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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWRA | DWRA (92.7 FM), broadcasting as Barangay FM 92.7, is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network Inc. The station's studio is located at the 2nd Floor, Baguio Midland Courier, #16 Kisad Rd., Baguio, and its transmitter is located at Brgy. Lamut, Beckel, La Trinidad, Benguet.
Awards and recognition
In 2002 and 2003, the station was selected finalist in the KBP Golden Dove Awards for Best Provincial Radio Variety Show (Campus Centerfold) and Provincial Radio Variety Show Host (Bobby Boom). In 2010 and 2011, the station's program "Talk To Papa" was selected finalist for Best Radio Counseling Program in the Catholic Mass Media Awards. In 2011, the station's "Mga Kuwentong Karnero" (now called Pelikulang Panradyo) was selected finalist for Best Radio Drama program. Campus Radio DJ "Papa Boom" was also voted Best Male DJ in 2011 and 2012 by the UP Baguio Dap-ay Awards for Media.
Events
Radio GMA Baguio is known in the Northern Luzon events scene for its trademark band competition, "Bulaklak Rock" which started in 2004 until 2011. In 2012, they launched "Bulaklak Rock: Acoustic Session" at Panagbenga Festival's Session Road In Bloom. In 2013, they staged the first "Campus Radio Streetjump Session: Baguio's Ultimate Dance Battle" for the dance crews in Northern Luzon.
References
Barangay FM stations
Radio stations in Baguio
Radio stations established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20gallery | A micro gallery was a computer-based guide to archives and museum collections, first developed for the collections at the National Gallery in London, UK. It took three years to develop by the company Cognitive Applications, and opened in July 1991 as part of the facilities in the Sainsbury Wing. Visitors could use the system to determine which pictures they would like to see in the gallery. It was possible to print out personalised information for use during the visit. The Micro Gallery ran for 14 years and a CD-ROM with similar facilities was produced.
In 1995, a similar facility was produced for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., USA.
References
1991 software
2005 disestablishments
Information technology projects
National Gallery, London
National Gallery of Art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Gurevich | Yuri Gurevich, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, is an American computer scientist and mathematician and the inventor of abstract state machines.
Gurevich was born and educated in the Soviet Union. He taught mathematics there and then in Israel before moving to the United States in 1982.
The best-known work of his Soviet period is on the classical decision problem.
In Israel, Gurevich worked with Saharon Shelah on
monadic second-order theories.
The Forgetful Determinacy Theorem of Gurevich–Harrington is of that period as well.
From 1982 to 1998, Gurevich taught computer science at the University of Michigan, where he started to work on various aspects of computational complexity theory
including average case complexity.
He became one of the founders of the emerging field of finite model theory.
Most importantly, he became interested in the problem of what an algorithm is. This led him to the theory of abstract state machines (ASMs). The ASM Thesis says that, behaviorally, every algorithm is an ASM.
A few convincing axioms enabled derivation of the sequential ASM thesis
and the Church–Turing thesis.
The ASM thesis has also been proven for some other classes of algorithms.
From 1998 to 2018, Gurevich was with Microsoft Research where he founded a group on Foundations of Software Engineering. The group built Spec Explorer based on the theory of abstract state machines. The tool was adopted by the Windows team; a modified version of the tool helped Microsoft meet the European Union demands for high-level executable specifications. Later, Gurevich worked with different Microsoft groups on various efficiency, safety, and security issues,
including access control,
differential compression,
and privacy.
Since 1988, Gurevich has managed the column on Logic in Computer Science in the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
Since 2013 Gurevich has worked primarily on
quantum computing,
while continuing research in his traditional areas.
Gurevich is a 2020 AAAS Fellow,
a 1997 ACM Fellow,
a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow,
an inaugural fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science,
a member of Academia Europaea, and Dr. Honoris Causa of Hasselt University in Belgium and of Ural State University in Russia.
References
External links
Gurevich's Homepage
Yuri Gurevich, Mathematics Genealogy Project
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Formal methods people
Russian inventors
Microsoft employees
University of Michigan faculty
Members of Academia Europaea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJPZ | KJPZ is a radio station broadcasting a Christian format. Licensed to East Helena, Montana, the station is owned by Hi-Line Radio Fellowship, Inc., and broadcasts its network Your Network of Praise.
The station was assigned the call sign KAPM by the Federal Communications Commission on July 24, 1985. The station changed its call sign to KZKY on February 5, 1986, to KHKR-FM on August 22, 1988, and to KBMI-FM on July 11, 2013.
In 2014, "B104" moved from a Hot AC to Mainstream CHR and had a change of personnel with the addition of The Montana Mayhem with Matty D and Big T to Mornings, Katie Cruise to Middays, The Northern Light Show with Nick Northern in the PM Drive and Kramer's Big Dumb Fun Show is the night show.
On April 5, 2017, Montana Radio Company announced that it would acquire Cherry Creek Media's Helena stations. To comply with ownership limits, KBMI-FM was divested to Hi-Line Radio Fellowship, Inc., who flipped the station to their Your Network of Praise network. The acquisition was consummated on July 28, 2017.
The station changed its call sign to the current KJPZ on June 18, 2018.
References
External links
KJPZ tower and transmitter photos
JPZ
Hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Lewis and Clark County, Montana
Radio stations established in 1996
1996 establishments in Montana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Daytime | NBC Daytime was the daytime programming block of NBC. It historically featured many soap operas, game shows, and talk shows.
Its main competitors were CBS Daytime and ABC Daytime.
Game shows were discontinued from NBC Daytime's lineup in 1994 and soap operas were largely dropped in the 1980s and the 1990s. By the 2000s, NBC Daytime had been reduced to only two shows: Days of Our Lives and Passions.
Passions was moved to DirecTV's 101 Network in 2007. With Days of Our Lives being the only remaining daytime program on the network's schedule, the NBC Daytime branding was discontinued entirely. In 2022, NBC ultimately announced that Days of Our Lives would move exclusively to streaming on Peacock, and be replaced by an NBC News-produced news program.
Former shows on NBC Daytime
Soap operas
NBC has aired more than 30 soap operas between 1949 and 2022. As of 2022, NBC no longer programs its daytime line up with traditional programming. The remaining network controlled daytime hours are programmed by NBC’s news division.
Another World (1964–1999)
Ben Jerrod (1963)
The Bennetts (1953)
Bright Promise (1969–1972)
Concerning Miss Marlowe (1954–1955)
A Date With Life (1955–1956)
Days of Our Lives (1965–2022)
The Doctors (1963–1982)
Fairmeadows USA (1951–1952)
First Love (1954–1955)
From These Roots (1958–1961)
Generations (1989–1991)
Golden Windows (1954–1955)
The Greatest Gift (1954–1955)
Hawkins Falls (1951–1955)
Hidden Faces (1968–1969)
The House on High Street (1959–1960)
How to Survive a Marriage (1974–1975)
Kitty Foyle (1958)
Lovers and Friends (1977–1978)
Miss Susan (1951)
Modern Romances (1954–1958)
Moment of Truth (1964–1965)
Morning Star (1965–1966)
One Man's Family (1954)
Our Five Daughters (1962)
Paradise Bay (1965–1966)
Passions (1999–2007)
Return to Peyton Place (1972–1974)
Santa Barbara (1984–1993)
Search for Tomorrow (1982–1986; previously on CBS 1951–1982)
Somerset (1970–1976)
Sunset Beach (1997–1999)
Texas (1980–1982)
These Are My Children (1949)
Three Steps to Heaven (1953–1954)
A Time to Live (1954)
Today is Ours (1958)
Way of the World (1955)
Young Doctor Malone (1958–1963)
Game shows
NBC ended its game show block in 1991. They briefly revived the format with three game shows in the 1993–94 season, but has not returned since. NBC now programs no game shows. Some of NBC's local stations now get their game shows via syndication. All network-based game shows since 1993 have been weekly or semi-weekly primetime game shows.
All Star Secrets (1979)
Baffle (1973–1974)
Battlestars/The New Battlestars (1981–1982, 1983)
The Big Payoff (1951–1953)
Blank Check (1975)
Blockbusters (1980–1982, 1987)
Break the Bank (1953)
Caesars Challenge (1993–1994)
Call My Bluff (1965)
Card Sharks (1978–1981; later aired on CBS from 1986–1989; revived by ABC for primetime in 2019)
Celebrity Sweepstakes (1974–1976)
Chain Letter (1966)
Chain Reaction (1980; later aired on USA from 1986–1991; aired on GSN intermittently between 2007 and 2016)
Charge Account (1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecs%20Content%20Model | indecs (an acronym of "interoperability of data in e-commerce systems"; written in lower case) was a project partly funded by the European Community Info 2000 initiative and by several organisations representing the music, rights, text publishing, authors, library and other sectors in 1998-2000, which has since been used in a number of metadata activities. A final report and related documents were published; the indecs Metadata Framework document is a concise summary.
indecs provided an analysis of the requirements for metadata for e-commerce of content (intellectual property) in the network environment, focusing on semantic interoperability. Semantic interoperability deals with the question of how one computer system knows what the terms from another computer system mean (e.g. if A says "owner" and B says "owner", are they referring to the same thing? If A says "released" and B says "disseminated", do they mean different things?).
indecs was built from a simple generic model of commerce (the "model of making"): a model of the life cycle of any kind of content from conception to the final physical or digital copies. The top-level model is summarised as "people make stuff; people use stuff; and (for commerce to take place) people make deals about the stuff". If secure machine-to-machine management of commerce is to be possible, the stuff, the people and the deals must all be securely identified and described in standardised ways that machines can interpret and use. Central to the analysis is the assumption that it is possible to produce a generic mechanism to handle complex metadata for all different types of content. So, for example, instead of treating sound carriers, books, videos and photographs as fundamentally different things with different (if similar) characteristics, they are all recognised as creations with different values of the same higher-level attributes, whose metadata can be supported in a common environment.
Framework
The indecs analysis supports interoperability of at least five different types:
Across media (such as books, serials, audio, audiovisual, software, abstract works, visual material).
Across functions (such as cataloging, discovery, workflow and rights management).
Across levels of metadata (from simple to complex).
Across semantic barriers.
Across linguistic barriers.
The indecs project developed a framework, described in detail in the final project documents, within which such interoperability could be achieved. indecs proposed four principles as key to the management of identification:
The principle of Unique Identification: every entity should be uniquely identified within an identified namespace.
The principle of Functional Granularity: it should be possible to identify an entity whenever it needs to be distinguished
The principle of Designated Authority: the author of an item of metadata should be securely identified.
The principle of Appropriate Access: everyone requires access to the metadata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Platt%20%28author%29 | Charles Platt (born 26 April 1945 in London, England) is a British author, journalist and computer programmer. He relocated from England to the United States during 1970 and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He has one child, Rose Fox, who edits science-fiction, fantasy, and horror book reviews. Platt is the nephew of Robert Platt, Baron Platt of Grindleford.
Fiction
Platt's novel The Silicon Man has been endorsed by William Gibson as "A plausible, well-crafted narrative exploring cyberspace in a wholly new and very refreshing way".
As a fiction writer, Charles Platt has also used pseudonyms: Aston Cantwell (1983), Robert Clarke (Less Than Human, a science-fiction comedy of 1986) and Charlotte Prentiss (historical and prehistory novels, between 1981 and 1999). He contributed to the series of Playboy Press erotic novels with the house pseudonym Blakely St. James that was shared by many other writers during the 1970s.
Platt is also known for writing the novel The Gas during 1970 for the Ophelia Press (OPH-216), an imprint of publisher Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press. (Girodias also published several of Barry N. Malzberg's early novels.) When Platt's novel was published in the United Kingdom by Savoy Books during 1980, copies were seized by the UK's Director of Public Prosecutions.
Platt wrote a variety of science-fiction novels, including Garbage World, Protektor, and Free Zone, and two books in Piers Anthony's Chthon universe, titled Plasm and Soma. He ceased writing science fiction after 1990.
Nonfiction
From 1980 to 1982, Platt interviewed about forty major science-fiction writers such as Andre Norton, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard, Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Ray Bradbury, John Brunner. These interviews were the basis for two books of profiles, Dream Makers (1980) and Dream Makers II (1983). They were nominated for Hugo Awards, and received a Locus Award.
Platt began writing for Wired magazine in its third issue, and ultimately became one of its senior writers, contributing more than thirty full-length features. He was an early user of the internet service provider MindVox and wrote five books on computers and computer programming during that period. His nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Omni, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
While covering the 1994 Hackers on Planet Earth Conference for his article "Hackers: Threat or Menace?" in Issue 2.11 of Wired Magazine, Mr. Platt annoyed attendees by his interjections during the panel discussion entitled "What is this Cryptography Stuff and Why Should I Care?" Mr. Platt repeatedly inquired loudly "Where's the crime?", an exclamation later adopted as a nickname for him by some hackers. The conference organizer, Eric Corley (aka Emmanuel Goldstein) penned a rebuttal to Platt's article and commentary on his methods that was published partially in the "Rants and Raves" section of Wired, Issue 3.02.
Platt's book Make:Electronics was published in December |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kies | Kies may refer to:
Software
Samsung Kies, a software application to connect a Samsung smartphone with a computer
Places
Cēsis, a town in Latvia ()
Kies (crater), a crater on the Moon named for Johann Kies
Kies, Switzerland, a place near Schwanden in the Swiss canton of Glarus
People with the surname
Constance Kies (1934–1993), American dietitian and nutritionist
Cosette Kies (born 1936), American writer, librarian, and academic
Johann Kies (1713–1781), German astronomer
Mary Dixon Kies (1752–1837), American inventor
Pauline Kies (1918–1999), South African botanist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X8 | X8 or X-8 may refer to:
Sehol X8, mid-size crossover SUV produced by JAC Motors
X8 (New York City bus)
X8, a Metrobus route
X8 protein domain
Electrologica X8, a digital computer
Mega Man X8, a video game
Piaggio X8, an Italian-made motor scooter
Roland Fantom-X8, a synthesizer keyboard by Roland
Rockman X8 Original Soundtrack, the music of the video game
WrestleMania X8, a catch event
WWE WrestleMania X8, a video game designed on the former
Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline which IATA airline code is X8
Sony Ericsson Xperia X8, a smartphone
Aerojet General X-8, a missile
X-8 (artist), American artist and publisher
Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System, a chipset
SubhX8,a DJ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXAI | KXAI (103.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting the Air 1 Christian worship music network. Licensed to Odem, Texas, United States, the station serves the Corpus Christi area and is owned by the Educational Media Foundation.
History
On April 2, 1985, KXTO signed on at 98.3 MHz. The station, initially operating as a 3,000-watt outlet, was originally owned by Capi Spanish Broadcasting and aired a bilingual format of Spanish-language, oldies and top 40 music. The KXTO call letters were switched to KKHQ on January 29, 1988.
By the early 1990s, Capi was bankrupt. In 1991, the station was listed as having been silent at least six months; The station remained in bankruptcy until Coastal Digital Broadcasting, owned by Harry Sherwood, Jack Buck and Michael Mintz, acquired it for just $72,000 in 1992. Coastal Digital resurrected KKHQ as an album-oriented rock outlet.
In 1996, the station changed its call letters to KLHB, branding as "Club 98.3" and carrying a Tejano format. It exited Tejano in 2009 when it flipped to Spanish oldies under the "Recuerdo" moniker. Tejas Broadcasting bought KLHB and other stations in 2004 in a multi-city, multi-station group deal for $20 million. The call letters changed to KMJR in 2010 when the station took the name "La Mejor"; it remained in the Regional Mexican format but eventually changed monikers to "La Caliente".
Sale to EMF
In 2018, Tejas Broadcasting began selling its broadcast properties. KMJR was sold in December 2018 to the Educational Media Foundation for $432,000, giving EMF its third signal in the market and resulting in its flip to Radio Nueva Vida, an independently owned Spanish-language Christian radio network aired on some EMF-owned signals.
KMJR, however, would serve to play a larger role in a complex modification plan. With EMF in control of KMJR and KXAI (103.7 FM)—which had previously been KMJR's sister station until it was sold in 2013—the foundation saw an opportunity. In partnership with Emmis Communications, owner of KBPA in the Austin market, a series of applications were filed. KMJR would move to 103.7 MHz and broadcast with 75,000 watts, assuming the antenna of KXAI, which would remain on 103.7 but move into the heart of the San Antonio metropolitan area, placing a city-grade signal over San Antonio. To make the move possible, Emmis's KBPA would slightly downgrade its facility. In January 2020, the relocation and other facilities changes were approved by the Federal Communications Commission. The call letters were changed to KZLR on October 13, 2020.
On May 25, 2021, KZLR changed its call sign to KXAI. The frequency changes took place in June 2021, with KXAI taking on the 103.7 technical facilities and Air 1 programming. The old KXAI became KZAI and moved toward San Antonio.
References
External links
XAI
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
Air1 radio stations
Radio stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Texas
XAI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobiCom | MobiCom may refer to:
Mobi.com, a wireless carrier based in Hawaiʻi
MobiCom, the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
Mobicom Corporation, a mobile phone network in Mongolia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Vinnytsia | The Vinnytsia Tramway (, translit.: Vinnytskyi Tramvai) network is the part of the public transportation system that since 1913 serves Vinnytsia, the administrative center of the Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. The tram system has a narrow rail gauge of that only exists in Ukraine in the cities of Lviv, Zhytomyr and Yevpatoria, as well as Vinnytsia. The system currently consists of 21.2 km of tracks.
History
The first electric tramway in Vinnytsia started to operate on 28 October 1913. The system was built by the German company MAN AG. The operation has only been suspended during two longer periods: February 1920 – 27 November 1921 and March 1944 – June 1945.
Electric tram operation in Vinnytsia was commenced on 28 October 1913. 8.6 km long and wide line was laid along the central street (Nikolaevskiy Prospekt) from Women’s Gymnasium all the way to the railway station. Seven two-axle double sided trams worked there. They were manufactured by German plant MAN. There tram cars were encountered for 18 seating and 14 standing places.
Tram depot was built on a right bank of South Bug river, next to the bridge (in the beginning of Pervomayskaya street). The repair shop was established in a tram depot.
The railway branch was also lead here from a mainline.
Prior to commencement of tram operation, 13 conductors, 15 tram driver, 3 foremen, and the same number of "blue collar workers" were accepted to their jobs. It is interesting that an average wage of a conductor was 25 rubles. CEO's wage was 50 rubles, and chief engineer's wage was 80 rubles.
In the summer of 1914 a second line was erected, leading from Voznesenskaya Church to the "Military Town", along the Nikolaevsky Prospect (now 50th years of Victory Avenue). The total trackage extent was about 10.5 km. In order to serve the new line, four motor tram cars were manufactured by MAN plant. They were longer than previous ones (24 seats, and 16 standees). The operation on this line was commenced in September 1914.
In November 1916 there were 24 employees and clerk in the Tram Operating Authority, as well as 17 conductors, and the same number of tram driver – totally 58 people.
Fare for a tram ride was decently high, that’s why only high class people were able to use it. In 1917, after the revolution tram became more accessible form of transport for people. Civil war, which roared along the former USSR that time affected the work of Vinnytsia Tram.
Tram bells revitalized streets of a small town of Vinnytsia; 6 tram cars were running and the electric power station was restored.
In 1922 the tram operating company changed its name, it became registered as "Vinnytsia city electric enterprise" Within the same year 1922 tram traffic transported 1800 thousands of riders, in 1923–1633 thousands of riders. Out of 11 motor cars on property, 9 worked in inventory.
In 1932 single track line from Kalich Market to the Pirogov Hospital was built. Year later, second track was laid along that line. The turning point wer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20impedance | Image impedance is a concept used in electronic network design and analysis and most especially in filter design. The term image impedance applies to the impedance seen looking into a port of a network. Usually a two-port network is implied but the concept can be extended to networks with more than two ports. The definition of image impedance for a two-port network is the impedance, Zi 1, seen looking into port 1 when port 2 is terminated with the image impedance, Zi 2, for port 2. In general, the image impedances of ports 1 and 2 will not be equal unless the network is symmetrical (or anti-symmetrical) with respect to the ports.
Derivation
As an example, the derivation of the image impedances of a simple 'L' network is given below. The 'L' network consists of a series impedance, , and a shunt admittance, .
The difficulty here is that in order to find i 1 it is first necessary to terminate port 2 with i 2. However, i 2 is also an unknown at this stage. The problem is solved by terminating port 2 with an identical network: port 2 of the second network is connected to port 2 of the first network and port 1 of the second network is terminated with i 1. The second network is terminating the first network in i 2 as required. Mathematically, this is equivalent to eliminating one variable from a set of simultaneous equations. The network can now be solved for i 1. Writing out the expression for input impedance gives:
and solving for
i 2 is found by a similar process, but it is simpler to work in terms of the reciprocal, that is image admittance i 2,
Also, it can be seen from these expressions that the two image impedances are related to each other by:
Measurement
Directly measuring image impedance by adjusting terminations is inconveniently iterative and requires precision adjustable components to effect the termination. An alternative technique to determine the image impedance of port 1 is to measure the short-circuit impedance ZSC (that is, the input impedance of port 1 when port 2 is short-circuited) and the open-circuit impedance ZOC (the input impedance of port 1 when port 2 is open-circuit). The image impedance is then given by,
This method requires no prior knowledge of the topology of the network being measured.
Usage in filter design
When used in filter design, the 'L' network analysed above is usually referred to as a half section. Two half sections in cascade will make either a T section or a Π section depending on which port of the L section comes first. This leads to the terminology of Zi T to mean the Zi 1 in the above analysis and Zi Π to mean Zi 2.
