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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters%20per%20line | In typography and computing, characters per line (CPL) or terminal width refers to the maximal number of monospaced characters that may appear on a single line. It is similar to line length in typesetting.
History
The limit of the line length in 70–80 characters may well have originated from various technical limitations of various equipment. The American teletypewriters could type only 72 CPL, while the British ones even less, 70 CPL. In the era of typewriters, most designs of the typewriter carriage were limited to 80–90 CPL. Standard paper sizes, such as the international standard A4, also impose limitations on line length: using the US standard Letter paper size (8.5×11"), it is only possible to print a maximum of 85 or 102 characters (with the font size either 10 or 12 characters per inch) without margins on the typewriter. With various margins – usually from for each side, but there is no strict standard – these numbers may shrink to 55–78 CPL.
In computer technology, a line of an IBM punched card consisted of 80 characters. Widespread computer terminals such as DEC's VT52 and VT100 mostly followed this standard, showing 80 CPL and 24 lines. This line length was carried over into the original 80×25 text mode of the IBM PC, along with its clones and successors. To this day, virtual terminals most often display 80×24 characters.
The "long" line of 132 CPL comes from mainframes' line printers. However, some printers or printing terminals could print as many as 216 CPL, given certain extra-wide paper sizes and/or extra-narrow font sizes.
In modern computing
With the advent of desktop computing and publishing, and technologies such as TrueType used in word processing and web browsing, a uniform CPL has been made mostly obsolete. HTML (and some other modern text presentation formats) uses dynamic word wrapping which is more flexible than characters per line restriction and may produce a text block with non-rectangular shape, just like in paper typesetting.
Many plain text documents still conform to 72 CPL out of tradition (e.g., ).
In programming
Many style guides for computer programming define the maximum or desirable number of characters in a line of source code:
See also
IBM 80-column punched card format
Apple 80-Column Text Card
Column (typography)
Line length (the equivalent concept for non-monospaced text)
References
Text user interface
Typography
Typesetting
Wikipedia articles with ASCII art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren%3A%20Blood%20Curse | Siren: Blood Curse is a survival horror stealth game developed by Project Siren, a development team of Japan Studio, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The third and final installment in the Siren series, Blood Curse was released in July 2008 in Japan and on the PlayStation Store in North America and PAL regions. It was released in October 2008 in Australia and Europe and in December on the PlayStation Store in Japan.
Blood Curse is a "reimagining" of the first installment in the series, Siren, with many alterations to structure and content, along with most of the gameplay improvements introduced in Forbidden Siren 2. The game follows a cast of interconnected characters as they try to survive a cursed village in a remote area of Japan.
Gameplay
In Siren: Blood Curse, the Link Navigator from previous games is replaced by a series of twelve chronological episodes, each containing parallel and intersecting chapters for different player characters. Each chapter consists of either a cutscene or a mission, the latter being where gameplay mainly takes place.
The main gameplay of Blood Curse generally involves controlling a player character from a third-person perspective. The player must complete missions to progress the story, while evading the shibito, the game's main enemies. The series' signature "Sight Jack" ability operates in an automated split-screen mode, allowing the player to see through the eyes of others while continuing to play normally. Sight jacking is imperative to surviving in the game; the player can only discover clues to their next goal or target through this ability.
Blood Curse puts an emphasis on stealth gameplay. When the player enters a shibito's vicinity, a heartbeat-like drum will sound to warn the player. Shibito are usually found standing guard at certain points, preventing entry; or patrolling the area on a set path. Should the player get a shibito's attention, it will attack the player until the latter's death. It is possible to knock a shibito out for a small amount of time; however, it will eventually resurrect and attack again. If the player manages to successfully hide from an alerted Shibito, it may give up and resume its idle activity.
Characters are generally unarmed at the start of a mission, making them easy targets for any who see them. The player can only carry one weapon at any time. Weapons include shovels, pistols, rifles, and a katana. In some situations, the player must brace doors to prevent shibito from entering; in others, they must hide to sneak past a shibito following a patrol route.
In the Archives catalog, the player has access to audio recordings, videos, and documents collected by fulfilling certain conditions in an episode. The Archive includes a record of the weapons found throughout the game. The documents can uncover story details hinted upon in the episodes.
Synopsis
Setting and characters
Siren: Blood Curse features a cast of interconnected character |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby%20Mythographer | The anonymous Digby Mythographer was the compiler of a twelfth-century Fulgentian handbook of Greek mythology, De Natura deorum ("On the Nature of the Gods") that is conserved among the Digby Mss, collected by Sir Kenelm Digby, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. An intensely renewed interest in the classics, extending to classical mythography in Latin texts, was expressed in twelfth-century France and England, an aspect of the reviving humanism of the twelfth-century renaissance. Myth was read in allegorical mode, where the surface detail was simply the visible cloak (integumentum) of the hidden Platonic truths they bodied forth. Medieval commentaries on Boethius, Martianus Capella, Ovid, and Virgil also reached a peak during this period, under the impetus of the new cathedral schools.
The Digby Mythographer concentrated on genealogy of the gods, drawn from Ovid, and material from Statius. An edition of the text was edited by V. Brown, "An edition of an anonymous twelfth-century Liber de natura deorum", Medieval Studies 34 (1972).
See also
Vatican Mythographer
Alberic of London
Theodontius
Notes
Greek mythology
Mythographers
Bodleian Library |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution%20principle | Substitution principle can refer to several things:
Substitution principle (mathematics)
Substitution principle (sustainability)
Liskov substitution principle (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20H.%20Gregory | Peter Hart Gregory, CISA, CISSP is an American information security advisor, computer security specialist, and writer. He is the author of several books on computer security and information technology.
Biography
Peter Hart Gregory is a member of the Board of Advisors and lecturer for the NSA-certified University of Washington
Certificate in Information Security and Risk Management, a member of the Board of Advisors for the University of Washington Certificate in Cloud Transition Strategies and Management, and on the Board of Advisors and the lead instructor (emeritus) for the University of Washington Certificate in Information Systems Security. He is a founding member of the Pacific CISO Forum.
As an InfraGard member, Gregory served as an expert witness in the 2006 cybercrime case, United States vs. Christopher Maxwell.
Publications
Gregory, Peter. Solaris Security, Prentice-Hall, 1999.
Gregory, Peter. Solaris Security (Japanese Language Edition), Prentice-Hall, 1999.
Gregory, Peter. Solaris Security (Chinese Language Edition), Prentice-Hall, 1999.
Gregory, Peter. Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8 Study Guide, Prentice-Hall, 2001.
Gregory, Peter. Enterprise Information Security, Financial Times Management, 2003.
Gregory, Peter. Enterprise Information Security (Romanian Language Edition), Financial Times Management, 2003.
Gregory, Peter; Miller, Lawrence. CISSP for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Gregory, Peter; Miller, Lawrence. Security+ Certification for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Gregory, Peter. Computer Viruses for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
Gregory, Peter; Simon, Mike. Blocking Spam and Spyware for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
Gregory, Peter. VoIP Security for Dummies, Avaya Limited Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Gregory, Peter. SIP Communications for Dummies, Avaya Limited Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Gregory, Peter. Converged Network Security for Dummies, Avaya Limited Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Gregory, Peter. IP Multimedia Subsystems for Dummies, Radisys Limited Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Gregory, Peter. Midsized Communications Solutions for Dummies, Avaya Limited Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Gregory, Peter. Comunicaciones para Medianas Empresas para Dummies, Edicion Limitada de Avaya, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Gregory, Peter. Unified Communications for Dummies, Avaya Limited Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Gregory, Peter. Comunicações Unificadas, Edicao Espeçial da Avaya, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Gregory, Peter. Securing the Vista Environment, O'Reilly Media, 2007.
Gregory, Peter; Miller, Lawrence. CISSP for Dummies, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Gregory, Peter. IT Disaster Recovery Planning for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Gregory, Peter; Simon, Mike. Biometrics for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Gregory, Peter; Miller, Lawrence. SIP Communications For Dummies, Avaya 2nd Custom Edition, John Wiley & Sons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tput | In computing, tput is a standard Unix operating system command which makes use of terminal capabilities.
Depending on the system, tput uses the terminfo or termcap database, as well as looking into the environment for the terminal type.
History
Tput was provided in UNIX System V in the early 1980s. A clone of the AT&T tput was submitted to volume 7 of the mod.sources newsgroup (later comp.sources.unix) in September 1986. In contrast to the System V program, the clone used termcap rather than terminfo. It accepted command-line parameters for the cm (cursor addressing) capability, and recognized terminfo capability names.
System V Release 3 provided an improved version which combined the different initialization capabilities as a new option init, and the reset capabilities as reset, thereby simplifying use of tput for initializing or reinitializing the terminal. System V Release 3.2 added several printer-specific capabilities to the terminfo database, such as swidm (enter_doublewide_mode) which tput could use. It also added capabilities for color.
System V Release 4 defined additional terminfo capabilities including standardized ANSI color capabilities setaf and setab, which could be used by tput.
BSD platforms provided a different implementation of tput in 4.3BSD-Reno (June 1990). It used termcap, recognizing only termcap capability names, and did not accept command-line parameters for cursor-addressing. FreeBSD used this in 1994, improving it by accepting one or two numeric command-line parameters.
Ross Ridge's mytinfo package in 1992 provided a tput which accepted either termcap or terminfo capability names. Like the Reno implementation, it did not pass command-line arguments to parameterized capabilities. ncurses incorporated the mytinfo code in June 1995. The initial version added a -S option, and interpreted command-line parameters as described in the System V Release 4 documentation.
Portability
The Open Group defines one option (-T, to specify the terminal type) and three keywords (init, clear and reset).
Most implementations accept the name of a terminal capability together with any parameters that may be needed for that.
However, some implementations expect a termcap name, while others expect a terminfo name.
All System V Release 4 implementations, as well as those which are designed to be compatible, also recognize a -S option (to tell tput to read data from the standard input), and an additional keyword longname. They also accept command-line parameters, usually distinguishing numeric from string parameters by the form of the parameter, checking for all-numeric characters. That makes it impossible for example to set a function-key label to a string of digits. Using a different approach, ncurses determines the expected type of the parameters with a table of the terminfo capabilities which use string parameters, eliminating the ambiguity.
See also
List of Unix commands
References
Further reading
External links
Ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWIC%20%28FM%29 | KWIC (99.3 MHz) is an American FM radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Topeka, Kansas, U.S., the station is currently owned by Cumulus Media.
Programming
Beginning with the 2014-15 season, KWIC, along with KMAJ (AM) (1440), will be home to the Kansas Jayhawks football and basketball (men/women's) teams. Previously, the games had been aired on WIBW (AM) (580).
References
External links
WIC (FM)
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
Cumulus Media radio stations
Radio stations established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Princess | "My Princess" is the season seven finale and the 150th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs. It was broadcast on May 8, 2008, on NBC, and was the last episode to air on the network before the series moved to ABC. Although produced as episode 9, the episode was rearranged to be the season finale due to the season being cut short because of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
Plot
Dr. Kelso, to try to prevent the staff from making mistakes due to tiredness that will make the hospital liable and open for lawsuits, says that anyone caught working past their shifts will be suspended. Dr. Cox recounts this tough day at the hospital to his son through an imaginative fairy tale. When Princess Elliot's handmaiden, i.e. one of Elliot Reid's patients, falls ill at the hands of an unknown monster, the Princess summons the Village Idiot, J.D., to help rescue her. But with the Dark Lord Oslek (Dr. Kelso) standing in their way, the duo can't do it alone. The Prince (Keith) is still in love with the Princess and tries to win her back, to no avail.
The Giant (Janitor) keeps an eye out for the heroes while the two-headed Turla, a combination of Turk and Carla, lends some magic, but it's the brave knight in shining armor (the storyteller, Dr. Cox) that lends them the knowledge that may save the day. However, with Dr. Kelso's new rules, the staff of Sacred Heart may not have time to figure out how to slay the monster. The Idiot and the Princess admit they both tried to kiss each other as they were "both running away from something".
In the end, J.D. concludes the woman has Wilson's disease and needs a new liver. Dr. Cox tells his son that the maiden lived, but when he exits the room Jordan asks him whether or not she really survived. He suggests that she didn't, saying, "that's the way I'm telling it."
Continuity
After saying in an earlier episode that he has stress-induced dyslexia, Ted refers to Dr. Kelso as Dr. Oslek, the name Dr. Cox gives the Dark Lord.
When Boon and Debbie are playing "Diagnosis Jeopardy", you can hear Boon call her "Slaggy", referencing the episode, "His Story IV", when Dr. Kelso decides to call her "Slagathor".
In an earlier episode Dr. Kelso retires from his position of Chief of Medicine, but in "My Princess" he still holds the position.
Production details
"My Princess" concluded the seventh season of Scrubs on NBC. Directed by series star Zach Braff, the episode is a homage to The Princess Bride, and features costumes and location work, including horses and a castle. According to set dresser Patrick Bolton, the village design itself (and to an extent the costume design) was a homage to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The village features several design aspects made famous by Monty Python, such as the Dead Collector.
Series creator Bill Lawrence describes the episode as a personal effort for the cast and crew, comparable to earlier themed episodes such as "My Musical" and "My Life in Four Cameras". According to Lawrence, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Adamson%20%28software%20pioneer%29 | Robert G. Adamson III (born October 19, 1947 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American software pioneer.
Adamson graduated in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1971. In 1981, he founded Software Generation Technology Corp. and wrote, one of the first fully interpretive languages for IBM mainframe computers. SGT was sold to Pansophic Systems where the product was renamed GENER/OL. and later acquired by Computer Associates
Later he founded Nostradamus Inc. and wrote Instant Replay, one of the first multimedia tools for personal computers. Instant Replay combined software demos with photos and audio for distribution on floppy diskettes. Instant Replay was used by thousands of large companies such as Intel, Microsoft and Novel, and competed for years with Dan Bricklin’s Demo Maker. Adamson also wrote well known utilities such as Noblink and Hardrunner, both of which received PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Awards.
