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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco | Cromemco was a Mountain View, California microcomputer company known for its high-end Z80-based S-100 bus computers and peripherals in the early days of the personal computer revolution.
The company began as a partnership in 1974 between Harry Garland and Roger Melen, two Stanford Ph.D. students. The company was named for their residence at Stanford University (Crothers Memorial, a Stanford dormitory reserved for engineering graduate students). Cromemco was incorporated in 1976 and their first products were the Cromemco Cyclops digital camera, and the Cromemco Dazzler color graphics interface - both groundbreaking at the time - before they moved on to making computer systems.
In December 1981, Inc. magazine named Cromemco in the top ten fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S.
Early history
The collaboration that was to become Cromemco began in 1970 when Harry Garland and Roger Melen, graduate students at Stanford University, began working on a series of articles for Popular Electronics magazine. These articles described construction projects for the electronic hobbyist.
Since it was sometimes difficult for the hobbyist to find the needed parts for these projects, Garland and Melen licensed third-party suppliers to provide kits of parts. In 1973 a kit for one of these projects, an “Op Amp Tester”, was sold by a company called MITS which would later launch a revolutionary microcomputer on the cover of Popular Electronics.
In 1974, Roger Melen was visiting the New York editorial offices of Popular Electronics where he saw a prototype of the MITS Altair microcomputer. Melen was so impressed with this machine that he changed his return flight to California to go through Albuquerque, where he met with Ed Roberts, the president of MITS. At that meeting, Roberts encouraged Melen to develop add-on products for the Altair, beginning with the Cyclops digital camera that was slated to appear in the February 1975 issue of Popular Electronics.
On returning to California, Melen and Garland formed a partnership to produce the Cyclops camera and future microcomputer products. They named the company “Cromemco” after the Stanford dorm (Crothers Memorial Hall) where they first began their collaboration.
First products
Melen and Garland began work on the Cyclops Camera interface for the Altair, and this spawned several other projects for their young company. There was no convenient way to store software for the Altair, other than on punched paper tape. To remedy this problem Melen and Garland went to work on designing a programmable read-only memory card they called the “Bytesaver.” The Bytesaver also could support a resident program that allowed the computer to function immediately when it was powered up, without having to first manually load a bootstrap program. The Bytesaver proved to be a very popular peripheral.
There was also no way to see a Cyclops image stored in the Altair. So work began on a graphics interface card which could conne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/650%20%28disambiguation%29 | 650 may refer to:
650 (number)
Area code 650
IBM 650 magnetic drum data-processing machine, introduced in 1953
The year 650 BCE
The year 650 CE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushkin | Mushkin () is an American computer hardware company best known for producing computer memory modules (RAM). Its customers include gamers and industry professionals. Mushkin products include solid-state drives, computer power supply units (PSUs), and RAM modules for desktops, servers, and laptops. They also produce a line of USB flash drives. Their memory products are available in several performance categories, including those intended for overclockers.
History
Mushkin was founded in Denver, Colorado, in 1994. Ramtron International acquired Mushkin in June 2000. Mushkin became a wholly owned subsidiary of Ramtron, who used it to distribute memory modules made by its subsidiary, Enhanced Memory Systems. In 2003, George Stathakis, the general manager, purchased Mushkin from Ramtron and converted it into a worker-owned company. Mushkin is now owned by Avant Technology. But in July 2005, George Stathakis, the general manager, bought Mushkin from Ramtron and became the new owner and president of Mushkin.
References
External links
Companies based in Austin, Texas
American companies established in 1994
Computer memory companies
Computer power supply unit manufacturers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXEC | DXEC (91.9 FM), broadcasting as MOR 91.9, was a radio station owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation. The station's studios and transmitter were located at the network's broadcast center, Macapagal Dr. (formerly Greenhills Rd.), Brgy. Bulua, Cagayan de Oro.
History
DXEC started operations on July 14, 1993, as The Great EC 91.9 Star Radio, with its studios then-located at nearby Limketkai Center.
In 1996, the station launched its own radio drama "Mula Sa Puso Ko" with David Bang as narrator and director. It won the Best Radio Drama Program award in the KBP Golden Dove Awards. In 1997, the station became the Number 1 stations in the city. At the same year, upon the establishment of Regional Network Group, Star Radio was renamed as ABS-CBN Radio 91.9.
In 2000, the station moved to its current home in ABS-CBN Cagayan de Oro's complex in Bulua.
On July 14, 2001, on its 8th year, the station rebranded as MOR: My Only Radio, which became the flagship name of ABS-CBN's Regional Network Group stations.
Since the mid-2000s, MOR had been airing live coverage and updates of the Kagay-an Festival (now Higalaay Festival). Since 2011, TV Patrol North Mindanao, ABS-CBN Cagayan de Oro's local newscast, has also been simulcast over the station.
On May 5, 2020, the station, along with the other My Only Radio stations, went off the air due to the cease and desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission.
References
External links
Radio stations in Cagayan de Oro
Radio stations established in 1993
MOR Philippines stations
Radio stations disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20identifier | In the context of the Microsoft Windows NT line of computer operating systems, the relative identifier (RID) is a variable length number that is assigned to objects at creation and becomes part of the object's Security Identifier (SID) that uniquely identifies an account or group within a domain. The Relative ID Master allocates security RIDs to Domain Controllers to assign to new Active Directory security principals (users, groups or computer objects). It also manages objects moving between domains.
The Relative ID Master is one role of the Flexible single master operation for assigning RID.
See also
Security Identifier
References
Security Identifiers (SID)
ObjectSID and Active Directory
Windows NT kernel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20APP | The Cray APP (Attached Parallel Processor) was a parallel computer sold by Cray Research from 1992 onwards. It was based on the Intel i860 microprocessor and could be configured with up to 84 processors. The design was based on "computational nodes" of 12 processors interconnected by a shared bus, with multiple nodes connected to each other, memory and I/O nodes via an 8×8 crossbar switch.
The APP was marketed as a "matrix co-processor" system and required a SPARC-based host system to operate, such as the Cray S-MP. Connection to the host system was via VMEbus or HiPPI. A fully configured APP had a peak performance of 6.7 (single-precision) gigaflops.
The APP was originally designed by FPS Computing as the FPS MCP-784. FPS were acquired by Cray Research in 1991, becoming Cray Research Superservers Inc., and the MCP-784 was relaunched by Cray in 1992 as the APP.
References
Cray Attached Parallel Processor (APP) brief, SunFLASH Vol 58 #2, October 1993.
App
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnab%20Goswami | Arnab Ranjan Goswami (born 7 March 1973) is an Indian right-wing news anchor and journalist. He is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Republic Media Network, a conservative news organisation oriented towards Hindu nationalism.
Before Republic TV, Goswami was the editor-in-chief and a news anchor of Times Now and ET Now, from 2006 to 2016. Previously, he had also served stints at NDTV and The Telegraph. On Times Now, he anchored The Newshour, a live debate at 9 pm (IST) weekdays, which propelled him to widespread fame. He also hosted a special television programme Frankly Speaking with Arnab. In November 2016, Goswami resigned as editor-in-chief of Times Now. His news channel Republic TV was launched in May 2017.
Early life and family
Family
Goswami was born in Guwahati, Assam on 7 March 1973 in an Assamese family of Manoranjan Goswami and Suprabha Gain-Goswami. His father, Manoranjan Goswami joined the Indian Army in the early 1960s and retired as a colonel after serving in the army for nearly 30 years. Upon retirement he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and was the party's unsuccessful candidate in 1998 Lok Sabha Polls for the Guwahati constituency. He wrote various columns, books and was the recipient of the Asam Sahitya Sabha Award in 2017. Arnab's mother, Suprabha Gain-Goswami is an author.
His paternal grandfather Rajani Kanta Goswami was a lawyer. His maternal grandfather, Gaurisankar Bhattacharyya, was an elected legislator from the Communist Party of India and served as the leader of the opposition in Assam for many years.
Goswami's maternal uncle, Siddhartha Bhattacharya is a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly for the BJP from Gauhati East constituency. He headed the Assam unit of BJP until 2015.
Goswami is married to Samyabrata Ray Goswami. She is also a journalist and a co-owner of Republic TV. The couple has a son, Che Goswami, named after the revolutionary Che Guevara.
Education
An army officer's son, Goswami attended schools across various parts of India. He completed his 10th grade of school from the Mount St Mary's School, New Delhi and his 12th grade from Kendriya Vidyalaya in Jabalpur Cantonment. Goswami has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the Hindu College in Delhi University. In 1994 Goswami completed his Master's in Social Anthropology from St. Antony's College, at Oxford University, where he was a Felix Scholar.
In the year 2000, Arnab was a Visiting DC Pavate Fellow at the International Studies Department at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University.
Career
The Telegraph and NDTV
Goswami started his career with The Telegraph in Kolkata, as a journalist; less than a year later, he moved to Delhi and joined NDTV.
Goswami was a part of NDTV from 1996 to 2006. At NDTV, he anchored daily newscasts including News Tonight, a programme telecast on DD Metro. Newsnight, hosted by Goswami, won him an award for the Best News Anchor of Asia 2004 in the 2004 Asian Television Awards.
Times Now
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDSL | KDSL may refer to:
KDSL-CA, a defunct low-power television station (channel 19) formerly licensed to Ukiah, California, United States, a translator for KMAX-TV
Former name of Knet, network-management software for KDE and Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20American%20Action%20Network | The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) is a Chicago-based community center founded in 1995 to strengthen the Arab immigrant and Arab American communities in the Chicago area by building their capacity to be active agents for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, its strategies include community organizing, advocacy, education, providing social services, leadership development, cultural outreach, and forging productive relationships with other communities.
Rasmea Odeh, convicted in the 1969 Jerusalem Supermarket bombing is the AAAN's associate director.
Its vision is for a strong Arab American community whose members have the power to make decisions about actions and policies that affect their lives; and have access to a range of social, political, cultural, and economic opportunities in a context of equity and social justice. The organization is a pioneer in domestic violence prevention and intervention, adult education, and youth organizing programming, as well as a strong advocate for women.
The AAAN is the brainchild of a number of leading Arab activists and organizers, including members of its precursor organization, the Arab Community Center; academics and intellectuals; business-people; and former Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Assistant Dean Mona Khalidi. It is a core member of the Chicago Cultural Alliance, a consortium of 25 ethnic museums and cultural centers in Chicago; the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR); the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC); and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR); amongst other coalitions, alliances, and networks.
Programs
Partnership with Illinois Department of Human Services
The AAAN works closely with ICIRR and the Illinois Department of Human Services and its case managers to provide interpretation services specifically intended for Arab-Americans who are currently accessing public benefits. The joint goal of the AAAN and the Illinois DHS is to ensure that benefits are received and utilized equally amongst all prospective recipients by ensuring that there are no linguistic or cultural barriers where administration of these benefits are concerned.
Case Management
Over 3,000 families in the community utilize the AAAN for translation, interpretation, and transportation services, plus an extensive referral system that supports legal assistance, housing advocacy, counseling, childcare, and other services.
English As A Second Language (ESL)
In collaboration with the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) and Chicago's Chinese Mutual Aid Association, the AAAN provides three levels of ESL classes for over 100 women per year on the southwest side of Chicago.
References
Arab-American culture in Chicago
Arab-American organizations
Organizations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory%20Unit%20for%20Computer%20Assisted%20Surgery | Laboratory Unit for Computer Assisted Surgery is a system used for virtual surgical planning. Starting with 1998, LUCAS was developed at the University of Regensburg, Germany, with the support of the Carl Zeiss Company. The resulting surgical planning is then reproduced onto the patient by using a navigation system. In fact, LUCAS is integrated into the same platform together with the Surgical Segment Navigator (SSN), the Surgical Tool Navigator (STN), the Surgical Microscope Navigator (SMN) and the 6DOF Manipulator (or, in German, "Mehrkoordinatenmanipulator" - MKM), also from the Carl Zeiss Company.
Workflow
Data from separate bidimensional slices generated by a CT or MRI scan are uploaded into the LUCAS system. The resulting dataset is then processed, in order to eliminate image noise, and to enhance the anatomical contours and also the general contrast of the images. The next step is to create a virtual 3D model from the gathered collection of 2D images. The bone segment that is to be repositioned is marked, on the 3D grid reconstructed model; then, the actual repositioning of that bone segment is done on the virtual model, until the optimal anatomical position is obtained. The criteria for the optimal position of the bone segment are: symmetry with the opposite side, the continuity of the normal bone contours, or the normal volume of an anatomical region (such as the Orbit. Afterwards, a textured final image is rendered. The calculated vectors for the bone segment repositioning, together with the whole virtual model are finally transferred to the Surgical Segment Navigator.
References
Marmulla R, Niederdellmann H: Surgical Planning of Computer Assisted Repositioning Osteotomies, Plast Reconstr Surg 104 (4): 938-944, 1999
Oral and maxillofacial surgery
Medical software
Radiology
Tomography
Computer-assisted surgery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic-aperture%20magnetometry | Synthetic-aperture magnetometry (SAM) is a method for analysis of data obtained from magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG). SAM is a nonlinear beamforming approach which can be thought of as a spatial filter.
See also
Aperture synthesis
References
Magnetoencephalography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDNetworks | Founded in 2000, CDNetworks is a full-service content delivery network (CDN) which provides technology, network infrastructure, and customer services for the delivery of Internet content and applications. The company is positioning itself as a multinational provider of content delivery services, with a particular emphasis on emerging Internet markets, including South America, India and China. The company's content delivery network consists of 1,500 Point of Presence (PoPs) on five continents. Services include CDN, video acceleration, DDoS protection, cloud storage, cloud access security broker (CASB), web application firewall (WAF) and managed DNS with cloud load balancing. Key differentiators include a large number of global PoPs, good network presence in China and Russia, and high-profile clients such as Forbes, Samsung and Hyundai. CDNetworks has offices in the U.S., South Korea, China, Japan, UK and Singapore.
CDNetworks has changed their logo colours in 2018 from blue green to a multi-coloured one, adding a tagline "Accelerate, Secure, Control".
The headquarters have been relocated to Singapore at the end of 2018 from Hong Kong.
History
On December 20, 2007, CDNetworks raised $96.5 million from Oak Investment Partners, Shinhan Private Equity and Goldman Sachs International.
On February 25, 2009, CDNetworks acquired Panther Express.
On October 21, 2011, Japanese Telco KDDI bought Content Delivery Network CDNetworks for $167 million.
On 26 March, 2017, Wangsu Science & Technology bought 100% of shares from KDDI for $185.72 million.
Initiatives
CDNetworks participates with OpenDNS, Google Public DNS, and other CDNs in an open initiative called "The Global Internet Speedup" to improve the Internet for users around the world. This collaboration is being done through an open IETF proposed standard called "edns-client-subnet" which helps better direct content to users thereby decreasing latency, decreasing congestion, increasing transfer speeds and helping the Internet to scale faster and further.
See also
Software as a service
List of managed DNS providers
References
External links
Akamai & The CDN Price Wars
Content delivery networks
Domain Name System
DDoS mitigation companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCLK%20%28AM%29 | KCLK (1430 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format, exclusively with Fox Sports Radio programming. Located near Asotin, Washington, United States, the station serves Lewiston, Clarkston, Asotin, Pullman, Moscow and surrounding areas. KCLK is currently owned by Pacific Empire Radio Corporation.
External links
FCC History Cards for KCLK
CLK (AM)
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1971
1971 establishments in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAGY | KAGY (1510 AM, "The Swamp Pop Network") is a radio station broadcasting a Swamp Pop format based in southeast Louisiana. Licensed to Port Sulphur, Louisiana, United States, the station is currently owned by Spotlight Broadcasting of New Orleans, LLC. The station originates in Port Sulphur and covers the New Orleans metro. With the location being on the water, the signal travels across the water and covers the coastal areas of Biloxi, Gulfport and Mobile, Alabama.
This FCC assigned call sign had been previously assigned to the college radio station at South Dakota State University, in Brookings, South Dakota. Originally, it had a standard AM transmitter that covered the local area, but due to some incidents, the station was reduced to operate through common-carrier transmitters in the dormitories, which used the AC power mains in the buildings for distribution. The "AGY" part of the call-sign was due to the school being an agriculturally based, land-grant college, thus, KAGY.
KAGY has been the very popular Swamp Pop format since 2002.
On March 9, 2017, KAGY was granted a Federal Communications Commission construction permit to move to a new transmitter site, increase day power to 3,000 watts and add critical hours operation with 720 watts.
References
External links
Radio stations in Louisiana
Radio stations established in 1966
Daytime-only radio stations in Louisiana
1966 establishments in Louisiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne%20%28text%20editor%29 | ne (for "nice editor") is a console text editor for POSIX computer operating systems such as Linux or Mac OS X. It uses the terminfo library, but it can also be compiled using a bundled copy of the GNU termcap implementation. There is also a Cygwin version. It was developed by Sebastiano Vigna of the University of Milan.
ne is intended to provide an alternative to vi that will be more familiar to beginners and modern users and still be portable across all POSIX-compliant operating systems, and remain usable on slow remote connections. It uses GUI-derived keyboard shortcuts such as to quit and to open a file instead of the multi-mode command structure of vi. It supports many features common in advanced text editors, such as syntax highlighting, regular expressions, configurable menus and keybindings and autocomplete. ne can pipe a marked block of text through any command line filter using the Through command bound to by default. ne has some support for UTF-8 encoding and is 8-bit clean.
ne was originally developed on an Amiga 3000T using the curses library and was inspired by that platform's TurboText editor, which was written by Martin Taillefer. Development then moved to Linux in order to take advantage of the terminfo library. Todd Lewis joined the development team, donating code he wrote to add features required at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which implemented ne as part of their migration of their research computers from MVS to UNIX.. Daniele Filaretti helped with syntax highlighting using code derived from the Joe editor.