Relation to characteristic impedance
Image impedance is a similar concept to the characteristic impedance used in the analysis of transmission lines. In fact, in the limiting case of a chain of cascaded networks where the size of each single network is approaching an infinitesimally small element, the mathematical limit of the image impedance expression is the characte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%20Pacific%20Network%20of%20Science%20and%20Technology%20Centres | The Asia Pacific Network of Science & Technology Centres (ASPAC), is a not-for-profit association initiated in 1997.
It was formed to facilitate communication and cooperation among Science Centres and Museums and other organisations that use interactive approaches for learning and public understanding of science and technology in the Asia-Pacific region.
ASPAC has over 50 members from 20 countries (2022). Members include different forms of organisations, like science centres, science museums, children’s museums, exhibit design and fabrication firms.
See also
List of science centers
References
External links
ASPAC website
International scientific organizations
Museum associations and consortia
Organizations established in 1997
Science museums
Technology museums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOND | KOND (107.5 FM, "La Jefa 107.5") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Hanford, California, United States and serves the Fresno area. The station is owned by Latino Media Network; under a local marketing agreement, it is programmed by former owner TelevisaUnivision's Uforia Audio Network. KOND broadcasts a Regional Mexican format.
History
Early years
The station at 107.5 FM first signed on in September 1976 as KKYS. It was owned by Kings Broadcasters and broadcast a middle of the road music format. In October 1983, Kings sold KKYS and its AM sister station KNGS to Sunrise Communications for $1.75 million. The new owner changed the FM station's call sign to KLTK the following year.
In August 1986, Sunrise sold the combo to Liggett Broadcasting Group for $2.8 million; at the time, KLTK aired a contemporary hit radio format. Liggett then flipped the FM outlet to classic rock (then known as "classic hits", a term now referring to a broad-based format featuring 1970s—1990s music). The call letters became KCLQ on October 27, later adjusted to KCLQ-FM in September 1987 when KNGS took on the KCLQ call sign.
In early 1990, the station became the first FM affiliate of ABC Radio's Z Rock network, airing a syndicated format featuring hard rock and heavy metal music. KCLQ-FM changed its call letters to KZRZ shortly after the flip. This new call sign prompted a restraining order from the similarly named KRZR, a competing rock station. KZRZ subsequently chose the KFRZ call sign; however, that selection triggered threats of legal action from another station, KFRE. The Z Rock affiliate settled on KZZF.
On April 1, 1991, KZZF dropped Z Rock in favor of adult contemporary, adopting new call letters KMMA on April 22. Six months later, in October 1991, the station became KCML, a country music outlet branded "Camel Country".
In June 1992, Liggett Broadcasting sold KCML to Pappas Telecasting, owner of KMPH-TV in Visalia, for $550,000. The new owner installed a news/talk format the following year, using reporters from its TV sister station; new call letters KMPH-FM followed on February 22, 1993. In April 2005, KMPH-FM flipped to rhythmic adult contemporary as KVBE, "Vibe 107.5".
Univision/Uforia era (2005–present)
In October 2005, Pappas Telecasting Cos. sold KVBE to Univision Radio for $10 million. Univision began programming the station immediately via a time brokerage agreement and changed its call letters to KRDA on January 31, 2006.
On August 2, 2016, KRDA exchanged frequencies with KOND, sending the Spanish adult hits format to 92.1 FM. The station at 107.5 FM became KOND, a regional Mexican outlet branded "La Jefa 107.5".
KOND was one of eighteen radio stations that TelevisaUnivision sold to Latino Media Network in a $60 million deal announced in June 2022, approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that November, and completed on December 30, 2022. Under the terms of the deal, Univision agreed to continue programming the station |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%C3%AD%20de%20Cavalls | The Camí de Cavalls is an ancient path of that encircles the island of Menorca, Spain. This long-distance walking route is the GR 223 of the Senderos de Gran Recorrido network in Spain and it is also used to reach some of the most inaccessible beaches of Menorca.
History
It is widely accepted that the Camí de Cavalls was built in order to connect the watchtowers, fortresses and cannons distributed along the coast of the island and to make the transport of troops and artillery easier. However, the date of its origin is not so clear. The most accepted theory attributes it to the French invaders during the different periods they lived in the island, but according to some studies, it could have been created in the 14th century.
Since its original function was the defence and the control of the island, it was patrolled by soldiers mounted on Menorquin horses, hence the word cavalls (meaning "horses" in Catalan) in the name of the path.
Restoration
During decades part of the path belonged to private properties and could not be used by everybody. However, after an agreement between the island's government and the landlords, the path became public. Then, the Government started the restoration of the whole path, spending €934,977.37 in a first stage and €800,159 in a second stage completed in May 2011.
Stages
The path is divided in 20 different stages, each of them between 5 and 14 km. All the start and arrival points can be gained access to by road traffic, making possible to cover only one or some stages of the path at a time.
Events
Since the whole path is restored, activities and events around it are arising. Between April 28, 2012 and May 1, 2012, the world champion in adventure racing Arnau Julià went in 82 h 30 min three times around the path, one running, one in mountain-bike and the last one in kayak, covering in total more than .
The Trail Menorca Camí de Cavalls was held for the first time between 18 and 20 May 2012 and 140 participants took part in the five different races of this event: Trail Cami de Cavalls 185.3 km, Trail Costa Nord – 94.2 km (North coast only), Trail Costa Sud – 91 km (south coast only), Trekking Costa Nord – 46.6 km and Trekking Costa Sud – 43.5 km.
References
External links
Official website Camí de Cavalls Consell Insular de Menorca
Official map Camí de Cavalls Fundació Foment del Turisme de Menorca
Official resources Camí de Cavalls Consell Insular de Menorca
Web Track Editorial Alpina, update june 2014
Geography of Menorca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame%20Claude | Fernande Grudet (6 July 1923 – 15 December 2015), also known as Madame Claude, was a French brothel keeper. In the 1960s, she was the head of a French network of call girls who worked especially for dignitaries and civil servants.
Biography
Born on 6 July 1923 in Angers, France, there are conflicting accounts of Grudet's origins, ranging from an aristocratic father in politics and an education by nuns to a father who ran a small cafe and early work selling food from a pushcart. Another unverified tale about her past includes work as an agent of the French Resistance during the German Occupation of France during World War II and imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp. After the war, she worked as a prostitute but claimed she "was never pretty enough" and was better suited to management. By 1961, she had set up what became the most exclusive prostitution network in Paris for the next decade.
At this time she ran a brothel in the expensive 16th arrondissement of Paris. "There are two things that people will always pay for: food and sex. I wasn't any good at cooking", she is reputed to have said.
Her wealthy clientele included political figures and members of the Mafia, and her status as an informant for the police ensured she was protected. Her address book, Grudet claimed, had included the names of the shah of Iran, John F. Kennedy, and Gianni Agnelli, the one-time head of Fiat.
In 1976, judge Jean-Louis Bruguière began dismantling Grudet's organization. She was being pursued for unpaid taxes, amounting to 11m francs (around £4.9m), and fled to Los Angeles, but returned to France in 1986, serving a four-month jail sentence. After her release, she attempted to set up a prostitution organization, but in 1992, she was sentenced to a term in Fleury-Mérogis Prison for procuring.
Her life was the basis of the feature film Madame Claude (1977), directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Françoise Fabian. Grudet died in Nice on 19 December 2015. In 2021, Netflix released another biographical film based on her life titled Madame Claude. She is also namechecked in the Roxy Music song "If It Takes All Night", from their 1974 album Country Life.
Bibliography
Madam, by Claude Grudet, ed. Michel Lafon (1994): history of Madame Claude by Madame Claude.
Les filles de Madame Claude, by Elizabeth Antébi and Anne Florentin, Stock-Julliard (1974).
Madame Claude, by William Stadiem (2018), St. Martin's Press.
References
External links
Behind Claude’s Doors - 2014 article in Vanity Fair by William Stadiem
1923 births
2015 deaths
People from Angers
French expatriates in the United States
French white-collar criminals
French autobiographers
French brothel owners and madams
French female criminals
French Resistance members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Od%20%28Unix%29 | od is a command on various operating systems for displaying ("dumping") data in various human-readable output formats. The name is an acronym for "octal dump" since it defaults to printing in the octal data format.
Overview
The od program can display output in a variety of formats, including octal, hexadecimal, decimal, and ASCII. It is useful for visualizing data that is not in a human-readable format, like the executable code of a program, or where the primary form is ambiguous (e.g. some Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters looking similar).
od is one of the earliest Unix programs, having appeared in version 1 AT&T Unix. It is also specified in the POSIX standards. The implementation for od used on Linux systems is usually provided by GNU Core Utilities.
Since it predates the Bourne shell, its existence causes an inconsistency in the do loop syntax. Other loops and logical blocks are opened by the name, and closed by the reversed name, e.g. if ... fi and case ... esac, but od's existence necessitates do ... done.
The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities. The command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.
Example session
Normally a dump of an executable file is very long. The head program prints out the first few lines of the output. Here is an example of a dump of the "Hello world" program, piped through head.
% od hello | head
0000000 042577 043114 000401 000001 000000 000000 000000 000000
0000020 000002 000003 000001 000000 101400 004004 000064 000000
0000040 003610 000000 000000 000000 000064 000040 000006 000050
0000060 000033 000030 000006 000000 000064 000000 100064 004004
0000100 100064 004004 000300 000000 000300 000000 000005 000000
0000120 000004 000000 000003 000000 000364 000000 100364 004004
0000140 100364 004004 000023 000000 000023 000000 000004 000000
0000160 000001 000000 000001 000000 000000 000000 100000 004004
0000200 100000 004004 002121 000000 002121 000000 000005 000000
0000220 010000 000000 000001 000000 002124 000000 112124 004004
Here is an example of od used to diagnose the output of echo where the user types and after writing "Hello" to literal insert a tab and ^C character:
% echo "Hello ^C" | od -cb
0000000 H e l l o \t 003 \n
110 145 154 154 157 011 003 012
0000010
See also
Hex editor
Hex dump
References
External links
od - GNU Core Utilities manpage
Unix SUS2008 utilities
IBM i Qshell commands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%E2%80%93protein%20interaction%20screening | Protein–protein interaction screening refers to the identification of Protein–protein interaction with high-throughput screening methods such as computer- and/or robot-assisted plate reading, flow cytometry analyzing.
The interactions between proteins are central to virtually every process in a living cell. Information about these interactions improves understanding of diseases and can provide the basis for new therapeutic approaches.
Methods to screen protein–protein interactions
Though there are many methods to detect protein–protein interactions, the majority of these methods—such as co-immunoprecipitation, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and dual polarisation interferometry—are not screening approaches.
Ex vivo or in vivo methods
Methods that screen protein–protein interactions in the living cells.
Bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) is a technique for observing the interactions of proteins. Combining it with other new techniques, dual expression recombinase based (DERB) methods can enable the screening of protein–protein interactions and their modulators.
The yeast two-hybrid screen investigates the interaction between artificial fusion proteins inside the nucleus of yeast. This approach can identify the binding partners of a protein without bias. However, the method has a notoriously high false-positive rate, which makes it necessary to verify the identified interactions by co-immunoprecipitation.
In-vitro methods
The tandem affinity purification (TAP) method allows the high-throughput identification of proteins interactions. In contrast with the Y2H approach, the accuracy of the method can be compared to those of small-scale experiments (Collins et al., 2007) and the interactions are detected within the correct cellular environment as by co-immunoprecipitation. However, the TAP tag method requires two successive steps of protein purification, and thus can not readily detect transient protein–protein interactions. Recent genome-wide TAP experiments were performed by Krogan et al., 2006, and Gavin et al., 2006, providing updated protein interaction data for yeast organisms.
Chemical crosslinking is often used to "fix" protein interactions in place before trying to isolate/identify interacting proteins. Common crosslinkers for this application include the non-cleavable [NHS-ester] crosslinker, [bis-sulfosuccinimidyl suberate] (BS3); a cleavable version of BS3, [dithiobis(sulfosuccinimidyl propionate)](DTSSP); and the [imidoester] crosslinker [dimethyl dithiobispropionimidate] (DTBP) that is popular for fixing interactions in ChIP assays.
References
External links
HPRD Human Protein Reference Database, a (manually) curated database of human protein information with visualization tools
IntAct Interaction Database, a public repository for manually curated molecular interaction data from the literature
DIP Database of Interacting Proteins, a manual and automatic catalog of experimentally determined interactio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20archaeological%20sites%20in%20Tennessee | The Tennessee Division of Archaeology maintains a database of all archaeological sites recorded within the state of Tennessee. As of January 1, 2009 this catalog contains more than 22,000 sites, including both prehistoric and historic resources. In Tennessee, Prehistoric is generally defined as the time between the appearance of the first people in the region (c. 12,000 BC) and the arrival of the first European explorers (c. 1540 AD). The Historic period begins after the arrival of those Europeans and continues to the present. Both these periods are further divided into subperiods and phases using established archaeological conventions for the region.
The following list of archaeological sites in Tennessee encompasses sites that have either contributed substantially or have the potential to contribute substantially to research regarding people who have lived in what is now Tennessee. Note that a historical site is not necessarily an archaeological site. According to the Tennessee Division of Archaeology Site Survey Record, official site numbers are generally assigned to historic sites only if artifacts and/or historic documentation for that site support a pre–1933 date. Historical sites are included in the following list only if archeological field work has been conducted at the site.
The term cultural affiliation refers to the archaeological period when a site was created and/or occupied. Many sites were occupied during more than one archaeological period, and are therefore known as multicomponent. An example of a multicomponent site would be American Civil War earthworks constructed at the same location as a prehistoric Mississippian village. The cultural affiliation category in the list below refers only to periods in which the most significant occupation or event (e.g., a battle) took place at the site.
Archaeological sites recorded in Tennessee are assigned State Trinomials consisting of letter and number combinations that indicate the state and county where the site is found, and includes a sequential number identifying the specific site. For example, the trinomial 40DV11 designates the eleventh archaeological site recorded in Davidson County (DV) , Tennessee (40) .
Legend for cultural affiliations:
Paleoindian — roughly 12,000 BC (and possibly earlier) to 8000 BC
Archaic — c. 8000 BC to 1000 BC
Woodland — c. 1000 BC - 1000 AD
Mississippian — c. 900 to 1600 AD
Cherokee — affiliated with proto-historic and historic Cherokee occupation (c. 1600-1800)
British colonial — affiliated with Euro-American expansion, pre-1776.
American — affiliated with Euro-American occupation or events post-1776
The sites are listed alphabetically by county.
Anderson County
Bedford County
Benton County
Bledsoe County
Blount County
Bradley County
Campbell County
Cannon County
Carroll County
Carter County
Cheatham County
Chester County
Claiborne County
Clay County
Cocke County
Coffee County
Crockett County
Cumberland County
Davidson Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor%203 | Luxor 3 is an action-puzzle computer game released by MumboJumbo. It is a sequel to Luxor and Luxor 2. As with the other Luxor games, it maintains an Egyptian theme and revolves around Egyptian deities involving a main gameplay goal of removing spheres in various lines of spheres on a set track by exploding groups of three or more spheres.
Gameplay
The game remains similar to that in previous editions of Luxor: the main objective is to remove spheres of many different colors (ranging from four to nine different colors) from a track of spheres before they enter the pyramid at the end of a track. The lines of colored spheres are held by a scarab at the back end, and a set number of these sets must be cleared.
Luxor 3 features canopic jars that show up in the middle of the game: they will show up multiple times in each level until it is collected by being shot at by a sphere. Collecting all of these in the first four classic mode levels of each stage will unlock a bonus level at the end of the stage. After a jar is collected in a level or if all four jars are collected for a stage, then the remainder of the level or stage, respectively, will have golden scarabs show up to be exploded as with the jars. The golden scarabs drop from three to six ankh coins depending on the game's difficulty level (Easy, Medium, Hard, Insane). At the bottom of the screen is a bar displaying the current statistics and active power-ups for a level. The Easy level does not have any scoring bonus, but the Medium, Hard, and Insane have the scoring bonus respectively (1.5X scoring bonus = Medium), (2X scoring bonus = Hard), (2.5X scoring bonus = Insane).
Power-ups can be upgraded (in the length of time or size of impact) by purchasing such upgrades in the store. The unit of currency is Ankh coins, earned by collecting these coins as they fall in the middle of the game from large sphere explosions. Many power-ups can be upgraded up to four levels such as (Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Net, Slow, Speed Shot, Reverse, Stop, Color Cloud, Scorpion, Match Highlighter, and Pyramid Blocker). However, the power-ups like (Wild, Color Bomb, and more...) cannot be upgraded.
The sphere sets can be selected from the default set to other threes; glass, wooden, and energy sphere sets. However, choosing different sphere sets will not change the appearance of the wild ball. Also, the ball shooter (winged scarab) can be changed too; there are three models from which to choose. The name of the wings are SCI-FI, Xtreme! and default selection.
There are multiple gameplay modes available from the main menu: Adventure, Classic, Survival, Puzzle, and Onslaught modes. In Adventure mode, the main plot revolves around the evil Set wreaking havoc amongst the many Egyptian gods and goddesses. Each stage revolves around protecting a particular god or goddess and their power. The adventure mode is a total of 99 levels plus additional bonus levels. There are four difficulty levels. They are Easy, Medium, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremantle%20Fishing%20Boat%20Harbour | { "type": "ExternalData", "service": "geoshape", "ids": "Q5501480" }
Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour is a marina in Fremantle, Western Australia adjacent to the more recently constructed Challenger Harbour. It provides large sheltered mooring areas and wharf space for vessels up to 60 metres, refuelling facilities and support services to the Fremantle fishing industry.
History
The harbour was built in 1919 when a 300-metre breakwater was constructed from Anglesea Point at the southern end of Bathers Beach, to provide an anchorage for fishing vessels. South Jetty was immediately adjacent and included a fish market, which was removed in 1929.
A southern breakwater was constructed in 1962 and land reclaimed to house fishing companies and service industries. Between 1969 and 1972, up to 120 fishing boats were housed in the harbour and in 1982 construction of a boat lifting facility commenced.
Tourism
Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour is now surrounded by a well established tourism precinct and over a dozen restaurants and a brewery (Little Creatures) are immediately adjacent.
Blessing of the Fleet
Many of the fishing enterprises housed at Fremantle are descended from the Italian towns of Molfetta on the Adriatic Sea, and Capo d'Orlando in Sicily. Each year, a ceremony known as the Blessing of the Fleet occurs in the harbour where a procession of the fishermen and their families walk through the streets of Fremantle to the harbour carrying two statues.
References
Marinas in Australia
Fremantle
Fishing in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201977%20%28Germany%29 | The official German singles chart ranks the best-performing songs in Germany. Back in 1977, its data was compiled by Media Control on behalf of Bundesverband der Phonographischen Wirtschaft (BPW) and published in Musikmarkt each Monday.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one hits (Germany)
References
External links
Official website Musikmarkt
Official website Media Control
Number-one hits
Germany
1977 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element%20management%20system | An element management system (EMS) consists of systems and applications for managing network elements (NE) on the network element-management layer (NEL) of the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) model.
As recommended by ITU-T, the element management system's key functionality is divided into five key areas - fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security (FCAPS). Portions of each of the FCAPS functionality fit into the TMN models. Northbound, the EMS interfaces to network management systems and or service management systems depending on the deployment scenario. Southbound, the EMS talks to the devices.
An element management system manages one or more of a specific type of telecommunications network element. Typically, the EMS manages the functions and capabilities within each NE but does not manage the traffic between different NEs in the network. To support management of the traffic between itself and other NEs, the EMS communicates upward to higher-level network management systems (NMS) as described in the telecommunications management network layered model. The EMS provides the foundation to implement TMN–layered operations support system (OSS) architectures that enable service providers to meet customer needs for rapid deployment of new services, as well as meeting stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. The TeleManagement Forum common object request broker architecture (CORBA) EMS–to–NMS interface heralds a new era in OSS interoperability by making the TMN architecture a practical reality.
Examples of elements which can be managed through the EMS interfaces
Cable telephony
media gateway
Soft switch
Video compression technology provider
Wireless broadband provider
Smart electricity meters
NMSs provides an integrated system for sharing device information across management applications, automation of device management tasks, visibility into the health and capability of the network, and identification and localization of network trouble. By using common centralized systems and network-inventory knowledge, an NMS delivers a unique platform of cross-functional management capabilities that reduces network administration overhead.
An EMS is a carrier class management solution. It is capable of scaling as the network grows, maintaining high performance levels as the number of network events increase, and providing simplified integration with third-party systems. It meets the service provider's expectations for integrated operational support systems.
See also
Network engineering
References
Network management
ITU-T recommendations
. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication%20Management%20Network%20model | The Telecommunication Management Network (TMN) model comprises the following four layers:
Business management layer: performs functions related to business aspects, analyzes trends and quality issues, for example, or to provide a basis for billing and other financial reports.
Service management layer: performs functions for the handling of services in the network: definition, administration and charging of services
Network management layer: performs functions for distribution of network resources: configuration, control and supervision of the network
Element management layer: contains functions for the handling of individual network elements. This includes alarm management, handling of information, [backup], logging, and maintenance of hardware
References
TMN References
See also
FCAPS
Element Management System
Network management system
Network management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio%20fx-3650P | Casio fx-3650P is a programmable scientific calculator manufactured by Casio Computer Co., Ltd. It can store 12 digits for the mantissa and 2 digits for the exponent together with the expression each time when the "EXE" button is pressed. Also, the calculator can use the previous result to do calculations by pressing "Ans" (if calculator didn't turn off itself, by auto-power-off function, or by user). It is one of the calculators approved by HKEAA to be used in public examinations in Hong Kong, such as HKDSE.