Adamson wrote MediaForge, one of the first multimedia authoring tools for Windows. Mediaforge was sold to Strata and was awarded Best of Comdex finalist in the area of Development Software in 1994. Over 50 million MediaForge runtimes were distributed through various vendors including Morpheus and MyFamily. MediaForge is currently in use by XMLAuthor Inc. for custom development of internet applications such as CinemaForge.
Adamson is still involved in software development with his own software development company XMLAuthor Inc. He is working on new RIA and internet video technologies. In 2007 Adamson published Rainhut, a science fiction novel. The novel contains references to DTK (dare to know), a chaos based software system used to assist in the invention of advanced technologies. Development of the DTK software system is far too radical and expensive to attract serious investors at this time, so perhaps the concept remains for future generations to build, according to Adamson.
In 2013, Adamson received a patent for the distribution of non-standard fonts via the Internet. Patent US 8522127 B2 (granted). This patented process is being used worldwide now in websites and mobile apps; improving the quality, searching and appearance for hundreds of millions of users. Adamson recently founded Clantech Inc, a patent holding company. He also formed Rainhut Inc., a software company for bringing artists and mobile app developers together with an artist publishing platform and Rainmaker Software.
In 2018 Adamson began writing Author's Page His published stories are BASE: The Edge of Reality, The Old Mountain Biker (series), Hacking The Universe. He published the novel Not From Earth in 2022.
Awards
Best of Comdex Finalist: MediaForge Comdex 1994
All Time Best of the Best Utilities Category (NoBlink) PC Magazine
PC Magazine: Editors Choice (HardRunner)
Editors Choice (Instant Replay Pro) PC Magazine
References
External links
Robert Adamson
XMLAuthor
1947 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Salt Lake City
American software e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Hudson%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Scott E. Hudson is a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously an associate professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and prior to that, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Arizona. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Colorado in 1986.
Hudson has published over 150 papers and is the 17th most prolific author in the field. He is the most published author at the prestigious ACM UIST conference. He was elected to the CHI Academy in 2006, and regularly serves on the ACM SIGCHI and UIST conference program committees. He is also a founding associate editor for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Hudson was the first and founding director of the PhD program in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University.
Along with Robert Xiao and Chris Harrison, colleagues at CMU, he developed Lumitrack, a motion tracking technology which is currently used in video game controllers and in the film industry.
References
External links
Scott Hudson's website
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
American computer scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
Living people
Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty
Georgia Tech faculty
University of Arizona faculty
University of Colorado alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20models%20of%20the%20action%20potential | In neurophysiology, several mathematical models of the action potential have been developed, which fall into two basic types. The first type seeks to model the experimental data quantitatively, i.e., to reproduce the measurements of current and voltage exactly. The renowned Hodgkin–Huxley model of the axon from the Loligo squid exemplifies such models. Although qualitatively correct, the H-H model does not describe every type of excitable membrane accurately, since it considers only two ions (sodium and potassium), each with only one type of voltage-sensitive channel. However, other ions such as calcium may be important and there is a great diversity of channels for all ions. As an example, the cardiac action potential illustrates how differently shaped action potentials can be generated on membranes with voltage-sensitive calcium channels and different types of sodium/potassium channels. The second type of mathematical model is a simplification of the first type; the goal is not to reproduce the experimental data, but to understand qualitatively the role of action potentials in neural circuits. For such a purpose, detailed physiological models may be unnecessarily complicated and may obscure the "forest for the trees". The FitzHugh–Nagumo model is typical of this class, which is often studied for its entrainment behavior. Entrainment is commonly observed in nature, for example in the synchronized lighting of fireflies, which is coordinated by a burst of action potentials; entrainment can also be observed in individual neurons. Both types of models may be used to understand the behavior of small biological neural networks, such as the central pattern generators responsible for some automatic reflex actions. Such networks can generate a complex temporal pattern of action potentials that is used to coordinate muscular contractions, such as those involved in breathing or fast swimming to escape a predator.
Hodgkin–Huxley model
[[File:MembraneCircuit.svg|thumb|right|448px|Equivalent electrical circuit for the Hodgkin–Huxley model of the action potential. Im and Vm represent the current through, and the voltage across, a small patch of membrane, respectively. The Cm represents the capacitance of the membrane patch, whereas the four ''gs represent the conductances of four types of ions. The two conductances on the left, for potassium (K) and sodium (Na), are shown with arrows to indicate that they can vary with the applied voltage, corresponding to the voltage-sensitive ion channels.]]
In 1952 Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley developed a set of equations to fit their experimental voltage-clamp data on the axonal membrane. The model assumes that the membrane capacitance C is constant; thus, the transmembrane voltage V changes with the total transmembrane current Itot according to the equation
where INa, IK, and IL are currents conveyed through the local sodium channels, potassium channels, and "leakage" channels (a catch-all), respectively. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai%20College%20of%20Oriental%20Medicine | is a junior college in Osaka, Japan, and is part of the Kansai Iryo Gakuen network.
The institute was founded in 1957 and was established as a Junior College in 1985.
Educational institutions established in 1985
Japanese junior colleges
Universities and colleges in Osaka Prefecture
1985 establishments in Japan
Defunct private universities and colleges in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna%20Directories | The Avicenna Directory project was a public database of worldwide medical schools, schools of pharmacy, schools of public health and educational institutions of other academic health professions. The Avicenna Directory was maintained by the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) in the years 2008-2015.
In 2013, the Avicenna Directory was merged with the International Medical Education Directory (IMED) to create the World Directory of Medical Schools. This new directory was launched in April 2014.
The project was named after Avicenna, a Muslim Persian physician and philosopher born near Bukhara in the 10th century.
AVICENNA Directory for medicine
The AVICENNA Directory for medicine was a public database of worldwide medical schools. It replaced the WHO World Directory of Medical Schools in 2008.
History
The WHO published the World Directory of Medical Schools from 1953–2007. The seventh and final print edition of the directory was published in 2000 and listed around 1700 schools in 162 countries. Between 2000-2007, the WHO published the directory electronically, along with updates received after the 2000 print publication. In August 2007, the WHO signed an agreement with the University of Copenhagen to transfer responsibility for development and maintenance of the directory. In March 2008, the AVICENNA project was announced and in August 2008, the contents of the World Directory of Medical Schools were transferred to the AVICENNA Directory for medicine.
In 2013, the AVICENNA Directories merged with the International Medical Education Directory (IMED) to create the World Directory of Medical Schools.
Purpose
The Avicenna Directory included contact details, admission rules, program descriptions, titles of degrees and diplomas awarded, and accreditation status of institutions.
Collaborating organizations
The Avicenna Directories are maintained and primarily developed at the University of Copenhagen. Collaborating organizations on the project include:
World Health Organization
World Federation for Medical Education
International Pharmaceutical Federation
World Federation of Public Health Associations
Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research
International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
References
External links
World Directory of Medical Schools (WDMS)
FAIMER website
Higher education-related lists
World Health Organization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistage%20interconnection%20networks | Multistage interconnection networks (MINs) are a class of high-speed computer networks usually composed of processing elements (PEs) on one end of the network and memory elements (MEs) on the other end, connected by switching elements (SEs). The switching elements themselves are usually connected to each other in stages, hence the name.
MINs are typically used in high-performance or parallel computing as a low-latency interconnection (as opposed to traditional packet switching networks), though they could be implemented on top of a packet switching network. Though the network is typically used for routing purposes, it could also be used as a co-processor to the actual processors for such uses as sorting; cyclic shifting, as in a perfect shuffle network; and bitonic sorting.
Background
Interconnection network are used to connect nodes, where nodes can be a single processor or group of processors, to other nodes.
Interconnection networks can be categorized on the basis of their topology. Topology is the pattern in which one node is connected to other nodes.
There are two main types of topology: static and dynamic.
Static interconnect networks are hard-wired and cannot change their configurations. A regular static interconnect is mainly used in small networks made up of loosely couple nodes. The regular structure signifies that the nodes are arranged in specific shape and the shape is maintained throughout the networks.
Some examples of static regular interconnections are:
Completely connected network In a mesh network, multiple nodes are connected with each other. Each node in the network is connected to every other node in the network. This arrangement allows proper communication of the data between the nodes. But, there are a lot of communication overheads due to the increased number of node connections.
Shared busThis network topology involves connection of the nodes with each other over a bus. Every node communicates with every other node using the bus. The bus utility ensures that no data is sent to the wrong node. But, the bus traffic is an important parameter which can affect the system.
RingThis is one of the simplest ways of connecting nodes with each other. The nodes are connected with each other to form a ring. For a node to communicate with some other node, it has to send the messages to its neighbor. Therefore, the data message passes through a series of other nodes before reaching the destination. This involves increased latency in the system.
TreeThis topology involves connection of the nodes to form a tree. The nodes are connected to form clusters and the clusters are in-turn connected to form the tree. This methodology causes increased complexity in the network.
Hypercube This topology consists of connections of the nodes to form cubes. The nodes are also connected to the nodes on the other cubes.
ButterflyThis is one of the most complex connections of the nodes. As the figure suggests, there are nodes which are con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia%20Ronchetti | Lucia Ronchetti (born 3 February 1963) is an Italian composer.
Biography
Ronchetti studied composition and computer music at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and took part in composition seminars with Sylvano Bussotti at the Scuola di Musica of Fiesole (1981–85) and with Salvatore Sciarrino at the Corsi Internazionali of Città di Castello (1988–1989). She studied humanities at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she got her degree in 1987, presenting a dissertation on Bruno Maderna's orchestral compositions. In 1991 she received a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) in aesthetics from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne. She subsequently studied musicology with François Lesure at the École pratique des hautes études, Sorbonne, and received a doctorate with her thesis on the orchestral style of Ernest Chausson and Wagnerian influence on late 19th-century French orchestral writing. In Paris she participated in composition seminars with Gérard Grisey (1993–1996) and took part in the annual computer music courses at IRCAM (1997) under the supervision of Tristan Murail. In 2005 she was a visiting scholar as a Fulbright Fellow at the Music Department of Columbia University in New York City, having been invited by Tristan Murail.
Her works have been published by Rai Trade, Durand, Ricordi and Lemoine, and produced, commissioned and performed by such institutions as the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Konzerthaus Berlin Rai Radio Tre in Rome, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, MaerzMusik in Berlin, Musik der Jahrhunderte in Stuttgart, ensemble recherche in Freiburg im Breisgau, Festival Ultrashall in Berlin, RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Turin, WDR Sinfonieorchester in Cologne, La Fenice in Venice, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Radio France and the Munich Biennale.
Work
Starting in 1998, Ronchetti realised various productions at the Berlin Institute of Technology (TUB) in collaboration with Folkmar Hein. In 2003 she started working at the Experimentalstudio of Freiburg, where she wrote a cycle of compositions that explore the sound configuration of the viola, with the assistance of André Richard, Reinhold Braig and Joachim Haas and in collaboration with the violist Barbara Maurer; it was presented in Berlin Festival Ultrashall in 2007 and is called Xylocopa Violacea, recorded by Stradivarius in 2010.
She has been working on the compositional treatment of the voice, collaborating intensively with the Neue Vocalsolisten of Stuttgart. They created eight different productions: Studio detto dei venti, for four voices in 2010; Le voyage d'Urien, for voices and ensemble in 2008; Hamlet's Mill, for voices, viola and cello in 2007; Coins and Crosses, for six voices in 2007; Pinocchio, una storia parallela, for four male voices in 2005; Last Desire, a chamber opera for treble voice, countertenor and bass in 2003; Hombre de mucha gravedad, for four voices and string quartet in 2002; and Anatra al sal, Comedia harmo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoFetch | AutoFetch in computing is a mechanism for automatically tuning object–relational mapping queries.
Ali Ibrahim and William Cook at the University of Texas at Austin developed the idea of "AutoFetch" including an implementation for Hibernate and followed later by an implementation in Ebean.
Benefits
Improving the modularity of application code
AutoFetch uses the program state (typically the call stack) to classify queries. This means that AutoFetch can tune the same query in different ways depending on HOW it was called.
For example, a Data Access API such as findCustomer(int customerId) can be tuned differently depending on the callers of the method.
Reducing the development and maintenance burden from Developers
Because AutoFetch automatically gathers the profiling information developers do not need to manually try and gather this information and apply performance optimizations to the code.
AutoFetch can monitor the object graph usage so that if the usage changes, the tuning of the query can change to suit. This reduces the code maintenance issues for developers and maintains optimal performance as usage changes over time.
How it works
AutoFetch collects object graph usage when queries are executed. It collects the 'profile' information which is later used to automatically tune the query on subsequent executions. The ORM query is tuned by determining and automatically adding the correct prefetch directives for each query.
This improves the performance of the application by reducing "lazy loading". For ORMs that support partial objects, AutoFetch can also tune the query by just including the properties that the application uses rather than all properties.
See also
Object–relational mapping
Hibernate
Ebean
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20080418084615/http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aibrahim/autofetch/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/autofetch/
Object–relational mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Warboys | Brian Warboys (born 30 April 1942), was a British Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Manchester from 1985 until he retired in September 2007. He was subsequently appointed as Professor Emeritus and continues to undertake research. Before joining the university he had worked for ICL, then the UK's largest computer manufacturer. During the 1970s he had been the chief designer of ICL's VME operating system. He is also the author of several non-fiction books.
ICL VME
Warboys worked for ICL from 1963 to 1985. During the 1970s, he was Chief Designer of VME.
VME/B was an advanced operating system and was logical and straightforward to use. Amongst IT professionals it was deemed superior to IBM equivalents.
University of Manchester
As Professor of Software Engineering, Warboys researches the development of techniques which enable the dynamic evolution (the ability to change s/w whilst it is executing) of the design of very large systems. He was the founder and principal of the Informatics Process Group (IPG) in the School of Computer Science. IPG was established in 1991 to advance the application of Process Modelling in the context of the organization. Between 1997 and 2002 he led the EPSRC funded Compliant Systems Architecture (CSA) projects.
