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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumble%20%28disambiguation%29 | Jumble may be used as:
Jumble, the word game.
Jumble (British game show), a game show adaption based on the word game
Jumble algorithm, solving and creating clues seen in the word game
Jumble (cookie), the widespread travel cookie also known as knots
Jumble sale, a variation on the term "rummage sale" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Underground%20infrastructure | The railway infrastructure of the London Underground includes 11 lines, with 272 stations. There are two types of line on the London Underground: services that run on the sub-surface network just below the surface using larger trains, and the deep-level tube lines, that are mostly self-contained and use smaller trains. Most of the lines emerge on the surface outside the Central London area.
The oldest trains currently in service on the Underground are 1972 Stock trains on the Bakerloo line. The Underground is electrified using a four-rail system, the DC traction supply being independent of the running rails. Planned improvements include new stations, line extensions and more lines with automatic train operation (ATO).
Railway
The total length of railway on the London Underground is and made up of the sub-surface network and the deep-tube lines.
In 1971/72 it was re-measured in kilometres using Ongar as the zero point.
Sub-surface network and deep-level tube lines
The Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines are services that run on the sub-surface network, that has railway tunnels just below the surface and was built mostly using the cut-and-cover method. The tunnels and trains are of a similar size to those on British main lines. The Hammersmith & City and Circle lines share all their stations and most of the track with other lines. The Bakerloo, Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City lines are deep-level tube lines, with smaller trains running through two circular tunnels with a diameter of about , lined with cast-iron or precast concrete rings, which were bored using a tunnelling shield. These were called the tube lines. Since the 1950s the term "tube" has come to be used to refer to the whole London Underground system.
Many of the central London deep-tube line stations, such as those on the Central and Piccadilly lines, are higher than the running lines to help with deceleration when arriving and acceleration when departing. The deep-tube lines generally have the exclusive use of a pair of tracks. An exception is the Piccadilly line, which shares track with the District line between Acton Town and North Ealing and with the Metropolitan line between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge. The Bakerloo line shares track with London Overground services between Queen's Park and Harrow & Wealdstone.
There are of cut-and-cover tunnel and of tube tunnel, the other 55% of the system running above ground. Trains generally run on the left-hand track, although in some places, for example the Central line east of St Paul's station, tunnels are dug one above each other. The Victoria line has right-hand running between Warren Street and King's Cross St Pancras, allowing cross-platform interchange with the Northern line (Bank branch) between northbound and southbound trains at Euston.
Six of the 32 London boroughs are not served by the Underground. All of these are south of the River Thames: Bexley, Bromley, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap%20pollution | In the Java programming language, heap pollution is a situation that arises when a variable of a parameterized type refers to an object that is not of that parameterized type. This situation is normally detected during compilation and indicated with an unchecked warning. Later, during runtime heap pollution will often cause a ClassCastException.
Heap pollution in Java can occur when type arguments and variables are not reified at run-time. As a result, different parameterized types are implemented by the same class or interface at run time. All invocations of a given generic type declaration share a single run-time implementation. This results in the possibility of heap pollution.
Under certain conditions, a variable of a parameterized type may refer to an object that is not of that parameterized type. The variable will always refer to an object that is an instance of a class that implements the parameterized type.
Heap Pollution in a non-varargs context
public class HeapPollutionDemo
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Set s = new TreeSet<Integer>();
Set<String> ss = s; // unchecked warning
s.add(new Integer(42)); // another unchecked warning
Iterator<String> iter = ss.iterator();
while (iter.hasNext())
{
String str = iter.next(); // ClassCastException thrown
System.out.println(str);
}
}
}
Further reading
References
Java platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr | In Lisp programming languages, a fexpr is a function whose operands are passed to it without being evaluated. When a fexpr is called, only the body of the fexpr is evaluated; no other evaluations take place except when explicitly initiated by the fexpr. In contrast, when an ordinary Lisp function is called, the operands are evaluated automatically, and only the results of these evaluations are provided to the function; and when a (traditional) Lisp macro is called, the operands are passed in unevaluated, but whatever result the macro function returns is automatically evaluated.
Origin of the name "fexpr"
In early Lisp, the environment mapped each symbol to an association list, rather than directly to a value. Standard keys for these lists included two keys used to store a data value, to be looked up when the symbol occurred as an argument ( and ); and four keys used to store a function, to be looked up when the symbol occurred as an operator. Of the function keys, indicated a compiled ordinary function, whose operands were evaluated and passed to it; indicated a compiled special form, whose operands were passed unevaluated; indicated a user-defined ordinary function; and indicated a user-defined special form. The only difference between a FEXPR and an EXPR was whether the operands were automatically evaluated.
In strict original usage, a FEXPR is therefore a user-defined function whose operands are passed unevaluated. However, in later usage the term fexpr may describe any first-class function whose operands are passed unevaluated, regardless of whether the function is primitive or user-defined.
Example
As a simple illustration of how fexprs work, here is a fexpr definition written in the Kernel programming language, which is similar to Scheme. (By convention in Kernel, the names of fexprs always start with .)
($define! $f
($vau (x y z) e
($if (>=? (eval x e) 0)
(eval y e)
(eval z e))))
This definition provides a fexpr called , which takes three operands. When the fexpr is called, a local environment is created by extending the static environment where the fexpr was defined. Local bindings are then created: symbols , , and are bound to the three operands of the call to the fexpr, and symbol is bound to the dynamic environment from which the fexpr is being called. The body of the fexpr, ..., is then evaluated in this local environment, and the result of that evaluation becomes the result of the call to the fexpr. The net effect is that the first operand is evaluated in the dynamic environment, and, depending on whether the result of that evaluation is non-negative, either the second or the third operand is evaluated and that result returned. The other operand, either the third or the second, is not evaluated.
This example is statically scoped: the local environment is an extension of the static environment. Before about 1980, the Lisp languages that supported fexprs were mainly dynamically scoped: the loc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Spy%20Who%20Loved%20Me%20%28video%20game%29 | James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me is a video game adaptation of the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. The game was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, DOS computers, and ZX Spectrum in 1990.
The Spy Who Loved Me is a top-down shooter game in which the player navigates James Bond driving Wet Nellie, a modified Lotus Esprit. It features the characters from the film and some new characters.
Critical reception
The game received a good, but not excellent, reaction on the ZX Spectrum, with CRASH! giving it a 79% rating and saying "Good Mr. Bond, but not quite good enough to deserve an accolade", Sinclair User giving it 72% and saying "This one will leave you shaken but not stirred; A competent movie licence", and Your Sinclair rating it at 76%, saying "Half good/half bad Bond game. There's quite a lot here though, so it's not bad value." It was less well received on the Commodore 64, with Zzap!64 giving it a rating of 38%, describing it as "an uninspiring and unambitious conversion".
See also
Outline of James Bond
References
External links
MI6 :: James Bond 007 Video Games - The Spy Who Loved Me
Movie Game Database - The Spy Who Loved Me
1990 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Domark games
DOS games
James Bond video games
ZX Spectrum games
Cold War video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQon%20Technologies | iQon Technologies Ltd was a manufacturer of personal and notebook computers and consumer electronics based in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland. The company marketed computers through retailers across the United Kingdom and exported to Europe and North Africa.
History
iQon Technologies was founded in 1994 under the name ROMAK Computers by Dermot McElroy, Lars Krull and Patrick Rooney.
The company was sold in 1997 to US worldwide distributor CHS ELECTRONICS Inc.
After the collapse of CHS ELECTRONICS Inc. in 2000 Dermot McElroy purchased the company back from the CHS Electronics liquidators.
In 2004, iQon secured a deal to supply computers for retailer Tesco to be sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In 2006, the company established its iQon France subsidiary based in Toulon to expand sales across Europe.
As of 2007, iQon was Ireland's largest indigenous PC maker and largest PC exporter.
The company sought bankruptcy protection in November 2007 and went into liquidation in January 2008.
As of January 2008, iQon's call center and warranty service divisions continue to operate under a court-appointed liquidator and the company is up for sale.
References
Notes
About iQon. iQon Technologies. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
iQon France. iQon Technologies. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
External links
Defunct technology companies of Ireland
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct manufacturing companies of the Republic of Ireland
Computer companies established in 1994
Electronics companies established in 1994
Technology companies disestablished in 2008
Irish companies established in 1994
Dundalk
2008 disestablishments in Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husband%20for%20Hire | Husband for Hire is a 2008 comedy television film that premiered on Oxygen Network on January 24, 2008. Husband for Hire was written and directed by Kris Isacsson, and it starred Nadine Velazquez, Tempestt Bledsoe, Mark Consuelos, Erik Estrada and Mario Lopez.
Cast
Synopsis
Lola (Nadine Velazquez) attempts to gain her father's trust fund (her father got rich after winning over $90 Million in the New Mexico state lottery years ago) by hiring a hispanic husband, Bo (Mark Consuelos), offering him $100,000 per year if he marries her. Bo accepts, and then departs from his Texas home and returns with Lola to her home in New Mexico. Lola finds out he is in fact Caucasian. Lola's best friend, Nina (Tempestt Bledsoe), and Bo's brother (Jayce Bartok) join the trip, as does Bo's girlfriend, Nikki (Erin Ross), and her clumsy friend, Bubble (Kate Micucci), in secret.
When introduced to Bo, Lola's father, Victor (Erik Estrada), refuses to allow them to get married, until Bo convinces him by playing an antique guitar. In the meantime, Lola's ex-fiancé, Marco (Mario López), and his secret girlfriend, Simona (Rosa Arredondo), who is also Lola's sister, trying to keep her from having the inheritance, plot against Lola in order to gain the trust fund for themselves. Throughout the course of the story, Lola and Bo actually fall for each other. However, after Simona discovers Bo and Lola have a plot of their own, she uses Nikki to ruin the plot. However, before Nikki could do any damage, Victor and Bo get into an argument, which has both Lola and her father kick Bo out. In response, Lola's ex-fiancé is able to win back Lola's heart, but Lola only agrees for the money.
Later that night, Nikki and Bo discover Simona and Marco's plot and are consequently held prisoner, so they may not warn anyone. However, Bubble finds Nikki and Bo, frees them, and Bo is able to warn Lola. Still angry about the previous night, Lola kicks Bo out once more and proceeds to marry for the money. Fortunately for her, she trusts Bo's words and turns the tables on Simona and Marco, and also turns down the money from her father and departs, claiming that money and greed ruined the family long before that day. She realizes that she was allowing herself to slowly turn into a selfish and greedy person like her father and she sees how she may have been doomed to turn into him. If she didn't wise up and decides to break away from him once and for all.
At the end of the film, Bo is working as a bartender, where Lola manages to find him. They reconcile and show their love for each other once again, and they remain together and happy.
References
External links
2008 romantic comedy films
2008 television films
2008 films
American romantic comedy films
Films set in New Mexico
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
English-language romantic comedy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCFR | WCFR is an AM radio station licensed to Springfield, Vermont. It broadcasts a classic hits format with 5,000 watts during the day. Programming is also simulcast on translator W293BH, 106.5 FM. The station carries Boston Red Sox baseball from the Red Sox Radio Network, and the Boston Bruins Radio Network.
History
WCFR was started in 1954 as WNIX. It was purchased by Vermont broadcasting legend Carlos Zezza in the 1950s, renaming the station for the first initials of Zezza's three children in 1957. WCFR enjoyed many years as a successful music station.
Zezza sold WCFR to Sconnix in 1974, who changed the format from Top-40 to adult contemporary. Zezza's son Frank led a group that purchased the station back from Sconnix in the early 1980s. By this time, WCFR's popularity waned in favor of its FM sister station, WCFR-FM.
The 1990s saw several changes in ownership and WCFR carried various formats through the decade. In September 1998, WCFR changed from adult standards to a business news format. Two months later, the station was leased to Brian Dodge, at which point the station switched to a simulcast of the religious format of his WWNH in Madbury, New Hampshire, under the WNBX callsign. Dodge left the station in 2000 after being charged with domestic assault, leaving WNBX silent until new operators could be found.
Bob Vinikoor bought the station in 2001 and switched it to a simulcast of established FM talk station WNTK-FM. The format was switched to oldies in 2003 and the WCFR call letters returned in 2005. WCFR switched to classic hits in 2007 and to adult contemporary in 2009.
On February 3, 2017, WFCR and its FM translator W293BH 106.5 FM were sold to Sugar River Media LLC. The station was re-branded to The All-New Rewind 106.5/1480 WCFR.
Former sister station WCFR-FM on 93.5 was sold separately from the AM WCFR in 2001 and was moved to Swanzey, New Hampshire, in 2008 (it is now WEEY). WFYX was known as WCFR-FM until owner Nassau Broadcasting, which at one point had planned to sell WPLY in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, parked the WPLY-FM call letters on 96.3 in Walpole, New Hampshire.
References
External links
CFR
Radio stations established in 1954
1954 establishments in Vermont
Classic hits radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRPX | KRPX (95.3 FM) is a hot adult contemporary formatted radio station. Licensed to Wellington, Utah, United States, the station is currently owned by College Creek Media, LLC and features programming from Fox News Radio and Premiere Networks.
References
External links
RPX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXRQ | KXRQ (94.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format. Licensed to Roosevelt, Utah, United States, the station is currently owned by Uinta Broadcasting, L.C. and features programming from Premiere Radio Networks and Westwood One.
References
External links
XRQ
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYFO-FM | KYFO-FM (95.5 MHz) is a radio station in Ogden, Utah, United States. The station serves Ogden and Salt Lake City with Conservative Christian programming from the Bible Broadcasting Network. The primary transmitter site is located west of Ogden; a 7-watt booster for the main signal and a translator at 91.3 FM are located on Ensign Peak, improving reception in Salt Lake City itself.
History
KVFM (1977-1983)
The El Paso Broadcasting Corporation was granted a construction permit to build a new 100 kW FM station in Ogden on May 16, 1977. The construction permit took the call letters KVFM. After being renamed Utah Broadcasting Corporation in 1982, the permittee signed the station on in June 1983; two months later, Utah Broadcasting sold KVFM to Sherman Greenleigh Sanchez Broadcasting of Utah, owners of KJQN (1490 AM). As a result, KVFM became KJQN-FM "KJQ", partially simulcasting its AM sister.
KJQN (1983-1992)
KJQ flipped to alternative on March 1, 1988, with many of its new airstaff refugees from the former KCGL-FM, which was flipped to religious programming when it was sold in 1986. The station also expanded its reach by broadcasting on translators at 92.7 MHz in Salt Lake City and 104.9 in Provo (activated in 1989).
Abacus Broadcasting Corporation acquired KJQN-AM-FM in 1989 for $700,000; Abacus was owned by minority shareholders from the original permittee. While the format remained unchanged, the early 1990s brought mounting troubles. In the final months of 1991, 23 of the station's 25 employees quit their jobs, after the station hired its third general manager in 14 months and rumors swirled of a format flip; staffers quit because they questioned the ownership's commitment to "modern music". Only two DJs, the hosts of the morning show, remained with KJQ; the station also lost 75 percent of its music library and some equipment, as well as several advertising clients. The former KJQ employees then brokered out time on KZOL (96.1 FM), which became KXRK on February 13, 1992. When the former employees acquired KXRK outright in 1993 for $925,000, the application included a copy of a lawsuit filed by the former KJQN-FM, alleging that its former employees took equipment, including a former milk truck used for remote broadcasts known as the "Milk Beast", when they defected, and that the ex-KJQ staffers used KJQN-owned trademarks and made defamatory remarks about their former station.
KKBE (1992-1994)
Nearly eight months after the mass defection that birthed KXRK, Abacus had seen enough. It flipped KJQN-FM to KKBE-FM "The Killer Bee", a contemporary hit radio outlet, on October 6, 1992. KKBE-FM drew many of its staff from alumni of KWCR-FM, the radio station at Weber State University. The Killer Bee, however, did not last eight months itself; in May 1993, it yielded to gospel from the Super Gospel Network, after it was rumored that the station would go country. Owner Michael Haston revealed that he had been faked out when contemporary competitor KZH |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASR%20%28AM%29 | WASR (1420 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station broadcasting a classic hits format, along with some talk programming. WASR is licensed to Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and serves the New Hampshire Lakes Region. The station is owned by Winnipesaukee Radio Station, LLC and runs local programming with national news and weather. In February 2020 new station manager Eric Scott changed the format to variety hits with some local talk including a live call in show at noon, a local sports show on Friday afternoons, and a live Catholic Mass Sunday mornings. WASR also carries the WTPL-produced talk show Good Morning New Hampshire, hosted by Jack Heath.
At one time, WASR was an adult standards station, carrying Citadel Media's Timeless service. It also tried conservative talk with little success. The station switched to the current format on February 24, 2020.
WASR is also heard on a 250-watt FM translator, 97.1 W246DI.
References
External links
ASR (AM)
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Carroll County, New Hampshire
Radio stations established in 1970
1970 establishments in New Hampshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Footy%20Show%20%28rugby%20league%29 | The Footy Show was an Australian sports variety television program covering professional rugby league in Australia. It was shown on the Nine Network and aired for 25 seasons. For the final season in 2018, the show was hosted by journalist Erin Molan, and co-hosted by Ryan Girdler and Brad Fittler, with regular contributions from Beau Ryan and Darryl Brohman. It was previously hosted by former rugby league footballer and commentator Paul Vautin for 23 years, with former player and commentator Peter Sterling also an early host from the first 12 years. Having aired on Thursday nights since 1994, the program was largely entertainment-based, with some football-related content included, such as previews of the weekend's fixtures and interviews with players.
The name The Footy Show derives from the diminutive form of the word football commonly used in Australian English.
Dallas Anderson On 2 October 2018, it was announced that the show had been axed and would not continue in 2019.
Presenters
Paul Vautin (1994–2017, Main Host)
Erin Molan (regular appearance 2012–2013, co-host 2014–2017, main host 2018)
Beau Ryan (regular appearance 2009–2014, co-host 2014–2018)
Darryl Brohman (co-host 2010–2017, 'Small Talk' segment 2018) (appeared as a regular guest 2001−2004)
Ryan Girdler (co-host 2018)
Brad Fittler (co-host 2011, 2018)
Bryan Fletcher (Sportsbet Updates, 2012−2013) (appeared as a regular guest 2003−2011)
Joel Caine (Sportsbet Updates, 2014–2018)
David Middleton (2013–2017, stats man)
Michael Slater (2012–2014, co-host)
Wendell Sailor (2009–2010)
Laurie Daley (2008) (co-host)
Matthew Johns (2003–2009) (co-host and played various comedic characters)
Paul Harragon (2001–2008) (appeared as special guest host on 23 May 2013, 17 June 2014, and again on 23 June 2016)
Andrew Voss (1997–2011) (appeared as a regular guest 1997–2008 and in 2011, and as a co-host 2009 – 2010)
Peter Sterling (1994–2006, 2010, major co-host)
Steve Roach (1994–1999, co-host)
Ray Hadley (1994–1996, 1998) (occasionally appears for 5-in-the-bin, as of 2012)
Mario Fenech (1994–2013)
Allan Robinson (Robbo P.I. – Pest Incorporated)
Regular guests
Phil Gould (1995−2008)
Terry Hill (1996−2000)
Paul Langmack (1997−2001)
Mark Geyer (2000−2007)
Wayne Pearce (2000−2001)
Nathan Brown (2001)
Jason Stevens (2002−2006)
Billy Slater (2010–2018)
James Maloney (2012–2018)
Paul Gallen (2013–2018)
Sam Thaiday (2013–2018)
Tommy Raudonikis (2016–2017, regular panelist)
Brett Finch (2013–2016, regular panelist)
Yvonne Sampson (2013–2016, regular panelist)
Gorden Tallis (2012–2015, regular panelist)
Anthony Minichiello (2015, hosted the 'Mini-fit' segment)
Bryan Fletcher (Sportsbet Updates, 2013)
Sam Burgess (2011–2014, regular panelist)
Entertainment
Carl Barron
Tahir Bilgiç
Phil Cass
Anh Do
Steve Irwin
Peter Powers
Vince Sorrenti
Stevie Starr
Scheduling
The NRL version of the show aired every Thursday.
NSW & QLD
Thursday Night: approx. 9.40pm on Ni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking%20Wars | Parking Wars is an American reality television series that aired on the A&E television network from 2008 to 2012. The program followed parking enforcement officers as they engaged in ticketing, "booting", towing and releasing vehicles back to their owners, as part of their parking violation enforcement duties.
The show began airing on January 8, 2008. The 7th and final season premiered on October 6, 2012. The final episode was aired on December 22, 2012.
Series overview
Background
The series' original focus was on the employees of the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) and their daily work – ticketing, "booting" (via wheel clamp) and towing vehicles, as well as dealing with issues that arise with vehicle owners when they try to retrieve their vehicles from the impound lots. The show also includes footage of vehicle owners interacting with parking enforcement officers on the street when their vehicles are ticketed, booted or towed.
