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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20City | Medical City may refer to:
Medical City Dallas Hospital
The Medical City, a Philippine hospital network
The Medical City Clark, in Mabalacat
The Medical City Ortigas, in Pasig
Guam Regional Medical City, in Dededo, Guam
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, a hospital in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Simon%20Snyder | Samuel Simon Snyder (August 18, 1911 – December 28, 2007) was a cryptographer for the United States Government. His pioneering work in early computers led directly to the development of the computer as we know it, and laid the foundation for many aspects of the modern computing industry. He is known for having broken every Japanese encrypted message with his partners in the Signal Intelligence Service during World War II and for having developed the MARC standards.
Career
Snyder was an alumnus of George Washington University, where, at the height of the Great Depression, he attended night school, working on various government jobs during the day. While still at the university, Snyder started his career in 1936 with the Signal Intelligence Service as one of the first 10 employees, and worked at the National Security Agency from 1934 to 1964. He graduated from George Washington University in 1939 with a B.S. in chemistry.
During World War II, Snyder coordinated teams and worked with William F. Friedman to break Japanese army cryptosystems, which were delivered from Switzerland. He also developed a more systematic approach to using sorting machines for cryptanalysis. Near the end of the war, he and his partners were able to break every Japanese encrypted message, which, according to the National Security Agency, "is believed to have directly contributed to shortening the war by at least one year". Snyder also determined whether computers that decoded Axis information at the Signal Intelligence Service were useful for other purposes, and concluded that they were integral to the agency; as a result, the NSA became the "leading computing industry on earth", according to his eldest son.
Later at NSA he worked on one of the early code breaking computers called ABNER and other computing systems such as Harvest, one of the earliest general-purpose computers made with IBM. After spending 30 years at the National Security Agency, he worked at the Library of Congress, where in 1964 he became an information systems specialist. He was the coordinator of the Library of Congress's information systems from 1964 to 1966. There, he helped to create the MARC standards, a machine readable cataloging system that became an international standard electronic database system for libraries and for data sharing in research.
From 1967 to 1970, he worked at the Research Analysis Corporation.
Snyder coauthored the book "Man and the Computer", which was published in 1972, as well as a classified history of the NSA, with Ashley Montagu.
Mr. Snyder was inducted into the NSA Hall of Honor in 2007, and he held a Defense Department Meritorious Civilian Service Award and The Washington Post's "Ideal Father of the Year" award for 1949.
Personal life
Samuel Snyder married Patricia Yakerson Snyder in 1935; Patricia died in 1996.
He left behind 4 children, 9 grandchildren, and 5 great-grandchildren. Snyder's eldest son, named Sol and a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Everett%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Robert Rivers Everett (June 26, 1921 – August 15, 2018) was an American computer scientist. He was an honorary board member of the MITRE Corporation. He was born in Yonkers, New York.
In 1945 he worked with Jay Forrester on the Whirlwind project, one of the first real time electronic computers. In 1958 he was a founding member of the MITRE Corporation, and was its president from 1969 to 1986.
In 1983 he received the Medal for Distinguished Public Service from the Department of Defense and in 1989 he received the National Medal of Technology.
In 2009, he was named the winner of the 2008 Eugene G. Fubini Award for outstanding contributions to the Department of Defense (DoD).
In 2009, he was also made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his work on the MIT Whirlwind and SAGE computer systems and a lifetime of directing advanced research and development projects."
References
1921 births
2018 deaths
Scientists from Yonkers, New York
American electrical engineers
Duke University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Mitre Corporation people
National Medal of Technology recipients
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummel%20hydro-electric%20power%20scheme | The Tummel hydro-electric power scheme is an interconnected network of dams, power stations, aqueducts and electric power transmission in the Grampian Mountains of Scotland. Roughly bounded by Dalwhinnie in the north, Rannoch Moor in the west and Pitlochry in the east it comprises a water catchment area of around and primary water storage at Loch Ericht, Loch Errochty, Loch Rannoch and Loch Tummel, in Perth and Kinross. Water, depending on where it originates and the path it takes, may pass through as many as five of the schemes nine power stations as it progresses from north-west to south-east. The scheme was constructed in the 1940s and 50s incorporating some earlier sites. It is managed by SSE plc.
Early Development
The idea of Loch Ericht as a source for hydro-electric power was first anticipated in 1899, when the Highland Water Power Bill was put before Parliament. The plan was to generate electricity of industrial purposes, but the bill did not receive Parliamentary approval. The next attempt was the Loch Ericht Water and Electricity Power Act, which received approval in 1912, but it included a clause that prohibited alteration of the water level of the loch, making the scheme uneconomic. Dundee Corporation sought to use Loch Ericht, Loch Rannoch and Loch Tummel in a scheme proposed in 1919, but there was strong opposition to it, and the plans did not come to fruition.
The potential for hydro-electric power in the Highlands of Scotland was recognised by the Snell Committee, who published reports in 1919 and 1920. Against this background, the Grampian Electricity Supply Bill was laid before Parliament. The promotors were aware of the "fundamental principles" set out by the Snell Committee, and ensured that these formed part of the bill. Consequently, the scheme would treat a single catchment area comprehensively, and would ensure that some of the power generated would be made available to residents who lived within the catchment of the scheme. The promotors included the Duke of Atholl and the chairman of Lloyds Bank, John William Beaumont Pease, both men who were known to be honest and trustworthy, and who were held in high regard locally. The bill became an Act of Parliament in 1922, and allowed the promotors to use the waters of Loch Ericht, Loch Rannoch and Loch Tummel. Loch Ericht would be augmented by water diverted from Loch Seilich and Loch Garry, increasing the catchment area to . The power generated would supply an area of over , covering the counties of Perth, Kinross and Forfar, together with parts of Inverness-shire, Argyllshire and Stirlingshire. Some of the power would be sold in bulk to the Scottish Central Electric Power Company and the Fife Electric Power Co.
Grampian Electricity Company
The newly formed Grampian Electricity Supply Company failed to raise the £1.75million of authorised capital, and asked George Balfour for help. Balfour, with Andrew Beatty, had formed the engineering company Balfour Beatty in 1907, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Freakbeat%2C%20Volume%203 | English Freakbeat, Volume 3 is a compilation album in the English Freakbeat series, featuring recordings that were released decades earlier, in the mid-1960s.
Release data
The album was released as an LP in 1989 by AIP Records (as #AIP-10048) and as a CD in 1997 (as #AIP-CD-1048).
Vinyl-only tracks and CD bonus tracks
The English Freakbeat LPs and CDs have most tracks in common, although not always in the same order, and some of the LP tracks were not included on the CDs. Also, the CD bonus tracks are not always at the end of the album. Thus, for clarity, we have shown tracks for both editions of the album, with vinyl-only tracks and CD bonus tracks indicated.
Notes on the tracks
The following information is taken mostly from the CD liner notes. The In Crowd included some stellar players: Twink, previously of the Fairies who was also the drummer for the Pretty Things for a time and later a founding member of the Pink Fairies; Steve Howe, later of Yes and a bandmate of Twink in the Fairies; and vocalist Keith West. "Why Must They Criticize" is from their last single in late 1965; shortly thereafter, the band changed its name to Tomorrow and went on to release one of the classic psychedelic rock albums of the 1960s.
Dean Maverick real name "Pete Harper" was the singer in (beat band) The Attraction of ( Romford Harold Hill & Dagenham ). This song is from the flip side of their second single; the "A" side, a cover of the Kinks' "Party Line" was produced by Dave Davies (whose early band the Ravens is also featured on this disk).
The Thoughts started out as a back-up band for acts like Paul Dean, Tiffany and Johnny & John. While the classic "A" side of their single, "All Night Long" has been compiled several times, this is the first re-appearance of the flip.
"Take Away" by the Couriers is taken from their only single; the "B" side is on English Freakbeat, Volume 1. Several more recordings by the Sons of Fred are included on English Freakbeat, Volume 4. The Sons of Fred who recorded at E.M.I. Studios, later Abbey Road Studios included guitarist Mick Hutchinson, and Pete Sears on bass. Sears went on to record bass or piano with many artists including Long John Baldry, Stoneground, Silver Metre, Rod Stewart, John Cipollina, Jefferson Starship, Nick Gravenites, John Lee Hooker, Hot Tuna and Moonalice. Sons of Fred also performed on 1960 television shows like Thank Your Lucky Stars, and Ready Steady Goes Live.
The Mockingbirds are a predecessor band to 10cc and already included both Graham Gouldman and Kevin Godley. This cut is from their last of five singles.
The bandmembers of the Raving Savages – who backed Screaming Lord Sutch – included Deep Purple co-founder Ritchie Blackmore and sideman extraordinaire Nicky Hopkins. This cover of the Jan & Dean classic "Surf City" comes from a 1963 surf EP that the band released under their own name in the same time period.
The numerous rarities that populate the bonus tracks on the second half |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PASS%20Sample%20Size%20Software | PASS is a computer program for estimating sample size or determining the power of a statistical test or confidence interval. NCSS LLC is the company that produces PASS. NCSS LLC also produces NCSS (for statistical analysis).
PASS includes over 920 documented sample size and power procedures.
Major statistical topics in PASS
Means - 1 or 2 Groups
Means - Correlated or Paired
Means - Cross-Over Designs
Means - Many (ANOVA)
Survival Analysis
Variances
ROC Curves
Equivalence
Normality Tests
Confidence Intervals
Conditional Power
Proportions - 1 or 2 Groups
Proportions - Correlated or Paired
Proportion - Many Groups
Mixed Models
Regression/Correlation
Non-Inferiority
Group Sequential Tests
Design of Experiments
External links
Science software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xarchiver | Xarchiver is a front-end to various command line archiving tools for Linux and BSD operating systems, designed to be independent of the desktop environment. It is the default archiving application of Xfce and LXDE. Deepin's archive manager is based on Xarchiver.
It uses the GTK+2 or GTK3 toolkit to provide the program interface; therefore, it is capable of running on any system where GTK support exists. Many other applications also use the toolkit, so support is widespread among other Linux distributions, irrespective of their specific desktop solution.
Supported formats at this time with an appropriate installed program are 7z, static libraries, apk, arj, bzip, bzip2, bzip3, cab, cbz, compress, cpio, deb, epub, exe (self-extracting), gzip, iso, jar, jsonlz4, lha, lzh, lrz, lz, lz4, lzma, lzop, mozlz4, oxt, rar, rpm, snap, squashfs, tar, xpi, xz, zip, zpaq and zstd.
It handles encrypted *.7z, *.arj, *.lrz, *.rar and *.zip archives.
Xarchiver uses the Direct Save Protocol XDS for drag and drop file saving. The program acts as a front-end for various commonly installed libraries dealing with the supported compression formats. Xarchiver can't create archives whose archiver is not installed.
Currently, the Xfce master branch of Xarchiver is being continued at GitHub.
See also
Comparison of file archivers
References
External links
Official website
Archive managers that use GTK
File archivers
Free data compression software
Free software programmed in C
LXDE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slick%20Dogs%20and%20Ponies | Slick Dogs and Ponies is the third studio album from American garage rock band, Louis XIV. Its release date was January 29, 2008.
The album was leaked on torrent networks on January 18, 2008, after the band temporarily added all of the songs to their MySpace page.
Reception
Initial critical response to Slick Dogs and Ponies was negative. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 37, based on 10 reviews.
Track listing
"Guilt By Association"
"Air Traffic Control"
"Misguided Sheep"
"There's a Traitor in This Room"
"Sometimes You Just Want To"
"Tina"
"Stalker"
"Free Won't Be What it Used to Be"
"Swarming of the Bees"
"Hopesick"
"Slick Dogs and Ponies"
Bonus Tracks
iTunes Deluxe Bundle
"Air Traffic Control (Oxygen Remix)"
"Eleanor Rigby"
"Thief In The Choir (Feat. Brandon Flowers)"
Hot Topic Exclusive
"Money Bunny"
"Actors and Singers"
Rhapsody
"Dirty Knees"
Independent Retail
"Save a Prayer"
"Ride a White Swan"
References
External links
2008 albums
Louis XIV (band) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Cubs%20Radio%20Network | The Chicago Cubs Radio Network comprises 30 stations in six states.
Pat Hughes has been the play-by-play announcer since 1996. From 1996 to 2010, Hughes was partnered with Ron Santo. After Santo's death, Keith Moreland took over as color analyst, lasting three seasons (2011–13). Ron Coomer became the color analyst in 2014. Zach Zaidman handles the Cubs Central pre- and post-game shows, and takes over the play-by-play for the fifth inning of most games.
All 162 regular season baseball games, some spring training games, and all postseason games are broadcast by the network, though not all affiliates distribute the entire slate. The games are transmitted to stations via C-Band satellite service on AMC-8.
From 1925 to 2014 (continuously from 1958 to 2014), the Cubs' flagship station was WGN, 720 AM, the lone radio station of the Tribune Company (which for many years simultaneously owned the Cubs, TV station WGN-TV and its national superstation, and the local newspaper from which it gets its name, the Chicago Tribune). When it was part of the Tribune Radio Network, the network's non-sports programming included the National Farm Report, a farm news feature hosted by Orion Samuelson; Samuelson Sez (a weekly commentary hosted by Samuelson); and Farming America, a farm news feature hosted by Steve Alexander (previously by Max Armstrong).
In 2015, the Cubs' broadcast rights moved to CBS Radio after Tribune Co. declined to renew its longstanding broadcast rights. The 2015 season was broadcast by WBBM. After sister station WSCR's loss of radio rights to broadcast the Chicago White Sox games to WLS in July 2015, it was widely expected that the Cubs would move to WSCR as a replacement. This move was confirmed by CBS Radio on November 11, 2015 and finalized before the start of the 2016 Cubs season. Through WSCR, the games also air on the FM dial via HD Radio through WSCR's subchannel on WBMX (104.3-HD2).
Affiliates
See also
List of XM Satellite Radio channels
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
References
Chicago Cubs
Major League Baseball on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIR%20%28computer%29 | MIR (Russian:МИР) is a series of early Soviet transistorized minicomputers. It was developed from 1965 (MIR), 1968 (MIR-1) to 1969 (MIR-2). The development team was led by Victor Glushkov.
Overview
MIR (МИР) stands for «Машина для Инженерных Расчётов» (Machine for Engineering Calculations) and means both "world" and "peace" in Russian. It was designed as a relatively small-scale computer for use in engineering and scientific applications. Among other innovations, it contained a hardware implementation of a high-level programming language capable of symbolic manipulations with fractions, polynomials, derivatives and integrals. Another innovative feature for that time was the user interface combining a keyboard with a monitor and light pen used for correcting texts and drawing on screen.
Technical specifications
Technical specifications for MIR-1:
memory unit: 4096 12-bit words of core memory (access time 2.5 microseconds, memory cycle time 16 microseconds)
external storage: 8-track punched tape. Input device: paper tape reader FS-1501 (up to 1500 symbols/second). Output device: tape punch PL-80 (up to 80 characters per second)
performance: 200-300 arithmetic operations per second on five-digit numbers
power consumption: 1.5 kW (using 380V three-phase electric power)
weight: about 400 kg
See also
List of Russian inventions
References
External links
Description of Mir series of computers
MIR-2
Soviet inventions
Soviet computer systems
Minicomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting%20workshop | An acting workshop is a meeting of actors or others of one specific trade to learn how to hone their skills and to network with other actors, acting coaches, and casting directors. Many actors will critique, mentor, and coach their peers and offer tips on how to improve their preparation for roles, auditions, and enhance their performing abilities. Acting workshops are often staffed by professionals, which can include acting coaches, directors, or actors. Casting directors sometimes also act as coaches. It is usually recommended that serious actors attend acting workshops to help increase their skill.
Specialist types
There are other types of workshops for similar kinds of performance trades. Voice actors learn how to enhance their skill of voicing a character, writers learn to how to give characters personality, and comedians can learn how to increase their comedic skill.
Examples
Specialist independent workshops exist to provide the facilities required for training and providing skills courses.
References
See also
Acting coach
Performing arts
Training
Coaching |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20Data%20Base%20for%20Exchange%20Processes%20at%20the%20Deep%20Sea%20Floor | The Atlantic Data Base for Exchange Processes at the Deep Sea Floor (ADEPD) was a marine research project funded by the EU from 1998 to 2000 as part of MAST III (Marine Science and Technology Programme). The project was coordinated by Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde with contributions of ten European partners and one institute from the US.
The aim of the ADEPD project was to build up a joint data base for deep sea biological and geochemical data from a variety of sources and to conduct a preliminary geographical analysis of these data. Emphasis was on the North Atlantic, since from this area most data are available and it is the most perturbed deep sea region due to human activities. 1775 published and unpublished data sets were collected in two years. This was the first project which has compiled a data base from existing deep sea data, long-term archived and accessible to the scientific community.
Evaluation of the data collection showed that data are clustered in some well investigated areas of the Atlantic, but large regions are devoid of data like the Mid Atlantic Ridge, parts of the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean. In particular biological data from the deep sea are much more scarce than geochemical ones, since many biological data from past investigations are not accessible in a suitable form at present. Most deep sea research projects did not carry out geochemical and biological studies at the same locations. Therefore, statistical comparisons between biological and geochemical data are still difficult despite the high total amount of data gathered. Different methods employed for the determination of one variable further complicate the matter. One of the major achievements of ADEP was to convert different measurements to common units. This allowed to investigate relationships between different chemical measurements, groups of organisms and turnover rates.
Two very different approaches to estimate the total turnover of organic carbon or oxygen (respiration) at the deep sea floor gave very similar results. Regional differences in both assessments point to methodological shortcomings by one or the other method and to gaps in data coverage. While estimates agreed well in central Atlantic regions, fairly large discrepancies were found at the continental margins. This indicated that there was still insufficient knowledge about transport processes and biological turnover of organic carbon along continental margins.
The following recommendations for future research were given on the basis of the ADEPD results:
It is most important to secure deep sea biological data from so far inaccessible sources and to collate them in a data information system which guarantees long-term stewardship and public access.
Biological and geochemical studies were mostly carried out separately which seems to be a systematic, scientific pattern and poses a problem in deep sea research. Interdisciplinary studies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship%20Earth%20%28detector%29 | Spaceship Earth is a network of neutron monitors designed to measure the flux of cosmic rays arriving at Earth from different directions. All the 12 member neutron monitor stations are located at high (Northern or Southern) latitude, which makes their detecting directions more precise, and their energy responses uniform. Their combined signals provide a real-time measurement of the three-dimensional distribution of cosmic rays, mainly galactic cosmic rays as well as solar energetic particles during the most intense solar events. Analyses of these data have applications in space weather studies.
Locations
Spaceship Earth is a multinational collaboration, with participating institutions from the United States of America, Russia, Canada, and Australia.
The Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware, U.S.A., operates the stations at McMurdo (Antarctica), Thule (Greenland), Inuvik (Northwest Territories, Canada), Fort Smith (Northwest Territories, Canada), Peawanuck (Ontario, Canada), and Nain (Labrador, Canada).
IZMIRAN and the Polar Geophysical Institute, Russia, operate the Russian stations of Apatity, Barentsburg, Cape Schmidt, Norilsk, and Tixie Bay.
The Australian Antarctic Division, Australia, operates the station at Mawson (Antarctica).
External links
Bartol Research Institute neutron monitor program
References
Cosmic-ray experiments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJIM | KJIM (1500 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Sherman, Texas. The station is owned by Bob Mark Allen Productions. KJIM airs a primary adult standards radio format featuring programming from America's Best Music, a service of Westwood One, and also airs secondary classic hits and soft adult contemporary formats. World and national news is heard every hour from CBS Radio News as well as a broadcast cycle of NOAA Weather Radio station WXK22. KJIM's studios, offices, and the transmitter are on Woodlawn Road in Denison, Texas.