Version 2.6 adds narrowing for the file open screen, adds status indicators in the open documents list and improves syntax highlighting. Version 3.1.0 is fully 64-bit: file size and line length are limited only by the core memory and disk space available, as large files are memory mapped transparently.
Linux Voice has rated ne as the third best editor for Linux.
See also
List of text editors
Comparison of text editors
List of Unix commands
References
External links
Free software programmed in C
Unix text editors
MacOS text editors
Free text editors
Termcap
Console applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20%28disambiguation%29 | A computer is a programmable machine that can perform arithmetic and logical operations.
Computer may also refer to:
Computer (Courage the Cowardly Dog), a character in the American animated television series
Computer (magazine), a magazine published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Computer (occupation)
Analog computer
OK Computer, a 1997 Radiohead album
Personal computer (PC)
The Computer (or Friend Computer), a character in the role-playing game Paranoia
Enock Mwepu (born 1998), Gambian retired professional footballer. Nicknamed 'The Computer' for his ability to read the game.
"Computers" (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared), an episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberethics | Cyber ethics is the philosophic study of ethics pertaining to computers, encompassing user behavior and what computers are programmed to do, and how this affects individuals and society. For years, various governments have enacted regulations while organizations have defined policies about cyberethics.
Privacy history
In the late 19th century, the invention of cameras spurred similar ethical debates as the internet does today. During a seminar of Harvard Law Review in 1890, Warren and Brandeis defined privacy from an ethical and moral point of view to be:
"central to dignity and individuality and boyhood. Privacy is also indispensable to a sense of autonomy—to 'a feeling that there is an area of an individual's life that is totally under his or her control, an area that is free from outside intrusion.' The deprivation of privacy can even endanger a person's health."
Over 100 years later, the internet and proliferation of private data through governments and ecommerce is an area which requires a new round of ethical debate involving a person's privacy.
Privacy can be decomposed to the limitation of others' access to an individual with "three elements of secrecy, anonymity, and solitude."
Anonymity refers to the individual's right to protection from undesired attention. Solitude refers to the lack of physical proximity of an individual to others. Secrecy refers to the protection of personalized information from being freely distributed.
Individuals surrender private information when conducting transactions and registering for services. Ethical business practice protects the privacy of their customers by securing information which may contribute to the loss of secrecy, anonymity, and solitude. Credit card information, social security numbers, phone numbers, mothers' maiden names, addresses and phone numbers freely collected and shared over the internet may lead to a loss of Privacy.
Fraud and impersonation are some of the malicious activities that occur due to the direct or indirect abuse of private information. Identity theft is rising rapidly due to the availability of private information in the internet. For instance, seven million Americans fell victim to identity theft in 2002, and nearly 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2011 making it the fastest growing crime in the United States.
Public records search engines and databases are the main culprits contributing to the rise of cybercrime.
Listed below are a few recommendations to restrict online databases from proliferating sensitive personnel information.
Exclude sensitive unique identifiers from database records such as social security numbers, birth dates, hometown and mothers' maiden names.
Exclude phone numbers that are normally unlisted.
Clear provision of a method which allows people to have their names removed from a database.
Banning the reverse social security number lookup services.
Private collection
Data warehouses are used today to collect and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-1 | Crypto1 is a proprietary encryption algorithm (stream cipher) and authentication protocol created by NXP Semiconductors for its MIFARE Classic RFID contactless smart cards launched in 1994. Such cards have been used in many notable systems, including Oyster card, CharlieCard and OV-chipkaart.
By 2009, cryptographic research had reverse engineered the cipher and a variety of attacks were published that effectively broke the security.
NXP responded by issueing "hardened" (but still backwards compatible) cards, the MIFARE Classic EV1. However, in 2015 a new attack rendered the cards insecure, and NXP now recommends migrating away from MIFARE Classic.
Technical description
Crypto1 is a stream cipher very similar in its structure to its successor, Hitag2. Crypto1 consists of
a 48-bit linear feedback shift register for the state of the cipher,
a two-layer 20-to-1 nonlinear function used to generate the keystream, and
a 16-bit LFSR which is used during the authentication phase as a pseudo random number generator
The usual operation of Crypto1 and Hitag2 ciphers uses nonlinear feedback only during the initialization/authentication stage, switching to operation as a LFSR with a nonlinear output filter (filter generator) for the rest of the communications.
See also
KeeLoq
References
External links
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen press release PDF (in English)
Details of Mifare reverse engineering by Henryk Plötz PDF (in German)
Windows GUI Crypto1 tool, optimized for use with the Proxmark3
Stream ciphers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braitenberg%20vehicle | A Braitenberg vehicle is a concept conceived in a thought experiment by the Italian-Austrian cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg. The book models the animal world in a minimalistic and constructive way, from simple reactive behaviours (like phototaxis) through the simplest vehicles, to the formation of concepts, spatial behaviour, and generation of ideas.
For the simplest vehicles, the motion of the vehicle is directly controlled by some sensors (for example photo cells). Yet the resulting behaviour may appear complex or even intelligent.
Mechanism
A Braitenberg vehicle is an agent that can autonomously move around based on its sensor inputs. It has primitive sensors that measure some stimulus at a point, and wheels (each driven by its own motor) that function as actuators or effectors. In the simplest configuration, a sensor is directly connected to an effector, so that a sensed signal immediately produces a movement of the wheel.
Depending on how sensors and wheels are connected, the vehicle exhibits different behaviors (which can be goal-oriented). This means that, depending on the sensor-motor wiring, it appears to strive to achieve certain situations and to avoid others, changing course when the situation changes.
The connections between sensors and actuators for the simplest vehicles (2 and 3) can be ipsilateral or contralateral, and excitatory or inhibitory, producing four combinations with different behaviours named fear, aggression, liking, and love. These correspond to biological positive and negative taxes present in many animals species.
Examples
The following examples are some of Braitenberg's simplest vehicles.
Vehicle 1 - Getting Around
The first vehicle has one sensor (e.g. a temperature detector) that directly stimulates its single wheel in a directly proportional way. The vehicle moves ideally in one dimension only and can stand still or move forward at varying speed depending on the sensed temperature. When forces like asymmetric friction come into play, the vehicle could deviate from its straight line motion in unpredictable ways akin to Brownian motion.
This behavior might be understood by a human observer as a creature that is 'alive' like an insect and 'restless', never stopping in its movement. The low velocity in regions of low temperature might be interpreted as a preference for cold areas.
Vehicle 2a
A slightly more complex agent has two (left and right) symmetric sensors (e.g. light detectors) each stimulating a wheel on the same side of the body. This vehicle represents a model of negative animal tropotaxis. It obeys the following rule:
More light right → right wheel turns faster → turns towards the left, away from the light.
This is more efficient as a behavior to escape from the light source, since the creature can move in different directions, and tends to orient towards the direction from which least light comes.
In another variation, the connections are negative or inhibitory: more light → slower m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience%20Information%20Framework | The Neuroscience Information Framework is a repository of global neuroscience web resources, including experimental, clinical, and translational neuroscience databases, knowledge bases, atlases, and genetic/genomic resources and provides many authoritative links throughout the neuroscience portal of Wikipedia.
Description
The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) is an initiative of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, which was established in 2004 by the National Institutes of Health.
Development of the NIF started in 2008, when the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine obtained an NIH contract to create and maintain "a dynamic inventory of web-based neurosciences data, resources, and tools that scientists and students can access via any computer connected to the Internet". The project is headed by Maryann Martone, co-director of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR), part of the multi-disciplinary Center for Research in Biological Systems (CRBS), headquartered at UC San Diego. Together with co-principal investigators Jeffrey S. Grethe and Amarnath Gupta, Martone leads a national collaboration that includes researchers at Yale University, the California Institute of Technology, George Mason University, Harvard, and Washington University.
Goals
Unlike general search engines, NIF provides much deeper access to a focused set of resources that are relevant to neuroscience, search strategies tailored to neuroscience, and access to content that is traditionally “hidden” from web search engines. The NIF is a dynamic inventory of neuroscience databases, annotated and integrated with a unified system of biomedical terminology (i.e. NeuroLex). NIF supports concept-based queries across multiple scales of biological structure and multiple levels of biological function, making it easier to search for and understand the results. NIF will also provide a registry through which resources providers can disclose availability of resources relevant to neuroscience research. NIF is not intended to be a warehouse or repository itself, but a means for disclosing and locating resources elsewhere available via the web.
The NIFSTD, or NIF Standard Ontology contains many of the terms, synonyms and abbreviations useful for neuroscience, as well as dynamic categories such as defined cell classes based on various properties like neuron by neurotransmitter or by circuit role or drugs of abuse according to the National Institutes on Drug Abuse.
Any term (with associated synonyms) or dynamic category (all terms with their synonyms) can be used to simultaneously query all of the data that NIF currently indexes, please find several examples below:
available data about the hippocampus including synonyms
data about parkinson's disease including archaic synonyms like paralysis agitans
neocortical neuron a dynamic category includes all neurons that have cell soma in any part of the neocortex
Content
NIF content can be tho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%20scientific%20workflow%20system | Kepler is a free software system for designing, executing, reusing, evolving, archiving, and sharing scientific workflows.
Kepler's facilities provide process and data monitoring, provenance information, and high-speed data movement. Workflows in general, and scientific workflows in particular, are directed graphs where the nodes represent discrete computational components, and the edges represent paths along which data and results can flow between components.
In Kepler, the nodes are called 'Actors' and the edges are called 'channels'. Kepler includes a graphical user interface for composing workflows in a desktop environment, a runtime engine for executing workflows within the GUI and independently from a command-line, and a distributed computing option that allows workflow tasks to be distributed among compute nodes in a computer cluster or computing grid. The Kepler system principally targets the use of a workflow metaphor for organizing computational tasks that are directed towards particular scientific analysis and modeling goals. Thus, Kepler scientific workflows generally model the flow of data from one step to another in a series of computations that achieve some scientific goal.
Scientific workflow
A scientific workflow is the process of combining data and processes into a configurable, structured set of steps that implement semi-automated computational solutions to a scientific problem. Scientific workflow systems often provide graphical user interfaces to combine different technologies along with efficient methods for using them, and thus increase the efficiency of the scientists.
Access to scientific data
Kepler provides direct access to scientific data that has been archived in many of the commonly used data archives. For example, Kepler provides access to data stored in the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) Metacat server and described using Ecological Metadata Language. Additional data sources that are supported include data accessible using the DiGIR protocol, the OPeNDAP protocol, GridFTP, JDBC, SRB, and others.
Models of Computation
Kepler differs from many of the other bioinformatics workflow management systems in that it separates the structure of the workflow model from its model of computation, such that different models for the computation of the workflow can be bound to a given workflow graph. Kepler inherits several common models of computation from the Ptolemy system, including Synchronous Data Flow (SDF), Continuous Time (CT), Process Network (PN), and Dynamic Data Flow (DDF), among others.
Hierarchical workflows
Kepler supports hierarchy in workflows, which allows complex tasks to be composed of simpler components. This feature allows workflow authors to build re-usable, modular components that can be saved for use across many different workflows.
Workflow semantics
Kepler provides a model for the semantic annotation of workflow components using terms drawn from an ontology. These annotations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookin%27%20with%20Coolio | Cookin' with Coolio is a web-based cooking instruction program which starred West Coast rapper Coolio. The show is an offshoot of his reality show Coolio's Rules. It appears on the web video network My Damn Channel and is produced by Dead Crow Pictures. The show is also a promotion for a cookbook by Coolio of the same name.
About the host
Cookin with Coolio was hosted by Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (August 1, 1963 – September 28, 2022), better known by the stage name Coolio. Coolio was an American Grammy Award-winning musician, rapper, actor, and record producer. He was best known for the Grammy Award-winning song "Gangsta's Paradise", and the theme song for Kenan & Kel, a Nickelodeon show from 1996 to 2000.
Coolio often referred to himself as the "ghetto Martha Stewart" and the "black Rachael Ray." He started cooking when he was young, and learned with simple ingredients as he lacked basic necessities to prepare elaborate dishes.
References
External links
Cookin' with Coolio at Slate.com
Cookin' with Coolio at Amazon.com
American cooking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXPO | KXPO (1340 AM, "Expo Radio") is a radio station licensed to serve Grafton, North Dakota. The station is owned by Simmons Broadcasting Inc. It airs news/talk and country music programming.
The station was assigned the KXPO call letters by the Federal Communications Commission.
References
External links
XPO
Grafton, North Dakota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVB | KVB may refer to:
The KVB, a British audio-visual music duo
Contrôle de vitesse par balises or KVB, a train protection system used on the French railway network
Karur Vysya Bank, an Indian private sector bank
Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe, the municipal public transit company of Cologne, Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20HBase | HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) or Alluxio, providing Bigtable-like capabilities for Hadoop. That is, it provides a fault-tolerant way of storing large quantities of sparse data (small amounts of information caught within a large collection of empty or unimportant data, such as finding the 50 largest items in a group of 2 billion records, or finding the non-zero items representing less than 0.1% of a huge collection).
HBase features compression, in-memory operation, and Bloom filters on a per-column basis as outlined in the original Bigtable paper. Tables in HBase can serve as the input and output for MapReduce jobs run in Hadoop, and may be accessed through the Java API but also through REST, Avro or Thrift gateway APIs. HBase is a wide-column store and has been widely adopted because of its lineage with Hadoop and HDFS. HBase runs on top of HDFS and is well-suited for fast read and write operations on large datasets with high throughput and low input/output latency.
HBase is not a direct replacement for a classic SQL database, however Apache Phoenix project provides a SQL layer for HBase as well as JDBC driver that can be integrated with various analytics and business intelligence applications. The Apache Trafodion project provides a SQL query engine with ODBC and JDBC drivers and distributed ACID transaction protection across multiple statements, tables and rows that use HBase as a storage engine.
HBase is now serving several data-driven websites but Facebook's Messaging Platform migrated from HBase to MyRocks in 2018. Unlike relational and traditional databases, HBase does not support SQL scripting; instead the equivalent is written in Java, employing similarity with a MapReduce application.
In the parlance of Eric Brewer's CAP Theorem, HBase is a CP type system.
History
Apache HBase began as a project by the company Powerset out of a need to process massive amounts of data for the purposes of natural-language search. Since 2010 it is a top-level Apache project.
Facebook elected to implement its new messaging platform using HBase in November 2010, but migrated away from HBase in 2018.
The 2.4.x series is the current stable release line, it supersedes earlier release lines.
Use cases & production deployments
Enterprises that use HBase
The following is a list of notable enterprises that have used or are using HBase:
23andMe
Adobe
Airbnb uses HBase as part of its AirStream realtime stream computation framework
Alibaba Group
Amadeus IT Group, as its main long-term storage DB.
Bloomberg, for time series data storage
Facebook used HBase for its messaging platform between 2010 and 2018
Flipkart uses HBase for its search index and user insights.
Flurry
HubSpot
Imgur uses HBase to power its notifications system
Kak |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%3A%20Joint%20Strike | 1942: Joint Strike is a video game developed by Backbone Entertainment for Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation 3 through PlayStation Network. It was released in 2008. It is the remake of the original 1984 video game 1942.
Gameplay
The game is an amalgamation of various elements of the 19XX series. It includes health meter and bomb system from 1943: The Battle of Midway; charge-fire, land-based battle sections and rank increases from 1941: Counter Attack; and fighter lineup, bomb-based end-level bonus and level rank system from 19XX: The War Against Destiny.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN commented on the short length of the game, "spotty" online play and poor value for money, but praised the graphical overhaul. Anthony Gallegos of 1Up.com stated that while the game was short, this added to its 'arcade' appeal.
Since its release, the Xbox 360 version sold 111,195 units worldwide by January 2011. Sales moved up to 119,376 units by the end of 2011.
References
External links
Developer Backbone page
2008 video games
Anti-war video games
Backbone Entertainment games
Capcom games
Cooperative video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Vertically scrolling shooters
Video game remakes
Video games developed in Canada
Video games scored by Norihiko Hibino
Video games set in 1942
World War II video games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
Xbox 360 games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%202%20%28Nagoya%20Expressway%29 | is an urban expressway in Nagoya, Japan. It is a part of the Nagoya Expressway network and is owned and operated by Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation.
Overview
The first section was opened to traffic in 1988 and the entire route was completed in 2003. The expressway is 4 lanes for its entire length.
The route runs from west to east through the center of the city of Nagoya. It begins at Shinsuzaki Junction where it meets the Ring Route and Route 5. Route 2 then bisects the Ring Route, meets it once again at Marutamachi Junction, and continues eastward. The route eventually terminates at a junction with the Higashi-Meihan Expressway.
Originally it was planned that Route 2 would connect to the Higashi-Meihan at Kamiyashiro Junction which connects directly to the Tōmei Expressway. However, local opposition led to the route being moved a short distance south to Takabari Junction. This forces users to pay a relatively expensive toll to access the Tōmei by way of the Higashi-Meihan (500 yen for 2.7 km). A description of the planning of Route 2 can be found here.
In order to combat congestion on the Ring Route, a plan to divert traffic to Route 2 and local roads has been implemented. Vehicles using Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) are permitted use the exit at Fukiage-higashi Interchange and use local roads to reach the entrance of the same interchange without incurring an additional toll, provided exit and re-entry occurs within 15 minutes. Diagrams explaining how to take advantage of the plan can be found here.
Interchange list
JCT - junction, TB - toll gate
References
External links
Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation
Nagoya Expressway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excellence%20%28software%29 | Excellence was a word processor for the Amiga computer, created by Micro-Systems Software as a follow-up to their earlier Scribble! word processor. The primary author was Steve Pagliarulo. It was one of the first WYSIWYG word processors for the Amiga.