Each episode consists of three segments, shown either in chronological order of a car entering the PPA violation system (ticket, boot/tow, impound) or reverse chronological order. Booting a car usually requires the PPA employee to snap on a device, locking the mechanism of the front wheel so that it will not be able to move. Sometimes, attaching a boot to a car is difficult because of the size of the wheels. The procedure can often be unnerving because it is a race against time before the owner of the vehicle returns.
Many of the booting segments feature the favorite team of Steve (better known by his last name, Garfield), a longtime PPA employee and self-professed "gadget geek", and his partner Sherry (who has "the fastest fingers on the Eastern Seaboard", according to her partner) as they travel on their assigned beats to track down vehicles with three tickets or more, all at least six months old, and "boot" them so that their owners cannot drive away until they pay the outstanding fines.
One of the PPA tow truck drivers featured in the series, Martin, died shortly before the show's debut due to heart complications. The show's official page at aetv.com has a section dedicated to his memory.
Production
The first five seasons of Parking Wars were filmed on location in Philadelphia. Beginning in the third season, Detroit's MPD (Municipal Parking Department) was added as a location as well, in addition to the PPA. Beginning in season 6, the parking enforcement unit of Providence, Rhode Island, is featured. In season 6, the show added Staten Island and North Hempstead, New York, and Trenton, New Jersey, to its list of filming locations.
The series was based on a 2001 documentary of the same name about the PPA, produced for A&E and Britain's Channel 5, about a day in the life of the PPA, from morning to late night, taped in April 2001. The documentary featured off-screen narration by Daniel Jenkins, as well as all elements of the PPA's operation – ticketing, booting, impounding, towing, adjudication and auction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisimar | Wisimar or Visimar (?-335) was a Vandal ruler of the Hasdingi tribe during the 4th century in Europe. Although this historical figure is overwhelmingly shadowed by a lack of historical data, he is noted as one of the early monarchs of the Vandals. His territorial extent occupied regions of today's Transilvania in Romania, Tisza in Ukraine and a part of then-Roman province Dacia. It is most likely that he died during the neighboring Visigoth breakthrough of Geberic in 335.
See also
Fastida
References
Geary, Patrick J. Readings in Medieval History. (Orchard Park: Broadview Press, 2003) p. 91.
Dahn, Die Könige der Germanen I, 1860. S. 140 und die dort Angeführten.
Kings of the Vandals
Vandal warriors
4th-century monarchs in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT%20solver | In computer science and formal methods, a SAT solver is a computer program which aims to solve the Boolean satisfiability problem. On input a formula over Boolean variables, such as "(x or y) and (x or not y)", a SAT solver outputs whether the formula is satisfiable, meaning that there are possible values of x and y which make the formula true, or unsatisfiable, meaning that there are no such values of x and y. In this case, the formula is satisfiable when x is true, so the solver should return "satisfiable". Since the introduction of algorithms for SAT in the 1960s, modern SAT solvers have grown into complex software artifacts involving a large number of heuristics and program optimizations to work efficiently.
By a result known as the Cook–Levin theorem, Boolean satisfiability is an NP-complete problem in general. As a result, only algorithms with exponential worst-case complexity are known. In spite of this, efficient and scalable algorithms for SAT were developed during the 2000s, which have contributed to dramatic advances in the ability to automatically solve problem instances involving tens of thousands of variables and millions of constraints.
SAT solvers often begin by converting a formula to conjunctive normal form. They are often based on core algorithms such as the DPLL algorithm, but incorporate a number of extensions and features. Most SAT solvers include time-outs, so they will terminate in reasonable time even if they cannot find a solution with an output such as "unknown". Often, SAT solvers do not just provide an answer, but can provide further information including an example assignment (values for x, y, etc.) in case the formula is satisfiable or minimal set of unsatisfiable clauses if the formula is unsatisfiable.
Modern SAT solvers have had a significant impact on fields including software verification, program analysis, constraint solving, artificial intelligence, electronic design automation, and operations research. Powerful solvers are readily available as free and open-source software and are built into some programming languages such as exposing SAT solvers as constraints in constraint logic programming.
Overview
A Boolean formula is any expression that can be written using Boolean (propositional) variables x, y, z, ... and the Boolean operations AND, OR, and NOT. For example,
(x AND y) OR (x AND (NOT z))
An assignment consists of choosing, for each variable, an assignment TRUE or FALSE. For any assignment v, the Boolean formula can be evaluated, and evalutes to true or false.
The formula is satisfiable if there exists an assignment (called a satisfying assignment) for which the formula evaluates to true.
The Boolean satisfiability problem is the decision problem which asks, on input a Boolean formula, to determine whether the formula is satisfiable or not. This problem is NP-complete.
DPLL solvers
A DPLL SAT solver employs a systematic backtracking search procedure to explore the (exponentially sized) spa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging%20argument | In computer science, a charging argument is used to compare the output of an optimization algorithm to an optimal solution. It is typically used to show that an algorithm produces optimal results by proving the existence of a particular injective function. For profit maximization problems, the function can be any one-to-one mapping from elements of an optimal solution to elements of the algorithm's output. For cost minimization problems, the function can be any one-to-one mapping from elements of the algorithm's output to elements of an optimal solution.
Correctness
In order for an algorithm to optimally solve a profit maximization problem, the algorithm must produce an output that has as much profit as the optimal solution for every possible input. Let |A(I)| denote the profit of the algorithm's output given an input I, and let |OPT(I)| denote the profit of an optimal solution for I. If an injective function h : OPT(I) → A(I) exists, it follows that |OPT(I)| ≤ |A(I)|. Since the optimal solution has the greatest profit attainable, this means that the output given by the algorithm is just as profitable as the optimal solution, and so the algorithm is optimal.
The correctness of the charging argument for a cost minimization problem is symmetric. If |A(I)| and |OPT(I)| denote the cost of the algorithm's output and optimal solution respectively, then the existence of an injective function h : A(I) → OPT(I) would mean that |A(I)| ≤ |OPT(I)|. Since the optimal solution has the lowest cost, and the cost of the algorithm is the same as the cost of the optimal solution of the minimization problem, then the algorithm also optimally solves the problem.
Variations
Charging arguments can also be used to show approximation results. In particular, it can be used to show that an algorithm is an n-approximation to an optimization problem. Instead of showing that an algorithm produces outputs with the same value of profit or cost as the optimal solution, show that it attains that value within a factor of n. Rather than proving the existence of a one-to-one function, the charging argument focuses on proving that an n-to-one function exists in order to prove approximation results.
Examples
Interval Scheduling Problem
Given a set of n intervals I = {I1, I2, ... , In}, where each interval Ii ∈ I has a starting time si and a finishing time fi, where si < fi, the goal is to find a maximal subset of mutually compatible intervals in I. Here, two intervals Ij and Ik are said to be compatible if they do not overlap, in that sj < fj ≤ sk < fk.
Consider the earliest finish time greedy algorithm, described as follows:
Begin with an empty set of intervals.
Sort the intervals in I by ascending finishing times.
Consider each interval in I in sorted order. Add the interval into the set if it does not conflict with intervals already contained in the set. Otherwise, disregard the interval.
The interval scheduling problem can be viewed as a profit maximizatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupancy%20grid%20mapping | Occupancy Grid Mapping refers to a family of computer algorithms in probabilistic robotics for mobile robots which address the problem of generating maps from noisy and uncertain sensor measurement data, with the assumption that the robot pose is known. Occupancy grids were first proposed by H. Moravec and A. Elfes in 1985.
The basic idea of the occupancy grid is to represent a map of the environment as an evenly spaced field of binary random variables each representing the presence of an obstacle at that location in the environment. Occupancy grid algorithms compute approximate posterior estimates for these random variables.
Algorithm outline
There are four major components of occupancy grid mapping approach. They are:
Interpretation
Integration
Position estimation
Exploration
Occupancy grid mapping algorithm
The goal of an occupancy mapping algorithm is to estimate the posterior probability over maps given the data: , where is the map, is the set of measurements from time 1 to t, and is the set of robot poses from time 1 to t. The controls and odometry data play no part in the occupancy grid mapping algorithm since the path is assumed known.
Occupancy grid algorithms represent the map as a fine-grained grid over the continuous space of locations in the environment. The most common type of occupancy grid maps are 2d maps that describe a slice of the 3d world.
If we let denote the grid cell with index i (often in 2d maps, two indices are used to represent the two dimensions), then the notation represents the probability that cell i is occupied.
The computational problem with estimating the posterior is the dimensionality of the problem: if the map contains 10,000 grid cells (a relatively small map), then the number of possible maps that can be represented by this gridding is . Thus calculating a posterior probability for all such maps is infeasible.
The standard approach, then, is to break the problem down into smaller problems of estimating
for all grid cells . Each of these estimation problems is then a binary problem. This breakdown is convenient but does lose some of the structure of the problem, since it does not enable modelling dependencies between neighboring cells. Instead, the posterior of a map is approximated by factoring it into
.
Due to this factorization, a binary Bayes filter can be used to estimate the occupancy probability for each grid cell. It is common to use a log-odds representation of the probability that each grid cell is occupied.
See also
Robotic mapping
References
External links
Lecture notes of 16-831: Statistical Techniques in Robotics at RI CMU
Robot navigation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.R.%20819 | "S.R. 819" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on January 17, 1999, in the United States. The episode was written by John Shiban, and directed by Daniel Sackheim. The episode helps to explore the series' overarching mythology. "S.R. 819" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.1, being watched by 15.7 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
The show centers on Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In the episode, Mulder and Scully have 24 hours to save Assistant Director Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) from a biologically engineered disease. In order to combat the disease, Scully looks for a medical answer, while Mulder searches for the culprits behind the attack on Skinner's life. To aid him in this task, Mulder visits Senator Matheson, whom he hopes can help him find who is responsible before time runs out.
Before the writing of "S.R. 819", the writers for The X-Files felt that the character of Walter Skinner was becoming too "expendable". John Shiban, the writer of the episode, decided to re-work Skinner back into the series' mythology by crafting the episode around him. Mitch Pileggi had to endure long bouts of make-up application, a process that he admitted he "hated". The nanobots in the blood sample were designed on a computer and then rendered for the final footage.
Plot
The episode opens with Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) unwell and horribly discolored in hospital. His veins are a sickly purple hue and are pulsating ominously. Suddenly, he goes into cardiac arrest and the doctors pronounce him dead.
Twenty-four hours earlier, Skinner loses a boxing match after experiencing a dizzy spell. While at the hospital, he receives a call on his cell phone from a computerized voice telling him that he has only twenty-four hours to live. He is discharged from the hospital but Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) witness a bruise on his ribs growing. After trawling through security footage from the entrance to the J. Edgar Hoover Building, Scully recognizes a physicist named Dr. Kenneth Orgel, who advises a Senate subcommittee on ethics and new technology, and who stopped Skinner in the hall that same morning. Mulder and Skinner travel to Orgel's house but find he is being held hostage. Mulder apprehends one of the kidnappers, who does not speak English. They release him since he has papers showing diplomatic immunity.
Mulder does a background check on the kidnapper, which leads him to Senator Richard Matheson (Raymond J. Barry); this results in a dead end, however. Scully discovers Skinner's blood sample and, after ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithonus%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Tithonus" is the tenth episode of the sixth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on January 24, 1999. The episode was written by Vince Gilligan, and directed by Michael W. Watkins. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Tithonus" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.2, being watched by 15.90 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received positive reviews.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Scully learns that she, but not Mulder, is being given a chance to prove her worth at the FBI, and—paired with a new partner—she investigates a crime scene photographer with an uncanny knack for arriving just in time to see his victims' final moments. What she does not expect, however, is for Death to play a role himself.
Vince Gilligan wrote "Tithonus" in an attempt to create a story wherein immortality is portrayed as scary. The episode was based on three different stories: Arthur Fellig, the Greek myth of Tithonus, and the yellow fever epidemic in the 19th century. In addition, several of the scenes were filmed on the sets from NYPD Blue, whose sets were located just across from The X-Files studios. The character of Alfred Fellig in "Tithonus" has thematically been compared to the Tithonus in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's dramatic monologue of the same name. In addition, themes of immortality and escaping death were revisited in the eighth season episode "The Gift".
Plot
In New York City, a man with a camera follows a woman from an elevator through a corridor to another elevator, where all the people appear to be gray. He gets off on a floor before the woman and runs down the stairs. Lights flicker and the elevator cable snaps. As the man reaches the basement, the cab crashes and its door spills open to reveal the woman's wrist, covered with blood. The man begins to snap photos. Later, in Washington, D.C., FBI Assistant Director Alvin Kersh (James Pickens, Jr.) assigns Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), along with Agent Peyton Ritter from New York, to the case. Scully's partner Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) looks at the material on Scully's desk and points out that the case looks like an X-file—and that Kersh is obviously splitting them up.
Scully and Ritter soon discover that their prime suspect, Alfred Fellig, who has worked as a police photographer since 1964, has not aged at all in any of his official photos on his renewal applications. Elsewhere in the city, Fellig watches a criminal kill a youth for his sneakers. When he approaches to take photos of the dying young man, the murderer returns and repeatedly stabs Fellig, but he pulls the knife out of his back and walks away. Scully an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Son | "One Son" is the twelfth episode from the sixth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It first aired on February 14, 1999, on the Fox network. The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Rob Bowman. It explores the series' overarching mythology and concludes the Syndicate story arc.
The series centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who work on "X-Files"—cases deemed "unsolvable" by the FBI, usually dealing with the paranormal. Although Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, and the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work, the two have developed a deep friendship. While Cassandra Spender (Veronica Cartwright) reveals the truth about the alien conspiracy to take over the Earth to Mulder, the Smoking Man (William B. Davis) does the same to her son, Jeffrey Spender (Chris Owens), in an effort to convince him to work with the Syndicate. Even as Mulder is deceived by Special Agent Diana Fowley (Mimi Rogers), Scully stays true to the investigation, and the two find Spender to be a surprise ally. Meanwhile, the Syndicate reaches the climax of its plans, only to have its members systematically exterminated by the faceless alien rebels, who oppose colonization.
"One Son," a direct continuation of the previous episode "Two Fathers," was written, along with its predecessor, to eliminate the Syndicate and relaunch the series' mythology in a different direction. Both the opening of the episode and the climactic scene featuring the demise of the Syndicate were filmed at the Marine Corps Air Station Tustin in Tustin, California. Spotnitz was particularly critical of some of the visual effects used in the episode, expressing a desire to one day revisit and redo them. The episode has also been analyzed for its thematic examination of family. "One Son" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.1, and its first broadcast was watched by 16.57 million people. The episode was well received by critics, who applauded the way the Syndicate's story arc was wrapped up, although others felt the resolution was too simplistic.
Plot
Background
For the first five seasons of the series, FBI federal agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) have unravelled a conspiracy that involves the mysterious Syndicate, and their plans to aid in the alien colonization of Earth. The fifth-season episodes "Patient X" and "The Red and the Black" reveal that, counter to the colonization effort, there is a faction of alien rebels opposed to colonization. In the previous episode, "Two Fathers", one of the rebels tried to infiltrate the Syndicate and form an alliance, only to be killed. Meanwhile, Mulder learned that The Smoking Man's (William B. Davis) ex-wife, Cassandra Spender (Veronica Cartwright), had successfully become an alien-human hybrid—a signal to the aliens for them to begin colonizing the planet.
Events
Cass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonda%20Home | Zonda Home provides data and publications relating to commercial property and home construction in North America. The company's publications include Architect, the official magazine of the American Institute of Architects, Builder, the official magazine of the National Association of Builders (NAHB), Pool & Spa News, Journal of Light Construction, Affordable Housing Finance, and Multifamily Executive.
History
The company was founded as Hanley Wood by Michael M. Wood and Michael J. Hanley in 1976. In August 2005, the company was sold to JPMorgan Partners (now CCMP Capital) and Wood resigned.
In January 2013, the company acquired Metrostudy.
In December 2018, the company was acquired by MidOcean Partners and merged with Meyers Research.
In October 2020, the company was rebranded as Zonda Home.
In April 2021, the company acquired BuzzBuzzHome.
References
External links
Publishing companies of the United States
Market research companies of the United States
Publishing companies established in 1976
Privately held companies based in Washington, D.C.
Private equity portfolio companies
1976 establishments in Washington, D.C.
2012 mergers and acquisitions
Oaktree Capital Management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agua%20Mala | "Agua Mala" is the thirteenth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on February 21, 1999, in the United States. The episode was written by David Amann, and directed by Rob Bowman. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Agua Mala" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.1, being watched by 16.9 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly mixed to negative reviews.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Arthur Dales, now living in a Florida trailer park, calls Mulder and Scully for help when a neighboring family disappears; and, with a hurricane approaching, Mulder and Scully find themselves trapped with a group of residents in a building where there is something in the water.
"Agua Mala" was Amann's second story for The X-Files. The original idea for the episode featured a monster loose in an abandoned gold mine. Darren McGavin makes a second appearance as Arthur Dales after being introduced in "Travelers." After suffering a stroke, he would later be replaced by M. Emmet Walsh in "The Unnatural." The episode was notable for its sheer amount of water and its lack of bright lighting, a stylistic approach that Gillian Anderson likened to filming in Vancouver.
Plot
In Goodland, Florida, during a fierce hurricane, Sara Shipley and her son, Evan, desperately try to flip the washing machine but fail to do so as tentacles ensnare them. After receiving a call, FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) arrive at the home of retired FBI agent Arthur Dales (Darren McGavin), the first to look into the X-Files. He tells them about the Shipley family and how Sara Shipley called him in a panic after her husband was attacked by something in the bathroom with tentacles. Scully is dubious about this but believes that something has indeed happened to the Shipley family during this hurricane.
Mulder and Scully go to the Shipley house and find the bathroom door barricaded shut, no sign of any people. The two have a brief run-in with Deputy Greer who believes they are burglars until Mulder disarms the man and Scully shows him her FBI ID. They attempt to go to the airport but are trapped by the hurricane. Elsewhere at the Breakers Condominiums, Deputy Greer encounters the creature after finding a dead man covered in a slimy substance on a toilet. Mulder and Scully later find the deputy's vehicle parked outside the apartments. Searching the building, they discover Greer on the ground, his neck covered with red welts. Mulder goes around the complex to find the rest of the people and warn them that the thing is in the plumbing. He encounter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.S.P.%20%28TV%20series%29 | E.S.P. is a 2008 Philippine television drama horror series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Argel Joseph, it stars Iza Calzado. It premiered on February 7, 2008 replacing Magpakailanman. The series concluded on May 8, 2008 with a total of 18 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Iza Calzado as Cassandra
Supporting cast
Ricky Davao as Larson
Alfred Vargas as Dave
Pen Medina as Bestre
Francine Prieto as Ivy
Patricia Ismael as Anne
Episodes
Accolades
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine horror fiction television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW%20%28Belgium%29 | FLOW is a Belgian national health care network, meant for health care providers and patients. It is an acronym which stands for Facilities (services and related infrastructure), Legal implementation (the telex files), Organisations (locoregional teams) and Wisdom (coordination and supervision center). The system is built around the principle of a shared health patient record.
Regions
FLOW Alfa: Wallonia
FLOW Beta: Brussels
FLOW Gamma: Flanders
See also
Belgian Health Telematics Commission (BHTC)
BeHealth
KMEHR
SumEHR
Sources
FLOW
Note de Politique Generale (3 Dec. 2004)
References
Health informatics
Medical and health organisations based in Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendix%20G-20 | The Bendix G-20 computer was introduced in 1961 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division, Los Angeles, California. The G-20 followed the highly successful G-15 vacuum-tube computer. Bendix sold its computer division to Control Data Corporation in 1963, effectively terminating the G-20.
G-20
The G-20 weighed about .
The G-20 system was a general-purpose mainframe computer, constructed of transistorized modules and magnetic-core memory. Word size was 32 bits, plus parity. Up to 32k words of memory could be used. Single- and double-precision floating-point arithmetic were allowed, as well as a custom scaled format, called Pick-a-Point. A special form of the pick-a-point allowed an integer.
Memory locations 1 through 63 were used as index registers. The instruction set contained 110 instructions. The CPU included integral block I/O and interrupt facilities. Multiplication time was 51-63 microseconds and division time was 72-84 microseconds. The basic memory cycle time was 6 microseconds.
20-GATE
A special programming language, called 20-GATE, was developed for the G-20.
G-21 system
A special configuration of the G-20, a dual-processor G-21, was used to support campus computing at Carnegie Institute of Technology in the 1960s. Usually the two processors ran independently, one CPU handling card-based input, and the other handling jobs submitted through one of 16 AT&T Dataphones connected to telephone lines, usually via Teletype Model 35 KSR, Model 35 ASR and Teletype Model 33 ASR teleprinters. The G-21 had 32k words of memory for each processor, but could be reconfigured for 64k mode for large programs, usually as a single processor. A true dual-processor operating system was developed late in the life of the G-21, but never reached production status.
Another feature of the G-21 system was its high-speed Philco "Scopes" system - when punched cards or Teletype Model 33 ASRs were the common form of I/O, this CRT system allowed for a CRT display of information - and the Spacewar! game. Here, each operator saw the other player's ships on his screen. Buttons were used for thrust, spin, and firing missiles. The G-21 would play chess with a person via the Teletype.