Because AM 1500 is a clear-channel frequency reserved for WFED in Washington, D.C., and KSTP in St. Paul, Minnesota, KJIM is a daytimer and must sign-off at sunset. Programming is heard around the clock on FM translator K267CB at 101.3 MHz.
History
KJIM originally held the call sign KTAN and was established on December 19, 1947. Its original format was Classical music. The owners were: Joe Carroll and Elmer Scarborough (1947–48), Tony Anthony, and E. T. Fant Jr (1948-?) Charles L. Cain (?-1953) Col. Howard L. Burris (1953–55; operated under an LMA to Howard Davis) Galen O. Gilbert (1955–57; Gilbert later owned KDNT-Denton) J. Lou Groves (1957; Groves was a theater operator) Senator William J. Samples (1957–58) and King Fisher/Jimmy Fisher/Harry O'Conner dba O'Conner Broadcasting (1958.) Programs: "An Ear for Corn" (morning show) "Concerts in Miniature" (hosted by Bill Jaco,) Notables: Bill Jaco (who was the first to broadcast on the station, and was PD) Otis McKenzie, Bill Collins, Louise Cobbler, Sue Hill, Paul Phillips, Stafford E. Davis. Located at 2024 N. US 75, south of US 82.
In 1958, the station adopted the call letters KTXO, and began airing a Country and Western format (one of the first Texas stations to go C&W). Its call letters stood for Texas and Oklahoma.
Owners: King Fisher/Jimmy Fisher/Harry O'Conner/Paul Carter dba O'Conner Broadcasting (1958–60) Bill Jaco and Tom Spellman (1960–69; Jaco was a disc jockey) Floyd Shelton (1969-?) Larry Henderson (co-owned with his wife). Notables: David Sprowl, John Scott, Bill Jaco, Gary King. Increased power to 1,000 watts in 1968. Sister station to KWSM. Located on US 75, south of US 82, then to the Grayson Bank Building, then to near the Woodlawn Country Club (1968–present).
On July 31, 1991, the station adopted the call letters KJIM and began airing an oldies format. The calls are taken from the longtime KJIM on 870 kHz in Fort Worth.
On September 22, 1995, Bob Allen dba Bob Mark Allen Productions, Inc. became a licensee after the transfer of ownership was approved by the FCC. "Bobbin'" Bobby Allen began his radio career in Oklahoma City in the 1950s. He later worked on air at a number of stations in the Midwest including, KIOA and KSO in Des Moines, Iowa; KRMG and KELI in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Allen later became a well-known Top 40 DJ and talk show host in Fort Worth, Texas, working at KXOL and KFJZ. He left radio to establish his own advertising agen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too%20Much%20Media | Too Much Media is a Freehold, New Jersey-based computer software company that created and maintains the NATS, Carma and Sparta software packages. According to the corporate website, it was founded in 2003 by John Albright, Fabian Thylmann and Charles Berrebbi.
Products
The best known Too Much Media product is the package NATS, which stands for "Next-generation Administration management & Tracking System". The software is used to power the back-end tasks of affiliate programs.
Alleged Security Breach
Towards the end of 2007, TMM was the subject of a widely reported security breach. The company said the breach did not result in the disclosure of credit card information.
USA Today also did a report on the issue, saying the breach was first exposed by an internet blog called In Corruption We Trust, run by Keith Kimmel.
Award Nominations
2010 XBIZ Award Nominee - Software Company of the Year
Awards
2006 XBIZ Award - Solution Provider of the Year
2009 XBIZ Award - Software Company of the Year
2011 XBIZ Award - Software Company of the Year
In 2006, NATS and MPA3 competed for the XBIZ Award in the Solution Providers category, but a tie was declared after each of the two products received 4.3325 points on average.
References
External links
Official website
MindGeek
Companies based in Monmouth County, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Freakbeat%2C%20Volume%204 | English Freakbeat, Volume 4 is a compilation album in the English Freakbeat series, featuring recordings that were released decades earlier, in the mid-1960s.
Release data
The album was released as an LP in 1989 by AIP Records (as #AIP-10051) and as a CD in 1997 (as #AIP-CD-1051).
Vinyl-only tracks and CD bonus tracks
The English Freakbeat LPs and CDs have most tracks in common, although not always in the same order. In most cases, some of the LP tracks were not included on the CDs, although that is not true of this album. Also, the CD bonus tracks are not always at the end of the album. Thus, for clarity, we have shown tracks for both editions of the album, with vinyl-only tracks and CD bonus tracks indicated.
Notes on the tracks
The following information is taken mostly from the CD liner notes. Thane Russal released a single under his real name, Doug Gibbons for Decca Records in 1965. "Security" comes from the first of two later singles for CBS Records that were produced by Paul Raven, one of several alter egos for the man who is best known as Gary Glitter; "I Need You", from the second single, is on English Freakbeat, Volume 5.
Cops & Robbers were from Watford and eventually added Doug Stephens, formerly of the Fairies. These two tracks come from an ultra-rare French EP.
The Clique is a London band whose "She Ain't No Good" is from their first of only two singles. "We Didn't Kiss", from their second single is on the 10th volume in the Rubble series.
One of the CD bonus tracks is by the In Crowd (later renamed Tomorrow) and is taken from their first single, before Steve Howe joined the band; Les Jones handles lead guitar on this selection. Their "Why Must They Criticise" can be found on English Freakbeat, Volume 3; an earlier incarnation of this band as the Four + 1 – not to be confused with Unit 4 + 2 – released "Don't Lie to Me" that is included on English Freakbeat, Volume 5 (also as a CD bonus track only).
"Forget It" is an early recording by Mal Ryder – this time with the Spirits – and comes from four singles that they released from 1963 to early 1965. Yet another track by his later band, the Primitives is also included; five of their songs can be found on English Freakbeat, Volume 1 (along with additional information on the band in that article).
The stage garb of the Snobs was in the style of the 18th century; their debut 1964 single "Buckle Shoe Stomp" failed to chart in the UK but was a hit in Sweden. "Ding Dong" was the "B" side of a fine version of "Heartbreak Hotel" that was released only in Sweden; the hit rendition of the song was by the Equals.
Little is known about the Sons of Fred, but all of their available recordings that are not included on English Freakbeat, Volume 3 are CD bonus tracks on this album.
Tony Dangerfield is backed by a band called the Thrills on this rockabilly-style number that was also recorded by the Honeycombs; both versions were produced by Joe Meek. Dangerfield is rumored |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Norman%20%28game%20designer%29 | Paul Norman (born December 18, 1951) is an American game designer, musician, composer, and computer programmer. He has been active in the music scene since 1970 and has been involved with the development of computer entertainment and information since 1982, including the production of Forbidden Forest in 1983.
Career
Early career
Norman spent fifteen years working as a professional touring and studio musician.
Forbidden Forest
Norman programmed his first major computer program in the 1980s: a video game called Forbidden Forest. Norman's wanted to create a cinematic experience for its user, and he used 6502 machine language to program the game. Forbidden Forest was originally developed for a company known as Synchro, which went out of business when the game was about three-quarters complete. However, the game was eventually bought out by Cosmi and brought to completion. The finished game was described as a "technical masterpiece" by Retro Gamer. The game was released in 1983.
Aztec Challenge
Norman's second title was a graphic adventure game named Aztec Challenge, which was released in 1983 for the Commodore 64. A game with the same title was released for the Atari 8-bit. Norman authored the game's music, programming, and game design. Like his previous game, Aztec Challenge received praise for its "high standard of graphics and sound" from the game magazine publication Your Commodore.
Caverns of Khafka and Super Huey
Following the release of Aztec Challenge, Norman developed another game titled Caverns of Khafka, inspired by an Atari 8-bit computer game of the same name by Robert Bonifacio. The game was released sometime between 1983 and 1984.
On the development of Super Huey (claimed to be the first helicopter simulator launched on the gaming market), Norman cites the television show Airwolf and the movie Blue Thunder as inspirations for its gameplay. The game went on to sell over two million copies. A Steam version of the game and its sequel were made available to the public in 2021.
1990s to present day
In 1990, Norman joined a CD-ROM development team at Tiger Media, acting as a scriptwriter, audio and music producer, creator, and engineer. After two years as a design consultant for Sega, he was contracted to produce audio and video content for the Discovery Channel Software titled Carriers: Fortress at Sea.
Between 1995 and 1999, Norman became a consultant and contributor for internet projects, using Java programming to handle various responsibilities, from GUI to data processing. He spent the next two years developing ideas and methods for a better model of Internet presentations and entertainment, employing Adobe Flash and Caligari Truespace as tools. Later, he developed a web system for learning to play musical instruments, including guitar, piano, and harmonica. Unfortunately, although the website was launched in 2014, it is no longer available to the public.
Games
References
External links
Digittarius - Official Web Site |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNT%20%28gene%29 | MNT (Max-binding protein MNT) is a Max-binding protein that is encoded by the MNT gene
Function
The Myc/Max/Mad network comprises a group of transcription factors that co-interact to regulate gene-specific transcriptional activation or repression. This gene encodes a protein member of the Myc/Max/Mad network. This protein has a basic-Helix-Loop-Helix-zipper domain (bHLHzip) with which it binds the canonical DNA sequence CANNTG, known as the E box, following heterodimerization with Max proteins. Its delta signature is 44. This protein is a transcriptional repressor and an antagonist of Myc-dependent transcriptional activation and cell growth. This protein represses transcription by binding to DNA and recruiting Sin3 corepressor proteins through its N-terminal Sin3-interaction domain
Interactions
MNT (gene) has been shown to interact with MLX, SIN3A and MAX.
References
Further reading
External links
Transcription factors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERPINB13 | Serpin B13 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERPINB13 gene.
See also
Serpin
References
Further reading
External links
The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: I04.017
Serine protease inhibitors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNL1 | KNL1 (kinetochore scaffold 1, aka CASC5) is a protein that is encoded by the KNL1 gene in humans.
Function
KNL1 is part of the outer kinetochore. It is a part of KMN network of proteins together with MIS12, and NDC80.
KNL1 is involved in microtubule attachment to chromosome centromeres and in the activation of the spindle checkpoint during mitosis. The CASC5 gene is upregulated in the areas of cell proliferation surrounding the ventricles during fetal brain development.
Interactions
CASC5 has been shown to interact with MIS12, BUB1, BUBR1 and ZWINT-1.
Polymorphisms
Homozygous polymorphisms in the CASC5 gene have been seen in patients with autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH). The mutation resulted in the skipping of exon 18 transcription, causing a frameshift and the production of a truncated protein. This truncation inhibits the binding ability of MIS12.
References
External links
Further reading |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20C.%20Hetzel | Dr. William C. Hetzel is an expert in the field of software testing. He compiled the papers from the 1972 Computer Program Test Methods Symposium, also known as the Chapel Hill Symposium, into the book Program Test Methods. The book, published in 1973, details the problems of software validation and testing.
The International Conference and Exposition on Testing Computer Software, which is the first conference with a focus on software testing, is convened in 1984 by the US Professional Development Institute (USPDI) in Washington, D.C. Hetzel and Dr. David Gelperin are the joint program chairs.
Hetzel and Dave Gelperin co-found the Software Quality Engineering consultancy firm in 1986. Their motto was, "Test, then code." Together they worked to establish software testing as a stand-alone computer discipline. In 1988 they classified the phases and goals of software testing into the following stages:
Until 1956 – Debugging Oriented – Until 1956 it was the debugging oriented period, when testing was often associated to debugging: there was no clear difference between testing and debugging.
1957–1978 – Demonstration Oriented – From 1957–1978 there was the demonstration oriented period where debugging and testing was distinguished now – in this period it was shown, that software satisfies the requirements.
1979–1982 – Destruction Oriented – The time between 1979–1982 is announced as the destruction oriented period, where the goal was to find errors.
1983–1987 – Evaluation Oriented – The years 1983–1987 are classified as the evaluation oriented period: intention here is that during the software lifecycle a product evaluation is provided and measuring quality.
1988– – Prevention Oriented – From 1988 on it was seen as prevention oriented period where tests were to demonstrate that software satisfies its specification, to detect faults and to prevent faults.
In 1988 Gelperin and Heztel write the article The Growth of Software Testing. In it they discuss four major models for software testing. The first two are Phase Models, and the second two are Life Cycle Models.
Demonstration – To make sure that software satisfies its specification
Destruction – To detect implementation faults
Evaluation – To detect requirements, design, and implementation faults
Prevention – To prevent requirements, design, and implementation faults
Hetzel's book The Complete Guide to Software Testing which provides methodologies, testing techniques, and the principles of software testing, is released in 1988. The book is released in a 2nd edition later the same year, and several other printings are made through 1994.
In 1992 Gelperin and Hetzel firm organized the first "Software Testing, Analysis & Review," the "STAR" conference, in Las Vegas, Nevada and in 1993 introduced a European equivalent, the EuroSTAR Conference. The US-based conferences are now produced by TechWell Corporation which is the new name for their Software Quality Engineering company.
Gelper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BookScan | BookScan is a data provider for the book publishing industry that compiles point of sale data for book sales, owned by The NPD Group in the United States and the Nielsen Company in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Poland.
In the United States, Nielsen sold BookScan to NPD in 2017, and the service was renamed NPD BookScan in that territory. Elsewhere in the world, Nielsen BookScan continues to operate as an independent service.
History
Following the success of Nielsen SoundScan which tracked point of sale figures for music, the Nielsen Company decided to launch a similar service for book sales which had been established and was owned by UK based Whitaker & Sons Ltd. Nielsen BookScan was launched in January 2001. Previously, tracking of book sales, such as by the New York Times Best Seller list, was done without raw numbers. The New York Times would survey hundreds of outlets to estimate which books were selling the most copies, and would publish rankings but not figures. Only the publisher of a book tracked how many copies had been sold, but rarely shared this data.
BookScan operated under Nielsen in the US until 2016 when it was acquired by The NPD Group from Nielsen's U.S. market information and research services for the book industry. In the U.S. the service has been a part of NPD Book since January, 2017. In the rest of the world the BookScan service remains owned by Nielsen.
Methodology
Nielsen BookScan relies on point of sale data from a number of major book sellers. In 2009, Nielsen BookScan's US Consumer Market Panel covered 75% of retail sales.
Use of BookScan
BookScan was initially greeted with scepticism, but is now widely used by both the publishing industry and the media. Publishers use the numbers to track the success of their rivals. The media uses the figures as a reference to gauge a title's success. Daniel Gross of Slate has noted the increase of pundits using the figures to disparage each other.
BookScan also provided previously unavailable metrics on books published by multiple publishers, such as classic novels in the public domain which may be published by many different houses. Previously, no single entity had figures for the sales of these books; publishers and bookstores only knew their own sales. Slate noted that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was available from Amazon in 130 different editions; prior to BookScan there was no way to tabulate total sales. By summing BookScan data, however, Pride and Prejudice was reported to command sales of 110,000 a year, nearly 200 years after being published.
BookScan records cash register sales of books by tracking ISBNs when a clerk scans the barcode. BookScan only tracks print book sales, thus excluding ebook sales from major e-tailers such as Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo, Apple, and Google Play. BookScan likewise does not include non-retail sales through channels such as libraries, nor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia | Started in April 2005, the Radia network is an international informal network of community radio stations that have a common interest in producing and sharing art works for the radio. In 2020, the network gathers 24 radio stations from 23 cities across 17 countries, speaking 10 different languages. It also organizes linked-up events and special broadcasts. Radia intends to be a space of reflection about today's radio and radio art. Its activities try to contribute to intercultural exchange and artworks' and artists' circulation.
The network's name freely refers to La Radia, a Futurist manifesto written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Pino Masnata in 1933. The network's founders dropped the La to distance themselves from the Futurists' political views. As it stands alone, "radia" is simply "radio" or "radios" in some languages.
Shows
The Radia Network's basis is a weekly 28 minutes show broadcast by all the stations. Each station produces the show in turns. Every round of shows is called a season.
Content
As stated in their jingle, Radia is "bringing new and forgotten ways of making radio to [their] listeners. Each week [they] give artists the challenge to make radio that works all across Europe and beyond." The Radia show intends to cross boundaries and address people of different languages and cultures. It usually explores the different genres of radio art, separately or by mixing them: sound art, electroacoustic music, sound poetry, radio drama, soundscape.
Production
Usually each member radio station commissions an artist from their local artistic community and gives him/her carte blanche for producing a show. In that sense, Radia uses radio as a gallery for sound art pieces.
Exchange and archive
To share the shows the Radia Network formerly used Radioswap.net, a semi-public closed platform for program exchange between community radios. Now it utilizes the server space of one of its member stations. All Radia shows are archived at the Internet Archive.
Members
Members of the Radia Network are radio stations, webradios and art-radio projects that broadcast the Radia weekly show and produce shows in turns.
Founding members
On 3–7 February 2005, there was a first meeting of radio stations in Berlin under the banner of NERA (New European Radio Art). The decision was taken to start a broadcast season the following April, and an email discussion list was set up on which the name Radia was finally settled on.
Founding members are:
Resonance FM (London, UK)
Rádio Zero at the time designated RIIST (Lisbon, Portugal)
Kanal 103 (Skopje, Macedonia)
reboot.fm (Berlin, Germany)
(Brussels, Belgium)
Radio Cult (Sofia, Bulgaria), inactive since December 2006
Tilos Radio (Budapest, Hungary), inactive since December 2007
(Vienna, Austria)
Radio Oxygen (Tirana, Albania), would actually never contribute.
New members
(Marseille, France), February 2006
Lemurie TAZ (Prague, Czech Republic), March 2006, inactive since November 2008
WGXC/Wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERPINB7 | Serpin B7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERPINB7 gene.
See also
Serpin
References
Further reading
External links
The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: I04.012
Serine protease inhibitors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20Y8950 | The Yamaha Y8950 is a sound chip, produced in 1984. It is also known as MSX-Audio as it was designed for inclusion in an expansion cartridge for the MSX personal computer.
The Y8950 is essentially a Yamaha YM3526 with an ADPCM encoder/decoder added on. It was introduced in three cartridge models:
Philips NMS-1205
Toshiba HX-MU900
Panasonic FS-CA1
Features
Compatible with the Yamaha YM3526 (OPL)
Nine voices of FM synthesis (using phase modulation)
Two sound-generation modes available: Simultaneous sounding of nine tones or 6 melodies and five rhythms (Compatible with the Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information Network (C.A.P.T.A.I.N.) system and teletex).
Built-in vibrato and AM oscillators
Built-in accelerated 4-bit ADPCM speech analysis/synthesis circuits
Possibility of connecting an external 256-kB RAM plus 256-kB ROM
Built-in 8-bit input/output ports for keyboard scanning
Built-in 4-bit general purpose I/O port
Two built-in general purpose timers
TTL compatible input/output
Si-gate CMOS LSI
5V single power supply
64-pin SDIP encapsulation (the same thing was done on the V9938)
Software Support
The Y8950 is supported by almost all software which contains music composed in SoundTracker, (Moonblaster, Oracle, Super Music Editor or Magic Music Module Combi, etc.). All these editors support the ADPCM sample unit.
Other software which makes use of the ADPCM sampler such as Trax Player by NOP (a program to play songs (samples) directly from disk, while loading) also supports it.
The majority of games made by Compile on the MSX were MSX-Audio compatible, although they didn't use the ADPCM sampler portion of the sound chip.
See also
List of sound chips
Yamaha OPL
References
The Ultimate MSX FAQ - MSX-Audio Section (Retrieved on 2008-01-02).
