizzy
Tim Skelly
See also
Coders at Work
References
External links
Official website
Books about video games
1997 non-fiction books
Ebooks
Video game culture
Video game design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicator%20of%20cytokinesis%20protein%202 | Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 2 (Dock2) is a protein encoded in the human by the DOCK2 gene. Dock2 is a large (~180 kDa) protein involved in intracellular signalling networks. It is a member of the DOCK-A subfamily of the DOCK family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) which function as activators of small G-proteins. Dock2 specifically activates isoforms of the small G protein Rac.
Discovery
Dock2 was first characterised as one of a number of proteins which shared high sequence similarity with the previously described protein Dock180, the archetypal member of the DOCK family. Whereas Dock180 expression is near ubiquitous in mammals, Dock2 appears to be expressed specifically in leukocytes and is considered to be the principal DOCK family member in these cells.
Structure and function
Dock2 is part of a large class of proteins (GEFs) which contribute to cellular signalling events by activating small G proteins. In their resting state G proteins are bound to Guanosine diphosphate (GDP) and their activation requires the dissociation of GDP and binding of guanosine triphosphate (GTP). GEFs activate G proteins by promoting this nucleotide exchange.
Dock2 and other DOCK family proteins differ from other GEFs in that they do not possess the canonical structure of tandem DH-PH domains known to elicit nucleotide exchange. Instead they possess a DHR2 domain which mediates Rac activation by stabilising it in its nucleotide-free state. They also contain a DHR1 domain which binds phospholipids and is required for the interaction between Dock2 and the plasma membrane. As with other members of the DOCK-A and DOCK-B subfamilies, Dock2 contains an N-terminal SH3 domain which is involved in binding to ELMO proteins (see below). Dock180 contains a C-terminal proline rich region which mediates binding to Crk, however, Dock2 lacks this feature despite the fact that it is able to bind the Crk-like protein CrkL.
Regulation of activity
Efficient Dock180 GEF activity in a cellular context is known to require the formation of a complex between Dock180 and its cognate adaptor proteins, which assist its translocation to the plasma membrane and binding to Rac. Similarly, Dock2 has been shown to form a complex with the well described DOCK-binding protein ELMO1 and this interaction is required for Dock2-mediated Rac activation in lymphocyte cell lines. ELMO proteins contain a C-terminal proline-rich region which binds to the N-terminal SH3 domain of DOCK proteins and mediates their recruitment to sites of high Rac availability (primarily the plasma membrane). ELMO proteins also contain a PH domain which appears to induce conformational changes in DOCK and thus allow binding to Rac.
Signalling downstream of Dock2
Like other DOCK-A and DOCK-B subfamily proteins Dock2 GEF activity is specific for Rac. Leukocytes express both Rac1 and Rac2 and Dock2 has been shown to bind and promote nucleotide exchange on both of these isoforms. Rac isoforms regulate a multitude |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Flyer%20Unit | The was a spacecraft which was launched by Japan on March 18, 1995.
Technical data
The Space Flyer Unit was launched from Tanegashima Space Center from a H-II vehicle. It carried testing materials and research data that held value to NASA. The crew of STS-72 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour retrieved the satellite on January 20, 1996, 10 months after it was launched. The idea behind the implementation of the SFU was a joint effort by multiple major corporations and government agencies. The ones that were involved with the launch were Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, the National Space Development Agency, and Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
After the shuttle returned the [[SFU]] from space it was transported to Japan and refurbished for display at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo.
Purpose
The original purposes behind the SFU were to
Allow researchers better access to space research conditions.
Give researchers a group experimental facility.
Be able to reuse the SFU to save money
Retrieve data
Technology
A variety of systems that were operational within the SFU had never been implemented before. Equipment on board supported an infrared telescope, two-dimensional solar array, high voltage solar array, space plasma diagnosis, electric propulsion, material experimentation, gas dynamics, gradient heating chemicals, isothermal heating furnace and more. The core system that was built into the SFU contained an octagonal aluminum truss. Inside of that were eight boxes of trapezoidal shape. The SFU was connected directly to the Kagoshima Space Center.
Experimentation data
There were a number of various types of experiments that were performed on board the SFU during its launch life cycle. Those experiments, and light data related to them are listed below.
Infrared Telescope in Space (IRTS) - The IRTS experiment was performed by the infrared telescope that was aboard the SFU. The intent was to produce important information into the history of the universe and structure of the milky way galaxy. The telescope had a super fluid helium cooling fan built into it to prevent it from overheating.
2D Array - The 2d array system was launched as a small module inside of the SFU. This experiment was deployed to show that large structures could (in fact) be built in space.
HVSA - The Solar Array was a power source put into this system to head up multiple experiments. It is used to test the creation of "electricity" in the denseness of space from the use of technology only.
SPDP - This was used on the SFU to test things going really fast in space. SPDP stands for (Space Plasma Diagnostic Package) and it was deployed with different sensors to check the effects of speed on the denseness of gravity.
EPEX - This hardware that was built into the SFU was meant to do experiments related to fuel creation and management in space.
MEX - This software was meant to review and research the effects of vario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nuttiest%20Nutcracker | The Nuttiest Nutcracker is a 1999 computer-animated direct-to-video Christmas film loosely based on the 1892 ballet The Nutcracker. The film was directed by Harold Harris and starred the voices of Jim Belushi, Cheech Marin, and Phyllis Diller. This film follows a group of anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables. Their goal is to help the Nutcracker's army get a star to the top of a Christmas tree before midnight and stop a rodent army from destroying Christmas. The film was released on home video by Columbia TriStar Home Video in 1999. The film aired on CBS December 4, 1999, in addition to being shown on cable.
Plot
On a snowy Christmas Eve, Marie (Debi Derryberry) and her brother Fritz (Derryberry) are home alone with their Uncle Drosselmeyer (Jim Cummings). Marie and Fritz's parents are away for the night and Marie is dismayed at having to spend Christmas Eve without them. She then wishes for Christmas to go away forever.
A group of anthropomorphic nuts, Colonel (Jeff Bennett), Mac (Cheech Marin), Sparkle (Desirée Goyette), Stash (Kevin Schon), and Gramps (Cummings), overhear her plight, but become relieved at the scene of Uncle Drosselmeyer giving his niece and nephew Christmas gifts: a cannon for Fritz and a nutcracker doll for Marie. The nuts believe that the doll may be their prince (Cam Clarke) and proceed to tell Little Pea (Tress MacNeille), the youngest of the nuts, the story of how the nutcracker prince's relationship with a princess cursed by a mouse queen had turned him into a wooden figure, revealing that only true love will break the spell. Fritz takes the nutcracker from Marie. A chase up the ladder of the Christmas tree ensues, resulting in the doll falling hard to the floor. Upset by how "hurt" her nutcracker is, Marie turns Fritz away. She forgives her brother later in private, telling her nutcracker that out of all her gifts, she loves him the most. After kissing the doll on the lips, Marie becomes tired and falls asleep.
The nuts fall asleep as well, unaware of being targeted by the mouse queen's son, Reginald (Jim Belushi). He plans to steal the Christmas star on the top of the tree and take over the Christmas Kingdom. With his army of mice, he attempts to capture the nuts. The nuts fight toy soldiers, who prove no match against the mice. Mac stages a coup d'état with his own army of fruits and vegetables. The foods are eventually exhausted by fighting; Gramps is captured by three mice. Marie, awakened by the battle, sees her doll alive and fighting Reginald. Marie intervenes; Reginald is infatuated with her, but she brushes the mouse off her foot using the Christmas star. However, as the foods celebrate their victory, Marie is magically reduced to the nutcracker prince's height by Uncle Drosselmeyer.
The foods inform Marie that without the Christmas star, Christmas will be "gone forever". Fortunately, Marie still has the star. They head into the Sugar Plum Fairy's kingdom to seek help in getting the star back on the tree. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIStim | UNIStim (or Unified Networks IP Stimulus) is a deprecated Telecommunications protocol developed by Nortel (now acquired by Avaya) for IP Phone (terminals and soft phones) and IP PBX communications.
Most manufacturers of IP PBX equipment (Aastra, Alcatel, Avaya...) have followed the same path, developing their own proprietary protocols. These protocols are being gradually replaced or complemented by standardized protocols, including H.323, especially SIP.
Operating principle
The protocols works through a "master" / "slave" mode of operations. They simply reflect the basic actions a user can perform on his terminal (such as press a button) and the commands that can be sent to the display through the network to the terminal (such as turn a light on or display a message ). The "stimulus" can implement easily any new facility telephone without having to modify the software embedded in the terminals, which simplifies the procedures for maintenance and upgrade of the installed base. In this sense, the stimulus protocols differ from functional protocols (such as SIP or H.323) that impose on the one hand that the service is defined in the standard and that the terminal loads specific logic corresponding to the service in question. This approach allows manufacturers to quickly deliver a wide range of services without having to wait until these services are standardized.
Nortel has been very active in the standardization effort of these protocols within the IETF, drawing on its work with pre-standard UNIStim and already developed work on the Nortel IP PBX systems and its IP Centrex platforms from 1996. Contributions common between Nortel and Cisco Systems for example culminated in the publication of the IETF RFC 3054 "Media Gateway IP Phone Application Profile" outlining the options in the protocol Megaco/H.248 for IP command posts.
The UNIStim protocol is implemented on Avaya IP PBX systems and licensed by third-party suppliers → History See for example the release of the company Spectralink,
Details on the implementation of the protocol UNISTIM are available in the document "Telephony and Data Network Services at a Telephone", filed in the United States Patent No. 7068641 on May 7, 1999. The Secure UNIStim protocol is implemented on the AS5300 or the CS2100 enables encryption of the UNIStim protocol with the use of a SMC 2450.
Ports
4100/udp Nortel UNIStim (Unified Networks IP Stimulus), i200x
5000/rudp Nortel UNIStim (Unified Networks IP Stimulus), i2002/i2004 on ITG Line
5100/rudp Nortel UNIStim (Unified Networks IP Stimulus), ITG Line
5105/udp Nortel UNIStim (Unified Networks IP Stimulus) FTP (UFTP)
6800/tcp Nortel Unified Manager
7000/rudp Nortel UNIStim (Unified Networks IP Stimulus), BCM FP1 VoIP to/from IP Phones
See also
H.323
MGCP
SIP
List of Nortel patents
References
Further reading
Avaya
Nortel
Nortel protocols
Telephony equipment
VoIP protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TKIP | TKIP may refer to:
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol, an algorithm used to secure wireless computer networks
Communist Workers Party of Turkey, TKİP, the (Türkiye Komünist İşçi Partisi) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasword | Tasword is a word processor for microcomputers developed by Tasman Software. The first version was released for the ZX81 in 1982 and spawned two major revisions in addition to several add-ons and, later, tailored versions for the +2 and +3 Spectrum models, the SAM Coupé, the MSX, the Timex Sinclair 2068 and the Amstrad CPC range.
Many of the features of modern word processors were included, such as justification, word wrap and page header. Features such as bold text and italic type were achieved through sending special escape sequences to a printer.
It featured the ability to use a 64 characters per line font in the standard ZX Spectrum screen.
Add-on products included TasMerge for mail merge functionality (which was later included in Tasword III and later versions) and TasSpell for spell checker.