The directory system was called AND - Alpha Numeric Directory. Teleprocessing users could store programs on disks, tapes, or the RCA RACE mass storage unit interfaced through an RCA 301 computer. Users could retrieve and edit programs through AND. The 1-inch magnetic tapes were block addressable, allowing AND to manage a directory file system interchangeably on any available magnetic storage (tape, disk, or RACE cards).
The machine was programmed in a dialect of ALGOL-60 called ALGOL-20. Deviations from Algol-60 included the lack of support for recursion, extensions to embedded G-20 machine language within ALGOL - WHAT, and a CIT-developed printer formatting language. Another language was GATE - the General Algebraic Translator Extended. It also used IPL-V (Newell's Information Pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20Dictionary%20of%20the%20Rhinelandic%20Colloquial%20Language | The Cooperative Dictionary of the Rhinelandic Colloquial Language () was a website that both documents and collects data on the current distinct variety of German used colloquially in the Rhineland region - where some 15 million speakers live.
It is run by the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR), a public body of municipal self governance of the Rhineland in West of North Rhine-Westphalia in Western Germany,
under the auspices of the Bureau of Research and Documentation of the Rhineland (Amt für rheinische Landeskunde); and is the first of its kind - replacing interviews with individual speakers, or questionnaires, by an interactive web application quasi anonymously collecting scientific evidence about a contemporary language.
The Project started the interactive World Wide Web site towards the end of February 2007.
Website
The cooperative dictionary website has several pages describing what it is all about, how to use it, and such. It has an editorial-like "featured word of the month" series of articles which is added to every six or seven weeks. Its main areas are:
Read (German: ) – allows reading the dictionary pretty much like a printed copy. Page layout resembles print. Catchwords are sorted alphabetically. Related words appear under their associated main catchwords. Each initial letter starts another page, only page size exceeds normal sheet length by far, meanwhile.
Page (German: ) – The paging function permits access to individual words through a set of keyword lists, each covering a portion of the alphabet. Keywords link to the individual pages on words in the format, that also the search function presents.
Search (German: ) – There is a simple and a slightly more sophisticated search form, supporting limited fuzziness and wildcards. They usually yield two word lists of links to pages on individual words. One list has catchwords only, the other occurrences in sample sentences presented with arbitrary catchwords. Any such word page presents the data already collected and edited for the word, and, usually, related words, and sample sentences demonstrating its use in everyday colloquial speech. After that, there is a form, where additional comments can be made by users. Submitted comments appear on the page at once, they are visible for everyone. Editors incorporate comments into word articles every now and then, and delete comments that are done.
Contribute (German: ) – Missing words, expressions or phrase constructs, as well as any sort of information, can be entered into an online form here. Along with the submitters e-mail address (optional) and town, city or region (optional), everything is sent per e-mail to the team of editors. Submissions are usually integrated into the dictionary within several weeks.
Participants are asked to submit words, and sample sentences. Optionally, they should also enter their regional background, e.g. the town or village where they live, or the region within which a word or expression is being u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haramont | Haramont () is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Population
Sights
Haramont has 17 historical monuments listed in the French Ministry of Culture database. Most notable are:
Saint-Clément parish church The church contains pictures noted for their workmanship. The church was classified as a monument historique in 1919.
The priory of Longpré, whose origins date back to the 12th century, classified since 1995.
Le Manoir des Fossés, in the route de la vallée de Baudrimont, dates back to the 16th century, classified since 2003.
The menhir called La Pierre-Clouise in the Forest of Retz, classified since 1889.
Personalities linked to the commune
Alexandre Dumas, lived in the Manoir des Fossés during his youth. His novels Ange Pitou and Le Meneur de loups (The Wolf Leader) are set partly in the commune.
In the introduction to Le Meneur de loups, he writes:
« Du plus loin qu’il me souvienne, c’est-à-dire de l’âge de trois ans, nous habitions, mon père, ma mère et moi, un petit château nommé les Fossés, situé sur les limites des départements de l’Aisne et de l’Oise, entre Haramont et Longpré. »
("As far back as I remember, that is to say from the age of three years, we lived, my father, my mother and me, in a small château called les Fossés, situated on the border of the départements of l’Aisne and l’Oise, between Haramont and Longpré.")
See also
Communes of the Aisne department
References
Communes of Aisne
Aisne communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATHENA%20computer | The UNIVAC Athena computer calculated ground commands to transmit to the HGM-25A Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as part of Western Electric's missile guidance system. The Athena was the "first transistorized digital computer to be produced in numbers." Athena, consisting of ten cabinets plus console on a 13.5 by 20 foot (4.1 by 6 m) floor plan. It used radar tracking of the missile to compute Titan flight data to the necessary burn-out point to start a ballistic trajectory toward the target. On-board Titan attitude control rolled the missile to maintain the missile antenna aligned to the ground antenna. Computer commands were transmitted to the missile from a ground transmitter a "quarter mile out" (). Completed in 1957, the Athena weighed .
Design and history
The Athena used a Harvard architecture design with separate data and instruction memories by Seymour Cray at Sperry Rand Corporation and cost about $1,800,000. Used with the computer were the:
AN/GSK-1 Computer Set Console (OA-2654)
Friden, Inc. terminal with paper tape equipment
"massive motor-generator set with 440 volt 3 phase AC input [that] weighed over 2 tons" at remote locations
input from one of two large AN/GRW-5 Western Electric radars in silos each with "20 foot (6 m) tall antenna" raised prior to launch and locked to the raised Titan's "missileborne antenna".
The "battleshort" mode ("melt-before-fail") prevented fail-safe circuits such as fuses from deactivating the machine e.g., during a missile launch. The last Athena-controlled launch was a Thor-Agena missile launched in 1972 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the last of over 400 missile flights using the Athena. The 26 Athena computers, when declared surplus by the federal government, went to various United States universities. The one at Carnegie was used as an undergraduate project until 1971, when the former electrical engineering undergraduate students (Athena Systems Development Group) orchestrated its donation to the Smithsonian Institution.
References
Aerial warfare ground equipment
Cold War military computer systems of the United States
Equipment of Strategic Air Command
UNIVAC mainframe computers
Guidance computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Wedeman | Benjamin C. Wedeman (born September 1, 1960) is an American journalist and war correspondent. He is a CNN senior international correspondent based in Rome. He has been with the network since 1994, and has earned multiple Emmy Awards and Edward Murrow Awards for team reporting.
Early life and family
Wedeman's father, Miles G. Wedeman (January 23, 1923 – October 23, 2013), was a diplomat and civil servant from Pennsylvania. He was a devout Quaker. His mother, Martha Jean (née Hall) Wedeman was a reporter for The Washington Post.
Wedeman spent most of his childhood outside the United States, after having moved with his family to South Korea in 1968. Subsequently, the family moved to Bangkok and Phnom Penh, Cambodia (during the Cambodian Civil War). His father also served in the Ivory Coast and Syria working for USAID.
Wedeman attended boarding schools in Beirut, Lebanon (in 1974–75, just as the civil war broke out); Tangier, Morocco; and Windsor, Connecticut. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in Asiatic Languages and Linguistics in 1982 and from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies with a master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies.
Career
From 1988 to 1992, Wedeman was based in Aleppo, Syria, and worked as a communications specialist for the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas.
Wedeman was originally hired by CNN as a local Jordanian employee in 1994 as a "fixer/producer/sound technician." One of his duties was to help reporting staff get through checkpoints, since he is fluent in multiple dialects of Arabic. He was eventually appointed as CNN's Bureau Chief in Amman.
From 1998 to 2006, Wedeman was CNN's bureau chief in Cairo, where he led CNN's coverage of the uprising against then-President Hosni Mubarak as well as the wider unrest in the Middle East. In 2009, CNN appointed Wedeman as the Jerusalem bureau's correspondent.
In October 2000, Wedeman was shot in the back while covering a clash between Palestinians and Israelis near the Karni border crossing between Gaza and Israel.
In August 2011, Wedeman was in Sabah, Libya, covering the 2011 civil war that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi. Pursuing a lead which led him to an abandoned warehouse, he discovered thousands of barrels containing bags of a yellow powder labeled as radioactive. It was later confirmed by the IAEA that this powder was Yellowcake uranium.
Following the September 11 attacks, Wedeman was one of the first journalists to gain access to Iraq prior to the Iraq War. He was the only Western journalist granted access for an interview with Uday Hussein.
In August 2012, he was in Aleppo, Syria, covering a battle of the civil war.
Outside of the Middle East, Wedeman has traveled to war zones in Afghanistan, the Balkans, and Africa. In 2022 and 2023, he reported for CNN in Ukraine war zones.
Awards
With his team, Wedeman won the 1996 overseas press club Edward R. Murrow Award for B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%20Garzoni | Leonardo Garzoni (Venice, Italy, 1543 – Venice, Italy, 10 March 1592) was a Jesuit natural philosopher.
Life
The little data we have about Garzoni's life are the brief notices registered on official documents of the Society of Jesus. From these sources we know that Garzoni was born into a patrician family and that he began his philosophical studies before 1565. About 1566 he joined a congregation near to the Jesuits’ College in Brescia and entered the Society of Jesus in 1567 or 1568. In 1568 he lectured in logic in Parma and in 1573 he was a third–year student in theology in Padua. On 9 June 1579 he took his four vows in Brescia and from 1579 he lived, as a confessor, in Venice. After a stay in Verona (about 1588) he came back to Venice, where he died.
Works
Garzoni's only extant work, the Due trattati sopra la natura, e le qualità della calamita, is the first known example of a modern treatment of magnetic phenomena. Written in years near 1580 and never published, the treatise had a wide diffusion. In particular, Garzoni is referred to as an expert in magnetism by Niccolò Cabeo, whose Philosophia Magnetica (1629) is just a re-adjustment of Garzoni's work. Garzoni's treatise was known also to Giovanni Battista Della Porta and William Gilbert. Even if the Jesuit is never mentioned, both Della Porta's Magia Naturalis (1589) and Gilbert's De Magnete (1600) shows a heavy dependence on Garzoni's treatise. In the case of Della Porta we are facing a blatant plagiarism, as was already remarked by Niccolò Cabeo (Philosophia Magnetica, Praefatio ad lectorem) and Niccolò Zucchi (Philosophia magnetica…, fols. 62v-63r).
Contents
The first treatise, consisting of 17 chapters, contains Garzoni's theory of magnetism. The second treatise contains the description of a number of experiments, presented as 90 conclusions or doubts, and 39 corollaries.
In the first treatise Garzoni explains the two principal magnetic effects displayed by the loadstone: its tendency to the poles and its interaction with other loadstones, or with iron. Firstly, the author ascertains that the motion towards the poles is a natural one, ascribes it to an internal mover ant its appropriate instrument, which he names the qualità delle due facce (quality of two faces). The loadstone naturally possesses the quality, or verticity, while iron can acquire it from the stone, becoming magnetized. Iron naturally possesses a similar quality, or 'qualità di una faccia (quality of one face), by means of which it is disposed to receive verticity from a loadstone. Once magnetized, iron behaves exactly like a loadstone.
The most interesting features concerns Garzoni's description of the way verticity moves the loadstone and the way it alters surrounding bodies, virtually propagating itself outside the stone. Other interesting features arise from the explanation of double nature of the magnetic quality, and from the problem of the location of the geographical magnetical poles.
The second treatise sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20monitoring | Internet monitoring may refer to:
Network monitoring, for failures in the network
Real user monitoring, for threat detection
Website monitoring, for failures in the servers
Internet surveillance, for mass surveillance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20interface%20card | A voice interface card or VIC is a hardware interface that simulates a FXS on a router or network switch. This device port is used to interface telephone voice or other audio-based FXS devices.
Typically, a VIC contains one or more RJ-11 ports, allowing connections to basic telephone service (POTS), equipment, keysets, and PBXes.
References
External links
Understanding Foreign Exchange Office (FXO) Voice Interface Cards
Telephony signals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Jordan%20in%20Flight | Michael Jordan in Flight is a 1993 computer basketball game for DOS. It was developed by and published by Electronic Arts and is endorsed by Michael Jordan although it has no NBA licensed players or teams.
Gameplay
The game featured a three-a-side basketball match. The camera is a 3D camera, and the game includes some filmed scenes of Michael Jordan. The game is developed in a court surrounded by nothing (even with no crowd the player can hear clapping sometimes).
Reception
Computer Gaming World praised the "incredible ... 3D-based graphic engine" as being "so far ahead of everyone else", but criticized Michael Jordan in Flight as being too easy because "the product is based on Michael Jordan. Jordan is too good overall". The magazine concluded that it "is the most visually realistic sports software on the market ... Now, they need to apply the technology to a game".
References
External links
Michael Jordan in Flight at thelegacy.de
1993 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Basketball video games
Cultural depictions of Michael Jordan
Video games based on real people
Video games developed in the United States
Video games featuring black protagonists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicator%20of%20cytokinesis%20protein%208 | Dedicator of cytokinesis protein 8 (Dock8) is a large (~190 kDa) protein encoded in the human by the DOCK8 gene, involved in intracellular signalling networks. It is a member of the DOCK-C subfamily of the DOCK family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) which function as activators of small G-proteins.
Discovery
Dock8 was identified during a yeast two hybrid (YTH) screen for proteins that interact with the Rho family small G protein Cdc42. Subsequent northern blot analysis revealed high levels of Dock8 expression in the placenta, lung, kidney and pancreas as well as lower levels in the heart, brain and skeletal muscle.
Function
Dock8 shares the same core domain arrangement as all other DOCK proteins, with a DHR2 domain which, in other proteins, contains GEF activity and a DHR1 domain known, in other proteins, to interact with phospholipids. In the YTH system Dock8 was reported to interact with both Rac1 and Cdc42. However, no stable interaction between Dock8 and these small G proteins was observed in a GST-pulldown assay. This may be due to the fact many DOCK-G protein interactions require the presence of adaptor proteins to stabilise the complex and thus facilitate nucleotide exchange.
Clinical significance
A mutation in the DOCK8 gene is associated with the autosomal recessive form of Job's syndrome or hyper-IgE Syndrome. It is manifested in infancy and the patient survives till late childhood or adolescence. The disease is characterized by eczema, recurrent cold staphylococcal abscesses, recurrent lung infections, coarse facial features, primary teeth remnants (2 rows of teeth present), high IgE levels and eosinophilia.
Somatic mutations
Despite the fact that little is known about the cellular role of Dock8 its importance has been highlighted in several studies which have identified disruption of the DOCK8 gene in disease. Deletion and reduced expression of Dock8 have been reported in a human lung cancer cell line and Dock8 was also identified as a putative candidate gene associated with progression of gliomas.
Clinical significance of germline mutations
Autosomal recessive DOCK8 deficiency is associated with a variant of combined immunodeficiency. This variant of Hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome (HIES) was first described in 2004 and this clinical entity is known to be due to having biallelic germline mutations in the DOCK8 gene. HIES due to DOCK8-deficiency has a distinct clinical presentation compared to other forms of HIES and in inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.
The clinical manifestations of DOCK8 immunodefiency include recurrent infections, allergies, and malignancies. Nearly all patients have recurrent or chronic upper and lower respiratory tract infections, with many requiring sinus surgery and myringotomy tube placement. Recurrent lung infections may lead to bronchiectasis or damage to the airways leaving them widened and scarred. The cutaneous or skin infections are distinctive and include severe and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20network | A business network refers to a complex, enduring, and interdependent webs of business relationships among market and non-market actors that allow firms to co-create value in their business environment. Firms influence their markets by managing and signalling their network positions, facilitating entry of new actors, or removing other actors, for instance, through disintermediation, which means elimitating the middleman.
When some actors within a business network have joint strategic intents and work together to achieve certain objectives, then the network is called a strategic business net. These objectives, which are strategic and operational, are adopted by business networks based on their role in the market.
Definition
Several descriptions of business networks stipulate different types of characteristics:
A business network is a form of inter-firm cooperation that allows companies, located in different regions or countries, to collaborate on a basis of common development objectives expressed in a cooperation agreement. The companies decide to join their strengths, share information and create synergies to become more innovative and competitive in domestic and international markets, while keeping their autonomy, not creating a separate legal entity. This cooperation model is suitable for any kind of business activity or sector.
A business network is greater than the sum of the individual businesses. It incorporates suppliers, customers, third-party developers, distributors, and others. These third parties generally have a strong reason to support the network and remain active in it.
A business network is generic and includes both smart and not-so-smart business networks. A smart business network is defined as a group of participating companies (nodes) that are linked together by one or many communication networks (links). The companies have compatible goals and interact in innovative ways. A smart business network is perceived by each company as increasing its own value and is sustainable as a network over time.
A business network is owned by the business enterprise, where the scope of the network is to support the informational and operational requirements of the business, such as marketing, sales, accounting, and manufacturing departments.
Study
In the late 20th century, the study of business networks emerged in the field of industrial markets. Researchers analyzed the transactions and communications beneath the visible flows of products, inquiries, sales visits and negotiations, and beyond the visible growth and prosperity of some companies and the failure of others.
Snehota and Hakansson (1995) explain: For more than twenty years, we have analyzed business networks for answers to the many questions about industrial markets. Unlike consumer markets, industrial markets are not generally known to the public, nor to many management scholars. We have been surprised by the complexity of industrial markets and at the same time by the ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Sports%20Basketball | Street Sports Basketball is a 1987 computer basketball game for the IBM PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It was developed by Epyx and published by U.S. Gold.
Gameplay
The game features a 3-a-side basketball match. Each team is made by three players with different skills chosen from the neighbours.
Reception
Computer Gaming World stated in 1987 that Street Sports Basketballs "graphics are smooth and the action is fast". The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #131 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 3 out of 5 stars.
Reviews
Info (Jan, 1989)
Happy Computer (Dec, 1987)
Power Play (1987)
Commodore User (Jan, 1988)
Zzap! (Dec, 1988)
Génération 4 (Dec, 1988)
Sinclair User (Jul, 1988)
Your Sinclair (Aug, 1988)
Power Play (Mar, 1988)
Power Play (Dec, 1988)
Amiga User International (Dec, 1988)
References
External links
Street Sports Basketball at Stadium 64
Street Sports Basketball at hol.abime.net
1987 video games
DOS games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
ZX Spectrum games
Basketball video games
U.S. Gold games
Video games developed in the United States
Epyx games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBA%20Championship%20Basketball%3A%20Two-on-Two | GBA Championship Basketball: Two-on-Two is a 1986 computer basketball game for the PC, Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. It was developed by Dynamix and published by Activision.
Gameplay
From a camera located flying over the center of the court the game featured a two on two basketball game, allowing one or two players.
Reception
GBA was Activision's second best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987. Computer Gaming World praised the Commodore 64 version of GBA for improving on One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird by adding a full court, teammate, and league play. The Apple IIGS version of the game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #129 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. Compute! called the Apple IIGS version "a delightful game whether you're playing or just watching", praising the graphics and sound.
Reviews
Happy Computer - 1986
Génération 4 - 1987
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Jun, 1986
Your Sinclair - Oct, 1987
Computer Gamer - Dec, 1986
Zzap! - Oct, 1986
Commodore Format - Jun, 1993
Crash! - Sep, 1987
References
External links
GBA Championship Basketball:Two-on-Two at thelegacy.de
1986 video games
Amiga games
Apple II games
Apple IIGS games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Basketball video games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games scored by Russell Lieblich
Dynamix games
Activision games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KELY | KELY (1230 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. Licensed to Ely, Nevada, United States, the station is owned and operated by Ely Radio, LLC and features programming from the Genesis Communications Network. It is known as the flagship station for the nationally syndicated Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. KELY's programming is simulcast on three other radio stations across the state of Nevada. On February 7, 2022, Nevada Talk Network launched a translator in Ely, NV on 98.5 MHz FM with the callsign K253CJ.
References
External links
Facebook - KELY 1230
ELY
News and talk radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%20network%20service | A professional network service (or, in an Internet context, simply a professional network) is a type of social network service that focuses on interactions and relationships for business opportunities and career growth, with less emphasis on activities in personal life.
A professional network service is used by working individuals, job-seekers, and businesses to establish and maintain professional contacts, to find work or hire employees, share professional achievements, sell or promote services, and stay up-to-date with industry news and trends. According to LinkedIn managing director Clifford Rosenberg in an interview with AAP in 2010, "[t]his is a call to action for professionals to re-address their use of social networks and begin to reap as many rewards from networking professionally as they do personally." Businesses mostly depend on resources and information outside the company and to get what they need, they need to reach out and professionally network with others, such as employees or clients as well as potential opportunities.
"Nardi, Whittaker, and Schwarz (2002) point out three main tasks that they believe networkers need to attend to keep a successful professional (intentional) network:
building a network, maintaining the network, and activating selected contacts. They stress that networkers need to continue to add new contacts to their network to access as many resources as possible and to maintain their network by staying in touch with their contacts. This is so that the contacts are easy to activate when the networker has work that needs to be done."