External links
Frequently asked questions about MSX-music
Y8950 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20North%20East | Smooth North East is a regional radio station owned by Communicorp and operated by Global as part of the Smooth network. It broadcasts to North East England from studios in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Overview
GMG Radio ownership
The licence for the station was originally awarded to the Saga Radio Group. However, GMG Radio inherited it following its purchase of Saga in December 2006. GMG had been granted permission by the regulator, Ofcom, to change the format of its Smooth FM stations in London and Manchester, and took the decision to change both the Smooth FM and Saga Stations to a new brand, Smooth Radio.
Test transmissions for Smooth Radio North East began on 22 November 2007, and an advertising campaign was launched in the region from Boxing Day. This included television commercials featuring images of some of the music industry's most notable artists, such as Buddy Holly, Diana Ross and Rod Stewart. The station launched at 8am on 8 January 2008. The music format of the station was middle of the road, adult contemporary music, aimed at an audience aged 45 and over.
Local programming originated from studios at Team Valley, Gateshead. Networked programming was syndicated from sister station Smooth North West at Salford Quays, Manchester.
In 2010 GMG Radio announced that it would be merging its five Smooth stations in England to create a nationwide Smooth Radio service based in Manchester. The new station was launched on 4 October 2010 and could be heard both on DAB and on the locally on the FM frequencies.
Global Radio franchisee under Communicorp ownership
Smooth Radio's output was relocated to new owner Global's Leicester Square headquarters from 1 October 2013, a move that coincided with a major overhaul of its schedule, and the closure of Smooth 70s after 21 months on air.
Global reached an agreement to sell Smooth North East and seven others to Communicorp, as part of a plan to allay competition fears following Global's purchase of GMG Radio.
On 4 February 2014, the Radio Today website reported that Ofcom had given Global permission to remove Smooth from the Digital One platform, and to replace it with a service playing music from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Under this agreement, Smooth would continue to broadcast on its regional frequencies, but would be required to provide seven hours of local output per day.
The local studios are shared with Global-owned stations Capital North East and Heart North East. In May 2015, all three stations moved to new studios at Wellbar Central in Newcastle city centre.
In September 2019, following OFCOM's decision to relax local content obligations from commercial radio, Smooth's local Drivetime and weekend shows were replaced by network programming from London. Local news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising were retained, alongside the station's North East breakfast show.
Programming
Local programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Newcastle studios from 6-10am on weekdays. All networke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.19 | IEEE 802.19 is the Wireless Coexistence Working Group (WG) within the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee. The WG deals with coexistence between unlicensed wireless networks. Many of the IEEE 802 wireless standards use unlicensed spectrum and hence need to address the issue of coexistence. These unlicensed wireless devices may operate in the same unlicensed frequency band in the same location. This can lead to interference between these two wireless networks.
Background
Multiple unlicensed wireless networks are said to coexist if they can operate in the same location. Positive coexistence occurs when multiple wireless networks coexist without causing significant performance degradation to one another. One of the first examples of wireless coexistence addressed within the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee was between IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth, both operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM frequency band. Achieving positive coexistence between these two wireless networks was addressed by the IEEE 802.15 Task Group 2, which produced a Recommended Practice on Coexistence of IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth.
Overview
Currently the 802.19 WG addresses coexistence between wireless standards under development within IEEE 802. There are a number of IEEE 802 wireless standards which may use unlicensed spectrum and for which coexistence must be considered by the Working Groups developing standards. These include
IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)
IEEE 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN)
IEEE 802.16 Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMAN)
IEEE 802.22 Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRAN)
Not that the IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.22 Working Groups have been merged into the IEEE 802.15 Working Group.
When a new standard (or amendment to a standard) for an unlicensed wireless network is being developed the working group may develop a Coexistence Assessment (CA) document that is reviewed the IEEE 802.19 WG. In addition to evaluating CA documents, The IEEE 802.19 Working Group has produced 2 standards to date:
The most recent standard produced by the IEEE 802.19 Working Group was published in 2021: IEEE Std 802.19.3 is a recommended practice that provides guidance on the implementation, configuration, and commissioning of systems sharing spectrum between IEEE Std 802.11ah™-2016 and IEEE Std 802.15.4™ smart utility networking (SUN) frequency shift keying (FSK) physical layer (PHY) operating in sub-1 GHz frequency bands. The EEE Std 802.15.4™ smart utility networking (SUN) frequency shift keying (FSK) physical layer (PHY) is commonly referred to as 802.15.4g in the wireless industry.
Previously, the IEEE 802.19 Working Group produced IEEE Std 802.19.1, published in 2018, which provides radio technology independent methods for network-based coexistence among dissimilar or independently operated networks of unlicensed devices and dissimilar unlicensed devices. IEEE Std 802.19.1 defines methods for systems using geo-location capable devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga%20Radio%20Group | The Saga Radio Group was a British radio network owned and operated by Saga Services Ltd, and aimed at an audience aged 50 and over. The first Saga station was launched in the West Midlands on 16 October 2001 and was subsequently followed by two others based in the East Midlands and Glasgow. The network won a fourth licence for the north east in 2006, but was sold in December of that year to Guardian Media Group, which decided to re-launch Saga along with its Smooth FM stations as Smooth Radio. All Saga stations were closed on Friday 23 March 2007, and Smooth Radio was launched the following Monday.
Stations in the Saga network;
Saga 105.7 FM – serving the West Midlands
Saga 106.6 FM – serving the East Midlands
Saga 105.2 FM – serving Glasgow
Saga DAB radio – a digital based radio station
Former British radio networks
2001 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Meteor%20Network | The North American Meteor Network (NAMN) was established in June 1995 as an electronic social network of people using the Web to share an interest in meteors. With over 600 members, NAMN has three main purposes:
to recruit amateurs into the ranks of meteor observing
provide guidance, instructions and training in the methods of meteor observing
coordinate meteor observations in order to collect useful data for investigating sporadic and meteor shower activity
NAMN publishes a monthly newsletter NAMN Notes and co-sponsors the Global Meteor Observing Forum meteorobs.
See also
List of astronomical societies
References
Recent NAMN Meteor Observations
External links
Official NAMN Website
Amateur astronomy organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSST | KSST (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Sulphur Springs, Texas, United States, the station serves the Northeast Texas area. KSST features programming from Westwood One's Good Time Oldies satellite feed. The KSST facility also holds the Bill Bradford Memorial Broadcasting Museum.
History
Howard Sterling Smith (1912–1988) and his wife, Charline Elizabeth "Charles" (née Luckey;" 1915–1912), were among the founders, and were the two who selected the call letters, "KSST."
On January 31, 2018, Racy Properties, LLC. requested a construction permit to add an FM translator to relay KSST. If granted and built, the FM station would operate on Channel 267 (101.3) at the maximum ERP of .25 kW, and an elevation of 47 meters, from the KSST tower on East Shannon Rd.
References
External links
KSST 1230 am Facebook
KSST 1230 AM - official website
SST
Sulphur Springs, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSLM%20%28AM%29 | KSLM (1220 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to serve Salem, Oregon, United States. The station is owned by Jacqueline Smith and the broadcast license is held by KCCS, LLC.
Current programming
KSLM broadcasts a conservative talk radio format.
History
Salem Broadcasters was issued a construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission in 1960 to construct a new AM station broadcasting with 1,000 watts of power on a frequency of 1220 kHz. On December 12, 1961, KAPT began regular broadcast operations under the leadership of general manager Col. Carl W. Nelson.
Less than a decade later, in October 1971, control of KAPT passed to the local 1st Assembly of God. They shifted the programming to Christian music and had the call sign legally changed to KCCS. In 1973, the name of the license holding company was changed to Christian Center Church . The name on the license was changed again in 1974, this time settling on Christian Center of Salem.
The FCC gave the station authorization to add nighttime service at 171 watts of power which covered the city of peace well, in spring of 1986.
After more than three decades of continuous ownership, the Christian Center of Salem reached an agreement in February 2004 to sell KCCS to Christian media magnate Cindy Smith-Wyant DBA The JC Media Group through its KCCS, LLC, holding company. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 15, 2004, and the transaction was consummated on May 6, 2004.
As part of a rebranding effort, the station applied for a new call sign and was assigned KBDY by the FCC on December 6, 2006. The station was assigned the KPJC call sign by the FCC on February 18, 2007.
On March 5, 2018, KPJC changed their call letters to KSLM.
On the weekend of April 1, 2018 an FM translator was added to their AM 1220 frequency broadcasting from Bald Mountain in West Salem simulcasting their station. After almost a decade of investment through sweat equity, in February 2022, Cindy Wyant released ownership of KSLM to Jacqueline Smith.
References
External links
KSLM official website
FCC History Cards for KSLM
SLM
Talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1961
Mass media in Salem, Oregon
1961 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme%20identification | Programme Identification (PI) is a service provided by radio stations transmitting Radio Data System (RDS) data as part of the FM radio broadcast. The PI code allows the radio to identify the station across different broadcast relay stations. This in turn allows listeners to stay tuned to a network whilst travelling across the service area of multiple transmitters.
The PI code is a 4-digit hexadecimal (16-bit) number. For example BBC Radio 1 has PI code C201. (The number itself is usually not displayed on radio receivers.)
PI codes are not globally unique; ranges are assigned per-country, and are re-used in countries beyond FM radio range of each other. For example, the first digit "C" as used in the BBC PI code example is used by the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Croatia, and Malta. They can be made globally unique by combining them with an ECC (extended country code).
PI codes are also used in Digital Audio Broadcasting as Station ID, and by the RadioDNS standard.
References
Radio technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202008%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2008, fifteen singles claimed the top spot, including Timbaland's "Apologize", which started its peak position in late 2007. Twelve acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia, either as a lead or featured artist: Leona Lewis, Flo Rida, T-Pain, Colbie Caillat, Gabriella Cilmi, Jordin Sparks, Katy Perry, Kid Rock, Lady Gaga, Colby O'Donis, Kings of Leon and Wes Carr. Five collaborations topped the chart. Lady Gaga earned two number-one singles during the year for "Just Dance" and "Poker Face".
"Poker Face" was the longest running number-one single, having topped the ARIA Singles Chart for six weeks in 2008 and two additional weeks in 2009. Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" topped the chart for six consecutive weeks, while Lewis' "Bleeding Love" and Cilmi's "Sweet About Me" both stayed at number one for five weeks. Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music", Sparks' "No Air", Pink's "So What", and Kings of Leon's "Sex on Fire" each spent four weeks at the number-one spot.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2008 in music
List of number-one albums of 2008 (Australia)
List of top 25 singles for 2008 in Australia
List of top 10 singles in 2008 (Australia)
References
Number-one singles
Australia Singles
2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Freakbeat%2C%20Volume%205 | English Freakbeat, Volume 5 is a compilation album in the English Freakbeat series, featuring recordings that were released decades earlier, in the mid-1960s.
Release data
Although test pressings exist (on Rainbo Records) that were made in the same time period as the other LPs (1989), the album was evidently not released as an LP by AIP Records until 1992 (as #AIP-10049). On the other hand, this is the second volume in the series to be released as a CD, in 1993 (as #AIP-CD-1049).
Vinyl-only tracks and CD bonus tracks
The English Freakbeat LPs and CDs have most tracks in common, although not always in the same order. In most cases, some of the LP tracks were not included on the CDs. Also, the CD bonus tracks are not always at the end of the album. This is the only album in the series that has been released in the conventional way, with all of the tracks on the LP given in the same order on the CD, with the bonus tracks at the end. Nevertheless, for consistency with the other articles, we have shown track listings for both editions of the album.
Notes on the tracks
Pete Best of course is the drummer for the Beatles who was unceremoniously fired in August 1962 in favor of Ringo Starr. His recording and touring efforts in the 1960s met with only limited success.
A later rendition of "Why Must They Criticise" by the In Crowd is given on English Freakbeat, Volume 3, and another track by that band is included on English Freakbeat, Volume 4. The Four + 1 (no relation to Unit 4 + 2) is an earlier line-up of this band, who would eventually become Tomorrow.
Not to be confused with the American band the Cryan Shames, the recordings by the Cryin' Shames were produced by Joe Meek, as were the four singles by Geoff Goddard as a solo artist. That's Goddard on keyboards on the classic instrumental "Telstar" by the Tornados; he also had considerable success as a songwriter.
An unusual number by Billy J. Kramer's frequent backing band, The Dakotas (who may or may not be behind him on "Chinese Girl") is given on English Freakbeat, Volume 3.
Two different songs by Jason Eddie and the Centremen are given on each of the Pebbles, Volume 6 LP and the English Freakbeat, Volume 6 CD, though not both.
The song by Thane Russal is from his second single; another song, from his first single (using the name Thane Russal and Three) is given on English Freakbeat, Volume 4.
Track listing
LP
Side 1:
The Pete Best Four: "The Way I Feel About You"
The Darwin's Theory: "Daytime"
The Peeps: "Now Is The Time"
The Pickwicks: "Hello Lady"
George Bean: "Why Must They Criticize?"
Jason Eddie & The Centremen: "Come On Baby"
The Untamed: "It's Not True"
Geoff Goddard: "Sky Man"
Side 2:
The Eggy: "You're Still Mine"
New York Public Library: "Gotta Get Away"
Chris Sandford: "I Wish They Wouldn't Always Say I Sound Like The Guy From The USA Blues"
The Cryin' Shames: "What's News, Pussycat"
A Wild Uncertainty: "A Man With Money"
The Truth: "Baby You've Got It"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Wheeler | Gregory Wheeler (born 1968) is an American logician, philosopher, and computer scientist, who specializes in formal epistemology. Much of his work has focused on imprecise probability. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, and has held positions at LMU Munich, Carnegie Mellon University, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and the New University of Lisbon. He is a member of the PROGIC steering committee, the editorial boards of Synthese, and Minds and Machines, and was the editor-in-chief of Minds and Machines from 2011 to 2016. In 2019 he co-founded Exaloan AG, a financial technology company based in Frankfurt. He obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy and computer science from the University of Rochester under Henry Kyburg.
Select bibliography
Books
Reflections on the Foundations of Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of Teddy Seidenfeld, Thomas Augustin, Fabio Cozman, and Gregory Wheeler (eds.) Springer, 2022
New Challenges to Philosophy of Science, Hanne Andersen, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalez, Marcel Weber and Gregory Wheeler (eds.) Springer, 2013.
Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks, Rolf Haenni, Jan-Willem Romeijn, Gregory Wheeler, and Jon Williamson. The Synthese Library, Springer, 2011.
Probability and Inference: Essays in Honour of Henry E. Kyburg, Jr., William Harper and Gregory Wheeler (eds.), College Publications, 2007.
Articles
"Discounting Desirable Gambles", Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 147: 336-346, 2021.
"Moving Beyond Sets of Probabilities", Statistical Science 36(2): 201-204, 2021.
"Less is More for Bayesians, Too", in Riccardo Viale (Ed.) Routledge Handbook on Bounded Rationality, pp. 471–483, 2020.
"Dilation and Asymmetric Relevance" (w/ Arthur Paul Pedersen), Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 103: 324-26, 2019.
"Bounded Rationality", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter 2018 Edition.
"Resolving Peer Disagreements Through Imprecise Probabilities (w/ Lee Elkin), Nous 52(2): 260-94, 2018.
"Scoring Imprecise Credences: A Mildly Immodest Proposal" (w/ Conor Mayo-Wilson), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 93(1): 55–78, 2016.
"Dilation, Disintegrations, and Delayed Decisions" (with Arthur Paul Pedersen), Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA 2015), Pescara, Italy: 227–236, 2015.
"Is there a Logic of Information?" Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 27(1): 95–98, 2015.
"Demystifying Dilation" (with Arthur Paul Pedersen), Erkenntnis, 79(6): 1305–1342, 2014.
"Defeat Reconsidered and Repaired", The Reasoner, 8(2): 15, 2014.
"Character Matching and the Locke Pocket of Belief", Epistemology, Context, and Formalism, Franck Lihoreau and Manuel Rebuschi (ed.), Dordrecht: The Synthese Library, Springer, pp. 185–94, 2014.
"Coherence and Confirmation Through Causation" (with Richa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Punto | Al Punto (, To the Point) is a Sunday morning talk show hosted by Noticiero Univision anchor Jorge Ramos on the Univision network. Until 2012, when Enfoque premiered on Telemundo, it was the only show of its type in the United States that broadcast in the Spanish language.
History
Al Punto debuted on Univision on September 9, 2007 to coincide with the first Spanish language U.S. Presidential Debate hosted by Univision at the University of Miami on the same date. The show's first guests were then Republican National Committee Chairman and Florida Senator Mel Martinez and New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez.
Content
Al Punto consists of a variety of interviews on issues of importance to the Latin community in the United States.
References
External links
Univision Official Site
Al Punto Official Site
2007 American television series debuts
2000s American television talk shows
2010s American television talk shows
2000s American television news shows
2010s American television news shows
Univision original programming
American Sunday morning talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20NGOs%20Network%20for%20Radio%20and%20Communication | Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is a national networking body in Bangladesh. Its stated objectives include building a democratic society based on the principles of free flow of information, and equitable and affordable access to Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) of remote and marginalized population. It is registered with Ministry of Law, Parliamentary and Justice Affairs, Government of Bangladesh as a trust and established in 2000, as per Article 19 charter of United Nations bill of rights. It undertakes activities to promote radio listeners club, amateur radio operators, community radio and television stations, and Internet radio in coastal areas.
References
Non-profit organisations based in Bangladesh
Mass media in Bangladesh
Organizations established in 2000
2000 establishments in Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Medium | Big Medium was a browser-based web content management system (CMS) written in the Perl programming language and developed by Global Moxie, the Paris-based company of independent developer Josh Clark.
History
Big Medium 1.0 was announced on January 13, 2003. The last release of Big Medium was version 2.0, released on December 17, 2007 after more than a year of public beta-testing. It was paid software distributed under a proprietary license. On February 19, 2012 the developer announced that there would be no additional development and support of the product.
The name "Big Medium" is a double entendre, referring to both the Internet as a communication medium and to a medium as a psychic who helps ordinary people communicate with unseen worlds.
Audience
Big Medium is billed as a CMS "aimed at web designers and their clients," and unlike many general-purpose content management systems, it is intended to be easy to install and configure without the aid of a web developer. Big Medium's flexible design templates support a wide range of original designs and require no programming knowledge beyond HTML and CSS. Once these templates are configured, content editors can add and update pages with no specific technical knowledge. (Big Medium also comes with a modest library of design themes allowing non-designers to get started right away.)
Big Medium targets traditional content sites such as news, marketing and magazine sites. It is pre-configured to provide features and data fields common to this type of site. While this simplifies the process of setting up Big Medium for a broad category of websites, this targeted pre-configuration makes the software relatively inflexible for managing other site types, including commerce or community sites. However, additional fields and content types can be added via custom plugin modules.
Features
Simple, flexible templating for complete control over the design
Search engine-friendly URLs
Static pages
Rich-text editing with WYSIWYG editor or Markdown syntax
WYSIWYG CSS style editor
Version control for page edits
Libraries for images, documents, media and authors promote easy reuse
Auto-sizing of images and thumbnails
Image galleries and slideshows
Pullquotes
Visitor comments, with anti-spam features including built-in Akismet support
Tags and tag clouds
Site search
Extensible plugin support
Integrated link management
Manage multiple websites
Multiple editor accounts with category-specific editing privileges
Unlimited levels of nested sub-categories for pages
Syndication via RSS news feeds and JavaScript widgets
Lightweight publishing workflow
Scheduled publication of pages
Technical details
Big Medium installs on web servers running Windows NT, Windows 2003 or a Unix-like operating system.