Modes
The calculator is available in 6 modes:
Basic arithmetic calculations
Complex number calculations
Standard deviation calculations
Regression calculations
Base-n calculations
Programs
Basic arithmetic calculations
Arithmetic calculations
Fraction operations
Fraction calculations
Decimal↔fraction conversions
Mixed fraction↔improper fraction conversions
Percentage calculations
Degrees, minutes, seconds calculations
Rounding (must be used with Fix decimal display mode)
Trigonometric functions
Hyperbolic function
Logarithm
Natural logarithm
Antilogarithm
Differential calculus
Integral calculus
Complex number calculations
In this mode, if the result has both real and imaginary parts, an "R↔I" symbol will appear at the top right corner.
Absolute value and argument calculations
Rectangular↔polar form display
Conjugate calculations
Standard deviation calculations
This mode is for statistical calculation. For some input data, the sum of squares of values (Σx2), sum of values (Σx), number of data (n), sample standard deviation (xσn-1) and population standard deviation (xσn) can be calculated.
Regression calculations
This mode is for statistical calculation and can be divided further into:
Linear regression: y=A+Bx
Logarithmic regression: y=A+B*ln x
Exponential regression: ln y=ln A+Bx
Power regression: y=A+xB
Inverse regression: y=A+B/x
Quadratic regression: y=A+Bx+Cx2
For some input ordered pairs, one of the below can be calculated. (The availability differs from modes.)
Σx2, Σx, n, Σy2, Σy, Σxy, , xσn, xσn-1, , yσn, yσn-1, Regression coefficient A, Regression coefficient B, Correlation coefficient r, , , Σx3, Σx2y, Σx4, Regression coefficient C, 1and 2
Program
The calculator can hold up to 4 programs with a total capacity of 360 bytes.
Program commands:
? - Operator input command, used when user's input is required. Usually used with →(variable)
→ - Assign to variable command, to assign the value before it to the variable after it. Always used as (value)→(variable).
: - Multi-statement separator, separate program statements
◢ - Output command, output the value
- Conditional jump, jump when conditions are met
= - Relational operator
≠ - Relational operator
> - Relational operator
- Relational operator
Goto - Unconditional jump, jump to label, otherwise Lbl
Lbl - Label, jump destination
Conditional jumps
Conditional jumps should be used in the syntax:
condition statement 1 : |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh%20Sittampalam | Ganesh Sittampalam (born 11 February 1979) is a British computer specialist and former record holder youngest person to pass an A-Level.
Sittampalam was born on 11 February 1979 in Croydon. He is the son of Arjuna Sittampalam, a Tamil, and Nela, a Sinhalese, originally from Sri Lanka. He is the grandson of Ceylonese government minister C. Sittampalam. He is from Surbiton.
At the age of eight Sittampalam received an A grade in O-Level mathematics, becoming the youngest person to receive an A grade at O-Level. A year later in June 1988, aged nine years and four months, he received an A grades in A-Level mathematics and further mathematics, becoming the youngest person to pass an A-level, which is typically taken at age 18. Sittampalam received official recognition from the Guinness Book of World Records in April 1989.
Sittampalam became Britain's youngest university student when he joined the University of Surrey aged 11. He studied for just one day a week at the university, spending the remaining four days continuing his education at King's College Junior School. Sittampalam graduated from the University of Surrey in July 1992, aged 13 and four months, with a first-class bachelor's degree in mathematics. He was Britain's youngest graduate for several hundred years. He went on to receive a master's degree in computing and a doctorate in intentional programming from the University of Oxford in his 20s.
Sittampalam works on GitHub Copilot as a software engineer and lives in Cambridgeshire. He is married to Amanda and has a son, Alexander, and a daughter, Heather.
References
1979 births
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of the University of Surrey
British computer specialists
English people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent
Living people
People from Surbiton
Sri Lankan Tamil people
Sri Lankan engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20Laboratory | Artificial Intelligence Laboratory may refer to:
Kiev Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, a research institute in Kiev, Ukraine
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research entity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the artificial intelligence research laboratory of Stanford University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL%20X10p | X10p is a series of three-car electric multiple units operated by Greater Stockholm Transport (SL) on the Stockholm urban rail network called Roslagsbanan. The gauged line cannot use the standard gauge rolling stock used in the rest of Stockholm, so SL ordered 35 new units to replace much older stock. Since 1995 X10p has been the sole stock used on Roslagsbanan.
All X10p trains received a mid-life refurbishment by Euromaint in Solna between 2011 and 2013, and they will be complemented with newer Stadler Rail X15p trains starting from 2022.
References
External links
Järnväg.net on X10p
Swetramway on X10p
ABB multiple units
Rail transport in Stockholm
X10p
891 mm gauge railways in Sweden
1500 V DC multiple units
Adtranz multiple units
Train-related introductions in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTP%20payload%20formats | The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) specifies a general-purpose data format and network protocol for transmitting digital media streams on Internet Protocol (IP) networks. The details of media encoding, such as signal sampling rate, frame size and timing, are specified in an RTP payload format. The format parameters of the RTP payload are typically communicated between transmission endpoints with the Session Description Protocol (SDP), but other protocols, such as the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) may be used.
Audio and video payload types
RFC 3551, entitled RTP Profile for Audio and Video (RTP/AVP), specifies the technical parameters of payload formats for audio and video streams.
The standard also describes the process of registering new payload types with IANA; additional payload formats and payload types are defined in the following specifications:
, Standard 65, RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control
, Media Type Registration of Payload Formats in the RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences
, RTP Payload Format for 12-bit DAT Audio and 20- and 24-bit Linear Sampled Audio
, RTP Payload Format for H.264 Video
, RTP Payload Format for Transport of MPEG-4 Elementary Streams
, RTP Payload Format for MPEG-4 Audio/Visual Streams
, RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video
, RTP Payload Format for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
, RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video
, RTP Payload Format for H.261 Video Streams
, RTP Payload Format for PureVoice Audio Video
, RTP Payload Format for Uncompressed Video
, RTP Payload Format for the Opus Speech and Audio Codec
, RTP Payload Format for JPEG XS
Payload identifiers 96–127 are used for payloads defined dynamically during a session. It is recommended to dynamically assign port numbers, although port numbers 5004 and 5005 have been registered for use of the profile when a dynamically assigned port is not required.
Applications should always support PCMU (payload type 0); previously, DVI4 (payload type 5) was also recommended, but this was removed in 2013 by RFC 7007.
Text messaging payload
, RTP Payload Format for Text Conversation
MIDI payload
, RTP Payload Format for MIDI
, An Implementation Guide for RTP MIDI
See also
Session Initiation Protocol
H.323
Comparison of audio coding formats
References
External links
IANA assignments of Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Parameters
VoIP protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXCJ | DXCJ (102.3 FM), broadcasting as Barangay FM 102.3 (or Barangay FM 102.3 Super Radyo), is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network subsidiary Radio GMA. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the 3rd floor of PBC Building, Cagampang St., General Santos.
History
1996-2014: Campus Radio
The station, along with the now-defunct DXBB-AM, was established On May 18, 1996 as Campus Radio. It bared its first slogan "Always and Forever". In 2001, the slogan was changed into "Kuyawa Ui!" (shocking), because of the series of bombings in Gensan last 2003 and the negative effects of the slogan on the station. The team decided to modify it into "Wow! Nindutah Ah!", which is also used in Davao City-based Campus Radio until today. In 2010, it carried the slogan "The Best!", which was used by its flagship station back in the 80s. In 2012, it changed its slogan to "Ayos!".
2014-present: Barangay FM
On February 17, 2014, Campus Radio was relaunched as Barangay 102.3 as part of RGMA's brand unification. On December 21, 2014, a hostage-taking occurred when a man named Gabby Batican went into the station to call for assistance after being threatened with death. After growing suspicious about Batican, who is the cousin of one of the station's DJs (DJ Angel), the radio station staff alerted the police. Batican may have been under the influence of narcotics when he took the victims hostage, and the hostage drama lasted for more than an hour.
In 2021, Barangay FM added news and talk to its programming under the Super Radyo branding, similar to Kalibo-based Barangay RU.
References
Barangay FM stations
Radio stations in General Santos
Radio stations established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare%20in%20Thailand | Healthcare in Thailand is overseen by the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), along with several other non-ministerial government agencies. Thailand's network of public hospitals provide universal healthcare to all Thai nationals through three government schemes. Private hospitals help complement the system, especially in Bangkok and large urban areas, and Thailand is among the world's leading medical tourism destinations. However, access to medical care in rural areas still lags far behind that in the cities.
Infrastructure
, Thailand's population of 68 million is served by 927 government hospitals and 363 private hospitals with 9,768 primary care health units (SHPH clinics), responsible for Thai citizens’ health at the sub-district level. SHPH has played a significant role in the Thai public health. Additionally, there are 25,615 private clinics.
Universal health care is provided through three programs: the civil service welfare system for civil servants and their families, Social Security for private employees, and the universal coverage scheme, introduced in 2002, which is available to all other Thai nationals. Some private hospitals are participants in the programs, but most are financed by patient self-payment and private insurance. According to the World Bank, under Thailand’s health schemes, 99.5 percent of the population have health protection coverage.
The MOPH oversees national health policy and also operates most government health facilities. The National Health Security Office (NHSO) allocates funding through the universal coverage program. Other health-related government agencies include the Health System Research Institute (HSRI), Thai Health Promotion Foundation ("Thai Health"), National Health Commission Office (NHCO), and the Emergency Medical Institute of Thailand (EMIT). Although there have been national policies for decentralization, there has been resistance in implementing such changes and the MOPH still directly controls most aspects of health care.
Thailand introduced universal coverage reforms in 2001, one of only a handful of lower-middle income countries to do so. Means-tested health care for low-income households was replaced by a new and more comprehensive insurance scheme, originally known as the 30 baht project, in line with the small co-payment charged for treatment. People joining the scheme receive a gold card, which allows them to access services in their health district and, if necessary, to be referred for specialist treatment elsewhere.
The bulk of health financing comes from public revenues, with funding allocated to contracting units for primary care annually on a population basis. According to the WHO, 65 percent of Thailand's health care expenditure in 2004 came from the government, while 35 percent was from private sources. Thailand achieved universal coverage with relatively low levels of spending on health, but it faces significant challenges: rising costs, inequalities, and duplication of resou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defrag%20%28disambiguation%29 | Defrag may refer to:
Defragmentation, in the context of maintaining computer file systems, is a process that reduces the number of pieces of a file and/or the scattered available areas.
DEFRAG, DOS and Windows 9x-systems FAT defragmentation utility
DeFRaG, unofficial Quake III Arena video game modification
See also
List of defragmentation software
Comparison of defragmentation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuCommander | MuCommander is a lightweight, open-source, cross-platform file manager that runs on operating systems supporting Java. It has a Norton Commander style, and a dual-pane interface to allow manipulation of files via keyboard shortcuts. Pre-compiled builds are available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and OpenVMS. The software runs from the Internet via Java Web Start.
Features
File copy, move, rename, batch rename, and email
Works on local file volumes, FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, HTTP, Amazon S3, Hadoop HDF5, and Bonjour
Supports ZIP, RAR, 7z, Tar, Gzip, BZip2, ISO/NRG, AR/Deb, and LST archives
Supports Dropbox and Google Drive
ZIP file modification
File split and combine
Change permissions and date of files
Calculate files checksums in MD5, CRC32, SHA, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, Adler32, and MD2
Full keyboard access
See also
Comparison of file managers
References
External links
Free file managers
Free FTP clients
Files transferred over shell clients
GNU Project software
Orthodox file managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC%202 | EDSAC 2 was an early computer (operational in 1958), the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed control unit and a bit-slice hardware architecture.
First calculations were performed on incomplete machine in 1957. Calculations about elliptic curves performed on EDSAC-2 in the early 1960s led to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, unsolved as of 2022. And in 1963,
Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews used EDSAC 2 to generate a seafloor magnetic anomaly map from data collected in the Indian Ocean by H.M.S. Owen, key evidence that helped support Plate Tectonic theory.
References
Early British computers
One-of-a-kind computers
40-bit computers
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
History of Cambridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netstring | In computer programming, a netstring is a formatting method for byte strings that uses a declarative notation to indicate the size of the string.
Netstrings store the byte length of the data that follows, making it easier to unambiguously pass text and byte data between programs that could be sensitive to values that could be interpreted as delimiters or terminators (such as a null character).
The format consists of the string's length written using ASCII digits, followed by a colon, the byte data, and a comma. "Length" in this context means "number of 8-bit units", so if the string is, for example, encoded using UTF-8, this may or may not be identical to the number of textual characters that are present in the string.
For example, the text "hello world!" encodes as:
< >
i.e.
And an empty string as:
< >
i.e.
The comma makes it slightly simpler for humans to read netstrings that are used as adjacent records, and provides weak verification of correct parsing.
Note that without the comma, the format mirrors how Bencode encodes strings.
The length is written without leading zeroes. Empty string is the only netstring that begins with zero.
There is exactly one legal netstring encoding for any byte string.
Since the format is easy to generate and to parse, it is easy to support by programs written in different programming languages. In practice, netstrings are often used to simplify exchange of bytestrings, or lists of bytestrings.
For example, see its use in the Simple Common Gateway Interface (SCGI) and the Quick Mail Queuing Protocol (QMQP) .
Netstrings avoid complications that arise in trying to embed arbitrary data in delimited formats. For example, XML may not contain certain byte values and requires a nontrivial combination of escaping and delimiting, while generating multipart MIME messages involves choosing a delimiter that must not clash with the content of the data.
Netstrings can be stored recursively. The result of encoding a sequence of strings is a single string. Rewriting the above "hello world!" example to instead be a sequence of two netstrings, itself encoded as a single netstring, gives the following:
Parsing such a nested netstring is an example of duck typing, since the contained string ("5:hello,6:world!,") is both a string and a sequence of netstrings. Its effective type is determined by how the application chooses to interpret it, not by any explicit type declaration required by the netstring specification.
In general, there are 3 ways that a program expecting a netstring may choose to interpret its contents:
As human-readable text with no further automatic processing
As encapsulated data in some pre-arranged fixed data serialization format (such as the binary contents of a C or C++ struct)
As encapsulated metadata and data, using a tagged union convention to describe the types of nested netstrings, thereby establishing a self-describing hierarchical data serialization format. ("Tagged netstrings" and Be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Feet%20%28series%201%29 | The first series of the British comedy-drama television series Cold Feet was first broadcast on the ITV network from 15 November to 20 December 1998. The six episodes were written by series creator Mike Bullen, produced by Christine Langan, and directed by Declan Lowney, Mark Mylod and Nigel Cole. It follows the award-winning pilot episode, broadcast in 1997. The storylines focus on three couples: Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley, Pete and Jenny Gifford, and David and Karen Marsden. They are played by James Nesbitt, Helen Baxendale, John Thomson, Fay Ripley, Robert Bathurst and Hermione Norris respectively.
The storylines follow the three couples as they try to stay faithful to each other. They are held back by issues such as impotence, infidelity, and unplanned pregnancy. Their lives are further complicated by their jobs, money troubles, and moving in together. Bullen embellished the scripts with events from his own personal life. The directors and producers made additional contributions, with the intent to keep the fiction in the programme as true to life as possible. The series was filmed in Greater Manchester in the first half of 1998, using Granada Television's studios, and exterior locations.
Critical reaction to the first episodes was negative, with many reviewers not liking the characters and finding the comedy drama format unusual. As the series progressed, critics' opinions became more positive; the production values rated highly and the fantasy scenes, which became a hallmark of Cold Feet, were well received. An average of eight million viewers watched the series each week. The following year it won awards from the Royal Television Society, the Broadcasting Press Guild and the British Comedy Awards. It was also nominated for the Rose d'Or and a Banff Rockie Award. All six episodes have been released on VHS, DVD and internet media formats.
Episodes
Production
Cold Feet'''s pilot episode was intended by Andy Harries, the executive producer and Granada Television's controller of comedy, to lead to a series commission from the ITV network. Poor ratings on its night of broadcast in March 1997 stalled a commission; Harries told writer and creator Mike Bullen and producer Christine Langan to "forget it". ITV's limited portfolio of comedy meant that although it was a ratings failure, the pilot was selected by default to represent the network at the Montreux Television Festival that year. The pilot won the Silver Rose for Humour and the Rose d'Or. ITV still did not commission a series, and in the meantime Granada received offers from the BBC and Channel 4 for a six-part series. In August 1997, David Liddiment, who had chaired the panel of judges at Montreux, became ITV's director of programming and pledged to rebrand the network's comedy output. This included six new episodes of Cold Feet, which were announced that August. Production began in January 1998. Each episode was budgeted at £500,000, a small amount for a 50-minute drama.
Cast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Feet%20%28series%206%29 | The sixth series of the British comedy-drama television series Cold Feet was broadcast on the ITV network from 5 September to 24 October 2016. There are eight episodes and it is the first full series of Cold Feet since 2003.
Cast
Main
James Nesbitt as Adam Williams
Robert Bathurst as David Marsden
Hermione Norris as Karen Marsden
John Thomson as Pete Gifford
Fay Ripley as Jenny Gifford
Leanne Best as Tina Reynolds
Ceallach Spellman as Matt Williams
Recurring
Karen David as Angela Zubayr
Art Malik as Eddie Zubayr
Daisy Edgar-Jones as Olivia Marsden
Ella Hunt as Ellie Marsden
Jack Harper as Adam Gifford
Madeleine Edmondson as Chloe Gifford
Lucy Robinson as Robyn Duff
Robert Webb as Grant Hodges
Guest
Jacey Sallés as Ramona Ramirez
Episodes
References
External links
2016 British television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Doug%20Banks%20Radio%20Show | The Doug Banks Radio Show was an American radio show produced by American Urban Radio Networks hosted by veteran radio personalities Doug Banks, Dee Dee Renee and George Willborn. It aired daily from 2PM to 6PM (central time).
The show began national syndication on January 11, 2008 from its flagship station WVAZ in Chicago, Illinois as The Ride with Doug and DeDe with DeDe McGuire being the original co-host. A similar show, The Doug Banks Morning Show, aired on ABC Radio Networks for several years prior in the morning drive time slot. Prior to 2010, Banks was aired on Citadel Media and its predecessor, ABC Radio Networks. The show was renamed The Doug Banks Radio Show when it moved to AURN July 28, 2010. In late 2014, DeDe McGuire announced that she would be leaving to continue working on her own show "DeDe in the Morning". After DeDe McGuire departure from the show she was replaced with Virginia native Dee Dee Renee
Originally available for national syndication through The Touch (as well as stations in over 50 markets 3 days later), the show offers a blend of music and entertainment targeting a unique 25-40 demographic in the Urban Adult Contemporary group of afternoon drivetime.
Banks died on April 11, 2016, shortly before that day's episode of the show was to air.
References
External links
ABC Radio Networks
American variety radio programs
2016 radio programme endings
2008 radio programme debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagiC | MagiC is a third party and now open-sourced multitasking-capable TOS-compatible operating system for Atari computers, including some newer clone systems manufactured later. There are also variants that run as part of Mac and PC emulation environments, as well as on macOS Intel-Mac computers.
Features
The kernel of MagiC is largely written in hand-coded assembly language for Motorola 68000, and offers:
Extensive Atari TOS compatibility, the developer also created an improved variant (KAOS)
Restricted MiNT/MultiTOS compatibility
Preemptive multitasking
Loadable file systems and long file names
Significant performance advantages over both the original TOS and MiNT/MultiTOS platform on the same hardware
Disadvantages
MagiC was originally a commercial product and not freely available, like MiNT
MagiC is not 100% compatible with the original TOS
Drivers and file systems from MiNT are not compatible with MagiC
Magic-Mac and Magic-PC variants only run under Mac OS and Microsoft Windows respectively, not e.g. Linux distributions
Some Atari ST programs assume they alone control the machine, are troublesome when multitasked (mostly graphics glitches)
History and variants
Atari platform
MagiC was originally released as Mag!X (or MagiX) in 1992. At that time, TOS featured only limited multitasking in the form of desk accessory programs, simple programs accessed from the "Desk" menu and that multitasked using cooperative task switching. In contrast, MagiC offered preemptive multitasking, giving the ability to run multiple (well-behaved) GEM applications as well as other non-graphical software on the Atari ST series the Atari STE and Atari TT.
The name changed from Mag!X to MagiC with the release of version 3.0, which added many improvements and a significant amount of MiNT compatibility. Version 4.0 added support for the Atari Falcon, and finally in 1995 version 5.0 brought the significant addition of loadable file system support, along with an implementation of VFAT with long file names, and a number of other improvements to the GEMDOS layer including threads and signals.
Clone machines
MagiC versions 6.0 through 6.2 were released also for use with Atari clone machines of the late 1990s (e.g. Milan manufactured by MILAN Computersystems, Hades by Medusa Computer Systems). They include significant enhancements, such as support for FAT32, increased MiNT compatibility, and support for newer processors and hardware found in the clone systems. Version 6.2 is the latest for Atari machines.
Apple Macintosh
Atari was slow to improve the hardware of its systems, and in the mid- to late 1990s it was apparent that the Apple Macintosh systems, and some clones by other manufacturers, were a superior hardware platform. Given that Ataris and Macs shared a very similar user interface, the latter were a logical upgrade path for many Atari users. So in 1994 a variant of MagiC known as MagiCMac was released, allowing Atari ST users to run their software on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinning%20%28disambiguation%29 | Skinning is the act of skin removal, usually from a dead animal.