Within Europe he has headed the Manchester operating system team on the ESPRIT-funded EDS project, and the IPG's involvement in the ESPRIT Basic Research Activity PROMOTER on software process modelling and technology.
In 2001 he led the IPG's involvement in the Framework IV Basic Research Action PIE, process instance evolution, and later the Archware project. in which he was also joint technical coordinator.
Recognition
He was appointed the first ICL Fellow in 1984.
References
1942 births
Living people
ICL Fellows
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
International Computers Limited people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosphere%20%28disambiguation%29 | Infosphere or InfoSphere may refer to the following:
Infosphere, a term used to speculate about the common evolution of the Internet, society and culture
IBM InfoSphere DataStage, an ETL software tool and part of the IBM Information Platforms Solutions suite that uses a graphical notation to construct data integration solutions
The Infosphere, a massive biological memory bank in the animated series Futurama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Travel%20Tondekeman | is an anime series directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and Akira Sugino. It was written by Junki Takegami and produced by Animax network president Masao Takiyama.
Logo Cake Entertainment
It was originally broadcast by Fuji Television in Japan between 19 October 1989 and 26 August 1990. Time Quest, as it was called outside Japan, was first aired in the Philippines in 1992 on IBC. It was reaired on ABC (now The 5 Network) in 2000 and GMA Network in 2015. It also was aired in Indosiar, Indonesia during 1995, and it was rerun in Space Toon Indonesia since the year 2008.
Story
The series starts when Hayato, a soccer enthusiast, and his girlfriend Yumi, an aspiring musician, went to a visit to Dr. Leonard's lab. They accidentally activated the Tondekeman, a funny talking kettle who transported them many centuries in the past.
In Baghdad, Hayato and Yumi gets reunited but they got separated from Tondekeman. They meet Aladdin, Prince Dandarn and Princess Shalala. They also meet the cunning Abdullah who is always ready to kidnap the princess so that he could marry the princess to his master.
Our heroes get to go to different places and times and meet several historical and literary figures as they follow Abdullah as he escapes through time to abduct the princess.
Hayato and Yumi are stuck in the past until they get Tondekeman from the possession of Abdullah.
Characters
Hayato Shindou
Voiced by Yūji Mitsuya A Soccer enthusiast. He is good at soccer and often kicks the ball to escape the crisis. He wears a headband on his head, a soccer supporter on his wrist, short-sleeved shirt and shorts, and barefoot sneakers. He used to visit Dr. Leonard a lot, because he is strong in machines. His classmate is Yumi from the same school and is quite close. In the 9th century, he was taken care with Yumi of princess Shalala in the palace. In the pre-broadcast material, he was the name "Batto Shindo" taken from Sinbad who appeared in the Thousand and One Nights story. His set age is 14 years of the second year of middle school. However, according to an anime magazine material, he is 11 years old in the 5th grade of elementary school (5-3 is written on the tag at the entrance of the classroom where he came out in the scene where Hayato first appeared in episode 1). His favorite habit is "It's fine".
Yumi Arama
Voiced by Kumiko Nishihara Hayato's girlfriend and an aspiring musician. She can tell which time it is in the era by using a portable dictionary in the destination of the dimension hole, which is detailed in the history. There are settings that used to be a band in the 20th century, but it is only used in the opening, episode 1, episode 3 and the final episode. Like Hayato, she is strong in machinery. They often drive a scooter they brought with them since the 20th century. Before the broadcast, she was written as "Miko Himana".
Tondekeman
Voiced by Shigeru Chiba A kettle type time machine made of stainless steel. It wears sunglasses and speaks the Kansai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Quest | Time Quest may refer to:
Hype: The Time Quest, a computer game
Time Travel Tondekeman, a science-fiction anime known as Time Quest outside Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave%20Shot | Brave Shot is a scrolling shooter mobile phone game developed and published by Square Enix on December 10, 2003. It was released on the Verizon Wireless network in North America. In the game, the player shoots down waves of enemy aircraft, intermixed with giant screen-filling boss fights, while dodging enemy fire. The title was Square Enix's first foray into the North American mobile gaming market, and it was followed by a run and gun sequel, Brave Shot 2, in September 2005. Reviewers praised the game's graphics and exciting gameplay, but criticized the simplicity and uneven difficulty. Reviewers took the game as a positive sign of Square Enix's plans in the mobile gaming market.
Gameplay
Brave Shot is a vertical, 2D top-down shooter, in the style of a bullet hell, in which the player controls a fighter aircraft who must destroy enemy alien ships appearing from the top of the screen. Waves of enemies appear, and the player must dodge their fire while destroying them. Since mobile phones cannot register more than one button input at a time, an auto-fire feature is present to allow the player to move while shooting. As a result, there is no strategic decisions to be made in deciding when to shoot or not, only in how to dodge and aim at the enemies. The player's weapons can be upgraded with more powerful blasters, which fire two additional shots at an angle, and bombs. Boss ships appear regularly and are large enough to fill the major part of the screen. There is no plot in the game; the player simply fights back against alien ships.
Brave Shot 2 is a 3D run and gun game in which the player controls a future soldier against robotic enemies. The soldier rides a hoverboard in a side or over-the-shoulder view, depending on the level, and fights against a cybernetic army. Like the original, the waves are broken up by giant bosses to fight through. The hoverboard is continually moving, and the player can aim the gun in 45-degree increments all around them. The player character's hitbox is small, resulting in the soldier only being hit, thus ending the game, if he is hit in the torso. In addition to steering the hoverboard, players can jump and crouch. Enemies appear from all sides of the screen, and unlike the previous games there are no weapon upgrades.
Development
Brave Shot was released after Square Enix signed an exclusive agreement with Verizon Wireless to offer their mobile games on the Get It Now download service. It was announced on December 10, 2003, as both the first game released in the partnership and Square Enix's first mobile game to be released in North America. It was released, according to IGN, "with little fanfare", though it was showcased a few months later at the Los Angeles E3 in May 2004. Brave Shot was followed by a sequel, Brave Shot 2, in September 2005. It was released on Verizon's V Cast mobile phone sales platform.
Reception
The gaming site IGN did not consider Brave Shot a "great game" but notes that it is a "fun, littl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelblau%27s%20function | In mathematical optimization, Himmelblau's function is a multi-modal function, used to test the performance of optimization algorithms. The function is defined by:
It has one local maximum at and where , and four identical local minima:
The locations of all the minima can be found analytically. However, because they are roots of cubic polynomials, when written in terms of radicals, the expressions are somewhat complicated.
The function is named after David Mautner Himmelblau (1924–2011), who introduced it.
See also
Test functions for optimization
References
Mathematical optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuela%20M.%20Veloso | Manuela Maria Veloso (born August 12, 1957) is the Head of J.P. Morgan AI Research & Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emeritus in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was previously Head of the Machine Learning Department.
She served as president of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.
Education
Manuela Veloso received her Licenciatura and Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico in 1980 and 1984 respectively. She then attended Boston University, and received a Master of Arts in computer science in 1986. She moved to Carnegie Mellon University and received her Ph.D. in computer science there in 1992. Her thesis Learning by Analogical Reasoning in General Purpose Problem Solving was supervised by Jaime Carbonell.
Career and research
Shortly after receiving her Ph.D., Manuela Veloso joined the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science as an assistant professor. She was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1997, and full professor in 2002. Veloso was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the academic year 1999-2000, a Radcliffe Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University for the academic year 2006-2007, and a visiting professor at Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at New York University (NYU) for the academic year 2013-2014. She is the winner of the 2009 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. She was the Program Chair for IJCAI-07, held January 6–12, 2007, in Hyderabad, India and was program co-chair of AAAI-05, held July 9–13, 2005, in Pittsburgh. She was a member of the Editorial Board of CACM and the AAAI Magazine. She is the author of one book on Planning by Analogical Reasoning. As of 2015, Veloso has graduated 32 PhD students. She was appointed as the head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department in 2016.
Veloso describes her research goals as the "effective construction of autonomous agents where cognition, perception, and action are combined to address planning, execution, and learning tasks". Veloso and her students have researched and developed a variety of autonomous robots, including teams of soccer robots, and mobile service robots. Her robot soccer teams have been RoboCup world champions several times, and the CoBot mobile robots have autonomously navigated for more than 1,000 km in university buildings. In a November 2016 interview, Veloso discussed the ethical responsibility inherent in developing autonomous systems, and expressed her optimism that the technology woul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Ogden | Sir Peter James Ogden (born 1940) is an English businessman who is one of the founders of Computacenter, one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses.
Education
Ogden was born in Rochdale, England. He was educated at Rochdale Grammar School (now Balderstone Technology College). He was awarded a scholarship to University College, Durham in 1965, where he received a BSc in Physics (1968) and a PhD in Theoretical Physics (1971). He continued his education at Harvard Business School, receiving an MBA in Business Studies in 1973.
Career
Ogden's early career was with investment banks, notably Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley (where he was a Managing Director).
In 1981, he founded Computacenter with Philip Hulme, acting as Chairman of the company until 1998, when he became a non-executive director.
He established a charitable foundation to pursue his philanthropic interests — The Ogden Trust had an annual expenditure of £1,118,224 in 2006–7.
He was knighted in the 2005 New Year Honours List.
In 1996 Ogden was leaseholder of the Channel Island of Jethou.
Ogden co-owns MotorSport Vision with former Formula One driver Jonathan Palmer. The outfit runs Leicestershire's Donington Park circuit and Ogden's stake in the company is worth £12.5 million.
References
External links
Ogden Trust website
1940 births
Living people
Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
Knights Bachelor
People from Rochdale
Alumni of University College, Durham
Harvard Business School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centerpoint%20%28geometry%29 | In statistics and computational geometry, the notion of centerpoint is a generalization of the median to data in higher-dimensional Euclidean space. Given a set of points in d-dimensional space, a centerpoint of the set is a point such that any hyperplane that goes through that point divides the set of points in two roughly equal subsets: the smaller part should have at least a 1/(d + 1) fraction of the points. Like the median, a centerpoint need not be one of the data points. Every non-empty set of points (with no duplicates) has at least one centerpoint.
Related concepts
Closely related concepts are the Tukey depth of a point (the minimum number of sample points on one side of a hyperplane through the point) and a Tukey median of a point set (a point maximizing the Tukey depth). A centerpoint is a point of depth at least n/(d + 1), and a Tukey median must be a centerpoint, but not every centerpoint is a Tukey median. Both terms are named after John Tukey.
For a different generalization of the median to higher dimensions, see geometric median.
Existence
A simple proof of the existence of a centerpoint may be obtained using Helly's theorem. Suppose there are n points, and consider the family of closed half-spaces that contain more than dn/(d + 1) of the points. Fewer than n/(d + 1) points are excluded from any one of these halfspaces, so the intersection of any subset of d + 1 of these halfspaces must be nonempty. By Helly's theorem, it follows that the intersection of all of these halfspaces must also be nonempty. Any point in this intersection is necessarily a centerpoint.
Algorithms
For points in the Euclidean plane, a centerpoint may be constructed in linear time. In any dimension d, a Tukey median (and therefore also a centerpoint) may be constructed in time O(nd − 1 + n log n).
A randomized algorithm that repeatedly replaces sets of d + 2 points by their Radon point can be used to compute an approximation to a centerpoint of any point set, in the sense that its Tukey depth is linear in the sample set size, in an amount of time that is polynomial in both the number of points and the dimension.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft | The Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG; Reich Broadcasting Corporation) was a national network of German regional public radio and television broadcasting companies active from 1925 until 1945. RRG's broadcasts were receivable in all parts of Germany and were used extensively for Nazi propaganda after 1933.
Historical recordings of RRG broadcasts are today held by the German Broadcasting Archive.
History
The company was established in Berlin on 15 May 1925 with a start capital of 100,000 Reichsmark as an umbrella organisation by nine regional broadcasters – that is to say, all of the German radio stations other than the Deutsche Stunde in Bayern – serving the various states of the Weimar Republic. From 1926, a majority share was held by the state-owned Deutsche Reichspost authority, represented by RF engineer and Reichspostministerium official Hans Bredow as chairman in the rank of a Reichs-Rundfunk-Kommissar.
The logo of the RRG was designed by German graphic designer Otto Firle.
An official broadcast receiving licence was required for the reception of radio broadcasts at a monthly fee of 2 Reichsmark. In 1932 there were four million registered radio users giving the corporation a revenue of four million Reichsmark
Original structure
Programming was provided by the following eleven regional broadcasting companies:
Funk-Stunde AG, Berlin: the first regular broadcaster in Germany (on the air since 28 October 1923), covering the Prussian provinces of Brandenburg, western Pomerania (Stettin) and the northern Province of Saxony (Magdeburg) as well as the eastern parts of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz On Air 29 October 1923 as the first Radio Station in Germany
Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG (MIRAG), Leipzig (on the air since 2 March 1924), covering the Saxony, Thuringia, and the southern part of the Prussian Province of Saxony (Halle)
Deutsche Stunde in Bayern GmbH, Munich (on the air since 30 March 1924) in Bavaria; renamed Bayerischer Rundfunk GmbH on 1 January 1931, it joined the RRG in 1933
Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst AG (SÜWRAG), Frankfurt am Main (since 31 March 1924) in the People's State of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau
Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG), Hamburg (since 2 May 1924) and Bremen (on the air since 30 November 1924), covering the Prussian provinces of Schleswig-Holstein and Hanover, as well as the Free State of Brunswick, the Free State of Oldenburg and western Mecklenburg-Schwerin; became Norddeutsche Rundfunk GmbH in November 1932
Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (SÜRAG), Stuttgart (on the air since 11 May 1924), covering Württemberg, Baden and the Prussian Province of Hohenzollern
Schlesische Funkstunde AG (SFAG), Breslau (on the air since 26 May 1924) and Gleiwitz (from 1 November 1925), in the Prussian provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia
Ostmarken Rundfunk AG (ORAG), Königsberg (on the air since 14 June 1924), covering the Prussian provinces of East Prussia and eastern Pomerania (Köslin), as well |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front%20Row | Front Row may refer to:
Front Row (software), media center software for Apple's Mac computers
Front Row (radio programme), a British arts programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4
Front Row (TV program), a Philippine documentary television program broadcast on GMA Network
Front Row Channel, an international digital channel
Front Row (album), a 1982 album by David Meece
"Front Row", an Alanis Morissette song from her 1998 album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
The three-player formation at the front of a rugby scrum
See also
Front Row Center, a TV series aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1949 to 1950
Front Row Club Issue 1, a 1998 live album by British rock group Marillion
Front Row Motorsports, a team that competes on NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planeta%20U | Planeta U (English: "Planet U"), usually referenced as Tu Planeta U ("Your Planet U") is an American children's programming block that airs on the Spanish language television network Univision, which debuted on September 15, 2001. The three-hour block – which airs Saturday and Sunday mornings from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time and Pacific Time – features animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 8.