By using a professional network service, businesses can keep all of their networks up-to-date, and in order, and helps figure out the best way to efficiently get in touch with each of them. A service that can do all that helps relieve some of the stress when trying to get things done.
Not all professional network services are online sites that help promote a business. Some services connect the user to other services that help promote the business other than online sites, such as phone/Internet companies that provide services and companies that specifically are designed to do all of the promoting, online and in person, for a business.
History
In 1997, professional network services started up throughout the world and continue to grow. The first recognizable site to combine all features, such as creating profiles, adding friends, and searching for friends, was SixDegrees.com. According to Boyd and Ellison's article, "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship", from 1997 to 2001, several community tools began supporting various combinations of profiles and publicly articulated Friends. Boyd and Ellison go on to say that the next wave began with Ryze.com in 2001. It was introduced as a new way "to help people leverage their business networks".
Inside the works
Quite a lot of work is put into a professional network service, such as the number of hours that go into the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topo%20Soft | Topo Soft was a Spanish software house for 8-bit home computers that emerged during the eighties. They were part of the golden era of Spanish software. It dissolved in 1994 due to economic problems related with the late arrival of 16-bit computers in Spain. Some of its workers founded Pyro Studios in 1998. However, there are also criticisms, and in 2019 Eugenio Barahona and Cancho acknowledged that sometimes the planning to produce a certain amount of video games affected the quality, leaving no time to "finish them off in conditions, or simply test them in order to balance their playability before releasing them for sale".
The eighties, 8-bits
Topo Soft published multiple games for the MSX and PC such as Survivor, Stardust, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and Desperado (published in England as Gun.Smoke) .
16-bits
Quickit, a graphical system to handle MS-DOS
References
External links
Topo Soft at mobygames.com
Topo Soft advertisements at amstrad.es
Defunct video game companies of Spain
Video game companies disestablished in 1994
1994 disestablishments in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Sports%3A%20Basketball | TV Sports: Basketball is a 1989 computer basketball game for the home computers. It was developed by Cinemaware and published by Mirrorsoft for the Amiga, MS-DOS, Commodore 64 and TurboGrafx-16. It is part of the TV Sports series that included TV Sports: Baseball as well as other games based on hockey and American football.
Cinemaware later re-released the game as freeware.
Gameplay
The game features five-a-side basketball matches. Players can either play against computer (controlling the players or a coach) or with another person (in versus or cooperative mode). When playing the human could choose to control the same player during the whole match or the one currently in possession of the ball.
The game shows a vertical view and has no NBA license. The in-game perspective is from half-court. When the ball crosses half-court, a short cutscene plays showing the players running to the other side of the court as the game transitions to the opposing basket.
Reception
Computer Gaming World said that TV Sports Basketball had good sound and graphics, and favorably noted its four-player option.
In the May 1990 edition of Games International, Mike Siggins complimented the "slick" graphics and arcade/strategy options, but found the manual "inexplicably vague". He concluded by giving the game an above average rating of 8 out of 10 for game play, and an excellent rating of 9 out of 10 for graphics, saying that "it doesn't quite recreate the speed and excitement of a real game. However, there is sufficient variety and structure to make this game worth persevering with. Just don't expect a classic".
References
External links
Basketball Rules
TV Sports Basketball at hol.abime.net
1989 video games
DOS games
Amiga games
Commodore 64 games
TurboGrafx-16 games
Basketball video games
Video games developed in the United States
Mirrorsoft games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Handles%20%28game%20show%29 | Love Handles was a Canadian television game show produced by Blair Murdoch from 1996 to 1998 on the Global Television Network, and hosted by Stu Jeffries. The show's announcer was David Kaye.
The series had the same premise as the United States show The Newlywed Game: Three married couples or mates competed, including occasional same gender couples, to determine which couple knew each other the best. Like many of Murdoch's shows, Love Handles was taped at U.TV in Vancouver, British Columbia without a studio audience. The set had each team sitting on a love seat.
Many episodes of Love Handles were rerun from 1999 to 2002 on Prime, and were later seen on GameTV, beginning in 2007. Episodes featuring same sex couples were also re-aired on OutTV (formerly PrideVision TV), while episodes can also be seen on the Canadian game show streaming service BonusRound.
Gameplay
Rounds 1 and 2
For the first round, one member of each team was offstage in a soundproof room. The three remaining players were asked questions about themselves or their partners. The first player to buzz in after a question was read answered first, then the other two answered. If players buzzed in before the question was completed, they had to answer without hearing the rest of the question or any multiple choice options, if there were any. Three questions were asked in this manner.
When the partners returned, they had to match answers. Each match was worth five points, except for the team whose partner rang in first, which earned a seven-point bonus if they matched. The second round was played identically, with the partners switching roles. Each match was worth 10 points, with the bonus still worth an additional seven.
On some episodes, the first player's answer was shown to the viewers as a lower third graphic while the partner made a guess. In either case, the first player simply told the partner what the initial response was.
Rounds 3 and 4
The host showed a written word to one member of a couple; that person then had to come up with a verbal question or clue which allowed the second member to say the exact word (synonyms were not accepted). The guessing partner had to push a buzzer to respond. This was repeated with a different word for each couple. However, until the guessing partner sounded the buzzer, the guessing partners from the other two teams could say "steal" and try to respond themselves. If the team giving the clue answered correctly, they earned 25 points; a steal was worth 15.
The fourth round was played the same, with the partners again switching roles. The teams were encouraged to come up with personalized clues to keep the other teams from recognizing the word.
Prize
The team with the most points at the end of the game won a vacation. If the team played a perfect game, including stealing all four of their opponent's words in rounds three and four, they also received a bond worth $100,000 at maturity. In the event of a tie, the Newlywed Game tiebreaker dete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIFY | WIFY (93.7 FM) is an adult album alternative formatted radio station that is part of The Point radio network. Licensed to Addison, Vermont, United States, the station serves the Middlebury, Vermont, Burlington, Vermont-Plattsburgh, New York area. The station is owned by Radio Broadcasting Services, Inc.
History
The station was assigned call sign WWFY on October 18, 1996. On December 8, 1997, the station changed its call sign to WWFY. On April 30, 1999, the call letters changed to WRRO. When the station launched, it went by the name "The Arrow" and broadcast a classic rock format. The station changed calls & formats again on April 23, 2001 to WXAL-FM with a hot adult contemporary format as Alice. Around 2003, the station began putting a simulcast on WLKC (now WWMP 103.3). By 2005, WLKC and WXAL-FM changed formats to adult hits under the name MP103. By September 7, 2005, the station changed to WUSX with a country format, and the simulcast with WWMP ended. On July 1, 2008, the station changed format from to oldies as "Cruisin' 93.7". The first song was 409 by The Beach Boys. Two years after the station went oldies, the call letters changed yet again on May 24, 2010 to the current WIFY. On September 2, 2014 WIFY dropped the oldies format and became part of the radio network known as The Point, with an adult album alternative format, simulcasting the Montpelier/Burlington network content of WNCS.
References
External links
IFY
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Vermont
Adult album alternative radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeslicing | Timeslicing or time slicing may refer to:
Time slice or preemption, a technique to implement multitasking in operating systems
Time slicing (digital broadcasting), the apparent simultaneous performance of two or more data streams in digital video broadcasting
Time slice photography or bullet time, a technique creating the illusion of frozen, or slowly progressing, time in motion video
TIMESLICE, a CONFIG.SYS configuration directive in OS/2
See also
A Slice at a Time, science fiction story |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Pollen%20Database | The European Pollen Database (EPD) is a freely available database of pollen frequencies, past and present, in the larger European area. The database is hosted by the Institut Méditerranéen d'Ecologie et de la Biodiversité (IMBE).
See also
Pollen count
References
Fyfe, R. M. et al. (2009) The European Pollen Database: past efforts and current activities. Vegetation History and Archaebotany 18:417-424 (Open Access)
External links
Home page of the European Pollen Database
Biological databases
Databases in Europe
Online botany databases
Palynology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Green | Green Green may refer to:
Green Green (video game), a 2001 Japanese H-game for computer
Green Green (anime), a 2003 Japanese 13-episode anime adaptation
Green, Green, a 1963 hit single by The New Christy Minstrels
Gringrin or Green Green, a character in the 1969 novel Isle of the Dead by Roger Zelazny |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20East%20African%20Railways | Central East African Railways is a consortium formed in 1999, led by the Railroad Development Corporation, which won the right to operate the Malawi Railways network. The company was sold in September 2008 to INSITEC, an investment group based in Mozambique.
Operations
It mainly manages the Sena railway line, which currently links the railway stations of Blantyre/Limbe, Nkaya, Chipoka, Salima, Lilongwe and Mchinji. Its concession also includes the sections between Marka, Nsanje, Bangula, Luchenza and Blantyre/Limbe stations, which are currently inoperative.
In 2010, a multinational mining company Vale (with CEAR and Mozambique Ports and Railways) managed to sew the formation of the joint venture "Integrated Northern Logistical Corridor Society", for the administration of the Nacala railway, having permission to build the railway extension to the coal belt of Benga-Moatize, where the mining company has mineral exploration concessions. The extension departed from the Nkaya interconnection station and continued to Moatize, being completed in 2017. The project includes an export terminal and a coal storage yard at the port of Nacala-a-Velha.
This subsidiary therefore manages the Malawian sections of the Nacala railway line between Nayuchi, Liwonde, Nkaya (junction railway station) and Mwanza stations.
See also
Rail transport in Malawi
Transport in Malawi
References
Transport in Malawi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigurat%20%28company%29 | Zigurat was a Spanish software house for 8-bit home computers very popular in the eighties during the Golden Era of Spanish Software. Its origin is in the company Made in Spain, founded in 1983, which would know massive success in Spain with Fred, commercialized in the United Kingdom as Roland on the Ropes (only the Amstrad CPC version). When the programmers and owners of Made in Spain could not go on alone on the task of distribution, they decided to create in 1986 another company, Zigurat, which would be entirely dedicated to distribution, and would distribute all the titles by Made in Spain, which became an internal producer seal under Zigurat. They would also distribute games by independent programmers or companies and would allow Made in Spain to concretate solely on programming. Later on, Made in Spain would completely merge into Zigurat, creating a single producer and distributor company. When the 8-bit market disappeared, the company turned to develop games for arcade machines.
Games published
Fred
Sir Fred
El Misterio del Nilo
Humphrey
París-Dakar
Poder Oscuro
Comando Quatro
Emilio Sánchez Vicario
Arkos
Poder Oscuro
Curro Jiménez
Power Magic
Senda Salvaje
Jungle Warrior
Piso Zero
Don Kin Kong
Sito Pons 500cc Grand Prix
Carlos Sainz: World Rally Championship
Developing groups
The company had several developing groups associated:
Made in Spain
Arcadia
Gamesoft
Truesoft
Turbo 16
References
External links
Official website
Zigurat videogames at thelegacy.de
Zigurat at worldofspectrum.org
El Misterio del Nilo at ysrnry.co.uk
Defunct video game companies of Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSTL | WSTL (1220 AM, "La Mega 94.9") is a radio station licensed to serve Providence, Rhode Island. The station broadcasts a Spanish Tropical format programmed by Radio Sharon Foundation. Its programming is also heard on translator stations in Providence, W229AN (93.7 FM) and W235CN (94.9 FM).
Known as WRIB from 1947–July 7, 2006, the station changed its call sign to WSTL on July 7, 2006.
History
1940s
1947
The station was started as a 250-watt daytimer, WRIB with studios at the old Narragansett Hotel.
1950s
1952
WRIB increased its daytime power to the current 1 kilowatt. It was still a daytime-only station at this point.
2000s
2006
For many years, WRIB had aired mostly brokered programming, serving as an outlet for primarily ethnic broadcasters. Faith Christian Center, an evangelical megachurch in nearby Seekonk, Massachusetts, bought WRIB in 2005. While the station's time brokers had expected to be forced to find new homes for their programming, Faith Christian took WRIB off the air at 12:30 on July 7, 2006, with no advance warning, angering many of WRIB's former time brokers. The church only gave the time brokers a few hours to get their equipment out of the studios or face charges for trespassing. Some shows continue on other stations (e.g.: the Armenian Radio Hour is now on WARA) but others disappeared.
2010s
2017
On the morning of Friday, June 23, 2017, the station reported to be going off the air soon; they then went silent. On November 29, 2017 WSTL returned to the air with Spanish tropical, branded as "Mega 94.9" (simulcast on FM translator W235CN 94.9 FM Providence).
Translators
References
External links
Boston Radio essay on Providence radio (incomplete)
Armenian Radio Hour's take on the loss of WRIB
Providence Journal story from September 9, 2006
Radio stations established in 1947
STL
1947 establishments in Rhode Island
STL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait-for%20graph | A wait-for graph in computer science is a directed graph used for deadlock detection in operating systems and relational database systems.
In computer science, a system that allows concurrent operation of multiple processes and locking of resources and which does not provide mechanisms to avoid or prevent deadlock must support a mechanism to detect deadlocks and an algorithm for recovering from them.
One such deadlock detection algorithm makes use of a wait-for graph to track which other processes a process is currently blocking on. In a wait-for graph, processes are represented as nodes, and an edge from process to implies is holding a resource that needs and thus is waiting for to release its lock on that resource. If the process is waiting for more than a single resource to become available (the trivial case), multiple edges may represent a conjunctive (and) or disjunctive (or) set of different resources or a certain number of equivalent resources from a collection. The possibility of a deadlock is implied by graph cycles in the conjunctive case, and by knots in the disjunctive case. There is no simple algorithm for detecting the possibility of deadlock in the final case.
The wait-for-graph scheme is not applicable to a resource allocation system with multiple instances of each resource type.
References
Concurrency control
Directed graphs
Application-specific graphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20network%20automation | Social Network Automation refers to tools that are used to semi/automate the process of posting content to social networking and social bookmarking websites. Tools can range from mostly manual and free to semi-automated tools which are either commercial standalone software or paid subscriptions.
Background
Social networking sites (ex: Digg, Reddit, Propeller, etc.) run on a virtuous cycle of content (stories, pictures, videos) attracting users who interact with the content (voting, commenting) and who are then inspired to provide new content (original or culled from outside sources), thereby attracting more readers, etc., etc. (see Web 2.0)
While much of the content is submitted by so-called-casual users a significant portion of stories are created specifically for social networking sites. These stores are generally submitted to several sites to maximize the return on investment. (Note that the motivation need not be commercial but may be personal or political (see Ron Paul for President)
To aid people submitting stories to multiple social networking and bookmarking sites, a number of tools have been created.
Mostly-Manual Solutions
These solutions are characterized by the following common attributes:
Standalone, web based
Free
Direct URL submission
Significant breadth of sites (20 to 70) supported
Attractive UI
Lack of workflow
Low levels of error reporting
Semi-Automated Solutions
These solutions are all commercial software and do not seem to have been reviewed by an independent third party. They seem to all be standalone Windows-only based systems. They all claim to have the following features:
username/password login
low number of sites supported (20-30)
semi/automated site navigation
historical activity reporting
Miscellaneous Solutions: Buttons
Some vendors offer "buttons" that you can place under your blog posts that will automatically start the submission process for your content or which will more easily allow your readers to find and "vote" for your content on that service. As these seem to be less about automation and more about convenience they have been separated from the automation tools. However, there is some overlap, with some automation providers offering buttons.
Many of the social networking sites also offer buttons, the most commonly seen being, of course, Digg's Digg This badge. and OnlyWire's
Miscellaneous Solutions: Toolbars
Many social networking sites also offer toolbars (mostly for Mozilla/Firefox and Internet Explorer) which aid in use of the social sites. These toolbars also offer easier submission of articles to and voting on stories. However they seem to be more about convenience than automation, so they are separated as well. One of the best known toolbars is from StumbleUpon.
Miscellaneous Solutions: Fully Outsourced
There are a large number of firms offering fully outsourced solutions for posting content to social networking and bookmarking sites. These are traditional consulting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20lag | In statistics and econometrics, a distributed lag model is a model for time series data in which a regression equation is used to predict current values of a dependent variable based on both the current values of an explanatory variable and the lagged (past period) values of this explanatory variable.
The starting point for a distributed lag model is an assumed structure of the form
or the form
where yt is the value at time period t of the dependent variable y, a is the intercept term to be estimated, and wi is called the lag weight (also to be estimated) placed on the value i periods previously of the explanatory variable x. In the first equation, the dependent variable is assumed to be affected by values of the independent variable arbitrarily far in the past, so the number of lag weights is infinite and the model is called an infinite distributed lag model. In the alternative, second, equation, there are only a finite number of lag weights, indicating an assumption that there is a maximum lag beyond which values of the independent variable do not affect the dependent variable; a model based on this assumption is called a finite distributed lag model.
In an infinite distributed lag model, an infinite number of lag weights need to be estimated; clearly this can be done only if some structure is assumed for the relation between the various lag weights, with the entire infinitude of them expressible in terms of a finite number of assumed underlying parameters. In a finite distributed lag model, the parameters could be directly estimated by ordinary least squares (assuming the number of data points sufficiently exceeds the number of lag weights); nevertheless, such estimation may give very imprecise results due to extreme multicollinearity among the various lagged values of the independent variable, so again it may be necessary to assume some structure for the relation between the various lag weights.
The concept of distributed lag models easily generalizes to the context of more than one right-side explanatory variable.
Unstructured estimation
The simplest way to estimate parameters associated with distributed lags is by ordinary least squares, assuming a fixed maximum lag , assuming independently and identically distributed errors, and imposing no structure on the relationship of the coefficients of the lagged explanators with each other. However, multicollinearity among the lagged explanators often arises, leading to high variance of the coefficient estimates.
Structured estimation
Structured distributed lag models come in two types: finite and infinite. Infinite distributed lags allow the value of the independent variable at a particular time to influence the dependent variable infinitely far into the future, or to put it another way, they allow the current value of the dependent variable to be influenced by values of the independent variable that occurred infinitely long ago; but beyond some lag length the effects taper off toward z |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCID | WCID (100.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format from Family Life Network. Licensed to Horseheads, New York, United States, the station serves the Elmira-Corning area. The station is owned by Family Life Ministries.
History
The station originated in 1970, with call letters WQIX, with a modern country format. Studios were in Horseheads, shared with sister AM WIQT, and transmitter on Prospect Hill north of the village. Construction was by Chief Engineer C Michael Scullin with John Mulligan. It was owned then by retailer Manny Panosian and John Arikian, dba Chemung County Radio. Program Director was David G. Ridenour and General Manager Bob Johnson. During the first part of the 21st century, WPGI shared the "Big Pig" branding with sister station WPIG in Olean, New York, both stations being owned by Backyard Broadcasting.
Along with the rest of Backyard Broadcasting's New York assets, the station was sold to Community Broadcasters, LLC effective August 26, 2013, at a price of $3.6 million. On October 1, 2013, the then-WPGI dropped its cross-branding with WPIG, as well as all of the station's jocks, and took on the brand "100.9 The Wolf" with the same format.
WPGI, along with the other stations in Community Broadcasters' Southern Tier portfolio, was sold to Seven Mountains Media in January 2019.
On July 3, 2020, WPGI flipped to classic rock as "101 The Met", as part of a five-station format swap, where WMTT moved from 94.7 to 820/101.3, with 100.9 starting to simulcast the new WMTT. WPGI had changed its call letters to WMTT-FM on June 25, 2020, to reflect this change. WPGI's former country format moved to 94.7 (renamed WQBF), WCBF (96.1), and WOBF (97.1) as "95-96-97 Bigfoot Country".
On June 15, 2021, WMTT-FM changed its format from classic rock (which moved back to 94.7, as well as WENI-FM 92.7) to Family Life Network's religious format under new WCID calls.
References
External links
Radio stations established in 1970
1970 establishments in New York (state)
CID
Chemung County, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacSweeper | MacSweeper is a rogue application that misleads users by exaggerating reports about spyware, adware or viruses on their computer. It is the first known "rogue" application for the Mac OS X operating system. The software was discovered by F-Secure, a Finland-based computer security software company, on January 17, 2008.
, the official website for the application, macsweeper.com, was shut down, as was the website for KiVVi Software shortly after.
Problems caused by MacSweeper
MacSweeper could be downloaded through KiVVi software's (the company that makes the "rogue") website, as a drive-by download, or silently downloaded with another application. Once automatically installed, MacSweeper scans the computer and informs the user that many applications on their computer (such as iCal or Dashboard, safe pre-installed Apple applications) are "fat binaries or trash" and must be slimmed immediately. When the unsuspecting user tries to "Remove Objects", they are told that the trial version downloaded cannot delete the supposed trash. Then the user must provide credit card details to the company for a $39.99 "lifetime subscription serial key".
Clones
MacSweeper's Graphical User Interface and behaviour is almost identical to another program that is published by KiVVi Software, Cleanator. Cleanator, however is designed for Windows operating systems. It is also very similar to the SpySheriff and SpyAxe applications, infamous for typosquatting Google. A paragraph from within the software that encourages users to purchase the full version is identical to that of SpySheriff.