Skinning may also refer to:
Skinning (film), a 2010 Serbian film
The process of applying a computer skin that changes the look, feel, and navigation interface of application software
In skeletal animation, defining an influence that bones have over the mesh
Uphill skiing using ski skins
See also
Skin (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%20Iibigin%20ay%20Ikaw | (International title: My One and Only Love / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Joyce Bernal and Lore Reyes, it stars Christopher de Leon, Alice Dixson and Richard Gomez. It premiered on July 15, 2002. The series concluded on April 11, 2003 with a total of 200 episodes. It was replaced by Ang Iibigin ay Ikaw Pa Rin in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Richard Gomez as Waldo Sandoval
Alice Dixson as Mia Sandoval
Christopher de Leon as Lemuel Verder
Supporting cast
Lani Mercado as Madonna Verder
Barbara Perez as Salud Verder
Boots Anson-Roa as Feliza
Jackie Lou Blanco as Sabrina Villadolid
Rio Locsin as Cita Almendraz
Mark Gil as Enrico Villadolid
Rosa Rosal as Lucing
Bembol Roco as Oscar
Rufa Mae Quinto as Liberty "Libay"
Karen delos Reyes as Elmina Sandoval
Chubi del Rosario as Anthony Verder
Polo Ravales as Tristan Villadolid
Krista Ranillo as Scarlet
Guest cast
Anne Curtis as Rosanna Luarca
Angel Locsin as Mariella Sandoval
Johnny Revilla as Rodolfo Luarca
AJ Eigenmann as Marcel Almendras
Rey Emmanuel de Guzman as Daniel
Valerie Concepcion as Lilian Almendras
Mely Tagasa as Miling
Lady Lee as Anna
Ross Berenguel as Ivan
Tommy Abuel as Atty. Cruz
Anthony Roquel as Papu
Armando Goyena as Donato Verder
Cris Daluz as Roberto
Empress Schuck as young Elmina
Brian Homecillo as young Marcel
Louise delos Reyes as young Stella
Vangie Labalan as Yolanda Lujan
Champagne Morales as Stella
Aiza Marquez as Yasmin
References
External links
2002 Philippine television series debuts
2003 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/Bally%20Sports%20Kansas%20City | Bally Sports Kansas City (BSKC) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts coverage of professional, collegiate, and high school sports events both within and outside the Kansas City area. It maintains offices at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bally Sports Kansas City is available on cable providers throughout western and central Missouri, Kansas, eastern Nebraska, and Iowa; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
History
Originally operating as a subfeed of Fox Sports Rocky Mountain, then Fox Sports Midwest in 1998, the network formally announced that it would spin-off Fox Sports Kansas City as a separate channel on January 24, 2008, after Fox Sports Midwest signed an exclusive long-term broadcast agreement with the Kansas City Royals. The agreement was struck following the dissolution of the Royals Sports Television Network, a regional network formed in 2003 to broadcast games and analysis programs for the Major League Baseball franchise, which distributed its event telecasts to broadcast and cable affiliates throughout the Midwestern and South Central United States. Specifically, Fox Sports Kansas City was created to avoid scheduling conflicts with coverage of St. Louis Cardinals games televised by Fox Sports Midwest.
On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire all 22 regional Fox Sports networks from 21st Century Fox, including Fox Sports Kansas City. However, on June 27, 2018, the Justice Department ordered their divestment under antitrust grounds, citing Disney's ownership of ESPN. On May 3, 2019, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios (through their joint venture, Diamond Holdings) bought Fox Sports Networks from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. The deal closed on August 22, 2019. On November 17, 2020, Sinclair announced an agreement with casino operator Bally's Corporation to serve as a new naming rights partner for the FSN channels. Sinclair announced the new Bally Sports branding for the channels on January 27, 2021. On March 31, 2021, coinciding with the start of the 2021 Major League Baseball season, Fox Sports Kansas City rebranded as Bally Sports Kansas City, resulting in 18 other Regional Sports Networks renamed Bally Sports in their respective regions.
On March 14, 2023, Diamond Sports filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
Programming
Bally Sports Kansas City holds the exclusive regional cable television rights to the Kansas City Royals, and produces the Major League Baseball team's pre-game and post-game show Royals Live and the weekly magazine program Royals Insider. Starting with the 2017 season, the channel holds the exclusive regional television rights to Sporting Kansas City broadcasts. Because there can be Royals and SKC programming at the same time, Bally Sports Kansas City is provided to cable operator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure | Clojure (, like closure) is a dynamic and functional dialect of the Lisp programming language on the Java platform.
Like most other Lisps, Clojure's syntax is built on S-expressions that are first parsed into data structures by a reader before being compiled. Clojure's reader supports literal syntax for maps, sets and vectors along with lists, and these are compiled to the mentioned structures directly. Clojure treats code as data and has a Lisp macro system. Clojure is a Lisp-1 and is not intended to be code-compatible with other dialects of Lisp, since it uses its own set of data structures incompatible with other Lisps.
Clojure advocates immutability and immutable data structures and encourages programmers to be explicit about managing identity and its states. This focus on programming with immutable values and explicit progression-of-time constructs is intended to facilitate developing more robust, especially concurrent, programs that are simple and fast. While its type system is entirely dynamic, recent efforts have also sought the implementation of a dependent type system.
The language was created by Rich Hickey in the mid-2000's, originally for the Java platform; the language has since been ported to other platforms, such as the Common Language Runtime (.NET). Hickey continues to lead development of the language as its benevolent dictator for life.
History and development process
Rich Hickey is the creator of the Clojure language. Before Clojure, he developed dotLisp, a similar project based on the .NET platform, and three earlier attempts to provide interoperability between Lisp and Java: a Java foreign language interface for Common Lisp (jfli), A Foreign Object Interface for Lisp (FOIL), and a Lisp-friendly interface to Java Servlets (Lisplets).
Hickey spent about two and a half years working on Clojure before releasing it publicly in October 2007, much of that time working exclusively on Clojure with no outside funding. At the end of this time, Hickey sent an email announcing the language to some friends in the Common Lisp community.
The development process is restricted to the Clojure core team, though issues are publicly visible at the Clojure JIRA project page. Anyone can ask questions or submit issues and ideas at ask.clojure.org. If it's determined that a new issue warrants a JIRA ticket, a core team member will triage it and add it. JIRA issues are processed by a team of screeners and finally approved by Rich Hickey.
Clojure's name, according to Hickey, is a word play on the programming concept "closure" incorporating the letters C, L, and J for C#, Lisp, and Java respectively—three languages which had a major influence on Clojure's design.
Design philosophy
Rich Hickey developed Clojure because he wanted a modern Lisp for functional programming, symbiotic with the established Java platform, and designed for concurrency.
Clojure's approach to state is characterized by the concept of identities, which are represented as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedreader%20%28Windows%20Application%29 | Feedreader is a free RSS and Atom aggregator for Windows. It has a stripped down, though configurable, three-pane interface similar to NetNewsWire on Mac OS X. Recent beta versions use MySQL as database back-end.
Feedreader was one of the first desktop feed readers; version 1.54 of Feedreader of the application were distributed on April 24, 2001. The company behind Feedreader says that it was the first personal desktop RSS reader.
Feedreader has an auto-discovery feature, whose purpose is to find RSS feeds on any web page and subscribe to them in an automated fashion. Moreover, the program can use keyboard shortcuts, search through one's RSS feeds, and can be run from a USB flash drive. The installation file is 4.44 MB, which is notably small for a feed reader with such features.
See also
Comparison of feed aggregators
References
Notes
Fileforums.betanews.com
i-Systems Inc. "About us", Feedreader Homepage, March 25, 2008. Accessed March 25, 2008
External links
News aggregator software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Ribbon%20Network | The Blue Ribbon Network is a policy element of the London Plan relating to the waterways of London, England.
Aside from the River Thames, the major components of the network are:
Grand Union Canal
Regent's Canal
River Lee Navigation
River Brent
River Roding
River Rom
River Crane
Beverley Brook
River Wandle
Ravensbourne River
Silk Stream
Pymmes Brook
Salmons Brook
Moselle Brook
Ingrebourne River
River Cray
The network also includes docks, reservoirs and lakes and covered over sections of rivers. The London Plan promotes the use of the waterways for leisure, passenger and tourist traffic, and the transport of freight and general goods. The canal part of the network makes up of waterway. The London Waterways Commission advises the Mayor of London on the implementation of the waterways policies.
References
Rivers of London
Lee Navigation
Regent's Canal
Water in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami%20Omar%20Al-Hussayen | Sami Omar Al-Hussayen (born 1973, Saudi Arabia), also known as Sami Al-Hussayen, is a teacher at a technical college in Riyadh. As a Ph.D. graduate student in computer science at the University of Idaho in the United States, he was arrested and charged in 2003 by the United States with running websites as a webmaster that were linked to organizations that support terrorism. Al-Hussayen is one of the few people at the time to have been charged under a provision that has been described as "overly broad and vague." He was also charged with immigration violations.
U.S. v. Al-Hussayen is considered a landmark case for civil liberties, related to provisions of the USA Patriot Act in the United States. It was the first time that the government tried to use the material support statutes "to prosecute conduct that consisted almost exclusively of operating and maintaining websites."
Idaho's senior U.S. senator and one of its congressmen, both Republicans, had already proposed amendments to the Act because of their concerns about its effects on civil liberties.
At an immigration hearing in 2003, the federal judge ordered Al-Hussayen deported. He was held in the United States to face terrorism and immigration charges, and was tried in 2004. He was acquitted that year of the three federal terrorism charges, which was considered a "stinging defeat" for the government; he was also acquitted of three of eight immigration charges. The jury was deadlocked on the other immigration charges, and the judge called a mistrial.
Al-Hussayen accepted a deal, agreeing to deportation if the prosecutor dropped plans to retry him on the outstanding immigration charges. His wife and three sons returned to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia before him, and he was deported in July 2004. He and his wife both work in Riyadh.
Arrest and charges
Sami Omar Al-Hussayen was arrested in late February 2003 in the town of Moscow, Idaho, where he lived since 1999 as a Ph.D. graduate student in computer science at the University of Idaho. His wife and three sons were with him.
The federal government had two cases against him: federal charges related to support of terrorism, and one related to immigration issues. For the terrorism case, he was initially charged with seven counts of visa fraud, and four counts of lying to officials. All charges related to his alleged work as a webmaster, as a foreign student on a student visa in the United States is not allowed to work for an employer not situated on the student's campus. Al-Hussayen maintained that he did volunteer work and was not receiving pay, and thus did not violate the conditions of his visa. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
In March 2003, the court ruled that Al-Hussayen should be set free without bail and remain under house arrest until his trial. But, federal immigration officials detained him for their case, and he was transferred to their custody.
Trials
At an immigration hearing in mid-2003, federal judge Anna Ho ordered Al-Hus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRT | DXRT (99.1 FM), broadcasting as 99.1 Wild FM, is a radio station owned and operated by UM Broadcasting Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the 3rd Floor, Nelens Bldg., J. Catolico St., General Santos.
References
External links
Wild FM General Santos FB Page
Radio stations in General Santos
Radio stations established in 1964 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Crow | Dan Crow may refer to:
Dan Crow (musician),children's musician
Dan Quine (formerly known as Dan Crow), computer scientist previously in charge of Google's web crawler development and currently CTO of Songkick
Dan Crow, pseudonym for author Ernest Aris (1882–1963)
Danny Crow (born 1986), English footballer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20corporate%20collections | Forensic Corporate Collections refer to the type of debt collection and recovery tactics that apply computer forensics and scientific knowledge to the debt collection process.
Process
By engaging consistently updated computer software in the debt collection process, forensic corporate collection agencies are able to identify, retrieve, and protect electronic evidence of fraud (and other illegal means of avoiding debt) found on computers and use it as evidence in case of litigation. In order for a forensic collections agency to be used as a means of recovering a debt, the agency must be compliant with and knowledgeable of investigation basics, federal, state and local policies, standards, laws and legal processes. They must also have a working knowledge of the types of crimes and incidents in debt deception and fraud, the computing environment and types of evidence, as well as investigative tools, technical training, and use of forensic recovery equipment.
In order to effectively recover and locate debtors and get them to pay what they owe their client(s), forensic collections agents have become adept and conversant in evidence collection and management, managing the incident scene, the investigation of computer systems, disks, and file structures, extracting and preserving computer and electronic evidence, e-mail and Internet investigations, cell phone and PDA investigations, and other digital footprints debtors invariably leave behind.
References
Computer forensics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ITV%20journalists%20and%20newsreaders | As the oldest commercial television network in the UK, ITV has employed many journalists and newsreaders to present its news programmes as well as to provide news reports and interviews during its history.
Since the ITV network began, Independent Television News Limited (ITN) has held the contract to produce national and international news for it. Meanwhile, the regional ITV stations have provided local news programmes tailored for regional audiences.
A
Christa Ackroyd – presenter on Calendar during the 1990s; she left to join the BBC's Look North.
Kaye Adams – journalist on Central Television; later presenter on Scottish TV.
Jonathan Aitken – presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar from 1968 until 1970: he was the first person to be seen on screen when the station launched. He later participated in the relaunch of TV-am in 1983, but he is best known as a Conservative politician, originally for Thanet from 1974 and later for South Thanet.
Antoine Allen – presenter for ITV News London late bulletins, Good Morning Britain London early bulletins, ITV News reporter
Sameena Ali-Khan – presenter on ITV Central; presented the ITV Weekend News on occasions in 2006
Eamonn Andrews – main presenter of Thames Television's 'Today' programme during the 1960s and 1970s. He was also a sports presenter and commentator, and was the first-ever presenter of ITV's 'World of Sport', but he was best known as the host of This Is Your Life, Crackerjack and What's My Line? He died in 1987.
Jo Andrews – former political correspondent and Deputy Political Editor at ITN
Fiona Armstrong – presenter for Border Television's regional news programme Lookaround; later a newscaster on ITN's News at Ten
Pamela Armstrong – ITN newscaster, 1983–1986.
Toni Arthur – occasional presenter on TV-am during the 1980s. She is best known as a presenter on the BBC children's series Playschool and Play Away during the 1970s.
Mark Austin – former main presenter of ITV Evening News and ITV News at Ten; since joining ITN (on ITV) in 1986, having previously worked on BBC news programmes; has specialised in a variety of roles including sports reporter, foreign correspondent, and then newscaster for Channel 4 News
Lisa Aziz – former co-presenter for ITV Westcountry and news presenter on TV-am
B
Zeinab Badawi – first presenter of the ITV News at 5:30 and co-presented Channel 4 News for several years, before joining BBC News
Llewella Bailey
Faye Barker – main newscaster for ITV News London at 5:30, January 2009 – December 2012; continues to work with ITN across ITV London and ITV News output
Carol Barnes – worked for ITN, 1975–2004, as both reporter and newscaster; died in March 2008
Gaynor Barnes – presenter and journalist employed by ITV Yorkshire since 1991
Felicity Barr – first female sports correspondent for ITV News in 2001
Martin Bashir – left BBC in 1999 to join ITV, working on special documentary programmes and features for Tonight. He rejoined the BBC in 2016 as their Religiou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18-bit%20computing | 18 binary digits have (1000000 octal, 40000 hexadecimal) distinct combinations.
18 bits was a common word size for smaller computers in the 1960s, when large computers often used 36 bit words and 6-bit character sets, sometimes implemented as extensions of BCD, were the norm. There were also 18-bit teletypes experimented with in the 1940s.
Example computer architectures
Possibly the most well-known 18-bit computer architectures are the PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-9 and PDP-15 minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1960 to 1975. Digital's PDP-10 used 36-bit words but had 18-bit addresses.
The UNIVAC produced several 18-bit computers, including the UNIVAC 418 and several military systems.
The IBM 7700 Data Acquisition System was announced by IBM on December 2, 1963.
The BCL Molecular 18 was a group of systems designed and manufactured in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s.
The NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer NSSC-1 was developed as a standard component for the MultiMission Modular Spacecraft at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 1974.
The flying-spot store digital memory in the first experimental electronic switching systems used nine plates of optical memory that were read and written two bits at a time, producing a word size of 18 bits.
Character encoding
18-bit machines use a variety of character encodings.
The DEC Radix-50, called Radix 508 format, packs three characters plus two bits in each 18-bit word.
The Teletype packs three characters in each 18-bit word; each character a 5-bit Baudot code and an upper-case bit.
The DEC SIXBIT format packs three characters in each 18-bit word, each 6-bit character obtained by stripping the high bits from the 7-bit ASCII code, which folds lowercase to uppercase letters.
References
DIGITAL Computing Timelime: 18-bit architecture
Architectural Evolution in DEC’s 18b Computers, Bob Supnik, 2006.
Computer data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DbSNP | The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP) is a free public archive for genetic variation within and across different species developed and hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in collaboration with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Although the name of the database implies a collection of one class of polymorphisms only (i.e., single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)), it in fact contains a range of molecular variation: (1) SNPs, (2) short deletion and insertion polymorphisms (indels/DIPs), (3) microsatellite markers or short tandem repeats (STRs), (4) multinucleotide polymorphisms (MNPs), (5) heterozygous sequences, and (6) named variants. The dbSNP accepts apparently neutral polymorphisms, polymorphisms corresponding to known phenotypes, and regions of no variation. It was created in September 1998 to supplement GenBank, NCBI’s collection of publicly available nucleic acid and protein sequences.
In 2017, NCBI stopped support for all non-human organisms in dbSNP. As of build 153 (released in August 2019), dbSNP had amassed nearly 2 billion submissions representing more than 675 million distinct variants for Homo sapiens.
Purpose
dbSNP is an online resource implemented to aid biology researchers. Its goal is to act as a single database that contains all identified genetic variation, which can be used to investigate a wide variety of genetically based natural phenomena. Specifically, access to the molecular variation cataloged within dbSNP aids basic research such as physical mapping, population genetics, investigations into evolutionary relationships, as well as being able to quickly and easily quantify the amount of variation at a given site of interest. In addition, dbSNP guides applied research in pharmacogenomics and the association of genetic variation with phenotypic traits. According to the NCBI website, “The long-term investment in such novel and exciting research [dbSNP] promises not only to advance human biology but to revolutionise the practice of modern medicine.”
Submission
1. Source
Originally, dbSNP accepts submissions for any organism from a wide variety of sources including individual research laboratories, collaborative polymorphism discovery efforts, large scale genome sequencing centers, other SNP databases (e.g. the SNP consortium, HapMap, etc.), and private businesses. On September 1, 2017, dbSNP stopped accepting non-human variant data submissions and two months later, its interactive websites and related NCBI services stopped presenting non-human variant data. Now dbSNP only accepts and presents human variant data.
2. Types of records
Every submitted variation receives a submitted SNP ID number (“ss#”). This accession number is a stable and unique identifier for that submission. Unique submitted SNP records also receive a reference SNP ID number (“rs#”; "refSNP cluster"). However, more than one record of a variation will likely be submitted to dbSNP, e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20Bimbo | MissBimbo.com (now ximbo.land) is an online fashion game and social networking site. Players style their 'Ximbo' character and level her up by accumulating a variety of attribute points. Points can be earned by playing mini games, participating in competitions, spending time at specific city locations, or points can be bought with in-game currency. The website also features a diverse forum and the opportunity for players to design their own clothes to be sold in the digital shop. Many of the gameplay mechanics and names of attribute points changed when Miss Bimbo was controversially relaunched as Bimboland with new politics, later rebranding to Ximboland with the reported reason being that investors did not like the word 'bimbo'.
History
Miss Bimbo started as an English version of a French game called Ma Bimbo. Ma Bimbo was owned and developed by Beemoov and Miss Bimbo was developed by Blouzar Ltd., London.
In 2008, Beemoov and Blouzar split, citing difficulties co-operating. Blouzar retained rights to the Miss Bimbo game and continued to develop the website independently. Miss Bimbo was closed and relaunched 1 March 2015 as The Republic of Bimboland. Beemoov went on to create Like a Fashionista, which is similar to the original Ma Bimbo game. Miss Bimbo/Bimboland trademarks are now registered under BIMBOLAND LTD.
Traffic to MissBimbo.com still redirects to the previous Bimbolands.com URL, instead of the current ximbo.land address.
Miss Bimbo
Gameplay
Players were responsible for feeding their bimbo, maintaining her mood, and keeping her clean and healthy. They could earn Bimbo Attitude (BA) and IQ points by playing mini-games or spending time at locations in the city. For instance, bimbos could earn IQ by spending an hour in the library or earn BA by paying for plastic surgery at the clinic or changing their style at the salon. Bimbos could also accumulate BA regularly from their boyfriends and homes.
Pets were available for purchase to help maintain a bimbos mood, and food was necessary to keep her from getting thin. If a player fed their bimbo too much, she would get fat. If players did not keep their bimbo happy, she would get depressed and need to see a therapist.
Controversy
The site attracted media criticism in 2008 for promoting the use of cosmetic surgery and crash dieting, potentially encouraging pre-teen players to pursue an 'ideal' body image through similar measures.
Nicholas Jacquart, Developer of Ma Bimbo and Miss Bimbo, defended the game, saying that it was “an ironic game about the reality of the world.” Other defenders of the game claimed that criticism was unfair and out of proportion. “What parent in his or her right mind would let a 7 or 9-year-old on a site with “bimbo” in the name?” One player said in an interview.
Ximboland
The Republic of Ximboland was launched as a "real time democracy game" that allows players to choose one of six politically distinct states upon signup. The six states are Agnostica, An |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item%20tree%20analysis | Item tree analysis (ITA) is a data analytical method which allows constructing a
hierarchical structure on the items of a questionnaire or test from observed response
patterns. Assume that we have a questionnaire with m items and that subjects can
answer positive (1) or negative (0) to each of these items, i.e. the items are
dichotomous. If n subjects answer the items this results in a binary data matrix D
with m columns and n rows.
Typical examples of this data format are test items which can be solved (1) or failed
(0) by subjects. Other typical examples are questionnaires where the items are
statements to which subjects can agree (1) or disagree (0).