Programs featured on the block consist almost entirely of Spanish-dubbed versions of series that were originally produced and broadcast in English (with the exception of Pocoyo, which was produced in Spain). All shows featured on Planeta U are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) via the Children's Television Act.
History
The block's origins stem from a settlement that preceded the FCC's approval of network parent Univision Communications (now TelevisaUnivision)' $12.3 billion acquisition by Broadcasting Media Partners Inc. (a consortium of investment firms led by the Haim Saban-owned Saban Capital Group, TPG Capital, L.P., Providence Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners). As part of a consent decree in the deal that included the payment of a $24 million fine – the largest single fine levied against any corporation by the FCC at the time – that was issued against Univision in February 2007, following an investigation stemming from complaints filed in 2005 by the United Church of Christ and the National Hispanic Media Coalition during pending license renewal proceedings for two of its owned-and-operated stations (WQHS-TV in Cleveland and KDTV in San Francisco) that uncovered violations of Children's Television Act (CTA) guidelines, which require over-the-air television broadcasters to air a minimum of three hours of compliant educational programming each week, by the network's 24 O&Os. The violations regarded youth-oriented telenovelas from Televisa and Venevision aired by the network (the Televisa-produced Cómplices Al Rescate ("Friends to the Rescue"), ¡Vivan Los Niños! ("Long Live the Children!") and Amy, La Nina De La Mochila Azul ("Amy, the Girl with the Blue Schoolbag"), which were cited due to their questionable educational value and the former's incorporation of occasional adult-themed plotlines and complex subplots that were unsuitable for younger children) that were claimed by the stations as core educational programs in 116 weekly CTA compliance reports filed between 2004 and early 2006.
On April 5, 2008, Univision announced that it would launch a new Saturday morning block featuring live-action and animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 16. Unlike other children's program blocks in existence at the time (and since), the network opted to fully program the block with shows acquired from various programming distributors. Two days later, "Planeta U" debuted, marking the first t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki%20Jet%20Ski%20%28video%20game%29 | Kawasaki Jet Ski is a video game for the Wii console, released in 2008. It was created by Data Design Interactive, a budget developer.
Reception
Kawasaki Jet Ski has generally received negative reviews, as well as negative ratings. It received a 2.0/10 at IGN, and a 3/10 at GamesRadar. It has been criticized for poor graphics and unresponsive controls.
References
2008 video games
Data Design Interactive games
Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Personal watercraft racing video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Wii-only games
Wii games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHI%20%28Amiga%29 | AHI (AHI audio system) is a retargetable audio subsystem for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS. It was created by Martin Blom in the mid-1990s to allow standardized operating system support for audio hardware other than just the native Amiga sound chip, for example 16-bit sound cards.
AHI offers improved functionality not available through the AmigaOS audio device driver, such as seamless audio playback from a user selected audio device (in applications which supported AHI), standardized functionality for audio recording and efficient software mixing routines for combining multiple sound channels thus overcoming the four channel hardware limit of the original Amiga chipset. It also incorporated a unique mode that produced 14-bit playback using the Amiga chipset by combining two 8-bit channels set at different volumes. The first official release of AHI was in 1996. AHI became a widely supported standard for audio hardware and audio software on Amiga systems and was officially included in later operating system releases.
The author has stated that when referring to this software the correct term is 'AHI audio system' or just 'AHI' and not 'Audio Hardware Interface', term sometimes used by the press.
References
External links
AHI web site
AmigaOS
Amiga
Amiga APIs
Audio libraries
MorphOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muni%20Sakya | Muni Bahadhur Shakya or Muni Shakya (Nepali: मुनीबहादुर शाक्य) is a Nepalese computer programmer. He is credited with helping bring information technology to Nepal. He's also known for designing computer systems that can be operated in the Nepali language.
Biography
Shakya was born in 1942, in Patan. His father is Buddharaj Shakya. He had three siblings. His birth name was Muni Shakya but his teacher in school added the Bahadhur as the middle name. He tried to correct the name, but it could not happen and his certificates used the name Muni Bahadhur Shakya.
He joined Tri-Chandra College as a physics student. However, due to their interest in electronics, he opted to study engineering and got an in radio engineering from Calcutta, India in 1962.
After completing the diploma, he returned to Nepal and helped a British engineer to make a 10kW radio transmitter. Observing his skill, he was invited to study in England in 1970 as a British Council scholar.
Career and contributions
Shakya designed and fabricated devices, including a laboratory-type stabilized power supply and a sine wave generator. He went to France in 1973, where he worked until 1979. In France, he decided to switch to computing and made microprocessor-based controllers and video cards while studying communication, digital electronics, and computer techniques there.
In 1979, he made the first microcomputer in Nepal. He built the power supply and video call. He bought a keyboard from the US and made the monitor from Russian television. At the South Asian Regional Conference on computers, held in Kathmandu in 1979, Shakya demonstrated his device.
Shakya went to the US in 1981 to work on the development of floppy disk controllers. As I/O cards were yet to be invented, after he came back from the US, he made I/O cards required for the hard disk. He designed microprocessor-based traffic controllers in Kathmandu. He opened the first Nepalese company for manufacturing computer cards, Sun Moon Computer Industry, in 1995, and established Hi-Tech Pioneer Ltd, an Internet Service Provider.
Devanagari typing
Shakya's primary interest is in designing systems, to operate in the Nepali language. Because of the difficulty in programming in the Nepali language, Nepalese software was limited to word processing. He did his first demonstration of computing in the Nepali language on a microcomputer with the display of the Nepalese National Anthem in Devanagari script in 1983 on a CP/M-based computer. He received the Science Award in December 1983 for this work. He developed a software package complete with all Nepali characters. Certificates and checks were printed in the Nepali language using it. Commercial Nepali software can be developed. Shakya is working towards software with Nepali menus and commands so that Nepalese can work with computers without the knowledge of English.
Green Computer
Shakya collaborated with doctors to provide telemedicine service by developing a low powered computer suit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Code-Breakers | The Code-Breakers is a two-part (2x22') BBC World documentary on free open-source software (FOSS) and computer programming that started on BBC World TV on 10 May 2006. It investigates how poor countries are using FOSS applications for economic development, and includes stories and interviews from around the world. The film examines whether free and open-source software might be the bridge for the widening digital divide. A 40-minute version of The Code-Breakers is available for free download online as of 2014.
FOSS contains source code that can be used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed without restriction. It has been around for over 20 years, but most PC owners are not aware that many internet search engines and computer applications run on FOSS.
Directed and filmed by Maximillian Jacobson-Gonzalez, the programs were filmed in nearly a dozen countries around the world, to see how the adoption of FOSS presents opportunities for industry and capacity development, software piracy reduction, and localization and customization for diverse cultural and development needs.
Stories from The Code-Breakers include computer and Internet access for school children in Africa, reaching the poor in Brazil, tortoise breeding programs in the Galapagos, connecting villages in southern Spain, and post-tsunami disaster management in Sri Lanka. The documentary also includes interviews from key figures around the world, such as Nicholas Negroponte, free software advocate Richard Stallman (filmed at the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia in 2005), and former Brazilian Minister of Culture and musician Gilberto Gil.
Representatives of Intel, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft all seem to agree that FOSS is a welcome presence in computer software. According to Jonathan Murray of Microsoft, "The Open Source community stimulates innovation in software, it's something that frankly we feel very good about and it's something that we absolutely see as being a partnership with Microsoft".
References
External links
The Code-Breakers at BBCWorld.com
The Code-Breakers at YouTube
The Code-Breakers free download at Archive.org
The Code-Breakers at dev.tv
The Code-Breakers FOSS documentary for sale by TVEAP
Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme. The Code Breakers – a BBC World Documentary on FOSS and Development Archived on Archive.org
Documentary films about free software
BBC television documentaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20Trux%3A%20Arenas | Monster Trux: Arenas is a video game for the Wii console. It was created by Data Design Interactive, a budget developer. The Wii Wheel is compatible with the game. On PlayStation 2 a Special Edition was released. The game uses the same coverart as Monster Trux Extreme (Arena Edition) released on March 25 2005 on the PlayStation 2 made also by Data Design and published by Phoenix Games.
Use of real monster trucks
Some of the trucks in the game are based on real-life monster trucks, such as Flame (based on WCW Nitro (truck)), Wrench (based on Wrenchead.com), and Doom (based on The Outsiders). Other trucks in the game include Pro (which is not a monster truck, but a Toyota Tundra baja truck), Midnight (which has a Chevy Astro body), By-4 (which has a Toyota Land Cruiser body) Crush (which has a custom Rhino body), and Dumper (which has a Dump Truck body).
Reception
The game received overwhelmingly negative reviews. IGN gave it a 1.0 for bad graphics, presentation, sound and gameplay.
References
2007 video games
Monster truck video games
Racing video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Wii games
Wii-only games
Data Design Interactive games
Conspiracy Entertainment games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20Arabic | Cartoon Network Arabia () is a pan-Arab free-to-air children's television channel that is broadcast to Arab audiences in the Middle East and North Africa. It is one of two Arabic-language versions of the original Cartoon Network, the other being a pay television channel on beIN and additional providers known as Cartoon Network MENA, which is available in both English and Arabic.
The channel launched on 10 October 2010, coinciding with the opening of Turner Broadcasting System Europe's offices in Dubai Media City. As of 2023, it is managed by Warner Bros. Discovery under its international division.
The standard channel broadcasts via Arabsat Badr 6 and Nilesat. Cartoon Network Arabic is considered a free-to-air alternative to Cartoon Network MENA and Cartoonito MENA, two pay TV channels offered in the Arab world in HD and in both English and Arabic on beIN Network and additional providers since 1 July 2016, despite the varying differences in programming, schedules, and available languages.
History
Cartoon Network Arabic was launched on 10 October 2010 at 10:10 am GST. The channel's launch coincided with the opening of Turner Broadcasting System's offices in Dubai Media City, UAE, which is where the channel's local owner is located.
The channel changed its aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 on 5 October 2014; it also began using the Check it 3.0 branding on that day.
Cartoon Network Arabic has changed its website. The new website was changed in May 2015.
On 4 October 2017, the channel has fully rebranded to the Dimensional branding.
In December 2015, Turner Broadcasting System entered an exclusivity deal with the Qatar-based beIN Media Group. This deal led to Cartoon Network Africa, Boomerang Africa, and TCM moving from OSN to the latter's beIN Network service, and also caused the HD feed on YahLive to shut down; the actual channel, however, is unaffected due to being a free-to-air channel on Nilesat and Arabsat/Badr. Cartoon Network Arabic was added to beIN as channel 138 as an HD channel, although the HD version was later replaced with the SD version on Arabsat/Badr. CNN International HD was removed from My-HD's channel list and moved to beIN as an encrypted HD channel along with the pay-only HLN, which is in letterboxed SD, but CNN continues to remain available as a free-to-air channel on Nilesat and Arabsat/Badr in SD. However, subscribers to Etisalat and du's IPTV services in the UAE were virtually unaffected at the time. However, due to their direct relations with Turner, UAE Telecoms, Etisalat and Du continue to offer these channels to IPTV subscribers. Additionally, inVision in Saudi Arabia, Ooredoo in Qatar and Cablevision in Lebanon offer Cartoon Network and Boomerang as well.
Programming
TV series
The channel mainly airs animated cartoons from Cartoon Network Studios. Original productions, films, shorts, live-action series, and shows from various studios are produced and aired.
Animated programs aired include original Cartoon Netwo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friending%20and%20following | Friending is the act of adding someone to a list of "friends" on a social networking service. The notion does not necessarily involve the concept of friendship. It is also distinct from the idea of a "fan"—as employed on the WWW sites of businesses, bands, artists, and others—since it is more than a one-way relationship. A "fan" only receives things. A "friend" can communicate back to the person friending. The act of "friending" someone usually grants that person special privileges (on the service) with respect to oneself. On Facebook, for example, one's "friends" have the privilege of viewing and posting to one's "timeline".
Following is a similar concept on other social network services, such as Twitter and Instagram, where a person (follower) chooses to add content from a person or page to his or her newsfeed. Unlike friending, following is not necessarily mutual, and a person can unfollow (stop following) or block another user at any time without affecting that user's following status.
The first scholarly definition and examination of friending and defriending (the act of removing someone from one's friend list, also called unfriending) was David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie's "Hyperfriendship and beyond: Friends and Social Norms on LiveJournal" from 2005, which identified the use of the term as both a noun and a verb by users of early social network site and blogging platform LiveJournal, which was originally launched in 1999.
Friend/follower count, friend collecting, and multiple accounts
The addition of people to a friend list without regard to whether one actually is their friend is sometimes known as friend whoring. Matt Jones of Dopplr went so far as to coin the expression "friending considered harmful" to describe the problem of focusing upon the friending of more and more people at the expense of actually making any use of a social network.
Friend collecting is the adding of hundreds or thousands of friends/followers, a not uncommon order of magnitude on some social sites. As a result, many teen users feel pressured to heavily curate their posts, posting only carefully posed and edited photographs with well-thought-out captions. Some Instagram users (typically teenage girls) will create a second account, known as a Finsta (short for "Fake Instagram"). A Finsta is typically private, and the owner only allows close friends to follow it. Since the follower count is kept down, the posts can be more candid and silly in nature. Users may also create multiple accounts based on their interests. Someone with a personal social media account might be a photographer and maintain a separate account for that.