Removal
Companies including McAfee, Symantec and Sunbelt Software have identified the threat and have posted removal instructions on their websites. Intego VirusBarrier and iAntivirus are capable of removing it too. SiteAdvisor, a division of McAfee has controversially given the site a green rating. However, SiteAdvisor's tests are conducted on PCs, that cannot recognise .dmg, the file format of MacSweeper.
Media attention
MacSweeper has received much media attention from websites including CNET as well as others, as it is considered to be one of the first instances of malware designed for the Mac OS X operating system.
MacSweeper's response
After F-Secure alerted Macintosh users about the rogue, MacSweeper responded on F-Secure's website, saying
References
http://blog.intego.com/index.php?s=macsweeper
See also
Computer Security
MacOS malware
Rogue software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia%20Sollfrank | Cornelia Sollfrank (born 1960) is a German digital artist, she was an early pioneer of Net Art and Cyberfeminism in the 1990s.
Life and work
Cornelia Sollfrank was born in 1960, in Feilershammer, Germany. Sollfrank studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (1987–1990) and fine art at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (1990–1994) and she completed a PhD in 2012 at University of Dundee.
In 1997, Sollfrank hacked the "world's first" net art competition, Extension, organized by the Hamburg Art Museum in Germany. Her work, titled Female Extension (1997) involved the creation of 289 computer-generated websites created by combing the Internet and combining fragments of HTML into exquisite corpse-like websites. Each website was submitted under the name of a different artificial female artist name and profile. No women were awarded prizes, but press releases distributed by Sollfrank received widespread attention for her intervention, overshadowing the gallery's own awards.
Cornelia Sollfrank founded the organization Old Boys Network (1997–2001). In 1997, Old Boys Network organized the Cyberfeminist International at documenta x in Kassel, Germany. Old Boys Network published First Cyberfeminist International in 1998 followed by next Cyberfeminist International in 1999. Closely associated with Cyberfeminism, Sollfrank has expressed reservations that it limits the perception of her work as "women's issues".
She has a history organizing and participating in digital protests. Solfrank has also founded the artist groups frauen-und-technik (Women and Technique) and -Innen ("Inside", but also a suffix for feminine plurals in German). Women Hackers (1999) was an essay on hackers, focusing on the lack of recognition of female hackers. Sollfrank is a member of the Chaos Computer Club, Europe's largest association of hackers.
In 2004, Cornelia Sollfrank's monograph titled net.art generator was published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg.
Early life and education
Cornelia Sollfrank was born in 1960, in Feilershammer, Germany. From 1987 to 1990, Sollfrank studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and then during the years 1990 to 1994, she took the program Fine Art at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Besides her study in diverse academic fields of art, Sollfrank also worked as a product manager for Philips Media from 1995 to 1996 in order to gain personal experience in the field of media. Since 1998, Sollfrank has focused on writing and exploring issues regarding the relationship among media, art and gender, and has worked as an educator at a variety of universities. In 2012, along with the publication of her PhD thesis titled Performing the Paradoxes of Intellectual Property, Sollfrank completed her doctor degree's practice-led research at the University of Dundee (UK).
From the mid-1990s, as Sollfrank probed the worldwide communication networks and mass media, she then transformed her traditional artistic strategies and a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20of%20Buenos%20Aires%20Railway | The Province of Buenos Aires Railway ( - FCPBA) was a state-owned company that operated a 902 km railway network in the Province of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Founded in 1907 as the "Ferrocarril Provincial del Puerto de La Plata al Meridiano V", the company changed its name to FCPBA in 1924. In 1951 it was taken into state ownership and in 1953 it was absorbed by the state-owned Belgrano Railway. The FCPBA should not confused with the similarly named French–owned Compañía General (CGBA, later "G" branch) which also operated in the Province.
History
Project
By the end of 19th Century, railway lines in Buenos Aires Province were managed by two British companies, BA Great Southern and Argentine Great Western. Together,both companies effectively had a monopoly, apart from fixing prices. In response to this situation, the Government of Buenos Aires considered how to run railway transport in the province which could work as a cost effective alternative to the British-owned ones.
In 1897, the government sanctioned the "Law of Agriculture and Economy Railway lines", allowing any person (pursuant to certain legal and technical requirements) to build gauge railway lines. The Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Marcelino Ugarte, encouraged the construction of a regional railway line to compete against the dominant British companies. In his view, the presence of a more cost effective railway transport would force the British companies to decrease their prices to keep their position in the market.
A provincial decree promulgated in September 1904 ordered the construction of a railway line from Barracas al Sud to Carhué. This line was given to Buenos Aires Midland Railway in 1906. In March 1905 the other concession was given to French-owned Compañía General de Ferrocarriles en la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Both lines were to compete with Ferrocarril Provincial.
The lines to be built were determined as following:
Western line: From La Plata Port and Meridiano V, crossing the city of La Plata and Brandsen, Monte, Saladillo, 25 de Mayo, and 9 de Julio Partidos. This line had two branches:
A 270 km extension branch to Meridiano V, starting between a point to be determined between Monte and Saladillo stations.
Another branch from General Alvear to Olavarría.
South line: From some point between Brandsen and Monte to Mar del Plata, crossing Ranchos, Chascomús, Pila, Rauch, Ayacucho and Balcarce partidos. This line would be split into three branches:
From Pila to Tuyú, crossing Dolores, Gral. Conesa and Gral. Lavalle.
From Mar del Plata to General Alvarado
From Mar del Plata to Azul or Olavarría (to be determined), crossing Balcarce and Tandil
The main offer to take on the project was from "Societe Anonime Franco-Argentine de travaux publics", a Franco-Belgian society headed by Otto Bemberg. The society was formed by Bemberg & Cia, Louis Dreyfus and Emili Erlanger & Cia, and Dirks & Dates.
Construction and development
In August 1907 authorisation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVivo | NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA) computer software package produced by Lumivero (formerly called QSR International). NVivo is used across a diverse range of fields, including social sciences such as anthropology, psychology, communication, sociology, as well as fields such as forensics, tourism, criminology and marketing.
Features
NVivo is intended to help users organize and analyze non-numerical or unstructured data. Its developers state that it helps qualitative researchers to organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured or qualitative data like interviews, open-ended survey responses, journal articles, social media and web content, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required.
The software allows users to classify, sort and arrange information; examine relationships in the data; and combine analysis with linking, shaping, searching and modeling. The software can identify trends and cross-examine information in various ways using its search engine and query functions. NVivo accommodates a wide range of research methods, including network and organizational analysis, action or evidence-based research, discourse analysis, grounded theory, conversation analysis, ethnography, literature reviews, phenomenology, mixed methods research and the Framework methodology.
Version history
Tom Richards and Lyn Richards developed NUD*IST (Non-numerical Unstructured Data Indexing, Searching and Theorizing), a software program designed for detailed analysis of unstructured textual data, with the initial version for DEC-10 in 1981. In 1997, an updated version of NUD*IST was named N4.
In 1994, Qualitative Solutions and Research Pty Ltd was set up at and then spun out of La Trobe University to support the development and marketing of NUD*IST, and shortly after the release of N4 (NUD*IST Rev 4) it began working on a ground-up redesigned sibling product, with many more features, initially named NUD*IST Alive then branded as NVivo.
Development of the original product continue alongside the new one, with the final version, N6, being consolidated into NVivo 7 in 2006. NVivo for Teams, which allows multiple users on a server to work on a project at the same time, was first released in 2010. NVivo was released for Mac in 2014. Mac versions of the software have fewer features.
NUD*IST 1 (DEC10) - 1981
NUD*IST 2 (Vax/VMS and Unix) - 1987
NUD*IST 2.3 (Mac and PC) - 1990
NUD*IST 3 (Mac, later Windows 3.0) - 1993
N4 – 1997
NVivo - 1999
N5 – 2000
N6 – 2002
NVivo 2 – 2002
NVivo 7 – 2006
NVivo 8 – 2008
NVivo 9 and NVivo for Teams – 2010
NVivo 10 – 2012
NVivo for Mac – 2014
NVivo 11 (Windows only) – 2015
NVivo 12 (Windows, Mac, and Teams) – 2018
NVivo Release 1.0, also called NVivo 20 (Windows, Mac) – 2020
NVivo 14 – 2023 (Windows, Mac)
See also
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software
References
External links
QDA software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo%20Watson | Theo Watson is a British artist and programmer. His art work includes interactive video, large-scale public projections, computer vision projects, and interactive sound recordings which have featured in museums and galleries across the world including Museum of Modern Art, New York Hall of Science, Tate Modern amongst others. Watson is a partner at Design I/O, a Cambridge-based interactive design firm known for cutting edge, immersive installations. He is also co-founder of the programming toolkit openFrameworks, co-creator of the EyeWriter and a virtual fellow at Free Art and Technology Lab.
Biography
Watson has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.
As a programmer, Watson has worked with Zach Lieberman in creating openFrameworks, an open source C++ library for creative coding and graphics. He is a member of the Graffiti Research Lab, and in 2007 wrote the code for their LASER Tag project. In 2006, Watson worked with director Michel Gondry, writing custom software for physical sensors and cameras in three interactive installations in Gondry's Science of Sleep exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York City.
From Spring to Fall 2006, Watson worked as a Production Fellow at Eyebeam. He is currently a Virtual Fellow at Free Art and Technology Lab (a.k.a. FAT Lab).
Artworks
Watson makes site-specific installations that look at how humans relate to various situations and spaces. Many of Watson's works use elements of physical computing in interactive installations. In Vinyl Workout (Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival, 2006), custom software and cameras track user's movements as they walk along a large projection of a record on the floor, manipulating the audio and video playback with the speed and direction of their steps.
In Audio Space (2005), a user wearing a GPS-enabled headset can record messages at any position within a room, and hear all the sounds left by previous visitors as they move about the space.
Laser Tag, a 2007 installation by Watson, used a laser projector to enable members of the public to write names and messages in light on the side of a Rotterdam office building. It was also shown at MoMA and the Tate Modern.
Born out of Necessity, a collaborative artwork by Watson and other artists, involves the use of eye-tracking technology to allow a graffiti artist afflicted with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to create virtual tags; it is in the collection of MoMA.
The Tate Muybridgizer, commissioned from Watson and Emily Gobeille by the Tate Modern, is a cellular phone application that allows users to create animations in the style of Eadweard Muybridge's Zoopraxiscope.
Exhibitions
Watson has shown projects at Eyebeam, Deitch Projects, the DUMBO Video Art Festival, Resfest, the inaugural Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival, and at Montevideo/Time Based Arts in (Amsterdam).
References
External links
Theo Watson
openFrameworks
Interview with Watson by HITSPAPER website
British multim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan%20Legislative%20Network | The Saskatchewan Legislative Network is the province-wide cable television network that broadcasts sessions of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, similar to the Ontario Parliament Network. The network is available on cable television, much like the educational Saskatchewan Communications Network.
External links
Saskatchewan Legislative Network in SK
Commercial-free television networks
Legislature broadcasters in Canada
Politics of Saskatchewan
Television stations in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Legislature
Television channels and stations established in 1983
1983 establishments in Saskatchewan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIHW-LP | WIHW-LP (96.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Dover, Delaware. The station is owned by Capitol Baptist Church. It airs a Religious radio format featuring programming from the Fundamental Broadcast Network.
Other programming on WIHW-LP includes the Revival Time Radio Broadcast hosted by Dr. Jack Trieber and
Truth For Teens, a Christian ministry for troubled teens.
The station was assigned the WIHW-LP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 10, 2004.
References
External links
Capitol Baptist Church of Dover
WIHW-LP coverage map
Fundamental Broadcasting Network official website
IHW-LP
IHW-LP
Radio stations established in 2005
Dover, Delaware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McIntyre%20%28publisher%29 | John E. McIntyre is the co-founder of the American political news website and polling data aggregator RealClearPolitics. He also publishes on the TIME blog and has appeared on the nationally syndicated Michael Reagan Talk Show.
McIntyre, who majored in economics at Princeton University, was working as a trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 2000 when he and co-founder Tom Bevan made the decision to launch RealClearPolitics. McIntrye said at the time, "We're political junkies and obsessive newspaper readers. So we decided that we would help people like us who don't have the time to cruise around the Web, but want to read the best articles of the day. We set up a one-stop shop where we do all the hunting, so others don't have to."
A 2017 SEC filing reported on by the Daily Beast listed RealClear co-founder John McIntyre as a director at FDRLST Media and put both companies at the same Chicago address. FDRLST Media is the parent company of conservative news site The Federalist.
References
External links
RealClearPolitics
American bloggers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Living people
Princeton University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiji%20Takeda | is the deputy director of Mainichi Broadcasting System's Tokyo office. Since beginning the network's 6:00pm Saturday timeblock, he has been involved in the planning and production of numerous anime, including various series from the Gundam universe, Code Geass, Blood+, Fullmetal Alchemist, Eureka Seven, Terra e... and Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha.
Biography
After graduating from the University of Tokyo's school of literature, Takeda joined Mainichi Broadcasting System in 1984, first working at the network's news bureau and later transferring to the network's Tokyo television department. Among the affairs he had covered during his time in the network's news department was the infamous Glico Morinaga case.
After transferring to MBS' television department, Takeda became involved in the production and planning of numerous anime television series, chiefly starting off the network's Saturday 6:00pm timeblock and being involved in its major popularity and success. Beginning with the timeblock's first major series, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and followed by its successors such as Fullmetal Alchemist, Blood+ and Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the slot has enjoyed high ratings since its inception, with Takeda being involved in the planning and production of each of its shows and having been largely credited for its success. He guest appeared as King T@KED@ in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY.
Takeda has also been involved in collaborations with the satellite anime television network Animax, with Animax having aired numerous of Mainichi Broadcasting System's anime, as well as jump starting several promotional campaigns in magazines and other media which have helped further promote each of the anime programs aired by the network.
Produced anime television series
Current programs
Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto (Planning)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Planning)
Previous programs
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Producer)
Fullmetal Alchemist (Planning)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY (Executive Producer)
Blood+ (Planning)
Eureka Seven (Planning)
Tenpō Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi (Planning)
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (first season) (Planning)
Terra e... (Planning)
Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha (Planning)
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Executive Producer)
Shakugan no Shana II (Planning)
Macross Frontier (Executive Producer)
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (season 2) (Executive Producer)
Black Butler (Planning)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Planning)
Basquash! (Executive Producer)
Sengoku Basara Two (Planning)
References
External links
Japanese production designers
People from Nara Prefecture
Living people
Japanese anime producers
Japanese television producers
1960 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Paul%20Schwefel | Hans-Paul Schwefel (born December 4, 1940) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at University of Dortmund (now Dortmund University of Technology), where he held the chair of systems analysis from 1985 until 2006. He is one of the pioneers in evolutionary computation and one of the authors responsible for the evolution strategies (Evolutionsstrategien). His work has helped to understand the dynamics of evolutionary algorithms and to put evolutionary computation on formal grounds.
Schwefel was born in Berlin. He attended the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and graduated as an aerospace engineer in 1965 and got his Dr.-Ing. in 1975. While as a student at TUB, he met Ingo Rechenberg in November 1963. Both of them were studying the aero- and space technology and both of them were keen on cybernetics and bionics. Rechenberg was dealing with wall shear stress measurements and Schwefel was responsible for organizing fluid dynamics exercises for other students. Together they were dreaming of a research robot working according to cybernetic principles, but computers became available only later on.
While attending the Hermann Föttinger-Institute for Hydrodynamics (HFI) at TUB, he and Rechenberg began performing experiments upon wings, kinked plates, and other objects related to fluid dynamics. The main objective of those experiments concerned optimizing the shape and/or parameters through mostly small modifications on the real objects, a "technique" they called experimental optimization, in order to reduce the drag, increase the thrust, and so on. Applying classical optimization methods (such as Gauss–Seidel and gradient-based techniques) on such experiments showed that those methods are not well suited to be adopted in experimental optimization, mainly due to noisy measurements and/or multimodality. They realized modifying all the variables at same time via a random manner (e.g., small modifications are more frequent than larger ones). This was the seminal idea to bring to light the first, two membered, evolution strategy, which was initially used on a discrete problem (optimization of a kinked plate in a wind tunnel) and was handled without computers.
Some time later, Schwefel expanded the idea toward evolution strategies to deal with numerical/parametric optimization and, also, has helped to formalize it as it is known nowadays.
Schwefel was one of the initiators of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature conference series.
References
Hans-Paul Schwefel: Numerical Optimization of Computer Models, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 1977, traduction John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1980.
Hans-Paul Schwefel's Curriculum Vitae
Hans-Georg Beyer and Hans-Paul Schwefel, (2002). Evolution Strategies: A Comprehensive Introduction. In Natural Computing, 1(1):3-52.
Günter Rudolph and Hans-Paul Schwefel: Simulated evolution under multiple criteria conditions revisited, pp. 49–261 in: J.M. Zurada, G.G. Yen and J. Wang (eds.), Computational Intell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRRN | WRRN (92.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, the station is currently owned by Lilly Broadcasting and features programming from CBS News Radio and is an affiliate of Local Radio Networks' "Classic Hits 2" format.
History
WRRN signed on the air April 22, 1948, as WNAE-FM on 92.1 MHz. The station was started by the Northern Allegheny Broadcasting Company, under the ownership of president and general manager David Potter. It was the sister station of WNAE, an AM station that had signed on after World War II had ended, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began to issue licenses to radio stations. The licensing process had been halted once the U.S. had entered the war. W. LeRoy Schneck was program director and would one day assume control of both stations.
WNAE-FM first signed on the air with an effective radiated power of 3,000 watts. In 1951, it changed its call letters to WRRN and moved to 92.3. By the 1970s, the station would increase its power to 26,000 watts and then to 50,000 by the 1980s. The station would periodically simulcast with WNAE at varying times, as WNAE was a daytime-only station until the late 1980s.
In 1974, WNAE and WRRN were sold by Northern Allegheny Broadcasting to Kinzua Broadcasting Company, a company formed by longtime program director W. LeRoy Schneck, who now served as company president and station General Manager. Dave Whipple assumed Schneck's programming duties.
For many years, WRRN was a beautiful music radio station branded as "Easy 92.3". Like many other such formatted radio stations, WRRN played 10-inch reel-to-reel music tapes from a dedicated automation playback system, with the occasional news brief from AP Network News and local news from WNAE's newsroom.
While operating as an easy listening station, WRRN simulcast WNAE's morning show from 6 to 9 am Monday through Friday. Though music formats at times varied for WNAE over the years, music played during the simulcast was more soft rock-oriented to better buffer the easy listening format once the simulcast had ended for the day.
In 1999, WRRN changed its format to soft adult contemporary, known as "Today's 92." Then, in 2002, the station changed its format to oldies, then transitioned to classic hits in August 2014.
On September 30, 2005, Kibco Radio sold WRRN and its two sister stations to Radio Partners, LLC, which owned WBVP and WMBA in Beaver Falls and Ambridge, Pennsylvania, respectively. Radio Partners LLC President Frank Iorio retained W. LeRoy Schneck as general manager for a period to assist with the transfer of ownership.
In 2019, after a failed attempt to sell the stations to Laurel Media two years prior, Radio Partners, LLC sold WRRN, along with its sister stations WKNB and WNAE, to Lilly Broadcasting, which operates WICU-TV and WSEE-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania, for $900,000.
References
External links
92 Gold Facebook
RRN
Warren County, Pennsylvania
194 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE | LOLCODE is an esoteric programming language inspired by lolspeak, the language expressed in examples of the lolcat Internet meme. The language was created in 2007 by Adam Lindsay, a researcher at the Computing Department of Lancaster University.
The language is not clearly defined in terms of operator priorities and correct syntax, but several functioning interpreters and compilers exist. One interpretation of the language has been proven Turing-complete.
Language structure and examples
LOLCODE's keywords are drawn from the heavily compressed (shortened) patois of the lolcat Internet meme. Here follow a "Hello, World!" program and a simple program to output a file to a monitor. Similar code was printed in the Houston Chronicle.
:) represents a newline (\n)
:> represents a tab (\t)
:o represents a bell character (\a)
:" represents a literal double quote (")
:: represents a single literal colon (:)
:(<hex>) converts a single hexadecimal Unicode code point to local environment encoding (for example, UTF-8)
:{<variable>} interpolates the value of the enclosed variable, cast as a string
:[<character name>] converts normative name of a single Unicode character to local environment encoding
Example 1
HAI 1.2
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE
Example 2
HAI 1.2
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
AWSUM THX
VISIBLE FILE
O NOES
INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE
In this example, commands to open a file (PLZ OPEN FILE "NAME"?—"Please open this file?"), and error handling (AWSUM THX—"Awesome, thanks!", and O NOES—"Oh no!") are introduced.
Other commands include I HAS A variable for declaring variables, variable R value ("variable [is/are/being] value") for assigning them, sending error messages to the front end via INVISIBLE instead of VISIBLE, and BTW ("by the way") to denote a comment, making the parser ignore the rest of the line.