Releases
ZX81
Tasword - 1982
ZX Spectrum
Tasword Two "The Word Processor" - 1983
Tasword Three "The Word Processor" - 1986
Timex Sinclair 2068
Tasword Two - 1983
ZX Spectrum 128
Tasword 128 "The Word Processor for the Spectrum 128" - 1986
Tasword +2A - 1991
ZX Spectrum +3
Tasword +3 - 1987
Sam Coupe
Tasword II - 1990
Commodore 64
Tasword 64 "The Word Processor" - 1985 (80 column)
MSX
Tasword MSX "The Word Processor" - 1984
Tasword MSX-2 - 1986
Amstrad CPC
Tasword 464 "The Word Processor" - 1984
Tasword 6128 "The Word Processor" - 1985
Amstrad PCW
Tasword 8000 - 1986
Tatung Einstein
Tasword Einstein "The Word Processor" - 1985
IBM PC compatible
Tasword PC "The Word Processor" - 1986
Tasres PC (special Terminate and stay resident version) - 1988
Tasword 2 PC - 1990 (named TWIX in the Netherlands)
References
External links
Word processors
ZX Spectrum software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Berti | Joel Berti (born December 17, 1971) is an American actor, acting coach and photographer. He is best known for his role as William Chandler on MyNetworkTV telenovela, Fashion House. He is the brother of Chiara Jude Berti, born in New York City, New York in 1977, who appeared on Season 3 of Big Brother, for which she created some dramatic content. In 2015, Joel was Lady Gaga's acting coach for American Horror Story: Hotel, where she went on to win the 2016 Golden Globe for best performance in a limited series.
Filmography
Beer Friday (2007) (V) .... Kyle
Fashion House (15 episodes, 2006) .... William Chandler
Fish Without a Bicycle (2003) .... Aaron
Jack Woody (2003) .... Blain
Friends (1 episode, 2002) .... Guy in Coffee Shop
Inside the Osmonds (2001) (TV) .... Alan Osmond
Touched by an Angel (1 episode, 2000) .... Zach
Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1 episode, 2000) .... Capt. Joseph 'Ski' Zabronski
Pacific Blue (2 episodes, 1997–2000) .... Donny Lynch
Martial Law (1 episode, 1999) .... Patrick
Rude Awakening (1 episode, 1999) .... Brian
Michael Landon, the Father I Knew (1999) (TV) .... Michael Landon Jr.
Silk Stalkings (1 episode, 1997) .... Mark Stavros
USA High (1 episode, 1997) .... Paul Ember
Social Studies (1997) TV series (unknown episodes) ....
Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas (1994) (TV) .... Red Team Guy #2
Search and Rescue (1994) (TV) ....
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1971 births
21st-century American male actors
20th-century American male actors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Net | C-Net, C-net, CNET, CNet, or Cnet may refer to:
CNET or "c|net" — a computer news website since 1994
C-Net DS2 or CNet DS2 — bulletin board software for Commodore 64 computer system since 1986
C-Net or C=Net — an ancestor edition of the C-Net DS2 bulletin board software for the Commodore computer system
C-Net 128, C-Net Amiga, and CNet Amiga Pro — other editions of the C-Net bulletin board software for the Commodore computer system
Centre national d'études des télécommunications — the national telecommunications research institute in France from 1944 to 2000
c-net — a type of polyhedral graph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20SimpleDB | Amazon SimpleDB is a distributed database written in Erlang by Amazon.com. It is used as a web service in concert with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon S3 and is part of Amazon Web Services. It was announced on December 13, 2007.
As with EC2 and S3, Amazon charges fees for SimpleDB storage, transfer, and throughput over the Internet. On December 1, 2008, Amazon introduced new pricing with Free Tier for 1 GB of data & 25 machine hours. Transfer to other Amazon Web Services is free of charge.
Limitations
SimpleDB provides eventual consistency, which is a weaker form of consistency, compared to other database management systems. This is often considered a limitation, because it is harder to reason about, which makes it harder to write correct programs that make use of SimpleDB. This limitation is the result of a fundamental design trade-off. By foregoing consistency, the system is able to achieve two other highly desirable properties:
availability – components of the system may fail, but the service will continue to operate correctly.
partition tolerance – components in the system are connected to one another by a computer network. If components are not able to contact one another using the network (a condition known as a network partition), operation of the system will continue.
Component failures are assumed to be inevitable; thus, both of these properties were deemed necessary in order to provide a reliable web service. The CAP theorem states that it is not possible for a system to exhibit these properties along with consistency; thus, the designers needed to settle for a weaker form of consistency.
Published limitations:
Store limitations
Query limitations
Features
Conditional Put and Delete
Conditional put and conditional delete are new operations that were added in February 2010. They address a problem that arises when accessing SimpleDB concurrently. Consider a simple program that uses SimpleDB to store a counter, i.e. a number that can be incremented. The program must do three things:
Retrieve the current value of the counter from SimpleDB.
Add one to the value.
Store the new value in the same place as the old value in SimpleDB.
If this program runs while no other programs access SimpleDB, it will work correctly; however, it is often desirable for software applications (particularly web applications) to access the same data concurrently. When the same data is accessed concurrently, a race condition arises, which would result in undetectable data loss.
Continuing the previous example, consider two processes, A and B, running the same program. Suppose SimpleDB services requests for data, as described in step 1, from both A and B. A and B see the same value. Let's say that the current value of the counter is 0. Because of steps 2 and 3, A will try to store 1. B will try to do the same; thus, the final counter value will be 1, even though the expected final counter value is 2, because the system attempted two incr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake%20%28software%29 | Flake or a Vector Shape is a programming library that is used in Calligra Suite and the KOffice 2 series. Flake provides the basic concept of a "shape". To the end user a shape appears as some piece of content such as an image or a text. A shape can be in any form (square, circle, etc.) and contain any kind of media since the Shape is responsible for drawing itself. All components of KOffice are being overhauled to use Flake as much as possible.
Functionality
The functionality of Flake is divided up between Shapes, which display content, and Tools, which manipulate content or the user interface. Different Shapes can be created to support different kinds of content, for example the text-shape in Calligra Words would support .txt and .odt formats while the KChart shape would just support chart-related document standard such as .odc. Shapes are packaged with a set of tools to manipulate that kind of content and UI elements that expose the functionality to the user. This provides an application with all the features it needs and also allows for easy embedding of Shapes in other applications. Shapes can load other shapes when needed, for example when images are in text documents the image shape will be loaded to handle the images.
Flake is the successor to the old design of embedding based on widgets in the KOffice 1 series. The widget embedding had three notable shortcomings, that widgets were always square, couldn't be rotated and were measured in pixels. All of these are corrected by Flake. Embedded document data can now be zoomed, rotated and skewed, be of any form and are measured in units such as millimeters. Flake also improves on the original design in several areas, for example, its extensibility. For example, in Google's Summer of Code 2007 Marijn Kruisselbrink created a MusicXML-based music notation Shape and Tools. Shapes can be made aware of other Shapes positions, moving an image through text will result in the text dynamically wrapping around the images. Shapes can even be grouped together and made to behave like a single Shape. Flake also supports printing to PDF and has full support for anti-aliased painting for smoother text.
See also
KDE Frameworks
References
Calligra Suite
Computer libraries
KDE Frameworks
KDE Platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge%20ProMode%20Arena | Challenge ProMode Arena (CPMA, formerly Challenge ProMode [CPM], unofficially Promode) is a freeware modification for id Software's first-person shooter computer game Quake III Arena (Q3A). CPMA includes modified gameplays that feature air-control, rebalanced weapons, instant weapon switching and additional jumping techniques. It also supports the unmodified vanilla Quake III (VQ3) physics, multi-view GameTV and demos, enhanced bots artificial intelligence, new maps, highly customisable HUD and many other features.
Challenge ProMode Arena has become the standard competitive mod for Q3A since the Cyberathlete Professional League announced CPMA as its competition mod of choice. The mod has its own division in Cyberathlete Amateur League, is used in Electronic Sports World Cup, and has its own competitions and leagues.
Promode physics have been implemented in other Q3A notable modifications—DeFRaG (DF) and Orange Smoothie Productions (OSP). Quake Live introduced Promode Quake Live (PQL) physics and ruleset which is similar to CPMA.
Development
The Challenge ProMode project was created by Richard "Hoony" Sandlant in May 1999, following the release of Q3Test, the beta version of Quake III Arena. Its goals were to make a more exciting and challenging game in the hope that this would help advance Q3A as a professional sport. John Carmack, lead programmer of Q3A, suggested a more challenging version of the game might be better for professional gamers:
Before the design team began their work the CPM team asked the community to brainstorm a list of possible changes. The designers used these suggestions in a process of tweaking and testing to develop the Challenge ProMode gameplay. Two public beta versions were then released for feedback and input from the community.
On August 28, 2000, the final version, 1.0, was released which was followed in December 2000 by the project changing its name to Challenge ProMode Arena to reflected the added multi-arena capability as Kevin "arQon" Blenkinsopp became the lead programmer.
Game modes
Among typical Quake III Arena modes—Free for All (FFA), Team Deathmatch (TDM), Tournament (DM\1v1), Capture the Flag (CTF)—CPMA features new game modes: HoonyMode (HM), Not Team Fortress (NTF), arQmode (APM), Clan Arena (CA), Freeze Tag (FTAG/FT), and Capture Strike (CTFS/CS).
HoonyMode
HoonyMode is a form of tournament introduced in November 2003 which is loosely based on the rules of tennis. During the warm-up, each player chooses a spawn-point or they are randomly generated if none are chosen. One player typically has a "stronger" spawn and the other a "weaker" one. When the game begins the player with the stronger spawn is considered to have the "serve" and each player death is treated as a point. After each point is scored players and the arena are reset and a new point is played; players switch spawn-points, so the player who had the "weak" spawn for the previous point now has the "strong" one, effecting a change of se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cycle%20routes%20in%20London | This is a list of cycle routes in London that have been waymarked with formal route signage include 'Cycleways' (including 'Cycle Superhighways' and 'Quietways) and the older London Cycle Network, all designated by the local government body Transport for London (TfL), National Cycle Network routes designated by the sustainable transport charity Sustrans, and miscellaneous 'Greenways' created by various bodies. Most recently, in May 2020 TfL announced its 'Streetspace for London' in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not all these routes are dedicated 'traffic free' cycle tracks: most of them also include ordinary roads shared with motor traffic and footpaths shared with pedestrians.
Cycleways
From summer 2019, TfL started branding new cycle routes (and re-branding and consolidating some existing routes) as 'Cycleways'. This was following feedback and criticism that the previous branding ('Superhighways' and 'Quietways') was sometimes "misleading".
All new and existing routes must meet new, stricter 'Cycling Quality Criteria' in order for TfL to sign them as Cycleways.
The Central London Cycle Grid is a partially completed scheme within central London which includes both numbered and unnumbered Cycleways, Cycle Superhighways and Quietways.
Cycle Superhighways
London's Cycle Superhighways were a set of Bike freeways, that were aimed principally at commuters and more experienced cyclists, providing faster and more direct radial routes between outer and central London.