There is risk associated with following large numbers of people: scholars say that social anxiety could be an effect of managing a large social media network, as users can feel jealous and have a "fear of missing out".
Unfriending and unfollowing
Unfriending is the act of removing someone from a friends list. On Facebook, thi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Computer%20Network%20System | The , also known as the Famicom Net System and Famicom Modem, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer video game console, and was released in September 1988 only in Japan. Predating the modern Internet, its proprietary dial-up information service accessed live stock trades, video game cheats, jokes, weather forecasts, betting on horse racing, and a small amount of downloadable content. The device uses a ROM card storage format, reminiscent to the HuCard for the TurboGrafx-16 and the Sega Card for the Master System.
Nintendo gained experience with this endeavor which led directly to its satellite based Satellaview network for the Super Famicom in the early 1990s.
History
Development
In 1986, Nintendo's entry into basic online communications was the Disk Fax kiosks, preannouncing the deployment of 10,000 kiosks throughout Japan's toy and hobby stores within the following year. This allowed Famicom players with Famicom Disk System games to bring their writable Disk Cards into stores and upload their high scores to the company's central leaderboards via fax, enter nationwide achievement contests, and download new games cheaper than on cartridge.
By 1987, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi foresaw the impending information age, developing a vision for transforming Nintendo beyond a toy company and into a communications company. He wanted to leverage Famicom's established and totally unique presence in one third of all of Japan's homes, to bring Nintendo into the much larger and virtually limitless communications industry and thus presumptively on par with Japan's largest company and national telephone service provider, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). He believed the Famicom should become an appliance of the future, as pervasive as the telephone itself. Beginning in mid-1987, he requested the exploration of a partnership with the Nomura Securities financial company, to create an information network service in Japan based on the Famicom. Led by Famicom's designer Masayuki Uemura, Nintendo Research & Development 2 developed the modem hardware; and Nomura Securities developed the client and server software and the information database. Uemura cautioned that they "weren't confident that they would be able to make network games entertaining". Five unreleased prototypes of network-enabled games were developed for the system, including Yamauchi's favorite ancient Japanese board game, Go.
Production
The Famicom Modem began mass production in September 1988. The accompanying proprietary online service called the Famicom Network System was soon launched the same year alongside Nippon Telegraph and Telephone's new DDX-TP telephone gateway for its existing packet switched network. NTT's launch initially suffered reliability problems that were painstakingly assessed by Nintendo at individual users' homes and traced back to the network.
Yamauchi said in Nintendo's 1988 corporate report that this system would "link Nintendo households to create |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20calculator | A software calculator is a calculator that has been implemented as a computer program, rather than as a physical hardware device.
They are among the simpler interactive software tools, and, as such, they provide operations for the user to select one at a time. They can be used to perform any process that consists of a sequence of steps each of which applies one of these operations, and have no purpose other than these processes, because the operations are the sole, or at least the primary, features of the calculator, rather than being secondary features that support other functionality that is not normally known simply as calculation.
As a calculator, rather than a computer, they usually have a small set of relatively simple operations, perform short processes that are not compute intensive and do not accept large amounts of input data or produce many results.
Platforms
Software calculators are available for many different platforms, and they can be:
A program for, or included with an operating system.
A program implemented as server or client-side scripting (such as JavaScript) within a web page.
Embedded in a calculator watch.
Also complex software may have calculator-like dialogs, sometimes with the full calculator functionality, to enter data into the system.
History
Early years
Computers as we know them today first emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. The software that they ran was naturally used to perform calculations, but it was specially designed for a substantial application that was not limited to simple calculations. For example, the LEO computer was designed to run business application software such as payroll.
Software specifically to perform calculations as its main purpose was first written in the 1960s, and the first software package for general calculations to obtain widespread use was released in 1978. This was VisiCalc and it was called an interactive visible calculator, but it was actually a spreadsheet, and these are now not normally known simply as calculators.
The Unix version released in 1979, V7 Unix, contained a command-line accessible calculator.
Simulation of hardware calculators
Calculators have been used since ancient times and until the advent of software calculators they were physical, hardware machines. The most recent hardware calculators are electronic hand-held devices with buttons for digits and operations, and a small window for inputs and results.
The first software calculators imitated these hardware calculators by implementing the same functionality with mouse-operated, rather than finger-operated, buttons. Such software calculators first emerged in the 1980s as part of the original Macintosh operating system (System 1) and the Windows operating system (Windows 1.0).
Some software calculators directly simulate one of the hardware calculators, by presenting an image that looks like the calculator, and by providing the same functionality.
Software calculators on the Internet
There is now a very |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%20operations%20quality%20assurance | Flight operational quality assurance (FOQA, ) also known as flight data monitoring (FDM) or flight data analysis, is a method of capturing, analyzing and/or visualizing the data generated by an aircraft moving through the air from one point to another. Applying the information learned from this analysis helps to find new ways to improve flight safety and increase overall operational efficiency. Several airlines and various national air forces have initiated FOQA programs to collect, store and analyze recorded flight data. The goal is to improve overall aviation safety, increase maintenance effectiveness and reduce operational costs.
Acronyms
FOQA = flight operational quality assurance,
FDM = flight data monitoring,
FDA = flight data analysis,
MOQA = maintenance operational quality assurance,
MFOQA = military flight operational quality assurance,
SOQA = simulator operational quality assurance,
CFOQA = corporate flight operational quality assurance,
HFDM = helicopter flight data monitoring,
HOMP = helicopter operational monitoring program.
Applications
As a result of an ICAO Annex 6 mandate, all airlines are required under regional legislation to implement Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) programs. However, in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) does not yet require FOQA programs for commercial operators. The data recorded can be either pilot generated (as he or she moves the controls) or mechanically induced by related systems in the aircraft itself. "A significant barrier to wider adoption in the United States is pilot's universal lack of trust in who will see and act on the flight data once it is recorded and studied."
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) requirement is defined in EU-OPS section 1.037.
The FAA defined FOQA in its Advisory Circular #120-82, dated April 12, 2004. The agency's Air Transportation Operations Inspector's Handbook (FAA Order 8400.10, August 9, 2006) details what a valid FOQA system contains. An excerpt from Volume 1, Chapter 5, Section 2, page 1-221 of this FAA document states: "Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA) is a voluntary safety program designed to improve aviation safety through the proactive use of flight-recorded data."
In India, Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA) has made it mandatory for all airline operators to carry out Flight Data Analysis for flight safety. Instruction clearly states the need for a flight safety department for all scheduled operators. Non-scheduled operators are required to present a safety report on a half-yearly basis to DGCA.
Literature
US DOT: Advisory Circular: Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA), AC No: 120-82, 12. April 2004.
European Union: Regulations: EU-OPS 1, COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 8/2008 of 11 December 2007.
CAA Safety Regulation Group, CAP 739 Flight Data Monitoring. A Guide to Good Practise. First issue 29. August 2003.
swiss49 ag, FDM booklet for Pilots, V1.0, 13. January 2009
IATA, IOSA Standards Man |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles%20in%20Latvia | The Polish minority in Latvia numbers about 51,548 and (according to the Latvian data from 2011) forms 2.3% of the population of Latvia. Poles are concentrated in the former Inflanty Voivodeship region, with about 18,000 in Daugavpils (Dyneburg) and 17,000 in Riga. People of Polish ethnicity have lived on the territory of modern Latvia since the 16th century. In modern Latvia their citizenship status vary: non-citizens of Latvia, as citizens of Poland, or as citizens of Latvia.
Demography
Mixed marriages are common for the ethnic Poles in Latvia: per cent distribution of males with spouse of different ethnicity was 89%, of females with spouse of different ethnicity was 90% (1990–2007)
Polish organizations in Latvia
The largest Polish organization in Latvia is Association of Poles in Latvia (Związek Polaków na Łotwie).
See also
Latvia–Poland relations
References
Polacy za granicą
Polacy na Łotwie – history
Polacy na Łotwie – in documents
Związek Polaków na Łotwie
External links
Will Mawhood (June 8, 2016). The Forgotten Minority: Latvia’s Poles Through Independence and Occupation. Deep Baltic.
Ethnic groups in Latvia
Latvia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jie%20Wu | Jie Wu () is a Chinese computer scientist. He is the Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs and Director for Center for Networked Computing at Temple University. He also serves as the Laura H. Carnell professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. He served as Program Director of Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) at the National Science Foundation from 2006 to 2008.
Jie Wu is noted for his research in routing for wired and wireless networks. His main technical contributions include fault-tolerant routing in hypercube-based multiprocessors, local construction of connected dominating set and its applications in mobile ad hoc networks, and efficient routing in delay tolerant networks, including social contact networks.
He served as the General Chair of IEEE ICDCS 2013, IEEE IPDPS 2008, and IEEE MASS 2006 and the Program Chair of CCF CNCC 2013, IEEE INFOCOM 2011, and IEEE MASS 2004. He is a Fellow of IEEE, for contributions to mobile ad hoc networks and multicomputer systems, and serves on the editorial board for a number of journals, including IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC).
He received 2011 China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Achievements Award. He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist. He was also an IEEE Distinguished Visitor and an ACM Distinguished Speaker and is currently a CCF Distinguished Speaker.
He resides in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.
References
External links
Biography at the Temple University.
NSF contact information of Jie Wu.
Living people
Temple University faculty
Educators from Shanghai
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs%20Moniz%20Pereira | Luís Moniz Pereira (born in 1947 in Lisbon, Portugal) is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the AI centre at New University of Lisbon. His research is in the field of logic programming and in knowledge representation, reasoning and cognitive science more generally.
He was the founding president of the Portuguese AI association, and has been a founding member of the editorial boards of the journals of Logic Programming, Automated Reasoning, New Generation Computing, Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, Universal Computer Science, Applied Logic, Electronic Transactions on AI, and of the Computational Logic Newsletter. He is also advisory editor of the International Journal of Reasoning-Based Intelligent Systems and Associate Editor for Artificial Intelligence of the ACM Computing Surveys.
He was awarded the Doctor honoris causa by the Technical University of Dresden in 2006, and became an ECCAI Fellow in 2001. He coordinates the Erasmus Mundus European MSc in Computational Logic at UNL, is vice-president of EASE, the European Association for semantic Web Education, and belongs to the Board of Trustees and to the Scientific Advisory Board of the IMDEA Software Institute.
References
External links
Homepage
Academic staff of NOVA University Lisbon
1947 births
Living people
Logic programming researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Move%20%28command%29 | In computing, move is a command in various command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS/4NT, and PowerShell. It is used to move one or more files or directories from one place to another. The original file is deleted, and the new file may have the same or a different name. The command is analogous to the Unix mv command and to the OpenVOS move_file and move_dircommands.
Implementations
The command is available in DOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS. On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 6 and later. In Windows PowerShell, is a predefined command alias for the Move-Item Cmdlet which basically serves the same purpose. The FreeDOS version was developed by Joe Cosentino. DR DOS 6.0 includes an implementation of the command. The open-source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox has no MOVE command. Instead, the REN command can be used to move files.
Syntax
To move one or more files:
MOVE [/Y | /-Y] [drive:][path]filename1[,...] destination
To rename a directory:
MOVE [/Y | /-Y] [drive:][path]dirname1 [destination\]dirname2
To move a directory:
MOVE [/Y | /-Y] [drive:][path]dirname1 destination
Parameters
[drive:][path]filename1: Specifies the location and name of the file or files you want to move.
destination: Specifies the new location of the file or directory. Destination can consist of a drive letter and colon, a directory name, or a combination, and must already exist. If you are moving only one file, you can also include a filename if you want to rename the file when you move it.
[drive:][path]dirname1: Specifies the directory you want to rename or move.
dirname2: Specifies the new name of the directory.
/Y: Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file.
/-Y: Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file.
The switch /Y may be present in the COPYCMD environment variable. This may be overridden with /-Y on the command line. Default is to prompt on overwrites unless MOVE command is being executed from within a batch script.
Notes
When moving a directory, dirname1 and its contents wind up as a subfolder beneath destination. Caution is advised - if the final subfolder of the destination path does not exist, dirname1 will be both moved and renamed.
See also
List of DOS commands
List of Unix commands
References
Further reading
External links
move | Microsoft Docs
External DOS commands
OS/2 commands
ReactOS commands
Windows commands
Microcomputer software
MSX-DOS commands
Windows administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%20%28command%29 | In computing, ren (or rename) is a command in various command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS, 4NT and Windows PowerShell. It is used to rename computer files and in some implementations (such as AmigaDOS) also directories. It is analogous to the Unix mv command. However, unlike mv, ren cannot be used to move files, as a new directory for the destination file may not be used. Alternatively, move may be used if available. On versions of MS-DOS that do not support the move command (older than 6.00), the user would simply copy the file to a new destination, and then delete the original file. A notable exception to this rule is DOSBox, in which ren may be used to move a file, since move is not supported.
Implementations
The command is available in the operating systems Digital Research CP/M, MP/M, Cromemco CDOS, MetaComCo TRIPOS, DOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, SymbOS, and DexOS.
Multics includes a rename command to rename a directory entry. It can be contracted to rn.
Stratus OpenVOS, DEC RT-11, OS/8, RSX-11, Intel ISIS-II, iRMX 86, TOPS-20, Zilog Z80-RIO, TSC FLEX, Microware OS-9, DR FlexOS, IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS, HP MPE/iX, THEOS/OASIS, and OpenVMS also provide the rename command which in some cases can be contracted to ren.
The rename command is supported by Tim Paterson's SCP 86-DOS. On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 1 and later. DR DOS 6.0 also includes an implementation of the and commands.
In Windows PowerShell, ren is a predefined command alias for the Rename-Item Cmdlet which basically serves the same purpose.
TSL PC-MOS includes an implementation of rename.