Depending on the content of the items it is possible that the response of a subject to an
item j determines her or his responses to other items. It is, for example, possible that
each subject who agrees to item j will also agree to item i. In this case we say that
item j implies item i (short ). The goal of an ITA is to uncover such
deterministic implications from the data set D.
Algorithms for ITA
ITA was originally developed by Van Leeuwe in 1974. The result of his algorithm,
which we refer in the following as Classical ITA, is a logically consistent set of
implications . Logically consistent means that if i implies j and j implies k then i implies k for each triple i, j, k of items. Thus the outcome of an ITA is a reflexive and transitive relation on the item set, i.e. a quasi-order on the items.
A different algorithm to perform an ITA was suggested in Schrepp (1999). This algorithm is called Inductive ITA.
Classical ITA and inductive ITA both construct a quasi-order on the item set by explorative data analysis. But both methods use a different algorithm to construct this quasi-order. For a given data set the resulting quasi-orders from classical and inductive ITA will usually differ.
A detailed description of the algorithms used in classical and inductive ITA can be found in Schrepp (2003) or Schrepp (2006). In a recent paper (Sargin & Ünlü, 2009) some modifications to the algorithm of inductive ITA are proposed, which improve the ability of this method to detect the correct implications from data (especially in the case of higher random response error rates).
Relation to other methods
ITA belongs to a group of data analysis methods called Boolean analysis of questionnaires.
Boolean analysis was introduced by Flament in 1976. The goal of a Boolean analysis is to
detect deterministic dependencies (formulas from Boolean logic connecting the items, like for example , , and ) between the items of a questionnaire or test.
Since the basic work of Flament (1976) a number of different methods for boolean analysis
have been developed. See, for example, Van Buggenhaut and Degreef (1987), Duquenne (1987) or Theuns (1994).
These methods share the goal to derive deterministic dependencies between the items of a
questionnaire from data, but differ in the algorithms to reach this goal. A comparison of I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93adapter | Model–view–adapter (MVA) or mediating-controller MVC is a software architectural pattern and multitier architecture. In complex computer applications that present large amounts of data to users, developers often wish to separate data (model) and user interface (view) concerns so that changes to the user interface will not affect data handling and that the data can be reorganized without changing the user interface. MVA and traditional MVC both attempt to solve this same problem, but with two different styles of solution. Traditional MVC arranges model (e.g., data structures and storage), view (e.g., user interface), and controller (e.g., business logic) in a triangle, with model, view, and controller as vertices, so that some information flows between the model and views outside of the controller's direct control. The model–view–adapter solves this rather differently from the model–view–controller by arranging model, adapter or mediating controller and view linearly without any connections whatsoever directly between model and view.
Principles
View and model do not communicate directly
The view is completely decoupled from the model such that view and the model can interact only via the mediating controller or adapter between the view and the model. Via this arrangement, only the adapter or mediating controller has knowledge of both the model and the view, because it is the responsibility of solely the adapter or mediating controller to adapt or mediate between the model and the view—hence the names adapter and mediator. The model and view are kept intentionally oblivious of each other. In traditional MVC, the model and view are made aware of each other, which might permit disadvantageous coupling of view (e.g., user interface) concerns into the model (e.g., database) and vice versa, when the architecture might have been better served by the schema of the database and the presentation of information in the user-interface being divorced entirely from each other and allowed to diverge from each other radically. For example, in a text editor, the model might best be a piece table (instead of, say, a gap buffer or a linked list of lines). But, the user interface should present the final resting state of the edits on the file, not some direct information-overload presentation of the piece-table's meticulous raw undo-redo deltas and incremental operations on that file since the current editing session began.
Model is intentionally oblivious of views
This separation of concerns permits a wide variety of different views to indirectly access the same model either via exactly the same adapter or via the same class of adapters. For example, one underlying data-storage model and schema and technology could be accessed via different views—e.g., Qt GUI, Microsoft MFC GUI, GTK+ GUI, Microsoft .NET GUI, Java Swing GUI, Silverlight website, and AJAX website—where (unlike traditional MVC) the model is kept completely oblivious of what information flows toward t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Elizabeth%20Brown | Vice Admiral Nancy E. Brown (born 1952) is a retired vice admiral in the United States Navy who most recently served as the Director, Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems (C4 Systems), The Joint Staff. She was the principal advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on all C4 systems matters within the Department of Defense. Her service spanned 32 years. She retired in 2009.
Prior to her final assignment, Vice Adm. Brown was the Director of Command Control Systems, Headquarters North American Aerospace Defense Command and Director of Architectures and Integration, Headquarters U.S. Northern Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. She also served as the Commander, Navy Element and Chief Information Officer for both commands.
Biography
Vice Adm. Brown is a native of Glen Cove, New York. She was raised in Marion, Illinois, and is a 1973 graduate of Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.
Naval career
Following completion of Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 1974, Vice Adm. Brown reported to her first duty station, Naval Communications Station, Norfolk, Virginia She was assigned as communications watch officer, followed by automation officer and personnel officer. She then served as the special projects and manpower requirements officer at the Naval Telecommunications Command in Washington, D.C. After her tour in Washington, D.C., Vice Adm. Brown attended Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where she earned a Master of Science degree in Communications Systems Management. She was then assigned to the Defense Commercial Communications Office at Scott Air Force Base in Belleville, Illinois. This joint tour qualified Vice Adm. Brown as a proven subspecialist in communications and led to her designation as a joint specialty officer (JSO).
From this joint assignment, Vice Adm. Brown was enrolled in the Junior Course at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Completion of this course led to the awarding of a Master of Arts Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies. Her follow-on assignment was as the officer in charge, Naval Radio and Receiving Facility Kamiseya, Japan.
Returning from overseas, Vice Adm. Brown was assigned to the Joint Tactical Command, Control and Communications Agency in Washington. After this second joint tour, she was assigned as the executive officer (XO) at the Naval Communications Station in San Diego, California. A major segment of this tour was devoted to the establishment of the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station, San Diego.
Upon completing this XO tour, Vice Adm. Brown was enrolled in the Senior Course at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In August 1993, Vice Adm. Brown assumed command of Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Cutler, Downeast, Maine. After completing her command tour, she was selected for assignment to the National Security Council staff at the White House where she reported for duty in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef%20at%20Home | Chef at Home is a Canadian cooking reality TV show presented by professionally trained chef Michael Smith. Produced by Ocean Entertainment, it debuted October 5, 2004 on Food Network Canada and in the United States was aired on ION Life until September 17, 2015.
Filmed at the Farmhouse at the Cove home in Prince Edward Island, Chef Michael Smith invites viewers into his home kitchen. The authors of Lifestyle describe the show as a “Culinary Institute of America graduate explains to viewers how to create uncomplicated, tasty meals for family and friends”. In each episode Michael inspires home cooks to create meals and plates by choosing flavours and ingredients that naturally go together. Using basic cooking techniques Michael demonstrates simple ways to cook perfect meat and experiments with an array of exotic spices from all over the world. Food Network Canada describes the show as: “Close your cookbooks, look in the fridge, fire your imagination and let your instincts and appetite be your guide!”.
Chef at Home was divided into six seasons, composed each of 26 episodes offering recipes from all around the world, inspiring different tastes and referring to some specific plates, suggestions for occasions such as Christmas, Thanksgiving or even Valentine's Day. Some examples of the recipes were, teaching viewers how to cook a Backyard Smoked Salmon (Season 5, episode 2), how to make homemade sushi or how not to miss the cooking of a Tuscan Beef (Season 6, episode 9).
History
“Chef at Home” was one of the first original programs from Food Network Canada. It started in 2004 alongside other productions such as “Christine Crushing Live” (2004-2007), “Made to Order” (2004-2006), “Recipe for Success” (2004-unknown) and “Man Made Food” (2004-unknown). The show was on the air for five years (until 2009), making it one of the longer original running shows in the history of Food Network Canada alongside “You Gotta Eat Here!” (2012-2017), “Food Factory'' (2012-Present), “Bake with Anna Olson” (2012-Present) and “Top Chef” (2011-Present) that are still on the air today.
After the finalization of the show, the chef Michael Smith started a five-year scholarship for students in the Family and Nutritional Sciences Program at the University of Prince Edward Island. And a year after, in 2010, Smith led the team that cooked for athletes in Whistler, British Columbia during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Series overview
The series focuses on Chef Michael Smith aiming each episode on a different recipe or type of food. Smith promotes a healthy food lifestyle and sustainable home cooking within each episode. In each episode, Smith tries a different recipe but in the format that the audience or viewers feel as if they were inside Smith’s home learning as he teaches and talks to the viewer/‘guest’ as if they were part of the food making process. Chef At Home is a show about real food and real cooking for real people. Smith encourages viewers to improvise and proje |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MumboJumbo | MumboJumbo, LLC was an independent developer of games for personal computers, game consoles and mobile devices. MumboJumbo Mobile, LLC publishes entertainment software for Android and iOS devices.
History
The company was founded in January 2001 by Mark Dochtermann and Ron Dimant after leaving Ritual Entertainment. In 2003 it became one of the first independent developers to popularize casual games by partnering with portal sites to make games available for download directly to Windows and Mac computers.
MumboJumbo was previously a United Developers Company that acquired other development companies including Zono, Ritual Entertainment, and Hot Lava Studios.
On January 24, 2007, MumboJumbo announced their acquisition of Ritual Entertainment, a popular developer of first person shooter titles such as SiN and Star Trek: Elite Force II. Upon acquisition Ritual was made to assist with work on casual game titles, causing many prominent employees to leave the company and many analysts to speculate why the acquisition had been made in the first place. Some analysts have since criticized the move as both foolish and a massive waste of money. It is still unclear as to the purpose of MumboJumbo's decision, as MumboJumbo has still not released an official statement regarding their intentions to acquire a game developer known for creating mature titles in order to re-purpose them for casual game development.
On January 25, 2010, a jury in the 193rd Civil District Court in Dallas County, Texas awarded MumboJumbo $4,600,000 in damages resulting from a breach of contract on the part of their former business partner PopCap Games. MumboJumbo had previously held a North American retail distribution agreement with the casual games developer. According to MumboJumbo, the relationship was violated when PopCap Games began to develop its own strategies for selling at retail. During the 12-day trial, MumboJumbo's law firm Rose-Walker showed that PopCap's actions "severely damaged" their business relationship with Walmart.
As of January 2022, their website is owned and hosted by a cybersquatting firm. While some of their games have stopped working due to changes made in macOS Monterey, they are still available for purchase from the Apple App Store.
Games developed
Myth III: The Wolf Age (2001)Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2001)Luxor series:Luxor (2005)Luxor Amun Rising (2005)Luxor Mahjong, Luxor 2 (2006)Luxor 3 (2007)Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife (2008)Luxor Adventures (2009)Luxor 5th Passage (2010)Luxor HD (2011)Luxor Amun Rising HD, Luxor Evolved (2012)Luxor 2 HD (2013)Angelica Weaver: Catch Me When You CanMidnight Mysteries seriesThe Edgar Allan Poe ConspiracySalem Witch TrialsDevil on the MississippiHaunted Houdini Witches of AbrahamGhostwritingSamantha Swift seriesThe Hidden Roses of AthenaThe Golden TouchThe Fountains of FateThe Mystery from AtlantisChainz seriesChainzChainz 2 RelinkedChainz GalaxyPickers Glowfish: A Magical Underwater AdventureUnlikely S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOLM | KOLM (1520 AM, "1520 The Ticket") is a sports formatted radio station in Rochester, Minnesota, and is owned by Townsquare Media. KOLM derives a portion of its programming from CBS Sports Radio.
On August 30, 2013, a deal was announced in which Townsquare would acquire 53 Cumulus Media stations, including KOLM, for $238 million. The deal is part of Cumulus' acquisition of Dial Global; Townsquare and Dial Global are both controlled by Oaktree Capital Management. The sale to Townsquare was completed on November 14, 2013.
References
External links
KOLM official website
Radio stations in Minnesota
Radio stations established in 1959
CBS Sports Radio stations
Townsquare Media radio stations
1959 establishments in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20analysis%20%28digital%20geometry%29 | This article describes shape analysis to analyze and process geometric shapes.
Description
Shape analysis is the (mostly) automatic analysis of geometric shapes, for example using a computer to detect similarly shaped objects in a database or parts that fit together. For a computer to automatically analyze and process geometric shapes, the objects have to be represented in a digital form. Most commonly a boundary representation is used to describe the object with its boundary (usually the outer shell, see also 3D model). However, other volume based representations (e.g. constructive solid geometry) or point based representations (point clouds) can be used to represent shape.
Once the objects are given, either by modeling (computer-aided design), by scanning (3D scanner) or by extracting shape from 2D or 3D images, they have to be simplified before a comparison can be achieved. The simplified representation is often called a shape descriptor (or fingerprint, signature). These simplified representations try to carry most of the important information, while being easier to handle, to store and to compare than the shapes directly.
A complete shape descriptor is a representation that can be used to completely reconstruct the original object (for example the medial axis transform).
Application fields
Shape analysis is used in many application fields:
archeology for example, to find similar objects or missing parts
architecture for example, to identify objects that spatially fit into a specific space
medical imaging to understand shape changes related to illness or aid surgical planning
virtual environments or on the 3D model market to identify objects for copyright purposes
security applications such as face recognition
entertainment industry (movies, games) to construct and process geometric models or animations
computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing to process and to compare designs of mechanical parts or design objects.
Shape descriptors
Shape descriptors can be classified by their invariance with respect to the transformations allowed in the associated shape definition. Many descriptors are invariant with respect to congruency, meaning that congruent shapes (shapes that could be translated, rotated and mirrored) will have the same descriptor (for example moment or spherical harmonic based descriptors or Procrustes analysis operating on point clouds).
Another class of shape descriptors (called intrinsic shape descriptors) is invariant with respect to isometry. These descriptors do not change with different isometric embeddings of the shape. Their advantage is that they can be applied nicely to deformable objects (e.g. a person in different body postures) as these deformations do not involve much stretching but are in fact near-isometric. Such descriptors are commonly based on geodesic distances measures along the surface of an object or on other isometry invariant characteristics such as the Laplace–Beltrami spectrum (see also s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green500 | The Green500 is a biannual ranking of supercomputers, from the TOP500 list of supercomputers, in terms of energy efficiency. The list measures performance per watt using the TOP500 measure of high performance LINPACK benchmarks at double-precision floating-point format.
In 2022, Hewlett Packard Enterprise took the lead (then later in Nov. 2022 Lenovo took the lead, though with a much smaller Nvidia based system), with AMD-based systems (AMD CPUs and AMD GPUs) in the 4 top positions, with the top position over 50% more efficient than the previous year (Japanese) top position. And number two on the list (the current fastest on TOP500) is also over 50% more efficient than the currently most efficient (and much smaller) Nvidia-based system. No large Nvidia-based system make the top 10 positions of Graph500 (smaller ones in 7th to 10th, nor any longer any (small or large) ARM-based (Fugaku was at the top of the list in June 2021).
History
, an Appro International, Inc. Xtreme-X supercomputer (Beacon) topped the Green500 list with 2.499 LINPACK GFLOPS/W. Beacon is deployed by NICS of the University of Tennessee and is a GreenBlade GB824M, Xeon E5-2670 based, eight cores (8C), 2.6 GHz, Infiniband FDR, Intel Xeon Phi 5110P computer.
, the Eurotech supercomputer Eurora at Cineca topped the Green500 list with 3.208 LINPACK GFLOPS/W. The Cineca Eurora supercomputer is equipped with two Intel Xeon E5-2687W CPUs and two PCI-e connected NVIDIA Tesla K20 accelerators per node. Water cooling and electronics design allows for very high densities to be reached with a peak performance of 350 TFLOPS per rack.
, the L-CSC supercomputer of the Helmholtz Association at the GSI in Darmstadt Germany topped the Green500 list with 5.271 GFLOPS/W and was the first cluster to surpass an efficiency of 5 GFLOPS/W. It runs on Intel Xeon E5-2690 Processors with the Intel Ivy Bridge Architecture and AMD FirePro S9150 GPU Accelerators. It uses in rack watercooling and Cooling Towers to reduce the energy required for cooling.
, the Shoubu supercomputer of RIKEN outside Tokyo Japan topped the Green500 list with 7.032 GFLOPS/W. The then-top three supercomputers of the list used PEZY-SC accelerators (GPU-like that use OpenCL) by PEZY Computing with 1024 cores each and 6–7 GFLOPS/W efficiency.
, DGX SaturnV Volta, using "NVIDIA DGX-1 Volta36, Xeon E5-2698v4 20C 2.2GHz, Infiniband EDR, NVIDIA Tesla V100", tops Green500 list with 15.113 GFLOPS/W, while ranked only 469th on Top500. It is only slightly more efficient than the much larger Summit (which ranked 2nd while 1st on Top500 with 14.719 GFLOPS/W), using IBM POWER9 CPUs combined with Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs.
Green 500 List
Historical development
Energy efficiency of top-ranked computers (gigaflops/watt)
References
Supercomputer benchmarks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Demarest | Kenneth Llewellyn Demarest III is a computer game programmer, artist, and business person.
Early life and education
Career
Demarest worked on Wing Commander and developed 3D, texture-mapped characters in BioForge. As a Director of Technology at Origin Systems, Demarest developed the technical prototype for Ultima Online using Ultima VI as a code base. His later work resulted in the persistent-world real-time strategy game NetStorm: Islands At War, which as of March 2016 is being re-made in 3D as Disciples of the Storm, funded through KickStarter.
In social gaming, Demarest was part of the early work blending 3D multiplayer online games and social game play both stand-alone and on networks such as Facebook and MySpace.
Demarest was a founder of Appsoma, a platform as a service for scientific analysis.
As an artist for Shadow Garden he wrote 'Sand', the most popular and frequently sold work on the platform developed by Zack Simpson. Sand is in the permanent collections of numerous museums worldwide including the Discovery Science Center and Sony Wonder Technology Lab. Demarest's later work supported technology that benefits humanity including MorSand, a 2006 Tech Award Laureate, and CellBazaar, a 2007 Laureate.
References
External links
Mine-Control Home Page
Ken Demarest profile on MobyGames
Sand Exhibit at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana, CA
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Origin Systems people
Video game artists
Video game programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20beta%20filter | An alpha beta filter (also called alpha-beta filter, f-g filter or g-h filter) is a simplified form of observer for estimation, data smoothing and control applications. It is closely related to Kalman filters and to linear state observers used in control theory. Its principal advantage is that it does not require a detailed system model.
Filter equations
An alpha beta filter presumes that a system is adequately approximated by a model having two internal states, where the first state is obtained by integrating the value of the second state over time. Measured system output values correspond to observations of the first model state, plus disturbances. This very low order approximation is adequate for many simple systems, for example, mechanical systems where position is obtained as the time integral of velocity. Based on a mechanical system analogy, the two states can be called position x and velocity v. Assuming that velocity remains approximately constant over the small time interval ΔT between measurements, the position state is projected forward to predict its value at the next sampling time using equation 1.
Since velocity variable v is presumed constant, its projected value at the next sampling time equals the current value.
If additional information is known about how a driving function will change the v state during each time interval, equation 2 can be modified to include it.
The output measurement is expected to deviate from the prediction because of noise and dynamic effects not included in the simplified dynamic model. This prediction error r is also called the residual or innovation, based on statistical or Kalman filtering interpretations
Suppose that residual r is positive. This could result because the previous x estimate was low, the previous v was low, or some combination of the two. The alpha beta filter takes selected alpha and beta constants (from which the filter gets its name), uses alpha times the deviation r to correct the position estimate, and uses beta times the deviation r to correct the velocity estimate. An extra ΔT factor conventionally serves to normalize magnitudes of the multipliers.
The corrections can be considered small steps along an estimate of the gradient direction. As these adjustments accumulate, error in the state estimates is reduced. For convergence and stability, the values of the alpha and beta multipliers should be positive and small:
Noise is suppressed only if , otherwise the noise is amplified.
Values of alpha and beta typically are adjusted experimentally. In general, larger alpha and beta gains tend to produce faster response for tracking transient changes, while smaller alpha and beta gains reduce the level of noise in the state estimates. If a good balance between accurate tracking and noise reduction is found, and the algorithm is effective, filtered estimates are more accurate than the direct measurements. This motivates calling the alpha-beta process a filter.
Algorithm summa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%2013%29 | The thirteenth and final season of the Australian police drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 1 April 2006 and aired on Saturday nights at 8:30 pm. The 11-episode season concluded 4 June 2006, due to its cancellation by the Seven Network as a result of its sharp decline in ratings. When, in late 2005, the time came to renew Blue Heelers, Seven commissioned eleven further episodes to be produced, but its future after this was still undecided.
In January 2006, Seven officially announced that they had cancelled Blue Heelers, but would air a final shortened season of only 11 episodes in mid-2006—the 11 episodes which had been filmed in late 2005, before Blue Heelers had been cancelled.
This season focuses primarily on the show's main protagonist, Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon, his failing health and his personal troubles. John Wood, who portrays Croydon, is the only actor to appear in every episode of Blue Heelers and is, indisputably, the pillar of the show. The final episode of the thirteenth season aired as a 2-hour, movie-length tribute starting with an introduction from John Wood, and concluding with a compilation of Blue Heelers moments from over its 13-season run. For this thirteenth season, Blue Heelers was moved from its primetime Wednesday-night timeslot to the lower rating Saturday-night timeslot, which saw it come up against The Bill, a British police drama which has become quite popular in Australia. Ratings for this season, partially due to the series' move to its lower-rating timeslot, were relatively low; ratings were around the 1.2 million viewer mark, increasing to 1.5 million for the finale. Blue Heelers failed to even make it into the top 20 programmes at any time during its thirteenth season.