In addition to route signage with a pink logo, other distinctive features included blue cycle lanes on some of the routes (the brand colour of the scheme's original sponsor, Barclays) and 'totem' style signage pillars.
History
London's Cycle Superhighways were first announced in 2008 by Mayor Ken Livingstone. The original proposal consisted of 12 radial routes, with routes numbered in 'clock face' fashion. However, several of these proposed routes were never built, due to opposition from the respective London boroughs. Initial implementation of the cycle superhighways also drew criticism on safety grounds, with poor design at some junctions, insufficient segregation of cyclists from motor traffic and slippery surfaces all contributing to numerous fatalities.
In 2018 TfL dropped the 'cycle superhighway' name from use on any further projects. All the existing Cycle Superhighways are now part of the Cycleways network and will be rebranded as a numbered 'Cycleway'.
Quietways
First announced in 2015, TfL's Quietways targeted less confident cyclists who want to use routes with less traffic, whilst also providing for existing cyclists who want to travel at a more gentle pace. The route numbers were shown in purple on signs.
The scheme lasted only three years before TfL decided to drop the Quietways brand, using 'Cycleways' for further new routes. All Quietways are now formally part of the Cycleways network and the delivered Quietways are being gradually rebranded as 'Cycleways' ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%20Network | The MLB Network is an American television sports channel dedicated to baseball. It is primarily owned by Major League Baseball, with Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, Comcast's NBC Sports Group, Charter Communications, and Cox Communications having minority ownership.
The channel's headquarters and studios are located at their leased facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey, a building owned by Hartz Mountain Industries which formerly housed MSNBC's studios. MLB Network's studios also house NHL Network, which came under the management of MLB Advanced Media in mid-2015 and transferred most operations from the network's former Toronto home base.
Tony Petitti, former executive producer of CBS Sports, was named the network's first president. Petitti served as MLB Network's president until December 2014, when he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball. Rob McGlarry, who worked as Senior and later Executive Vice-president of Business Affairs at MLB Network since 2009, was named the network's second president.
As of February 2015, MLB Network is available to approximately 70.0 million households (60.1% of subscription television customers) in the United States. , the channel was available in 41.6 million homes.
History
Major League Baseball became the fourth major North American professional sports league to launch its own 24-hour cable network. NBA TV dates back to 1999, the NHL Network to 2001 (though not in the United States until 2007), and the NFL Network to 2003. However, MLB Network is carried in the most households of these four networks, as it is available on all of the top-ten video operators in the United States.
MLB Network soft-launched on December 16, 2008, with a rolling automated loop of archival programming and promotions for the network for cable systems that carried the network's transmissions leading up to the January 1, 2009 launch. The channel fully launched at 6:00 p.m. EST with the premiere of Hot Stove.
In April 2012, MLB Network's standard definition feed shifted to a 16:9 letterbox format. Both of the network's SD and HD feeds now show the same format.
On April 4, 2016, MLB Network debuted a new on-air graphics package optimized for the 16:9 format, replacing the previous on-air look used since the network's New Year's Day 2009 launch.
On January 31, 2023, MLB Network was removed from YouTube TV's channel lineup after they failed to reach a contract renewal agreement.
Carriage
The network has signed contracts with numerous cable and satellite carriers, including DirecTV, Dish Network, Verizon Fios, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, and U-verse TV. In a deal that was pioneered by other sports league owned channels, MLB tied carriage of MLB Network to the ability to carry the popular out of market MLB Extra Innings package. In return, cable and satellite providers were offered a minority share of the new network.
Satellite radio
On March 26, 2010, it was announced that s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akonadi | Akonadi is a storage service for personal information management (PIM) data and metadata named after the oracle goddess of justice in Ghana. It is one of the “pillars” (core technologies) behind the KDE SC 4 project, although it is designed to be used in any desktop environment. It is extensible and provides concurrent read, write, and query access.
Akonadi provides unique desktop-wide object identification and retrieval. It functions as an extensible data storage for all PIM applications. In KDE 3 each PIM application had different data storage and handling methods, which led to several implementations of essentially the same features. Besides data storage, Akonadi has several other components including search, and a library (cache) for easy access and notification of data changes.
Akonadi communicates with servers to fetch and send data instead of applications through a specialized API. Data can then be retrieved from Akonadi by a model designed to collect specific data (mail, calendar, contacts, etc.). The application itself is made of viewers and editors to display data to the user and let them input data. Akonadi also supports metadata created by applications.
Development of PIM applications is made much easier because Akonadi takes care of data storage and retrieval, which are traditionally the difficult parts of creating a PIM application. The Mailody developer Tom Albers demonstrated how a mail reader could be created in only 10 minutes using Akonadi.
References
KDE Frameworks
KDE Platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20G.%20Mitchell | James George Mitchell is a Canadian computer scientist. He has worked on programming language design and implementation (FORTRAN WATFOR, Mesa, Euclid, C++, Java), interactive programming systems, dynamic interpreting and compiling, document preparing systems, user interface design, distributed transactional file systems, and distributed, object-oriented operating systems. He has also worked on the design of hardware for computer graphics, high-level programming language execution, and audio input/output.
Biography
Mitchell was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in Cambridge, Ontario, and graduated with a degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 1966.
Mitchell began working with computers in 1962 while a student at the University of Waterloo. He and three other undergraduates developed a fast compiler for the Fortran programming language named WATFOR (Waterloo FORTRAN), for the IBM 7040 computer.
The project, initiated by Professor J. Wesley Graham, established Waterloo's early reputation as a centre for software and computer science research by helping the first generation of computer science majors learn to program. He then graduated with a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1970. His dissertation is titled “The design and construction of flexible and efficient interactive programming systems”.
Career
From 1971 to 1984 Mitchell was at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and eventually became a Xerox Fellow. In 1980–81, he was Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He was head of research and development for Acorn Computers (U.K.), where he managed the development of the first ARM architecture reduced instruction set computer (RISC) chip and was President of the Acorn Research Centre in Palo Alto, California.
Mitchell joined Sun Microsystems in 1988 and was in charge of the Spring distributed, object-oriented operating system research in Sun Microsystems Laboratories and the SunSoft subsidiary. He became Vice President of Technology & Architecture in the JavaSoft Division and then Chief Technology Officer, Java Consumer & Embedded products. Later, he was vice president in charge of Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Subsequently, he became Principal Investigator on the High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Sun. When Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, he was appointed Vice President of Photonics, Interconnects, and Packaging at Oracle Labs. On March 1, 2014, Mitchell retired from Oracle Labs. In 2013, he joined the board of directors of the Curci Foundation, which funds research in the life sciences. , he remains on the board, and is Science Advisory Board Chairperson.
Honors
In 1997, he was awarded the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation from the University of Waterloo.
In 2008 he was awarded the Fr. Norm Choate, CR, Distinguished Alumni Awa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-rate%20units | In telecommunications, data-transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system. Common data rate units are multiples of bits per second (bit/s) and bytes per second (B/s). For example, the data rates of modern residential high-speed Internet connections are commonly expressed in megabits per second (Mbit/s).
Standards for unit symbols and prefixes
Unit symbol
The ISQ symbols for the bit and byte are bit and B, respectively. In the context of data-rate units, one byte consists of 8 bits, and is synonymous with the unit octet. The abbreviation bps is often used to mean bit/s, so that when a 1 Mbps connection is advertised, it usually means that the maximum achievable bandwidth is 1 Mbit/s (one million bits per second), which is 0.125 MB/s (megabyte per second), or about 0.1192 MiB/s (mebibyte per second). The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) uses the symbol b for bit.
Unit prefixes
In both the SI and ISQ, the prefix k stands for kilo, meaning 1,000, while Ki is the symbol for the binary prefix kibi-, meaning 1,024. The binary prefixes were introduced in 1998 by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and in IEEE 1541-2002 which was reaffirmed on 27 March 2008. The letter K is often used as a non-standard abbreviation for 1,024, especially in "KB" to mean KiB, the kilobyte in its binary sense. In the context of data rates, however, typically only decimal prefixes are used, and they have their standard SI interpretation.
Variations
In 1999, the IEC published Amendment 2 to "IEC 60027-2: Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology – Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics". This standard, approved in 1998, introduced the prefixes kibi-, mebi-, gibi-, tebi-, pebi-, and exbi- to be used in specifying binary multiples of a quantity. The name is derived from the first two letters of the original SI prefixes followed by bi (short for binary). It also clarifies that the SI prefixes are used only to mean powers of 10 and never powers of 2.
Decimal multiples of bits
These units are often used in a manner inconsistent with the IEC standard.
Kilobit per second
Kilobit per second (symbol kbit/s or kb/s, often abbreviated "kbps") is a unit of data transfer rate equal to:
1,000 bits per second
125 bytes per second
Megabit per second
Megabit per second (symbol Mbit/s or Mb/s, often abbreviated "Mbps") is a unit of data transfer rate equal to:
1,000 kilobits per second
1,000,000 bits per second
125,000 bytes per second
125 kilobytes per second
Gigabit per second
Gigabit per second (symbol Gbit/s or Gb/s, often abbreviated "Gbps") is a unit of data transfer rate equal to:
1,000 megabits per second
1,000,000 kilobits per second
1,000,000,000 bits per second
125,000,000 bytes per second
125 megabytes per second
Terabit per second
Terabit per second (symbol Tbit/ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Interface%20Control%20Officer | The Joint Interface Control Officer (JICO) is the senior multi-tactical data link interface control officer in support of joint task force operations. The JICO is responsible for effecting planning and management of the joint tactical data link network within a theater of operations.
Notes
References
CJCSI 6240.01C
CJCSM 3115.01A
[6120.01 (series) Joint Multi-TDL Operation Procedure (JMTOP)]
[MIL-STD-6016 (series) Tactical Data Link (TDL) 16 Message Standard]
[STANAG 5516 Allied Tactical Data Link (TDL) 16 Message Standard]
Information systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioWest | RadioWest was a group of 11 AM stations across the Southern half of Western Australia playing 'Real Music Variety', and targeting the 35+ audience. On 15 December 2016, the network renamed itself to Triple M as part of a nationwide move by parent company SCA to bring all its radio brands into line. It is currently owned by Southern Cross Austereo. Formed in the early 1990s, It was once previously owned by DMG Radio. Most programming is local to each market with some network input from the RadioWest Network studios in Bunbury, Gold Coast or Albury.
6TZ Bunbury, 6NA Narrogin and 6CI Collie (Now 6TZ/T 1134) formed the radio division of the Golden West Network until 1988.
Stations
6TZ 963 kHz, 2 kW Bunbury commenced 1939
6CI 1134 kHz, 2 kW Collie commenced 1947
6TZ 756 kHz, 2 kW Busselton commenced 1995
6BY 900 kHz, 2 kW Bridgetown commenced 1953
6VA 783 kHz, 2 kW Albany commenced 1956
6WB 1071 kHz, 2 kW Katanning commenced 1936
6NA 918 kHz, 2 kW Narrogin commenced 1951
6AM 864 kHz, 2 kW Northam commenced 1934
6MD 1098 kHz, 2 kW Merredin commenced 1941
6KG 981 kHz, 2 kW Kalgoorlie commenced 1931
6SE 747 kHz, 5 kW Esperance commenced 1982
References
Southern Cross Media Group
Defunct Australian radio networks
Radio stations in Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%20%28computer%29 | The Pandora is an operating system, handheld game console and mobile personal computer originally released in 2010. It is designed to take advantage of existing free and open-source software and to be a target for homebrew development. It includes several features that no handheld game consoles have previously had, making it a cross between a handheld game console and a subnotebook. It is developed and produced by OpenPandora, which is made up of former distributors and community members of the GP32 and GP2X handhelds. Until 2013, multiple batches of slightly updated Pandora variants were produced. In 2014 the development of a redesigned and upgraded successor, called DragonBox Pyra, was started.