Like the rest of the operating system, it is licensed under the GPL v3.
It is also available in the open source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox.
Example
>ren filename newname
>ren *.htm *.html
Another example. This will rename a default video found in Windows 7 with a new name:
>rename "C:\Users\Public\Videos\Sample Videos\Wildlife.wmv" "Wildlife2.wmv"
The first parameter may contain a drive and a path, but the second parameter must contain only the new filename.
To remove certain characters of a file name in Microsoft Windows command prompt (XP & Higher) :
>rename "abcd*.txt" "////*.txt"This will remove abcd from the file name.
Notes:
Same number of / as the number of initial characters to remove.
Double quotes for both arguments.
It doesn't remove . from file name
See also
List of DOS commands
List of PowerShell commands
References
Further reading
External links
ren | Microsoft Docs
CP/M commands
Internal DOS commands
MSX-DOS commands
OS/2 commands
ReactOS commands
Windows commands
Microcomputer software
Windows administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPE%20%28DOS%20command%29 | In computing, is a command in various command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS/4NT and Windows PowerShell used to display the contents of specified files on the computer terminal. The analogous Unix command is .
Implementations
The command is available in the operating systems DEC RT-11, OS/8, RSX-11, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, VMS, Digital Research CP/M, MP/M, MetaComCo TRIPOS, Heath Company HDOS, AmigaDOS, DOS, FlexOS, TSL PC-MOS, SpartaDOS X, IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, AROS, and SymbOS.
The type command is supported by Tim Paterson's SCP 86-DOS. On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 1 and later. DR DOS 6.0 also includes an implementation of the command.
It is also available in the open source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox and the EFI shell.
In Windows PowerShell, is a predefined command alias for the Cmdlet which basically serves the same purpose. originated as an internal command in 86-DOS.
The command-syntax and feature set between operating systems and command shell implementations can differ as can be seen in the following examples.
DEC RT-11
In Digital Equipment Corporation's RT-11, the command accepts up to six input file specifications. Multiple file specifications are separated with commas.
The default filetype is .LST. Wildcards are accepted in place of filenames or filetypes.
Syntax
The command-syntax on RT-11 is:
TYPE[/options] filespecs
COPIES:n – Specify the number of times the file will be typed
DELETE – Delete the file after typing it
LOG – Log the names of the files typed
NEWFILES – Only files dated with the current system date will be typed
NOLOG – Suppress the log of the files typed
QUERY – Require confirmation before typing each file
WAIT – Wait for user response before proceeding with the type
Examples
TYPE/COPIES:3 REPORT
TYPE/NEWFILES *.LST
DR CP/M, MP/M, FlexOS
In Digital Research CP/M, the command expands tabs and line-feed characters (CTRL-I), assuming tab positions are set at every eighth column.
The command does not support wildcard characters on FlexOS.
Syntax
The command-syntax on CP/M is:
TYPE ufn
Note: ufn = unambiguous file reference
In MP/M, the command has a pause mode. It is specified by entering a 'P' followed by two decimal digits after the filename. The specified number of lines will be displayed and then the command will pause until a carriage return is entered.
Examples
A>TYPE FILE.PLM
A>TYPE B:X.PRN
0A>TYPE CODE.ASM P23
TSL PC-MOS
The Software Link's PC-MOS includes an implementation of TYPE. Like the rest of the operating system, it is licensed under the GPL v3.
It supports an option to display the file content in hexadecimal form.
Syntax
The command-syntax on PC-MOS is:
.TYPE filename [/h]
filename – The name of the file to display
/h – Display content in hexadecimal form
Examples
[A:\].TYPE FILE.BIN /h
Microsoft Windows, OS/2, ReactOS
The command supports wildcard characters. In Microsoft W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del%20%28command%29 | In computing, del (or erase) is a command in command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS, NDOS, 4OS2, 4NT and Windows PowerShell. It is used to delete one or more files or directories from a file system.
Implementations
The command is available for various operating systems including DOS, Microware OS-9, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS. It is analogous to the Unix rm command and to the Stratus OpenVOS delete_file and delete_dircommands.
DEC RT-11, OS/8, RSX-11, and OpenVMS also provide the delete command which can be contracted to del. AmigaDOS and TSC FLEX provide a delete command as well.
The erase command is supported by Tim Paterson's SCP 86-DOS. On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 1 and later. It is also available in the open-source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox.
Datalight ROM-DOS also includes an implementation of the and commands.
While Digital Research DR-DOS supports del and erase as well, it also supports the shorthand form era, which derived from CP/M. In addition to this, the DR-DOS command processor also supports delq/eraq. These are shorthand forms for the del/era/erase command with an assumed /Q parameter (for 'Query') given as well.
THEOS/OASIS and FlexOS provide only the erase command.
In PowerShell, del and erase are predefined command aliases for the Remove-Item cmdlet which basically serves the same purpose.
Syntax
>del filename
>erase filename
See also
deltree
rmdir
List of DOS commands
List of Unix commands
References
Further reading
External links
del | Microsoft Docs
Internal DOS commands
MSX-DOS commands
OS/2 commands
ReactOS commands
Windows commands
Microcomputer software
Windows administration
File deletion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%20%28command%29 | In computing, ver (short for version) is a command in various command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe and 4DOS/4NT. It prints the name and version of the operating system, the command shell, or in some implementations the version of other commands. It is roughly equivalent to the Unix command uname.
Implementations
The command is available in FLEX, HDOS, DOS, FlexOS, SpartaDOS X, 4690 OS, OS/2, Windows, and ReactOS. It is also available in the open-source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox, in the KolibriOS Shell and in the EFI shell.
TSC FLEX
In TSC's FLEX operating system, the VER command is used to display the version number of a utility or program. In some versions the command is called VERSION.
DOS
The command is available in MS-DOS versions 2 and later.
MS-DOS versions up to 6.22 typically derive the DOS version from the DOS kernel. This may be different from the string printed on start-up. The argument "/r" can be added to give more information and to list whether DOS is running in the HMA (high memory area).
PC DOS typically derives the version from an internal string in command.com (so PC DOS 6.1 command.com reports the version as 6.10, although the kernel version is 6.00.)
DR DOS 6.0 also includes an implementation of the command. DR-DOS reports whatever value the environment variable OSVER reports.
PTS-DOS includes an implementation of this command that can display, modify, and restore the DOS version number.
IBM OS/2
OS/2 command.com reports an internal string, with the OS/2 version. The underlying kernel here is 5.00, but modified to report x0.xx (where x.xx is the OS/2 version).
Microsoft Windows
Windows 9x command.com report a string from inside command.com. The build version (e.g. 2222), is also derived from there.
Windows NT command.com reports either the 32-bit processor string (4nt, cmd), or under some loads, MS-DOS 5.00.500, (for all builds). The underlying kernel reports 5.00 or 5.50 depending on the interrupt. MS-DOS 5.00 commands run unmodified on NT.
Microsoft Windows also includes a GUI (Windows dialog) variant of the command called winver, which shows the Service Pack or Windows Update installed (if any) as well as the version. In Windows before Windows for Workgroups 3.11, running winver from DOS reported an embedded string in winver.exe.
Windows also includes the setver command that is used to set the version number that the MS-DOS subsystem (NTVDM) reports to a DOS program. This command is not available on Windows XP 64-Bit Edition.
DOSBox
In DOSBox, the command is used to view and set the reported DOS version. It also displays the running DOSBox version.
The syntax to set the reported DOS version is the following:
VER SET <MAJOR> [MINOR]
The parameter MAJOR is the number before the period, and MINOR is what comes after.
Versions can range from 0.0 to 255.255. Any values over 255 will loop from zero. (That is, 256=0, 257=1, 258=2, etc.)
Others
AmigaDOS provides a version command. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebel%20Scholars | The Siebel Scholars program was established by the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation in 2000 to recognize the most talented students at 29 graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering, and energy science in the United States, China, France, Italy, and Japan.
Funding for the Siebel Scholars program was established through grants totaling more than $45 million. Each year, top graduate students from each institution are selected as Siebel Scholars. Siebel Scholars are selected by the Deans of each school on the basis of outstanding academic performance and qualities of leadership to receive a $35,000 award. The specific process varies from school to school.
Siebel Scholars are key advisors to the Siebel Foundation, guiding the development of innovative programs the foundation initiates. The annual Siebel Scholars conference and ongoing planning sessions throughout the year are an integral part of the Siebel Scholars program.
Participating Schools
Graduate Schools of Business
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan School of Management)
Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management)
Stanford University (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
University of Chicago (Booth School of Business)
Harvard University (Harvard Business School)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School of Business)
Graduate Schools of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
Tsinghua University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Chicago
Graduate Schools of Bioengineering
Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT School of Engineering
Stanford University, Stanford University School of Engineering and Stanford University School of Medicine
University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley College of Engineering
University of California, San Diego, Institute of Engineering in Medicine and Jacobs School of Engineering
Graduate Schools of Energy Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
École Polytechnique, Graduate School
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT School of Engineering
Politecnico di Torino, Doctoral School
Princeton University, Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science
Stanford University, Stanford University School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Tsinghua University, Laboratory for Low Carbon Energy
University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UIUC College of Engineering
University of Tokyo, School of Engineering
Annual Siebel Scholars Conference
A key element of the program is the annual Siebel Scholars Conference. Each year, current and past Scholars convene at the annual Conference. The Scholars gat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushd%20and%20popd | In computing, pushd and popd are a pair of commands which allow users to quickly switch between the current and previous directory when using the command line. When called, they use a directory stack to sequentially save and retrieve directories visited by the user.
They are widely available as builtin commands in many command-line interpreters, such as 4DOS, Bash, C shell, tcsh, Hamilton C shell, KornShell, cmd.exe and PowerShell, and for various operating systems including both Windows and Unix-like systems.
Overview
The directory stack underlies the functions of these two commands. It is an array of paths stored as an environment variable in the CLI, which can be viewed using the command dirs in Unix or Get-Location -stack in PowerShell. The current working directory is always at the top of the stack.
The pushd ('push directory') command saves the current working directory to the stack then changes the working directory to the new path input by the user. If pushd is not provided with a path argument, it changes instead to the next directory from the top of the stack, which can be used to toggle between two directories.
The popd command removes (or 'pops', in the stack analogy) the current path entry from the stack and returns to the path at the top of the stack as the new working directory.
The first Unix shell to implement a directory stack was Bill Joy's C shell. The syntax for pushing and popping directories is essentially the same as that used now.
Both commands are available in FreeCOM, the command-line interface of FreeDOS.
In Windows PowerShell, pushd is a predefined command alias for the Push-Location cmdlet and popd is a predefined command alias for the Pop-Location cmdlet. Both serve basically the same purpose as the pushd and popd commands.
Examples
Unix-like
[user@server /usr/ports] $ pushd /etc
/etc /usr/ports
[user@server /etc] $ popd
/usr/ports
[user@server /usr/ports] $
Microsoft Windows and ReactOS
C:\Users\root>pushd C:\Users
C:\Users>popd
C:\Users\root>
CMD batch file
@echo off
rem This batch file deletes all .txt files in a specified directory
pushd %1
del *.txt
popd
echo All text files deleted in the %1 directory
Syntax
pushd
pushd [path | ..]
Arguments:
path This optional command-line argument specifies the directory to make the current directory. If path is omitted, the path at the top of the directory stack is used, which has the effect of toggling between two directories.
popd
popd
See also
cd (command)
List of DOS commands
List of Unix commands
References
Further reading
External links
pushd | Microsoft Docs
popd | Microsoft Docs
Internal DOS commands
Microcomputer software
ReactOS commands
Windows administration
Computing commands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Climate%20Reference%20Network | The US Climate Reference Network (USCRN) is a network of climate stations developed and maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), completed in 2008.. It has the long-term commitment of the Department of Commerce and the NOAA.
As of 2012, it has 114 automated stations at 107 locations.
Project
Overview
The USCRN is made up of over 143 stations in the United States. Its purpose is to maintain a sustainable high quality network which will detect, with high confidence, signals of climate change in the US. It provides the United States with a reference network that meets the requirements of the Global Climate Observing System.
The primary goal of the USCRN is to provide future long-term high-quality observations of surface air temperature and precipitation that can be coupled to past long-term observations for the detection and attribution of present and future climate change. It records data with minimal time dependent biases affecting the interpretation of decadal to centennial climate variability and change.
Background
This program is used to collect and analyze the high-quality data on climate change. The hope is that research based on this data is thrusted to impact near and long term policy and decision plans made by senior government and business leaders.
It is being implemented and managed by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
located in Asheville, NC. Scientists and engineers from the Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division located in Oak Ridge, TN, are assisting the NCDC USCRN program staff. System design, test, implementation, and associated expenses are being provided by the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service's Office of Systems Development.
Stations
Each station is positioned in a pristine site which is expected to remain free from development over coming decades. Each station may include the following sensors: triple redundant air temperature sensors, precipitation sensors, wind speed sensors, and ground temperature sensors. Stations have been placed in rural environments in order to avoid possible urban microclimate interference. The contiguous U.S. network of 114 stations was completed in 2008. There are two USCRN stations in Hawaii and deployment of a network of 29 stations in Alaska continues.
Components
Essential components of the USCRN are well-documented life cycle maintenance, modernization, and performance histories, as well as a robust science and research component. There are routine maintenance visits to the sites and regular calibration of the sensors. Research effort has focused on continual evaluation of the data, new sensors, and emerging calibration techniques. When a new type of sensor can contribute to improving the quality of the observations, there will be at least a one-year continuity overlap of current and new sensors.
Every USCRN instrument site is being equipped with the following:
a standard set of sensors
a data logger
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20Rock%20%28Dial%20Global%20radio%20network%29 | Classic Rock (formerly Rock Classics) was a 24-hour music format produced by Dial Global Networks. Its playlist consists mostly of contemporary classic rock music from artists such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Van Halen, The Rolling Stones. The format was launched in July 1997 by Jones Senior Director of Programming Jon Holiday and has been programmed by Adam Fendrich since 2001.