After the initial release there were two major updates, the last being version 3.0, released in 1993. This was the final software program released by Micro-Systems.
References
See also
Amiga software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onetel%20Communication%20Ltd. | Onetel is a Bangladeshi fixed line operator. It is a public switched telephone network operator in Bangladesh. As of May 2008, total number of subscribers was 37.796 thousand.
History
Onetel has obtained license from Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to provide fixed phone services in the northwestern part (Rajshahi Division) of Bangladesh.
Numbering scheme
Onetel uses the following numbering scheme for its subscribers:
+880 64 N1N2N3N4N5N6N7N8
where 880 is the International Subscriber Dialling Code for Bangladesh and is needed only in case of dialing from elsewhere.
64 is the access code for RanksTel as allocated by the Government of Bangladesh. Omitting +880 requires using 0 instead to represent local call, hence 064 is the general access code.
Services
Onetel has established three customer service centres in Rajshahi, Bogra and Rangpur.
References
External links
Official website
Telecommunications companies of Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImpressCMS | ImpressCMS is an open source content management system for building and maintaining dynamic web sites, written in the PHP programming language and using a MySQL database. The product is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.
History
The ImpressCMS Project was formed in late 2007 as a result of a division in the XOOPS community. The first beta release of ImpressCMS was introduced in January 2008 and ImpressCMS 1.0 Final was published in March 2008, establishing its new identity apart from XOOPS and incorporating bug fixes, security enhancements and new features. This was followed by the release of ImpressCMS 1.1 in October 2008.
Version 1.2 was released almost one year later. Major changes were done to the core of the system, hence the longer development time. This version introduced the ImpressCMS Persistable Framework (IPF) in the core, the ‘Content’ core module was transformed into a stand-alone module, and the installation system had a substantial refresh. On the visual side a new theme was introduced, featuring an AJAX redirect for system messages.
Marking the end of a long development period, version 1.3 was released on 20 September 2011. The ImpressCMS 1.3 series is a total refactor of the core system aimed at modernising the code structure, making the system smaller, faster and use less memory. This is also the last branch of ImpressCMS to provide compatibility with previous Xoops-based modules.
Awards
In 2009, ImpressCMS placed first as the Most Promising Open Source CMS in the Packt Publishing awards.
ImpressCMS was the third-place winner of the Packt 2008 Most Promising Open Source CMS award, and a finalist in the 2008 SourceForge Best New Project award category.
Marc-Andre Lanciault, a founder and lead developer for ImpressCMS, also received recognition on the list of Open Source CMS Most Valued People during the 2008 Packt awards.
Features
ImpressCMS uses an open architecture, allowing webmasters to add modules into the core CMS for additional functionality. Modules exist that have been developed by an international community of developers, designers and fans and are able to handle most every task associated with the managing of web content and an online community.
The basic features of ImpressCMS are:
Database driven
Granular permissions for users and groups
Complete user profiles and private messaging
Customizable themes and templates
Integrated comment system, with moderation options
Integrated management for banner advertising
Site-wide search function
Multibyte language support
PDF generation via TCPDF library
See also
Content management system
Free software
Open source software
List of content management systems
References
External links
Free content management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple%20Island%20%28video%20game%29 | is an adventure game developed and published by Sunsoft. The game was only released in Japan on January 23, 1988 for the Family Computer.
History
Unlike other 1980s SunSoft games like Ikki or Atlantis no Nazo, Ripple Island is a peaceful command-based adventure game where the player chooses from 5 different actions (look, take, enter, hit, and push) in order to arrive at the game's ending. The game was re-released for the PlayStation in 2002 as part of the Memorial Series Sunsoft Vol.4 compilation, where it was coupled with Blaster Master. An i-appli mobile phone version which features improved graphics was also released in 2003. A manga version by one of the game's character designers, Moriken, was serialized in Wanpaku Comics (Tokuma Shoten). The character's appearances differ greatly in the manga version, and only lasted 4 chapters without reaching the conclusion of the game's story-line. 2 more chapters were added in the tankōbon release, which do describe the game's true conclusion. Both the original Famicom cartridge and manga tankōbon are rare, and can only be purchased for higher prices than their original value.
The game was originally planned for the Family Computer Disk System with the title . The game enjoyed limited popularity as it was released only 18 days before the release of the highly anticipated Dragon Quest III. Though the game appears easy because of its childish graphics, very few hints are provided for solving certain mysteries, making the game's difficulty quite high. There are four different endings to the game, one of which can be seen even before the player defeats the final boss. The remaining three are decided depending on the player's actions and choices throughout the game. The staff roll is only displayed if the player reaches the game's "true" ending.
Plot
The game takes place on a small island called Ripple Island, where humans and animals lived together in peace. However, one day, the evil emperor suddenly appears on the island and kidnaps the king's daughter. The king promises that he will allow whoever can rescue his daughter to marry her, and a young boy named sets off on a long journey to rescue the princess.
Characters
All of the characters in the game are small humans that are about the same size as woodland creatures. They can communicate with animals in a common language.
The main character of the game sets off on his adventure after seeing the king's offer to allow the rescuer to marry the princess. He is joined by Cal during his journey, and begins to have romantic feelings for her as they travel together.
This short-haired young girl was left alone after her home was destroyed by Gerogēru, and heads off to defeat Gerogēru along with Kyle. She also beings to have feelings for Kyle during the journey, but secretly fears facing the evil emperor, and backs out when they reach the castle doors.
The king of Ripple Island is named after , a type of traditional Japanese clothing which he also wears. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor%20control | For computer networking, floor control allows users of networked multimedia applications to utilize and share resources such as remote devices, distributed data sets, telepointers, or continuous media such as video and audio without access conflicts. Floors are temporary permissions granted dynamically to collaborating users in order to mitigate race conditions and guarantee mutually exclusive resource usage.
In floor control, a user who wishes to speak makes a request (through their user equipment unit (UE)) for the right to speak, and then waits for a response that either grants or denies the user's request. In accordance with early PoC proposals, the floor is granted only for talk burst on a first received basis, and no queuing of floor control messages is performed.
References
Teleconferencing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%203%20%28Nagoya%20Expressway%29 | is an urban expressway in Nagoya, Japan. It is a part of the Nagoya Expressway network and is owned and operated by Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation.
Overview
The first section was opened to traffic in 1979 (also the first segment of the entire Nagoya Expressway Network) and the entire route was completed in 1985. The expressway is 4 lanes for its entire length.
The route originates from its junction with the Ring Route and extends southward. At its southern terminus it connects to the Isewangan Expressway and Chitahantō Road. Together with the Chitahantō Road, it forms the main road link connecting Chubu International Airport with central Nagoya.
Interchange list
JCT - junction, TB - toll gate
References
External links
Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation
Nagoya Expressway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEI%20College%20of%20Technology | NEI College of Technology was a technical college in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, specializing in electronics, and computer and information technology. It was founded in 1930 by George W. Young (founder of WDGY radio) as a school for radio repair. In 1967 it was renamed the Northwestern Electronics Institute. At that time it was located at 3800 South Minnehaha Avenue in Minneapolis. In 1982 it moved to its location to Columbia Heights, the former Columbia Heights High School, and was renamed NEI College of Technology. NEI is an abbreviation for Northwestern Electronics Institute.
It merged with Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis to form the Dunwoody College of Technology in June 2003, at which point it moved all operations to the Dunwoody campus. The time of the merger, NEI had 500 students and Dunwoody had 1200 full-time and 2700 part-time students. The former campus, which consisted of one building, was purchased by the city of Columbia Heights in February 2004 and demolished in November 2004.
An "NEI Center" was established initially at Dunwoody to house the former NEI programs, but the two institutions have fully merged. Dunwoody maintains alumni connections for NEI, including annual gatherings.
References
City article with picture of the demolition
Press release from Dunwoody announcing merger - broken, no archive found
1930 establishments in Minnesota
2003 disestablishments in Minnesota
Universities and colleges established in 1930
Defunct private universities and colleges in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker%20machine | In arithmetic geometry, the Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line.
The algorithm was first published in the 1979 article "Intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces" by Cox and Zucker and was later named the "Cox–Zucker machine" by Charles Schwartz in 1984.
Name origin
The name sounds similar to the obscenity "". This was a deliberate choice by Cox and Zucker, who conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper in 1970, while first-year graduate students at Princeton University, for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later, as members of the faculty at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
As Cox explained in a memorial tribute to Zucker in Notices of the American Mathematical Society in 2021: "A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene."
See also
Cox ring
References
Complex manifolds
Birational geometry
Algebraic surfaces
Mathematical humor
English profanity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent%20X | Agent X may refer to:
Agent Extensibility Protocol, a standardised framework for extensible Simple Network Management Protocol agents
Agent X (Chuck), the codename for the character Alexei Volkoff (Timothy Dalton) on the TV series Chuck
Agent X (Marvel Comics), a fictional mercenary whose adventures have been published by Marvel Comics
Agent X (1986 video game), a 1986 video game released by Mastertronic
Agent X II: The Mad Prof's Back, a 1987 sequel to this game
Agent X (TV series), a U.S. TV series for TNT starring Sharon Stone
See also
Secret Agent X, a U.S. pulp magazine published by A. A. Wyn, and the name of the main character featured in the magazine
Secret Agent X-9, a comic strip begun by writer Dashiell Hammett and artist Alex Raymond
Secret Agent X-9 (1937 serial), a 1937 Universal movie serial based on this comic strip
Secret Agent X-9 (1945 serial), a 1945 Universal movie serial based on this comic strip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDIX | KDIX (1230 AM, "The Classic 1230") is a radio station licensed to serve Dickinson, North Dakota, United States. It airs a classic hits music format and carries network news from CBS. The station can also be carried on K264CV 100.7 FM in Dickinson.
History
KDIX radio first went on the air May 16, 1947, with 250 watts of power. It was purchased by Lee and Darlene Leiss in 1992 and the format was changed from Top 40 Adult Contemporary, to country rock and songs from the 1970s through the 1980s. This format change was to increase focus on the main age demographic of the area. Sports, local news and agriculture information, are their main programming features.
One of the best known radio voices in North Dakota, Rod Kleinjan has been on the air since 1972 serving Dickinson and the southwest North Dakota region with daily news, weather, and sports updates.
The station was assigned the KDIX call letters by the Federal Communications Commission. The station is owned by Starrdak, Inc.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KDIX
KDIX official website
DIX
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
Country radio stations in the United States
Stark County, North Dakota
Radio stations established in 1947 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20download | Digital download may refer to:
Downloading, the processing of copying data to a computer from an external source
Digital distribution, a method of downloading software or audio-visual media as opposed to buying it at a traditional point of sale
Music download, a specific type of digital distribution
Downloadable content (DLC), downloadable media usually for a video game
Digital distribution of video games, the process of delivering video game content in a digital way |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurekids | Futurekids, Inc. is a privately held internationally franchised K–12 educational software company headquartered in El Segundo, California, which focuses on technological literacy and computer literacy.
History
Founded in 1983, Futurekids was among the first computer and technology training programs in the United States, with a focus on tutored computer learning centers and pre-school technology learning. In 1996, the company was purchased by Robert M. Davidson and Janice G. Davidson, Ph.D., education entrepreneurs and founders of Davidson & Associates, an early educational software company and maker of the famous Math Blaster and Reading Blaster series.
The company currently offers professional development programs and K–12 technology curriculum in schools in 65 countries. It focuses on the integration of technology and the use of computers in the educational process. Their professional development course is used in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Pennsylvania, and other districts around the world and offered through Dell training and technology certification, and is certified in a number of universities for continuing education units (CEUs) needed for teaching re-certification in the U.S.
In the early 2000's, the company started the Company Owned Division that was run by Ernie Delgado, a former Regional Sales Manager in the Southwest Division. The Company Owned Division quickly grew to one of the largest divisions of Futurekids and grew to over $50M in annual revenue which made Futurekids an attractive purchase. Ernie went on to win several sales milestones awards before his departure in 2001.
Ernie Delgado went on to become the CEO and Founder of Beyond Technology Education, a thriving edtech curriculum publisher and services provider.
In 2008, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) selected Futurekids’ Real Journeys in Technology curriculum as a 2008 Codie awards finalist among educational software in the best instructional solution in other curriculum areas category.
Futurekids Inc. ceased operations on June 30, 2009. Franchises worldwide continue to offer the Futurekids curriculum, including but not limited to Futurekids Hong Kong.
Projects
Futurekids’ products and services are aligned with technology standards, including the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE); the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA); Project Tomorrow, and the Consortium for School Networking (CSN).
Futurekids has been awarded contracts for their educational products by the state of Michigan and Pennsylvania.
In 2004, Platinum Television Group selected Futurekids for a segment on Today's Family, a series that celebrates successful parenting solutions,
In 2005, Futurekids worked with Intel Corporation and other technology and national youth organizations in creating the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, an advocacy organization for positioning computer skills at the center of U.S. K–12. In N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM1%2A | AM1* is a semiempirical molecular orbital technique in computational chemistry. The method was developed by Timothy Clark and co-workers (in Computer-Chemie-Centrum, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and published first in 2003.
Indeed, AM1* is an extension of AM1 molecular orbital theory and uses AM1 parameters and theory unchanged for the elements H, C, N, O and F. But, other elements have been parameterized using an additional set of d-orbitals in the basis set and with two-center core–core parameters, rather than the Gaussian functions used to modify the core–core potential in AM1. Additionally, for transition metal-hydrogen interactions, a distance dependent term is used to calculate core-core potentials rather than the constant term.
AM1* parameters are now available for H, C, N, O, F, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Br, Zr, Mo, Pd, Ag, I and Au.
AM1* is implemented in VAMP 10.0 and Materials Studio (Accelrys Software Inc.).
References
Semiempirical quantum chemistry methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Asian-American%20theatre%20companies | This is a list of Asian-American theatre companies in the United States. List includes performance groups and organizations whose programming focuses on Asian Pacific American identity, history, culture, community and experience, or whose members or artistic contributors are primarily Asian Pacific. In addition to theatre arts,
list also includes sections for improvisational and sketch comedy groups, and dance performance companies.
Theatre
Active
Asian American Theater Company, San Francisco, 1973–
Artists at Play, Los Angeles, 2011–
A-Squared Theatre, Chicago, 2007–
Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, 1989–
Cedar Grove OnStage, Los Angeles, 2006–
CIRCA Pintig, Chicago, 1991–
Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra (CATS), Nevada City/Greater Sacramento Area, 1994–
Contemporary Asian Theater Scene (CATS), San Jose, California, 1995–
East West Players, Los Angeles, 1965–
Grateful Crane Ensemble, Pasadena, California, 2001–
Kumu Kahua Theatre, Honolulu, 1971–
Lapu the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995–
Ma-Yi Theatre Company, New York City, 1989–
National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), New York City, 1989–
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1977–
Pangea World Theatre, Minneapolis, 1995–
Second Generation Productions, New York City, 1997–
Pork Filled Productions, Seattle, 1998–
Silk Road Rising, Chicago, 2002–
SIS Productions, Seattle, Washington, 2000 -
Stanford Asian American Theater Project, Stanford University, 1978–
TeAda Productions, Santa Monica, California, 1994–
Theater Mu, Minneapolis, 1992–
Insight Colab Theatre (formerly: Theatre Esprit Asia) Denver, Colorado, 2013-
Yun Theatre, Seattle, Washington, 2022-
Defunct
Northwest Asian American Theatre, Seattle, 1972–2004
Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles, 1995–2009
Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, New York City, 2000–2015
Comedy
Asian AF, Los Angeles/New York, 2016–
Cold Tofu, Los Angeles, 1981–
Porked Filled Productions (Pork Filled Players), Seattle, 1998–
Room to Improv, Los Angeles, 2002–
Stir Friday Night, Chicago, 1995–
Dance
Asian American Dance Theatre, New York City, 1974– (now Asian American Arts Centre)
See also
Asian American theatre
References
External links
Address list on Asian American Theatre Revue
Theatre companies
Theatre companies
Theatre in the United States
Theatre companies in the United States
Asian American theatre companies, List of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJBP | WJBP (91.5 FM) is a non-commercial Christian music and teaching radio station located in Red Bank, Tennessee, owned by the Family Life Radio network. The transmitter is located in Fairview, Georgia.
History
On March 6, 1978, Chattanooga State Technical Community College applied for a construction permit to build a new radio station on 91.5 FM at Signal Mountain, Tennessee, broadcasting with 137 watts. The Federal Communications Commission approved the permit on March 13, 1979, and WCSO began broadcasting in September 1980.
WCSO was a typical college radio station; it did not begin broadcasting overnights until 1985, when it started airing a tape loop of nature sounds at night. The off-hours programming developed a cult following with listeners, including a prison inmate who wrote to the station to say that the programming had helped him not go crazy. The call letters were changed from WCSO to WAWL-FM on December 18, 1987, which marked the shift from a soft adult contemporary format to an alternative rock base; the station was known as "the WAWL".
In March 2008, Chattanooga State announced it was selling the WAWL-FM license, with the school's programming moving online-only. In September 2008, the buyer was identified as Family Life Radio, paying $1.5 million. On December 10, 2008, WAWL-FM ended operations. The station was then silent until Family Life Radio reactivated the facility as WJBP with its national programming on January 2, 2009.
References
External links
Family Life Radio
JBP
Family Life Radio stations
1980 establishments in Tennessee
Radio stations established in 1980
JBP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20anime%20broadcast%20by%20Nippon%20TV | This is a list of present and upcoming anime on the Nippon TV network.