History
Development of the Pandora began when Craig Rothwell, Fatih Kilic, Michael Mrozek and (later) Michael Weston teamed up and planned a portable system that would excel in the areas where they thought the GP32 and GP2X systems (from Game Park and GamePark Holdings respectively) were flawed. The Pandora was designed based on ideas and suggestions contributed by GP32X forum members, with the goal of creating the ultimate open source handheld device. When announcing the system, the designers of Pandora stated that it would be more powerful than any handheld video game console that had yet existed.
The final case and keymat design was made by Dave Cancilier (DaveC), who was known on the forums for custom hardware modifications.
In February 2008 the Pandora wiki had already been created; as of 2014, it contains a thousand pages and is translated with the MediaWiki Translate extension.
The initial development and setup costs were funded through a crowdfunding approach where early supporters provided enough money to support a production run, and when the console made it into production, each supporter would receive the device they paid for (what actually ended up happening due to cost overruns is that the early supporters received devices as later sales recouped the initial investment costs). OpenPandora began taking payments on September 30, 2008 and began shipping to customers on May 21, 2010. In late 2011, after production problems, OpenPandora shifted its production from Texas to Germany, delaying production, and the device was upgraded from 256 MB to 512 MB RAM.
As of September 3, 2012, 4600 units had been shipped and 400 early supporters were still waiting to receive a console, as these pre-orders are only fulfilled when sales to new customers are made. Since June 2012, a new 1 GHz model has been made available in limited amounts during the summer 2012. Due to the shortage of previous 600 MHz chips, this new model has become the de facto standard in 2013.
In March 2013, the pre-order queue of the German OpenPandora GmbH company (owned by Michael Mrozek aka EvilDragon) was finally cleared. The remaining pre-order queue of the UK OpenPandora Ltd. company (owned by Craig Rothwell) turned out to be significantly larger than originally reported, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20E.%20Auer | Michael E. Auer (born 1948 in Weimar) is a German computer scientist and engineering educator and professor at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria.
He is the head of the Center of Competence (CoC) Online Laboratories at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences and serves as President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) until 2018. In June 2006 Michael Auer was elected as President and CEO of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE). He is founder and chair of the annual International Conference Interactive Computer aided Learning (ICL) in Villach / Austria, chair of the steering committee of the annual International Conference Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV). Under his guidance international teams developed a Joint European Master Study Program Remote Engineering (EU project MARE) and a Joint European Bachelor Study Program Information Technology (EU project BIT2010). He is editor-in-chief of the International Journals of Online Engineering (iJOE), Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) and Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM). He also acts as an associated editor for Middle and Eastern Europe of the European Journal of Open and Distance Learning (EURODL).
Michael E. Auer received his Ing. degree (1971) and his Ph.D. degree (1975) with a thesis on "Design and Analysis of ECL Circuits" from Dresden University of Technology. From 1974-91 he was an assistant at the faculties Electrical Engineering and Informatics of this University. From 1991-95 he was with F+O Electronic Systems GmbH, Heidelberg (Head of software department). His research was related to high-speed digital circuits (ECL), real time and network programming, embedded systems, system- and network administration of heterogeneous networks, telelearning/teleteaching, remote working environments. In 1995 Michael Auer was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering of the School of Electronics at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria and had also a teaching position at the University of Klagenfurt. He works as a visiting professor at the Universities of Amman (Jordan), Braşov (Romania), and Patras (Greece).
References
External links
Michael E. Auer's website at the CUAS
Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria
International Association of Online Engineering
International Federation of Engineering Education Societies
Academic staff of the University of Klagenfurt
German computer scientists
1948 births
Living people
Scientists from Weimar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20branch | In computer programming, a wild branch is a GOTO instruction where the target address is indeterminate, random or otherwise unintended. It is usually the result of a software bug causing the accidental corruption of a pointer or array index. It is "wild" in the sense that it cannot be predicted to behave consistently. In other words, a wild branch is a function pointer that is wild (dangling).
Detection of wild branches is frequently difficult; they are normally identified by erroneous results (where the unintended target address is nevertheless a valid instruction enabling the program to continue despite the error) or a hardware interrupt, which may change depending upon register contents. Debuggers and monitor programs such as Instruction set simulators can sometimes be used to determine the location of the original wild branch.
See also
Dangling pointer
References
Control flow
Debugging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20set%20model | The nested set model is a technique for representing nested set collections (also known as trees or hierarchies) in relational databases.
It is based on Nested Intervals, that "are immune to hierarchy reorganization problem, and allow answering ancestor path hierarchical queries algorithmically — without accessing the stored hierarchy relation".
Motivation
The standard relational algebra and relational calculus, and the SQL operations based on them, are unable to express directly all desirable operations on hierarchies. The nested set model is a solution to that problem.
An alternative solution is the expression of the hierarchy as a parent-child relation. Celko called this the adjacency list model. If the hierarchy can have arbitrary depth, the adjacency list model does not allow the expression of operations such as comparing the contents of hierarchies of two elements, or determining whether an element is somewhere in the subhierarchy of another element. When the hierarchy is of fixed or bounded depth, the operations are possible, but expensive, due to the necessity of performing one relational join per level. This is often known as the bill of materials problem.
Hierarchies may be expressed easily by switching to a graph database. Alternatively, several resolutions exist for the relational model and are available as a workaround in some relational database management systems:
support for a dedicated hierarchy data type, such as in SQL's hierarchical query facility;
extending the relational language with hierarchy manipulations, such as in the nested relational algebra.
extending the relational language with transitive closure, such as SQL's CONNECT statement; this allows a parent-child relation to be used, but execution remains expensive;
the queries can be expressed in a language that supports iteration and is wrapped around the relational operations, such as PL/SQL, T-SQL or a general-purpose programming language
When these solutions are not available or not feasible, another approach must be taken.
Technique
The nested set model is to number the nodes according to a tree traversal, which visits each node twice, assigning numbers in the order of visiting, and at both visits. This leaves two numbers for each node, which are stored as two attributes. Querying becomes inexpensive: hierarchy membership can be tested by comparing these numbers. Updating requires renumbering and is therefore expensive. Refinements that use rational numbers instead of integers can avoid renumbering, and so are faster to update, although much more complicated.
Example
In a clothing store catalog, clothing may be categorized according to the hierarchy given on the left:
The "Clothing" category, with the highest position in the hierarchy, encompasses all subordinating categories. It is therefore given left and right domain values of 1 and 22, the latter value being the double of the total number of nodes being represented. The next hierarchical level c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1957–58 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1957 to August 1958.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Monday-Friday
ABC note: * These series aired under the umbrella title Fun At Five.
NBC note: ^ Comedy Time featured repeats of Private Secretary, The Charlie Farrell Show and Blondie, Then in the Winter, Comedy Time featured repeats of Dear Phoebe, I Married Joan, and The Charlie Farrell Show, Finally in Spring, Comedy Time featured repeats of Blondie (1957 TV series), I Married Joan and The Charlie Farrell Show.
Saturday
Sunday
See also
1957-58 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
1957-58 United States network television schedule (late night)
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html
Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
United States weekday network television schedules
1957 in American television
1958 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Brasileira%20de%20Not%C3%ADcias | Central Brasileira de Notícias (), or Rádio CBN for short, is a Brazilian news radio network, jointly owned by Sistema Globo de Rádio (Grupo Globo's radio division). It was created on 1 October 1991 as the first all news project on FM radio in Brazil, and broadcast news 24 hours a day.
Nowadays, Rádio CBN has four owned-and-operated stations in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Brasília. It also has 40 affiliate stations throughout the country.
Since its creation, CBN's slogan has been "A rádio que toca notícia" (The radio that plays the news). Its anchor journalists are Carolina Morand, Carlos Alberto Sardenberg, Carlos Andreazza, Carlos Eduardo Éboli, Milton Jung, Rodrigo Bocardi, Tania Morales and Tatiana Vasconcellos. The company employs more than 200 other journalists.
Programming
CBN broadcasts two- to three-minute summaries, which provides the day's five key news stories and some notable sports stories, every half an hour, under the banner Repórter CBN. Seven standard hard news strands of the current schedule are CBN Madrugada, CBN Primeiras Noticias, Jornal da CBN, CBN Brasil, Estúdio CBN, Ponto Final CBN and CBN Noite Total. At weekends on a timeframe from 3pm to 9pm, some or all of it is taken up by live commentary of football matches, with the rest of it being covered by Show da Notícia. Other sport shows include Quatro em Campo and CBN Esportes. On weekend lunchtime the news review programme Revista CBN is broadcast. O Mundo em Meia Hora presents the week's key international stories and how they affect Brazilians. CBN Praça presents the local news. Weekend, all friday's, Fim de Expediente bring in relaxed way the news of week with special guests. Also are presents CBN AutoEsporte about motors and Bem-Estar em Movimento about health.
Owned-and-operated stations
São Paulo: ZYD800 - FM 90.5 MHz (flagship)
Rio de Janeiro: ZYD464 - FM 92.5 MHz
Belo Horizonte: ZYC733 - FM 106.1 MHz (licensed to Caeté)
Brasília: ZYC480 - FM 95.3 MHz
References
External links
Official website
Brazilian radio networks
News and talk radio stations
Radio stations established in 1991
Grupo Globo subsidiaries
Globo radio stations
Mass media in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Mass media in São Paulo
1991 establishments in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20relay | In utility and industrial electric power transmission and distribution systems, a numerical relay is a computer-based system with software-based protection algorithms for the detection of electrical faults. Such relays are also termed as microprocessor type protective relays. They are functional replacements for electro-mechanical protective relays and may include many protection functions in one unit, as well as providing metering, communication, and self-test functions.
Description and definition
The digital protective relay is a protective relay that uses a microprocessor to analyze power system voltages, currents or other process quantities for the purpose of detection of faults in an electric power system or industrial process system. A digital protective relay may also be called a "numeric protective relay".
Input processing
Low voltage and low current signals (i.e., at the secondary of a voltage transformers and current transformers) are brought into a low pass filter that removes frequency content above about 1/3 of the sampling frequency (a relay A/D converter needs to sample faster than twice per cycle of the highest frequency that it is to monitor). The AC signal is then sampled by the relay's analog-to-digital converter from 4 to 64 (varies by relay) samples per power system cycle. As a minimum, magnitude of the incoming quantity, commonly using Fourier transform concepts (RMS and some form of averaging) would be used in a simple relay function. More advanced analysis can be used to determine phase angles, power, reactive power, impedance, waveform distortion, and other complex quantities.