Loops are created with (inspired by the "Im in ur noun, verbing yr related noun" LOLcat meme), and ended with . Loops can be broken with the keyword ENUF ("enough"), or in older versions, GTFO. Loops can also be ended with the conditional IZ command, as demonstrated in the next example.
Example 3
HAI 1.0
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
UP VAR!!1
VISIBLE VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHX
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE
This simple program displays the numbers 1–11 and terminates (as of specification 1.0). The same program as of specification 1.2 is (assuming VAR starts at 0):
HAI 1.2
CAN HAS STDIO?
IM IN YR LOOP UPPIN YR VAR TIL BOTH SAEM VAR AN 10
VISIBLE SUM OF VAR AN 1
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE
Example 4
HAI 1.0
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "U SEE THIS"
BTW VISIBLE "U SEE NOTHING"
OBTW
VISIBLE "U SEE NOTHIN"
VISIBLE "U STIL SEE NOTHIN"
TLDR
VISIBLE "U SEE THIS"
KTHXBYE
The above example will return the following:
U SEE THIS
U SEE THIS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhaus%20in%20der%20Wart | Neuhaus in der Wart (formerly Krobotdorf or Kroatdorf, , ) is a Katastralgemeinde of the municipality Mischendorf in southern Burgenland, Austria. It is part of the district Oberwart.
Data
Population: 243 (2001)
Altitude: 265 m above sea level.
Postal Code: 7503
Vehicle Registration: OW
Neuhaus in der Wart was founded as a Croatian village in the sixteenth century, the time the first settlers arrived. According to tradition, the settlers came from a farmstead between Kirchfidisch and Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg. The original name was Dobrava from which the Hungarian names Dobra and Őridobra were derived. The German name Neuhaus came from the subsequent German settlers. According to an 1852 document, the school was made of wood, it was rebuilt in 1870.
After the canonical visitation in 1760, a chapel and a nearby bell tower were built in 1836, dedicated to St. Anthony. Mayor Ferdinand Obojkovics ordered a new church built in the mid-1900s. In the course of a local government reform, the former communities Mischendorf, Kotezicken, Kleinbachselten, Großbachselten, Rohrbach an der Teich and Neuhaus were merged to the present municipality of Mischendorf.
Cities and towns in Oberwart District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedemann%20Mattern | Friedemann Mattern (born 28 July 1955) is a German scientist.
After studying computer science with a minor in communication sciences at the University of Bonn, Mattern became a VLSI design and parallelism researcher at Kaiserslautern University of Technology.
He got his doctorate degree in 1989 after writing a dissertation on distributed algorithms. In 1991 Mattern was offered a teaching position at Saarland University in Saarbrücken; in 1994 he moved to the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. In 1999 Mattern responded to ETH Zurich's call for the establishment of a Ubiquitous Computing research group. Since fall 2002, he has been on the Institute for Pervasive Computing Founding Board. Currently he is in charge of the Distributed Systems program at ETH Zurich. Mattern is also a co-founder of the common M-Lab Competency Center at ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen.
Together with Colin Fidge, he developed the vector clock algorithm, which allows one to generate a partial ordering of events in a distributed system and to detect causality violations.
Publications
Distributed Algorithms for Termination Detection
Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems
Detecting Causal Relationships in Distributed Computations: In Search of the Holy Grail
Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing
Vom Verschwinden des Computers - Die Vision des Ubiquitous Computing
Das Internet der Dinge: Ubiquitous Computing und RFID in der Praxis. Visionen, Technologien, Anwendungen, Handlungsanleitungen ( 2005, Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, ) (as editor alongside Elgar Fleisch)
References
German computer scientists
1955 births
Living people
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
Academic staff of ETH Zurich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrose | Windrose can refer to:
Wind rose, a meteorologist's graphic tool
Compass rose, a compass subdivision
Compass rose network, a network composed by a group of Compass roses emerging from hexadecagon vertices
Maupin Windrose, an American glider design
Windrose 5.5, an American sailboat design
Wind Rose Aviation, a Ukrainian airline |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comber%20Greenway | The Comber Greenway is a traffic-free section of the National Cycle Network that runs along the old Belfast-Comber railway line. The cycle path starts on Dee Street in east Belfast and finishes at Comber in County Down. As well as a cycling path, it is also popular with people on foot. The most recent addition to the route was in November 2008 when the final link between Old Dundonald Road/Comber Rd junction and Comber was opened. This added to the route. One section runs through a SLNCI-designated Wetland ecosystem.
Route
The traffic-free route starts at Dee Street in East Belfast and passes the C. S. Lewis statue at the Holywood Arches, along the Bloomfield Walkway to Sandown Road where it continues past the PSNI headquarters to a newly installed toucan crossing at the Knock Road.
From here it goes to Kings Road and on to Abbey Road, through Tullycarnet and Ardcarn to East Link Road in Dundonald.
It continues through a wetland area emerging at the Comber Road, Dundonald where there is a toucan crossing.
The route continues from Comber Road, Dundonald past the Billy Neill Centre for Soccer Excellence where the former railway line passes near the Enler River. Walkers and cyclists can cross the River Enler and farm lanes by a series of reinstated bridges before reaching its end at Belfast Road, Comber.
On its route the Greenway passes through former Belfast and County Down Railway stations at , , , before finishing just short of Comber station.
History
The current route of the Greenway was originally the main line of the Belfast and County Down Railway. The railway was in use from 1850s until 1950 when the Ulster Transport Authority closed it. Through the 1950s the track was lifted in phases and infrastructure, including bridges, removed. The remains of Neill's Hill station survive near Sandown Road behind Clara Park and Sandhill Gardens.
In 1964 it was proposed that a section of what is now the Greenway be utilised for the M7 Motorway project. This motorway was not built. The Belfast Urban Area Plan 2001 included a proposal for a smaller-scale road along the same route, but that was never built either.
By late in the century the Greenway had become a recreation path for walkers, cyclists etc. In 2003–04 the Knock Valley Relief Sewer was installed from Ballymacarett to Dundonald resulting in substantial excavation along the path. Subsequently a number of government agencies contributed funds to upgrade the Greenway with a modern hard surface, road crossings and, with the opening of the section alongside Police Headquarters, a continuous route from inner Belfast to Comber. It was officially opened on 8 November 2008.
EWAY proposal
As part of the Belfast Metropolitan Transport Plan 2015 published in November 2004, a rapid transport scheme was proposed for three routes in Belfast. The route to the east of the city, dubbed EWAY, proposed utilising the Greenway for either a light rail or bus link for Belfast.
Consultants Atkins and KPMG s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Wings | Discovery Wings may refer to:
Wings (Discovery Channel TV series), a long-running educational series on the Discovery Channel
American Heroes Channel, a U.S. cable television network; formerly "Military Channel", and before that "Discovery Wings".
Discovery Wings (UK), a UK television channel, which was replaced by Discovery Turbo in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20play | A television play is a television programming genre which is a drama performance broadcast from a multi-camera television studio, usually live in the early days of television but later recorded to tape. This is in contrast to a television movie, which employs the single-camera setup of film production.
United Kingdom
From the 1950s until the early 1980s, the television play was a television programming genre in the United Kingdom. The genre was often associated with the social realist-influenced British drama style known as "kitchen sink realism", which depicted the social issues facing working-class families. Armchair Theatre (ABC, later Thames, 1956–1974), The Wednesday Play (BBC, 1964–1970) and Play for Today (BBC, 1970–1984) received praise from critics for their quality.
Armchair Theatre: 1956–1974
Armchair Theatre was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 until 1968 in its original form, and was intermittently resurrected in the following few years until 1973. The Canadian producer Sydney Newman, who was ABC's Head of Drama from 1958 to 1962, turned Armchair Theatre into a vehicle for the generation of 'Angry Young Men' who tackled many difficult and controversial subjects in the realistic 'kitchen sink' style.
The programme was networked nationally on ITV on Sunday evenings, and often drew large audiences. Over 450 plays were made and broadcast under the Armchair... banner from 1956 to 1980. Among the best-known plays were No Trams to Lime Street (1959) by Alun Owen, and A Night Out (1960) by Harold Pinter.
Armchair Theatre was an important influence over later similar programmes such as the BBC's The Wednesday Play (1964–1970). This latter programme was initiated by Sydney Newman as a deliberate attempt to echo the success of Armchair Theatre after he had moved to the BBC in 1963.
The Wednesday Play: 1964–1970
The Wednesday Play ran on BBC1 from 1964 to 1970 originated by Sydney Newman, by now the head of BBC Drama, with the policy of commissioned plays being "relevant to the lives of a mainstream popular audience." The goal was to find or commission work that "would be fast...telling an exciting narrative sparely" using material "that would more accurately reflect the experience of the audience." The series' producers, including James MacTaggart, hired "fresh new writers", whose new ideas led to the series gaining "the reputation for 'controversy' and 'outrage'." He also wanted to get away from the BBC's reputation of producing very 'safe' and unchallenging drama programmes, to produce something with more bite and vigour.
The series gained a reputation for presenting original contemporary social dramas, although adaptations from other sources also featured, and brought political issues to the attention of a mass audience. Director Ken Loach made two highly regarded plays for the series: an adaptation of Nell Dunn's Up the Junction (1965) and Cathy Come Home (1966), the documentary-st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphanet | Orphanet is an organisation and knowledge base dedicated to rare diseases as well as corresponding diagnosis, orphan drugs, clinical trials and expert networks.
Orphanet was founded in France in 1997 by Inserm, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. The website is managed by a network of academic establishments from 40 countries, led by Inserm, and is a European Union Health Programme Joint Action. It contains content for both physicians and patients. Its administrative office is in Paris and its official medical journal is the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases published on its behalf by BioMed Central. , the site provides information on over 6,100 rare diseases and 5,400 genes.
Available information
Orphanet is an online database with the goal of gathering, providing and improving knowledge on rare diseases and to improve the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients with rare diseases. By listing rare diseases, and maintaining a standard nomenclature of rare diseases (ORPHAcodes), Orphanet contributes to making them more visible in health and research information systems. The information is available in the following languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Czech. The website does not feature any advertising.
Rare disease directory
There are various possibilities to search for diseases affecting less than 1 person per 2000 (based on data from Europe). The search is either possible by entering the name of the disease, such as progeria for instance, to receive information about the prevalence and a definition.
A specific disease can also be searched for by entering the ICD code, the OMIM code or the name of the gene associated with the disease.
Diagnostic tests and testing facility directory
Information on diagnostic tests conducted in order to establish a diagnosis of a rare disease and laboratories with the technical competence to carry them out can be found in the section diagnostic tests. Constitutional genetic tests are also registered for non-rare diseases, for diseases with a genetic susceptibility and for pharmacogenetics. Searches can be conducted either by country, speciality, objective, technique or purpose.
Professional and institution directory
Professionals
Professionals working in the field of rare diseases can be found in this section, if they have agreed to be listed. It is possible to find consultants and physicians in charge of an expert centre, biologists in laboratories, researchers, patient organisation representatives, coordinators of networks, principal investigators of clinical trials, managers or contact persons of registries and biobanks.
Institutions
The list of institutions includes for example, institutions hosting expert centres, research or clinical laboratories, patient organisations, institutions hosting registries or biobanks. The information displayed is provided by the professionals working in the institution who have agreed to be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Italy | Network Italy (Rete Italia) is a Christian-democratic association connected to Popular Alternative (AP), a political party in Italy, and earlier to The People of Freedom. Most of its members, including its long-time leader Roberto Formigoni, are members of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation (CL).
History
The political involvement of large chunks of CL dates back to the Seventies. In 1975 Formigoni organised the Popular Movement (MP) as a faction within Christian Democracy (DC). In January 1994, when the DC was dissolved, its members joined the Italian People's Party (PPI) and, a year later, they founded the United Christian Democrats (CDU), along with Rocco Buttiglione. Formigoni, who had been elected President of Lombardy in April 1995 thanks to the support of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI), was appointed president of the CDU at the party's founding congress in July. In 1998, when Buttiglione temporarily aligned his party with the centre-left in support of D'Alema I Cabinet (through the Democratic Union for the Republic, UDR), Formigoni and his followers (known as Formigoniani) formed the Christian Democrats for Freedom (CDL). When Buttiglione re-established the CDU and re-positioned it in the centre-right, joining the House of Freedoms coalition in 2000, Formigoni, his Formigoniani and many regional councillors from northern regions had already joined FI.
In 2006 Network Italy was organized as an association within Forza Italia. Leading members of the faction, whose powerbase was in Lombardy, have included Maurizio Lupi, Mario Mauro, Giancarlo Abelli, Adriano Paroli, Maurizio Bernardo, Mario Malossini, Raffaello Vignali, Aldo Brandirali and Mario Sala.
In 2009 the association, along with Forza Italia, joined The People of Freedom (PdL) party.
In November 2010, during a convention in Milan, Formigoni formed an alliance with other two party bigwigs, Raffaele Fitto and Angelino Alfano. The aim of the initiative was to reinforce the Catholic image of the party. The ties with Franco Frattini's Liberamente and Gianni Alemanno's New Italy were reinforced too.
In December 2012 Mauro, who had been the FI/PdL leader in the European Parliament since 1999, broke with the PdL and joined Civic Choice (SC).
In November 2013, upon the transformation of the PdL into a new Forza Italia, the entire faction joined Alfano's New Centre-Right (NCD).
In March 2017 the NCD was dissolved into Popular Alternative (AP).
References
External links
Official website
Organisations associated with The People of Freedom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siska%20%28TV%20series%29 | Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3 and rebroadcast on 13th Street. It is a police drama and follows the adventures of Peter Siska, a police officer of Munich, and later Victor Siska.
Cast
Peter Kremer: Police Officer Peter Siska (Episodes 1–56, 1998–2004)
Matthias Freihof: Police Officer Lorenz Wiegand (Episodes 1–50, 1998–2003)
Robinson Reichel: Police Officer Felix Bender (Episodes 51–56, 2003)
Tobias Nath: Police Officer Gerhard Lessmann (Episodes 57–77, 2005–2007)
Wolfgang Maria Bauer: Police Officer Viktor Siska (Episodes 57–91, 2004–2008)
Werner Schnitzer: Police Officer Jacob Hahne (since 1998–2008)
Dirk Plönissen: Police Officer Robert Dahlberg (since 2007–2008)
References
External links
1998 German television series debuts
2008 German television series endings
German crime television series
1990s German police procedural television series
2000s German police procedural television series
German drama television series
Television shows set in Munich
German-language television shows
ZDF original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20Institute%20of%20Technology%20School%20of%20Interactive%20Computing | The School of Interactive Computing is an academic unit located within the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). It conducts both research and teaching activities related to interactive computing at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These activities focus on computing's interaction with users and the environment, as well as how computers impact the quality of people's lives.
History
The School of Interactive Computing was formed in February 2007, when the former Interactive & Intelligent Computing Division was renamed and promoted to "School" status. Aaron Bobick was appointed as the school's first chair. Along with its sibling academic unit, the School of Computer Science, the School of Interactive Computing represents the first time a college-level computing program has delineated the field into separate but related bodies of study. In July 2012, Annie Antón, formerly at North Carolina State University, replaced Bobick as school chair.
Degrees offered
The School of Interactive Computing offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees in several fields. These degrees are technically granted by the School's parent organization, the Georgia Tech College of Computing, and often awarded in conjunction with other academic units within Georgia Tech.
Doctoral degrees
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Ph.D. in Machine Learning
Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing
Ph.D. in Robotics
Master's degrees
M.S. in Computer Science
M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Bachelor's degrees
B.S. in Computational Media
B.S. in Computer Science
Research
The faculty and students of the School conduct a variety of research in areas including cognitive science, computer vision, human-computer interaction, learning sciences, machine learning, natural language processing, and robotics. A common theme across research is an emphasis on interactive computing, which is an increasingly recognized term for describing a class of research problems that sit at the intersection of computing and the human environment.
Notable faculty
Location
The School of Interactive Computing's administrative offices, as well as those of most of its faculty and graduate students, are located in the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) at Technology Square in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, just east of the Institute's main campus. TSRB also houses the GVU Center and RIM@GT, two interdisciplinary research centers with which many School of Interactive Computing personnel are affiliated.
See also
Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
GVU Center
RIM@GT
References
External links
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing
Computing
Human–computer interaction
Information schools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aria%20%28storage%20engine%29 | Aria is a storage engine for the MariaDB and MySQL relational database management systems. Its goal is to make a crash-safe alternative to MyISAM. It is not transactional.
Aria has been in development since 2007 and was first announced by Michael "Monty" Widenius on his blog. Aria is used for internal temporary tables in MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database led by Widenius. Aria is not shipped with MySQL or Percona Server.
The Maria project is hosted on Launchpad.
Aria was initially named "Maria", as a reference to Monty's youngest child.
It was renamed Aria in 2010 to avoid confusion with the main database it is developed for, MariaDB. Chris Tooley, who won a contest to suggest the name, wrote, "Aria is Maria without the 'M'; also it is a pleasant musical term."
Features
Aria is very similar to MyISAM, but its purpose is to be a crash-safe alternative to MyISAM.
Aria does not support foreign keys and, currently, transactions.
Aria supports:
Fulltext indexes;
OpenGIS data types;
Virtual columns.
Files structure
Non-partitioned Aria tables consist of three physical files:
table_name.frm
table_name.MAD
table_name.MAI
The .frm file contains the table definition (this file exists for all storage engines which write data to disk). The .MAD file contains the data. The .MAI file contains the indexes.
Formats
Three table formats are available for Aria tables:
PAGE;
FIXED;
DYNAMIC.
PAGE is the only format available for "transactional" tables. It makes Aria tables crash-safe.
FIXED and DYNAMIC are the same formats used by MyISAM, and have been mainly implemented for compatibility. However, MyISAM's COMPRESSED format is not available in Aria.
In order to set the table format, one can use the ROW_FORMAT option in a CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE command.
See also
Falcon
InnoDB
MyISAM
XtraDB
References
External links
Aria in the MariaDB KnowledgeBase
The Maria engine is released - written by Michael Widenius (founder of MySQL AB)
Maria: The new MySQL Storage Engine at Google Videos - A talk given by Michael Widenius
Database engines
MySQL
MariaDB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20headset | Headsets connect over a telephone or to a computer, allowing the user to speak and listen while keeping both hands free. They are commonly used in customer service and technical support centers, where employees can converse with customers while typing information into a computer. Also common among computer gamers are headsets, which will let them talk with each other and hear others, as well as use their keyboards and mice to play the game.
Types
Telephone headsets generally use loudspeakers with a narrower frequency range than those also used for entertainment. Stereo computer headsets, on the other hand, use 32-ohm speakers with a broader frequency range.
Mono and stereo
Headsets are available in single-earpiece and double-earpiece designs. Double-earpiece headsets may support stereo sound or use the same monaural audio channel for both ears. Single-earpiece headsets free up one ear, allowing better awareness of surroundings. Telephone headsets are monaural, even for double-earpiece designs, because telephone offers only single-channel input and output.
Microphone style
The microphone arm of headsets may carry an external microphone or be of the voice tube type. External microphone designs have the microphone housed in the front end of the microphone arm. Voicetube designs are also called internal microphone design, and have the microphone housed near the earpiece, with a tube carrying sound to the microphone.
Most external microphone designs are of either omnidirectional or noise-canceling type. Noise-canceling microphone headsets use a bi-directional microphone as elements. A bi-directional microphone's receptive field has two angles only. Its receptive field is limited to only the front and the direct opposite back of the microphone. This creates an "8" shape field, and this design is the best method for picking up sound only from a close proximity of the user, while not picking up most surrounding noises.
Omni-directional microphones pick up the complete 360-degree field, which may include much extraneous noise.
Headband styles
Standard headsets with a headband worn over the head are known as over-the-head headsets. Headsets with headbands going over the back of the user's neck are known as backwear-headsets or behind-the-neck headsets. Headsets worn over the ear with a soft ear-hook are known as over-the-ear headsets or earloop headsets. Convertible headsets are designed so that users can change the wearing method by re-assembling various parts. There are also under-the-chin headsets similar to the headphones that stenographers wear.
Earpiece styles
Headsets earpieces may be for either one or both ears. They generally come with one of 3 styles:
in-the-ear -- these have a small speaker contained in an earbud that fits inside the outer portion of the ear canal.
on-the-ear -- these have a flat speaker (often cushioned) that sits on the external ear.
around-the-ear -- these have a larger, cushioned earpad that fits around the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20Institute%20of%20Technology%20School%20of%20Computer%20Science | The School of Computer Science is an academic unit located within the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). It conducts both research and teaching activities related to computer science at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These activities focus on the roots of the computing discipline, including mathematical foundations and system building principles and practices.