TV series (current)
TV series (all)
1960s—70s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Films and specials
Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (August 26, 1979)
Age of the Great Dinosaurs (October 7, 1979)
Bremen 4: Angels in Hell (August 23, 1981)
Andromeda Stories (August 22, 1982)
A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose (August 21, 1983)
Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (August 19, 1984)
The Prince of Devil Island: The Three-Eyed One (August 25, 1985)
Niji no Kanata e! Shōjo Diana-hi Monogatari (May 1, 1986)
Galaxy Investigation 2100: Border Planet (August 24, 1986)
Lupin III specials (since April 1, 1989)
The Tezuka Osamu Story: I Am Son-goku (August 27, 1989)
Time Patrol Bon (October 14, 1989)
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind (March 21, 1990)
Beyond the Tide of Time (June 16, 1991)
Zukkoke Sanningumi: Kusunoki Yashiki no Guruguru-sama (November 11, 1995)
City Hunter: The Secret Service (January 5, 1996)
Yawara! Special - Zutto Kimi no Koto ga... (July 19, 1996)
City Hunter: Goodbye My Sweetheart (April 25, 1997)
City Hunter: Death of the Vicious Criminal Ryo Saeba (April 23, 1999)
Nippon Television
Anime television
Nippon TV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise%20Cracked | Paradise Cracked () is a cyberpunk single-player turn-based tactics video game. It was created by MiST Land South (renamed as GFI Russia in 2006) for Microsoft Windows and released in 2002. Though original Russian version was highly praised for its script and voice acting, it has several translation problems that make the game difficult to understand in English.
The player starts as a character named "Hacker" who is just as the name implies. The player starts with a pistol and the ability to hack certain objects (ATM's, Trade Robots, etc.) as well as a journal which gives maps of the area and tells them missions both current and completed. As certain missions are completed, the character's level will increase and skills can have points added to them increasing areas like strength, aim, hacking skill, health points and so forth.
The game offers the option to play solo or to join with other characters or groups (such as the mob). Hacker is constantly hunted by the law making teaming up with someone in the best interest of the player's survival. Teaming up will also add new missions to Hacker's journal.
Additional weapons, items, and body armor can be acquired by purchase or by killing another player. The character's strength determines what weight of weapons, items etc. he can carry while certain clothing will increase or decrease the number of items they can carry. The heavier the weight, the less distance the character can move in a given turn. As strength and level increase, so will a character's distance he can travel.
The game never really gained much ground in terms of commercial success.
Further reading
Review on GameSpot.com
Review on GameSpy.com
Review by PC Zone Magazine
Preview Screens at ComputerAndVideoGames.com
Another preview from CVG.com
Review on itc.ua
Review on ag.ru
Review on IgroMania.ru
External links
2002 video games
Cyberpunk video games
GFI Russia games
Turn-based tactics video games
Video games developed in Russia
Windows games
Windows-only games
Transhumanism in video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20art | Systems art is art influenced by cybernetics, and systems theory, that reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself.
Systems art emerged as part of the first wave of the conceptual art movement extended in the 1960s and 1970s. Closely related and overlapping terms are anti-form movement, cybernetic art, generative systems, process art, systems aesthetic, systemic art, systemic painting, and systems sculptures.
Related fields of systems art
Anti-form movement
By the early 1960s, minimalism had emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of action painting. Minimalism argued that extreme simplicity could capture all of the sublime representation needed in art. The term Systematic art was coined by Lawrence Alloway in 1966 as a description of the method artists, such as Kenneth Noland, Al Held and Frank Stella, were using for composing abstract paintings.
Associated with painters such as Frank Stella, minimalism in painting, as opposed to other areas, is a modernist movement. Depending on the context, minimalism might be construed as a precursor to the postmodern movement. Seen from the perspective of writers who sometimes classify it as a postmodern movement, early minimalism began and succeeded as a modernist movement to yield advanced works, but which partially abandoned this project when a few artists changed direction in favor of the anti-form movement.
In the late 1960s, the term postminimalism was coined by Robert Pincus-Witten to describe minimalist derived art which had content and contextual overtones which minimalism rejected, and was applied to the work of Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra and new work by former minimalists Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Sol LeWitt, and Barry Le Va, and others. Minimalists like Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Agnes Martin, John McCracken and others continued to produce their late modernist paintings and sculpture for the remainder of their careers.
Cybernetic art
Audio feedback and the use of Tape loops, sound synthesis and computer generated compositions reflected a cybernetic awareness of information, systems, and cycles. Such techniques became widespread in the 1960s in the music industry. The visual effects of electronic feedback became a focus of artistic research in the late 1960s, when video equipment first reached the consumer market. Steina and Woody Vasulka, for example, used "all manner and combination of audio and video signals to generate electronic feedback in their respective of corresponding media."
With related work by Edward Ihnatowicz, Wen-Ying Tsai and cybernetician Gordon Pask and the animist kinetics of Robert Breer and Jean Tinguely, the 1960s produced a strain o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KACQ | KACQ (101.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. It is licensed to Lometa, Texas, United States, and is owned by Debra L. Witcher and features programming from Jones Radio Network.
References
External links
ACQ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%204%20%28Nagoya%20Expressway%29 | is an urban expressway in Nagoya and Tōkai, Aichi, Japan. It is a part of the Nagoya Expressway network and is owned and operated by Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation.
Route description
Originating from a junction with the Ring Route, it extends southward to the city of Tōkai and the Isewangan Expressway. The route serves as an alternate access route to Chubu International Airport and was built to reduce traffic congestion on Route 3. The expressway has 2 lanes in each direction for its entire length.
History
The expressway was completed in stages between 2010 and 2013. During the COVID-19 pandemic, six tollgates were closed along the Tōkai and Manba routes after a tollgate operator was found to be infected with the virus.
Junction list
Note: All exit numbers and names are provisional.
JCT - junction, TB - toll gate
References
External links
Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation
Nagoya Expressway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYPZ | KYPZ (96.1 FM) is a public radio station licensed to Fort Benton, Montana, USA. It is owned by Montana State University Billings as part of its Yellowstone Public Radio network. It was previously owned by Montana Radio Company as a commercial classic country station, but was divested as part of a multi-station transaction with Cherry Creek Radio.
History
The Federal Communications Commission issued a construction permit for the station to Advance Acquisition, Inc. on June 8, 2005. The station was assigned the KJCD call sign on June 5, 2008, and was granted its license to cover on July 2, 2008. Just prior to the license being issued, Advance assigned the station's construction permit to Sovereign City Radio Services, LLC at a purchase price of $1,447,462. Included in the purchase were additional construction permits for stations in Socorro, New Mexico (now KYRN), Duluth, Minnesota (not yet licensed at 750 AM), Lake City, Florida (not yet licensed at 1450 AM), Bemidji, Minnesota (not yet licensed at 1400 AM), Ironwood, Michigan (permit since cancelled), and Houghton, Michigan (permit since cancelled). On October 31, 2008, Sovereign assigned the license to Montana Christian Radio Association by way of a donation valued at $500,000.
Montana Christian Radio sold KJCD to Kevin Terry's The Montana Radio Company, LLC for $20,000; the transaction was consummated on August 5, 2013.
The station changed its call sign to KVMO on September 17, 2013.
On November 9, 2014, KVMO changed its format to classic country, branded as Mo Legends 96.3, a spin-off from KIMO.
In April 2017, it was reported that KVMO would be divested to Yellowstone Public Radio as part of a larger transaction with Cherry Creek Media (who would acquire KVMO's translator K280GG). The sale was completed on July 28, 2017.
On September 19, 2017, KVMO changed its call letters to KYPZ.
References
External links
YPZ
Radio stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Montana
Montana State University Billings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%205%20%28Nagoya%20Expressway%29 | is an urban expressway in Nagoya, Japan. It is a part of the Nagoya Expressway network and is owned and operated by Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation.
Route description
The route originates from a junction with the Ring Route and extends westward; Route 2 also originates from this same point and extends eastward. The route eventually terminates at a junction with the Higashi-Meihan Expressway.
The expressway is 4 lanes for its entire length.
History
During the COVID-19 pandemic, six tollgates were closed along the Manba and Tōkai routes after a tollgate operator was found to be infected with the virus.
Interchange list
JCT - junction, TB - toll gate
References
External links
Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation
Nagoya Expressway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%206%20%28Nagoya%20Expressway%29 | is an urban expressway in Nagoya and Kiyosu, Aichi, Japan. It is a part of the Nagoya Expressway network and is owned and operated by Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation.
Overview
The route originates from a junction with the Ring Route and extends northward to a junction with the Higashi-Meihan Expressway. Past this junction, Route 16 serves as an extension of Route 6 to Ichinomiya (a separate toll is required).
The route was completed in December 2007. As of March 2008 it is the most recent addition to the Nagoya Expressway network. It is 4 lanes for its entire length.
Interchange list
JCT - junction, TB - toll gate
References
External links
Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation
Nagoya Expressway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed%20overpunch | In computing, a signed overpunch is a coding scheme which stores the sign of a number by changing (usually) the last digit. It is used in character data on IBM mainframes by languages such as COBOL, PL/I, and RPG. Its purpose is to save a character that would otherwise be used by the sign digit. The code is derived from the Hollerith Punched Card Code, where both a digit and a sign can be entered in the same card column. It is called an overpunch because the digit in that column has a 12-punch or an 11-punch above it to indicate the sign. The top three rows of the card are called zone punches, and so numeric character data which may contain overpunches is called zoned decimal.
In IBM terminology, the low-order four bits of a byte in storage are called the digit, and the high-order four bits are the zone. The digit bits contain the numeric value 0–9. The zone bits contain either 'F'x, forming the characters 0–9, or the character position containing the overpunch contains a hexadecimal value indicating a positive or negative value, forming a different set of characters. (A, C, E, and F zones indicate positive values, B and D negative).
The PACK instruction on IBM System/360 architecture machines converts the sign of a zoned decimal number when converting to packed decimal,
and the corresponding UNPK instruction will set the correct overpunched sign of its zoned decimal output.
Language support
PL/I
PL/I uses the PICTURE attribute to declare zoned decimal data with a signed overpunch. Each character in a numeric picture except V, which indicates the position of the assumed decimal point, represents a digit. A picture character of T, I, or R indicates a digit position which may contain an overpunch. T indicates that the position will contain {–I if positive and {–R if negative. I indicates that the position will contain {–I if positive and 0-9 if negative. R indicates that the position will contain 0–9 if positive and {–R if negative.
For example PICTURE 'Z99R' describes a four-character numeric field. The first position may be blank or will contain a digit 0–9. The next two positions will contain digits, and the fourth position will contain 0–9 for a positive number and {–R for negative.
Assigning the value 1021 to the above picture will store the characters "1021" in memory; assigning -1021 will store "102J".
COBOL
COBOL uses the picture character 'S' for USAGE IS DISPLAY data without SIGN IS SEPARATE CHARACTER to indicate an overpunch. SIGN IS LEADING indicates that the overpunch is over the first character of the field. SIGN IS TRAILING, locates it over the last character. SIGN IS TRAILING is the default.
C/C++
The C language has no provision for zoned decimal. The IBM ILE C/C++ compiler for System i provides functions for conversion between int or double and zoned decimal:
QXXDTOZ() — Convert Double to Zoned Decimal
QXXITOZ() — Convert Integer to Zoned Decimal
QXXZTOD() — Convert Zoned Decimal to Double
QXXZTOI() — Convert Zoned Decima |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorway%206%20%28Thailand%29 | Motorway 6 or the Bang Pa-in–Nakhon Ratchasima Motorway is an under-construction controlled-access highway, part of the Thai motorway network. It will serve as the arterial link from the capital city of Bangkok to the city of Nakhon Ratchasima, which serves as the gateway to the entire northeastern region.
The motorway begins with links from Kanchanaphisek Road (Motorway 9) and Phahonyothin Road (Highway 1), near the Bang Pa-in Interchange in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province north of Bangkok, and leads northeast through Saraburi Province, passing through the Dong Phaya Yen pass before entering the Khorat Plateau and terminating at Nakhon Ratchasima Bypass Road (Highway 204). It runs a distance of , with elevated sections as it passes through the mountains, including one where it is elevated over Mittraphap Road as it runs along the edge of the Lam Takhong Reservoir.
The project was conceived in 1997 as part of the national highway network master plan (and one of three segments serving the northeast region), but construction only began in 2016. It was originally scheduled for completion in 2020, and construction was reported to be 96 percent complete by then, but the project faced delays due to outdated information from surveys conducted since 2008, necessitating modifications to the designs and extensions of the budget. It is now expected to open in 2025.
References
Motorways of Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%2016%20%28Nagoya%20Expressway%29 | is an urban expressway in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is a part of the Nagoya Expressway network and is owned and operated by Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation.
Overview
The route serves as an extension of Route 6, extending northward from its terminus at the Higashi-Meihan Expressway to the city of Ichinomiya. The entire route is built as an elevated expressway above the median of National Route 22 and links to the Meishin Expressway at Ichinomiya Interchange. The north-bound lanes terminate at Ichinomiya-higashi Interchange, while the south-bound lanes continue up to Ichinomiya-naka Entrance.
The route is 4 lanes for its entire length.
The toll is 350 yen for passenger cars and light trucks (including 2-wheeled vehicles). Tolls are collected at each north-bound exit and south-bound entrance. At Ichinomiya Interchange, payment for both the Nagoya Expressway and Meishin Expressway is made at the same toll booth.
Interchange list
JCT - junction
References
External links
Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation
Nagoya Expressway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lewis%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Alan Lewis (born 25 August 1963) is an American computer science educator, and the owner of a Twitter account that is well-known for its frequent cases of mistaken identity.
Computer science
Formerly of Villanova University and the New York Institute of Technology, Lewis is an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech. He is one of the coauthors of Java Software Solutions, an introductory text on Java programming.
Social media
Popularly, Lewis is known for being the owner of the Twitter account '@johnlewis', to which hundreds of users from across the world mistakenly send tweets intended for the British department store John Lewis or the American politician and civil rights leader John Lewis. He has been described as "the most patient man on the internet" by British social media users for redirecting with humour mistaken requests and messages sent to him, especially around the Christmas shopping period. The department store sent Lewis a gift set as an acknowledgment and a thank you in 2016 for the inconvenience caused to him.
In 2018, Lewis was featured in a Twitter Christmas ad with the hashtag #NotARetailStore.
References
External links
Twitter page
Faculty page
1963 births
American computer scientists
Living people
Villanova University faculty
New York Institute of Technology faculty
Virginia Tech faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEOL | KEOL (91.7 FM) was a radio station broadcasting from Eastern Oregon University (EOU) in La Grande, Oregon. KEOL operated at 91.7 MHz with an operating power of 310 watts. Programming on the station, operated primarily by EOU students, was generally freeform rock.
History
KEOL was conceived in early 1967, when two employees of what was then known as Eastern Oregon College envisioned a campus FM radio station offering classical and jazz music—genres not readily available on local radio at that time.
After a construction permit was received on March 1, 1973, first took the air that September. The station originally broadcast on a frequency of 91.1 MHz, with 10 watts of power from a Gates tube-fired transmitter.
KEOL was first located in the newly completed Hoke College Center, before moving to the Walter M. Pierce Library in 1976. A second move placed KEOL in a one-story bungalow, with a basement, just north of Pierce Library. In October 2015, the station moved back to Hoke College Center.
KEOL La Grande was operated by the students and faculty of Eastern Oregon University. Staff included a faculty adviser, station manager, program and music directors and assistants. The station was funded by student incidental fees, fundraising activities and underwriting.
At its peak, there were more than 100 DJs on KEOL. That number had dwindled to four by 2021, when a student committee—citing low participation and a shift to digital listening—voted to stop funding the station with incidental fees, resulting in a shutdown at the end of the 2020–2021 academic year. KEOL had received $33,481 a year in student fees. On July 19, 2021, EOU submitted the KEOL license for cancellation.
References
External links
Radio stations established in 1973
EOL
EOL
Eastern Oregon University
La Grande, Oregon
1973 establishments in Oregon
2021 disestablishments in Oregon
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Radio stations disestablished in 2021
EOL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHSP-FM | CHSP-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a country format at 97.7 FM in St. Paul, Alberta. The station is branded on-air as Real Country 97.7 as part of the Real Country network branding in Alberta.
The station signed on in 1975 as CIOK. It was owned by the OK Radio Group until 1982, when it was sold to LW Broadcasting Ltd. and changed to CHLW. It was later owned by Newcap Broadcasting, until they were bought out by Stingray Group.
On April 21, 2009, Newcap radio received approval by the CRTC to convert CHLW to the FM dial at 97.7 MHz as CHSP-FM. After the flip to FM, the station's new call sign will become CHSP-FM.
During the holiday season of 2009 (starting December 1) CHLW flipped to an all-Christmas music format, rebranding as "The Lakeland's holiday music station". They reverted to the original country format following the conclusion of the holiday season.
On December 30, 2011, the station moved to 97.7 FM occurred; its format remained country as 97.7 The Spur.
In November 2016, CHSP rebranded under the Real Country brand, as with other Newcap-owned country stations in Alberta.
Former logo
References
External links
Real Country 97.7
Hlw
Hlw
Hlw
Radio stations established in 1975
1975 establishments in Alberta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix%20delegation | IP networks are divided logically into subnetworks. Computers in the same subnetwork have the same address prefix. For example, in a typical home network with legacy Internet Protocol version 4, the network prefix would be something like 192.168.1.0/24, as expressed in CIDR notation.
With IPv4, commonly home networks use private addresses (defined in ) that are non-routable on the public Internet and use address translation to convert to routable addresses when connecting to hosts outside the local network. Business networks typically had manually provisioned subnetwork prefixes. In IPv6 global addresses are used end-to-end, so even home networks may need to distribute public, routable IP addresses to hosts.