This season was very successful in regards of awards, particularly for John Wood who won the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, as well as the Most Popular Actor Silver Logie Award. Wood had been nominated for the Gold Logie for ten straight years, and finally won it in 2006.
By the end of this season, Blue Heelers had also equalled the record for most episodes produced of a television drama in Australia, equalling Homicide's record, set in 1977.
All 11 episodes of the season made their subscription television premiere on 26 January 2011 (Australia Day), where they aired back to back in an Australia Day marathon on the Universal Channel.
Casting
For this season, the producers made the choice to make no changes to the main cast, all of whom featured in all eleven episodes of the season. The main cast for this season consists of:
John Wood as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon
Julie Nihill as Christine "Chris" Riley
Ditch Davey as Detective Senior Constable (Senior Detective) Evan 'Jonesy' Jones
Simone McAullay as Senior Constable Susie Raynor
Rachel Gordon as Detective Senior Constable (Senior Detective) Amy Fox
Samantha Tolj as Constable Kelly O'Rourke
Danny Raco as Constable Joss Peroni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap%20spraying | In computer security, heap spraying is a technique used in exploits to facilitate arbitrary code execution. The part of the source code of an exploit that implements this technique is called a heap spray. In general, code that sprays the heap attempts to put a certain sequence of bytes at a predetermined location in the memory of a target process by having it allocate (large) blocks on the process's heap and fill the bytes in these blocks with the right values.
Operation
A heap spray does not actually exploit any security issues but it can be used to make a vulnerability easier to exploit. A heap spray by itself cannot be used to break any security boundaries: a separate security issue is needed.
Exploiting security issues is often hard because various factors can influence this process. Chance alignments of memory and timing introduce a lot of randomness (from the attacker's point of view). A heap spray can be used to introduce a large amount of order to compensate for this and increase the chances of successful exploitation. Heap sprays take advantage of the fact that on most architectures and operating systems, the start location of large heap allocations is predictable and consecutive allocations are roughly sequential. This means that the sprayed heap will roughly be in the same location each and every time the heap spray is run.
Exploits often use specific bytes to spray the heap, as the data stored on the heap serves multiple roles. During exploitation of a security issue, the application code can often be made to read an address from an arbitrary location in memory. This address is then used by the code as the address of a function to execute. If the exploit can force the application to read this address from the sprayed heap, it can control the flow of execution when the code uses that address as a function pointer and redirects it to the sprayed heap. If the exploit succeeds in redirecting control flow to the sprayed heap, the bytes there will be executed, allowing the exploit to perform whatever actions the attacker wants. Therefore, the bytes on the heap are restricted to represent valid addresses within the heap spray itself, holding valid instructions for the target architecture, so the application will not crash. It is therefore common to spray with a single byte that translates to both a valid address and a NOP or NOP-like instruction on the target architecture. This allows the heap spray to function as a very large NOP sled (for example, 0x0c0c0c0c is often used as non-canonical NOP)
History
Heap sprays have been used occasionally in exploits since at least 2001, but the technique started to see widespread use in exploits for web browsers in the summer of 2005 after the release of several such exploits which used the technique against a wide range of bugs in Internet Explorer. The heap sprays used in all these exploits were very similar, which showed the versatility of the technique and its ease of use, without need for maj |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ben%2010%3A%20Alien%20Force%20episodes | This is a list of episodes of the American animated television series, Ben 10: Alien Force. The series was created for Cartoon Network by team Man of Action (a group consisting of Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, and Steven T. Seagle), and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It takes place five years after the original Ben 10 series and takes a darker turn than its predecessor. Ben 10: Alien Force was followed by the direct 2010 sequel series Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2008)
10 Aliens - Swampfire, Echo Echo, Humungousaur, Jetray, Big Chill, Chromastone, Brainstorm, Spidermonkey, Goop, Alien X.
Ben returns after a gap of 5 years only to find that the world is suffering an Alien Invasion by a powerful alien race called Highbreeds DNAliens, his Omnitrix has recallibrated, giving him more powerful aliens, and Grandpa Max has gone missing. He teams up with Gwen who has mastered her magic, and Kevin Levin who has changed sides with Ben.
Through some intentionally left-behind hologram messages, Max assigns Ben, Gwen and Kevin, the task of finding fellow Plumber Kids such as, Alan, Michael Morningstar, Manny, Helen, Pierce and Cooper along with Julie and Ship as well as Professor Paradox and Azmuth.
Season 2 (2008–09)
13 Aliens - Swampfire, Chromastone, Murk Upchuck, Spidermonkey, Echo Echo, Way Big, Humungousaur, Alien X, Goop, Jetray, Big Chill, Cannonbolt, Brainstorm.
Ben, Gwen and Kevin along with fellow plumbers, finally defeat Highbreeds.
Grandpa Max arrives back in the season finale, and Ben gets access to some old and new aliens.
Season 3 (2009–10)
17 Alien Forms - Swampfire, Chromastone, Goop, Big Chill, Jetray, Humungousaur, Alien X, Brainstorm, Echo Echo, Spidermonkey, Rath, Lodestar, Way Big, Cannonbolt, Murk Upchuck, Ghostfreak, Diamondhead.
Ben's archnemesis and biggest enemy, Vilgax, returns being ten times powerful from before due to absorbing the respective abilities of ten of the strongest superheroes from ten worlds.
While unlocking the Master Control of Omnitrix, Kevin becomes a mutation of different alloys. (he was later healed in the season finale)
It is revealed that Kevin's father Devin Levin was a plumber and a friend of Max Tennyson.
The Omnitrix is destroyed in the two-part series finale, and Ben replaces it with the recently created and infinitely more powerful Ultimatrix he takes from his Galvan "twin" Albedo, which evolves few of his alien forms to their much stronger ultimate form.
Live-action film (2009)
Video short (2009)
DVD releases
See also
List of Ben 10 episodes
List of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episodes
List of Ben 10: Omniverse episodes
List of Ben 10 (2016 TV series) episodes
Notes
References
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes
2000s television-related lists
2010s television-related lists
Alien Force |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 10 September 1993 and aired on Tuesday nights at 7:30 PM. The 45-episode season concluded on 22 November 1994. The show was a success, and by the end of its 45-episode first season the PJ-Maggie shippers had quickly amassed. It had an average rating of 2.5 Million and going to 3.5 million at its peak.
Its main cast included John Wood, Julie Nihill, Martin Sacks. Lisa McCune, William McInnes, Grant Bowler, Ann Burbrook, and Damian Walshe-Howling.
Casting
Main cast for this season consisted of:
John Wood as Sergeant Tom Croydon [full season]
Julie Nihill as Christine 'Chris' Riley [full season]
Martin Sacks as Detective Senior Constable Patrick Joseph 'P.J.' Hasham [full season]
Lisa McCune as Constable Margaret 'Maggie' Doyle [full season]
William McInnes as Senior Constable Nicholas 'Nick' Schultz [full season]
Grant Bowler as Constable Wayne Patterson [full season]
Ann Burbrook as Roz Patterson [until episode 30]
Damian Walshe-Howling as Probationary Constable Adam Cooper [from episode 34]
Ann Burbrook was originally cast as Maggie Doyle and Lisa McCune as Roz Patterson but the two swapped roles to avoid being typecast in the future.
William McInnes was originally cast as PJ Hasham and Martin Sacks as Nick Schultz but the two swapped roles because McInnes "looked more like a Schultz".
Roz was written out of the show before season's end, because the producers thought that they could do more with another police character, rather than a civilian. This allowed for the introduction of Adam Cooper to the group.
Semi-regular cast members for this season include:
Peta Doodson as Sergeant Monica Draper
Beth Buchanan as Susan Croydon
Michael Isaacs as Clancy Freeman
Suzi Dougherty as Dr. Mel Carter
Axl Taylor as Len the barman
Dennis Miller as Ex-Sergeant Pat Doyle
Nick Waters as Acting Inspector → Inspector Ted Faulkner
Helen Trenos as Celia Donald
Dale Stevens as Senior Constable Rose Egan
Jennifer Botica as Detective Senior Constable Hilary Edmunds
Notable guest stars for the season include:
Radha Mitchell as Sally-Anne
Gerard Kennedy as John Eagan,
Brett Swain as Peter Sutcliffe
Kate Keltie as Sally Lamont
Peter Hosking as Frank Davis
Anne Phelan as Mrs. Brady
Petra Jared as Kim Stewart
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell as Hayes
Lois Collinder as Mrs. Rivers
Raelee Hill as Jill Lambert
Libby Tanner as Heather
Lois Ramsay as Eileen Heart
Ian Smith as Clive Burton
David Wenham as William Cassidy
Rex Hunt as Ben Murphy
Janet Andrewartha as Bridget Ryan
Tony Briggs as Tony Dixon
Plot
At the start of the season, we meet young city constable, Maggie Doyle, who is arriving at her posting in the small country town of Mount Thomas. At Mount Thomas police station we also meet the officer in charge, Sergeant Tom Croydon, who runs "his" station with an almost grandfatherly watch over his co-workers. We also meet Constable Wayne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 21 February 1995 and aired on Tuesday nights at 8:30 PM. The 41-episode season concluded 21 November 1995. The cast for this season was the same as that of the preceding season, with the omission of Ann Burbrook as Roz Patterson and with the introduction of Damian Walshe-Howling as Adam Cooper to take her place. This season of Blue Heelers was released on DVD on 1 December 2005 and was released in a two-part release; and later as a complete set.
Casting
The cast for this season was identical to that of the prior season, with the omission of Ann Burbrook as Roz Patterson and with the introduction of Damian Walshe-Howling as Adam Cooper to take her place.
Main cast for this season consisted of:
John Wood as Sergeant Tom Croydon [full season]
Julie Nihill as Christine 'Chris' Riley [full season]
Martin Sacks as Senior Detective Patrick Joseph 'P.J.' Hasham [full season]
Lisa McCune as Constable Margaret 'Maggie' Doyle [full season]
William McInnes as Senior Constable Nicholas 'Nick' Schultz [full season]
Grant Bowler as Constable Wayne Patterson [full season]
Damian Walshe-Howling as Constable Adam Cooper [full season]
There were no changes to the main cast for this season.
Semi-regular cast members for this season include:
Peta Doodson as Sergeant → Senior Sergeant Monica Draper
Beth Buchanan as Susan Croydon
Michael Isaacs as Clancy Freeman
Suzi Dougherty as Dr. Mel Carter
Axl Taylor as Len the barman
Dennis Miller as Ex-Sergeant Pat Doyle
Nick Waters as Inspector Ted Faulkner
Helen Trenos as Celia Donald
Dale Stevens as Senior Constable / Detective Senior Constable Rose Egan
Stuart Baker as "Richo"
Reg Evans as Keith Purvis
Terry Gill as Chief Superintendent Clive Adamson
Karen Davitt as Dr. Zoe Hamilton
Rachel Blakely as Gina Belfanti
Beverley Evans as Harriet Keppel
Notable guest stars include:
Robert Grubb as Sergeant Harris
David Field as Michael "Mick" Doyle
Maxine Klibingaitis as Judy
Rebecca Rigg as Kate Kenny
Hugh Jackman as Brady Jackson
Libby Tanner as Holly McLeod
Kris McQuade as Maureen Powers
Janet Andrewartha as Detective Ryan
Kerry Armstrong as Sandy Fielding
Reg Gorman as Freddie
Lois Collinder as Nina Dwyer
Kristian Schmid as Aaron Landers
Jeremy Kewley as Jonathan Ryder
Gerard Kennedy as Sal D'Angelo
Samuel Johnson as Dennis Cole
Awards
Episodes
DVD release
References
General
Zuk, T. Blue Heelers: 1995 episode guide, Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
TV.com editors. Blue Heelers Episode Guide – Season 2, TV.com. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
Specific
Blue Heelers seasons
1995 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 12 February 1996 and aired on Monday nights, and later Tuesday nights, at 8:30 PM. The 42-episode season concluded 26 November 1996.
Casting
Main cast for this season consisted of:
John Wood as Sergeant Tom Croydon [full season]
Julie Nihill as Christine 'Chris' Riley [full season]
Martin Sacks as Senior Detective Patrick Joseph 'P.J.' Hasham [full season]
Lisa McCune as Constable Margaret 'Maggie' Doyle [full season]
William McInnes as Senior Constable Nicholas 'Nick' Schultz [full season]
Grant Bowler as Constable Wayne Patterson [until episode 96]
Damian Walshe-Howling as Constable Adam Cooper [full season]
Tasma Walton as Probationary Constable Deirdre 'Dash' McKinley [episode 107+]
Semi-regular cast members for this season include:
Peta Doodson as Senior Sergeant Monica Draper
Beth Buchanan as Susan Croydon
Michael Isaacs as Clancy Freeman
Axl Taylor as Len the barman
Dennis Miller as Ex-Sergeant Pat Doyle
Nick Waters as Inspector Ted Faulkner
Helen Trenos as Celia Donald
Stuart Baker as "Richo"
Reg Evans as Keith Purvis
Terry Gill as Chief Superintendent Clive Adamson
Karen Davitt as Dr. Zoe Hamilton
Rachel Blakely as Gina Belfanti
Beverley Evans as Harriet Keppel
Alexandra Sangster as Anna Croydon
Don Bridges as Charlie Clarke
Marie Trevor as Lelia Clegg
Pauline Terry-Bietz as Beth McKinley
Frankie J. Holden as Senior Detective Jack Woodley
Notable guest stars included Frances O'Connor, Marg Downey, Lee Kernaghan, Radha Mitchell, Terry Gill, Raelee Hill, Louise Siversen, Rhys Muldoon, David Wenham, Norman Yemm, Andrew Blackman, Frankie J. Holden, Anne Phelan, Annie Jones, Asher Keddie, and Andrew McKaige.
With Grant Bowler's exit from the show, Ann Burbrook also returned to Blue Heelers to temporarily reprise her role as Roz Patterson.
Awards
Episodes
DVD release
References
General
Zuk, T. Blue Heelers: 1996 episode guide, Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
TV.com editors. Blue Heelers Episode Guide – Season 3, TV.com. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
Specific
Blue Heelers seasons
1996 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 10 February 1997 and aired on Tuesday nights at 8:30 PM. The 42-episode season concluded 25 November 1997.
Casting
Main cast for this season consisted of:
John Wood as Sergeant Tom Croydon [full season]
Julie Nihill as Christine 'Chris' Riley [full season]
Martin Sacks as Senior Detective Patrick Joseph 'P.J.' Hasham [full season]
Lisa McCune as Constable Margaret 'Maggie' Doyle [full season]
William McInnes as Senior Constable Nicholas 'Nick' Schultz [full season]
Damian Walshe-Howling as Constable Adam Cooper [full season]
Tasma Walton as Probationary Constable Deirdre 'Dash' McKinley [full season]
Semi-regular cast members for this season included:
Peta Doodson as Senior Sergeant → Inspector Monica Draper
Beth Buchanan as Susan Croydon
Michael Isaacs as Clancy Freeman
Axl Taylor as Len the barman
Dennis Miller as Ex-Sergeant Pat Doyle
Jeremy Kewley as Tony Timms
Reg Evans as Keith Purvis
Terry Gill as Chief Superintendent Clive Adamson
Karen Davitt as Doctor Zoe Hamilton
Rachel Blakely as Gina Belfanti
Don Bridges as Charlie Clarke
Marie Trevor as Lelia Clegg
Pauline Terry-Bietz as Beth McKinley
Neil Pigot as Inspector Russell Falcon-Price
Adam May as Ellis Corby
Peter Aanensen as Merv Poole
Kevin Harrington as Charlie McKinley
Kate Atkinson as Stacey Norse
Stuart Baker as "Richo"
Notable guest actors this season included Anne Phelan, Stefan Dennis, Vincent Gil, Alan Dale, Peta Brady, Brett Climo, Wendy Strehlow, Fiona Corke and Lesley Baker.
In the episode, "Fool For Love", Jane Allsop guest starred. She impressed the producers so much that they would later invite her back to the show in a main role as Jo Parrish.
Reception
The 1997 Season was the highest rating for the show; was the number one show on Australian Television for that year: Averaging a mammoth 2,441,000 in the five cities for the year.
Two of the most popular episodes remain the two-parter "Gold" and "Fool's Gold", in which PJ and Maggie are trapped down a mine shaft and release their sexual tension.
Awards
Episodes
DVD release
References
General
Zuk, T. Blue Heelers: 1997 episode guide, Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
TV.com editors. Blue Heelers Episode Guide – Season 4, TV.com. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
Specific
Blue Heelers seasons
1997 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Street | Guy Street (officially in ) is a north-south street located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Concordia University's Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex is located on this street, as is the John Molson School of Business building. The street is home to the Guy-Concordia Metro station. Guy Street runs through the Little Burgundy and Shaughnessy Village neighbourhoods, and the recently named Quartier Concordia district, before changing to Côte-des-Neiges Road, above Sherbrooke Street.
History
The street was named on August 30, 1817 for Étienne Guy (1774-1820), a notary and member for the riding of Montreal in the Lower Canada Assembly. He gave the city the land for the street. Guy Street constituted the link between the Faubourg Saint-Joseph and Saint-Antoine.
Since 1869, the Grey Nuns have had a convent on Guy Street, at the corner of Dorchester Boulevard. The Grey Nuns' Motherhouse was purchased by Concordia University in 2007.
From 1898 to 1963, the street was home to Her Majesty's Theatre, a key performing arts venue.
See also
165 Côte-des-Neiges
166 Queen Mary
Structure gauge
References
Streets in Montreal
Downtown Montreal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKBN%20bbTV | HKBN bbTV is a discontinued Pay TV IPTV service in Hong Kong operated by Hong Kong Broadband Network which was launched in August 2003, and bbTV ceased its service at 1 January 2017.
In September 2017, it is planned to reopen bbTV, but will be changed to Next at Malaysia Biggest TV Provider-Astro.
See also
IPTV
Hong Kong Broadband Network
References
External links
bbTV Official web-site
Television stations in Hong Kong
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 24 February 1998 and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:30 PM. The 41-episode season concluded 25 November 1998.
The 41-episode fifth season saw the show move to Wednesday nights at 8:30 PM, making way for All Saints on Tuesdays at 8.30 PM. Ratings dipped, but finished still finished the number 2 show for the year with 2,240,000 in the five cities.
Casting
Main
John Wood as Sergeant → Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon [full season]
Julie Nihill as Christine 'Chris' Riley [full season]
Martin Sacks as Senior Detective → Acting Sergeant (self demoted) Patrick Joseph 'P.J.' Hasham [full season]
Lisa McCune as Constable → Senior Constable → Acting Sergeant Margaret 'Maggie' Doyle [full season]
William McInnes as Senior Constable → Acting Sergeant → Sergeant Nicholas 'Nick' Schultz [until episode 207]
Damian Walshe-Howling as Constable Adam Cooper [full season]
Tasma Walton as Constable Deirdre 'Dash' McKinley [full season]
Paul Bishop as Detective Acting Sergeant (demoted) → Senior Constable Benjamin 'Ben' Stewart [from episode 198]
Damian Walshe-Howling appeared in the full season as Adam Cooper but finished his almost five-year career on the show with the show's season five finale - "Rotten Apple (Part 2)".
Paul Bishop began his playing his part of Ben Stewart before he actually became a permanent cast member in the episode "Nine Lives". William McInnes left the series because of lack of his storyline in the show and moving on to further projects.
Recurring
Peta Doodson as Inspector Monica Draper
Beth Buchanan as Susan Croydon
Michael Isaacs as Clancy Freeman
Suzi Dougherty as Dr. Mel Carter
Axl Taylor as Len the barman
Dennis Miller as Ex-Sergeant Pat Doyle
Stuart Baker as "Richo"
Reg Evans as Keith Purvis
Terry Gill as Chief Superintendent Clive Adamson
Karen Davitt as Dr. Zoe Hamilton
Don Bridges as Charlie Clarke
Marie Trevor as Lelia Clegg
Pauline Terry-Bietz as Beth McKinley
Neil Pigot as Inspector Russell Falcon-Price
Adam May as Ellis Corby
Peter Aanensen as Merv Poole
Jeremy Kewley as Tony Timms
Kevin Harrington as Charlie McKinley
Catherine Wilkin as Sally Downie
Grant Piro as Tim Ryan
Guests
Shane Connor
James Condon
John Clayton
Maggie Dence
Peter O'Brien
Shaun Micallef
Ross Williams
Grant Piro
Val Lehman
Monica Maughan
Anne Phelan
Dennis Coard
Carol Burns
Sean Scully
Awards
Episodes
DVD release
References
General
Zuk, T. Blue Heelers: 1998 episode guide, Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
TV.com editors. Blue Heelers Episode Guide - Season 5, TV.com. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
Specific
Blue Heelers seasons
1998 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 10 February 1999 and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:30 PM. The 42-episode season concluded 24 November 1999.
Casting
Main cast for this season consisted of:
John Wood as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon
Julie Nihill as Chris Riley
Martin Sacks as Senior Detective P.J. Hasham
Lisa McCune as Acting Sergeant / Senior Constable Maggie Doyle
Tasma Walton as Constable Dash McKinley (episodes 1–23)
Paul Bishop as Senior Constable / Acting Sergeant Ben Stewart
Rupert Reid as Probationary Constable Jack Lawson
Jane Allsop as Probationary Constable Jo Parrish (episodes 28–42)
Guest actors this season included Kate Hood, Jason Clarke, Terence Donovan, Lisa Crittenden, Grant Piro, Norman Yemm, Robert Grubb, Margot Knight, Arianthe Galani, Jeremy Angerson, Louise Siversen, Lois Ramsay, Mary Ward and Roger Oakley.