History
The School of Computer Science was formed in February 2007, when the former Computing Science and Systems Division was renamed and promoted to "School" status. Ellen Zegura was appointed as the school's first chair. Along with its sibling academic unit, the School of Interactive Computing, the School of Computer Science represents the first time a college-level computing program has delineated the field into separate but related bodies of study. In July 2012, Lance Fortnow, formerly at Northwestern University, replaced Zegura as school chair. During Fornow's time as chair, the number of pre-tenure faculty in the school more than doubled, and the total faculty grew to 37 members. Fortnow departed his role as chair in 2019 to accept a position as Dean of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mostafa Ammar served as interim chair until Vivek Sarkar was named school chair in July 2020.
Degrees offered
The School of Computer Science offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees in several fields. These degrees are technically granted by the School's parent organization, the Georgia Tech College of Computing, and often awarded in conjunction with other academic units within Georgia Tech.
Doctoral degrees
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Ph.D. in Bioengineering
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics
Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics & Optimization
Master's degrees
M.S. in Computer Science
M.S. in Bioengineering
M.S. in Information Security
Bachelor's degrees
B.S. in Computer Science
Notable faculty
Tom Conte
Lance Fortnow
Richard J. Lipton
Ralph Merkle
Dana Randall
Vijay Vazirani
Karsten Schwan
Santosh Vempala
Location
The School of Computer Science's administrative offices were located in the College of Computing Building on Georgia Tech's Central Campus. Additionally, many College of Computing faculty and graduate students had offices in this building until recently. In 2006, the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, donated by Georgia Tech alum Chris Klaus, was completed to provide additional offices, laboratories, and classrooms for the College of Computing. All of the School of Computer Science personnel have since moved to the second and third floor of the Klaus Building.
See also
Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
GVU Center
References
External links
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Computer Science
Computer Science
Computer science departments in the United States
Educational institutions established in 2007
2007 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20VeggieTales%20characters | This is a list of characters from VeggieTales, an American computer-generated children's series and franchise. The series presents life lessons from a biblical world view featuring various garden-variety vegetable characters retelling Bible stories and parodying pop culture. Many of the main characters were established in the early episodes of the direct-to-video series, such as Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber, Junior Asparagus and Laura Carrot, among a bushel of other produce.
Main characters
Bob the Tomato
Voiced by Phil Vischer (1993–2022)
Bob the Tomato (introduced 1993) is a friendly but slightly high-strung tomato and host of VeggieTales. As the creator and original voice of the character, Phil Vischer often cites Bob as being "my inner Mr. Rogers...though a frustrated Mr. Rogers, because he couldn’t get things to go as smoothly." Alongside his best friend, Larry the Cucumber, the pair introduce and wrap-up almost every show and respond to viewer mail on a kitchen countertop. Bob plays character roles in the story segments and other times is simply the narrator or storyteller. He also has a tech-savvy superhero alter-ego Thingamabob, who is a member of the League of Incredible Vegetables. Bob also partakes in some of the "Silly Songs with Larry" segments, even performing his own Silly Song, "Lance the Turtle."
Bob made his first appearance in a 1992 short entitled "VeggieTales Promo: Take 38," where he gives a passionate speech pitching the concept of VeggieTales to potential investors. Eventually, he made his public debut in 1993 with the episode "Where's God When I'm S-Scared?." Bob plays himself in "Tales from the Crisper", where he tries to comfort Junior Asparagus with the song "God is Bigger." The end of this episode also started a running gag in which Bob gets interrupted by the "What We Have Learned" wrap-up song. He regularly gets annoyed having to wait for the song to finish so he and Larry can then discuss the lesson of the show and receive a Bible verse from Qwerty.
In the Netflix original series VeggieTales in the House and VeggieTales in the City, Bob is seen living with Larry inside a small Veggie-sized house inside a human-sized house on the kitchen countertop from the original direct-to-video series. He is portrayed engaging in slice of life activities instead of focusing on hosting the show. Bob also has various jobs, mostly working part-time at Pa Grape's General Store. At the end of the series, Bob becomes the owner. Bob is also shown to have an affinity for sock collecting and weather observation. For The VeggieTales Show, Bob acts more like he did in the original series, acting as the director and master of ceremonies for the stage shows the Veggies put on in Mr. Nezzer's theater. Here, his role is much more akin to that of Kermit the Frog from The Muppet Show, which was a direct inspiration for this series. Bob also reprises his role as Thingamabob in the "LarryBoy" episodes.
Larry the Cucumber
Voiced by Mi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaseMap | CaseMap Cloud is a cloud-based relational database software designed to allow law offices to organise evidence.
Background
Launched in 1998 as CaseMap, the software was originally written as a Microsoft Access application by an attorney in Florida, who sought to better manage the facts in his cases. It includes database tables (the program's documentation refers to them as spreadsheets) for facts, issues, documents, physical evidence, depositions, pleadings, persons, organizations, places, and other types of the data. The program's documentation refers to these types of data as objects. Using the program involves linking the various sources of evidence (e.g., documents, depositions, and persons) to facts that are relevant in the case, and to the issues to be decided in the case. The facts table can be sorted by date to provide a chronology of the facts.
The use of large volumes of digital evidence and e-discovery in modern litigation has led law offices to increase their use of litigation support programs such as CaseMap.
CaseMap is owned by LexisNexis. The current version is CaseMap Cloud.
Prior to being purchased by LexisNexis, CaseMap was produced by CaseSoft. For a period in the mid 2000s, CaseMap was part of a larger case management solution set referred to as "Best of Breed". The group included CaseMap, Concordance, Synge and Ipro as part of a suite of products for managing litigation document review and fact management.
See also
LexisNexis
References
External links
Official website
CaseMap 13 Documentation
Legal software
Intellectual property law
RELX
E-government |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slony-I | Slony-I is an asynchronous master-slave replication system for the PostgreSQL DBMS, providing support for cascading and failover. Asynchronous means that when a database transaction has been committed to the master server, it is not yet guaranteed to be available in slaves. Cascading means that replicas can be created (and updated) via other replicas, i.e. they needn't directly connect to the master.
Terminology
The name "slony" comes from the Russian word "слоны" which means "elephants". This is a reference to the PostgreSQL elephant logo, as well as being a "tip of the hat" to Vadim Mikheev, who came up with some of the core ideas Slony-I uses to work. Note that there is a whole set of related terminology:
slony
is the plural word for elephants, and indicates that a cluster consists of multiple databases
slon
is the singular word for elephant; each replication node is managed by a program named "slon", which aggregate together into the aforementioned "cluster of elephants"
slonik
is the word for a "little elephant," and is the name of the program used to configure the cluster. In effect, the "little elephant" tells the cluster, "here's what you need to do!"
Unique features
Unlike many other replication solutions for PostgreSQL, Slony-I is not tied to any particular version of the database, which makes it possible to upgrade a database cluster one node at a time, without material downtime. (Version 2.0.0 requires PostgreSQL 8.3+, though)
See also
PostgreSQL
Replication (computer science)
References
External links
Slony-I official website
Slony tutorial: How to Setup Slony-I Replication with Postgres Plus
Data synchronization
PostgreSQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.A.%20Heritage%20Trails%20Network | The W.A. Heritage Trails Network is a network of heritage trails and places in Western Australia that was initially funded by the Australian Commonwealth/State Bicentennial Commemorative Program for the 1988 Australian Bicentenary. In many cases local communities and councils collaborated with the National Trust of Australia (WA) to research and develop local trails.
The production of signage and literature for the 1988 celebrations set significant standards for heritage identification for the state of Western Australia.
The network was overseen by the W.A. Heritage Committee at the time; the committee became the Heritage Council of Western Australia.
The trails included walk trails, and others that spanned distances requiring a vehicle to traverse.
The trails were grouped into regions - South Metropolitan and North Metropolitan in Perth, Midlands (including parts of the Wheatbelt region), South West and other regions of Western Australia.
Trails
Albany Heritage Trail - titled First settlement Heritage Trail
Arthur Head Heritage Trail (Fremantle)
Augusta-Busselton Heritage Trail
Broome Heritage Trail
Guildford to York Heritage Trail
Moora Heritage Trail
New Norcia Heritage Trail
Perth
Central Perth Heritage Trail
East Perth Heritage Trail
Northbridge Heritage Trail
West Perth Heritage Trail
South coast Heritage Trail
Subiaco Heritage Trail
Swan River Heritage Trail
Swan Valley Heritage Trail
Toodyay Pioneer Heritage Trail
Yarloop Heritage Trail
York Heritage Trail
York to Goldfields Heritage Trail
See also
List of heritage buildings in Perth, Western Australia
References
1988 establishments in Australia
Heritage trails in Western Australia
Australian bicentennial commemorations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFAD | WFAD (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Middlebury, Vermont, United States. The station is owned by Christian Ministries Inc. and is part of The Light, a network of six FM stations and one AM station, as well as five associated FM translators, carrying a Christian radio format.
History
On the air, off and on again
Frank Alvin Delle, Jr., and Donald G. Fisher were initially granted on April 20, 1966, a construction permit for a new 1,000-watt radio station on 1490 kHz in Middlebury, for which they had filed more than four years prior. The station signed on shortly before noon on July 22, 1966, airing a full-service format and became affiliated with CBS. The studio facilities were so small that the Associated Press teletype machine was in the bathroom.
Almost immediately after the station opened, however, a legal problem emerged. WIPS, a radio station on 1250 kHz at Ticonderoga, New York, appealed the grant of the permit to Delle and Fisher. WIPS claimed that the new competitor would cause economic harm and make their business economically unviable, and on a 2–1 vote by a three-judge panel, they won a restraining order from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on August 3. The ruling raised the likelihood that an order would force the brand-new station off the air; WFAD continued to broadcast until it received a telegram from the Federal Communications Commission at 2:35 p.m. on August 5, instructing it to cease operations.
WFAD launched a legal and public opinion campaign to allow the station to go forward, which included a petition signed by 5,000 residents of Addison County. The appeals court found in favor of WFAD and upheld the commission's grant of a construction permit on December 13. The court's action enabled WFAD to return to the air on Christmas Day.
Brady, Straus and Brady
Fisher, a 45 percent stockholder in licensee The Voice of Middlebury, Inc., sold his stake to Delle in 1970. After the sale, Delle told people that the WFAD call letters, which had initially been for "Frank and Don", instead represented his initials. Three years later, Addison Broadcasting, owned by Mark Brady and Timothy Buskey, acquired WFAD for $150,000; Buskey would sell his stake to Brady in 1976. Under Brady-Buskey ownership, WFAD launched an FM sister station, oldies-formatted WCVM (100.9 FM), on April 2, 1975, and moved to larger studio quarters. Also during this time, in the late 1970s, Jim Douglas, a Vermont state legislator, would join the WFAD announcing staff, working at the station to supplement his legislative salary; he would be elected Governor of Vermont in 2002, serving for eight years. New studios on U.S. Route 7 were completed in 1983.
After 14 years, the Brady family sold WFAD and WCVM to Straus Communications of New York City for $1.1 million. Straus made a series of decisions that alienated listeners of WFAD and WCVM, capped by a 1990 format flip to a country simulcast on both frequencies; in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Breaking%20Bad%20episodes | Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created by Vince Gilligan, which premiered in 2008 on the cable network AMC. The story is about Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a 50-year-old high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After White is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he uses his chemistry expertise to cook crystal meth, assisted by his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to secure his family's (played by Anna Gunn and RJ Mitte) inheritance before he dies.
The pilot episode was first aired on January 20, 2008, and the series finale, was broadcast on September 29, 2013. Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes, which consisted of several one- to five-minute clips, released 17 short episodes over the course of three years throughout Breaking Bads run.
On October 11, 2019, Netflix released El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, a feature film continuation of Breaking Bad, written and directed by Gilligan. An additional short film Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short was released on February 17, 2020.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2008)
Season 2 (2009)
Season 3 (2010)
Season 4 (2011)
Season 5 (2012–13)
Film
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is a film written and directed by series creator Vince Gilligan that serves as a continuation of the television series. It was released on October 11, 2019, on Netflix and was broadcast on AMC on February 16, 2020. The film centers around Jesse Pinkman, and takes place both during his captivity at the hands of the Aryan Brotherhood and after his escape in the Breaking Bad series finale.
Other media
Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes (2009–2011)
Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes is a web series based on the television series Breaking Bad. A total of 17 "minisodes", which are more comedy-oriented than most full episodes, were released over the course of three years.
Season 1 (2009)
On February 17, 2009, five "mini-episodes" were made available online before the premiere of the show's second season. These five were eventually included with Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season.
Season 2 (2010)
Before Breaking Bads third season, ten more webisodes were released, each mostly focused on Saul Goodman.
Season 3 (2011)
Additional minisodes were produced before the premiere of Breaking Bads fourth season; two would eventually be released.
Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short (2020)
In conjunction with the television premiere of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie on AMC, the network released a three-minute short film Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short on its official YouTube account on February 17, 2020.
Ratings
See also
List of Better Call Saul episodes
Notes
References
External links
Lists of American crime drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indians%20in%20Portugal | Indians in Portugal, including recent immigrants and people who trace their ancestry back to India, together number around 80,000 (2018 data) -120,000 (2021 data). Between 2018 and 2022 around 32,000 Indians entered the country, settling mostly in Lisbon and Porto. They thus constitute 0.76% - 1.15% of the total population of Portugal.
Indians are also found in the Algarve, Coimbra, Guarda, Leiria, Odemira and Rio Maior.
The majority of Indians in Portugal consist of Goans, Gujaratis, Tamilians, Malayali people from Daman and Diu, Tamil Nadu and most recently Punjabis.
The 2010s, particularly the second half of the decade, saw the start of a new immigration wave of Indians to Portugal, as well as of citizens of other South Asian nationals - namely Nepalis, Bengalis and Pakistanis - propelled mainly by the need of unskilled agricultural workers.
History
In sixteenth century southern Portugal, there were Chinese slaves but the number of them was described as "negligible", being outnumbered by East Indian, Mourisco, and African slaves. Amerindians, Chinese, Malays, and Indians were slaves in Portugal but in far fewer number than Turks, Berbers and Arabs. China and Malacca were origins of slaves delivered to Portugal by Portuguese viceroys.
A Portuguese woman, Dona Ana de Ataíde owned an Indian man named António as a slave in Évora. He served as a cook for her. Ana de Ataíde's Indian slave escaped from her in 1587. A large number of slaves were forcibly brought there since the commercial, artisanal, and service sectors all flourished in a regional capital like Évora. Rigorous and demanding tasks were assigned to Mourisco, Chinese, and Indian slaves. Chinese, Mouriscos, and Indians were among the ethnicities of prized slaves and were much more expensive compared to blacks, so high class individuals owned these ethnicities.
A fugitive Indian slave from Evora named António went to Badajoz after leaving his master in 1545. António was among the three most common male names given to male slaves in Evora.
Antão Azedo took an Indian slave named Heitor to Evora, who along with another slave was from Bengal were among the 34 Indian slaves in total who were owned by Tristão Homem, a nobleman in 1544 in Evora. Manuel Gomes previously owned a slave who escaped in 1558 at age 18 and he was said to be from the "land of Prester John of the Indias" named Diogo.
In Evora, men were owned and used as slaves by female establishments like convents for nuns. A capelão do rei, father João Pinto left an Indian man in Porto where he was picked up in 1546 by the Evora-based Santa Marta convent's nuns to serve as their slave. However, female slaves did not serve in male establishments, unlike vice versa.
Japanese Christian Daimyos mainly responsible for selling to the Portuguese their fellow Japanese. Japanese women and Japanese men, Javanese, Chinese, and Indians were all sold as slaves in Portugal.
Traits such as high intelligence were ascribed to Indians, Chines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer%20Ireland | Volunteer Ireland is an Irish national volunteer development organisation, which supports a network of local Volunteer Centres and Volunteering Information Services in Ireland.
History
Volunteer Ireland began as two organisations, Volunteer Centres Ireland and Volunteering Ireland, which were merged in 2011. In 2000 some of the older volunteer centres, including what is now the South Dublin County Volunteer Centre, the Volunteer Centre Fingal and Volunteering Ireland, came together to discuss common issues and goals. In 2001, it was decided to formalise this grouping and Volunteer Centres Ireland (VCI) was formed. VCI adopted a constitution, membership criteria and agreed aims and objectives.
The VCI lobbied government to support a national infrastructure of volunteer centres, as part of the recommendations in Tipping the Balance (2002). In January 2005, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Volunteering published its report, Volunteers and Volunteering in Ireland, in which it specifically recommended that the existing volunteering infrastructure be developed through VCI and Volunteering Ireland. A few months later, the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs announced a package of funding measures to fund this organisational infrastructure. The department extended funding to all the volunteer centres and VCI received funding to employ a national development officer.
On 28 January 2009, VCI addressed the Oireachtas Subcommittee on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht affairs on volunteering trends in Ireland.
Volunteer Ireland receives funding from the Department of Rural and Community Development, and is a member of European Volunteer Centre, the International Association for Volunteer Effort and Points of Light.
Activities
Volunteer Ireland release research and data on volunteering and volunteers in Ireland. In 2012, they claimed that volunteers in Ireland saved the Irish government millions of euro, and that volunteers had contributed free labour over the preceding 2 years that was worth €22.7 million. They run the I-VOL phone app, which allows people to find volunteering opportunities in their area.
In 2018 and 2019 they reported that the average age of volunteers was getting younger year-on-year. In 2019, Volunteer Ireland partnered with Dublin Airport to pilot a scheme, Fáilte Abhaile/Welcome Volunteers, during which volunteers welcomed and assisted those arriving into the airport over the Christmas period. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Volunteer Ireland was involved in large scale recruiting of volunteers to help with supporting the HSE and other government departments. Activities were coordinated through the network of Volunteer Centres.
National Volunteering Week
The organisation run an annual awareness week, the National Volunteering Week, each May since 2012. In 2017, they estimate that roughly 500,000 people in Ireland volunteer in some capacity annually.
Volunteer Ireland Awards
Volunteer Ireland have held an an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity%20billing%20in%20the%20UK | In the United Kingdom, an electricity supplier is a retailer of electricity. For each supply point the supplier has to pay the various costs of transmission, distribution, meter operation, data collection, tax etc. The supplier then adds in energy costs and the supplier's own charge. Regulation of the charging of customers is covered by the industry regulator Ofgem.
MSP and GSP
MSP kWh is the amount of electricity consumed at the 'meter supply point', which is the customer's meter. GSP kWh is obtained by multiplying the MSP kWh by the Line Loss Factor (LLF, a figure > 1) to include the amount of electricity lost when it is conducted through the distribution network, from the 'grid supply point' to the customer's meter. Some kWh elements of the bill are charged at MSP and some at GSP. The LLF for a particular supply depends on the distribution network operator (DNO) and the supply's characteristics and the time and date (day of week, season etc.).
The bill
The consumer pays the supplier according to an agreed tariff, or a default rate known as the "standard variable tariff". The tariff may include pass-through costs, which are amounts charged to the energy supplier and then "passed through" directly to the consumer.
Transmission charges
Transmission charges, known as "Transmission Network Use of System" (TNUoS), are paid to National Grid to cover the expense of running the grid. The charge is calculated annually using the TRIAD method for large levels of demand, or based on usage between 4pm and 7pm for smaller demand levels.
RCRC
Residual Cashflow Reallocation Cashflow (RCRC), also known as the 'beer fund', is the net remainder of Balancing & Settlement Code (BSC) Trading Charges for a given half-hour, which is payable to (in the case of a surplus) or by (in the case of a deficit) Trading Parties based on their market share of energy volume. These Trading Charges consist of:
Information Imbalance Charges – A charge per MWh on the difference between a BM Unit's Metered Volume and its Expected Metered Volume (based on Final Physical Notification plus Balancing Services Volume). Due to a zero price, this charge is always zero
System Operator BM Cashflow – A cashflow payable to or by the System Operator depending on whether BM Unit Cashflow plus Non-Delivery Charges is positive or negative, and is intended to keep BSCCo cash neutral
Non-Delivery Charges – A charge levied on the Lead Parties of BM Units that fail to satisfy a Bid-Offer Acceptance on the Balancing Mechanism
BM Unit Cashflow – A cashflow payable to or by Lead Parties of BM Units with Bid-Offer Acceptances
Imbalance Charges – A cashflow payable to or by Trading Parties with an Imbalance Volume
As Information Imbalance Charges are always zero, and System Operator BM Cashflow nets with Non-Delivery Charges and BM Unit Cashflow to zero, RCRC is effectively the net of Imbalance Cashflows.
Distribution charges
The distribution charges, known as the "distribution use of system" (DUo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Verplank | William "Bill" Lawrence Verplank is a designer and researcher who focuses on interactions between humans and computers. He is one of the pioneers of interaction design, a field of design that focuses on users and technology, and a term he helped coin in the 1980s. He was previously a visiting scholar at Stanford University's CCRMA and was involved in Stanford's d.school. He also teaches and lectures internationally on interaction design.
Career
Bill Verplank received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1965. Verplank then moved the same year to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to complete a PhD by 1977 in man-machine systems and studied with Thomas B. Sheridan.