Since it would not be practical to manually provision networks at scale, in IPv6 networking, DHCPv6 prefix delegation is used to assign a network address prefix and automate configuration and provisioning of the public routable addresses for the network. The way this works for example in the case of a home network is that the home router uses DHCPv6 protocol to request a network prefix from the ISP's DHCPv6 server. Once assigned, the ISP routes this network to the customer's home router and the home router starts advertising the new addresses to hosts on the network, either via SLAAC or using DHCPv6.
DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation is supported by most ISPs who provide native IPv6 for consumers on fixed networks.
Prefix delegation is generally not supported on cellular networks, for example LTE or 5G. Most cellular networks route a fixed /64 prefix to the subscriber. Personal hotspots may still provide IPv6 access to hosts on the network by using a different technique called Proxy Neighbor Discovery or using the technique described in . One of the reasons why cellular networks may not yet support prefix delegation is that the operators want to use prefixes they can aggregate to a single route. To solve this, defines an optional mechanism and the related DHCPv6 option to allow exclusion of one specific prefix from a delegated prefix set.
External links
Computer networks
IPv6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-FLEX%20CAD | T-FLEX CAD (T-FLEX) – is a Russian-made parametric computer-aided design (CAD) software application for 2D design, drafting, and 3D solid modeling based on commercial Parasolid geometric kernel. It's primarily developed and distributed by Russian software company Top Systems based in Russia.
Supported platforms are limited to Microsoft Windows. Amongst features T-FLEX offers support for various CAD formats and diverse localizations.
Functionality
T-FLEX CAD is primarily aimed at mechanical engineering. It provides drafting, modeling and assembly tools that enable engineers to develop various products, from single parts to assemblies.
T-FLEX CAD provides parametric, adaptive and associative technology aimed at family-of-parts manufacturers or other design situations that use similar geometry but require many different sizes or permutations. Entities and their parameters in T-FLEX CAD can be related to each other. Variables can be assigned for component names, visibility, material, any numeric or text attribute of any entity. They can then be processed with algebraic or logical expression to control the behavior of the design.
In addition to parametric 3D modeling T-FLEX CAD supports parametric 2D drawings creation from scratch. Parametric 2D assemblies can be created as well by inserting parametric 2D components. The result can be fully automatic, so that a master parametric drawing does not require editing as changes are required.
T-FLEX Open API is based on .NET technology offering possibilities for developing add-on applications.
File formats
T-FLEX native file format is
Compatibility
T-FLEX CAD supports parasolid-compatible file formats, including:
IGES
STEP
Rhino
DWG, DXF
SolidWorks
Solid Edge
Autodesk Inventor
Add-on products
T-FLEX Analysis - Specialized analysis tools to help engineers virtually test and analyze complicated parts and assemblies
T-FLEX Dynamics - General-purpose motion simulation for studying the physics-based motion behavior of a CAD design
T-FLEX Gears - Specialized tools for design, analysis and calculation of gears
T-FLEX Electrical - Specialized tools for development of electrical systems
T-FLEX Nesting - Automate nesting of sheet materials for various types of cutting
T-FLEX CAM - Manufacturing add-on for generating NC programs as well as toolpath verification and machine simulation
T-FLEX VR – Add-on to work with a 3D model in a virtual 3D space
T-FLEX DOCs - PLM system, helping manage complex products, streamline operations, and increase productivity.
See also
Comparison of CAD Software
References
Computer-aided design software
Windows software
2011 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident%20set%20size | In computing, resident set size (RSS) is the portion of memory (measured in kilobytes) occupied by a process that is held in main memory (RAM). The rest of the occupied memory exists in the swap space or file system, either because some parts of the occupied memory were paged out, or because some parts of the executable were never loaded.
See also
Proportional set size (PSS)
Unique set size (USS)
Demand paging
Virtual memory
Working set
Working set size
References
External links
Simple resident set size limits, LWN.net, August 10, 2004, by Jonathan Corbet
ELC: How much memory are applications really using?, LWN.net, April 18, 2007, by Jonathan Corbet
Memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuchMusic%20Brasil | MuchMusic Brasil was a Brazilian cable television network and a Brazilian version of the Canadian music network MuchMusic. Launched in 2000, it had a hard time competing with MTV Brasil and in December 2001 the network ceased production, and went off the air.
MuchMusic is still available in several other South American countries, but as a Spanish focused format of MuchMusic Latin America. There is no Portuguese programming on MuchMusic Latin America.
Portuguese-language television stations in Brazil
Television networks in Brazil
Defunct television channels in Brazil
Television channels and stations established in 2000
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2001
2000 establishments in Brazil
2001 disestablishments in Brazil
Music organisations based in Brazil
Much (TV channel) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalescing%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, coalescing is a part of memory management in which two adjacent free blocks of computer memory are merged.
When a program no longer requires certain blocks of memory, these blocks of memory can be freed. Without coalescing, these blocks of memory stay separate from each other in their original requested size, even if they are next to each other. If a subsequent request for memory specifies a size of memory that cannot be met with an integer number of these (potentially unequally-sized) freed blocks, these neighboring blocks of freed memory cannot be allocated for this request. Coalescing alleviates this issue by setting the neighboring blocks of freed memory to be contiguous without boundaries, such that part or all of it can be allocated for the request.
Among other techniques, coalescing is used to reduce external fragmentation, but is not totally effective. Coalescing can be done as soon as blocks are freed, or it can be deferred until some time later (known as deferred coalescing), or it might not be done at all.
Coalescence and related techniques like heap compaction, can be used in garbage collection.
See also
Timer coalescing
References
External links
The Memory Management Reference, Beginner's Guide Allocation
Automatic memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Michael%20Perez | Don Michael Perez is a Filipino television writer, film writer, television director, film and television director. He is a resident writer and director for GMA Network.
His most famous works were Mulawin, Destiny Rose and Kambal, Karibal.
Filmography
Television
TBA Muntik Nang Maabot Ang Langit (director)
2023–present Magandang Dilag (director)
2022 Return to Paradise (director)
2022 Raising Mamay (director)
2021 To Have & to Hold (director)
2020–2021 Love of My Life (director)
2018–2019 Cain at Abel (as co-director)
2017–2018 Kambal, Karibal (as creator, director)
2017 Mulawin vs. Ravena (as creator, director)
2016–2017 Hahamakin ang Lahat (as head director)
2016 Once Again (as head director)
2015–2016 Destiny Rose (as head director)
2015 Yagit (as additional co-director)
2014–2015 Strawberry Lane (as head director)
2014 Innamorata (as head director)
2013 With a Smile (as head writer (episodes 1–7), creative consultant (episode 8-65))
2013 Maghihintay Pa Rin (as head director)
2013 Bukod Kang Pinagpala (as head director)
2012–2013 Aso ni San Roque (as head director)
2012 My Daddy Dearest (as head director)
2011–2012 Daldalita (as head director)
2010–2011 Bantatay (as head director)
2010 Trudis Liit (as head director)
2009–2010 Darna (as co-director)
2009 Zorro (as head writer)
2009 Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin? (as head writer)
2009 Totoy Bato (as co-director)
2008–2009 Gagambino (as co-director)
2008 Dyesebel (as co-director)
2008 Babangon Ako't Dudurugin Kita (as head writer)
2007–2008 Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan (as head writer, co-director)
2007–2008 MariMar (as creative consultant)
2007 Sinasamba Kita (as head writer)
2007 Asian Treasures (as head writer)
2006–2007 Captain Barbell (as head writer)
2006 Majika (as creative consultant)
2005 Darna (as creative consultant)
2004–2005 Mulawin (as creator, head writer)
1999 Click (as head writer)
Film
2009 Shake, Rattle & Roll XI: Ukay-Ukay (as Director)
2006 White Lady (as screenplay)
2005 Mulawin: The Movie (as screenplay)
2004 Kuya (as screenplay)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Filipino television directors
Filipino film directors
Filipino dramatists and playwrights
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Filipino screenwriters
GMA Network (company) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.%20Nuevas | R.J. Nuevas (also credited as Robert Joseph Nuevas) is a Filipino television writer and film writer. He is a resident writer of GMA Network, for which he created the graphic novel-themed series Impostora.
He has adapted, for television, three of Carlo J. Caparas' graphic novels: Bakekang in 2006, Kamandag in 2007 and Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa Aking Tadyang in 2009. He is also writing the screenplay for the big-budget movie adaptation of Caparas' most famous work, Ang Panday.
Filmography
Television
1995: Villa Quintana (as writer)
1996: Anna Karenina (as writer)
1996: Mukha ng Buhay (as writer)
1997: Ikaw na Sana (as developer)
1998: Ganyan Kita Kamahal (as developer)
1998: Halik sa Apoy (as developer)
2000: May Bukas Pa (as head writer)
2004: Ikaw sa Puso Ko (as writer)
2006: Sugo (as head writer)
2006: Majika (as head writer)
2006: Bakekang (as head writer)
2007: Impostora (as head writer, creator)
2007: La Vendetta (as head writer)
2007: Kamandag (as head writer)
2008: Codename: Asero (as head writer, creator)
2008: Luna Mystica (as head writer)
2009: Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa Aking Tadyang (as head writer)
2009: Rosalinda (as head writer)
2011: Sinner or Saint (creator)
2012: Faithfully (creator, head writer)
2012: Sana ay Ikaw na Nga (creator, head writer)
2012: Magdalena (creator)
2013: Bukod Kang Pinagpala (creator, head writer)
2013: Mundo Mo'y Akin (creator)
2013: Love & Lies (creator)
2013: Home Sweet Home (creator, head writer)
2013: Anna Karenina (creator, head writer)
2013: Genesis (creator, head writer)
2013: Villa Quintana (creator, head writer)
2014: Innamorata (creator, head writer)
2015: Buena Familia (creator)
2016: Once Again (as head writer)
2016: Hahamakin ang Lahat (creator, head writer)
2016: Ika-6 na Utos (creator, head writer)
2017: Impostora (creator, head writer)
2018: Sherlock Jr. (as head writer)
2018: Ika-5 Utos (as head writer)
2021: Babawiin Ko ang Lahat (creator)
2021: Heartful Café (creator, head writer)
2022: Maria Clara at Ibarra (creator)
2023: Royal Blood (creator)
Film
1992: Ngayon at Kailan Man (screenplay)
1997: Wala na Bang Iba (story and screenplay)
2003: Captain Barbell (story and screenplay)
2004: Annie B. (screenplay)
2004: Lastikman: Unang Banat (story)
2005: Let the Love Begin (screenplay)
2005: Say That You Love Me (screenplay)
2006: I Will Always Love You (story and screenplay)
2007: Bahay Kubo (screenplay)
2008: Dobol Trobol (screenplay)
2009: Ang Panday (screenplay)
2010: Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote (story and screenplay)
External links
Filipino dramatists and playwrights
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Filipino screenwriters
GMA Network (company) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic%20association | Polymorphic association is a term used in discussions of Object-Relational Mapping with respect to the problem of representing in the relational database domain, a relationship from one class to multiple classes. In statically typed languages such as Java these multiple classes are subclasses of the same superclass. In languages with duck typing, such as Ruby, this is not necessarily the case.
See also
Polymorphism in object-oriented programming
Hibernate (Java)
References
Java Persistence with HIBERNATE, Chapter 5, Bauer, Christian & Gavin, King, Manning, copyright 2007,
External links
Hibernate Home Page
Data mapping
Object-oriented programming
Relational model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20creativity | Computational creativity (also known as artificial creativity, mechanical creativity, creative computing or creative computation) is a multidisciplinary endeavour that is located at the intersection of the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and the arts (e.g., computational art as part of computational culture).
The goal of computational creativity is to model, simulate or replicate creativity using a computer, to achieve one of several ends:
To construct a program or computer capable of human-level creativity.
To better understand human creativity and to formulate an algorithmic perspective on creative behavior in humans.
To design programs that can enhance human creativity without necessarily being creative themselves.
The field of computational creativity concerns itself with theoretical and practical issues in the study of creativity. Theoretical work on the nature and proper definition of creativity is performed in parallel with practical work on the implementation of systems that exhibit creativity, with one strand of work informing the other.
The applied form of computational creativity is known as media synthesis.
Theoretical issues
Theoretical approaches concern the essence of creativity. Especially, under what circumstances it is possible to call the model a "creative" if eminent creativity is about rule-breaking or the disavowal of convention. This is a variant of Ada Lovelace's objection to machine intelligence, as recapitulated by modern theorists such as Teresa Amabile. If a machine can do only what it was programmed to do, how can its behavior ever be called creative?
Indeed, not all computer theorists would agree with the premise that computers can only do what they are programmed to do—a key point in favor of computational creativity.
Defining creativity in computational terms
Because no single perspective or definition seems to offer a complete picture of creativity, the AI researchers Newell, Shaw and Simon developed the combination of novelty and usefulness into the cornerstone of a multi-pronged view of creativity, one that uses the following four criteria to categorize a given answer or solution as creative:
The answer is novel and useful (either for the individual or for society)
The answer demands that we reject ideas we had previously accepted
The answer results from intense motivation and persistence
The answer comes from clarifying a problem that was originally vague
Whereas the above reflects a top-down approach to computational creativity, an alternative thread has developed among bottom-up computational psychologists involved in artificial neural network research. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, for example, such generative neural systems were driven by genetic algorithms. Experiments involving recurrent nets were successful in hybridizing simple musical melodies and predicting listener expectations.
Machine learning for computational creativity
While traditi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthought | Enthought, Inc. is a software company based in Austin, Texas, United States that develops scientific and analytic computing solutions using primarily the Python programming language. It is best known for the early development and maintenance of the SciPy library of mathematics, science, and engineering algorithms and for its Python for scientific computing distribution Enthought Canopy (formerly EPD).
The company was founded in 2001 by Travis Vaught and Eric Jones.
Open source software
Enthought publishes a large portion of the code as open-source software under a BSD-style license.
Enthought Canopy is a Python for scientific and analytic computing distribution and analysis environment, available for free and under a commercial license.
The Enthought Tool Suite open source software projects include:
Traits: A manifest type definition library for Python that provides initialization, validation, delegation, notification, and visualization. The Traits package is the foundation of the Enthought Tool Suite, underlying almost all other packages.
TraitsUI: A UI layer that supports the visualization features of Traits. Implementations using wxWidgets and Qt are provided by the TraitsBackendWX and TraitsBackendQt projects
Pyface: toolkit-independent GUI abstraction layer, which is used to support the "visualization" features of the Traits package.
MayaVi: 2-D/3-D scientific data visualization, usable in TraitsUIs as well as an Envisage plug-in.
Envisage: An extensible plug-in architecture for scientific applications, inspired by Eclipse and NetBeans in the Java world.
Enable: A multi-platform DisplayPDF drawing engine that supports multiple output backends, including Windows, GTK+, and macOS native windowing systems, a variety of raster image formats, PDF, and PostScript.
BlockCanvas: Visual environment for creating simulation experiments, where function and data are separated using CodeTools.
GraphCanvas: library for interacting with visualizations of complex graphs.
SciMath: Convenience libraries for math, interpolation, and units
Chaco: An interactive 2-D plotting toolkit for Python.
AppTools: General tools for ETS application development: scripting, logging, preferences, ...
Enaml: Library for creating professional quality user interfaces combining a domain specific declarative language with a constraints based layout.
See also
NumPy
matplotlib
Anaconda
ActiveState's ActivePython
References
External links
Companies based in Austin, Texas
Computational science
Free software programmed in Python
Software companies based in Texas
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20%28computing%29 | A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service.
A user often has a user account and is identified to the system by a username (or user name). Other terms for username include login name, screenname (or screen name), account name, nickname (or nick) and handle, which is derived from the identical citizens band radio term.
Some software products provide services to other systems and have no direct end users.
End user
End users are the ultimate human users (also referred to as operators) of a software product. The end user stands in contrast to users who support or maintain the product such as sysops, database administrators and computer technicians. The term is used to abstract and distinguish those who only use the software from the developers of the system, who enhance the software for end users. In user-centered design, it also distinguishes the software operator from the client who pays for its development and other stakeholders who may not directly use the software, but help establish its requirements. This abstraction is primarily useful in designing the user interface, and refers to a relevant subset of characteristics that most expected users would have in common.
In user-centered design, personas are created to represent the types of users. It is sometimes specified for each persona which types of user interfaces it is comfortable with (due to previous experience or the interface's inherent simplicity), and what technical expertise and degree of knowledge it has in specific fields or disciplines. When few constraints are imposed on the end-user category, especially when designing programs for use by the general public, it is common practice to expect minimal technical expertise or previous training in end users.
The end-user development discipline blurs the typical distinction between users and developers. It designates activities or techniques in which people who are not professional developers create automated behavior and complex data objects without significant knowledge of a programming language.
Systems whose actor is another system or a software agent have no direct end users.
User account
A user's account allows a user to authenticate to a system and potentially to receive authorization to access resources provided by or connected to that system; however, authentication does not imply authorization. To log into an account, a user is typically required to authenticate oneself with a password or other credentials for the purposes of accounting, security, logging, and resource management.
Once the user has logged on, the operating system will often use an identifier such as an integer to refer to them, rather than their username, through a process known as identity correlation. In Unix systems, the username is correlated with a user identifier or user ID.
Computer systems operate in one of two types based on what kind of users they have:
Single-user systems do not have a concept of several user accounts.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train%20simulator%20%28disambiguation%29 | A train simulator is a computer-based video game that simulates rail transport operations. Train Simulator may also refer to any of the following specific simulators:
BVE Trainsim is a Japanese freeware train simulator.
Microsoft Train Simulator (also known as MSTS) is a train simulator for Microsoft Windows, released in July 2001 and developed by UK based Kuju Entertainment.
Microsoft Train Simulator 2 (also known as MSTS 2) is an unreleased sequel to Microsoft Train Simulator, cancelled in 2009 when Aces Studio closed.
Rail Simulator is a train simulator developed by Kuju Entertainment, the company which developed Microsoft Train Simulator with Microsoft.