Big Medium stores its data in flat files and folders, rather than a database. This has advantages (e.g., simplified installation and backups) but also means that it is best suited for small- and medium-sized |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus%20Creation%20Laboratory | The Virus Creation Laboratory (VCL) was one of the earliest attempts to provide a virus creation tool so that individuals with little to no programming expertise could mass-create computer viruses. VCL required a password for access, which was widely published alongside VCL. The password was "Chiba City", a likely reference to the William Gibson novel Neuromancer.
A hacker dubbed "Nowhere Man", of the NuKE hacker group, released the software in July 1992.
However, it was later discovered that viruses created with the Virus Creation Laboratory were often ineffective, as many anti-virus programs of the day caught them easily. Also, many viruses created by the program did not work at all - and often, their source codes could not be compiled, thus rendering the virus program created unusable. Despite its limitations, several viruses created with the program became widespread.
References
External links
VCL Documentation
Malware toolkits
1992 software
Hacking in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20M.%20Berman | Helen Miriam Berman is a Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University and a former director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank (one of the member organizations of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank). A structural biologist, her work includes structural analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes, and the role of water in molecular interactions. She is also the founder and director of the Nucleic Acid Database, and led the Protein Structure Initiative Structural Genomics Knowledgebase.
Background and education
Berman was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, David Bernstein, was a physician and her mother, Dorothy Bernstein (née Skupsky), managed her father's office practice. Inspired by her hard-working and scholarly father, she was interested in science as a young girl and planned to become a scientist or doctor. Her mother, who was strongly involved in the community and volunteer work, influenced her to be involved in community activities throughout her life.
During high school, Berman worked in Ingrith Deyrup's laboratory at Barnard College. Deyrup encouraged Berman to attend Barnard as an undergraduate. While at college, she worked in a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons laboratory with Barbara Low. There, Berman learned about crystallography, which would become a lifelong passion. She graduated from Barnard with an A.B. in chemistry in 1964.
Following college, Berman attended the University of Pittsburgh for graduate school, a place she selected because it was the only place in the country with a crystallography department, and one of the few where crystallography was offered as a subject. There she worked with George A. Jeffrey on carbohydrate structure, receiving her Ph.D. in 1967. Berman remained at the University of Pittsburgh for two more years as a postdoctoral research fellow.
Career
In 1969, Berman moved to the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, where she worked in Jenny P. Glusker's laboratory before starting her own independent research program as a faculty member in 1973. At Fox Chase, Berman became interested in nucleic acid structures and in bioinformatics. She knew that logical organization of data would make it useful to a variety of scientists.
In June 1971, Berman attended a symposium at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where several scientists agreed that data on the expanding number of protein structures should be archived in a database. That meeting led to the creation of the Protein Data Bank (PDB) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
In 1989, Berman moved to Rutgers and in 1992, along with other scientists, she co-founded the Nucleic Acid Database (NDB) to collect and disseminate information about nucleic acid structure. At Rutgers, she continued to study nucleic acids, their interactions with proteins, and also researched the structure of collagen in collaboration with Barbara Brodsky and Jordi Bella. She is listed as a dep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wards%20in%20Stratford-on-Avon%20District%20by%20population | This is a guide to the size of the wards in Stratford district based on the data from the 2001 UK Census. The entire population of the district was 111,484.
N.B. Ward populations will differ from the village population which they are named after and which they are linked to as ward boundaries very rarely match village boundaries exactly.
References
List of wards in Stratford district by population
Stratford district, wards
Stratford |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hazel%20Scott%20Show | The Hazel Scott Show was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series, hosted by Hazel Scott, ran during the summer of 1950, and was one of the first U.S. network television series to be hosted by any person of African descent.
Broadcast history
The Hazel Scott Show was a 15-minute-long musical program hosted by pianist and singer Hazel Scott, who would perform show tunes and other numbers live on the show. Scott was no stranger to performing before she began appearing on the program: she had appeared in nightclubs, on radio and television programs, on Broadway, and in five feature films. The program first aired on July 3, 1950. The show was produced and distributed by the DuMont network, and aired Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 7:45 pm to 8 pm ET on most DuMont affiliates. Charles Mingus and Max Roach were among the musicians to back her in these programs. The Joan Edwards Show was in the same time slot on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Trinidad-born Hazel Scott was described as a "novelty on the entertainment scene", and the series was well received by critics. Variety wrote: "Hazel Scott has a neat little show in this modest package. [The] most engaging element [...] is the Scott personality, which is dignified, yet relaxed, and versatile."
Despite critical acclaim and decent Hooper Ratings, the series was cancelled after just a few months. On June 22, 1950, Scott's name had appeared in Red Channels, an anti-Communist publication which named supposed Communist sympathizers. Although Scott appeared voluntarily before the House Un-American Activities Committee on September 22 and vehemently denied the charges, The Hazel Scott Show found itself without a sponsor.
The DuMont network cancelled the series just one week later, as her being listed in Red Channels meant the series would be very unlikely to get a sponsor, and DuMont likely could not afford a sustained program in the time-slot. The final network telecast was on September 29, 1950. The network replaced the series with The Susan Raye Show which only lasted from October 2 until November 20.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, there are no episodes known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1950-51 United States network television schedule
Amanda – 1948–1949 WABD (DuMont flagship station) series starring African-American actress and singer Amanda Randolph
Stairway to Stardom – 1950–1951 New Jersey-aired series with disc jockey Bill Cook
Elder Michaux – 1948–1949 on DuMont, continued afterwards as local series
Hadda Brooks and The Hadda Brooks Show, 1957 local Los Angeles TV show
Footnotes
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 Ear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient%20method | In optimization, a gradient method is an algorithm to solve problems of the form
with the search directions defined by the gradient of the function at the current point. Examples of gradient methods are the gradient descent and the conjugate gradient.
See also
Gradient descent
Stochastic gradient descent
Coordinate descent
Frank–Wolfe algorithm
Landweber iteration
Random coordinate descent
Conjugate gradient method
Derivation of the conjugate gradient method
Nonlinear conjugate gradient method
Biconjugate gradient method
Biconjugate gradient stabilized method
References
First order methods
Optimization algorithms and methods
Numerical linear algebra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%20Wish%20Network | Kids Wish Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. It has been the subject of negative publicity throughout its history, including accusations of trademark infringement, tax avoidance and inefficient fundraising practices. It was named "the worst charity in the nation" in a 2013 review of charities with wasteful spending practices. In 2012, of the $18.6 million the Kids Wish Network raised, only $240,000 was spent on granting wishes.
Background
The Kids Wish Network was founded in 1997 as the "Fulfill a Wish Foundation" by Mark Breiner, his wife Shelley Breiner and Shelley's mother Barbara Askin in honor of Shelley's father, who died of cancer in 1993. In 1998, the company's name was changed to "Kids Wish Network" as part of a settlement after the Make-A-Wish Foundation sued the organization on the premise that it had a confusingly similar name.
The organization's beneficiaries are children between the ages of 3 and 18 who have overcome life-altering circumstances, often enduring a great deal of pain and suffering. In 2004, it had granted 143 wishes and in 2013 it granted 800 wishes. But in other cases, parents have accused the organization of exploiting their children to generate money without actually providing any benefit to the child.
Some of its wishes have been granted by celebrities such as musician Brad Paisley, professional wrestler John Cena, R&B artist Keyshia Cole, NFL coach Jon Gruden, country singer Taylor Swift, and the Green Bay Packers.
Fundraising
In 2008, Charity Navigator gave Kids Wish Network zero out of four stars in its "efficiency rating" based on how much money is spent on fundraising in comparison to charitable activities. The American Institute of Philanthropy also gave it a failing "F" grade. Kids Wish Network claimed the fundraising spending was needed for new non-profits to develop a donor base. A Charity Navigator spokesperson alleged the Kids Wish Network was taking advantage of tax loopholes for non-profits by counting some of its fundraising activities as charity work and that it had the highest percent of funds spent on fundraising out of all 24 wish-granting charities. Representatives of the charity said comparing them to other wish-granting services was unfair, since they also provide funeral services and other services. Kids Wish Network has received higher marks in other areas, for example receiving four stars for organizational capacity the prior year.
America's worst charities (2013 and beyond)
In 2012 the Tampa Bay Times, CNN and the Center for Investigative Reporting undertook a year long joint investigation of "America's Worst Charities" which ranked Kids Wish Network at the top of the list of the worst charities in the United States. based on percentage of money collected from donors that was paid to corporate telemarketing solicitors from 2003 to 2013. Thirty philanthropy experts were interviewed for this series. In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Graph%20Theory | The Journal of Graph Theory is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal specializing in graph theory and related areas, such as structural results about graphs, graph algorithms with theoretical emphasis, and discrete optimization on graphs.
The scope of the journal also includes related areas in combinatorics and the interaction of graph theory with other mathematical sciences. It is published by John Wiley & Sons. The journal was established in 1977 by Frank Harary. The editors-in-chief are Paul Seymour (Princeton University) and Carsten Thomassen (Technical University of Denmark).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, and Zentralblatt MATH. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 0.857.
References
External links
Combinatorics journals
Academic journals established in 1977
Monthly journals
Wiley (publisher) academic journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KALM | KALM (1290 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel format to the Thayer, Missouri, United States, area. The station is currently owned by E-Communications, LLC and features programming from Westwood One and Premiere Networks.
History
On February 25, 2008 the FCC granted approval for assignment of the license to E-Communications LLC from Ozark Radio Network Inc. The assignment was consummated on April 24, 2008. Robert Eckman is the managing member of E-Communications, LLC. According to the FCC ownership records, Robert Eckman is a 50% owner of E-Communications along with a 50% ownership by Rebecca Eckman.
References
External links
ALM
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1953
1953 establishments in Missouri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJKI-FM | WJKI-FM (103.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Bethany Beach, Delaware. The station is owned by The Voice Radio Network. It airs a classic rock format. The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since November 21, 2018.
With the sale of WXSH pending, the Classic rock format is now being simulcasted on WJKI (formerly WICO) and on 102.9 FM (W275CX).
References
External links
JKI-FM
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1996
1996 establishments in Delaware
Bethany Beach, Delaware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20Integrated%20Data%20Acquisition%20System | MIDAS is a data acquisition package developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, and TRIUMF, Canada. It was designed for particle detectors using CAMAC and VMEbus hardware.
Description
MIDAS (Maximum Integration Data Acquisition System) has been developed as a general purpose data acquisition system for small and medium scale experiments originally by Stefan Ritt in 1993, followed by Pierre-André Amaudruz in 1996. It is written in C and published under the GPL.
The experiment complexity ranges from test systems, where a single PC is connected to CAMAC via a PC-CAMAC interface, to experiments with several front-end computers and analysis nodes. The system currently runs under Linux, Microsoft Windows, various versions of UNIX, VMS, VxWorks and MS-DOS and can be ported easily to virtually any operating system which supports TCP/IP sockets.
A speed-optimized RPC layer is used for data exchange, with which sustained data rates of 980 kB/s (10BASE-T), 8.7 MB/s (100BASE-TX) and up to 98 MB/s (1000BASE-T). An integrated slow control system contains a fast online database and a history system. Drivers exist for CAMAC, VME, Fastbus, High Voltage Crates, GBIB and several PC plug-in DAQ boards. A framework is supplied which can be extended by user code for front-end readout on one side and data analysis on the other side. The online data can be presented by PAW as histograms and N-tuples as well as by ROOT. A dedicated HTTP server gives fast Web access for experiment control and to access the slow control system including a graphical representation of variable trends (history display).
Usage of MIDAS
MIDAS is used in many experiments in nuclear and particle physics. Following list shows a few of them:
Mu to E Gamma experiment at PSI
Mu3e experiment at PSI
Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy at PSI
TWIST experiment at TRIUMF
Various ISAC experiments at TRIUMF
T2K experiment in Japan
DEAP-3600 experiment at SNOLAB
Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
ASACUSA experiment at CERN
ALPHA experiment at CERN
References
External links
MIDAS home page at TRIUMF, Canada
Physics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adventures%20of%20Pepero | is a 26-episode anime television series created by Tatsuya Ono and Sumio Takahashi and aired on the NET Network from 1975-10-06 to 1976-03-29 in Japan. It has since been then translated and broadcast in several languages worldwide. The story follows the young boy Pepero as he searches for his father who has gone missing while seeking the mythical golden city of El Dorado.
The theme songs for the series are (opening) and (ending), both composed by Takeo Yamashita and arranged by Hiroshi Tsutsui, with lyrics by Kazuo Umezu and vocals by Mitsuko Horie.
Plot
The story starts with Pepero, a young boy in a small poor village in the Andes who lives with his mother in their small house in the village. Pepero's father had left the village earlier in search of the mythical El Dorado, a city that is said to be built completely out of gold which no one has ever found. Pepero's father's aim is to put his family and village out of poverty. However, the father is away for a very long time and no one heard anything about him since he left. The story starts with Pepero seeing the reflection of a golden condor in a river when he was filling some pots with water. Pepero considers that a sign that his father is alive and that he should look for him. His mind is made up when he meets two weary travelers, an old man named Titicaca and an amnesiac girl named Kayna, who apparently had heard of the mythical El Dorado. Pepero's mind is made up and he decides to set off on the quest for El Dorado with Titicaca and Kayna agreeing to come along with him. On the way, he picks up more friends like Aztec, a teenager who has to look after his siblings while his mother is sick and who sometimes resorts to stealing to support his family and agrees to tag along in promise of the lost treasures, and Chuchu, who is a small boy performing in a circus and who has to look after his sister. In one episode, Pepero succeeds in taming a wild white horse and the horse repays him by coming to Pepero's rescue whenever the latter whistles. Pepero also wears a unique necklace in the shape of a white horn which is the same as the one worn by his father. This helps people identify him as the son of Carlos. This fact is uncovered when Pepero meets a guy who claims that he is Carlos and who is wearing the same necklace. At the end of the episode we discover that Carlos actually saved this man and gave him his necklace.
The golden condor also makes an appearance once in a while to guide Pepero in the general direction he has to take in order to reach El Dorado. Pepero also encounters such sinister characters as a swindler who convinces people that he alone can prevent the wrath of a mountain god in return for money from the natives and a girl who tries to kill them off in a maze among others. At one point in the story and while trying to traverse a cave to the other side, Titicaca gets trapped after a cave-in and the rest of the troop have to travel without him. The gang have to use their heads |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JKCS | JKCS may refer to:
John Keells IT, the current name of John Keells Computer Services
John Knox Christian School
JKCS 041 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Keells%20IT | John Keells IT, also known as JKIT formerly John Keells Computer Services is a software company that is developing software primarily for the aviation and leisure industries. It is headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It also operates Offshore Development Centers (ODCs) in Dubai and Scandinavia.
JKCS is a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings (JKH), which is one of the largest business conglomerates in Sri Lanka. JKCS is one of the three IT related companies operated under John Keells Holdings. These are John Keells Computer Services (JKCS),John Keells Office Automation (JKOA) Limited and John Keells Business Process Outsourcing Ltd (JKBPO).
Some of its major clients include Emirates Airline, SriLankan Airlines, Air Arabia, Qatar Airways, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Keells Hotel Management Systems Ltd (KHMS). The Emirates Skywards passenger rewards system was also developed by JKCS and is also used by many airlines including SriLankan Airlines which also came under Emirates Airline administration after its acquisition of the controlling stake.
Products
JKCS currently provides software engineering services related to airline solutions including booking/reservations, airport management, and hospitality services, besides a quality informations system.
References
Software companies of Sri Lanka
John Keells Holdings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20media%20processing | A telephony system based on host media processing (HMP) is one that uses a general-purpose computer to process a telephony call’s media stream rather than using digital signal processors (DSPs) to perform the task. When telephony call streams started to be digitized for time-division-multiplexed (TDM) transport, processing of the media stream, to enhance it in some way, became common. For example, digital echo cancellers were added to long-haul circuits, and transport channels were shaped to improve modem performance. Then, in the mid-‘80s, computer-based systems that implemented messaging, for example, used DSPs to compress the audio for storage, and fax servers used DSPs to implement fax modems.
However, since the late ‘90s, the millions of instructions per second (MIPS) of processing power available on low-cost PCs have been adequate to process several media streams, while still leaving enough processing power to handle the application. And, following Moore’s Law, PC capacity continues to double every 18 months, while the MIPS required to process a call’s media stream have remained relatively constant. Now, in the latter half of the century’s first decade, a single PC can handle well over 100 simultaneous calls.
Prior to IP telephony, when you wanted to connect a telecommunications system to a telecom network it was necessary to have a telecom-specific physical interface. This could mean an analog interface (POTS/DS-0), for low-density non-network systems, or a digital interface, such as a T-1 or E-1 line (DS-1, delivering 24 or 32 DS-0s). A DS-4 connection delivers 274.176 Mbit/s or 4032 DS-Os. In each case, telecom-specific electronic interfaces, which were proprietary and, therefore, relatively expensive, were necessary. The situation changes dramatically with an all-IP telecom infrastructure. The network interfaces move from being a significant proprietary component to off-the-shelf high-performance IP interfaces, an inherent feature in every modern computing system. Today, 10-Gigabit Ethernet' telephony systems are being deployed.
The term Host Media Processing was first used in a product name by Intel in the early 2000s. It was quickly adopted as a generic term for software-based telephony products, used by many companies including Aculab, Pika, Eicon Networks, Uniqall, Commetrex, and NMS. Intel's Host Media Processing product line (still called HMP) exists today under the Dialogic banner.
The concept of using an industry standard PC to do telephony processing is now widely understood and accepted, with open-source platforms like Asterisk, YATE and FreeSWITCH using the same principle. The rise of interest in VoIP and Fax-over-IP (FoIP) have driven demand for open, host-based solutions that can be molded into a variety of different communications solutions. HMP components are used today to implement many different kinds of solutions including PBX, conference servers, unified communications servers and IVR. The emergence of virtualizat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Silver%20%28sportswriter%29 | Michael Silver is an American sportswriter and television analyst who currently works for Bally Sports. He previously worked for Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports, and NFL Network.
Biography
Early life and education
Silver was born in San Francisco in 1966 and raised in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Silver began his career as a sports writer and columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, where he covered the San Francisco 49ers and Golden State Warriors from 1990 to 1994. He also covered the 49ers for the Sacramento Union and served as a correspondent for Pro Football Weekly and The Sporting News.
Silver began work at Sports Illustrated in November 1994, eventually becoming a senior writer there. He was one of the magazine's lead football writers, having authored game stories for Super Bowl XXIX through XLI and personal profiles of famous sports characters. He has also written articles for GQ and Rolling Stone.
Silver started working for Yahoo Sports at the beginning of the 2007 NFL season and was hired by NFL Network in 2013. He left NFL Network in 2021 and began working for Bally Sports in October of that year.
Published works
Rice with Jerry Rice (St. Martin's Press, 1996)
Walk on the Wild Side with Dennis Rodman (Delacorte Press, 1997)
All Things Possible with Kurt Warner (HarperSanFrancisco, 2000)
Golden Girl with Natalie Coughlin (Rodale Press, 2006)
Awards
Silver, who lists pro football, pro basketball, tennis and college softball as his favorite sports to cover, has received numerous writing awards from several organizations, including the Pro Football Writers of America, the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Pro Basketball Writers of America.
References
External links
Sports Illustrated archive of Silver's contributions
Yahoo! Sports archive of Silver's contributions
American sportswriters
Living people
Softball mass media
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Writers from California
Softball in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake%20Financial | Cake Financial was a free web-based financial services social network for individual investors allowing members to share their real stock portfolios and performance with other members. The site was introduced publicly on 17 September 2007, at the TechCrunch40 Conference, by Founder and CEO, Steven Carpenter. The company also had a Cake Investment Club application on Facebook.