He worked at Xerox Parc and Office Systems Divisions from 1978-1986 refining the design of the original graphical user interface and mouse, in the Xerox Star. He went on to work with Bill Moggridge, first at IDtwo and then at IDEO (1986–1992), bringing graphical user interfaces to the world of product design. Together with Bill Moggridge, they coined the term interaction design in the mid-1980s.
From 1992-2000 at Interval Research Corporation, he directed the design and research for collaboration, tangibility and music. When Interval Research closed in 2000, Verplank joined Stanford's University's CCRMA part-time with Max Mathews and developed a course on HCI for computer music and a conference (spun off from CHI) called NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression). He was on the steering committee and taught at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (2000–2005).
He is active in SIGCHI, a special interest group which is focused on human–computer interactions (HCI) and he helped write their curricula for the SIGCHI Academy.
An interview with Verplank, featuring his signature sketching while talking, is included in the book Designing Interactions (published in October 2006), with the e-book and website of the same publication including a video of Verplank.
References
External links
Podcast: The History of Interaction with Bill Verplank on The SpoolCast (Episode #58, 2008) with Jared Spool
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stanford University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Stanford University faculty
Human–computer interaction researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogensen%E2%80%93Scott%20encoding | In computer science, Scott encoding is a way to represent (recursive) data types in the lambda calculus. Church encoding performs a similar function. The data and operators form a mathematical structure which is embedded in the lambda calculus.
Whereas Church encoding starts with representations of the basic data types, and builds up from it, Scott encoding starts from the simplest method to compose algebraic data types.
Mogensen–Scott encoding extends and slightly modifies Scott encoding by applying the encoding to Metaprogramming. This encoding allows the representation of lambda calculus terms, as data, to be operated on by a meta program.
History
Scott encoding appears first in a set of unpublished lecture notes by Dana Scott
whose first citation occurs in the book Combinatorial Logic, Volume II. Michel Parigot gave a logical interpretation of and strongly normalizing recursor for Scott-encoded numerals, referring to them as the "Stack type" representation of numbers.
Torben Mogensen later extended Scott encoding for the encoding of Lambda terms as data.
Discussion
Lambda calculus allows data to be stored as parameters to a function that does not yet have all the parameters required for application. For example,
May be thought of as a record or struct where the fields have been initialized with the values . These values may then be accessed by applying the term to a function f. This reduces to,
c may represent a constructor for an algebraic data type in functional languages such as Haskell. Now suppose there are N constructors, each with arguments;
Each constructor selects a different function from the function parameters . This provides branching in the process flow, based on the constructor. Each constructor may have a different arity (number of parameters). If the constructors have no parameters then the set of constructors acts like an enum; a type with a fixed number of values. If the constructors have parameters, recursive data structures may be constructed.
Definition
Let D be a datatype with N constructors, , such that constructor has arity .
Scott encoding
The Scott encoding of constructor of the data type D is
Mogensen–Scott encoding
Mogensen extends Scott encoding to encode any untyped lambda term as data. This allows a lambda term to be represented as data, within a Lambda calculus meta program. The meta function mse converts a lambda term into the corresponding data representation of the lambda term;
The "lambda term" is represented as a tagged union with three cases:
Constructor a - a variable (arity 1, not recursive)
Constructor b - function application (arity 2, recursive in both arguments),
Constructor c - lambda-abstraction (arity 1, recursive).
For example,
Comparison to the Church encoding
The Scott encoding coincides with the Church encoding for booleans. Church encoding of pairs may be generalized to arbitrary data types by encoding of D above as
compare this to the Mogense |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWCL | DWCL (92.7 FM), broadcasting as 92.7 Brigada News FM, is a radio station owned by UBC Media (Love Radio Network) and operated by Brigada Mass Media Corporation. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the UBC Bldg., McArthur Highway, Brgy. Sindalan, San Fernando, Pampanga.
It was formerly known as Power 92.7, airing Christian Music from 1987 to 2015, when BMMC took over the station's operations. It initially served as a relay of its Luzon flagship station, being heard in most parts of Central Luzon. On September 14, 2015, the station launched its own local programming, featuring the top Central Luzon broadcasters of Newscasters, Reporters and DJ's, prompting the change to Pampanga-Central Luzon. In July 2023, the station was downgraded to a semi-satellite of 105.1 Brigada News FM based in Manila.
References
Radio stations in Pampanga
Radio stations established in 1987
2015 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtel%20Tanzania | Airtel Tanzania Limited is the third-largest mobile network operator in Tanzania operated by Airtel Africa, which is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel of India, behind Vodacom Tanzania and Tigo Tanzania. As of September 2017, Airtel Tanzania had 10.6 million voice subscribers. As of December 2017 according to data provided by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority, Airtel Tanzania controlled 27.1 percent of Tanzania's mobile telephone market by customer numbers, at that time estimated at 10.86 million.
The company is a component of Airtel Africa, the pan African mobile network operator and the largest mobile service provider in Africa outside of South Africa, active in 14 countries on the continent.
Airtel Tanzania was the first telecom company to launch General Packet Radio Service/Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (GPRS/EDGE) service in Tanzanian Market on 3 April 2006. Celtel Tanzania has its headquarters in Celtel House, Dar es Salaam. On 1 August 2008, Celtel rebranded all of its African operations under the Zain name.
History
Airtel Tanzania was the result of partial privatization of TTCL on 23 February 2001. This was one of the first steps towards full liberalization of the market. In the aftermath, Celtel International, at that time MSI, which has its headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands, together with Detecon from Germany, obtained 35% shares from the Government of Tanzania. Thus, the consortium (Celtel International and Detecon ) took over Board and Management control of TTCL and thus made it essentially an autonomous company. Celtel is currently owned by sub group originating from UAE.
Licensed
Celtel Tanzania was licensed as the mobile operator in the country in November 2001. The license was the result of Tanzania Communications Commission ( TCC ) to decide and to change its zonal licenses into national licenses in 1998. The changes was because the numbers of subscribers in the country was very low (i.e. a total of 37,940 in 1998) and operators were concentrating on a few zones only (i.e. the coastal area near Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar).
Celtel Tanzania Partnership
During the privatisation of Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL), Celtel International was in partnership with Detecon of Germany. The two companies invested an initial $60 million in TTCL in February 2001 for a 35% shareholding in TTCL. In the new partnership with TTCL, Celtel International agreed to be bound by independent "Expert Determination" in the aftermath of a poor financial performance of TTCL for the year 2000. Based on this "Expert Determination", Celtel International made an additional $4.96 million payment.
In early August 2005, Celtel Tanzania and TTCL were legally separated, allowing each to administer its own financial and business operations. In this new formally signed agreement between the Tanzanian Government and Celtel Tanzania, TTCL's shareholding structure remained unchanged, with the government of Tanzania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low%20latency%20%28capital%20markets%29 | In capital markets, low latency is the use of algorithmic trading to react to market events faster than the competition to increase profitability of trades. For example, when executing arbitrage strategies the opportunity to "arb" the market may only present itself for a few milliseconds before parity is achieved. To demonstrate the value that clients put on latency, in 2007 a large global investment bank has stated that every millisecond lost results in $100m per annum in lost opportunity.
What is considered "low" is therefore relative but also a self-fulfilling prophecy. Many organisations and companies are using the words "ultra low latency" to describe latencies of under 1 millisecond, but it is an evolving definition, with the amount of time considered "low" ever-shrinking.
There are many technical factors which impact on the time it takes a trading system to detect an opportunity and to successfully exploit that opportunity. Firms engaged in low latency trading are willing to invest considerable effort and resources to increase the speed of their trading technology as the gains can be significant. This is often done in the context of high-frequency trading.
Factors
There are many factors which impact on the time it takes a trading system to detect an opportunity and to successfully exploit that opportunity, including:
Distance between the exchange and the trading system
Distance between two trading venues, in the case of for example arbitrage
Efficiency of the trading system architecture:
Network adaptors
Choice of operating system
Efficiency of the code / logic
Choice of the programming language
Traditional CPU vs FPGA
Cabling choices: Copper vs fibre vs microwave,
From a networking perspective, the speed of light "c" dictates one theoretical latency limit: a trading engine just 150 km (93 miles) down the road from the exchange can never achieve better than 1ms return times to the exchange before one even considers the internal latency of the exchange and the trading system. This theoretical limit assumes light is travelling in a straight line in a vacuum which in practice is unlikely to happen: Firstly achieving and maintaining a vacuum over a long distance is difficult and secondly, light cannot easily be beamed and received over long distances due to many factors, including the curvature of the Earth, interference by particles in the air, etc. Light travelling within dark fibre cables does not travel at the speed of light – "c" – since there is no vacuum and the light is constantly reflected off the walls of the cable, lengthening the effective path travelled in comparison to the length of the cable and hence slowing it down. There are also in practice several routers, switches, other cable links and protocol changes between an exchange and a trading system. As a result, most low latency trading engines will be found physically close to the exchanges, even in the same building as the exchange (co-location) to further redu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary%20Lieberman | Zachary Lieberman is an American new media artist, designer, computer programmer, and educator.
Early life and education
Born in 1977, Lieberman holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hunter College and both a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.
Work
Lieberman's work has appeared in numerous exhibitions around the world, including Ars Electronica, Futuresonic, CeBIT, and the Off Festival.
He collaborated with artist Golan Levin on the interactive audiovisual project "Messa Di Voce".
With Theo Watson and Arturo Castro, he created openFrameworks, an open source C++ library for creative coding and graphics.
Lieberman has held residencies at Ars Electronica Futurelab, Eyebeam, Dance Theater Workshop, and the Hangar Center for the Arts in Barcelona. In 2013, he co-founded the School for Poetic Computation, a hybrid of a school, residency and research group in New York City.
His work uses technology in a playful way to break down the fragile boundary between the visible and the invisible.
His art work focuses around computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and computer vision.
He teaches graphics programming classes at Parsons School of Design.
Awards & distinctions
2018: Maryland Institute College of Art, William O. Steinmetz ’50, Designer-in-Residence.
2010: AOL, 25x25 artist grant
2010: Golden Nica in Interactive Art for the project Eyewriter, Prix Ars Electronica. Shared with James Powderly, Tony Quan, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue (US) and Theo Watson (UK).
2010: Number 36, of the "100 Most Creative People in Business", Fast Company
2009: Artist's Grant, New York State Council on the Arts
2008: Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica in the Interactive Art category, for the OpenFrameworks project, shared with Theo Watson
2006: Award, CynetArt competition.
2006: Award of Distinction, Ars Electronica 2006 Prix.
2005: Artist's Grant, New York State Council on the Arts
2005: Nominee, Artist of the Year, 6th Annual WIRED magazine Rave Award
2004: Honorable Mention, Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2004
References
External links
thesystemis, Lieberman's personal website
openFrameworks
Drawn: on Zachary Lieberman’s work
Interview on Window.org.nz
Interview on Rocketboom
Unexpected: live performance, technology and the risk of something (or everything) going wrong. ie, learning love chance, talk by Zachary Lieberman at Medialab Prado, 15 October 2009
New York Times article about School for Poetic Computation
Living people
American digital artists
Hunter College alumni
Modern artists
American video artists
Parsons School of Design alumni
1977 births
Parsons School of Design faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20Disk%2020SC | The Apple Hard Disk 20SC is Apple's first SCSI based hard drive for the Apple II family as well as the Macintosh and other third party computers using an industry standard SCSI interface.
History
Released in September 1986 along with the Apple IIGS (which required an optional SCSI interface card to use it), it debuted over 9 months after the introduction of the Macintosh Plus, the first to include Apple's SCSI interface. It was a welcome addition, delivering considerably faster data transfer rates (up to 1.25 megabytes per second) than its predecessors, the Hard Disk 20 (62.5 Kilobytes per second) and ProFile.
Hardware
The 20SC originally contained a half height 5.25" Seagate ST-225N 20MB SCSI hard drive, but was later manufactured with a full-height 3.5" MiniScribe 8425SA 20MB SCSI hard drive. The latter drive was the same size as the drive inside the Macintosh Hard Disk 20, but 10 to 15 MB over what had previously been offered by Apple for the II family. The same drive mechanism would also be offered 6 months later as a built-in drive option on the Macintosh II and SE. It had two standard Centronics 50-pin connectors, one for the System and one for daisy-chaining additional SCSI devices and a SCSI ID selection switch. An external terminator was required if it was the only SCSI device connected. The case itself could accommodate a 3.5" or 5.25" full-height hard drive mechanism. Indeed, the case design would be reused unchanged (in Platinum only) for 3 more models introduced the following year: 40SC, 80SC & 160SC (offering respective Megabytes of storage). While the transfer rates were significantly higher due to the faster SCSI bus technology, the actual transfer rate varied from computer to computer thanks to different SCSI implementation based on developing industry standards.
Design
In addition to being the first cross-platform drive offered by Apple it was the first hard drive to use the Snow White design language. Notably, it was the only Snow White product to use the Macintosh beige color and one of the few Apple products to be introduced in two different colors at the same time. Since the Apple IIGS was the first Apple product to debut in the new gray color they called Platinum, the 20SC had to both match it and the beige color of the Macintosh Plus, which it is designed to sit perfectly beneath. In 1987, all Apple products would change to Platinum, which would remain in use for the next 10 years.
See also
List of Apple drives
References
Apple Hard Disk 20SC Owner's Guide (1986)
Apple II family
Apple Inc. peripherals
Macintosh peripherals
Apple II peripherals
SCSI
Hard disk drives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Greenberg | Bernard S. Greenberg is a programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on Multics and the Lisp machine.
Projects
In 1978, Greenberg implemented Multics Emacs using Multics Maclisp. The success of this effort influenced the choice of Lisp as the basis for later versions of Emacs.
Greenberg was involved in the design of the "New Error System" at Symbolics, which in turn influenced the condition system adopted by ANSI Common Lisp.
While working at Symbolics, Greenberg implemented the Lisp machine File System (LMFS).
In 1987, Greenberg and Sonya Keene authored RFC 1037. NFILE - a file access protocol.
In 1994, nycsubway.org released Greenberg's NXSYS – a design environment for, and simulator of, the control signals used by the New York City Transit Authority’s signaling and control networks. NXSYS provides an interactive 3D view from the perspective of a New York City Subway motorman. The source code for the latest version, v2.5.1, was published to github on 4-Feb-2022. This version is no longer buildable for Microsoft Windows but the older v2.1 Windows binaries and new v2.5.1 macOS binaries are available here. According to the online documentation, the NXSYS “relay language” is a subset of Lisp that describes subway track systems and control signal pathways; the subway simulation is actually run by the Lisp program, compiled by NXSYS, from the relay language source.
Together with Thomas Milo, Greenberg is the author of Basis Technology's Arabic editor. It handles, among others, an improved version of the DMG (Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft) transcription method, which supports reversible transcription and semi-reversible transliteration for Arabic text.
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American computer scientists
Programming language researchers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylife%20%28computer%20worm%29 | MyLife, discovered by MessageLabs in 2002, is a computer worm that spreads itself by sending email to the addresses found in Microsoft Outlook's contacts list. Written in Visual Basic, it displays an image of a girl holding a flower while it attempts to delete files with certain filename extensions. It is named for a phrase appearing in the subject lines of the emails it sends. A variant, MyLife.B, also called the Bill Clinton worm, instead uses a subject line "bill caricature" and displays a cartoon image of Bill Clinton playing a saxophone. Many additional variants have been reported.
When the infected file is run, and the picture is closed, the worm runs its payload.
MyLife checks the current date. If the minute value is higher or at 45 (For example: 11:45 to 11:59), the worm searches the C:\ directory and deletes .SYS files, .COM files and the same in D:\ Drives.
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Email worms
Bill Clinton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortier%20%28TV%20series%29 | Fortier is a French-language Canadian television series which debuted on the TVA network in Quebec from February 3, 2000, and ended on April 1, 2004. A subtitled version later aired on the English-language CBC Television network, as part of its now-defunct late-night Best of French Canada anthology series, then followed by broadcast internationally on TV5 Monde, and later re-showing again for the disability network AMI-tv on July 18, 2017.
It was made by Aetios Productions, and the show's creator, writer and producer Fabienne Larouche.
Synopsis
Anne Fortier (Lorain) is a criminal psychologist from Montréal, who works with the investigators of SAS (Anti-Sociopathic Service), a fictional police division specialising in crimes involving abnormal psychology. Although their sordid crimes include those of a shoe thief and a pyromaniac, most of the cases given a lot of time on the series are ruthless murders, often serial killings.
While solving these cases Fortier and her colleagues must wrestle with her own murky past and several psychological issues.
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Awards and recognition
The series earned Michèle-Barbara Pelletier as the role of Magali Simon a Prix Gémeaux took place on September 30, 2001, for Best Supporting Actress - Series or Dramatic Program from her appearance in episodes two and three ("Elles ne sont qu'une...") of the second season.
Four other Prix Gémeaux nominations were given in the category Best Supporting Actor - Series or Dramatic Program, such as François Papineau for the role of Claude Lizotte in two episodes ("L'homme froid") of the second season.
See also
Television in Québec
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2000 Canadian television series debuts
2004 Canadian television series endings
2000s Canadian drama television series
TVA (Canadian TV network) original programming
CBC Television original programming
Television shows set in Montreal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublink%20Network | Sublink Network was a non-profit association founded in Italy in 1989 to allow cost-sharing access to the Internet. Sublink Network was registered with the sublink.org domain (this domain now belongs to one of the founders). Sublink Network had its own sublink.* newsgroup hierarchy and a gateway with the Italian branch of FidoNet.
History
Its founders on September 25, 1989 were: Paolo Ventafridda (president), Paolo Pennisi, Marco Sacchi, Carlo Vellano, Davide Yachaya and Mauro Mozzarelli. The association was based in Milan, Italy.
The association for a few years had a UUCP dialup link to Rutgers university, but later obtained free support from Olivetti who provided Internet mail and newsgroups (now named "groups" by google) feed. At its peak in 1991-1995 Sublink Network counted around one hundred nodes distributed across the Italian territory.
Sublink was the very first public (non-academic) internet email and newsgroup network in Italy, with very low access fees (around $100 a year), fast backbone modems running at 19200 bit/s (the average modem was 2400 bit/s at that time), and fully registered to the NIC. When after 1997, low cost PPP commercial access to the Internet started to become available, interest for UUCP cost-share Internet feeds started to decline and the association was naturally dissolved.
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UUCP network map for the early internet in Italy
Early public networking analysis by the Italian National Research Center, 1993 (pdf, Italian)
Internet access
Non-profit organisations based in Italy
Organizations established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%20Tarbut%20Strauss | Sal Tarbut Strauss (Hebrew: סל תרבות שטראוס) is an educational program founded in Israel by Avner Strauss. It offers cultural programming for kindergarten, grade school, and high school children all over Israel.
Sal Tarbut Strauss encompasses five areas of arts and culture:
Drama
Dance
Music
Visual arts
Media arts and crafts
Sal Tarbut Strauss has provided cultural enrichment to children since 1987, reaching over three million students, exposing them to music, theater and visual arts. Most of these programs were approved and recommended by the Ministry of Education, and conform to their curriculum. Sal Tarbut Strauss has produced many educational theater shows, working with the non-profit organization A.V.I. (The Organization for Israeli Stage Arts).
History
Sal Tarbut Strauss began operating in 1987 in Jerusalem and moved to Tel Aviv around 1990.
In its early years, Sal Tarbut Strauss put emphasis on introducing students to aspects of 20th-century American music that were relatively unfamiliar in Israel. These include traditional and modern day blues, bluegrass, folk, jazz, and early rock and roll.
Sal Tarbut Strauss has supplied and supported thousands of shows notably thru Strauss Mifaley Tarbut Ltd. Omanut Laam, Sal Tarbut Artzi, Keren Karev, and the Israeli Ministry of Education.
The program works all over Israel and reaches places the Israeli Ministry program of artistic and cultural enrichment, run by the Matnasim company Sal Tarbut Artzi, does not function.
Goals
Introduction to art
To present artistic cultural concepts/values to children and teenagers
To present the main genres and styles in art
To present the tools used in art – musical instruments, props, masks and puppets used in theater, basic materials in plastic arts, cameras in photography and cinema, etc.
Introduction to the tools of art criticism and analysis, aesthetics and forming personal tastes
Introduction to classic works and the great artists in history and their works
Workshops and activities that bring children and teenagers together with professionals at the top of their field
Culture
Getting to know your own cultural identity, getting to know other cultural identities
Pluralism in art – art is not a barrier between cultures, but a dialogue between cultures that can bring people from different cultures together.
Artistic and cultural enrichment
Creating challenges such as abstract thought, developing the imagination, analytic thought, creativity, etc.
Utilizing art to trigger thinking about societal issues, ecology, environmental issues, violence, the Holocaust, cultural roots, personal commitment, personal hygiene, etc.
Utilizing art to trigger thinking about science, the water cycle in nature, illusions of movement, persistence of vision, fluid mechanics (e.g. communicating vessels), basic properties of materials (hardness, elasticity, flexibility, etc.).
External links
on Sal Tarbut from spoems.com
Sal Tarbut Organization
Sal Tarbut on YouTube
Sal Tar |
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