Train Simulator Classic is a train simulator and successor to Rail Simulator, produced by Rail Simulator Developments Ltd (Dovetail Games).
Train Simulator series is a Japanese train simulation game series produced by Ongakukan. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narito%20ang%20Puso%20Ko%20%28TV%20series%29 | (International title: Here is My Heart) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Enrico Quizon and Gina Alajar, it stars Jolina Magdangal, Raymart Santiago and James Blanco. It premiered on June 9, 2003 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Kung Mawawala Ka. The series concluded on March 5, 2004 with a total of 175 episodes. It was replaced by Hanggang Kailan in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jolina Magdangal as Antonina San Victores / Isabella Campuspos
Raymart Santiago as Rodolfo Perez
James Blanco as Santiago "Santi" Tatlonghari
Supporting cast
Rosa Rosal as Dolores San Victores
Eddie Garcia as Felipe San Victores
Amy Austria as Elsa Campuspos
Dina Bonnevie as Violeta San Victores
Raymond Bagatsing as Joaquin San Victores
Ariel Rivera as Amoroso San Victores
Carmina Villarroel as Ava "Primavera" Grande
Lilia Dizon as Leticia
Karen delos Reyes as fake Antonina / Luzviminda Bautista
Chanda Romero as Clara Bautista
Mylene Dizon as Stella Bautista
Benjie Paras as Boyong
Recurring cast
Monsour del Rosario as Ernesto San Vicente
Allan Paule as Allan
Ricci Chan as Red
Lara Melissa de Leon as Arlene
Raven Villanueva as Janessa
Guest cast
Princess Punzalan as Atty. Salgado
Sharmaine Arnaiz as young Dolores San Victores
Lander Vera Perez as Antonio San Victores
Jay R as Jay R
Kyla as Melani
Jim Pebanco as Edgar
Malou de Guzman as Rodolfo's mother
Phoemela Baranda as Esmeralda San Victores
Ernie Zarate as Enrico
Reggie Curly as a private investigator
Arlene Tolibas as a floor manager
Mel Kimura as Melani's assistant
Czarina Lopez de Leon as Jonathan's ex-girlfriend
Accolades
References
External links
2003 Philippine television series debuts
2004 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoD%20IPv6%20product%20certification | The Department of Defense (DoD) Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) product certification program began as a mandate from the DoD's Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks & Information Integration (ASD-NII) in 2005. The program mandates the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) in Fort Huachuca, AZ, to test and certify IT products for IPv6 capability according to the RFCs outlined in the DoD's IPv6 Standards Profiles for IPv6 Capable Products. Once products are certified for special interoperability, they are added to the DoD's Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (UC APL) for IPv6. This list is used by procurement offices in the DoD and the U.S. Federal agencies for ongoing purchases and acquisitions of IT equipment.
As of February 2009, the DoD ceased the requirement for IPv6-only testing for certification and entry into the Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (UC APL). According to Kris Strance, DoD CIO IPv6 Lead, "The testing of IPv6 is a part of all product evaluations — it is much broader in scope now." The UC APL is now a single consolidated list of products that have completed Interoperability (IO) and Information Assurance (IA) certification.
DoD IPv6 standards
The DoD IPv6 Standards Profiles for IPv6 Capable Products (DoD IPv6 Profile) is the singular “IPv6 Capable” definition in DoD. It is a document that lists the six agreed upon product classes (Host, Router, Layer 3 Switch, Network Appliance, Security Device, and Advanced Server) and their corresponding standards (RFCs). It lists each standard according to its level of requirement:
MUST: The standard is required to be implemented in the product now.
SHOULD: The standard is optional, but recommended for implementation.
SHOULD+: The standard is optional now, but will be required within a short period of time.
DoD IPv6 generic test plan
The JITC uses its publicly available IPv6 Generic Test Plan (GTP) to test each product for its conformance, performance and interoperability of IPv6 according to the DoD IPv6 Profile. The JITC uses a combination of automated testing tools and manual functional test procedures to conduct this testing.
Process
The vendor, or Program Manager, must make their intentions known to test by providing the JITC with a Letter of Compliance (LoC). This letter will consist of the product to test, the product class it belongs to, a listing of all of the standards that it implements, and a signature from a Vice President or officer of the company. This is the “gateway” to the testing process.
Once the LoC is received, the product is then scheduled for test.
Approximately 6 weeks before the start of testing, the vendor must provide the JITC with funding. This funding must be in the form of a check. The amount is only to charge direct labor hours for testing by the contractor labor support.
If the product successfully meets the criteria, it will be entered on the DoD's UC APL for IPv6.
An IPv6 Capable Special Interoperability Cert |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unplayed%20by%20Human%20Hands | "Unplayed By Human Hands" are the titles of two album recordings made in the mid-1970s of computerized organ performances recorded at the All Saints Church in Pasadena, California on their 90-rank Schlicker pipe organ. The project was headed by Prentiss Knowlton, a student of computer science at the University of Utah.
The computer employed for the task of controlling the pipe organ was a PDP-8 minicomputer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1965.
Track listing
unplayed by human hands - a computer performed organ recital - CR 9115
Side 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE-BEE
ROGER DUCASSE: PASTORALE IN F
MOZART: OVERTURE FROM THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, K. 492
JOPLIN: MAPLE LEAF RAG
Side 2
BACH: CONCERTO IN A MINOR (after Vivaldi), BWV 593
IVES: VARIATIONS ON AMERICA
unplayed by human hands - in concert on the ninety-rank schlicker pipe organ - CH 9771
Side 1
Franz Schubert: INSTANT MUSIC
Dudley Buck: NEW ANGLES ON THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
Felix-Alexandre Guilmant: MARCHING-SONG OF THE ANGEL OF DEATH
Side 2
Dietrich Buxtehude: FANTASIA IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
Johan Halvorsen: ENTRY OF THE PRIVILEGED LANDHOLDING CLASS
Vladimir Ussachevsky: FANTASY: EVERYTHING IS COMPUTERIZED
Actual titles
The names of the songs as printed on this album are distorted in one way or another.
The following is a list of the actual titles and their composers.
6 Moments musicaux, Op.94 D.780 - No.3 in F minor (Allegro moderato) by Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
The Star spangled banner : concert variations for organ by Dudley Buck (1839 - 1909)
Marche funèbre et chant séraphique, opus 17 by Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (1837 - 1911)
Fantasia in F by Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707)
Entry of the Boyars by Johan Halvorsen (1864 - 1935)
Omnia computatus est by Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911 - 1990)
See also
http://stringcanphone.tribe.net/thread/7939abff-80bb-4489-a9d9-131365f48fb3
References
"unplayed by human hands" (LP album) CR 9115, Copyright 1975
http://www.cvfalcons.com/alumni/classof64al.html
1975 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate%20Atlantis%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the television series Stargate Atlantis commenced airing on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States on July 15, 2005, concluded on The Movie Network in Canada on January 30, 2006, and contained 20 episodes. The show itself is a spin off of its sister show, Stargate SG-1. The series was developed by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, who also served as executive producers. Season two regular cast members include Joe Flanigan, Torri Higginson, Rachel Luttrell, Jason Momoa, Paul McGillion, and David Hewlett as Dr. Rodney McKay. The second season focuses on the Atlantis Expedition continuing to make the Wraith think that the city self-destructed, (The Siege Part III) while continuing to explore Pegasus and hunt for ZPMs (although they do have one now) this means at times lying to new allies about the city even sometimes claiming to be a small contingent that escaped the Siege; the season also marks the first time the Expedition is able to make contact with Earth although doing so uses a lot of power so the contact is oftentimes via the Daedalus, an intergalactic Earth-Asgard vessel commanded by Col. Steven Caldwell who makes clear his desire to be Military Leader of Atlantis but eventually settles for a sort of advisory role as it becomes clear that Dr. Weir and the Lt.Col Sheppard are a duo not to be messed with. The central plot of the second season is the development of Dr. Beckett's retrovirus, which can, theoretically, turn a Wraith into a human.
The one-hour premiere, "The Siege Part III", aired on July 15, 2005. The theme song for the series received an Emmy nomination in the category "Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)". The series was developed by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, who also served as executive producers. Season two regular cast members include Joe Flanigan, Torri Higginson, Rainbow Sun Francks, Rachel Luttrell, Jason Momoa and David Hewlett.
Cast
Starring Joe Flanigan as Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard
Torri Higginson as Dr. Elizabeth Weir
Rachel Luttrell as Teyla Emmagan
Rainbow Sun Francks as First Lieutenant Aiden Ford
Jason Momoa as Ronon Dex
With Paul McGillion as Dr. Carson Beckett
And David Hewlett as Dr. Rodney McKay
Episodes
Episodes in bold are continuous episodes, where the story spans over 2 or more episodes.
Production
"Runner" is the last episode where Rainbow Sun Francks (portrayed Aiden Ford) is credited as a regular cast member. Jason Momoa joins the main cast in this episode. While rehearsing scenes for "Duet" where Cadman has control of McKay's body, Jamie Ray Newman would do a scene first, and then David Hewlett would try to mimic her movements, cadence, accent, etc. Alan C. Peterson, who played the Magistrate in "Condemned", previously played Canon in Stargate SG-1s Demons. The episode title of "Trinity" is a reference to the Trinity test. The outdoors parts of "Instinct" were filmed on location at Lynn Valley Canyon, North Vancouver. Jewel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLPython | CLPython is an implementation of the Python programming language written in Common Lisp.
This project allow to call Lisp functions from Python and Python functions from Lisp. Licensed under LGPL.
CLPython was started in 2006, but as of 2013, it was not actively developed and the mailing list was closed.
See also
CPython - the default implementation of Python, written in C.
IronPython - an implementation of Python in C# targeting .NET and Mono.
Jython - an implementation of Python for the JVM.
Hy - An implementation of Lisp written in Python
References
External links
https://github.com/metawilm/cl-python
Common Lisp (programming language) software
Free compilers and interpreters
Free software programmed in Lisp
Python (programming language) implementations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtranslator | Gtranslator is a specialized computer-assisted translation software and po file editor for the internationalization and localization (i18n) of software that uses the gettext system. It handles all forms of gettext po files and includes features such as Find/Replace, Translation Memory, different Translator Profiles, Messages Table (for having an overview of the translations/messages in the po file), Easy Navigation and Editing of translation messages and comments of the translation where accurate. Gtranslator includes also a plugin system with plugins such as Alternate Language, Insert Tags, Open Tran, Integration with Subversion, and Source Code Viewer.
Gtranslator is written in the programming language C for the GNOME desktop environment. It is available as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Features
Open several PO files in tabs
Plural forms support
Automatic headers update
Comments editing
Management of different translator profiles
Translation Memories
Assistant to configure initial profile and TM
Search dialog and quick navigation among the messages
Toolbar editor
Highlight whitespaces and messages syntax
Plugins system (from gedit)
Plugins
Character Map: Insert special characters by clicking on them
Dictionary: Look up words in a dictionary
Alternate Language: Load another translation of the PO file in order to see at the same time the original messages and their translations in the alternate language
Fullscreen: Place window in the fullscreen state
Insert Params: Parameters detection and easy insertion
Insert Tags: Tags detection and easy insertion
Open Tran: Look for phrases in Open Tran memory translation database
Source code view: Show the message in the source code
Subversion: A Subversion client plugin based on libsvn .
See also
gettext
References
External links
Project homepage
Free computer programming tools
Free software programmed in C
Software-localization tools
GNOME Applications
GNOME Developer Tools
Computer-assisted translation software that uses GTK
Computer-assisted translation software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20smoother | A kernel smoother is a statistical technique to estimate a real valued function as the weighted average of neighboring observed data. The weight is defined by the kernel, such that closer points are given higher weights. The estimated function is smooth, and the level of smoothness is set by a single parameter.
Kernel smoothing is a type of weighted moving average.
Definitions
Let be a kernel defined by
where:
is the Euclidean norm
is a parameter (kernel radius)
D(t) is typically a positive real valued function, whose value is decreasing (or not increasing) for the increasing distance between the X and X0.
Popular kernels used for smoothing include parabolic (Epanechnikov), Tricube, and Gaussian kernels.
Let be a continuous function of X. For each , the Nadaraya-Watson kernel-weighted average (smooth Y(X) estimation) is defined by
where:
N is the number of observed points
Y(Xi) are the observations at Xi points.
In the following sections, we describe some particular cases of kernel smoothers.
Gaussian kernel smoother
The Gaussian kernel is one of the most widely used kernels, and is expressed with the equation below.
Here, b is the length scale for the input space.
Nearest neighbor smoother
The idea of the nearest neighbor smoother is the following. For each point X0, take m nearest neighbors and estimate the value of Y(X0) by averaging the values of these neighbors.
Formally, , where is the mth closest to X0 neighbor, and
Example:
In this example, X is one-dimensional. For each X0, the is an average value of 16 closest to X0 points (denoted by red). The result is not smooth enough.
Kernel average smoother
The idea of the kernel average smoother is the following. For each data point X0, choose a constant distance size λ (kernel radius, or window width for p = 1 dimension), and compute a weighted average for all data points that are closer than to X0 (the closer to X0 points get higher weights).
Formally, and D(t) is one of the popular kernels.
Example:
For each X0 the window width is constant, and the weight of each point in the window is schematically denoted by the yellow figure in the graph. It can be seen that the estimation is smooth, but the boundary points are biased. The reason for that is the non-equal number of points (from the right and from the left to the X0) in the window, when the X0 is close enough to the boundary.
Local linear regression
In the two previous sections we assumed that the underlying Y(X) function is locally constant, therefore we were able to use the weighted average for the estimation. The idea of local linear regression is to fit locally a straight line (or a hyperplane for higher dimensions), and not the constant (horizontal line). After fitting the line, the estimation is provided by the value of this line at X0 point. By repeating this procedure for each X0, one can get the estimation function .
Like in previous section, the window width is constant
Formally, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20General | Network General Corporation was an American technology company active between 1986 and 2007 and based in Silicon Valley. Founded in 1986 by Harry Saal and Len Shustek to develop and market network packet and protocol analyzers, the company's flagship product, the Sniffer was the market leader in its field for many years. In 1997, Network General was acquired by McAfee Associates (MCAF) for $1.3 billion, and the two companies merged to form Network Associates. In 2004, Network Associates sold off most of the patents originally belonging to Network General to a group of investors including Saal, who founded a new Network General Corporation. In 2007, NetScout Systems acquired the new Network General for $205 million.
History
Network General Corporation was founded in May 1986 by Harry Saal and Len Shustek to develop and market network protocol analyzers. Saal, the company's primary founder, president, and CEO, had previously worked at IBM as a software engineer before founding Nestar Systems, his first startup dedicated to computer networking, in October 1978 with three others, including Shustek, Jim Hinds and Nick Fortis. Although successful at first, Nestar eventually floundered and was sold off in 1986. Deciding they wanted another go at a computer networking company, Saal and Shustek founded Network General in Menlo Park, California, in 1986.
In the year of the company's founding, Network General introduced the Sniffer. The inspiration behind the Sniffer was an internal test tool that had been developed within Nestar. Between the company's inception and the end of 1988, the Sniffer became Network General's flagship product, and the company sold $8.9 million worth of Sniffers and associated services, earning them $1.8 million in net profit. Financing was initially provided only by the founders until an investment of several million by TA Associates in late 1987. The company grew from having only two employees in 1986 to 15 employees in 1988. In February 1989, the company raised $17.5 million with a public stock offering of 1.90 million shares on the Nasdaq as NETG, underwritten by Alex. Brown & Sons. In August 1989, they sold an additional 1.27 million shares in a secondary offering, and in April 1992, an additional 2.22 million shares in a third offering.
By December 1989, Network General employed 68 people. In the same month the company bought Legend Software, a one-person company in New Jersey that had been founded by Dan Hansen. Their product was a network monitor called LAN Patrol, which was enhanced, rebranded, and sold by Network General as WatchDog, introduced in April 1990. The WatchDog sold only half as well as investors had anticipated within a quarter-year of its introduction, and Network General was forced to buy back $175,000 worth of back-stock to avoid a glut in the company's distribution networks. In August 1991, the company acquired Progressive Computing, a manufacturer and supplier of equipment for wide area networks. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train%20ticket | A train ticket is a transit pass ticket issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel on the operator's network or a partner's network. Tickets can authorize the bearer to travel a set itinerary at a specific time (common for long-distance railroads), a set itinerary at any time (common for commuter railroads), a set itinerary at multiple times, or an arbitrary itinerary at specific times. The last two categories are often called passes: the former is often sold as a discounted block of trips for commuters; the latter is often sold to vacationers, such as European Eurail passes.
In some countries, like Italy, and some local railways in Germany, conductors are not used. Instead passengers are expected to validate tickets in a special stamping machine before entering the train. A system of coupons that are validated with a special machine exists on the Mumbai Suburban Railway where combinations of coupons of denominations are used to get the corresponding ticket value. There may or may not be a conductor later on double-checking that correct tickets are actually held. Yet further systems are possible, for example in Japan, the London Underground and in local traffic in Stockholm, the platforms are blocked by turnstiles, forcing the acquisition of a ticket before entering the platform.
Some train tickets are available with an option to add bus travel at either end of the train ticketed journey, as part of a wider transport network. For instance, the Plusbus scheme in the United Kingdom offers bus travel on an integrated ticket for an additional fee. In Germany, most long-distance train tickets include a "city ticket" valid on the public transit system of origin and destination. This is automatically included at no extra charge in all tickets purchased by BahnCard holders and is indicated on the ticket.
History
Early tickets were similar to a form of currency issued by individual railroads, sold by agents and collected by conductors who were audited by the railroad to be sure ticket inventories matched reported passenger earnings. As continuous travel over several connected railways became common, Coupon tickets with serrated portions for each railway company might be issued at the origin of travel and sequentially collected by conductors of the railways providing travel to avoid the necessity for purchasing additional tickets at each transfer point.