Only the fundamental component is needed for most protection algorithms, unless a high speed algorithm is used that uses subcycle data to monitor for fast changing issues. The sampled data is then passed through a low pass filter that numerically removes the frequency content that is above the fundamental frequency of interest (i.e., nominal system frequency), and uses Fourier transform algorithms to extract the fundamental frequency magnitude and angle.
Logic processing
The relay analyzes the resultant A/D converter outputs to determine if action is required under its protection algorithm(s). Protection algorithms are a set of logic equations in part designed by the protection engineer, and in part designed by the relay manufacturer.
The relay is capable of applying advanced logic. It is capable of analyzing whether the relay should trip or restrain from tripping based on parameters set by the user, compared against many functions of its analogue inputs, relay contact inputs, timing and order of event sequences.
If a fault condition is detected, output contacts operate to trip the associated circuit breaker(s).
Parameter setting
The logic is user-configurable and can vary from simply changing front panel switches or moving of circuit board jumpers to accessing the relay's internal parameter setting webpage via communications link on anothe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Nebel | Bernhard Nebel, born on 6 May 1956, is a German artificial intelligence scientist. He is a full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where he holds the chair for foundations of artificial intelligence.
Bernhard Nebel received his Diploma degree from the University of Hamburg in 1980 and his Doctorate from the Saarland University in 1989. His thesis advisor was Wolfgang Wahlster.
Between 1982 and 1993 he worked on different AI projects at the University of Hamburg, the Technical University of Berlin, ISI/USC, IBM Germany, and the German Research Center for AI (DFKI). From 1993 to 1996 he held an associate professor position (C3) at the University of Ulm. Since 1996 he is full professor at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
Among other professional services, he served as the Program Co-chair for the 3rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'92), as the Program Co-chair for the 18th German Annual Conference on AI (KI'94), as the General Chair of the 21st German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI'97), and as the Program Chair for the 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'01). In 2001, Bernhard Nebel was elected as an ECCAI fellow.
Throughout his entire career, Bernhard Nebel has made substantial contributions to the foundations of Artificial Intelligence, to automated planning and scheduling, and to the RoboCup initiative. Bernhard Nebel is (co-)author and (co-)editor of 9 books and proceedings, as well as author and co-author of more than 100 refereed papers in scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. His CS Freiburg RoboCup team became world champion in the RoboCup mid-size league in 1998, 2000, and 2001. Bernhard Nebel and his group have also developed the first autonomous table football system. Bernhard Nebel is a fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. In 2009, he was elected to be a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2010, he became a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
External links
Bernhard Nebel's home page
Bernhard Nebel's research group
Web Page of the CS Freiburg RoboCup team
Web Page of the autonomous table football system KiRo
Report on Bernhard Nebel in the German Magazine Spiegel Online
German computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
German roboticists
1956 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
University of Hamburg alumni
Academic staff of the University of Ulm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit%20Radio%20Network | Spirit Radio Network was a commercial radio network covering regional Western Australia. It was part of the Redwave Media Group owned by Seven West Media and broadcast to most towns and regional centers in Western Australia including Bunbury, Geraldton, Broome, Port Hedland and Karratha.The Spirit Radio Network targeted 30 to 54 year-old listeners with a Hot AC format and operates under the Australian radio callsigns 6KA, 6NW, 6SAT, 6BAY and 6EL.
History
Spirit Radio Network was first launched as The Star Radio Network in 2000s, however stations 6NW Port Hedland and 6KA Karratha first began broadcasting in the 1970s under the North West Radio branding. The network was later rebranded as The Spirit, later Spirit Radio Network.
In October 2019, Spirit Radio was included in the sale of Redwave Media to Southern Cross Austereo.. On 16 March 2020, Spirit Radio programming was replaced with that of Triple M, with local advertising feeds retained for Broome, Geraldton, Karratha, Port Hedland and remote Western Australia.
In May 2020, Crocmedia purchased Spirit Radio Bunbury 621 AM. On 24 August 2020, Spirit Radio was rebranded as SEN Spirit, with the local advertising feed retained for Bunbury.
Frequencies
Unlike rival Southern Cross Austereo stations, Spirit Radio Network programming was predominantly based in WA. Local Spirit stations receive twice daily local news bulletins. Statewide weather forecasts are provided on the hour. In the cyclone season, Spirit broadcasts warning updates.
References
External links
Adult contemporary radio stations in Australia
Australian radio networks
Radio stations disestablished in 2020
Radio stations in Western Australia
Seven Network
2020 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Border%20%282008%20TV%20series%29 | The Border is a Canadian drama that aired on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The executive in charge of production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by John Fawcett, Michael DeCarlo, Ken Girotti, Kelly Makin, Brett Sullivan and Philip Earnshaw. The first season had a total budget of 20 million dollars, with about 1.5 million dollars per episode.
The series is set in Toronto and follows agents of Immigration and Customs Security (ICS), a fictitious agency described as being created by the Government of Canada to deal with trans-border matters including terrorism and smuggling.
The cancellation of The Border was announced by the CBC after three seasons were aired.
Episodes
Cast and characters
The show stars many Canadian television actors such as James McGowan, Graham Abbey and Catherine Disher. Sofia Milos and Daisy Beaumont are the only non-Canadian actresses to star, as United States Department of Homeland Security special agent Bianca LaGarda and British intelligence agent Charlotte Bates respectively.
Grace Park joined the cast in Season 2. She appeared in six episodes of thirteen as American Homeland Security agent Liz Carver, and continued the role into Season 3.
Elements
Immigration and Customs Security
Immigration and Customs Security () is a fictional federal agency based in Toronto, with its headquarters in a formerly used ferry terminal used for the former Rochester fast ferry (43°38′18″N; 79°21′06″W). The agency is led by Major Mike Kessler, an ex-Special forces operator from Joint Task Force 2, and is said to be under the supervision of Public Safety Canada.
Fighting Terrorism and Crime
Sofia Milos, who plays Bianca LaGarda, had said that The Border demonstrates how people should be fighting against crime and terrorism of all types. She said that the show hopefully would make a dialogue with viewers and ask themselves if they "believe in your government? Whose point of view is right? There is a border between justice and crime.", hence the show's title.
Another viewpoint in the show is the reference between the American and Canadian ways of handling situation involving criminal and terrorist suspects. The show contrasts American-style, results-oriented anti-terrorism efforts in handling a situation with Canadians taking a more relaxed approach to ensure an innocent person is not caught up while conducting anti-terrorist duties.
Production influences
Lindalee Tracey had been following immigration issues before she had started to work with her husband, Peter Raymont, starting with the National Magazine Award-winning article The Uncounted Canadians written for Toronto Life in 1991 with the 1997 documentary Invisible Nation on the underground illegal immigrant community in Toronto. She then collaborated with Raymont to create the 2002 documentary The Undefended Border. Raymont s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20%26%20Investigation%20Network%20%28Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | Crime & Investigation Network (also known on promotions as "CI" and branded on-air and stylized as "Crime + Investigation") is a Southeast Asian pay television channel which focuses on crime, investigation and mystery programming. It is run by A+E Networks Asia, a joint-venture between A+E Networks and Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd and was launched on June 15, 2007.
It was available initially in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, and Hong Kong and then from 2008 in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. It is also currently available in Taiwan via the CHT MOD IPTV service.
Press Release
The History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network to launch on June 15th in South East Asia, AETN International
Programming
24 to Life
48 Hours Mystery
Australian Federal Police: Frontline
Beyond Scared Straight
Bloodwork
Born To Kill?
Bordertown: Laredo
Catching The Craigslist Killer
Cajun Justice
Crime & Punishment
Crime: Crossing The Line
Dog The Bounty Hunter
Evil Up Close
Fatal Vows
FBI: Criminal Pursuit
Forensic Investigators
Justice Files
Look Who's Stalking
Medical Detectives
Murder On The Social Network
My Crazy Ex
On The Case
Parking Wars
Real Crime
Real Interrogations
See No Evil
Sins & Secrets
Steven Seagal Firearm
The First 48
The First 48: Missing Persons
The Nightclub Killer
The Will: Family Secrets Revealed
Vanished With Beth Holloway
Wicked Attraction
See also
A+E Networks
Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd
Bio Asia
History Asia
Crime & Investigation Network
External links
Astro Crime and investigation
A&E Networks
Television channels and stations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Malaysia
English-language television stations
Mass media in Southeast Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAFM%20%28Australia%29 | WAFM was a commercial radio network serving major regional towns in Western Australia, north of the capital Perth. It part of the Redwave Media group, which also included the Red FM and Spirit Network stations owned by Seven West Media. WAFM targeted the 18+ Listener with its Top 40 format. Programming came from its studios in Broome, Geraldton, Karratha and Port Hedland. In 2015 the WAFM stations were rebranded as Red FM.
History
WAFM was formed in the late 1990s when supplementary FM licences were granted to existing licensees. The licensee in this case was North West Radio which became The Spirit Network. Originally WAFM broadcast to remote areas statewide, but this licence area was later covered by sister station Red FM. WAFM also expanded into Geraldton with the acquisition of local station 96.5FM.
In February 2015 WAFM was re-branded Red FM when it was merged with Redwave Media's main CHR Network.
Stations
Broome: 101.3FM
Geraldton: 96.5FM
Karratha: 106.5FM
Port Hedland: 91.7FM
References
Australian radio networks
Contemporary hit radio stations in Australia
Radio stations disestablished in 2015
Radio stations in Western Australia
Seven Network
2015 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20FM%20%28Australia%29 | Red FM was a commercial radio network covering regional Western Australia. Formerly only broadcasting to mine sites, Red FM later covered every town north of Perth and following the re-branding of WAFM, included the major centres of Broome, Port Hedland, Karratha and Geraldton. Red FM was a part of the Redwave Media Group owned by Seven West Media and targeted 18 to 39 year-old listeners with a contemporary hit radio format. Red FM operated under the Australian radio callsigns 6RED, 6HED, 6FMS and 6GGG.
History
Red FM was launched in 1998, initially as a mining radio station providing news and music to the remote mining areas. It later extended its broadcast reach to other remote areas and towns that were previously served by WAFM. Red FM had the largest geographical service area for a commercial radio network in the Southern Hemisphere. Its target audience was the 4–50 group with a potential listening audience of 185,000 people statewide. Red FM generally broadcast to the same area as its sister, the Spirit Radio Network.
In October 2019, Red FM was included in the sale of Redwave Media to Southern Cross Austereo. On 16 March 2020, Red FM programming was replaced with that of Hit Western Australia, with local advertising feeds retained for Broome, Geraldton, Karratha, Port Hedland and remote Western Australia.
Frequencies
References
External links
Australian radio networks
Contemporary hit radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 1988
Radio stations disestablished in 2020
Radio stations in Western Australia
Seven Network
1988 establishments in Australia
2020 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6GGG | 6GGG (formerly 6GE) is a commercial radio station at 72 Chapman Road in Geraldton, Western Australia which has been broadcasting since 1937. It was once part of the Whitford Radio Network which also included 6PM Perth and 6AM Northam. In the late 1980's, it was part of the Bond Radio Network (owner: Alan Bond) headquartered at Perth's Radio 6PM. In 1991 it converted from 1008 AM to 96.5 FM and changed its callsign to 96.5 GGG-FM as the 2nd commercial FM station in Regional WA after opposition Geraldton station 98FM had launched earlier in 1991. The mid 90s saw 98FM and 96.5 merge into one company. 2005 saw 96.5 relaunch as WAFM as part of the Redwave Media Network.