Although "Rock Classics" wasn't affected by the recent purchased of Jones Radio Networks by Triton Media Group, it was relocated into Dial Global's portfolio and re-branded as "Classic Rock" on December 29, 2008. However, Dial Global's "Adult Rock and Roll" was dissolved to make this happen.
Competitor Networks
The Classic Rock Experience by Citadel Media
External links
Classic Rock by Dial Global
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Radio stations established in 1997
Radio stations disestablished in 2008
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRINT%20%28command%29 | In computing, the print command
provides single-user print spooling capability in a number of operating systems. It is roughly similar to that provided by the UNIX System V lp and BSD lpr print spooler systems.
Implementations
The command is available in the DEC RT-11, OS/8, RSX-11, TOPS-10, and TOPS-20 operating systems and also in DR FlexOS, DR DOS, TSL PC-MOS, Paragon Technology PTS-DOS, SISNE plus, IBM OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Microsoft Windows, FreeDOS, Stratus OpenVOS, AROS, HP MPE/iX, and OpenVMS.
The FreeDOS version was developed by James Tabor and is licensed under the GPL.
DOS, OS/2, Windows
Background
The command was introduced in MS-DOS/IBM PC DOS 2.0. DR DOS 6.0 includes an implementation of the command.
In early versions of DOS, printing was accomplished using the copy command: the file to be printed was "copied" to the file representing the print device. Control returned to the user when the print job completed. Beginning with DOS 2.0, the print command was included to allow basic print spooling: the ability to continue to use the computer while printing occurred in the background, and the ability to create a queue of jobs to be printed.
Description
The print command allowed specifying one of many possible local printer interfaces, and could make use of networked printers using the net command. A maximum number of files and a maximum buffer size could be specified, and further command-line options allowed adding and removing files from the queue. Margins, page lengths and number of copies could also be set, as well as a parameter to adjust between favoring printing speed versus computer responsiveness.
Retrospect
Users of the initial release of the print command commented on the slow print speed and high resource usage, as well as the lack of support for the newly introduced subdirectories. The command was among the first RAM-resident programs and was the first to achieve widespread use, with many users disassembling the binary in order to determine how RAM-resident programs should be written.
See also
List of DOS commands
List of Unix commands
References
Further reading
External links
print | Microsoft Docs
Open source PRINT implementation that comes with MS-DOS v2.0
External DOS commands
OS/2 commands
Windows commands
Microcomputer software
Microsoft free software
Windows administration
Computer printing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%20Country | CD Country was a 24-hour music format produced by Jones Radio Networks. Its playlist is composed of mostly modern country music from artists such as Tim McGraw, Gretchen Wilson, Keith Urban, Brooks & Dunn, and Rascal Flatts. Unlike other country stations and networks, CD Country draws the most active segment of the Country audience away from mainstream by utilizing digital technology.
Jones was purchased by Triton Media Group and this network was integrated into Dial Global's "Hot Country" satellite feed on December 29, 2008.
See also
U.S. Country
Competitor networks
Today's Best Country by ABC Radio Networks
External links
CD Country - Official Website
Radio formats
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find%20%28Windows%29 | In computing, find is a command in the command-line interpreters (shells) of a number of operating systems. It is used to search for a specific text string in a file or files. The command sends the specified lines to the standard output device.
Overview
The find command is a filter to find lines in the input data stream that contain or don't contain a specified string and send these to the output data stream. It does not support wildcard characters.
The command is available in DOS, Digital Research FlexOS, IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS. On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 2 and later. DR DOS 6.0 and Datalight ROM-DOS include an implementation of the command. The FreeDOS version was developed by Jim Hall and is licensed under the GPL.
The Unix command find performs an entirely different function, analogous to forfiles on Windows. The rough equivalent to the Windows find is the Unix grep.
Syntax
FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[...]]
Arguments:
"string" This command-line argument specifies the text string to find.
[drive:][path]filename Specifies a file or files in which to search the specified string.
Flags:
/V Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string.
/C Displays only the count of lines containing the string.
/N Displays line numbers with the displayed lines.
/I Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.
Note:
If a pathname is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt
or piped from another command.
Examples
C:\>find "keyword" < inputfilename > outputfilename
C:\>find /V "any string" FileName
See also
Findstr, Windows and ReactOS command-line tool to search for patterns of text in files.
find (Unix), a Unix command that finds files by attribute, very different from Windows find
grep, a Unix command that finds text matching a pattern, similar to Windows find
forfiles, a Windows command that finds files by attribute, similar to Unix find
Regular expression
List of DOS commands
References
Further reading
External links
Open source FIND implementation that comes with MS-DOS v2.0
External DOS commands
Microcomputer software
Microsoft free software
OS/2 commands
ReactOS commands
Pattern matching
Windows administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Time%20Oldies | Good Time Oldies is a 24-hour music format offered to local radio stations across the country that was originally produced by Jones Radio Networks. After the sales of Jones Radio Networks to Dial Global in 2008, the format was absorbed into D.G.`s "Kool Oldies" format. However, due to radio stations demand, the Good Time Oldies format was brought to Dial Global. The format was programmed by program director Jon Holiday from 1994 through 2003.
Good Time Oldies targets a key demographic of white men age 50 to 64. The majority of the network's playlist is from the 1960s and 70s with scattered tunes from the 50s and 80s.
Jones Radio Networks was purchased by Triton Media Group, and "Good Time Oldies" was merged to Dial Global's "Kool Gold" network and then quickly brought back as Good Time Oldies due to affiliate demand. It is also available through the Dial Global "local" division as well.
D.J.s on the Good Time Oldies feed included Jay "The Fox That Rocks" Fox, Gary Outlaw and Dave Micheals "Dave's Diner" which first aired on the G.T.O. feed in 1992.
In spring 2014, Westwood One (which merged with Dial Global in 2012) announced that a network branded as Good Time Oldies would replace The True Oldies Channel beginning in June. (Cumulus lost the rights to the True Oldies Channel after its host, founder and owner, Scott Shannon, left the company in February, taking the format with him a few months later.) Good Time Oldies was restocked primarily with talent from Cumulus's "Classic Hits Format", including Maria Danza and "Smokin" Kevan Browning. Good Time Oldies is the 1st joint format venture between Cumulus and its latest acquisition, Westwood One. As of 2020, the station is still used today
External links
- Network information page from Westwood One
Radio formats
American radio networks
Defunct radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%20Your%20Ears%20Only%20%28radio%20program%29 | For Your Ears Only/On Air (formerly Newsweek on Air) was a weekly radio program and podcast previously produced by Newsweek, Inc. and co-produced with RKO Radio Networks, Associated Press, Jones Radio Networks, and Triton Media Group, then an independent, non-profit project of the New York Foundation for the Arts and distributed by the Radio America network. It debuted on April 25, 1982, with its main producer-anchor David M. Alpern, a reporter, writer, then senior editor at Newsweek, who was at the helm during the program's 32-year run.
The weekend program aired Saturday nights or Sundays. The non-profit version acquired the "For Your Ears Only" title in June 2010. The program ended its 32-year run with the September 28, 2014, broadcast, after which the non-profit Internet Archive (archive.org) began posting its broadcasts back to 1982 as an online audio collection.
From 2015-2017 Alpern hosted the weekly World Policy On Air podcast for World Policy Institute.
Alpern also regularly records news stories of interest to the visually impaired for the Gatewave non-profit.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110115071312/http://www.radioamerica.org/PRG_yourears.htm
https://www.nyfa.org/ArtistDirectory/ShowProject/3dcde6b2-fdba-4718-adf2-e49f789b4c1a
https://archive.org/details/foryourearsonly
American news radio programs
1982 radio programme debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxcon | Foxcon may refer to:
Foxcon Aviation, an Australian aircraft manufacturer
Foxconn, a Taiwanese computer manufacturer, also known formally as the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo%20Poli | Riccardo Poli (born 1961) is a Professor in the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems of the University of Essex. His work has centered on genetic programming.
Education
Poli started his academic career with a Laurea in electronic engineering from the University of Florence in 1989. He then did a PhD in biomedical image analysis (1993) at the same university. He later became an expert in the field of evolutionary computation, working as a Lecturer and then a Reader at the University of Birmingham from 1994 until 2001, when he moved to Essex as a professor. Poli has published around 240 refereed papers and two books (Langdon and Poli, 2002; Poli, Langdon, McPhee, 2008) on the theory and applications of genetic programming, evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm optimisation, biomedical engineering, brain–computer interfaces, neural networks, image analysis, signal processing, biology and psychology.
He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, an EU expert evaluator and a grant-proposal referee for Irish, Swiss and Italian funding bodies.
Genetic Programming
He is a Fellow of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation and a recipient of the EvoStar award for outstanding contributions to this field (2007). He was an ACM SIGEVO executive board member until 2013. He was co-founder and co-chair of the European Conference on GP (EuroGP) (1998–2000, 2003). He was general chair (2004), track chair (2002, 2007), business committee member (2005), and competition chair (2006) of ACM’s Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, co-chair of the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop (FOGA) (2002) and technical chair of the International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimisation and Swarm Intelligence (2006).
Poli is an associate editor of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Evolutionary Computation and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research. He is an advisory board member of the Journal on Artificial Evolution and Applications and an editorial board member of Swarm Intelligence.
Poli co-wrote Foundations of Genetic Programming and A Field Guide to Genetic Programming. A book review in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines noted that the latter book was unusual because it had been published under a Creative Commons license.
References
External links
Google Scholar profile
1961 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Essex
University of Florence alumni
Academics of the University of Birmingham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT-X%20%28TV%20network%29 | is a Japanese anime television network owned by AT-X, Inc. was founded on June 26, 2000 as a subsidiary of TV Tokyo Medianet, which is (in turn) owned by TV Tokyo. Its headquarters are in Minato, Tokyo. AT-X network has been broadcasting anime via satellite, cable, and IPTV since December 24, 1997.
AT-X broadcasts many Comic Gum anime adaptations. Ikki Tousen, Ah My Buddha and Juden Chan were shown on this channel first, before they were rebroadcast on Tokyo MX. As a premium channel, AT-X is also known for showing uncensored versions of several anime like Juden Chan, Ah My Buddha, Girls Bravo, Elfen Lied, Mahoromatic, High School DxD and Redo of Healer, which would normally get censored on free-to-air television because of the large amounts of mature content.
History
December 24, 1997 - AT-X begins broadcasting on DirecTV Channel 270.
November 30, 1998 - Bandai Chara Net TV (owned by Bandai, which AT-X aired through) closes due to SkyPort, its satellite provider (a subsidiary of Mitsubishi owned Space Communications Corporation, also jointly held by Sony Corporation), shutting down. AT-X moves to the "SuperBird C" satellite.
1999 - Starts airing "Diamond Time", their first self-produced show.
June 26, 2000 - AT-X Inc. is founded.
September 30, 2000 - DirecTV ceases Japanese operations, focusing on its core American market instead (its former parent, Hughes Electronics (a General Motors subsidiary), launched their own subscription satellite service of the same name in the United States in 1994).
October 1, 2000 - AT-X is picked up by Sky PerfecTV! on Channel 729.
May, 2001 - Figure 17, the first AT-X funded anime, begins airing.
July 1, 2002 - Sky! PerfecTV 2 begins broadcasting AT-X on Channel 333.
January 26, 2004 - Launch of "AT-X Shop", their online store.
July 12, 2005 - Mobile edition of the shop launches.
April 1, 2009 - Subscription price raises to 1890 yen. 24-hour broadcast schedule starts.
June, 2009 - TV Tokyo's Keisuke Iwata is appointed president of the company.
October 1, 2009 - SKY PerfectTV! HD begins broadcasting AT-X HD on Channel 667.
November 1, 2009 - Hikari TV begins broadcasting AT-X HD on Channel 380.
January 27, 2010 - Sky PerfecTV! e2 switches from 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratio while retaining Standard Definition.
October 1, 2011 - J:COM begins broadcasting AT-X HD on Channel 605.
October 1, 2012 - The AT-X broadcast configuration is dramatically reorganized.
December, 2012 - AT-X joins the Association of Copyright for Computer Software (ACCS), in an effort to keep their videos off the Internet.
February 28, 2013 - Ceased all SD broadcasts, for a full transition to HD broadcasting.
April 18, 2013 - AT-X airs its first foreign cartoon/non-anime series in Japanese language; My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
November 29, 2013 - Closure of the "AT-X Shop" online store.
December 24, 2017 - AT-X celebrates 20th anniversary with the new anime programming lineup for 2018.
TV programs
See also
Televisio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWTE-TV | DWTE-TV, Channel 2, is a commercial television station owned and operated by TV5 Network Inc. Its studio and transmitter are located at Talingaan St., Brgy. 31, Laoag City.
History
1972 - DWTE-TV channel 2 was launched by Kanlaon Broadcasting System during the Martial Law period, and in 1975, KBS was formally re-launch as RPN, the acronym for its franchise name, Radio Philippines Network.
January 25, 1997 - Associated Broadcasting Company opened its TV station ABC Channel 2 Laoag as a relay (satellite-selling) station of ABC-5 Manila, with the inaugurated its studio and transmitter complex in Talingaan Street, Barangay 31, Laoag City.
August 8, 2008 - The station aired a countdown to its re-launch for much of the next day until 19:00 PHT, when the network officially re-launched under its new name of TV5.
February 17, 2018 - as the recent changes within the network and in celebration of its 10th anniversary, TV5 Laoag was relaunched as The 5 Network with a new logo and station ID entitled Get It on 5 whereas the TV on the northeastern quadrant of the logo has been dropped, making it more flexible for the other divisions to use it as part of their own identity.
January 13, 2019 - 5 Laoag introduced a variation of the current numerical 5 logo, similar to the newly network, 5 Plus.
August 15, 2020 - 5 Laoag was reverted to TV5 while retaining the 2019 numerical 5 logo.