Seat checks
In the US, a conductor may also provide the passenger with a seat check — another voucher indicating how far the passenger may travel on the system — or attach it over the seat also punched by the conductor showing the passenger's destination, along with conductors organizing train seating by destination during boarding. Some systems (Amtrak, for instance) have two-part tickets that permit the passenger to retain a cancelled ticket stub; others (the New Jersey Transit and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail systems, for instance) do not. Seat check |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrowCut%20algorithm | GrowCut is an interactive segmentation algorithm. It uses Cellular Automaton as an image model. Automata evolution models segmentation process. Each cell of the automata has some label (in case of binary segmentation - 'object', 'background' and 'empty'). During automata evolution some cells capture their neighbours, replacing their labels.
In GrowCut, a user vaguely draws some strokes inside the object of interest with an object brush, and outside the object with a background brush. In simple cases, only a few strokes suffice for segmentation.
References
External links
http://www.growcut.com - a Photoshop plugin, which implements GrowCut algorithm
Image segmentation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%202008 | The World Cyber Games 2008 was held in Cologne, Germany. It ran from 5 November 2008 through 9 November 2008 and was expected to feature 800 players from 78 countries.
Official games
PC games
Counter-Strike: 1.6
StarCraft: Brood War
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
FIFA 08
Need for Speed: ProStreet
Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Red Stone
Carom3D
Xbox 360 games
Project Gotham Racing 4
Guitar Hero III
Halo 3
Virtua Fighter 5
Mobile game
Asphalt 4
Results
References
World Cyber Games events
2008 in German sport
2008 in esports
Esports in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/688th%20Cyberspace%20Wing | The United States Air Force's 688th Cyberspace Wing is a cyberspace operations unit located at Joint Base San Antonio (Lackland), Texas.
The wing delivers information operations and engineering infrastructure for air, space, and cyberspace military operations. It supports national, joint and Air Force operations.
Component units
Unless otherwise indicated, units are based at Kelly Field Annex, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, and subordinate units are located at the same location as their commanding group.
Wing Staff
688th Operations Support Squadron
5th Combat Communications Group (Robins AFB, Georgia)
5th Combat Communications Support Squadron
51st Combat Communications Squadron
52d Combat Communications Squadron
26th Cyberspace Operations Group
26th Network Operations Squadron (Gunter Annex, Maxwell AFB, Alabama)
33d Network Warfare Squadron
68th Network Warfare Squadron
38th Cyberspace Engineering Installation Group
38th Contracting Squadron (Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas)
38th Engineering Squadron
38th Operations Support Squadron
85th Engineering Installation Squadron (Keesler AFB, Mississippi)
690th Cyberspace Operations Group
83d Network Operations Squadron (Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia)
561st Network Operations Squadron (Peterson AFB, Colorado)
690th Cyberspace Operations Squadron (Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii)
690th Intelligence Support Squadron
690th Network Support Squadron
691st Cyberspace Operations Squadron (Ramstein AB, Germany)
692d Cyberspace Operations Squadron (Eglin AFB, Florida)
History
In July 1953, United States Air Force Security Service organized the 6901st and 6902d Special Communications Centers at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas. One month later, these two organizations were replaced by the Air Force Special Communications Center, located on the other side of San Antonio, Texas at Kelly Air Force Base. The center became the Air Force Electronic Warfare Center in July 1975.
Air Force successes in exploiting enemy information systems during Operation Desert Storm led to the realization that the strategies and tactics of command and control warfare could be expanded to the entire information spectrum and be implemented as information warfare. In response, the center was redesignated the Air Force Information Warfare Center on 10 September 1993, combining technical skill sets from the existing center with the Air Force Cryptologic Support Center's Securities Directorate and intelligence capabilities from the former Air Force Intelligence Command.
In May 2007, after 54 years of being aligned with United States Air Force Security Service and its successors, the center became part of Air Combat Command and was reassigned to Eighth Air Force. This assignment did not last long, for in August 2009 the center was redesignated the 688th Information Operations Wing and was assigned to Twenty-Fourth Air Force of Air Force Space Command.
The Air Force Information Oper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetLimiter | NetLimiter is a client-side traffic shaping, monitoring and firewall (computing) software for the Windows operating system. Unlike most traffic-shaping utilities, which are based on centrally managed hardware, NetLimiter is a software-only solution. This has the advantage of being less expensive to deploy, but can result in being more difficult to manage its use across more than one computer.
While it has a significant market among more technically minded computer users, in medium-to-large networks it becomes difficult for administrators to maintain multiple copies of configuration files. It is, however, useful for simulating slow links between departments showing how the applications will work when deployed to slower sites.
It is often lumped together with other free or shareware in articles that present the reader with 'essential' applications and poweruser-type utilities.
Features and versions
The software is available in three versions: the freeware Monitor and two paid for versions, Lite and Pro. Monitor provides real-time monitoring and statistics. Lite provides monitoring and limits, while the Pro version includes all Monitor and Lite features together with additional features including the ability to act as a firewall, remote administration via a webpage, and filtering.
The product has its own programming interface, allowing integration with other software.
Version 1.3 of the software was criticized by cNet in 2009 as using too much memory (12 MB).
Version 3 was released on August 31, 2010.
Version 4.0.13 is a first NetLimiter 4 final release on August 5, 2015.
Similar products
cFosSpeed
SeriousBit NetBalancer
TrafficShaperXP
Trickle, a Userland Bandwidth Shaper for Unix-like Systems
References
External links
Official site
Internet Protocol based network software
Shareware
Utilities for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20and%20Friends | Ricardo and Friends is an English language cooking show by Montreal based host Ricardo Larrivée. It is broadcast by Food Network.
After achieving success in the French language market of Canada with Ricardo, plans were underway to have Larrivée create an English speaking cooking show. Thus Ricardo and Friends was created.
During each episode Larrivée travels throughout Quebec and showcases different cuisine and products of the province such as beer, cheese, fresh herbs and many more. Larrivée has also showcased cuisine and products from other parts of Canada. The featured food or beverage item is usually added to a dish during the show.
Ricardo usually prepares the dishes for friends and family.
The show takes place at a purpose-built kitchen in Ricardo's home in Chambly, Quebec.
Broadcasters
Current
Food Network Canada - original broadcast
References
External links
Official FoodNetwork.ca Site
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Television series by Corus Entertainment
Chambly, Quebec
2000s Canadian cooking television series
2006 Canadian television series debuts
2009 Canadian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20Real | Get Real may refer to:
Film and TV
Get Real!, a programming block on the Canadian TV channel YTV
Get Real (British TV series), a 1998 sitcom
Get Real (American TV series), a 1999-2000 comedy/drama
Get Real! (1991 TV series), an American children's series featuring Brandon DeShazer
"Get Real" (8 Simple Rules), an episode of 8 Simple Rules
Get Real (film), a 1998 British film
Other
"Get Real", a track on some editions of the David Bowie album Outside
"Get Real" (song), a 1988 song by Paul Rutherford
Get Real, a 2012 album by Math the Band
Get Real, a novel in the John Dortmunder series by Donald Westlake |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20online%20games | Online games are video games played over a computer network. The evolution of these games parallels the evolution of computers and computer networking, with new technologies improving the essential functionality needed for playing video games on a remote server. Many video games have an online component, allowing players to play against or cooperatively with players across a network around the world.
Background of technologies
The first video and computer games, such as NIMROD (1951), OXO (1952), and Spacewar! (1962), were for one or two players sitting at a single computer, which was being used only to play the game. Later in the 1960s, computers began to support time-sharing, which allowed multiple users to share the use of a computer simultaneously. Systems of computer terminals were created, allowing users to operate the computer from a different room from where the computer was housed. Soon after, modem links further expanded this range so that users did not have to be in the same building as the computer; terminals could connect to their host computers via dial-up or leased telephone lines. With the increased remote access, host-based games were created, in which users on remote systems connected to a central computer to play single-player, and soon after, multiplayer games.
Later, in the 1970s, packet-based computer networking technology began to mature. Between 1973 and 1975, Xerox PARC developed local area networks based on Ethernet. Additionally, the wide area network ARPANET further developed from its 1969 roots, led to the creation of the Internet on January 1, 1983. These LANs and WANs allowed for network games, where the game created and received network packets; systems located across LANs or the Internet could run games with each other in peer-to-peer or client–server models.
PLATO
In the 1960s, Rick Bloome implemented SpaceWar! as a two-player game on PLATO.
In the early 1970s, the PLATO time-sharing system, created by the University of Illinois and Control Data Corporation, allowed students at several locations to use online lessons in one of the earliest systems for computer-aided instruction. In 1972, PLATO IV terminals with new graphics capabilities were introduced, and students started using this system to create multiplayer games. By 1978, PLATO had multiplayer interactive graphical dungeon crawls, air combat (Airfight), tank combat, space battles (Empire and Spasim), with features such as interplayer messaging, persistent game characters, and team play for at least 32 simultaneous players.
Networked host-based systems
A key goal of early network systems such as ARPANET and JANET was to allow users of "dumb" text-based terminals attached to one host computer (or, later, to terminal servers) to interactively use programs on other host computers. This meant that games on those systems were accessible to users in many different locations by the use of programs such as telnet.
Most of the early host-based games we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal%20Support%20Network | The Renal Support Network (RSN) is an American nonprofit, kidney patient-focused, kidney patient-run organization that works to benefit individuals affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD). RSN's mission is to help patients develop their personal coping skills, talents, and employability by educating and empowering them (and their family members) to take control of the course and management of the disease.
RSN works to achieve its mission through its national patient meeting and regional patient lifestyle meetings and the RSN Patients Educating Patients & Professionals (PEPP) Patient Speakers Program. Information and education programs include the Kidney Times website and the KidneyTalk biweekly podcast. RSN sponsors Renal Teen Proms in Los Angeles and Washington, DC.
The Renal Support Network also works to provide lawmakers and policymakers with patient perspectives on the needs and capabilities of people with CKD. RSN does this through their Wellness & Education Kidney Advocacy Network (weKAN).
History
The Renal Support Network was founded in 1993 by Lori Hartwell.
Meetings
The national meeting is a three-day conference held in conjunction with the National Renal Administrators Association (NRAA) annual meeting. Regional Patient Lifestyle meetings are free to attend.
Activities
In addition to contributing to educational and scientific publications, the Wellness & Education Kidney Advocacy Network (weKAN) consists of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patient activists from across the country whose common goal is to ensure that people with CKD receive quality care.
The PEPP Patient Speakers Program was initiated by RSN in 2005. Since then, there have been over 100 speaking engagements to more than 9800 listeners. These educational programs are led by CKD patient-speakers who have been professionally trained, tested and certified to deliver these programs at meetings of renal patients and healthcare professionals. PEPP speakers are available at no charge to organizations that meet the RSN criteria.
"Kidney Times" is the organization's CKD information website; all articles are all written by people with CKD or health care professionals. A stipend is paid for articles published. Kidney Talk is a biweekly webcast hosted by Stephen Furst and RSN Founder and President Lori Hartwell.
Renal Teen Proms are free events are for teens ages 14 to 24 who have CKD and a guest of their choice. Attendees are treated to dancing and limo rides, dinner and appetizers, glamor photos, and a DJ.
References
External links
Renal Support Network
Health charities in the United States
Disability organizations based in the United States
Kidney organizations
Patients' organizations
Charities based in California
Medical and health organizations based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20White%20%28journalist%29 | Robin White, MBE (born 1944), was for many years editor of the BBC's programmes Focus on Africa and Network Africa which are broadcast on the BBC African Service. He is well known for his interviews with politicians, which have included Charles Taylor, Foday Sankoh, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Obote, Olusegun Obasanjo, Yoweri Museveni, Sam Nujoma, Kenneth Kaunda, and Thabo Mbeki.
Biography
Born in 1944 in Nottingham, White took a placement in Cameroon with VSO after graduating from Cambridge. He joined the BBC in the late 1960s. Apart from his work as a journalist on African affairs, he has worked in educational broadcasting and on the British domestic culture and arts programme, Kaleidoscope. He is also a published playwright, with work broadcast by the BBC. Robin is married to Mary Catherine Restieaux, a textile weaving artist whose work has been exhibited at The Victoria & Albert Museum.
In 2000 he was awarded an MBE for his outstanding contribution to the BBC World Service.
References
1944 births
Living people
African journalism
English Africanists
BBC newsreaders and journalists
BBC World Service presenters
Foreign correspondents in Africa
Members of the Order of the British Empire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Tel%20Aviv | The Tel Aviv transportation system is seen as the hub of the Israeli transport network in terms of road, rail, and air transport. The Israeli road network partly centers on Tel Aviv, with some of the country's largest highways passing through or running to the city. The city forms a major part of the country's rail network, whilst Ben Gurion International Airport located near the city is the country's largest airport. There is also a strong public transport system within the city, based primarily on bus transportation.
Local and national
Cycling
Tel Aviv Municipality is trying to encourage the use of bicycles in the city. The current expansion plan is to reach by 2025. At the end of 2021 the total length of the network was .
Tel-O-Fun
In April 2011, Tel Aviv municipality launched Tel-O-Fun, a bicycle sharing system, in which 150 stations of bicycles for rent were installed within the city limits. As of May 2022, there are 175 active stations, providing about 2,000 bicycles and about 500 electric bicycles. As of the end of 2021 the municipality has completed construction of about of bicycle paths.
Ofnidan (Greater Tel Aviv Cycle Network)
As of 2021, construction was underway on Ofnidan, a cycle network of seven routes connecting the cities of the Gush Dan, with some segments open.
Electric Scooters
Regulations
In August 2019, the city of Tel Aviv planned regulations electrical scooter companies. These conditions included a limit of 2,500 scooters in the city per company, deactivating the scooter alarms during nighttime, designation of parking areas, and restricting minors from using the scooters.
Since January 1, 2020, all electrical scooter companies are required to have license plates on the back of each scooter. In addition, all electrical scooter companies are required to recycle the batteries of discontinued scooters in an effort to minimize e-waste.
Since February 1, 2020, electrical scooters are banned from entering areas for pedestrians only. The scooters automatically turn off upon entering the zones, and will be limited to speeds of 15 km/h upon entering zones deemed high for pedestrian traffic.
As of June 15, 2020, all electrical scooter companies must provide helmets with each scooter.
Rail transport
Tel Aviv has four train stations along the Ayalon Highway. The stops are from north to south: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv Savidor Central, Tel Aviv HaShalom (near the Azrieli Center shopping mall) and Tel Aviv HaHagana (near the central bus station). It is estimated that more than a million people travel by train from the surrounding cities to Tel Aviv each month.
Since the completion of the Ayalon Highway railway section in 1993, Tel Aviv has been the central hub for rail transport in Israel. The Savidor Central Railway Station alone handled approximately 38,000 passengers a day in summer 2009. Railway lines from Tel Aviv include Israel Railways's main line, running from Beersheba to Nahariya, as well as lines to Ashke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20%26%20Shell | Northern & Shell (holding company name Northern and Shell Network Ltd) is a British publishing group, founded in December 1974 and owned since then by Richard Desmond. Formerly a publisher of pornographic magazines including Penthouse and Asian Babes, it published the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, and the magazines OK!, New! and Star until these were sold to Trinity Mirror in February 2018. Northern & Shell also owned three entertainment television channels: Channel 5, 5* and 5USA until 2015. It owned Portland TV, which operates pornographic TV channels including Television X and Red Hot TV; the company sold Portland in April 2016.
Northern & Shell has operated The Health Lottery in the UK since it launched in 2011.
History
Desmond founded Northern & Shell in 1974 and launched a magazine called International Musician and Recording World. In 1983, Northern & Shell obtained the licence to publish Penthouse in the United Kingdom which led to its publishing a range of pornographic titles, Asian Babes among them. These titles were later sold in 2004. It was the first company to move to the revamped Docklands and the Princess Royal opened the offices. When the company moved to the Northern & Shell Tower, the Duke of Edinburgh opened the offices.
Northern & Shell also publishes a wide range of magazines including the celebrity weekly, OK!, started as a monthly in 1993.
In November 2000, Northern & Shell acquired Express Newspapers from United News & Media for £125 million, enlarging the group to include the Daily and Sunday Express titles, the Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday (which Desmond started), and the Irish Star (owned jointly with the Irish Independent group). The Daily and Sunday Express each sell around 700,000 copies per issue. Northern & Shell had borrowed £97 million (approximately US$190 million) for the Express group purchase.
Northern & Shell's "portfolio" of soft-porn magazines was offered for sale in 2001 in order to provide cash to invest in the then newly acquired Express Newspapers group. Some viewed the sale as an attempt to distance the company from the pornography business, but most analysts believed it to be only a financial move as The Fantasy Channel, Northern and Shell's adult cable channel, wasn't included in the sale.
In 2004, Northern & Shell sought acquisition of additional publications — The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph, along with its sister publication The Sunday Telegraph. It was unsuccessful in its bid for The Telegraph, losing out to David and Frederick Barclay, who had long sought to own the paper.
On 23 July 2010, Northern & Shell bought Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, which operates Channel 5, 5* and 5USA for €125 million (£103.5 million) from the RTL Group. On 1 May 2014, the channels were sold to Viacom for £450 million (US$759 million).
In 2013, Northern & Shell announced that its TV listing magazine TV Pick would no longer be published.
In 2014, Northern & Sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley%E2%80%93Ottmann%20algorithm | In computational geometry, the Bentley–Ottmann algorithm is a sweep line algorithm for listing all crossings in a set of line segments, i.e. it finds the intersection points (or, simply, intersections) of line segments. It extends the Shamos–Hoey algorithm, a similar previous algorithm for testing whether or not a set of line segments has any crossings. For an input consisting of line segments with crossings (or intersections), the Bentley–Ottmann algorithm takes time . In cases where , this is an improvement on a naïve algorithm that tests every pair of segments, which takes .