Cake had generated media coverage from a number of financial news outlets such as Forbes, Kiplinger, BusinessWeek and Barron's.
Cake was backed by Alsop Louie Partners, as well as from angel investors. The company was located in San Francisco, California.
As of 14 January 2010, the site discontinued operations and it was announced that it had been acquired by E*Trade.
References
Financial services companies established in 2006
Defunct social networking services
Companies based in San Francisco
Online financial services companies of the United States
American social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20data%20management | Master data management (MDM) is a technology-enabled discipline in which business and information technology work together to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of the enterprise's official shared master data assets.
Drivers for master data management
Organisations, or groups of organisations, may establish the need for master data management when they hold more than one copy of data about a business entity. Holding more than one copy of this master data inherently means that there is an inefficiency in maintaining a "single version of the truth" across all copies. Unless people, processes and technology are in place to ensure that the data values are kept aligned across all copies, it is almost inevitable that different versions of information about a business entity will be held. This causes inefficiencies in operational data use, and hinders the ability of organisations to report and analyze. At a basic level, master data management seeks to ensure that an organization does not use multiple (potentially inconsistent) versions of the same master data in different parts of its operations, which can occur in large organizations.
Other problems include (for example) issues with the quality of data, consistent classification and identification of data, and data-reconciliation issues. Master data management of disparate data systems requires data transformations as the data extracted from the disparate source data system is transformed and loaded into the master data management hub. To synchronize the disparate source master data, the managed master data extracted from the master data management hub is again transformed and loaded into the disparate source data system as the master data is updated. As with other Extract, Transform, Load-based data movement, these processes are expensive and inefficient to develop and to maintain which greatly reduces the return on investment for the master data management product.
There are a number of root causes for master data issues in organisations. These include:
Business unit and product line segmentation
Mergers and acquisitions
Business unit and product line segmentation
As a result of business unit and product line segmentation, the same business entity (such as Customer, Supplier, Product) will be serviced by different product lines; redundant data will be entered about the business entity in order to process the transaction. The redundancy of business entity data is compounded in the front- to back-office life cycle, where the authoritative single source for the party, account and product data is needed but is often once again redundantly entered or augmented.
A typical example is the scenario of a bank at which a customer has taken out a mortgage and the bank begins to send mortgage solicitations to that customer, ignoring the fact that the person already has a mortgage account relationship with the bank. This happens because the custo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%2077 | Channel 77 may refer to:
An Australian digital television channel used by Seven Network to broadcast TV listings, news and weather
A former NTSC-M channel, removed from television use in 1983 and originally used by stations in North America which broadcast on 848-854 MHz. In the United States, channels 70-83 were rarely used and served primarily as a "translator band" of small repeater transmitters rebroadcasting existing stations:
KTVX-TV (ABC Salt Lake City), a rebroadcaster K77AJ Delta, Utah was moved to K35GC channel 35
KGUN (ABC Tucson), a rebroadcaster K77BX Casas Adobes, Arizona is now K02BW channel 2
KOAT-TV (ABC Albuquerque), a rebroadcaster K77AA Bayfield, Colorado moved to K36FA channel 36
KOIN-TV (CBS Portland), a rebroadcasters K77AH Cottage Grove, Oregon and K77BG Rockaway, Oregon were moved to K47AV channel 47 and K41GG channel 41 respectively
KSTP-TV (ABC Saint Paul), a rebroadcaster K77AI Redwood Falls, Minnesota moved to K60AO channel 60
KUTV-TV (NBC Salt Lake City), a rebroadcaster K77CA Santa Clara, Utah moved to K49AS channel 49
KXLY-TV (ABC Spokane), a rebroadcaster K77AO Quincy, Washington was moved to K24AI channel 24
KTVR-TV (PBS La Grande), a rebroadcaster K77AP Pendleton, Oregon moved to K59BO channel 59 (now K25OO-D, channel 25)
WOAI-TV (NBC San Antonio), a rebroadcaster K77CN Camp Wood, Texas is now K55CZ channel 55
77 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalists%20of%20The%20Wire | The Wire is a fictional television drama series produced by the Home Box Office network. The fifth season of the show included a focus on the media and in particular a fictionalized version of The Baltimore Sun. The series introduced many new characters who were professional journalists.
Editorial staff
Rebecca Corbett
Played by: Kara Quick
Appears in:
Season five: "More With Less", "Unconfirmed Reports", "Not for Attribution" (uncredited), "Took", and "–30–."
Rebecca Corbett is the paper's Regional Affairs Desk Editor.
She is named after real-life former Baltimore Sun editor Rebecca Corbett.
Augustus Haynes
Augustus "Gus" Haynes is the city desk editor for the paper and is a principled but unrefined presence in the newsroom. Haynes is played by Clark Johnson.
James Whiting
Played by: Sam Freed
Appears in:
Season five: "More With Less", "Unconfirmed Reports", "Not for Attribution", "Transitions", "React Quotes", "The Dickensian Aspect", "Took", "Late Editions", and "–30–."
James Whiting is the paper's executive editor and is responsible for guiding the paper's reporting. He has ambitions of winning a Pulitzer prize for his paper and his fascination with the "Dickensian aspect" of stories leaves him often out-of-touch with the problems facing the city. His managing editor is a colleague from their days working in Philadelphia, Thomas Klebanow. Klebanow handles the day-to-day running of the paper and the handling of cutbacks from the paper's owners.
He is interested in pursuing stories that stir emotion in the reader over those that examine the context and roots of social problems facing the city. Whiting values his network of connections in the industry, and used his authority to prevent the paper from publishing a negative story about shortfalls in racial integration at the University of Maryland to protect his old friend Gene Robbins, the dean of journalism. Whiting is based on former Baltimore Sun editor John Carroll.
Thomas Klebanow
Played by: David Costabile
Appears in:
Season five: "More With Less", "Unconfirmed Reports", "Not for Attribution", "Transitions", "React Quotes", "The Dickensian Aspect", "Took", "Clarifications", and "–30–."
Thomas Klebanow is the paper's managing editor and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the paper. Klebanow is renowned for hiring young female reporters with questionable writing skills. He worked with executive editor James Whiting at The Philadelphia Inquirer and followed him to The Baltimore Sun. Klebanow is often left with the responsibility for cutbacks and buyouts by Whiting.
He comes across as vain and lacking character strength, but he has a good sense of the bottom line and the potential of a story to draw readers. Klebanow chairs the daily budget meetings and decides how much space to allocate to each story. Klebanow is based on former Baltimore Sun managing editor Bill Marimow, whom series creator David Simon despises.
Tim Phelps
Played by: Thomas J. McCarthy
Appears in: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Mar%C3%ADa%20Rupes | Santa María Rupes is a prominent lobate escarpment and fault line on Mercury. According to data from Aricebo, it has a relief of roughly 700m. The formation was named after the ship Santa María, used by Christopher Columbus. The escarpment was probably created as Mercury cooled and thus contracted.
References
Scarps on Mercury |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Susan%20Raye%20Show | The Susan Raye Show was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
Broadcast history
The series ran from October to November of 1950. It was a musical program hosted by singer and pianist Susan Raye. The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired Mondays and Fridays at 7:45 PM on most DuMont affiliates, alternating with The Joan Edwards Show which was in the same time slot on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Susan Raye Show replaced The Hazel Scott Show, a very similar program which had starred pianist and singer Hazel Scott. Scott had been implicated in Red Channels as a supposed Communist sympathizer. Although Scott denied the charges, she was effectively blacklisted, and her series was cancelled. The Susan Raye Show filled the DuMont network's programming gap for two months. The series was cancelled after the November 20 broadcast.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1950-51 United States network television schedule
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
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
1950s American music television series
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Lost American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Continental%20Trail | The Eastern Continental Trail (ECT) is a network of hiking trails in the United States and Canada, reaching from Key West, Florida to Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Description
The hiking distance of the ECT is approximately , not including water gaps around Newfoundland. The trail system was named by long-distance hiker M. J. Eberhart (trail name: Nimblewill Nomad). The first person to complete the ECT from Key West to Cap Gaspé, Quebec, was John Brinda in 1997.
From south to north, the route strings together the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail (a rail trail that is partially complete as of early 2022), the Florida Trail, a road walk through southern Alabama, the Pinhoti National Recreation Trail, and part of the Benton MacKaye Trail, to reach the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail at Springer Mountain, Georgia. The ECT includes the entire Appalachian Trail to Mount Katahdin, Maine, then continues on the International Appalachian Trail through Maine, New Brunswick, and Quebec. The hiking trail ends at the Gulf of St. Lawrence; the hiker can then travel to Newfoundland by other means and complete the next section of the ECT across that island. After another water gap, the ECT reaches its symbolic end at Belle Isle off the northern end of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula.
Components
From south to north, these are the established trails that have been incorporated into the ECT:
Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail (under development)
Florida Trail
Pinhoti Trail
Benton MacKaye Trail
Appalachian Trail
International Appalachian Trail
References
Hiking trails in Alabama
Hiking trails in Connecticut
Hiking trails in Florida
Hiking trails in Georgia (U.S. state)
Hiking trails in Maine
Hiking trails in Maryland
Hiking trails in Massachusetts
Hiking trails in New Hampshire
Hiking trails in New Jersey
Hiking trails in New York (state)
Hiking trails in Newfoundland and Labrador
Hiking trails in North Carolina
Hiking trails in Pennsylvania
Hiking trails in Tennessee
Hiking trails in Vermont
Hiking trails in Virginia
Hiking trails in West Virginia
Long-distance trails in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Campbells | The Campbells is a period drama television drama series produced by Scottish Television, an affiliate of British television network ITV, and Canadian television network CTV which ran from 1986 to 1990. The series starred Malcolm Stoddard as James Campbell, a Scottish doctor living in 1830s Upper Canada with his three children, seventeen-year-old Neil (John Wildman), fourteen-year old Emma (Amber-Lea Weston) and eleven-year-old John (Eric Richards). Cedric Smith played their neighbor, Captain Sims.
In Canada, it aired on CTV on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. and in the United States on CBN on Saturdays at 7:00 p.m. The series also aired in the United Kingdom on ITV starting on 27 April 1986.
Premise
The series begins in 1832 in Scotland, during the Highland Clearances, when many families were evicted from their homes. This led to a surge in immigration to Canada. Dr. James Campbell, a widower with three children, treated the broken leg of the son of a wealthy landowner but, after a servant woman applied unsterile home remedies to the leg, the boy died of infection. Dr. Campbell was blamed for the death, and he lost his livelihood.
The Campbells heard of Canada's need for settlers and decide to start a new life in a new land. Dr. Campbell sets up a medical practice, and the entire family take up farming.
The series has been described as the "Canadian Little House on the Prairie" but producer John Delmage stated that, while The Campbells might be similar to Little House, "we don’t have as much sugar."
Production
The series was greenlit in 1985 with production stating in June of that year. Most of the episodes were shot on location at a 50-acre farm owned by the Ontario Heritage Foundation, and all clothing, furnishings, and the doctor's medical treatments, were historically accurate.
The premiere episode was partly filmed in Scotland, as were two episodes broadcast in 1989, when Dr. Campbell and his daughter, Emma, briefly return to their native country.
Cast
Malcolm Stoddard as Dr. James Campbell
John Wildman as Neil Campbell
Amber-Lea Weston as Emma Campbell
Eric Richards as John Campbell
Cedric Smith as Captain Thomas Sims
Brigit Wilson as Harriet Sims
Wendy Lyon as Rebecca Sims
Barbara Kyle as Charlotte Logan
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Media availability
In 1996 GoodTimes Entertainment released a two volume VHS set of selected episodes entitled Adventures On the Prairie With The Campbells. On June 23, 2015, Timeless Media Group released The Campbells - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1.
References
External links
BFI
1986 Canadian television series debuts
1990 Canadian television series endings
1980s Canadian drama television series
1990s Canadian drama television series
CTV Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Period family drama television series
Scottish television shows
Television shows produced by Scottish Television
Television shows set in Ontario
Television shows se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATACOM/DB | Datacom/DB is a relational database management system for mainframe computers. It was developed in the early 1970s by Computer Information Management Company and was subsequently owned by Insyte, Applied Data Research, Ameritech, and Computer Associates International, Inc. Datacom was acquired by CA Technologies (formerly Computer Associates), which renamed it to CA-Datacom/DB and later to CA Datacom/DB. In 2018, Broadcom acquired CA Technologies which included the CA Datacom product family. In 2021, Broadcom has dropped the CA and now refers to the product family as Datacom or Datacom/DB.
Origin
The genesis of modern DBMS technology occurred in the 1970s with the advent of huge databases that were cumbersome to manage and maintain. As long as most mainframe processing was done in batch mode, the rapidity of maintenance operations was not a key ingredient to success. During the 1970s however, the introduction of online systems required that information become quickly available and dynamically maintained. Some of the most dramatic changes occurred in the banking and credit industry:
Large banks needed to manage tens of millions of banking account records in real-time rather than utilizing off-shift batch processing as they had done historically
Credit bureaus needed to maintain and dynamically update massive customer credit files for millions of citizens and businesses.
Datacom was initially designed to rapidly retrieve data from massive files using Inverted List technology. Although very well suited for rapid retrieval, it was less effective when handling large amounts of data maintenance. To solve this problem, Datacom/DB transitioned to relational technology utilizing special index-driven capabilities that radically improved maintenance with no loss in retrieval speed. This relational version of Datacom served as the foundation for a continuing stream of industry-leading enhancements that have preserved its position as an extremely cost-effective and high-performing DBMS for the IBM mainframe.
History
Credit Bureau industry
In the 1950s and 1960s, credit bureaus were local organizations that maintained paper records about local borrowers and retail customers, usually storing these records in small envelopes filed in literally hundreds of file cabinets. In fact, one major credit bureau attempted to speed up its transaction rate by having its employees wear roller skates to move rapidly from file cabinet to file cabinet!
In 1965, a project was initiated by IBM to use its new System/360 mainframe computers to automate the two largest credit bureaus - Chilton Corporation of Dallas and the Credit Bureau of Greater Houston - and the national association of credit bureaus. Three IBM veterans were selected to head up the development team. At the successful conclusion of this project, the three men agreed that their credit industry automation experience could equip them to build systems for other credit bureaus, so they collabo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20output%20queueing | Virtual output queueing (VOQ) is a technique used in certain network switch architectures where, rather than keeping all traffic in a single queue, separate queues are maintained for each possible output location. It addresses a common problem known as head-of-line blocking.
Description
In VOQ, the physical buffer of each input port maintains a separate virtual queue for each output port. Therefore congestion on an egress port will block only the virtual queue for this particular egress port. Other packets in the same physical buffer destined to different (non-congested) output ports are in separate virtual queues and can therefore still be processed. In a traditional setup, the blocked packet for the congested egress port would have blocked the whole physical buffer, resulting in head-of-line blocking.
It has been shown that VOQ can achieve 100% throughput performance with an effective scheduling algorithm. This scheduling algorithm should be able to provide a high speed mapping of packets from inputs to outputs on a cycle-to-cycle basis. The VOQ mechanism provides throughput at a much higher rate than the crossbar switches without it.
There are many algorithms for design and implementation of fast VOQ. For example, Nick McKeown and a group at Stanford University published a design in 1997.
Quality of service and priority are extensions found in literature of the same time.
VOQ scheduling is often referred to as "arbitration" (resolving the concurrent access wishes), whereas the ordering of packets ("packet scheduling") is an additional task following the VOQ arbitration.
References
Switches
Queue management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20national%20geoparks | This list includes areas designated as "geopark" on the national level. This should not be confused with members of either the European Geoparks Network or the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network.
Australia
Kanawinka Geopark
Austria
Kamptal Geopark
Brazil
Geopark Paleorrota
Bulgaria
Iskar–Panega Geopark
China
Protected areas of the People's Republic of China
Czech Republic
Bohemian-Moravian Highlands Geopark
Blaník Knights County Geopark
Egeria Geopark
GeoLoci Geopark
Iron Mountains Geopark
Moravian-Silesian Foothills Geopark
Ralsko Geopark
Germany
Bergstraße-Odenwald
Bayern–Böhmen
GrenzWelten
Harz - Braunschweiger Land - Ostfalen
Inselsberg – Drei Gleichen
Kyffhäuser
Laacher See
Muskau Arch
Porphyrland
Ries
Ruhrgebiet
Sachsens Mitte
Schieferland
Schwäbische Alb
TERRA.vita
Vulkaneifel
Vulkanregion Vogelsberg
Westerwald–Lahn–Taunus
Indonesia
Raja Ampat Geopark
Gunung Krakatau Geoprak
Karangsambung-Karangbolong Geopark
Merangin Geopark
Suoh Geopark
Japan
Chichibu Geopark
South Africa
Barberton Geopark
Vredefort Meteor Impact Site
tswaing geopark
Turkey
Ida Madra Geopark
Kızılcahamam-Çamlıdere Geopark
Nemrut-Süphan Geopark
Sivas-Upper Kızılırmak Geopark
Zonguldak Coal Geopark
United Kingdom
There are no 'national Geoparks' within the UK (as at July 2020); there are however a number of UNESCO Global Geoparks.
Vietnam
Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark
Nonuoc Cao Bang Geopark
Daknong Geopark
Lyson - Sahuynh Geopark
Langson Geopark
See also
Protected area
References
External links
List of Global Geoparks
List of national geoparks
Geoparks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20O%20Man%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | Man O Man was an Australian television game show that was broadcast of the Seven Network in 1994.
Hosted by stage actor Rob Guest. the program was based on the original German version of the same name.
Program synopsis
Format
The program was presented loosely in the format of a male beauty pageant. An all-female audience of 125 women sitting at tables used a small computer to vote for their favourite man out of the ten male competitors after they had asked to participate in a series of challenges. Notably, losing contestants would be eliminated by being pushed into a swimming pool by female models who worked on the show.
Guest, who was starring in The Phantom of the Opera in Sydney at the time, had to take one night off from appearing on stage every fortnight to enable him to fly to Melbourne to record two episodes of Man O Man. Although Guest hosted the show, John Deeks was credited with warming up the all-female audience before each show and sustaining the atmosphere throughout any interruptions which occurred during tapings. Deeks described the show as the "most bizarre" television program he had ever worked on.
Launch
Prior to the first episode, the Seven Network hosted a launch party for journalists which was also attended by cast members of new drama Blue Heelers which was about the debut on the network, and Gary Sweet who was about the star in miniseries The Battlers. While Seven's director of programming Glen Kinging was escorting guests around the studio, he was pushed into the pool fully clothed by colleague, publicist Susan Wood, in a pre-planned stunt.
Seven Network manager Bob Campbell ordered a fig leaf be placed over the penis of a naked male statue, which had been placed on the set, before the first episode aired. Having the swimming pool built into the studio was reported to have cost Seven $200,000.
Reception
The show achieved considerable ratings success upon its debut, winning its timeslot out of the commercial networks in both Melbourne and Sydney, although the debut of Keeping Up Appearances on ABC TV attracted the same amount of viewers as Man O Man in Melbourne. However, the return of Hey Hey It's Saturday on the Nine Network the following week proved to be strong competition in both cities.
The nature of the program was the subject of much commentary in the media, specifically whether the show was an example of reverse sexism. It prompted a number of letter writers in The Age'''s "Green Guide" to debate the issue. The audience members during each episode of Man O Man were all female. No male audience members were permitted into the studio during the show's taping. When asked if he thought the show was sexist, Guest stated: "Sexist? Why not? It's about time the Aussie male ego got a bit of a bruising." Seven's Melbourne programming director Ian Duncan disagreed and suggested Man O Man was actually more suitable than many episodes of its ratings rival, Hey Hey It's Saturday.