Former announcers
Tasma Walton
Alan Pearsall...NB: (Not the cricket player)
Jeff Newman
Tony Barber (Sale of the Century) (Not Aztec's Guitar Player)
Phil Bradshaw
Lyle Harris (Former station manager)
Murray Johnson
John Cecil
John Hubbard
Rob Fletcher
Darryl Hames (Former studio/program manager)
Rob Buckingham
John Harvey
Jim Campbell
Perry Vitale
Chris Ilsley
Ashley Malone (Former station Manager)
Guy Sweeting (1987)
Lindsay Gook - (Known as Lindsay Walker and sometimes Jay Walker on air.)
Colin Rowley
Clive Murray - (77-78) (85-86) (91-94)
Danielle Mia (Agnew)
Jill Fowler (known as Amber Franklin on air)
Tracy Wulff
Rob Grant
Jacqui Wright
Tim Versteegan (called himself Tim Daniels on air) Mark Kennedy
Jon Kennedy
Victor Tanti
Warren Kalazich
Stuart Endersby
Vic McCabe
Ron Hayward
John Hutchinson
Andrew Sichter
Peter Feorenza
John Cartwright
Ron O'Neil
John De Bellis
Brian 'Putter' Smith
Mike Murphy
Peter Newman
George Manning
Jim Fitzmaurice
Chris Fenton (Breakfast announcer '88-'89)
Radio stations in Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayon%20Shin-Chan%3A%20Ora%20to%20Poi%20Poi | is a video game for the Family Computer based on the series Crayon Shin-Chan. It was developed by TOSE and published by Bandai on August 27, 1993, in Japan only. A version of the game was simultaneously released to accommodate the Famicom's Datach Joint Rom System attachment but lacked any features that utilized the Datach's card reading capabilities.
Plot
Each of the game's level stages feature different situations with Shinnosuke involving one of the supporting characters from the series. These situations must be resolved by playing a card game.
Gameplay
The game is a simple card game with a Tetris element. The layout is similar to a Tennis court with both players on either sides defending their goal, while stacks of cards are positioned in the center. Players must move Shin up and down sliding cards, in two's, to the center pile matching up symbols and push each stack back to the opponent's side in an attempt to over take their goal.
References
External links
Crayon Shin-Chan: Ora to Poi Poi at Giant Bomb
1993 video games
Crayon Shin-chan
Bandai games
Tose (company) games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Puzzle video games
Video games based on anime and manga
Video games developed in Japan
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Dykes%20%28basketball%29 | Jimmy Dykes (born May 3, 1961) is a former American college basketball coach and current sportscaster for ESPN and SEC Network. He was the women's basketball head coach at the University of Arkansas until resigning in March 2017.
Before making the transition to working for ESPN the first time, Dykes served as a men's assistant basketball coach at University of Arkansas, Appalachian State University, University of Kentucky, Arkansas State University, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Oklahoma State University. He has also served as a scout for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics. Dykes also served as Shiloh Christian School's (located in Springdale, Arkansas) Director of Athletics in 2006.
Head coaching career
Arkansas (2014–17)
Jimmy Dykes was announced as the new head coach of the University of Arkansas women's basketball team on March 30, 2014. Dykes replaced Tom Collen as the women's head coach at Arkansas after Collen was fired at the end of the 2013–2014 season.
In his first year at Arkansas, Dykes led his team of nine players to the NCAA tournament after finishing in the middle of the pack of the SEC. His Razorbacks defeated 7 seed Northwestern before falling to second seeded Baylor in the second round.
Dykes' second year saw the team finish 10th in the SEC and with a losing record overall, at 12–18. His third team finished last in the conference, winning only two league games.
Personal life
Dykes is a 1985 graduate of the University of Arkansas, where he played basketball for the Razorbacks and former head coach Eddie Sutton.
Dykes currently resides in Johnson, Arkansas. He is married to Tiffany Beasley, a former Razorback cheerleader. The two have one daughter, Kennedy, born in 2005. Dykes is a Christian.
Jimmy lived in Nashville early in his career for 9 months while pursuing a career in country music.
Head coaching record
References
External links
Arkansas profile
1961 births
Living people
American basketball scouts
American men's basketball players
American television sports announcers
American women's basketball coaches
Appalachian State Mountaineers men's basketball coaches
Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball players
Arkansas Razorbacks women's basketball coaches
Arkansas State Red Wolves men's basketball coaches
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball coaches
Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball coaches
Seattle SuperSonics scouts
Sportspeople from Tulsa, Oklahoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20iron%20ore%20production | This is a list of countries by iron ore production based on U.S. Geological Survey data.
List
Pig iron production
This is a list of countries by pig iron production.
See also
List of countries by steel production
List of iron mines
Iron-ore exports by country
Notes
References
Lists of countries by mineral production
Countries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNDK%20%28AM%29 | KNDK (1080 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting farm and classic country music programming serving Langdon, North Dakota. The station is currently owned by Simmons Broadcasting. All four Simmons Broadcasting stations share studios at 1403 Third Street in Langdon, ND. It serves as the only American affiliate station of the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League.
1080 AM is a United States clear channel frequency; KOAN, KRLD, and WTIC share Class A status on this frequency.
On May 6, 2022 KNDK replaced the talk portion of its format with farm news and shifted its music to classic country.
References
External links
Classic country radio stations in the United States
NDK
Radio stations established in 1967
1967 establishments in North Dakota
Cavalier County, North Dakota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Myers | Eugene Wimberly "Gene" Myers, Jr. (born December 31, 1953) is an American computer scientist and bioinformatician, who is best known for contributing to the early development of the NCBI's BLAST tool for sequence analysis.
Education
Myers received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the University of Colorado.
Research
Myers' 1990 paper (with Stephen Altschul and others) describing BLAST has received over 62,000+ citations making it amongst the most highly cited papers ever. Along with Udi Manber, Myers invented the suffix array data structure.
Myers was a member of the faculty of the University of Arizona, the Vice President of Informatics Research at Celera Genomics, and a member of the faculty at UC Berkeley. At Celera Genomics, Myers was involved in the sequencing of the human genome, as well as the genomes of Drosophila and mouse. In particular, Myers advocated the use of the whole genome shotgun sequencing technique.
Later, he became group leader at the Janelia Farm Research Campus (JFRC) of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2012, Myers moved to Dresden to become one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. He leads a center for systems biology.
Myers' current research interests include computational reconstructions of neuroanatomical data, algorithms for analysis of functional neuroscience data, and genome assembly. Among his latest contributions is FASTK, a highly optimized kmer counter for high-fidelity shotgun read datasets.
Myers was voted the most influential in bioinformatics in 2001 by Genome Technology Magazine and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. In 2004, together with Martin Vingron, Myers was awarded the Max Planck Research Prize for international cooperation in bioinformatics. He was awarded the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award for outstanding contribution to bioinformatics, in particular his work on sequence comparison algorithms.
Awards and honours
2022: IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal (with Webb Miller)
2019: Milner Award by the Royal Society
2014: Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award by the International Society for Computational Biology
2004: International Max Planck Research Prize
2003: Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
2001: Paris Kanellakis Award by the Association for Computing Machinery
References
Living people
1953 births
American bioinformaticians
California Institute of Technology alumni
Human Genome Project scientists
University of Colorado alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
University of Arizona faculty
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
Max Planck Institute directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore%20Flag%20Signaling%20System | In computer networking, Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS) is a humorous proposal to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by semaphores. Semaphore Flag Signaling System was initially described in RFC 4824, an April Fools' Day RFC issued by the Internet Engineering Task Force edited by J. Hofmueller, et al. and released on April Fools' Day 2007. It is one of several April 1 RFCs.
Reference implementation
A reference implementation of IP over SFS has been done by the authors of the RFC within the project "Talking the Fish".
An email was transmitted using SMTP over Semaphore Flag Signals.
See also
IP over Avian Carriers, a similar humorous proposal
Semaphore, for other kinds of semaphores
Victorian Internet, for the serious relation between semaphore and the internet
Free-space optical communication, a more effective method of high-speed communication using visible light in free space
Optical telegraph
References
Semaphore
Internet architecture
Link protocols
Physical layer protocols
Wireless networking
2007 hoaxes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinder | Cinder or Cinders may refer to:
In computing
Cinder (programming library), a C++ programming library for visualization
Cinder, OpenStack's block storage component
Cyber Insider Threat, CINDER, a digital threat method
Arts and entertainment
Cinders (1913 film), a 1913 silent film
Cinders (1920 film), a 1920 film starring Hoot Gibson
Cinders (1926 film), a 1926 British film starring Betty Balfour
Cinder (musician) (born 1961), Scottish musician
Cinder (album), by the Dirty Three
Cinder (novel), a novel by Marissa Meyer
Linh Cinder, the character from the novel and The Lunar Chronicles series
Cinders (visual novel), a 2012 visual novel adaptation of Cinderella by MoaCube
Other uses
Ember, also called cinder
Scoria, or cinder, a type of volcanic rock
Cinder (bear), a bear rescued with burns after 2014 wildfires in Washington, United States
Cinder, a character in the Killer Instinct video games
Cinder toffee, a British name for honeycomb toffee
Cinder Fall, a major antagonist in the animated web series RWBY
See also
Cinder cone, a type of volcano
Cinderblock
Cinder track
Cynder (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising%20the%20Bar%20%282008%20TV%20series%29 | Raising the Bar is an American legal drama created by Steven Bochco and David Feige, which ran on TNT network from September 1, 2008 to December 24, 2009.
Plot
Idealistic public defender Jerry Kellerman does whatever it takes to assist the helpless and disenfranchised, which often leads to clashes in the courtroom presided over by Judge Trudy Kessler, a hard-liner hoping to become the city's next district attorney. Jerry has many clashes with both law enforcement and the assistant district attorneys (ADAs) such as Michelle Ernhardt, the beautiful and occasionally devious attorney with whom he has had a turbulent secret fling.
Cast and characters
Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Jerry Kellerman
Gloria Reuben as Rosalind Whitman
Jane Kaczmarek as Trudy Kessler
Melissa Sagemiller as Michelle Earnhardt
Jonathan Scarfe as Charlie Sagansky
J. August Richards as Marcus McGrath
Currie Graham as Nick Balco
Teddy Sears as Richard Patrick Woolsley
Natalia Cigliuti as Roberta "Bobbi" Gilardi
Recurring
Stacy Hall as Vince Culp
Jon Polito as Judge Dominick Ventimigla
Paul Joyner as Assistant District Attorney
John Michael Higgins as Judge Albert Farnsworth
Heath Freeman as Gavin Dillon
Angel Oquendo as Carlos
Octavia Spencer as Arvina Watkins
Max Greenfield as David Steinberg
Josh Randall as Tim Porter
Wilson Cruz as Rafael de la Cruz
Production
Raising the Bar was originally announced to be joining TNT as a new series in January 2008. It came to TNT through ABC Studios and Steven Bochco served as executive producer, with Jesse Bochco as co-executive producer and David Feige as supervising producer. After completing its first season of 10 hour-long episodes in November 2008, the series was renewed for a 15-episode second season, which premiered on Monday June 8, 2009 at 10p.m ET/ 9 p.m. CT. The show was canceled after season 2.