The algorithm was initially developed by ; it is described in more detail in the textbooks , , and . Although asymptotically faster algorithms are now known by and , the Bentley–Ottmann algorithm remains a practical choice due to its simplicity and low memory requirements.
Overall strategy
The main idea of the Bentley–Ottmann algorithm is to use a sweep line approach, in which a vertical line L moves from left to right (or, e.g., from top to bottom) across the plane, intersecting the input line segments in sequence as it moves. The algorithm is described most easily in its general position, meaning:
No two line segment endpoints or crossings have the same x-coordinate
No line segment endpoint lies upon another line segment
No three line segments intersect at a single point.
In such a case, L will always intersect the input line segments in a set of points whose vertical ordering changes only at a finite set of discrete events. Specifically, a discrete event can either be associated with an endpoint (left or right) of a line-segment or intersection point of two line-segments. Thus, the continuous motion of L can be broken down into a finite sequence of steps, and simulated by an algorithm that runs in a finite amount of time.
There are two types of events that may happen during the course of this simulation. When L sweeps across an endpoint of a line segment s, the intersection of L with s is added to or removed from the vertically ordered set of intersection points. These events are easy to predict, as the endpoints are known already from the input to the algorithm. The remaining events occur when L sweeps across a crossing between (or intersection of) two line segments s and t. These events may also be predicted from the fact that, just prior to the event, the points of intersection of L with s and t are adjacent in the vertical ordering of the intersection points.
The Bentley–Ottmann algorithm itself maintains data structures representing the current vertical ordering of the intersection points of the sweep line with the input line segments, and a collection of potential future events formed by adjacent pairs of intersection points. It processes each event in turn, updating its data structures to represent the new set of intersection points.
Data structures
In order to efficiently maintain the intersection points of the sweep line L with the input line segment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV6%20%28Estonian%20TV%20channel%29 | TV6 Estonia is an entertainment television channel broadcasting to Estonia featuring series, music, fashion and sports.
The channel's programming has been primarily geared towards men, and features a selection of cartoons, TV series and movies from comedy, reality, action-adventure, science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres.
Local programming typically features one local soap opera, one local reality television show, and a bevy of local sports shows and live sports transmissions.
Television shows broadcast on the channel are mostly U.S.-based, and current fare includes The Simpsons, Family Guy, Fresh Off the Boat, The Big Bang Theory, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., New Girl, and Last Man on Earth.
History and availability
It was launched on 24 March 2008, as all of the current channels (the big three – ETV, Kanal 2, TV3) were obliged to have digital sister channels at or by the end of March 2008. On 9 January 2010, although TV6 Estonia did leave the free-to-air MUX1, it continues programming in terrestrial subscription-based MUX2, and is also available on cable and IPTV. Estonia turned analogue television transmissions off on 1 July 2010.
TV6, as with other channels of the All Media Baltics group in the Baltic states, switched to HD broadcasting on 26 July 2018.
Selection of currently airing programming
As of January 2017:
The A-Team ()
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ()
Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei ()
America's Funniest Home Videos ()
Ax Men ()
Beauty & the Beast (2012 TV series) ()
The Big Bang Theory ()
Blue Bloods ()
Bob's Burgers ()
Bones ()
Brickleberry
Container Wars ()
(Life in the Centre of the City, an Estonian soap opera)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ()
Family Guy ()
Fresh Off the Boat ()
Hawaii 5-0
Homeland ()
Last Man on Earth ()
New Girl ()
NCIS ()
(Paradise Hotel, Russian version, reality TV)
Power Hit Radio KICKSTART (night chat show)
Royal Pains ()
Salem ()
The Simpsons ()
South Park
Stargate SG-1 ()
Strongman Champions League ()
Top Gear (2002 TV series)
The X-Files ()
Vikings (2013 TV series) ()
Previous programming
13: Fear is Real ()
Access Hollywood ()
American Idol ()
The Cleaner (TV series) ()
Californication (TV series)
Criss Angel Mindfreak ()
The Dead Zone (TV series) ()
Eureka (TV series)
Futurama
Harper's Island ()
Highlander: The Raven ()
(Morningstudio)
How I Met Your Mother ()
In Plain Sight ()
Journeyman (TV series) ()
King of Kings
(Movieminutes)
(Home in the Center of the City)
Life on Mars (U.S. TV series) ()
Mad About You ()
Maximum Exposure ()
Mental (TV series) ()
My Name Is Earl ()
(Womensworld)
Nash Bridges
The Office (U.S. TV series) ()
The Pretender (TV series) ()
Prison Break ()
Queer Eye ()
The Return of Jezebel James ()
Scare Tactics ()
The Sentinel (TV series) ()
Sex and the City ()
Stargate Atlantis ()
The Strip (Australian TV series) ()
Swingtown
The Unit ()
Whacked Out Sports ()
Wipeout (2008 U.S. game show) ()
Source
References
External links
Television channels in Estonia
TV6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1970 World Wrestling Championships were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
References
FILA Database
Page 30
World Wrestling Championships
International wrestling competitions hosted by Canada
World Wrestling Championships, 1970
1970 in Canadian sports
July 1970 sports events in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969%20World%20Wrestling%20Championships | The 1969 World Wrestling Championships were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
References
FILA Database
World Wrestling Championships
W
Mar del Plata
1969 in sport wrestling
1969 in Argentine sport
March 1969 sports events in South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20game%20theory | Algorithmic game theory (AGT) is an area in the intersection of game theory and computer science, with the objective of understanding and design of algorithms in strategic environments.
Typically, in Algorithmic Game Theory problems, the input to a given algorithm is distributed among many players who have a personal interest in the output. In those situations, the agents might not report the input truthfully because of their own personal interests. We can see Algorithmic Game Theory from two perspectives:
Analysis: given the currently implemented algorithms, analyze them using Game Theory tools (e.g., calculate and prove properties on their Nash equilibria, price of anarchy, and best-response dynamics)
Design: design games that have both good game-theoretical and algorithmic properties. This area is called algorithmic mechanism design.
On top of the usual requirements in classical algorithm design (e.g., polynomial-time running time, good approximation ratio), the designer must also care about incentive constraints.
History
Nisan-Ronen: a new framework for studying algorithms
In 1999, the seminal paper of Nisan and Ronen drew the attention of the Theoretical Computer Science community to designing algorithms for selfish (strategic) users. As they claim in the abstract:
This paper coined the term algorithmic mechanism design and was recognized by the 2012 Gödel Prize committee as one of "three papers laying foundation of growth in Algorithmic Game Theory".
Price of Anarchy
The other two papers cited in the 2012 Gödel Prize for fundamental contributions to Algorithmic Game Theory introduced and developed the concept of "Price of Anarchy".
In their 1999 paper "Worst-case Equilibria", Koutsoupias and Papadimitriou proposed a new measure of the degradation of system efficiency due to the selfish behavior of its agents: the ratio of between system efficiency at an optimal configuration, and its efficiency at the worst Nash equilibrium. (The term "Price of Anarchy" only appeared a couple of years later.)
The Internet as a catalyst
The Internet created a new economy—both as a foundation for exchange and commerce, and in its own right. The computational nature of the Internet allowed for the use of computational tools in this new emerging economy. On the other hand, the Internet itself is the outcome of actions of many. This was new to the classic, ‘top-down’ approach to computation that held till then. Thus, game theory is a natural way to view the Internet and interactions within it, both human and mechanical.
Game theory studies equilibria (such as the Nash equilibrium). An equilibrium is generally defined as a state in which no player has an incentive to change their strategy. Equilibria are found in several fields related to the Internet, for instance financial interactions and communication load-balancing. Game theory provides tools to analyze equilibria, and a common approach is then to ‘find the game’—that is, to formalize specific |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20algorithmic%20mechanism%20design | Distributed algorithmic mechanism design (DAMD) is an extension of algorithmic mechanism design.
DAMD differs from Algorithmic mechanism design since the algorithm is computed in a distributed manner rather than by a central authority. This greatly improves computation time since the burden is shared by all agents within a network.
One major obstacle in DAMD is ensuring that agents reveal the true costs or preferences related to a given scenario. Often these agents would rather lie in order to improve their own utility.
DAMD is full of new challenges since one can no longer assume an obedient networking and mechanism infrastructure where rational players control the message paths and mechanism computation.
Game theoretic model
Game theory and distributed computing both deal with a system with many agents, in which the agents may possibly pursue different goals. However they have different focuses. For instance one of the concerns of distributed computing is to prove the correctness of algorithms that tolerate faulty agents and agents performing actions concurrently. On the other hand, in game theory the focus is on devising a strategy which leads us to an equilibrium in the system.
Nash equilibrium
Nash equilibrium is the most commonly-used notion of equilibrium in game theory. However Nash equilibrium does not deal with faulty or unexpected behavior. A protocol that reaches Nash equilibrium is guaranteed to execute correctly in the face of rational agents, with no agent being able to improve its utility by deviating from the protocol.
Solution preference
There is no trusted center as there is in AMD. Thus, mechanisms must be implemented by the agents themselves. The solution preference assumption requires that each agent prefers any outcome to no outcome at all: thus, agents have no incentive to disagree on an outcome or cause the algorithm to fail. In other words, as Afek et al. said, "agents cannot gain if the algorithm fails". As a result, though agents have preferences, they have no incentive to fail the algorithm.
Truthfulness
A mechanism is considered to be truthful if the agents gain nothing by lying about
their or other agents' values.
A good example would be a leader election algorithm that selects a computation server within a network. The algorithm specifies that agents should send their total computational power to each other, after which the most powerful agent is chosen as the leader to complete the task. In this algorithm agents may lie about their true computation power because they are potentially in danger of being tasked with CPU-intensive jobs which will reduce their power to complete local jobs. This can be overcome with the help of truthful mechanisms which, without any a priori knowledge of the existing data and inputs of each agent, cause each agent to respond truthfully to requests.
A well-known truthful mechanism in game theory is the Vickrey auction.
Classic distributed computing problems
Leader elect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL-2 | HL-2 may refer to:
Half-Life 2, a computer game by Valve
Medwecki HL 2 "Haroldek" - a 1927 Polish one-off light aircraft, built by Jozef Medwecki. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP%20syntax%20and%20semantics | The syntax and semantics of PHP, a programming language, form a set of rules that define how a PHP program can be written and interpreted.
Overview
Historically, the development of PHP has been somewhat haphazard. To counter this, the PHP Framework Interop Group (FIG) has created The PHP Standards Recommendation (PSR) documents that have helped bring more standardization to the language since 2009. The modern coding standards are contained in PSR-1 (Basic Coding Standard) and PSR-2 (Coding Style Guide).
Keywords
Some keywords represent things that look like functions, some look like constants, but they are actually language constructs. It is forbidden to use any keywords as constants, class names, functions or methods. Using them as variable names is allowed, but it can be confusing.
__halt_compiler()
abstract
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callable (as of PHP 5.4)
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Basic language constructs
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Delimiters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdusa%20Ka | (International title: Misery / ) is a 2008 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1986 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the eighth instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes, it stars Katrina Halili, Dennis Trillo and Iwa Moto. It premiered on May 12, 2008 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Maging Akin Ka Lamang. The series concluded on August 29, 2008 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Una Kang Naging Akin in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Katrina Halili as Christine Salvador Doliente-Henson
Dennis Trillo as Rodolfo "Rod" Henson
Iwa Moto as Millet Calpito
Supporting cast
Rita Avila as Victoria "Toyang" Salvador
Gardo Versoza as Bernardo Doliente
Liza Lorena as Perla Doliente
Jackie Lou Blanco as Olivia Doliente
Ana Capri as Hedy
Emilio Garcia as Gerry Henson
Gabby Eigenmann as Roland Henson
Rich Asuncion as Violy
Prince Stefan as Sonny
Luz Valdez as Aling Bebang
Guest cast
Deborah Sun as Amanda
Anton Bernardo as Victor
Karla Estrada as Metring
Blue Mark Roces as James
Shirley Dalton as Lani
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 24.3% rating. While the final episode scored a 24% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%20language | Mini language may refer to:
Domain-specific language, in computer languages
Kujargé language (unclassified)
Abureni language (Central Delta) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-Fourth%20Air%20Force | Twenty-Fourth Air Force / Air Forces Cyber (AFCYBER) was a Numbered Air Force within the United States Air Force. The Air Force consolidated its cyberspace combat and support forces into 24 AF. 24 AF was the Air Force component of U.S. Cyber Command.
On 11 October 2019, the 24th AF was merged with the 25th AF to form a reactivated 16th Air Force.
Formation
The 24AF was originally intended to be a part of the now-defunct Air Force Cyber Command; however, 24AF became a component of Air Force Space Command on 18 August 2009.
In August 2008, then-Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz placed a stop order suspending implementation of Air Force Cyber Command, halting personnel assignments and unit activations. On 6 October 2008, following its annual Corona conference, the Air Force announced Air Force Cyber Command activation would not take place, and that a Numbered Air Force, 24AF, would gain the cyber warfare mission as part of Air Force Space Command.
One key element under 24 AF is the Air Force's primary network warfare wing, the 67th Cyberspace Wing, headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The new NAF also gained:
The 688th Cyberspace Wing – JBSA-Lackland, Texas
The 689th Combat Communications Wing (now inactivated) – Robins Air Force Base, Georgia
The 624th Operations Center (taking over duty and personnel of the 608th Air Force Network Operations Center) – JBSA-Lackland, Texas
Although now administratively aligned under Air Combat Command, the Air Force Network Integration Center (formerly Air Force Communications Agency), works closely with 24AF on its mission to build and sustain Air Force networks.
Over 14,000 Airmen make up 24 AF. Many of these are in place at other organizations. Air Force units also host cyber specialists from other organizations. Before the 24 AF was activated, the Air Force had announced six possible locations for its headquarters: Barksdale AFB, LA; Lackland AFB, TX; Langley AFB, VA; Offutt AFB, NE; Peterson AFB, CO; and Scott AFB, IL.
On 15 May 2009, Air Force officials announced Lackland as the preferred alternative, and the decision was confirmed on 12 August 2009. The organization officially stood-up on 18 August 2009. On 22 January 2010, 24AF was certified by AFSPC/CC for its Initial Operational Capability. Full Operational Capability was declared on 1 October 2010.
History
In 2014, 24 AF provided the Cyber Mission Force for the Exercise Red Flag for the first time. During U.S. Strategic Command's Exercise Global Lightning 14, 24AF operated as a Joint Force Headquarters-Cyber in support of a combatant commander during a large joint exercise for the first time.
Twenty-Fourth Air Force was reassigned to Air Combat Command on 17 July 2018.
Units
624th Operations Center, Lackland AFB
67th Cyberspace Wing, Lackland AFB
67th Cyberspace Operations Group, Lackland AFB
67th Operations Support Squadron, Lackland AFB
91st Cyberspace Operations Squadron, Lackland AFB
315th Cyberspace |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20bus%20route%20724 | Green Line route 724 is a bus service currently operated by Arriva Herts & Essex as part of the Green Line Coaches network. It runs on an orbital route round the north and western outskirts of London between Harlow and Heathrow Central bus station, and is partly funded by airport operator Heathrow Airport Holdings.
History
Route 724 was started by Green Line Coaches (then part of London Transport) on 10 July 1966, on a route from High Wycombe to Romford via North London using AEC Regal coaches. By June 1972 it had been rerouted to start from Staines and serve Heathrow Airport. The sections of route between Staines and Heathrow, and between Harlow and Romford were later dropped.
Route 724 was included in the sale of London Country North West to a management buyout when privatised in January 1988, in turn passing to Luton & District Transport in 1990, British Bus in 1994 and finally the Cowie Group in August 1996. Today it is operated by Arriva Herts & Essex.
In December 1997, a fleet of nine Plaxton Prestige bodied DAF SB220s were purchased, with extra luggage space built in. These were some of the first low-floor buses to operate in the United Kingdom.
These were replaced in August 2006 by nine Mercedes-Benz Citaros. These were the result of a Quality Bus Partnership between Arriva Shires & Essex, BAA and Hertfordshire County Council. These buses seat 39 and also have extra luggage racking. Journey times were also improved.
In March 2008, the route was diverted to serve the new Heathrow Terminal 5. From 19 May, the service was withdrawn from Heathrow Terminal 4, with another new timetable introduced. Short workings on other parts of the route became routes 725 and 726.
In February 2021, the Citaros were replaced by a fleet of 8 Alexander Dennis Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMCs, which were transferred from Arriva Kent Thameside.
In July 2022, part of the batch of ADL Enviro200 MMCs were replaced by Wright Pulsar 2 bodied VDL SB200s transferred from Derby in return for the Enviro200s.
From 24 July 2022, additional early morning, late evening and weekend journeys were introduced in conjunction with the Heathrow Airport Partnership.
Current route
Harlow bus station
Ware College
Hertford bus station
Hertford North station
Panshanger Herns Way
Welwyn Garden City bus station for Welwyn Garden City station
QEII Hospital
Hatfield station
Hatfield Town Centre
St Albans City station
St Albans St Peter's Street
St Albans Abbey station
Garston Garage
Watford Regent Street
Watford Junction station
Watford Town Hall
Croxley station
Rickmansworth station
Mill End, Rickmansworth Moneyhill Parade
Maple Cross Chalfont Road
Denham station
Uxbridge Belmont Road for Uxbridge station
Heathrow Central bus station
References
External links
Arriva 724 Harlow to London Heathrow Airport
Green Line Coaches website
Bus routes in England
Green Line Coaches routes
Transport in Essex
Transport in Harlow
Transport in Hertfordshire
Transport in the Lon |
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