The series established itself as prime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRuby | XRuby was the first Ruby to Java static compiler which compiles Ruby source code (.rb) to Java bytecode (.class). It is notable because it contains a complete ANTLR grammar for Ruby 1.8 source code.
See also
Comparison of programming languages
Duck typing
IronRuby
JRuby
Rubinius
Ruby on Rails
Watir
External links
XRuby language home page
Google code for XRuby Project
XRuby Project Group
XRuby Enjoy Ruby on JVM
XRuby: Another Approach to Ruby on the JVM
Free compilers and interpreters
Ruby (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRYOS | DRYOS is a real-time operating system made by Canon and is used in their latest digital cameras and camcorders.
Since late 2007, DIGIC-based cameras are shipped using DryOS. It replaces VxWorks from Wind River Systems which has been used before on Digic2 (DIGIC II) and some Digic3 (DIGIC III) cameras. DryOS had existed before and was in use in other Canon hardware, such as digital video cameras and high-end webcams.
DRYOS has a 16 kilobytes kernel module at its core and is currently compatible with more than 10 CPU types. It provides a simulation-based development environment for debugging. Canon also developed a USB- and middleware-compatible device driver for file systems and network devices like video server.
DRYOS aims to be compatible with µITRON 4.0 and with POSIX.
Cameras with DRYOS
The following cameras are known to run DRYOS:
Canon PowerShot SX1 IS
Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
Canon PowerShot SX20 IS
Canon PowerShot SX30 IS
Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
Canon PowerShot S5 IS
Canon PowerShot S90
Canon PowerShot S95
Canon PowerShot G9
Canon PowerShot G10
Canon PowerShot G11
Canon PowerShot G12
Canon PowerShot A470
Canon PowerShot A480
Canon PowerShot A580
Canon PowerShot A590 IS
Canon PowerShot A650 IS
Canon PowerShot A720 IS
Canon PowerShot A810
Canon PowerShot A1100 IS
Canon PowerShot A2200 IS
Canon PowerShot A2300 IS
Canon PowerShot A3000 IS
Canon PowerShot A3100 IS
Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS
Canon PowerShot SX100 IS
Canon PowerShot SX110 IS
Canon PowerShot SX120 IS
Canon PowerShot SX130 IS
Canon PowerShot SX160 IS
Canon PowerShot SX200 IS
Canon PowerShot SX230 IS
Canon PowerShot SX230 HS
Canon PowerShot SD780 IS
Canon PowerShot SD880 IS
Canon PowerShot SD990 IS (IXUS 980 IS)
Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS
Canon Powershot ELPH100 HS (IXUS 115 HS)
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Canon EOS 80D
Canon EOS 90D
Canon EOS 650D
Canon EOS 700D
Canon EOS 750D
Canon EOS 1100D
Canon EOS 1200D
Canon EOS 1300D
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Canon EOS M
Canon EOS M2
Canon EOS M3
Canon EOS M10
Canon EOS M50
Canon EOS M100
Canon All R-Systems
References
External links
Canon DRYOS technology explanation page
Canon technology explanation page covering many Canon technologies, including DRYOS
Real-time operating systems
Camera firmware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegate | Delegate or delegates may refer to:
Delegate, New South Wales, a town in Australia
Delegate (CLI), a computer programming technique
Delegate (American politics), a representative in any of various political organizations
Delegate (United States Congress), a non-voting member of the United States House of Representatives
Delegate Apostolic or nuncio, an ecclesiastical diplomat representing the Holy See
The Delegates, a 1970s novelty song group
See also
Delegation (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%20Street | Kids Street is an American pay television channel operated by Condista Networks aimed at the 3 to 7-year-old Latino market in the United States.
History
The channel launched on Comcast Xfinity systems on January 16, 2017.
The channel operates an evening/late night block aimed at older audiences called Family Central Explorer. All programming aired on Kids Street is offered in English with Spanish available as a secondary audio program. The channel was added to Charter Spectrum on June 30, 2020.
In September 2020, the channel changed its name from "Kids Central" to its current name of "Kids Street."
References
External links
Kids Street website
Family Central Explorer website
Children's television networks in the United States
Television networks in the United States
English-language television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2017
2017 establishments in the United States
Preschool education television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMEHR | KMEHR or Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Record is a Belgian medical data standard introduced in 2002, designed to enable the exchange of structured clinical information. It is funded by the Belgian federal Ministry of public health and assessed in collaboration with Belgian industry.
The initiative lead to the specification of about 20 specific XML messages (the Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Records - Belgian implementation standard or KMEHR-bis).
Structure
The KMEHR standard consists of an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) message format defined by the KMEHR XML Schema, a set of reference tables and a set of recognized medical transactions compliant with this grammar.
Message structure
A KMEHR XML message is composed of two components: a header and at least one folder. The header of the message describes the sender, the recipient(s) and a few technical statuses.
The folder itself gathers the information about a patient, where each folder identifies the subject of care (patient) and contains at least one medical transaction.
The medical transaction item gathers the information reported by one healthcare professional at a given instance. Its attributes are type, author, date and time.
Summarized Electronic Health Record
Summarized Electronic Health Record (SumEHR) is a KMEHR message, used for the exchange of medical information. It summarizes the minimal set of data that a physician needs in order to understand the medical status of the patient in a few minutes and to ensure the continuity of care. The SumEHR standard was introduced by the Belgian government in 2005 and an EMD software package used by a physician (GP) should be capable of exporting a SumEHR message (KMEHR message level 4) for any given patient.
Coding
The KMEHR-bis standard comprises a set of dictionaries which define the transaction types, heading types, item types, severity levels and administration routes.
Object linkage
The KMEHR-bis standard supports links to either internal or external objects, e.g. an image or another KMEHR-message.
Services
The KMEHR-Bis specification is extended with web services (based on SOAP), which define request and response elements to offer standard web services.
See also
Belgian Health Telematics Commission (BHTC)
FLOW
Electronic health record (EHR)
Health Level 7
Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
Sources
KMEHR: Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Record, Belgian Implementation Standard
Standards for electronic health records
Healthcare in Belgium
Regulation in Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20%28TV%20series%29 | Bernard, known as Backkom (Hangul: 빼꼼) in South Korea and Berni in Spain, is a computer-animated television series produced by RG Animation Studios, with the investment of the French broadcaster M6. The animation style is of a combination of computer-generated and cel animation. The stories are written by the creative studio Screen21, the directors are José Luis Ucha Enríquez and Claudio Biern Lliviria. The music was written by Oscar Maceda Rodríguez. Bernard also was a part of Cartoon Network's Sunday Pants.
In South Korea, season 1 aired on EBS TV in 2005 and consists of 52 episodes. Season 2 aired in 2008, and it also consists of 52 episodes.
Plot
The show centers on a curious polar bear named Bernard, whose bumbling slapstick antics and clumsiness typically result in the bear being knocked unconscious or being severely injured by the end of an episode. Bernard almost doesn't speak, but he does communicate through guttural sounds. Bernard’s friends include Lloyd and Eva the penguins, Zack the lizard, and Goliath the chihuahua.
Episodes
Films
A feature film based on Bernard, titled Mug Travel in South Korea and My Friend Bernard in English, was first released in South Korea on 22 March 2007. It was directed by Lim Ah-ron and produced at RG Animation Studios.
Another film, titled Backkom Bear: Agent 008 was released in China on 13 January 2017 and South Korea on 3 May 2017.
A third film, titled Agent Backkom: Kings Bear was released in China and South Korea on July 23, 2021.
Award history
Bernard has been nominated for a number of awards, including Best Animation series at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (2006), Mipcom Jr. Licensing Challenge Award (2004), Prize in Children and Education at the Dong-A International Festival of Cartoon & Animation (2004) and was a finalist at the Annecy International Animation Festival (2003).
Nominated for The Best Animation Series at Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (2006)
Mipcom Jr. Licensing Challenge Award (2004)
Won the Prize in Children and Education at DIFECA (Dong-A International Festival of Cartoon & Animation) (2004)
Was the finalist in Annecy International Animation Festival (2003).
See also
Mug Travel
Backkom Bear: Agent 008
Agent Backkom: Kings Bear
References
External links
Screen21 Website
2006 South Korean television series debuts
2000s South Korean animated television series
2010s South Korean animated television series
2006 French television series debuts
2000s French animated television series
2010s French animated television series
French children's animated comedy television series
Spanish children's animated comedy television series
South Korean children's animated comedy television series
Surreal comedy television series
Fictional polar bears
Computer-animated television series
Animated television series about bears
Animated television series without speech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magerit | Magerit is the name of the one of the most powerful supercomputers in Spain. It also reached the second best Spanish position in the TOP500 list of supercomputers.
This computer is installed in CeSViMa, a research center of the Technical University of Madrid.
Magerit was first installed in 2006 and reached the 9th fastest in Europe and the 34th in the world, the second best position of a Spanish supercomputer in the list. It also reached the 275th position in the first Green500 list published. It is no longer among the TOP500.
The second version, installed in 2011 reached the 1st position of Spain, 44th of Europe and 136th fastest of the world. It also reached the 18th position in the Green500 list.
Magerit (for *Materit or *Mageterit) is the most ancient recorded name of the current city of Madrid. The name comes from the Celtic name of a fortress built on the Manzanares River in the 9th century AD, and means "Place of abundant water".
History
First steps (2005)
Magerit was created as a collaboration between Technical University of Madrid and IBM. The computer is housed in the newly created CeSViMa. This first version had only 124 nodes and was housed temporarily in the Computer Science School of Madrid. The funding was provided by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and the Autonomous Region of Madrid.
Joining the Spanish Supercomputer Network (2006–2007)
Late 2006 CeSViMa joins Spanish Supercomputing Network (Red Española de Supercomputación or RES in Spanish) and the supercomputer was upgraded. The new configuration has 1204 nodes reaching a speed of 14 TFLOPS. This is considered the first version due to its inclusion in the TOP500 list in the 34th position, the second best position of a Spanish supercomputer in the list.
In 2007 the first users from the access committee of Spanish Supercomputing Network (the agreement makes that the Network can schedule the use of the 68% of the resources) and users managed at local (CeSViMa) access committee (using the other 32%).
Migration and small upgrades (2008–2010)
In May 2008, CeSViMa and Magerit supercomputer migrated to a new building in the same campus (only 500 meters from previous location at Computer Science School).
The computer was upgraded: change of communication switch, storage subsystem and replacement of some blades with a new version. This upgrade increase the power of the supercomputer near 2 TFLOPS reaching 15.95 TFLOPS. This upgrade did not avoid the fall from the TOP500 list in November 2008
In this configuration the 59.7% of the supercomputer CPU time is assigned via RES access committee and 40.3% is assigned via CeSViMa policies.
One year later, in 2009, the operating system and other system software was upgraded (migrating to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10)
During 2010, CeSViMa acquire a new massive storage system with 1 petabyte of capacity in parallel with the own storage of Magerit.
Upgrade (2011)
In the first half of 2011, the supercomputer was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20Rogers | Television Rogers can refer to:
Rogers Television, a network of community television in Canada
Télévision Rogers, sister network in French |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bellflower%20Bunnies | The Bellflower Bunnies () is a 2001-2010 animated series based on the Beechwood Bunny Tales book series by Geneviève Huriet. The show debuted on the TF1 network with four episodes airing between December 24 and December 28, 2001. It is a co-production between France's TF1 and several Canadian companies
52 episodes were produced.
The show centers on the adventures and exploits of the Bellflower family, a clan of seven rabbits who live in Beechwood Grove, which is called Blueberry Hill in the English version. The two adults in the family, Papa Bramble and Aunt Zinnia, take care of their five children: Periwinkle, Poppy, Mistletoe, Dandelion and Violette.
Production
Early on in its run, the series was produced as a package of four specials by TF1 and its subsidiary, Protécréa, along with TVA International of Montreal and Melusine of Luxembourg; Moran Caouissin, an animator from Disney's DuckTales movie, served as the director. Production of the series began in the fall of 2000, at a cost of over US$2 million, or US$600,000 per episode.
Starting in 2004, later episodes were produced by Euro Visual, Tooncan, Megafun, Big Cash, Dragon Cartoon and Disney Television France. This time, Eric Berthier directed, and Alice Willis composed.
Home video and DVD
Europe
At least six DVD volumes of The Bellflower Bunnies have been released by TF1, Beez Entertainment and Seven Sept in the franchise's native France, separately and in a box set. In Germany, edelkids released the first sixteen episodes in February and August 2008.
North America
Feature Films for Families released the first two volumes of the English version on VHS (in 2001) and DVD (in 2003), as part of a marketing deal with TVA. In 2005, another four DVDs were released under the Direct Source brand. Each disc in this version consists of two episodes. Since the DVDs are now next to impossible to find in the USA; Amazon Prime Video, Kimcartoon and YouTube are the currently only known options in the USA.
Episodes
Fifty-two episodes of The Bellflower Bunnies were produced over the course of three seasons. and all of these have aired in the show's native France; although episodes 39-52 were first aired on German channel KI.KA in May 2008.
Voice cast
Season 1
Tom Clarke Hill
Regine Candler
Tom Eastwood
Rhonda Millar - Periwinkle, Violette (Pirouette)
Joanna Ruiz Rodriguez - Poppy
Seasons 2 & 3
English version
Danielle Desormeaux
Anik Matern - Violette
Holly Gauthier-Frankel (as Holly Gauthier-Frankle) - Mistletoe
Eleanor Noble - Periwinkle
Matt Holland
Joanna Noyes
Liz MacRae - Dandelion
Mark Camacho
Simon Peacock - Papa Bramble
Laura Teasdale - Poppy
Danny Wells
John Stocker
Sonja Ball
Susan Glover
A.J. Henderson
Rick Miller
Rick Jones
Danny Brochu
French version
Flora Balzano
Julie Burroughs
Hugolin Chevrette
Mario Desmarais
Antoine Durand
Marylène Gargour
Annie Girard
Hélène Lasnier
Elisabeth Lenormand
See also
Beechwood Bunny Tales
Max & Ruby
Watership Down
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20May | Martin May may refer to:
Martin O. May, Medal of Honor recipient
Martin May (actor) (born 1961), German actor
Martin May, founder of the Brightkite networking site
Leigh Martin May (born 1971), United States federal judge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Thompson%20%28broadcaster%29 | Paul Thompson is an Australian broadcasting executive.
Career
He has launched, acquired, developed and managed broadcasting stations and networks throughout Australia in a career which started in 1965. He is credited with building two distinct national radio broadcasting networks from inception.
Having established Adelaide's first commercial FM radio station "Double S A FM" in the 1980s (later known as SAFM), he was responsible for setting up the Austereo Radio Network (now known as Southern Cross Austereo), which he guided as CEO for 15 years. In 1996, dmg Radio Australia was launched with Thompson as CEO.
Now known as NOVA Entertainment and owned by Lachlan Murdoch, the company owns the CHR-formatted radio network Nova (with stations targeting under-40 listeners in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth), along with the smoothfm network (aimed at older listeners) in Sydney and Melbourne, Star 104.5 on the Central Coast (New South Wales) and Adelaide’s only commercial talk station FIVEaa.
Thompson was one of two inaugural inductees in the Commercial Radio Australia "Hall of Fame" in 2002 and is regarded as the 'father' of FM broadcasting in particular in Australia.
In 2008 he stepped down as Executive Chairman of dmg Radio Australia, telling radioinfo: "It is far too easy for a founding CEO to stay too long. It is healthier for an organisation for the founder to leave too early than stay too late. The transition from radio broadcasting to multi-platform delivery and the launch of digital radio combine to create a natural watershed. And Cath is ready to go as CEO."
Notes
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian radio executives
Nova Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geri%20Palast | Geri Palast is the Managing Director of the Israel Action Network (IAN). IAN is the joint initiative of The Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs to defend Israel's legitimacy, change the conversation about Israel and work towards the two state solution.
She is the sister of investigative journalist Greg Palast.
Early life, education, and family
Palast is a graduate of Stanford University with honors, and graduated as a Root Tilden Public Service Law scholar from NYU Law School.
Career
Palast has also served as the national Legislative and Political Director of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and established and ran the Washington office of the National Employment Law Project (NELP). She has consulted with and served on numerous boards of NGOs, currently OpenSecrets and CFE. From 1993-2000, she served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs under President Bill Clinton.
In 2000, she became the founder and executive director of two nonprofit organizations, Justice at Stake, a national judicial reform advocacy organization, and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE).
Israel Action Network
Geri Palast currently works as the Managing Director for the Israel Action Network. The IAN was created by the Jewish Federations of North America, an American Jewish umbrella organization, to "mobilize communities to counter the Assault on Israel’s Legitimacy". It is a strategic initiative that defends Israel's right to exist as a democratic Jewish state within the North American Jewish community. It advocates, "security for two states for two peoples."
See also
Campaign for Fiscal Equity
Justice at Stake Campaign
Jewish Federations of North America
References
Living people
American lawyers
Greg Palast
Stanford University alumni
New York University School of Law alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Clinton administration personnel
American women lawyers
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Feto | Rede Feto Timor Leste (Tetum for "the Women's Network of East Timor") is an umbrella organisation for women's groups in East Timor.
Rede Feto is built upon its constituency – 18 women’s organizations coming from throughout the nation. It was established on March 10, 2000, during the first National Women's Congress. It endeavors to work from a member-empowerment framework to strengthen the organization and advocacy capacity of the member organizations to enable those member organizations to impact in advancing the status of women and their participation in national development process. Secondly, Rede Feto sets out to advocate and uphold women’s rights and advanced gender issues.
Mission
The organisation's mission is to fight for and defend the interests of women, empower women in order to achieve equal rights and contribute to development and to promote women’s rights.
Vision
"East Timorese women are free from any of form of discrimination so that they are able to develop themselves, to advocate for their rights and are able to contribute to global development."
It envisions itself as the leader in advocacy for women’s rights and gender equality in East Timor, have a strong presence among the national and international communities, have highly motivated and skilled staff in the secretariat, have a committed and effective Board of Directors (BOD), a self-sustaining organization creating lasting impact on the lives of Timorese women.
Rede Feto Accomplishments
Conducted two National Women's Congresses in 2000 and 2004.
Advocated for establishment of Office for Promotion of Equality in East Timor Government.
Advocated for the declaration of November 3 as National Women’s Day.
Representation to Security Council Conference in New York, Beijing Plus 10 Conference, CEDAW and others International conference.
Membership to the Consultative Committee on Petroleum Fund of Timor Leste.
3-Year Strategic Plan develop by most member of Rede Feto.
Implemented Humanitarian Crisis Program in partnership with UN agencies
Increased and diversified funding sources.
Secretariat Office: equipped with complete office facilities and two vehicles
Women's organizations based in East Timor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderOak | SpiderOak Inc. is a US-based software company focused on satellite cybersecurity.
The company began in 2006 as a producer of a collaboration tool, online backup and file hosting service that allows users to access and share data using a cloud-based server.
SpiderOak evolved into a space cybersecurity company and first tested its software in space in June 2023. It has partnered with Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and the Department of Defense.
History
SpiderOak was founded in 2007 by Ethan Oberman and Alan Fairless as an encrypted private backup program. In 2013, SpiderOak began developing the Crypton framework, "a JavaScript framework for building applications where the server doesn't know the contents it's storing on behalf of users." Crypton is an open-source project allowing developers to easily add encryption security to mobile applications. By mid-2014, according to Oberman, SpiderOak had near 1 million users.