Awards
Episodes
DVD release
Notes
References
General
Zuk, T. Blue Heelers: 1999 episode guide, Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
TV.com editors. Blue Heelers Episode Guide - Season 6, TV.com. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
Specific
Blue Heelers seasons
1999 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 9 February 2000 and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:30 pm. The 41-episode season concluded 22 November 2000.
Cast
Main cast
Jane Allsop as Constable Jo Parrish
Rupert Reid as Constable Jack Lawson
Paul Bishop as Acting Sergeant / Senior Constable Ben Stewart
Julie Nihill as Chris Riley
Martin Sacks as Senior Detective P. J. Hasham
Lisa McCune as Senior Constable Maggie Doyle
John Wood as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon
Caroline Craig as Sergeant Tess Gallagher
Recurring cast
Dennis Miller as Pat Doyle
Terry Serio as Mick Doyle
Mark Wilson as Benny Matthews
Marcus Eyre as Detective Paul Donald
Adam Palmer as Detective Doug Turnbull
Neil Pigot as Inspector Russell Falcon-Price
Peta Doodson as Inspector Monica Draper
Suzi Dougherty as Dr. Mel Carter
Guest cast
Notable guest actors for this season included Paul Dawber, Alan Hopgood, Olivia Hamnett, Kate Hood, Ian Rawlings, Andy Anderson, Dennis Coard, Roger Oakley, Betty Lucas, James Condon, Alex Papps, Mary Ward, Tommy Dysart, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Joy Westmore, Alyce Platt, Jeremy Angerson, Sean Scully, Zoe Bertram, Wendy Strehlow and Nicki Paull.
Plot
Maggie, aided by PJ and her brother Mick, arrived at the point of cracking the drug ring she had been pursuing for a year and realised that she would have to go into witness protection. To do so, she staged a breakup with PJ and then awaited her escort nervously. PJ, however, realised that she was being tricked and arrived just seconds too late, to see Maggie shot down by a mysterious assailant. The episodes that followed, the "Who Killed Maggie Doyle?" arc, were the most-watched episodes ever. Arrested for Maggie's murder, PJ looked desperately to prove that he was being framed. Ultimately, in episode 263 "Out of the Shadows", he discovered the truth - it was her brother Mick.
Reception
This season marked the start of the show's downfall in the public consciousness.
Awards
Episodes
DVD release
Due to contractual negotiations, the release of this season, as well as any proceeding seasons, was postponed. These negotiations have concluded and the "Complete Seventh Season" DVD set (parts one and two) was released for sale in Australia (Region 4) on 31 July 2008. The seventh season was released, as its predecessors were, in two parts. However, this season was simply released in a standard DVD package, not a boxed set with slipcase packaging like its predecessors. It is expected to be released as a complete package sometime in the future.
Notes
References
General
Zuk, T. Blue Heelers: 2000 episode guide, Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
TV.com editors. Blue Heelers Episode Guide - Season 7, TV.com. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
Specific
Blue Heelers seasons
2000 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 21 February 2001 and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:30 PM. The 42-episode season concluded 28 November 2001.
Casting
Main cast for this season consisted of:
John Wood as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon (full season)
Julie Nihill as Christine 'Chris' Riley (full season)
Martin Sacks as Senior Detective Patrick Joseph 'P.J.' Hasham (full season)
Paul Bishop as Senior Constable Benjamin 'Ben' Stewart (full season)
Rupert Reid as Constable Jack Lawson (until Episode 313)
Jane Allsop as Constable Jo Parrish (full season)
Ditch Davey as Constable Evan 'Jonesy' Jones (from Episode 316)
Caroline Craig as Sergeant Tess Gallagher (full season)
Notable guest actors who appeared in this season included Carol Burns, Richard Cawthorne, Norman Yemm, Val Lehman, David Clencie, Simon Burke, Terry Gill, Alethea McGrath, Gary Sweet, Rhys Muldoon, Gary Day, Lisa Crittenden, Julia Blake, Alan Hopgood, Gerard Kennedy, Lesley Baker and Kirsty Child.
Plot
Jack is beginning to get the hang of his legs again after the 5% operation was a success. Tess begins to have feelings for Jack up to a point where they start a secret relationship in the episode "Manly Art". Their relationship is going somewhere until a case comes up about an old time drug dealer who just got out of prison. Jack begins to put his emotions in front of the job and will do anything to get his own justice. Jack is suspect for murder by Killing the drug dealer. Tess says one of them should get a transfer to St Davids because they could never work together if they can't trust one another. Jack then admits he could have saved the guy but instead watched him fall to his death. Jack is charged and dismissed from the force. While Tess is feeling sad the members are disappointed by the fact he did kill the guy and didn't admit the truth earlier. New probationary Constable Jones has arrived with a secret plot to find out what really happened in his father's death. Tess and Jo quickly take a liking to him but Tess remembers what happened to her last secret relationship with Jack and doesn't want to relive that moment so she keeps it to herself and gets on with her job as a sergeant. After all Tess knows not to mix work with play.
Reception
Ratings in the 8th season began to decline slowly, with many fans feeling that Maggie's absence, or the absence of the so-called "McCune-Factor" (as well as the absence of several other popular characters) and the slightly repetitive storylines were getting in the way of the show's feel.
Awards
Episodes
Weakest Link Special Episode
On 9 August 2001, a special episode of The Weakest Link featuring the actors from Blue Heelers went to air. The results were as follows:
Note that the following are regarding the contestant, not the contestant the contestant votes against:
Red indicates the contestant was the weakest link
Lime indicates the contestant was the strongest lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%209%29 | The ninth season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 13 February 2002 and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:30 pm. The 40-episode season concluded 20 November 2002.
Casting
Main cast for this season consisted of:
John Wood as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon [full season]
Julie Nihill as Christine 'Chris' Riley [full season]
Martin Sacks as Senior Detective Patrick Joseph 'P.J.' Hasham [full season]
Paul Bishop as Senior Constable Benjamin 'Ben' Stewart [full season]
Jane Allsop as Constable Jo Parrish [full season]
Caroline Craig as Sergeant Tess Gallagher [full season]
Ditch Davey as Constable Evan Jones [full season]
Notable guest actors this season included Ailsa Piper, Alan David Lee, John Orcsik, Leslie Dayman, Margot Knight, Justine Saunders, Jane Badler, Elspeth Ballantyne, Peter Sumner, Shaunna O'Grady, Kate Jason, Alethea McGrath, Marg Downey, Monica Maughan, Lois Collinder and Annie Jones.
Reception
the show really started to decline around this season from its usual 2.5 million down to 1.9 million and it continues to decrease
Awards
Episodes
DVD release
Season 9 Parts 1 and 2 was released on 3 November 2009.
References
General
Zuk, T. Blue Heelers: 2002 episode guide, Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
TV.com editors. Blue Heelers Episode Guide - Season 9, TV.com. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
Specific
Blue Heelers seasons
2002 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%2010%29 | The tenth season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 12 February 2003 and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:30 PM. The 42-episode season concluded 26 November 2003.
Casting
Main cast for this season consisted of:
John Wood as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon [full season]
Julie Nihill as Christine 'Chris' Riley [full season]
Martin Sacks as Senior Detective Patrick Joseph 'P.J.' Hasham [full season]
Paul Bishop as Senior Constable → Acting Sergeant Benjamin 'Ben' Stewart [full season]
Jane Allsop as Constable Jo Parrish [full season]
Caroline Craig as Sergeant Tess Gallagher [until episode 407]
Ditch Davey as Constable Evan 'Jonesy' Jones [full season]
Simone McAullay as Constable Susie Raynor [from episode 409]
Guest actors this season included Betty Bobbitt, Robert Grubb, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Richard Cawthorne, Lisa Crittenden, Maggie Millar, Betty Lucas, Paul Mercurio, Lynda Gibson, Ian Rawlings, Colette Mann, Ernie Bourne, Lyndel Rowe and Andrew Clarke.
Reception
The show was at an all-time low rating, down from 1.9 million–1.7 million, and the director and producers are thinking about a revamp.
Awards
Episodes
DVD release
Season 10 Parts 1 and 2 was released on 4 May 2010.
References
General
Zuk, T. Blue Heelers: 2003 episode guide, Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
TV.com editors. Blue Heelers Episode Guide - Season 10, TV.com. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
Specific
Blue Heelers seasons
2003 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%2011%29 | The eleventh season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 4 February 2004 and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:30 PM. The 39-episode season concluded 5 November 2004.
Overview
The programme suffered along with the Seven Networks as a whole; its ratings in a dire state. 2004 became the year in which the producers took a radical approach to shake-up their show. The 39-episode 11th season saw the programme start the year closer to the wrong end of the weekly top 50 - and sometimes out of it altogether. However, when storylines heated up towards June/July - the numbers did too - and the programme enjoyed an amicable ratings performance thereon in 2005.
On 21 April 2004 Blue Heelers aired a special event: a live episode. While Paul Bishop did not appear due to film commitments, this theatre-esque event drew large ratings and was the first step made in attempting to draw viewers back to the show. The broadcast hit nearly 1.6 million viewers in April, helping Seven to narrowly win the No. 1 spot for the night; but it failed to resurrect the numbers for the show as Seven had hoped.
This was followed by the overhaul of the show. Its 440th episode, "End of Innocence", aired on 6 July 2004 and saw a new family in town being suspected of ghastly crimes. The Baxter family terrorised Clancy, Jo, Tom and Grace, and shortly thereafter the terror became reality when the station was blown up and Clancy and Jo were killed. Soon after, Grace was found raped and murdered.
Nick Schultz, now in Homicide, returned to investigate, and soon learned that Tom had changed as a result of these events, and was now much harsher and determined to gain vengeance on the Baxters. Four new cops arrived on the scene - the smart Detective Senior Constable Amy Fox, family man Sergeant Mark Jacobs, and ambitious rival trainees, Probationary Constables Kelly O'Rourke and Joss Peroni (whose birthdays just happen to be on the same day). In episode 445, "Checkmate", Barry Baxter was sent to jail for the terror attacks, and Nick departed Mount Thomas leaving his colleagues to face their new situation. The ratings picked up significantly during this time.
In the final episodes of the season, a series of attempts on Tom's life saw him suspect Tarni Baxter (Melissa Andersen), the jailed Baxter's daughter. Although there was no proof against her, the closing moments of the season finale saw a crazy-with-rage Tom attempting to drown Tarni in a river.
While some critics and fans were concerned at the new soap opera style that Blue Heelers had embraced, ratings remained high for the rest of the season.this season saw the old opening credits be taken out in order to put the new version with a whole new modern tone for the start of season 11 and 12,13
Main cast
Guest actors included Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Nicki Paull, Bernard Curry, Lesley Baker, Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Danny Adcock, Alan Hopgood, Daniela Duspara, Frankie J. Holden, Simon Westaway, Luke Hems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Heelers%20%28season%2012%29 | The Twelfth season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 2 February 2005 and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:30 PM. The 42-episode season concluded Wednesday 16 November 2005 with a double episode.
Casting
The season also saw the departure of Geoff Morrell and Martin Sacks, who chose to take time off to spend with their families. Sacks's departure left Julie Nihill and John Wood as the only remaining original cast members; and the only cast members to have been on this show since before 2001.
Main cast for this season consisted of:
John Wood as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon [full season]
Julie Nihill as Christine 'Chris' Riley [full season]
Martin Sacks as Senior Detective Patrick Joseph 'P.J.' Hasham [until Episode 484]
Ditch Davey as Constable --> Senior Constable/Detective Evan 'Jonesy' Jones [full season]
Simone McAullay as Constable --> Senior Constable Susie Raynor [full season]
Rachel Gordon as Senior Detective Amy Fox [full season]
Samantha Tolj as Constable Kelly O'Rourke [full season]
Danny Raco as Constable Joss Peroni [full season]
Charlie Clausen as Leading Senior Constable/Acting Sergeant Alex Kirby [from Episode 461]
Geoff Morrell as Sergeant Mark Jacobs [until Episode 489]
Matthew Holmes as Constable Matt Graham [from Episode 490]
Guest actors included Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Val Jellay, John Brumpton, Joy Westmore, Pepe Trevor, Margot Knight, Tracy Mann, Danny Adcock, Paul Dawber, Lynette Curran, Elspeth Ballantyne, Alethea McGrath. and Michael Falzon,
Reception
While the first half of the season, with several high-profile guest stars, maintained the high ratings of the previous season; the second half of the year - which saw the show up against ratings success House saw a decrease in ratings, as well as a gradual mixing of critical reaction, which had initially proved mostly positive.
Awards
2005 Australian Film Institute Awards
Nominee: Best Television Drama Series
2005 Logie Awards
Winner: Most Popular Actor (John Wood)
Nominee: Most Popular Actress (Jane Allsop)
Nominee: Most Popular Personality (John Wood)
Nominee: Most Popular Australian Drama Series
Nominee: Most Popular New Female Talent (Rachel Gordon)
Nominee: Most Popular New Female Talent (Samantha Tolj)
After its revamp in 2004, Blue Heelers actresses Rachel Gordon and Samantha Tolj were both nominated for Most Popular New Female Talent; although neither actually won the award. Blue Heelers veteran, John Wood, won the award for Most Popular Actor.
Episodes
DVD release
Season Twelve of Blue Heelers was released on Thursday, 4 November 2010
References
General
Zuk, T. Blue Heelers: 2005 episode guide, Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
TV.com editors. Blue Heelers Episode Guide - Season 13, TV.com. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
Specific
Blue Heelers seasons
2005 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based%20SSH | Web-based SSH is the provision of Secure Shell (SSH) access through a web browser. SSH is a secure network protocol that is commonly used to remotely control servers, network devices, and other devices. With web-based SSH, users can access and manage these devices using a standard web browser, without the need to install any additional software.
Web-based SSH clients are typically implemented using JavaScript and either Ajax or WebSockets. These clients communicate with the SSH server through a proxy, which allows them to bypass firewalls and other network security measures that may block SSH traffic. This makes web-based SSH a convenient and secure way to access remote servers and devices from any location with an internet connection.
Web-based SSH is useful for a variety of purposes, including system administration, network management, and remote development. It is often used by IT professionals and developers to remotely access and manage servers, as well as by individuals who need to access their home or office computers from a remote location.
Technology
Web-based SSH clients are applications that allow users to access Secure Shell (SSH) servers through a web browser. They consist of two main parts: a client-side component, which is typically implemented using JavaScript and dynamic HTML, and a server-side or web application component, which is typically implemented on an application server.
The client-side component captures keystrokes, transmits messages to and from the server, and displays the results in the user's web browser. The server-side component processes incoming requests and forwards keyboard events to a secure shell client that communicates with the connected SSH server. Terminal output is either passed to the client, where it is converted into HTML using JavaScript, or it is translated into HTML by the server before it is transmitted to the client.
Terminal emulation
Web-based SSH servers can use either client-side or server-side terminal emulation.
Client-side terminal emulation
Client-side terminal emulation transmits the raw terminal output from the SSH server directly to the client, which has the advantage of offloading the process of translating terminal output into HTML onto the client. However, it can be limited by the capabilities of JavaScript and can use a significant amount of the client's CPU and memory.
An example of a client-side terminal emulator is vt100.js.
Server-side terminal emulation
Server-side terminal emulation keeps track of the terminal screen and state in memory and converts it to HTML when a screen update occurs or when the client requests an update. This method has the advantage of keeping the state of the terminal persistent even if the user connects to their existing session from a different web browser, but it can use more CPU and memory on the server.
An example of a server-side terminal emulator is terminal.py.
Advantages
The main advantages of web-based SSH can be summarized as foll |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers%20of%20London | Rivers of London may refer to
Blue Ribbon Network, a policy element of the London Plan relating to the navigable waterways of London
Rivers of London (novel), a 2011 urban fantasy novel by Ben Aaronovitch
Rivers of London (book series) - the series
Subterranean rivers of London
See also
:Category:Rivers of London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict%20Smith | Benedict Smith is a disc jockey who presented The Saturday Show on the KMFM network and breakfast on KMFM Maidstone and KMFM West Kent before being made redundant in March 2012 following the arrival of the county-wide KMFM networked breakfast show. He formerly presented The Big Drive Home on Hertbeat FM every weekday between 4-8pm before it became a franchise of Jack FM. Before that he did mid-mornings at Q103 and weekend breakfast at Kent's Invicta FM).
Through the years he has freelanced for numerous Global Radio stations such as Heart Cambridgeshire.
References
External links
Smith's website
British radio DJs
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC-Council | EC-Council is a cybersecurity certification, education, training, and services company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
History
Jay Bavisi is the Founder of EC-Council Holding Pte Ltd, the parent company of all of EC-Council Group of Companies. The first organization of the group, International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) was founded in 2001 in response to the September 11 attacks to certify professionals who could protect against attacks on electronic commerce.
EQT Private Equity invested in EC-Council in September 2021 EC-Council is the creator of popular certification programs such as CEH, CHFI, ECSA/LPT and the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) program for white hat hackers in 2003. EC-Council became a certifier of training courses and exams instead of founding entirely new schools, mobilizing entrepreneurs in the information security training business. CEH courses were offered in more than 60 countries by 2007, and the program expanded rapidly.
As of 2023, the CEH certification is part of the possible certifications to some cyber-security functions within the United States Department of Defense, as part of its Directive 8140.
In 2010, the EC-Council part of the organisations selected by the Pentagon to oversee training of Department of Defense employees who work in computer security-related jobs.
Controversies, shortcomings and plagiarism
In May 2006, the website of the EC-Council was defaced, and again in 2014, restored, then defaced, again, due to password reuse. The attacker managed to exfiltrate sensitive data like passport pictures from the applicants, including notably Edward Snowden's.
On at least two instances, the EC-Council's website has also been prone to Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. In June of 2011, two vulnerabilities where discovered on, both on the "portal" subdomain. An additional vulnerability was found in May 2013.
During 2011, an EC-Council employee has been using comments spam to advertise the Certified Ethical Hacker certification. This was called a "fictional theory" by Jay Bavisi, President of EC-Council, despite evidences proving otherwise.
The EC-Council has also been holding sexist discourse on several occasions:
In 2015, writing that "women should wear pants suit with heels" to be credible when doing pentesting.
In 2021, publishing a survey about the challenges faced by women in cybersecurity, with "Only men can do this job" and "Women can't handle this job" and "women aren't encouraged enough" as sole possible answers, and explaining that "the post cannot be sexist coming from all women teams".
In March 2016, the website of the EC-Council was serving the Angler exploit kit. It took several days for the issue to be resolved.
In 2021, the EC-Council took its entire blog down due to apparent systematic copyright violations and plagiarism conducted by its marketing team.
Certifications
EC-Council offers professional certifications for the IT security field, such as Ce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Millennium" is the fourth episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on November 28, 1999. It was written by Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz and directed by Thomas J. Wright. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Millennium" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.1, and was watched by 15.09 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed reviews from television critics; some felt that the episode's plot was creepy and engaging, while others felt that it was not a decent conclusion for the Millennium television series.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, an associate of the Millennium Group—a secret society which believes the apocalypse will happen on the new year of 2000—resurrects the dead for use in bringing about the apocalypse. As a result, Mulder and Scully have to ask the help of criminal profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a man who has former experience with the shadowy group, for assistance.
The episode serves as a crossover with the series Millennium, also developed by the creator of The X-Files, Chris Carter, and was meant to bring closure to the recently cancelled series. The writers had a difficult time coming up with a story that would successfully allow Frank Black and Mulder and Scully to cross paths. Lance Henriksen later expressed disappointment with the episode. The idea to use zombies had originally been slated to appear in an aborted project X-Files remake of George A. Romero's cult 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead. In addition, the episode is notable because it features the first romantic kiss between Mulder and Scully, described as "inevitable" by one critic. Thematically, the episode has been analyzed for its use of Biblical quotes from the Gospel of John and the Book of Revelation.
Plot
Background
Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), the protagonist of the series Millennium, is a freelance forensic profiler and former FBI agent who possesses the unique ability to see the world through the eyes of serial killers and murderers. For the first two seasons of the show, Black worked for a mysterious consulting firm known as the Millennium Group. He lived in Seattle with his wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher) and daughter Jordan (Brittany Tiplady). During the first season, Black and the Group largely focused on various criminals. However, during the second and third seasons, Black began coming into conflict with the Group, which appeared to contain demonic elements and was focused on the fulfillment of apocalyptic biblical prophecy at the start of the new millennium. During the third season, Frank returned to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation%20System%20Performance%20Metrics | Aviation System Performance Metrics (ASPM) is an FAA database of the National Airspace System, a part of FAA Operations & Performance Data.
Data Description
ASPM data fall into two categories, airport data and individual flight data. Airport data give airport capacity and throughput for every 15 minutes, and individual flight data give each airport's individual flight's scheduled and actual gate departure time, runway departure time, runway arrival time and gate arrival time, etc.
Comprehensiveness
ASPM contains information operated flights only, which means that canceled flights are not in ASPM. ASPM contains domestic flights only. ASPM is more comprehensive than BTS database maintained by Department Of Transportation(DOT).
Accessibility
ASPM is not public available. A login is required and can be requested with a legitimate reason. Once a user has a login, he can access ASPM data through GUI or download raw data in DBF format.
External links
Official website of FAA ASPM database
FAA ASPM System Overview
Federal Aviation Administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerdcore%20Rising%20%28film%29 | Nerdcore Rising is a documentary/concert film starring MC Frontalot and other nerdcore hip hop artists such as mc chris, Wheelie Cyberman of Optimus Rhyme and MC Lars, with contributors from artists such as "Weird Al" Yankovic, Prince Paul, and Brian Posehn.
The film, directed and produced by Negin Farsad, was premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. It combines interviews about nerdcore and its origins with footage of MC Frontalot's 2006 Nerdcore Rising national tour.