Episodes
Season 1 (2008)
Season 2 (2009)
Cancellation
TNT confirmed to E! Online on November 30, 2009 that the series would not be renewed for a third season. The final three episodes were burned off in a marathon December 24, 2009.
Reception
The series debut garnered 7.7 million viewers. It was the biggest audience ever for a new-series launch on basic cable. It beat the record set in 2004 by USA Network's launch of The 4400 which opened with an average of 7.4 million viewers; runner-up was TNT's The Closer, which recorded 7 million viewers when it was unveiled in 2005.
Following the premiere, ratings evened out to around 5.5 million viewers per episode. For calendar-year 2008 on a first-run basis, the series delivered 1.37 million viewers in the 18–49 demographic, garnering mixed reviews.
Home media
References
External links
2008 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings
2000s American workplace drama television series
2000s American legal television series
American legal drama television series
English-language television shows
Television series by ABC Studios
TNT (American TV network) original prog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Kaufmann | Matt Kaufmann is a senior research scientist in the department of computer sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. He was a recipient of the 2005 ACM Software System Award along with Robert S. Boyer and J Strother Moore, for his work on the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover.
References
External links
Matt Kaufmann homepage
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Formal methods people
Lisp (programming language) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionz | BIONZ is a line of image processors used in Sony digital cameras.
It is currently used in many Sony α DSLR and mirrorless cameras. Image processing in the camera converts the raw data from a CCD or CMOS image sensor into the format that is stored on the memory card. This processing is one of the bottlenecks in digital camera speed, so manufacturers put much effort into making, and marketing, the fastest processors for this step that they can.
Sony designs the circuitry of the processor in-house, and outsources the manufacturing to semiconductor foundries such as MegaChips and (mostly) GlobalFoundries, as they currently do not own any fabrication plant capable of producing a system on a chip (SoC). Sony also sources DRAM chips from various manufacturers namely Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron Technology.
BIONZ utilizes two chips in its design. The first chip is an SoC that manages overall functionality of the camera such as SD card storage management, wired connection such as USB and HDMI, and wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi and NFC that are increasingly common on modern Sony α cameras. The BIONZ SoC can be identified by its part number "CXD900xx". The second chip is the ISP (image signal processor). It handles the data directly from the CMOS image sensor, and it is directly responsible for the camera's high-ISO noise characteristics in a low-light environment. The ISP can be identified by the part number "CXD4xxx".
History of BIONZ chips in Sony cameras
BIONZ – MegaChips MA07170 and MA07171
The first camera to officially use a so-called BIONZ processor was the DSLR-A700 in 2007, utilizing the MA07170 chip from a MegaChips (MCL) family of 32-bit RISC processors with MIPS R3000 core.
Similar MegaChips processors had been used in the DSLR-A100 (MA07169) as well as in the Konica Minolta 5D (MA07168) and 7D (MA07168), implementing Konica Minolta's CxProcess III running under MiSPO's NORTi/MIPS, an RTOS following the µITRON standard.
The MegaChips MA07170 was also used in the DSLR-A200, DSLR-A300, and DSLR-A350. The DSLR-A850 and DSLR-A900 used two such chips in parallel.
The MegaChips MA07171 was instead used in the DSLR-A230, DSLR-A290, DSLR-A330, DSLR-A380, and DSLR-A390.
BIONZ – Sony CXD4115 ISP
The first BIONZ processor to fully designed in-house by Sony utilized the Sony image processor in:
CXD4115 ISP - DSLR-A450, DSLR-A500, DSLR-A550 - still using a proprietary operating system (most probably NORTi as well).
CXD9974GG SoC with the revised CXD4115-1 ISP - DSLR-A560, DSLR-A580, SLT-A33, SLT-A35, SLT-A55 / SLT-A55V, NEX-5C, NEX-C3, and NEX-VG10 - all models from here on are Linux-based (CE Linux 6 with kernel 2.3.)
BIONZ – Sony CXD4132 ISP + CXD90016GF SoC
Sony CXD4132 series chip is a multicore BIONZ processor:
CXD4132 - SLT-A37, SLT-A57, SLT-A58, SLT-A65 / SLT-A65V, SLT-A77 / SLT-A77V, SLT-A99 / SLT-A99V / HV, NEX-F3, NEX-3N, NEX-5N,
CXD90016GF SoC with CXD4132 ISP - NEX-5R, NEX-5T, NEX-6, NEX-7 / Lunar
Unidentified - NEX-V |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Smith%20Super-80%20Computer | The Dick Smith Super-80 was a Zilog Z80 based kit computer developed as a joint venture between Electronics Australia magazine and Dick Smith Electronics.
It was presented as a series of construction articles in Electronics Australia magazine's August, September and October 1981 issues.
Electronics Australia had published a number of computer projects before the Super-80, including the EDUC-8 in 1974, the Mini Scamp and the DREAM 6800 Video Computer.
The computer was sold as a "short form" kit for A$ 289.50. For this, the purchaser received the computer PCB, an assembly manual (a copy of the construction articles from Electronics Australia) and basic components, including 16kB of RAM and a 2kB EPROM containing a machine code monitor program. The technical manual and power transformer were sold separately, as were a kit of I.C. sockets, a BASIC interpreter program and from mid-1982 onwards, a metal case to house the computer.
The computer proved to be a popular construction project, with an advertisement in November 1982 claiming: "Over 2000 sold."
The popularity of the Super-80 led to a small industry growing up around addressing the shortcomings of the original computer - especially the black and white, 32 × 16 character, upper case only video display.
The original name of the computer was "Nova-80", but it was changed at the last minute to avoid "possible legal ramifications".
Specifications
CPU: Zilog Z80
Clock Speed: 2 MHz
Expansion: S-100 Bus Slot (Optional)
Keyboard: 60 Key
Mass Storage: Cassette Tape (300 Baud, Kansas City Standard)
RAM: 16kB (maximum 48kB)
ROM: 2kB (maximum 12kB)
Sound: None
Video Display: Monochrome, 32 × 16 Characters, Upper Case Only
Technical description
The Super-80 was based on the Zilog Z80 8-bit microprocessor. As standard, it had 16 kB of dynamic RAM in the form of eight 4116 RAM chips. RAM could be expanded to 32 kB or 48 kB through the addition of rows of eight 4116 RAM chips.
The computer was assembled on a single double-sided printed circuit board. The board was supplied in a light cardboard sleeve that appeared to be an LP record sleeve, having the words "Dick Smith Super 80 Microcomputer Kit Printed Circuit Board" and the part number "Cat H-8402" printed along the spine.
To keep the price of the computer and the component count down, a novel technique was used to implement the video display. Instead of an expensive video display controller chip with dedicated memory, the Super-80 used discrete TTL logic to implement the video display and 512 bytes of system RAM was shared between the video display and the CPU. Fifty times per second, the CPU was turned off for around 10 ms by asserting the Z80 BUSREQ (DMA) pin. The video display circuitry would then read from the shared RAM while it refreshed the image on the screen. In addition to a 50% degradation in processor performance, this meant that it was not possible to perform any accurate timing in software, since the programmer had no cont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilsag%20Chillies%20Theatre%20Company | Chilsag Chillies is an Indian theatre company and the flagship LiveShow, Stageplay and musical production arm of the Chilsag Entertainment Network. The company has operations in US, UK, Canada and India and has a network of talented artists all over the world. Chilsag Chillies also maintains a global network of research centers in key cities around the world that provide inputs on the latest in world theatre. Founded in 2003 by Sachin Gupta, Chilsag Chillies Theatre Company prides itself in being one of the few theatre companies that showcase their own original creations. Within the short period of its existence, Chilsag Chillies Theatre Company has been able to set a benchmark of success in the field of theatre. The very first production of the company, “Celebration of Life”, was felicitated by the chief minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit and was also appreciated internationally when it was performed at the Factory Theatre, Toronto, Canada and Off-Broadway Theare, New York. The high standard set by the first production has only been matched, if not surpassed, by the succeeding productions.
Chilsag's Theatre Laboratory is passionately involved in gathering information on theatre from all over the world to preserve the theatre heritage. The theatre company now has more than 700 actors from more than 20 countries all across the world.
History
2003-2010
Founded in 2003 by Sachin Gupta, Chilsag Chillies Theatre Company was founded with the objective to redefine theatre through its innovative theatre productions. The very first production of the company, “Celebration of Life”, was felicitated by the chief minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit and was also appreciated internationally when it was performed at the Factory Theatre, Toronto, Canada and Off-Broadway Theare, New York. Chilsag tied up with Actor's experimental Lab USA and established an acting school 'Salgane School of Acting' as well in 2003. In 2004, Chilsag Chillies received letters of appreciation from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (former President of India), Shivraj Patil (former Home Minister, India) and the Italian cultural centre and Department of Art and Culture, Government of India for the contribution to theatre. Late 2004, Chilsag laid the foundation of a new venture operationalising Corporate Theatre across its units. Theatre Pasta, an international theatre magazine was launched in 2005. Chilsag also stages two of its productions in locations across London in three days with its pack of English actors. Mid 2006, witnessed the initiation of Chilsag Children's Theatre Company and Theatre-in-Education projects. Chilsag Theatre Pasta International Awards successfully started its journey in beginning of 2007. The company staged the premier of its plays, 'A Rollercoaster Ride', 'Wake Up Call' and 'Kailashnath Weds Madhumati' at one of the premier performing arts location in the capital city, New Delhi. Chilsag took its theatre production 'Celebration of Life', 'Handicapped City' to the internati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20and%20Forever%20%28TV%20series%29 | Now and Forever is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on March 14, 2005 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up with Mukha as the first instalment. The series concluded on November 24, 2006 with Dangal as the seventh and final installment.
Seasons
Mukha (March 14, 2005 – June 10, 2005)
Ganti (June 13, 2005 – October 21, 2005)
Agos (October 24, 2005 – January 6, 2006)
Tinig (January 9, 2006 – April 12, 2006)
Duyan (April 17, 2006 – July 21, 2006)
Linlang (July 24, 2006 – September 22, 2006)
Dangal (September 25, 2006 – November 24, 2006)
Accolades
References
External links
2005 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Gish | Warren Richard Gish is the owner of Advanced Biocomputing LLC. He joined Washington University in St. Louis as a junior faculty member in 1994, and was a Research Associate Professor of Genetics from 2002 to 2007.
Education
After initially studying physics, Gish obtained an A.B. degree in Biochemistry from University of California, Berkeley, and completed work for his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology at the same institution in 1988.
Research
Gish is primarily known for his contributions to NCBI BLAST, his creation of the BLAST Network Service and nr (non-redundant) databases, his 1996 release of the original gapped BLAST (WU-BLAST 2.0), and most recently his development and support of AB-BLAST. At Washington University in St. Louis, Gish also led the genome analysis group which annotated all finished human, mouse and rat genome data produced by the University's Genome Sequencing Center from 1995 through 2002.