Its first offering, its online backup service later branded "SpiderOak ONE", launched in December 2007. SpiderOak is accessible through an app for Windows, Mac and Linux computer platforms, and Android, N900 Maemo and iOS mobile platforms.
According to SpiderOak, the software used encrypted cloud storage and client-side encryption key creation, so SpiderOak employees could not access users' information. SpiderOak differentiated itself from its competition by this kind of encryption, in provision for syncing files and folders across multiple devices, and in automatic de-duplication of data.
Some components of SpiderOak ONE were open-source; in 2009, the company announced its intent for the SpiderOak ONE code to be fully open-source in the future. , the SpiderOak One client's source code is only available open-source for mobile platforms, with no current plans to make the desktop client's code open-source. SpiderOak used to provide an open-source password manager named Encryptr, which was discontinued in March 2021. The source code for SpiderOak's group messaging application Semaphor is published to allow auditing.
By 2014, SpiderOak was headquartered in Chicago and employed 42 staff, headed by CEO Alan Fairless. Around the same time, the company had offices in Chicago and Kansas City, and was hiring remote employees inside and outside of the US. In 2015, SpiderOak raised $3.5 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to around $9 million.
In February 2017, SpiderOak discontinued using the phrase "zero knowledge" to describe their SpiderOak ONE service following public criticism that the phrase conflicted with the mechanism behind cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs. SpiderOak adopted the phrase "no knowledge" for their marketing.
In November 2017, founder Alan Fairless was replaced as CEO by Christopher Skinner, who announced that the company would be expanding into enterprise software, partially funded by a $2 million Series B round.
David Pearah became CEO in 2020.
Charles Beames became executive chairman of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eufiserv | EUFISERV (European Savings Banks Financial Services) is a European interbank network connecting the ATMs of savings banks in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. It is the largest and the only international credit union-owned interbank network in Europe.
History
1988: The ATM Co-operation project of the European Savings Banks Group was set up.
1990: The company EUFISERV S.C. was founded to develop the ATM Co-operation project into a full-service interbank network.
1992: Visa International and Eufiserv signed an agreement to provide mutual cash dispensing services.
1996: MasterCard and Eufiserv signed an agreement to provide mutual cash dispensing services.
1999: American Express and Eufiserv signed an agreement to provide access to American Express cards at EUFISERV ATMs.
2005: China UnionPay and Eufiserv signed an agreement to provide access to CUP cards at EUFISERV ATMs.
2007: Eufiserv is one of the six founders of the Euro Alliance of Payment Schemes s.c.r.l.
2012: Ceases to be active in Luxembourg.
Gateway Services
Eufiserv provides Gateway Services to the Visa PLUS network, to MasterCard's Cirrus network, and to the networks of American Express and China UnionPay.
All ATMs in the Eufiserv network are connected to the gateways to Visa PLUS, Cirrus and American Express, and therefore accept all Visa, Visa Electron, Visa Debit, PLUS, MasterCard, Maestro, Cirrus, and American Express cards but, until now, only selected ATMs are connected to the CUP gateway. The operations of the gateways to the Visa PLUS and Cirrus networks are outsourced by EUFISERV to Confederacion Espanola de Cajas de Ahorros in Spain.
Network Members
ESBG: European Savings Banks Group
Austria: Hauptverband der Österreichischen Sparkassen
Belgium: BNP Paribas Fortis
Czech Republic: Česká spořitelna
Finland: Säästöpankkiliitto (Finnish Savings Banks Association)
France: Caisse nationale des Caisses d'épargne (CNCE)
Germany: Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband (DSGV) and Finanz Informatik
Norway: Sparbankforeningen I Norge
Portugal: Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Spain: Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA)
Sweden Sparbanken Swedbank
Switzerland: La Poste - PostFinance
Former members
Italy (ICBPI - Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiana) left the Network in 2009 one year later the acquisition of CartaSì, the largest Italian Cards Operator.
Luxembourg: Banque et caisse d'épargne de l'État left the network per 1 January 2012, when the whole Luxembourg retail banking sector switched to Visa's V Pay system, replacing the former national Bancomat system.
References
External links
Interbank networks
Credit unions
Financial services companies of Belgium
1988 establishments in Europe
Financial services companies established in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFTV%20%28Duluth%29 | WFTV, UHF analog channel 38, was the first television station in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.
History
The station signed on in 1953 carrying programming from all four TV networks of the time, ABC, CBS, NBC, and DuMont. It shared office space with WEBC radio and transmitted from the former WEBC-FM tower on Duluth's Observation Hill.
WFTV faced challenges from the beginning, being a UHF station in an era when most television sets only included VHF tuners; set manufacturers were not required to include UHF tuning until 1964. Most Northland residents needed a converter to watch WFTV, and the picture quality left much to be desired even with one. Additionally, the Duluth market is a very large market geographically, and UHF stations do not carry well across large areas. As a result, the station never thrived; only the revenue from its radio sister kept it afloat.
In March 1954, VHF stations WDSM-TV and KDAL-TV - both co-owned with other radio stations in the market - signed on and took the NBC and CBS affiliations. This left WFTV with ABC and DuMont. Saddled with affiliations with the two weakest and smallest networks, as well as a weak signal, WFTV could not compete and left the air shortly thereafter.
Duluth would be a two-station market until WDIO-TV signed on in 1966. The market would not get another major UHF station until 1999 when KQDS-TV upgraded and affiliated with the Fox network.
The bottom portion of the tower used by WEBC-FM and WFTV still stands, and is used today for telecommunications. Channel 38 was originally used for WDSE's digital signal, but went empty again in 2009 when WDSE moved digital operations to channel 8.
The WFTV callsign was later adopted by the ABC affiliate on Channel 9 in Orlando, Florida, which was previously WLOF-TV, in 1963.
References
External links
A Technological History of WEBC Radio, Chapter 4, with a mention of WFTV
A list of stations included in the January 8-14, 1954 edition of TV Guide, including WFTV
Television channels and stations established in 1953
1954 disestablishments in Minnesota
Defunct television stations in the United States
1953 establishments in Minnesota
Mass media in Duluth, Minnesota
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1954
Defunct mass media in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escher%20%28programming%20language%29 | Escher (named for M. C. Escher, "a master of endless loops") is a declarative programming language that supports both functional programming and logic programming models, developed by J.W. Lloyd in the mid-1990s. It was designed mostly as a research and teaching vehicle. The basic view of programming exhibited by Escher and related languages is that a program is a representation of a theory in some logic framework, and the program's execution (computation) is a deduction from the theory. The logic framework for Escher is Alonzo Church's simple theory of types.
Escher, notably, supports I/O through a monadic type representing the 'outside world', in the style of Haskell.
One of the goals of Escher's designers was to support meta-programming, and so the language has comprehensive support for generating and transforming programs.
Examples
MODULE Lambda.
CONSTRUCT Person/0.
FUNCTION Jane, Mary, John: One -> Person.
FUNCTION Mother : Person * Person -> Boolean.
Mother(x,y) =>
x=Jane & y=Mary.
FUNCTION Wife : Person * Person -> Boolean.
Wife(x,y) =>
x=John & y=Jane.
FUNCTION PrimitiveRel : (Person * Person -> Boolean) -> Boolean.
PrimitiveRel(r) =>
r=Mother \/ r=Wife.
FUNCTION Rel : (Person * Person -> Boolean) -> Boolean.
Rel(r) =>
PrimitiveRel(r) \/
(SOME [r1,r2]
(r = LAMBDA [u] (SOME [z] (r1(Fst(u),z) & r2(z,Snd(u)))) &
PrimitiveRel(r1) & PrimitiveRel(r2))).
References
Declarative programming in Escher, JW Lloyd, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 1995
An implementation of Escher (Some dead links can be reached from the archived page (or by substituting the new domain in the link in question).)
Functional languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell%20%28programming%20language%29 | Orwell is a small, lazy-evaluation functional programming language implemented principally by Martin Raskovsky and first released in 1984 by Philip Wadler during his time as a Research Fellow in the Programming Research Group, part of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Developed as a free alternative to Miranda, it was a forerunner of Haskell and was one of the first programming languages to support list comprehensions and pattern matching.
The name is a tribute to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the year in which the programming language was released. In the late 1980s and the 1990s, most of the computing practical assignments for undergraduates studying for a degree in Mathematics and Computation at Oxford University were required to be completed using the language.
References
Academic programming languages
Functional languages
Haskell programming language family
Programming languages created in 1984 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipal%20corporations%20in%20Kerala | Kerala's 14 revenue districts in 2015 were further divided into 6 municipal corporations, 87 municipalities and 941 grama panchayats.
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History
The urban councils of Kerala date back to the 17th century when the Dutch Malabar established the municipality of Fort Kochi.
In 1664, the municipality of Fort Kochi was established by Dutch Malabar, making it the first municipality in Indian subcontinent, which got dissolved when the Dutch authority got weaker in 18th century. However, the first modern kind of municipalities were formed in the state in 1866 in Malabar District. In 1866, Fort Kochi municipality was reestablished. Kannur, Thalassery, Kozhikode, Palakkad, and Fort Kochi, which were parts of Malabar District until 1956, were made the first modern municipalities of Kerala on 1 November 1866, according to the Madras Act 10 of 1865 (Amendment of the Improvements in Towns act 1850) of the British Indian Empire. The Thiruvananthapuram Municipality came into existence in 1920. After two decades, during the reign of Sree Chithira Thirunal, Thiruvananthapuram Municipality was converted into Corporation on 30 October 1940, making it the oldest Municipal Corporation of Kerala. The first Municipal Corporation formed after the independence of India as well as the second-oldest Municipal Corporation of the state is Kozhikode Municipal Corporation established in the year 1962.
Municipal Corporations
There are six Municipal Corporations in Kerala: 2 in South Kerala, 2 in Central Kerala and 2 in North Kerala.
Proposed Municipal Corporations
Alappuzha
Kottayam
Palakkad
Malappuram
See also
Taluks of Kerala
Municipalities of Kerala
References
Sources
Government of Kerala
List Of Corporations And Municipalities of Kerala – www.c4civil.com
Kerala at a glance
Local Self Government Department, Government of Kerala
Kerala politics-related lists
Municipal corporations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id%20%28programming%20language%29 | Irvine Dataflow (Id) is a general-purpose parallel programming language, started at the University of California at Irvine in 1975 by Arvind and K. P. Gostelow. Arvind continued work with Id at MIT into the 1990s.
The major subset of Id is a purely functional programming language with non-strict semantics. Features include: higher-order functions, a Milner-style statically type-checked polymorphic type system with overloading, user defined types and pattern matching, and prefix and infix operators. It led to the development of pH, a parallel dialect of Haskell.
Id programs are fine grained implicitly parallel.
The MVar synchronisation variable abstraction in Haskell is based on Id's M-structures.
Examples
Id supports algebraic datatypes, similar to ML, Haskell, or Miranda:
type bool = False | True;
Types are inferred by default, but may be annotated with a typeof declaration. Type variables use the syntax *0, *1, etc.
typeof id = *0 -> *0;
def id x = x;
A function which uses an array comprehension to compute the first Fibonacci numbers:
typeof fib_array = int -> (array int);
def fib_array n =
{ A = { array (0,n) of
| [0] = 0
| [1] = 1
| [i] = A[i-1] + A[i-2] || i <- 2 to n }
In A };
Note the use of non-strict evaluation in the recursive definition of the array A.
Id's lenient evaluation strategy allows cyclic datastructures by default. The following code makes a cyclic list, using the cons operator :.
def cycle x = { A = x : A In A };
However, to avoid nonterminating construction of truly infinite structures, explicit delays must be annotated using #:
def count_up_from x = x :# count_up_from (x + 1);
Implementations
pHluid
The pHluid system was a research implementation of Id programming language, with future plans for a front-end for pH, a parallel dialect of the Haskell programming language, implemented at Digital's Cambridge Research Laboratory. and non-profit use. It is targeted at standard Unix workstation hardware.
References
External links
ID Language Reference Manual, Rishiyur S. Nikhil, 1991.
"An Asynchronous Programming Language for a Large Multiprocessor Machine", Arvind et al., TR114a, Dept ISC, UC Irvine, Dec 1978
Functional languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3D | Web3D, also called 3D Web, is a group of technologies to display and navigate websites using 3D computer graphics.
Pre-WebGL era
The emergence of Web3D dates back to 1994, with the advent of VRML, a file format designed to store and display 3D graphical data on the World Wide Web. In October 1995, at Internet World, Template Graphics Software demonstrated a 3D/VRML plug-in for the beta release of Netscape 2.0 by Netscape Communications.
The Web3D Consortium was formed to further the collective development of the format. VRML and its successor, X3D, have been accepted as international standards by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission.
The main drawback of the technology was the requirement to use third-party browser plug-ins to perform 3D rendering, which slowed the adoption of the standard.
Between 2000 and 2010, one of these plug-ins, Adobe Flash Player, was widely installed on desktop computers and was used to display interactive web pages and online games and to play video and audio content. Several Flash-based frameworks appeared that used software rendering and ActionScript 3 to perform 3D computations such as transformations, lighting, and texturing. Most notable among them were Papervision3D and Away3D.
Eventually, Abobe developed Stage3D, an API for rendering interactive 3D graphics with GPU-acceleration for its Flash player and AIR products, which was adopted by software vendors.
In 2009, an open-source 3D web technology called O3D was introduced by Google. It also required a browser plug-in, but contrary to Flash/Stage3D, was based on JavaScript API. O3D was geared not only for games but also for advertisements, 3D model viewers, product demos, simulations, engineering applications, control and monitoring systems, and massive online virtual worlds.
WebGL and glTF
WebGL (short for "Web Graphics Library") evolved out of the Canvas 3D experiments started by Vladimir Vukićević at Mozilla Foundation. Vukićević first demonstrated a Canvas 3D prototype in 2006. By the end of 2007, both Mozilla and Opera had made their own separate implementations.
In early 2009, the nonprofit technology consortium Khronos Group started the WebGL Working Group, with initial participation from Apple, Google, Mozilla, Opera, and others. Version 1.0 of the WebGL specification was released in March 2011.
Major advantages of the new technology include conformity with web standards and near-native 3D performance without the use of any browser plug-ins. Since WebGL is based on OpenGL ES, it works on mobile devices without any additional abstraction layers. For other platforms, WebGL implementations leverage ANGLE to translate OpenGL ES calls to DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API calls.
Among notable WebGL frameworks are A-Frame, which uses HTML-based markup for building virtual reality experiences; PlayCanvas, an open-source engine alongside a proprietary cloud-hosted creation platform for building |
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The Petaling Jaya City Council (, abbreviated MBPJ) is the city council which administers the city of Petaling Jaya in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. This council was established after the city was officially granted city status on 20 June 2006. Their jurisdiction covers an area of 97.2 square kilometres.
The council consists of the mayor plus twenty-four councillors appointed to serve a one-year term by the Selangor State Government. MBPJ is responsible for public health and sanitation, waste removal and management, town planning, environmental protection and building control, social and economic development and general maintenance functions of urban infrastructure.
History
In the early 1950s, Kuala Lumpur experienced congestion as a result of a rapid population growth and squatters existing in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. To overcome this problem, the State Government identified "Effingham Estate", a 1,200-acre rubber plantation in Jalan Klang Lama to create a new settlement known as Petaling Jaya.
The party entrusted to govern the new settlement was the District Officer of Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya Board before being taken over by a statutory body, namely Petaling Jaya Authority at the end of 1954.
Petaling Jaya made history on 1 January 1964 when the Selangor State gazetted a Township Board with financial autonomy to govern the city.
On 1 January 1977, Petaling Jaya Town Authority was upgraded to Petaling Jaya Municipal Council (MPPJ), pursuant to the Local Government Act 1976 by the government. On 20 June 2006, Petaling Jaya Municipal Council was upgraded as Petaling Jaya City Council.
Now, the administrative area of MBPJ is 97.2 square kilometres which is rapidly growing. Petaling Jaya has a total population of over 619,925 people and the number of property holding of 217,930. Petaling Jaya is now known as the leading growth centre in Selangor.
The Administrative Council consists of 25 Councillors led by a mayor. Councillors are appointed by the Selangor State Executive Council. The Mayor is an officer of the Federal Government appointed by the state administration after obtaining the consent of the Menteri Besar. A mayor works full-time, assisted by a Deputy Mayor and Head of the Departments in setting and implementing the vision, mission, quality policy, objectives and activities of the council. The Council approved a Council legislation draft and forming policies to be implemented by the departments.
Appointed president & mayors of Petaling Jaya
Since 1977, the Municipal & city has been led by four mayors. The previous and incumbent mayors are listed as below:
Current councillors
2023 Session
Departments
Customer Management
Treasury
Development Planning
Engineering
Health and Environmental Service
Asset Management and Valuation
Building Control
Community Development
Enforceme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feba%20Radio | Feba Radio is a British-founded broadcasting network. It is driven by Christian values rather than by government or commercial aims.
It was established in 1959 in the UK as the Far Eastern Broadcasting Associates (FEBA, later known as Feba Radio) associated with Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) operating in United States and Philippines and the Far East Broadcasting Associates of India (FEBAI).
History
Initially, Feba Radio (UK) was an idea initiated by Douglas Malton and John Wheatley who, together with other individuals in UK, were interested in supporting what FEBC-USA was doing. FEBC-USA had difficulty reaching audiences in North India and identified Seychelles as a promising location to build an international shortwave transmitting station for this purpose.
Seychelles
Seychelles was a British crown colony, and in 1968 Feba Radio (UK) was incorporated as a charity and a company with the primary aim of planning, building and operating a radio station there. It was unique in having the antennas built over a lagoon 1 km (1,000 yards) offshore. The station was in many ways modelled on FEBC-USA's station in Manila, providing for multi-lingual programme production close to the station. Most of Feba's activity was in Seychelles, as a foreign company, with a small support operation in UK.
In 1970, Feba Radio (UK) began regular shortwave broadcasts from their station in Seychelles using temporary equipment. The next four years saw the development of studios, offices, housing, transmitters, and the offshore "reef" antenna system. The oil crisis during this period seriously increased electricity cost and heightened the need for good strategic planning. Thereafter milestones in developing the Feba Radio network were often linked to international conferences held roughly every two years.
Move to offshore antennas
In June 1976, there was an international conference in Seychelles at a time when the nation of Seychelles gained independence and the offshore antennas were approved for use after a two-year delay, so the temporary antennas were dismantled and transmitted power levels were increased to 100 kW. Feba Seychelles' schedule was expanding to cover Southwest Asia, the Middle East and Africa. An English news service was introduced with the intention of expanding that into other languages. The English used on Feba programmes is predicated on the idea that most of the audience are not native speakers, and it uses a vocabulary and pacing ("Feba English") similar to that used in Simple English.
In April 1979, an international conference was held in the newly leased UK office in Addlestone. For various reasons several key staff were repatriated to UK and began to operate a "headquarters" office there.
In November 1981, an international conference in Mussoree, India, resolved that Feba should increase its role in programme production, rather than simply broadcasting other organisations' programmes. This was to be done by staff in the listen |
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Shah Alam City Council (MBSA; , Jawi: مجليس بندرايا شاه عالم) is the city council for Shah Alam City, Malaysia, north of Petaling District and east of Klang District, and an agency under the Selangor state government. MBSA is responsible for public health, sanitation, waste removal and management, town planning, environmental protection and building control, social and economic development and general maintenance functions of urban infrastructure. The MBSA main headquarters is located at Persiaran Perbandaran, Shah Alam.