Film content
The film investigates the nerdcore genre of hip-hop music, following the godfather of the genre, MC Frontalot, on his first national tour.
Beginning in South Carolina and culminating at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, masses of fans across the country come out to hear Frontalot's music as he strives to achieve mainstream success.
Behind the scenes, relationships among Frontalot and his band are challenged by their experiences on the road. Frontalot and keyboard player Gaby Alter, a.k.a. G Minor 7, are childhood friends, and both met bass guitarist Brandon Patton, a.k.a. Blak Lotus, in college. Strugis, the drummer, tries to fit in as the new member and Brandon, the so-called flirt of the band, is a taskmaster in Sturgis.
Throughout the film, music industry notables provide insight into Nerdcore. Old school trailblazers like Prince Paul and contemporary hip hop aficionados like J-Live examine the legitimacy of nerdcore as a subgenre of hip hop. Celebrities like "Weird Al" Yankovic discuss the origins of nerdcore while Penny Arcade creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins expound on the digital revolution that is enabling the nerdcore movement.
MC Frontalot strives to live in a world where nerdcore is a real genre of hip-hop and where other MCs take him seriously.
DVD release
The DVD of Nerdcore Rising was sold in limited release in August 2008. It was sold for the first time at the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. It was released widely on 15 September 2009.
References
External links
2008 films
American documentary films
Documentary films about hip hop music and musicians
Nerdcore
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrashMail | TrashMail is a free disposable e-mail address service created in 2002 by Stephan Ferraro, a computer science student at Epitech Paris which belongs now to Ferraro Ltd. The service provides temporary email addresses that can be abandoned if they start receiving email spam. It mainly forwards emails to a real hidden email address.
Description
TrashMail receives emails and forwards them to a real hidden email address. On account creation there is the option to set a number of total forwards and a date when the disposable email expires. For each forwarded email the counter is decreased by 1. When the counter reaches 0 or the date limit is expired then the temporary email address will be deleted.
After the temporary email address is deleted, any incoming email is rejected by the SMTP code 550 5.1.1. TrashMail also provides a free open-source add-on for Mozilla Firefox available from the official store. The email registration and community forum are provided by HTTPS (SSL over HTTP) access to protect privacy. Additionally the SMTP server communication has TLS enabled by default.
As many spammers rely on harvested email addresses, the best method of avoiding spam is not to publish one's real email address. By providing a temporary address, TrashMail allows users to protect their real email.
Extras
TrashMail differs from other disposable email address services in its possibility to use the Challenge-Response System for each free disposable email address. Additionally, it provides real-time spam stats on its main page. It is possible to verify the current incoming spam amount on this site.
Software
TrashMail can be used via the web. However an API is provided and documented on the forum which explains how to write custom software to use for the free service. A Mozilla Firefox add-on for the service is available.
References
External links
Mozilla Firefox add-on
Webmail
Anti-spam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress%20in%20artificial%20intelligence | Progress in artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the advances, milestones, and breakthroughs that have been achieved in the field of artificial intelligence over time. AI is a multidisciplinary branch of computer science that aims to create machines and systems capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. Artificial intelligence applications have been used in a wide range of fields including medical diagnosis, economic-financial applications, robot control, law, scientific discovery, video games, and toys. However, many AI applications are not perceived as AI: "A lot of cutting edge AI has filtered into general applications, often without being called AI because once something becomes useful enough and common enough it's not labeled AI anymore." "Many thousands of AI applications are deeply embedded in the infrastructure of every industry." In the late 1990s and early 21st century, AI technology became widely used as elements of larger systems, but the field was rarely credited for these successes at the time.
Kaplan and Haenlein structure artificial intelligence along three evolutionary stages: 1) artificial narrow intelligence – applying AI only to specific tasks; 2) artificial general intelligence – applying AI to several areas and able to autonomously solve problems they were never even designed for; and 3) artificial super intelligence – applying AI to any area capable of scientific creativity, social skills, and general wisdom.
To allow comparison with human performance, artificial intelligence can be evaluated on constrained and well-defined problems. Such tests have been termed subject matter expert Turing tests. Also, smaller problems provide more achievable goals and there are an ever-increasing number of positive results.
Humans still substantially outperform both GPT-4 and models trained on the ConceptARC benchmark that scored 60% on most, and 77% on one category, while humans 91% on all and 97% on one category.
Current performance
There are many useful abilities that can be described as showing some form of intelligence. This gives better insight into the comparative success of artificial intelligence in different areas.
AI, like electricity or the steam engine, is a general-purpose technology. There is no consensus on how to characterize which tasks AI tends to excel at. Some versions of Moravec's paradox observe that humans are more likely to outperform machines in areas such as physical dexterity that have been the direct target of natural selection. While projects such as AlphaZero have succeeded in generating their own knowledge from scratch, many other machine learning projects require large training datasets. Researcher Andrew Ng has suggested, as a "highly imperfect rule of thumb", that "almost anything a typical human can do with less than one second of mental thought, we can probably now or in the near future automate using AI."
Games provide a high-profile benchmark for assessing rates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSN%20%28disambiguation%29 | PSN is the PlayStation Network, an online service for Sony PlayStation game consoles.
PSN may also refer to:
Computing
Processor Serial Number, unique to each Intel Pentium III microprocessor
Public Services Network, unified UK government network
Participatory Sensor Network, a sensor network with voluntary participation of users
Packet Switched Network, a digital networking communications method
Transport
Palm Springs (Amtrak station), California, United States, Amtrak station code PSN
Parson Street railway station, England, National Rail station code PSN
Puget Sound Navigation Company, Washington, US
Politics
Partido de la Sociedad Nacionalista, a political party in Mexico
Partido Solidaridad Nacional, a political party in Guatemala
Project Safe Neighborhoods, US DoJ initiative against gun violence
Other uses
Placental site nodule, a benign remnant of a previous pregnancy
Prime Sports Network, a defunct group of regional sports networks
PSN Ngada, an Indonesian football club
P. S. Narayanaswamy, Indian singer
PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), an Indonesian private company dedicated to telecommunications (PSN-6) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holt%20railway%20station | Holt railway station was a railway station, since closed and dismantled, that served the town of Holt in Norfolk, England. It was part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway network, which spread over much of East Anglia, providing connections to Cromer, Norwich and Yarmouth. Closed in 1964, there are proposals to rebuild the line through the locality as part of an orbital railway scheme.
History
Construction
In 1880 and 1881, the Lynn & Fakenham Railway obtained successive Acts of Parliament authorising the construction of a line north from its Melton Constable station as far as Kelling Heath where it would fork: one branch heading to the north-west to reach the fishing port of Blakeney, whilst the second would proceed to the north-east to reach the coastal village of Sheringham and then Cromer. A new company – the Eastern & Midlands Railway – was formed to build the line. Construction began in April 1883 and later that year the rails had reached Holt, five miles from Melton Constable, but work on the station and yard did not begin until much later. Holt was to remain the line's northern terminus and only station until 1887 when it finally reached Cromer. The line to Blakeney was never built due to doubts over its viability.
Station building
The original 1884 building consisted of little more than a sleeper platform and basic wooden buildings. Upon the completion of the line to Cromer, more durable buildings – most likely designed by William Marriott – were built; these included a brick-built main station building of typical Midland and Great Northern (M&GN) design, with a central block and two projecting gabled cross wings – the central portion being set back slightly to form a loggia for passengers on the down platform. A wooden waiting shelter was erected on the up platform with a saw-tooth canopy. The original wooden station building later became a 'reading room' at Melton Constable station. Holt station was destroyed by fire in 1926 and a concrete replacement was built.
Decline and closure
When most of the former M&GN railway lines were closed in 1959, the branch through Holt remained open until 1964.
Following closure of the line between Melton Constable and Sheringham, the station buildings at Holt were demolished and part of the trackbed subsequently reused to construct part of the A148 Holt bypass. In 1965 a company known as Central Norfolk Enterprises (which changed its name to the North Norfolk Railway (NNR)) attempted to purchase the trackbed, but was rebuffed by Norfolk County Council which wished to proceed with the road scheme. The NNR did manage to restore the line between Sheringham and Weybourne and, in 1987, opened a replacement Holt station on the edge of the town. The NNR also salvaged Holt's original signal box which was relocated to Weybourne.
Present and future
The proposed Norfolk Orbital Railway could provide Holt with a regular railway service again. It would link Sheringham and Wymondham together, u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava%20Vitali | Ava Vitali is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. Created by and introduced by then-executive producers Ken Corday and Edward J. Scott, the role is portrayed by Tamara Braun, who won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role in 2009. Introduced as a "mysterious woman from Steve's past," Ava was later revealed as a woman from a Mafia family. Ava appeared for six months in 2008, and returned in December 2015 for a three-month guest appearance. Following a brief voice appearance in 2017, Ava returned to the show on a regular basis in November 2020. She departed again on December 20, 2022 and returned on August 8, 2023
Casting
In January 2008, it was announced that Tamara Braun, best known as the second actress to portray the character of Carly Corinthos on the ABC Daytime drama, General Hospital, had been cast. The casting of Braun originally brought up fan speculation that she would be coming in as previous established character, Sarah Horton, daughter of veteran character, Maggie Horton. This speculation was quickly put to rest when it was announced that Braun would join as Ava. Braun originally aired for 6 months from February 8 to August 4, 2008. Following the completion of her run as Ava, it was announced in September 2008 that Braun would join All My Children as Reese Williams, current girlfriend of the show's iconic Bianca Montgomery. Braun went on to win a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Ava.
Braun later returned to Days of our Lives in the role of Taylor Walker, replacing her former General Hospital co-star Natalia Livingston.
In July 2015, it was announced that Braun is reprising the role of Ava, as part of the show's fiftieth anniversary celebration, first airing on December 9. Braun departed on March 1, 2016.
Actress Sara Fletcher voiced Ava one episode in 2017, airing April 10. On September 2, 2020, Soap Opera Digest exclusively announced that Braun would again reprise the role of Ava. She returned during the November 13, 2020, episode.
Storylines
2008
Ava first appears in early February 2008, stalking Steve Johnson – a man she calls "Patch" – and the Brady family with whom he is traveling with in Ireland. Obsessed with Steve, she continues to stalk the hotel where he was residing. In an attempt to delay Steve and the rest of the Brady family's departure from Ireland, she sabotages their plane. Her plan, however, goes wrong when the plane began experiencing problems in mid-air, causing the death of Brady patriarch Shawn Brady. After following Steve back to Salem, she sees him hug Hope Williams Brady outside of Steve's apartment door. She then interrogates Hope, asking if she was in love with Steve. Scared off by Hope, Ava immediately leaves the grounds. Ava then runs into Steve, promising to exact her revenge against him and his family for leaving her without a goodbye. Looking at photos of the crash victims, she stops at Hope's, wondering who |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHI%20Academy | The CHI Academy is a group of researchers honored by SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group in Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery. Each year, 5–8 new members are elected for having made a significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the
field of human–computer interaction and have influenced the research of others.
Inductees by year
Here are the inductees into the CHI Academy by year:
See also
List of computer science awards
References
External links
SIGCHI Awards
Association for Computing Machinery
Computer science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Grinter | Rebecca Elizabeth "Beki" Grinter is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). She is affiliated with the RIM@GT, the GVU Center and the Scheller College of Business. Grinter's research lies generally in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). She has chaired and published papers in top-tier academic conferences in these fields. Her research and expert opinion on technology have also been reported in major news media sources.
Biography
Early life and education
Grinter was born in Norwich, England, UK, and attended the City of Norwich School and Hethersett High School. She pursued undergraduate studies at the University of Leeds, graduating in 1991 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science. Following this, Grinter received an EPSRC fellowship to study at the University of California, Irvine, where she earned a M.S. (1994) and a Ph.D. (1996), both in Information and Computer Science. As a graduate student, Grinter was influenced by David Parnas, whose work in software engineering spoke to Grinter's burgeoning interest in the relationship between humans and software. Grinter's dissertation, titled, "Understanding Dependencies: A Study of the Coordination Challenges in Software Development", was chaired by Jonathan Grudin.
Research career
Upon receiving her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, Grinter worked at Bell Labs in Naperville, Illinois as a Technical Staff Member from 1996 to 2000. She then left Bell Labs to accept a position as a Research Staff Member at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) from 2000 to 2004. At PARC, Grinter supervised a study of iTunes use in the workplace whose results were reported in The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other major news outlets. One of the study's contributions was to show that "playlist anxiety" occurs in the workplace and not only in collegiate settings. In 2004, Grinter transitioned from industrial to academic research and joined the faculty of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech as an associate professor. At Georgia Tech, she founded and currently directs the Work2Play Lab in the GVU Center. In 2006, Grinter served as the Research Papers Co-chair for CHI, the most prestigious academic conference in the field of HCI. Her research and expert opinion on technology have been reported in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, MSNBC, and CNN.
Research interests
Grinter's research lies generally in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). Her earlier work dealt with the challenges of distributed software engineering, while her more recent work has focused on HCI, CSCW, and ubiquitous computing applications beyond the workplace, including instant messaging and SMS usage among teenagers, museum visitor behavior, technologies for religion, and domestic computing opportunities. Grinter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory%20McFarlane | Rory Mcfarlane is a British session musician who has also written scores for anime and games. He is probably best known for his score to the influential anime series Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990–1991). He also composed a score for a game called Buichi Terasawa's "Takeru: Letter of the Law" in 1996.
Other than scoring, he has had a much more prolific career as a session musician for Richard Thompson's band, playing electric and standing bass.
References
External links
A picture of him
Rory McFarlane at Mobygames
Rory McFarlane at Last.fm
Year of birth missing (living people)
Anime composers
British bass guitarists
British film score composers
British male film score composers
British session musicians
British television composers
Living people
Male bass guitarists
Male television composers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Pittsburgh%20Epidemiology%20Data%20Center | The Epidemiology Data Center (EDC) is recognized as an official University Center at the University of Pittsburgh; and is part of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. The EDC was formed in 1980 by Katherine M. Detre, M.D., Dr.P.H., and is currently under the co-direction of Maria Mori Brooks, Ph.D., Steven H. Belle, Ph.D. and Stephen R. Wisniewski, Ph.D.
Overview
The EDC has been involved in over 120 research projects sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. Existing studies include a scientific assortment such as registries, case control studies, and clinical trials.
The center includes 70 full-time staff, 21 faculty, and 23 part-time and student employees. Faculty and staff cover a variety of educational backgrounds, and different fields of knowledge together with biostatisticians, applied mathematical statisticians, epidemiologists, physicians, programmers, data managers, systems analysts, data entry employees, and administrative personnel.
The EDC offers IT and network services for internal & external departments or organizations within the University district. Services include: Local Area Network, Server Administration, Software, Technical & Computer Support, VAX/VMS Time Sharing, Web/Media and Information Technology services.
The Epidemiology Data Center is located at 4420 Bayard Street, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
Current research
LITES – Linking Investigations in Trauma and Emergency Services: The Linking Investigations in Trauma and Emergency Services (LITES) is a research network of US trauma systems and centers with the capability to conduct prospective, multicenter, injury care and outcomes research of relevance to the Department of Defense (DOD).
MINT – Myocardial Ischemia and Transfusion: MINT is a multicenter randomized clinical trial comparing red blood cell transfusion strategies for patients who have had a myocardial infarction and are anemic. The trial will enroll 3500 hospitalized patients diagnosed with myocardial infarction who are anemic (have blood counts less than 10 g/dL) to receive either a liberal or a restrictive transfusion strategy.
PTC – Pulmonary Trials Cooperative: The Pulmonary Trials Cooperative brings together research protocol leaders, clinical centers, and research participants to develop new treatments and test existing clinical management strategies.
Vit-D-Kids – Vitamin D Kids Asthma: This study will determine whether vitamin D3 helps to prevent severe asthma attacks in asthmatic children who are being treated with inhaled corticosteroids. Results from prior studies suggest that vitamin D reduces the risk of severe asthma attacks and that this protective effect may be due to immune modulation of viral illnesses or increased response to inhaled corticosteroids.
SCD-CARRE – Sickle Cell Disease and CardiovAscular Risk - Red cell Exchange Trial: The Sickle Cell Disease and Cardiovascular Risk—Red Ce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Neuro%20Linguistic%20Programming | The Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming (ANLP) is a UK organisation founded in 1985 by Frank Kevlin to promote neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). Since 2005, it has been led by Karen Moxom.
The ANLP publishes Rapport, a quarterly magazine, and has hosted NLP conferences. It was a member organisation of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) until 2002, when the role was taken over by its daughter organization, the Neuro Linguistic Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (NLPtCA). The NLPtCA is a founder member of the European Association for Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy, a European wide accrediting organisation (EWAO) for NLPt within the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP).
Notes
External links
Official website
Neuro-linguistic programming
Companies established in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer%20chess%20matches | This article documents the progress of significant human–computer chess matches.
Chess computers were first able to beat strong chess players in the late 1980s. Their most famous success was the victory of Deep Blue over then World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, but there was some controversy over whether the match conditions favored the computer.
In 2002–2003, three human–computer matches were drawn, but, whereas Deep Blue was a specialized machine, these were chess programs running on commercially available computers.
Chess programs running on commercially available desktop computers won decisive victories against human players in matches in 2005 and 2006. The second of these, against then world champion Vladimir Kramnik is (as of ) the last major human-computer match.
Since that time, chess programs running on commercial hardware—more recently including mobile phones—have been able to defeat even the strongest human players.
MANIAC (1956)
In 1956 MANIAC, developed at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, became the first computer to defeat a human in a chess-like game. Playing with the simplified Los Alamos rules, it defeated a novice in 23 moves.
Mac Hack VI (1966–1968)
In 1966 MIT student Richard Greenblatt wrote the chess program Mac Hack VI using MIDAS macro assembly language on a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-6 computer with 16K of memory. Mac Hack VI evaluated 10 positions per second.
In 1967, several MIT students and professors (organized by Seymour Papert) challenged Dr. Hubert Dreyfus to play a game of chess against Mac Hack VI. Dreyfus, a professor of philosophy at MIT, wrote the book What Computers Can’t Do, questioning the computer's ability to serve as a model for the human brain. He also asserted that no computer program could defeat even a 10-year-old child at chess. Dreyfus accepted the challenge. Herbert A. Simon, an artificial intelligence pioneer, watched the game. He said, "it was a wonderful game—a real cliffhanger between two woodpushers with bursts of insights and fiendish plans ... great moments of drama and disaster that go in such games." The computer was beating Dreyfus when he found a move which could have captured the enemy queen. The only way the computer could get out of this was to keep Dreyfus in checks with its own queen until it could fork the queen and king, and then exchange them. That is what the computer did. Soon, Dreyfus was losing. Finally, the computer checkmated Dreyfus in the middle of the board.
In the spring of 1967, Mac Hack VI played in the Boston Amateur championship, winning two games and drawing two games. Mac Hack VI beat a 1510 United States Chess Federation player. This was the first time a computer won a game in a human tournament. At the end of 1968, Mac Hack VI achieved a rating of 1529. The average rating in the USCF was near 1500.
Chess x.x (1968–1978)
In 1968, Northwestern University students Larry Atkin, David Slate and Keith Gorlen began work on Chess (Northwestern |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hareport | Hareport is a computer-animated television series produced by France's independent TeamTO, with the support of the Centre National de la Cinématographie. It is distributed by Cake Entertainment. The series was first proposed at 2006's Cartoon Forum. It is also made by Filmwerken and Vivi Film. The English dub was done by Big Yellow Duck.
The show's main characters are Ned and Fred, two hares who decide to build an international airport on their own garden after discovering that all animals can finally fly.
Hareport was selected for the 2010 International Chicago Children Film Festival.
Characters
Ned: Ned is the average lazy, partying and unmotivated brother of Fred. He runs the check-in counter but frequently takes breaks. Like Fred, they both share a love for Cookie. He also dozes off and likes to always have a fun time than work all the time. Voiced by Gary Mack.
Fred: Fred is a tall, skinny and red furred hare. He's very responsible, and is the complete opposite of his brother Ned. Fred holds the management in the airport. He and Ned frequently get into quarrels but they always realize how much it brings them closer. Voiced by Eric Gutman.
Cookie: Cookie is a female pink squirrel, and is charming as well as beautiful. She is the operator of the control tower and changes her voice to that of a mature woman over the voice box. Boris is also her adoptive brother. Cookie is the desire of Ned and Fred's romantic dreams. Voiced by Kether Donohue.
Boris: Boris is a large, friendly bear and also the adoptive brother of Cookie (whom he is very protective of). He is the clerk of the souvenir shop which sells anything to do with the airport and its staff. Voiced by Mike Pollock.
Moppet: Moppet is the youngest of the staff and is an intern of the airport. He is very quick and very responsible in order to prove he is the best worker of the entire staff. He being young and naive is often following Ned and Fred's orders (even if they are ridiculous). He works in various jobs of the airport, but is mostly seen as the handler of the traveler's suitcases. Voiced by Rebecca Kupka.
Hughes: Hughes is an elder wolf and the oldest of the entire staff. Being old, he has bad eyesight and everything else that comes to being an old person. He runs the airport's lounge and serves various drinks to anyone who approaches the counter. He also gives advice to settle all the disputes that often come someone's way in which he unexpectedly walks into. Voiced by Gary Mack.
Baboon: Baboon is the airport's mechanic, and he is often seen fixing anything that is broken. In addition, he also tries to upgrade things which usually turn out for better or worse, although they usually end up hurting someone. For a short time, he was the full owner of the airport. Voiced by Gary Mack.
The Crow Sisters: The Crow Sisters are a trio of crows lining up in different sizes, they are never seen separated and are always found together, squashed in a tight bunch. They are the cleaners o |
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