As a graduate student, Gish applied the Quine-McCluskey algorithm to the analysis of splice site recognition sequences. In 1985, with a view toward rapid identification of restriction enzyme recognition sites in DNA, Gish developed a DFA function library in the C language. The idea to apply a finite-state machine to this problem had been suggested by fellow graduate student and BSD UNIX developer Mike Karels. Gish's DFA implementation was that of a Mealy machine architecture, which is more compact than an equivalent Moore machine and hence faster. Construction of the DFA was O(n), where n is the sum of the lengths of the query sequences. The DFA could then be used to scan subject sequences in a single pass with no backtracking in O(m) time, where m is the total length of the subject(s). The method of DFA construction was recognized later as being a consolidation of two algorithms, Algorithms 3 and 4 described by Alfred V. Aho and Margaret J. Corasick.
While working for U.C. Berkeley in December 1986, Gish sped up the FASTP program
(later known as FASTA) of William R. Pearson and David J. Lipman by 2- to 3-fold without altering the results. When the performance modifications were communicated to Pearson and Lipman, Gish further suggested that a DFA (rather than a lookup table) would yield faster k-tuple identification and improve the overall speed of the program by perhaps as much as 10% in some cases; however such marginal improvement even in the best case was deemed by the authors to not be worth the added code complexity. Gish also envisioned at this time a centralized search service, wherein all nucleotide sequences from GenBank would be maintained in memory to eliminate I/O bottlenecks—and stored in compressed form to conserve memory—with clients invoking FASTN searches remotely via the Internet.
Gish's earliest contributions to BLAST were made while working at the NCBI, starting in July 1989. Even in early prototypes BLAST was typically much faster than FASTA. Gish recognized the potential added benefit in this application of us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20History | Discovery History is a British channel with programming about history from Warner Bros. Discovery.
History
On 19 August 1998, Discovery announced they would launch several new digital channels to coincide with the launch of Sky Digital platform, one of which would be Discovery Civilisation Channel, which launched on 1 October 1998. It was devoted to documentaries regarding history and civilisations, historic, ancient or present.
On 1 November 2007, Discovery Civilisation was re-branded as Discovery Knowledge, by Heavenly. The new channel was still focused on history and natural history, but the schedule now included programming on engineering, crime and technology.
After just over three years, on 7 November 2010, Discovery Knowledge was rebranded as Discovery History. The idea behind this rebranding was to take the channel's focus back to becoming "the only UK channel dedicated to factual history", to counter the fact that its competitors History and Yesterday had begun showing more reality and scripted programming, respectively.
In February 2013, A+E Networks, who operates History, lost a High Court battle to stop Discovery from using the Discovery History brand in the UK.
Programming
Industrial Revelations
Finding the Fallen
Time Team
Planes That Never Flew
Wartime Secrets with Harry Harris
Weaponology
World War 1 in Colour
Unsolved History
Tanks!
Aircraft Stories
The Tower
Killzone
Century of Warfare
See also
Investigation Discovery (US)
Discovery World
List of documentary television channels
References
External links
Discovery Channel UK
Discovery History presentation in The Ident Gallery
Discovery Knowledge presentation on TVARK
History
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in the United Kingdom
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRRA | WRRA (1290 AM) was a radio station formerly licensed to serve Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands. The station was owned by Reef Broadcasting, Inc. It aired a Gospel music format.
Programming
In addition to its regular programming, this station aired the "dLife Diabetes Minute" health advisory program.
History
In 1969 an application was filed for a new station in Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands, initially for 1090 kHz, which was modified to specify 1290 kHz in 1974. The station began broadcasting, as WRRA, in 1977.
Expanded Band assignment
On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that 88 stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with WRRA authorized to move from 1280 to 1620 kHz.
An application for a construction permit for the expanded band station, also in Frederiksted, was filed on June 13, 1997, which was assigned the call letters WDHP on March 6, 1998. The FCC's initial policy was that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could 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, although this deadline was extended multiple times.
It was ultimately decided to end operations at the original station, and on February 8, 2011, the license for WRRA on 1290 kHz was cancelled.
References
External links
WRRA official website
FCC Station Search Details: DWRRA (Facility ID: 55468)
FCC History Cards for WRRA (covering 1969–1980)
RRA
Radio stations established in 1977
Radio stations disestablished in 2011
2011 disestablishments in the United States Virgin Islands
RRA
Gospel radio stations in the United States
Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20in%20Australian%20television |
Events
10 February – 5 years since the last show, Ray Martin returns to the hosting role on Nine's A Current Affair.
1 March – Before the Game premieres on Network Ten and was hosted by Dave Hughes and Peter Helliar.
17 March – Seven launches a new news bulletin at 4:30 pm, titled Target Iraq, detailing the latest developments on the war in Iraq. After the invasion concludes, the bulletin is retained and is renamed Seven 4.30 News (later Seven Afternoon News), with production moving to Melbourne before it is moved back to Sydney in 2006, where it remains as of today.
19 April – Rove McManus wins the 2003 TV WEEK Gold Logie.
21 April –
Yu-Gi-Oh! premieres on Network Ten as part of Cheez TV.
The British episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in which Charles Ingram cheats his way to the top prize is shown on the Nine Network to an Australian television audience of nearly two million people.
4 June – Mike London quits as National Nine News Brisbane weekend co-anchor after he allegedly arranged for a female fan to complain about the presenting style of then-weeknight presenter Bruce Paige.
23 June – The Price Is Right revived on the Nine Network at 5.30pm weeknights after 5 years off the air, Larry Emdur returned as hosting and Shawn Cosgrove returned as voiceover, earlier news reports had speculated that former A*mazing host James Sherry would be the star, but it never happened.
25 June – Neighbours producers has announced that star Delta Goodrem will not renew her contract with the Network Ten series when it expires in next month. She is expected to be seen on-air until September.
30 June – Network Ten axes vintage episode reruns of Neighbours earlier through the 1991 series after very bad ratings, In 2002 Neighbours rated only 70,000 viewers during the whole 1990 series.
30 June – Two of the ABC's digital television service channels ABC Kids and Fly TV closed down due to funding cuts from the Federal Government.
1 July – TEN launches the one-hour afternoon news bulletin instead.
1 July – Huey's Cooking Adventures moves to the 3:30 pm timeslot on Network Ten with Iain Hewitson.
13 July – The Australian version of the Endemol-hit decision making game: Deal or No Deal, premieres on the Seven Network hosted by Weekend Sunrise host Andrew O'Keefe, offering a top prize of a staggering two million dollars before lowering the top prize to $200,000 next year.
21 July – Regina Bird wins season 3 of Big Brother, becoming the show's first female winner.
23 July – CSI: Miami a sequel to the American mystery fiction television series in the CSI franchise, premieres on the Nine Network and is shown every Wednesday at 8:30pm, followed American police procedural series Without a Trace at 9:30pm which also debuts on Nine on the same day.
27 July – The Australian version of Pop Idol (known as Australian Idol) debuts on Network Ten.
19 September – Hi-5 celebrates its 200th episode.
28 September – Shaun Faulkner wins the fourth season of The Mol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Vincent%20Lopez%20Show | The Vincent Lopez Show, also known as Vincent Lopez Speaking, is a 1949-1957 American musical television program hosted by Vincent Lopez and broadcast on the DuMont Television Network, and later on CBS Television. The latter title is a take-off on Lopez's introduction on his longtime radio show: "Lopez speaking!"
Broadcast history
The series ran from 1949 to 1950 on DuMont and from February to March 1957 on CBS. Lopez also hosted a 30-minute DuMont series Dinner Date, which aired live from the Grill Room at the Hotel Taft in New York City, Saturdays at 8pm ET from January to July 1950.
From March to May 1949, the show aired from 6:45 to 7pm ET every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on most DuMont affiliates. From May to July 1949, the series aired Monday through Friday in the same time slot. From July 1949 to June 1950, the series aired Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 7:45pm ET. Music programs aired in a 15-minute time-slot were common at the time.
According to the book What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s (University of Texas Press, 2005) by Marsha Cassidy, Vincent Lopez Speaking also aired from 3:15 to 3:30pm ET on DuMont. According to the book, the DuMont daytime schedule beginning in January 1949 was:
10-10:30am Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room
10:30-11am Welcome, Neighbors
11am-12noon The Stan Shaw Show
12noon-12:15pm Amanda
12:15-12:30pm Man in the Street
12:30-12:45pm Camera Headlines
12:45-1pm Fashions in Song
1-1:30pm Okay, Mother
2:30-3pm Inside Photoplay (The Wendy Barrie Show)
3-3:15pm The Needle Shop
3:15-3:30pm Vincent Lopez Speaking (The Vincent Lopez Show)
CBS Television version
Six years later, Lopez hosted a similar program on CBS Television. The DuMont version featured notable performers including Ray Barr, Lee Russell, Barry Valentino, and Ann Warren, all series regulars. Dinner Date also featured guest stars such as Cab Calloway, Arthur Tracy, and Woody Herman.
Lopez's show went on CBS's nationwide network after it debuted as a local program in New York City. Performers included Judy Lynn, Teddy Norman, Eddie O'Connor, Johnny Messner, Johnny Amorosa, and Danny Davis. The half-hour program was broadcast from New York at 7 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturdays.
Episode status
A single kinescope of a 1950 episode survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1949-50 United States network television schedule
Dinner Date (January to July 1950) also hosted by Lopez
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1949 America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20LGBT%20Cancer%20Network | The National LGBT Cancer Network (formerly called "The LGBT Cancer Project") is a nonprofit organization launched in September 2007. It is one of the first programs in the United States that addresses the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) cancer survivors and those at risk and the only one founded and directed by members of the LGBT community. The Network was founded by Liz Margolies, LCSW.
Establishment
There are a number of local lesbian cancer programs and one national lesbian health organization, Mautner Project. The National LGBT Cancer Network contains an online cancer screening and referral program, entitled "Take Care of That Body", original articles on cancer risks and survivorship experiences of the LGBT community, and links to resources for both LGBT people and health professionals.
The Network's goals are
Educating LGBT people about their increased cancer risks and the importance of screening/early detection
Training healthcare providers to offer more culturally competent.safe and welcoming care to LGBT patients
Advocating for LGBT inclusion in national cancer organizations, research and the media.
Recent work with the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
In 2010, the National LGBT Cancer Network was selected to develop an LGBT cultural competence in healthcare curriculum that became mandatory for all 38,000 employees of the municipal hospital system.
Cancer In The LGBT Community
Lesbians, gay men and transgender men and women experience disparities in availability of health insurance and are considered to be at increased risk for multiple types of cancer, based on behaviors such as high smoking and drinking rates, high fat diet, receptive anal intercourse and positive HIV status. Increased risks are coupled with decreased screening behaviors, resulting in cancers being detected at a later stage when it is more difficult to treat. Decreased screening is linked to lower insurance rates and perceived homophobia in health care. LGBT people experience extra challenges in cancer survivorship, including acceptance of their families by oncologists and emergency rooms and information about the effect of treatment on sexuality, relationships and fertility.
See also
List of LGBT medical organizations
References
External links
The National LGBT Cancer Network homepage
LGBT health organizations in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in New York (state)
Cancer organizations based in the United States |
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