History
When Shah Alam was developed as a township in 1963, the Shah Alam Town Board was founded under the Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor or Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS). The Town Board was then made Majlis Perbandaran Shah Alam (MPSA) or the Shah Alam Municipal Council when Shah Alam is declared the state capital of Selangor on 7 December 1978. The state secretary of Selangor at the time was chosen to be the head of the council or the Yang di-Pertua. The municipal council was based in a shophouse in Section 3 with an operational staff of 123, and began operations on 1 January 1979. The council then relocates to the Kompleks PKNS at Section 14 in 1981, and subsequently to its own building, the 28-storey Wisma MPSA in 1988. With the granting of city status in 2000, the council is upgraded into the Shah Alam City Council or known as Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam (MBSA).
Mayor
The list of mayors is as below:
Councillors
The 24 councillors of the Shah Alam City Council for session 2023 are as follows:
Departments
Jabatan Bangunan (Building Department)
Jabatan Kewangan (Monetary Department)
Jabatan Perancangan (Planning Department)
Jabatan Kejuruteraan (Engineering Department)
Jabatan Penilaian dan Pengurusan Harta (Valuation and Property Management Department)
Jabatan Perlesenan (Licensing Department)
Jabatan Pengurusan Sisa Pepejal dan Pembersihan Awam (Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Department)
Jabatan Khidmat Pengurusan (Service Management Department)
Jabatan Lanskap (Landscape Department)
Jabatan Penguatkuasaan (Enforcement Department)
Bahagian Pusat Setempat (One Stop Center Unit)
Bahagian Perundangan (Legal Unit)
Bahagian Audit dalam dan Pengaduan Awam
Bahagian Korporat dan Pembangunan Masyarakat (Corporate and Community Development Unit)
Bahagian Pengurusan Stadium (Stadium Management Unit)
Bahagian Tender dan Ukur Bahan (Tender and Quantity Survey Unit)
Bahagian Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunkasi (Information Technology (IT) and Communication Unit)
Branch office
There is 3 branch offices, one at Sungai Buloh branch office, off Bukit Rahman Putra, and another 2 at Kota Kemuning and Setia Alam.
Awards
2013- Malaysia's Sustainable City Award
Past Members
2018-2020 Session,23 councillors as below:
References
External links
MBSA official web si |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSCI | CSCI may refer to:
Computer Science Course ID
Computer Software Configuration Item, designation of end use software product under MIL-STD-498 and DOD-STD-2167A
China State Construction International Holdings
Chartered Scientist (CSci), a professional qualification in the United Kingdom
Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation
Commission for Social Care Inspection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MERA%20300 | MERA 300 was a Polish-built 8-bit minicomputer family. It was first introduced in 1974 at the Poznań Trade Fair and Exhibition.
History
The MOMIK 8-B (MERA) minicomputer had been designed in Poland in 1973. In 1974 the MERA 300 (MERA ZSM), based on the previous model, was introduced. The same year, at the Poznań International Trade Fair and Exhibition, twelve more models were displayed. MERA 300 was designed by dr. Waldemar Romaniuk and Janusz Popko.
About the family
Family of the MERA 300 systems included:
Data processing systems: MERA 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306
Interactive systems: MERA 342, MERA 344
Control systems: MERA 362
Universal and special-purpose systems: MERA 392, MERA 396
System architecture
MERA 300 included the next units:
Processors: MOMIK 8b/100 (250 000 instructions/second)
MERA 300 series architecture
Sets of MERA 300 (MERA 302, MERA 303) included:
Central unit with arithmetical unit
Internal memory of 8000 8-bit words memory is divided into 32-word pages. Instruction memory could be accessed using an instruction pointer. Data could be addressed using page:word offset.
Single-level interrupt system (32 interrupts),
Channel multiplexer
External peripherals:
printer
typewriter
reader
control console
The MERA 301 used magnetic tapes (PK-1 and PK-2) for data storage with a capacity of 0,5 million characters.
The MERA 305 was an extended version with DMA and a four-level interrupt system, with a total of 128 interrupts (4x32).
Hard disk (licensed CDC 9425 cartridge disk drive), fixed plate and exchangeable cartridge 2.5 megabits (3.125 megabytes) each ,connected via DMA channel
16-bit control interface used to connect e.g. CAMAC crate controllers
The MERA 306 was a more complex, extended version with features including:
Internal memory divided to 4k-word pages, with a maximum of approximately 8, 15, 24 or 32K words of memory
Power-outage protection
Real-time clock (RTC) interface
Hard disk (MERA 9425)
In addition to the above, it was possible to attach other devices:
Monitor and keyboard
Specialized keyboard
Tape memory
Measuring devices and industrial automation.
The computer's machine language consisted of 34 instructions, including arithmetical, logical and control instructions.
Data Input/Output
Data input devices for the MERA 300 series were:
Tape reader and (CTK 50R) card reader with control unit (JS-CTK 50)
CT 1001A tape reader with control unit (JS-CT 1001)
CT 2000 tape reader with control unit (JS-CT 2000)
Data output devices:
DT 105 tape puncher with control unit JS-DT 105
DTK 50 tape and card puncher with control unit JS-DTK 50
Other input/output peripherals:
TELETYPE MODEL 390:
Printing keyboard input
Printing data while reading from tape reader
Printing data while punching tapes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynergy%20Data | Cynergy Data is an American payment services provider, managing a portfolio of over 100,000 merchants processing $10 billion annually. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia with an operations center in Long Island City, New York, Cynergy Data is owned by the Comvest Group, a private investment firm.
Cynergy Data has been recognized three times by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America. The company went through bankruptcy protection in 2009.
History
1995-2007
Cynergy Data was founded in 1995 by Marcelo Paladini as a support organization for those selling electronic payments processing to merchant businesses.
In 1997, Inc. Magazine featured the company in its annual list of the fastest growing, privately held companies in the United States. With a 33% increase in sales for the year 2001 alone, Cynergy Data ranks 451 on the list. In 2002, New York City's Hispanic Chamber of Commerce names Cynergy founders "Entrepreneurs of the Year".
In 2006, Inner City 100 ranked Cynergy Data as number 36 on their list of fastest-growing private companies based in U.S. cities. In April, Cynergy Data acquires Abanco International merchant portfolio and payment gateway services. The acquisition allowed the company to process billions of credit card and other electronic payments annually.
The Nilson Report ranks Cynergy #31 of top U.S. merchant acquirers.
2008-present
The company partnered with Déjavoo Systems in 2008 to develop merchant solutions.
That same year, point-of-sale provider AccuPOS formed an integration partnership with Cynergy Data's LUCY payment gateway. Cynergy Data was added to Inc. Magazine's Hall of Fame for making its Inner City 100 list five years in a row.
In 2008 the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the NY Metropolitan area was to Cynergy Data CEO in the Services Category.
In 2009, Cynergy Data filed a liquidating Chapter 11 plan, with the warning that its assets would only cover lawsuit from holders of first-lien debt. It later received approval from the United States bankruptcy court for the sale of its assets.
Cynergy Data selected TSYS as its preferred provider of authorization, settlement and dispute resolution services.
Kim Fitzsimmons was CEO of the company from 2012 to 2013. In November 2013, Afshin Yazdian was appointed President & CEO of Cynergy Data.
References
Financial services companies established in 1995
Financial services companies of the United States
Companies based in Fulton County, Georgia
Privately held companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in Georgia (U.S. state)
Companies established in 1995
1995 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon%20Crawl%20Stone%20Soup | Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (DCSS) is a free and open source roguelike computer game and the community-developed successor to the 1997 roguelike game Linley's Dungeon Crawl, originally programmed by Linley Henzell. It has been identified as one of the "major roguelikes" by John Harris.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup polled first in a 2008 poll of 371 roguelike players, and later polled second in 2009 (behind DoomRL) and 2010 (behind ToME 4), and third in 2011 (behind ToME 4 and Dungeons of Dredmor). The game is released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. The latest release is version 0.30 (0.30), released on May 5, 2023. "Stone Soup" refers to the European folk story in which hungry strangers convince the people of a town to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal that everyone enjoys.
Gameplay
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a roguelike game where the player creates a character and guides it through a dungeon, mostly consisting of persistent levels, full of monsters and items, with the goal of retrieving the "Orb of Zot" (a MacGuffin) located there, and escaping alive. To enter the Realm of Zot where the Orb is located, the player must first obtain at least three "runes of Zot" of the 15 available; these are located at the ends of diverse dungeon branches such as the Spider Nest, Tomb, and Slime Pits.
The game has an explicit design philosophy intended to provide interesting strategic and tactical choices within a balanced game; to offer replayability based on random dungeon generation; to make the game accessible and enjoyable without deep knowledge of its internal mechanics; and to present a friendly user interface that can optionally automate several tasks like exploration and searching for previously seen items. Conversely, the developer team seeks to avoid providing incentives for repeating boring actions without consideration, or providing illusory gameplay choices where one alternative is always superior.
Most levels are randomly generated to maximize variety, while the levels containing the objective items are randomly chosen between several manually-designed layouts, which usually contain random elements, and which are authored in a Crawl-specific language incorporating Lua scripting. Randomly generated levels may contain randomly chosen manually designed fragments called "vaults", as well as portals to special manually designed mini-levels called "portal vaults" such as volcanoes and wizard's laboratories.
Characters are initially defined by their species and their background. Character advancement is based on experience points gained by defeating monsters, which increase both an experience level and a set of skills including melee weapons, ranged weapons and magic. The player determines which skills to increase.
The species choice determines the aptitudes of the character for each of the skills, which represent how much experience is needed to raise the skill to higher levels and adds species-specific abilities. In the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I102-104FM | i102-104FM was a regional station in Ireland, launched on 7 February 2008. The station had won a licence – as part of a strategy by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to create a network of regional youth stations across the Republic – to operate a 'youth' oriented station that would broadcast across seven counties in the northwest and west of Ireland, targeting listeners aged between 15 and 34.
On the 4 July 2011, i102-104FM merged with its sister station i105-107FM; the combined station now broadcasts as iRadio.
i102-104FM had its studios originally in Galway City, and towards the end of the station's life, Athlone. It was licensed to cover Counties Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Longford, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo. It was also popular in the neighbouring regions of counties Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, Offaly, Westmeath, Cavan, Monaghan and the border areas of the North. In County Donegal, because local radio station Highland Radio was already broadcasting on 103.3 MHz, i102-104 used the frequency of 96.9 MHz. High-profile figures such as the comedian Tommy Tiernan and the presenter Hector Ó hEochagáin were signed up in an effort to raise the profile of the station.
There had been five competitors for the lucrative northwest licence, with bids coming from Dublin's SPIN 1038, Cork's Red FM, and the northwest station Ocean FM, through 'Vibe FM', and the €20m licence was granted to i105-107FM in November 2006. i102-104FM was owned by the iRadio consortium that has applied for several other of the regional youth licences on offer from the BAI, winning the northeast and midlands licence through i105-107FM.
In August 2009 i102-104 was rated the fastest growing 15-to-34 radio station in the country, reaching over 166,000 people each week. It was also the regional radio station most listened to by 18- to 34-year-olds in Ireland.
See also
Radio in Ireland
References
External links
i102-104 FM
Contemporary hit radio stations in Ireland
Mass media in County Donegal
Mass media in County Galway
Mass media in County Leitrim
Mass media in County Longford
Mass media in County Mayo
Mass media in County Roscommon
Mass media in County Sligo
Defunct radio stations in the Republic of Ireland
Radio stations established in 2008
Radio stations disestablished in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDX%20Technology | RDX is a disk-based removable storage format developed by ProStor Systems Incorporated in 2004. In May 2011, Tandberg Data GmbH acquired the RDX business from ProStor Systems including intellectual property and key members of ProStor's RDX engineering team.
RDX is intended as a replacement of tape storage. RDX removable disk technology consists of portable disk cartridges and an RDX dock. RDX cartridges are shock-proof 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drives and are advertised to sustain a drop onto a concrete floor and to offer an archival lifetime up to 30 years and transfer up to 650GB/hr.
Hard disk cartridges capacities are 320 GB, 500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB, 4 TB, and 5 TB. Solid-state cartridges' capacities run from 64 GB to 512 GB per medium, doubling each increment; or as WORM media from 320 GB to 1 TB. Dell markets RDX cartridges under the trade name RD1000; a teardown reveals they contain a standard laptop drive enclosed with silicone bumpers, but the drive cannot be accessed if removed from the cartridge and interfaced by another means.
RDX is sometimes compared with Iomega REV, a formerly competing technology. Both technologies allow an ordinary user to remove and replace the cartridge containing the recording medium without special training. However REV places the read/write heads in the drive instead of inside the cartridge, which means that the drive's loading/unloading mechanism must mechanically insert heads into and remove them from the cartridge through a physical hole. By eliminating the need for this, RDX turns the drive into a dock—whose loading mechanism simply establishes an electronic connection to the cartridge.
References
External links
Hard disk computer storage
Computer-related introductions in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool%20Keith%20Presents%20Thee%20Undatakerz | Kool Keith Presents Thee Undatakerz is the only studio album by American horrorcore group Thee Undatakerz. It was released on May 11, 2004, via Activate Entertainment and was produced by the group's founder, Kool Keith, as well as Havoc Razor and Money D. The album was released in CS2CD format meaning it played both CD audio and DVD video. The album featured one single release, "Party in tha Morgue", which was featured in Blade: Trinity (soundtrack) in remixed form. Neither the single nor the album made it to any major charts.
Track listing
References
External links
2004 debut albums
Kool Keith albums
Horrorcore albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian%20Express | Lilian Express, Inc., was a bus company based in Dipolog in the Philippines. It served bus routes to the Zamboanga Peninsula.
Its buses and route network were merged with Rural Transit and Bachelor Express after it was bought out completely by the Yanson Group of Companies in 2005.
History
Lilian Express' name was taken from the family matriarch Lillian Opulentisima-Young. It started its business operation in Dipolog in the early 1960s and eventually branched to Ozamiz, Pagadian and Zamboanga City.
In 1995, it expanded its bus transport service to the cities of Davao, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Pagadian, and in the province of Bukidnon. Its sister company Mary May Express, runs Dipolog to Zamboanga City routes.
On March 5, 2005, the whole route network was bought out completely in by Yanson Group of Bus Companies, a Bacolod-based bus conglomerate, commencing from its Davao, Agusan, and Bukidnon route networks, then followed by Cagayan de Oro and Dipolog routes. Its last transport service to the public was made on April 30, 2005, on board an 8:00PM bus from Zamboanga City bound for Dipolog which arrived at 1:30AM the following day.
Its transport operations were merged with Rural Transit of Mindanao Inc., which resulted Yanson Group to form their company re-structure by having bases in key cities. The remaining facilities of Lilian Express became Rural Transit's Dipolog and Pagadian bases.
Fleet
Majority of Lilian Express' fleet was locally manufactured in Zamboanga City. At that time, names local coach makers in Zamboanga City were unknown yet the demands of their manufacturing were high. In 2000, they started to acquire buses from Santarosa Philippines with their early models like Santarosa AKR and Minibuses.
Santarosa Nissan Diesel Metrostar (CMF87L Chassis)
Santarosa Nissan Diesel Exfoh FE6B (CPB87N Chassis)
Santarosa Nissan Diesel FE6-B AKR 1994 Model (CMF87L Chassis)
Santarosa Mitsubishi Fuso 8DC9 AKR
Isuzu Forward (converted to passenger bus)
References
External links
Lillian Express
Land Transport in Zamboanga Sibugay.
List of Companies in Visayas and Mindanao.
Bus companies of the Philippines
Dipolog
Companies based in Dipolog
Transport companies established in 1962
1962 establishments in the Philippines
Transport companies disestablished in 2005
2005 disestablishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20Hearts%20Mobile | was an online community-based social gaming networking service developed by Square Enix for the NTT DoCoMo in partnership with Disney Mobile Japan. It was launched on December 15, 2008 in Japan in conjunction with the video game Kingdom Hearts coded for mobile phones.
Mobile is not part of the main Kingdom Hearts storyline. It consists of various mini-games as well as downloadable Kingdom Hearts related content such as ringtones and wallpapers. The service ended on April 30, 2013.
Gameplay
Kingdom Hearts Mobile is a 2D online world known as the Avatar Kingdom where players can explore and roam around freely as their avatars.
Avatars
Players roam the Avatar Kingdom by controlling their own customized avatar which can be personalized through various means and items. These include outfits, weapons, and items which are purchasable in the game's online store using munny, which is the game's virtual currency. Avatars are used to play mini-games, meet up and chat with friends as well as do activities together within the Avatar Kingdom. Outfits as well as backgrounds can be earned by players whenever they complete an episode of Kingdom Hearts coded.
Areas
There are many areas located within the Avatar Kingdom, including areas for downloading items, socializing, and playing mini-games. The areas are as follows: Event Hall which serves as the main area for people to participate together with friends in activities; Point Bank where players can keep track of their points as well as munny that they have earned; Mini-game Item Shop where avatars can by outfits based on Kingdom Hearts characters which they have earned by winning certain mini-games; Point Item Shop where players can buy different clothes for their avatars as well as customizing the avatar's facial features and hairstyles; Mini-game Shop where players can buy new mini-games; Information Center which provides help and support for players; V Net Room which is the player's own personal area where he can customize profiles, view friends and email other avatars; Point Melody Shop where players can buy ringtones based on songs from Kingdom Hearts games; Point Art Gallery where players can buy various backgrounds, wallpapers, graphics or icon based on the Kingdom Hearts series; Awards Area which is the player's own trophy room displaying the player's high scores at mini-games; Changing Area which is where the player can customize his avatars clothing and items.
Mini-games
There are various types of mini-games scattered all around the Avatar Kingdom which players can engage their avatars in these include: Magical Canvas, Pair Card Battle, Card Struggle, Balloon Glider, Gummi Ship Studio, Card Struggle II, and Rhythm Parade. Each game is unique and contains its own unique gameplay such as Card Struggle being based on Spider Solitaire, Gummi Ship Studio on traditional color-based puzzle games, Rhythm Parade on popular music games which involves pressing a string of buttons based on what appears on-s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Multilingual%20Terminology%20Database | The United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database (UNTERM) is a linguistic tool which translates terminology and nomenclature used within the United Nations (UN) in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). The database contains more than 85,000 words and is updated daily.
The database is maintained by Terminology and Reference Section, Documentation Division, Department of General Assembly and Conference Management, with its headquarters in New York City. The database has been put on the Internet in order to facilitate the understanding of the work of the UN by the public who do not have access to the intranet of the UN Secretariat.
External links
United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database
Other thesauri, glossaries and terminology databases of the UN
Language policy in the United Nations
Terminology
Translation databases
United Nations documents |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Dare%3A%20Pilot%20of%20the%20Future%20%28TV%20series%29 | Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future is a computer-generated TV series produced first by Netter Digital then by Foundation Imaging, running to twenty-six 22-minute episodes. The series drew on several different incarnations of the Dan Dare comic.
Cast
Chris Cox as Hank Hogan
Greg Ellis as Dan Dare
Julian Holloway as Digby
Rob Paulsen as The Mekon
Carole Ruggier as Professor Jocelyn Peabody
Episode list
International broadcast
Ireland
TV3
References
External links
The Dan Dare Corporation Ltd
SPTI's Anime & Animation Brochure: Dan Dare
Dan Dare
2001 American television series debuts
2001 American television series endings
2000s American animated television series
2000s American science fiction television series
2001 British television series debuts
2001 British television series endings
2000s British animated television series
2000s British science fiction television series
American children's animated science fiction television series
American children's animated superhero television series
American computer-animated television series
British children's animated science fiction television series
British children's animated superhero television series
British computer-animated television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Television shows based on comics |
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