Digital channels
DWTE-TV's digital signal operates on UHF Channel 18 (497.143 MHz) and broadcasts on the following subchannels:
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Ilocos Norte
Laoag
Ilocos Sur
Secondary areas
Abra
See also
TV5
List of television and radio stations owned by TV5 Network
TV5 (Philippine TV network) stations
Television stations in Laoag
Television stations in Ilocos Norte
Television channels and stations established in 1972
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20Amiga%20MIDI%20Driver | Commodore Amiga MIDI Driver (CAMD) is a shared library for AmigaOS which provides a general device driver for MIDI data, so that applications can share MIDI data with each other in real-time, and interface to MIDI hardware in a device-independent way.
History
Commodore announced work on Commodore Amiga MIDI driver (CAMD) during the January 1990 NAMM Show. Driver should allow multiple MIDI applications to work together in the Amiga multitasking environment, with timing as a crucial issue (working with realtime data streams). ARexx support was also planned.
The software was originally created at the Carnegie Mellon University and later adopted by Commodore.
According to software developer Daniel S. Riley, several people worked on the driver (starting with Roger B. Dannenberg and Jean-Christophe Dhellemmes at the Carnegie-Mellon university). Commodore finally gave this task to David Joiner (author of Deluxe Music) and synchronisation services were separated in realtime.library.
Deluxe Music 2.0 introduced support for both camd.library and realtime.library and was for many years the only commercial music package using CAMD. Amiga Format article about MIDI noticed in 1999 still many bugs, some compatibility issues and lack of application support.
Commodore's version of CAMD also included a built-in driver for the Amiga serial port. The Poseidon USB stack contains the camdusbmidi.class.
AROS port and later development
In part due to above mentioned problems, the CAMD library was rewritten (reverse engineered by Kjetil S. Matheussen) as part of the AROS project in 2001 and later in 2005 ported to AmigaOS 4. In 2012, Lyle Hazelwood released updated AmigaOS 4 version, which was then distributed as part of AmigaOS starting with the 4.1 Update 5. Since MorphOS 3.10 CAMD is officially part of this system.
References
External links
AROS documentation
OS4 documentation
Amiga APIs
CBM software
Application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratoire%20d%27Informatique%2C%20de%20Robotique%20et%20de%20Micro%C3%A9lectronique%20de%20Montpellier | The Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics, and Microelectronics (Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, LIRMM) is a cross-faculty research entity of the University of Montpellier and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
The spectrum of research activities covered by the LIRMM ranges from circuit design, to modeling of complex agent-based systems, algorithmic studies, bio-computing, human-computer interfaces, and robotics. These activities are conducted mainly within the three scientific research departments:
Computer Science (INFO)
Microelectronics (MIC)
Robotics (ROB)
These research departments are further subdivided into 3-4 teams for each department, with the exception of Computer Science, which consists of 15 teams. There is also inter-departmental research conducted in the subjects of Water-Sea-Ocean, Logic, Security and safety, and AI and Data Science.
Department of Robotics
The Robotics department deals with problems of synthesis, supervision and management of complex dynamic systems (robots, robot / live interface), and also navigation, location and piloting of autonomous vehicles present or remote, or Others for analysis, coding and image processing. One of the particularities of the LIRMM is that theory, tools, experiments and applications are present in all its fields of scientific competence.
This department has gained immense reputation in academic and industrial fraternity because of its strong industrial tie ups and groundbreaking products delivered over the years. Some famous robots that rolled out of this department are BRIGIT™ (Medtech (robotic surgery)) and Quattro (Adept Technology).
The Department of Robotics consists of four teams:
DEXTER : Robotique médicale et mécanismes parallèles
EXPLORE : Robotique mobile pour l’exploration de l’environnement
ICAR : Image & Interaction
IDH : Interactive Digital Humans
Department of Microelectronics
The Microelectronics Department conducts cutting-edge research in the areas of design and testing of integrated systems and microsystems, with an emphasis on architectural, modeling and methodological aspects.
LIRMM’s Microelectronics Department is organized in three teams:
ADAC : ADAptive Computing
SmartIES : Smart Integrated Electronic Systems
TEST : Test and dEpendability of microelectronic integrated SysTems
Department of Informatics
The themes of the Computer Science department range from the boundaries of mathematics to applied research: graphical algorithms, bioinformatics, cryptography, networks, databases and information systems (data integration, data mining, maintaining coherence) (Programming languages, objects, components, models), artificial intelligence (learning, constraints, knowledge representation, multi-agent systems), human-machine interaction (natural language, visualization, semantic web and e-learning).
The Computer Science Department is organized into the following 15 teams:
AD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrence%20%28quantum%20computing%29 | In quantum information science, the concurrence is a state invariant involving qubits.
Definition
The concurrence is an entanglement monotone (a way of measuring entanglement) defined for a mixed state of two qubits as:
in which are the eigenvalues, in decreasing order, of the Hermitian matrix
with
the spin-flipped state of and a Pauli spin matrix. The complex conjugation is taken in the eigenbasis of the Pauli matrix . Also, here, for a positive semidefinite matrix A, denotes a positive semidefinite matrix B such that . Note that B is a unique matrix so defined.
A generalized version of concurrence for multiparticle pure states in arbitrary dimensions (including the case of continuous-variables in infinite dimensions) is defined as:
in which is the reduced density matrix (or its continuous-variable analogue) across the bipartition of the pure state, and it measures how much the complex amplitudes deviate from the constraints required for tensor separability. The faithful nature of the measure admits necessary and sufficient conditions of separability for pure states.
Other formulations
Alternatively, the 's represent the square roots of the eigenvalues of the non-Hermitian matrix . Note that each is a non-negative real number. From the concurrence, the entanglement of formation can be calculated.
Properties
For pure states, the square of the concurrence (also known as the tangle) is a polynomial invariant in the state's coefficients. For mixed states, the concurrence can be defined by convex roof extension.
For the tangle, there is monogamy of entanglement, that is, the tangle of a qubit with the rest of the system cannot ever exceed the sum of the tangles of qubit pairs which it is part of.
References
Theoretical computer science
Quantum information science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocation | Relocation may refer to:
Relocation (computing)
Relocation of professional sports teams
Relocation (personal), the process of vacating a fixed residence in favour of another
Population transfer
Rental relocation
Structure relocation
Car relocation
See also
Relocation service
Myka Relocate
Moving (disambiguation)
Relocation center → Internment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename%3A%20Asero | Codename: Asero () is a 2008 Philippine television drama science fiction series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark A. Reyes and Mike Tuviera, it stars Richard Gutierrez in the title role. It premiered on July 14, 2008 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Joaquin Bordado. The series concluded on November 14, 2008 with a total of 90 episodes. It was replaced by Luna Mystika in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Grecko lives a double life as the Agent Phoenix of The Advocate, a secret agency whose mission is to get rid of lawbreakers in the world. The Advocate's number one opponent, The Empire, aims to destroy them. When The Advocate sends Agent Phoenix on a mission, Grecko decides to meet Emily San Juan in Dubai and the Empire finds out Grecko is Agent Phoenix. The Empire kidnaps Grecko's sister and only agrees to release her if he works for them. He is offered the task to find and deliver a software program called Project: Hercules in exchange for her freedom. Grecko agrees and he goes on an operation that results in him losing his memory and being turned into a cyborg, codenamed Asero.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Richard Gutierrez as Grecko Abesamis / Phoenix / Asero
Supporting cast
Heart Evangelista as Emily San Juan
Richard Gomez as Ibsen Abesamis / Zeus
Janno Gibbs as Geron Aguilar / Rock Star
Michael V. as Bodjie X
Paolo Contis as Dave Aviejo
Carmina Villaroel as Lady Q
Rhian Ramos as Claire Morales
Ehra Madrigal as Dayze Tagimoro
Caridad Sanchez as Bertita
Ramon Christopher as Apollo
Francine Prieto as Aureana
Bobby Andrews as Jupiter
Chynna Ortaleza as Fran Guevarra
Marky Cielo as Troy Motimor / Beat Box
Rainier Castillo as Ricky San Juan
Elvis Gutierrez as Vladimir
Joanne Quintas as Gelyn Abesamis
Bubbles Paraiso as Minnie
Chariz Solomon as Gigi
Rocky Gutierrez as Felix / Mercury
Shyr Valdez as Delia San Juan
Martin delos Santos as Tantam
Ysa Villar as Perchy
Jenny Miller as Greta
Sheree as Malta
Lovely Rivero as Myra
Ana Roces as Ellen
Sandy Talag as Sophie
Pen Medina as Tagimoro
Isay Alvarez as Minerva
Mike Gayoso as Aris
Jana Roxas as Mia
Anthony Labrusca as Junie
Mike Magat as Roboticman
Guest cast
Schai Sigrist as Pigtails
Karen delos Reyes as Cleo
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Codename: Asero earned a 40.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 32.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine science fiction television series
Television shows filmed in the Philippines
Television shows filmed in the United Arab Emirates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Label%20%28command%29 | In computing, label is a command included with some operating systems (e.g., DOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS). It is used to create, change, or delete a volume label on a logical drive, such as a hard disk partition or a floppy disk. Used without parameters, label changes the current volume label or deletes the existing label.
History
The command was originally designed to label floppy disks as a reminder of which one is in the machine. However, it can also be applied to other types of drive such as mapped drives.
It is available in MS-DOS versions 3.1 and later and IBM PC DOS releases 3 and later.
It is an external command. MS-DOS 4.0x and earlier used label.com as the external file. MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows use label.exe as the external file. DR DOS 6.0 includes an implementation of the command. The FreeDOS version was developed by Joe Cosentino and is licensed under the GPL.
In modern versions of Microsoft Windows, changing the disk label requires elevated permissions. The Windows dir command displays the volume label and serial number (if it has one) as part of the directory listing.
In Unix and other Unix-like operating systems, the name of the equivalent command differs from file system to file system. For instance, the command e2label can be used for ext2 partitions.
Syntax
LABEL [drive:][label]
LABEL [/MP] [volume] [label]
Arguments:
drive: This command-line argument specifies the drive letter of a drive.
label Specifies the label of the volume.
volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name.
Flags:
/MP Specifies that the volume should be treated as a mount point or volume name.
Note: If volume name is specified, the /MP flag is unnecessary.
Example for the command.
C:\Users\root>label D: Backup
Supported file systems
FAT12
FAT16
FAT32
exFAT
NTFS
Limitations
FAT volume labels
FAT volumes have the following limitations:
Volume labels can contain as many as 11 character bytes and can include spaces, but no tabs. The characters are in the OEM code page of the system that created the label.
Volume labels cannot contain the following characters: ? / \ | . , ; : + = [ ] < > "
Volume labels are stored as upper-case regardless of whether they contain lower-case letters.
NTFS volume labels
NTFS volume labels can contain as many as 32 Unicode characters.
See also
Vol (command) — Displays the disk volume label and serial number.
List of DOS commands
References
Further reading
External links
label | Microsoft Docs
External DOS commands
OS/2 commands
ReactOS commands
Windows commands
Microcomputer software
Windows administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20Toxicogenomics%20Database | The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) is a public website and research tool launched in November 2004 that curates scientific data describing relationships between chemicals/drugs, genes/proteins, diseases, taxa, phenotypes, GO annotations, pathways, and interaction modules.
The database is maintained by the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University.
Background
The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) is a public website and research tool that curates scientific data describing relationships between chemicals, genes/proteins, diseases, taxa, phenotypes, GO annotations, pathways, and interaction modules, launched on November 12, 2004.
The database is maintained by the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University.
Goals and objectives
One of the primary goals of CTD is to advance the understanding of the effects of environmental chemicals on human health on the genetic level, a field called toxicogenomics.
The etiology of many chronic diseases involves interactions between environmental factors and genes that modulate important physiological processes. Chemicals are an important component of the environment. Conditions such as asthma, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, immunodeficiency, and Parkinson's disease are known to be influenced by the environment; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying these correlations are not well understood. CTD may help resolve these mechanisms. The most up-to-date extensive list of peer-reviewed scientific articles about CTD is available at their publications page
Core data
CTD is a unique resource where biocurators read the scientific literature and manually curate four types of core data:
Chemical-gene interactions
Chemical-disease associations
Gene-disease associations
Chemical-phenotype associations
Data integration
By integrating the above four data sets, CTD automatically constructs putative chemical-gene-phenotype-disease networks to illuminate molecular mechanisms underlying environmentally-influenced diseases.
These inferred relationships are statistically scored and ranked and can be used by scientists and computational biologists to generate and verify testable hypotheses about toxicogenomic mechanisms and how they relate to human health.
Users can search CTD to explore scientific data for chemicals, genes, diseases, or interactions between any of these three concepts. Currently, CTD integrates toxicogenomic data for vertebrates and invertebrates.
CTD integrates data from or hyperlinks to these databases:
ChemIDplus, a dictionary of more than 400,000 chemicals housed in the US National Library of Medicine
DrugBank
Data Infrastructure for Chemical Safety project (diXa) Data Warehouse by the European Bioinformatics Institute which as of November 2015 contained 469 compounds, 188 disease datasets in three sub-categories liver, kidney and cardiovascular disease.
Gene Ontology Consortium
KEGG
NCBI Entrez-Gene
NCBI PubMed
NCBI Tax |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20%28text%20file%29 | In computing, a line is a unit of organization for text files. A line consists of a sequence of zero or more characters, usually displayed within a single horizontal sequence.
The term comes directly from physical printing, where a line of text is a horizontal row of characters.
Depending on the file system or operating system being used the number of characters on a line may either be predetermined or fixed, or the length may vary from line to line. Fixed-length lines are sometimes called records. With variable-length lines, the end of each line is usually indicated by the presence of one or more special end-of-line characters, such as a line feed or carriage return.
A blank line usually refers to a line containing zero characters (not counting any end-of-line characters); though it may also refer to any line that does not contain any visible characters (consisting only of whitespace).
Some tools that operate on text files (e.g., editors) provide a mechanism to reference lines by their line number.
See also
Newline
Line wrap and word wrap
Line-oriented programming language, programming languages that interpret the end of line to be the end of an instruction or statement
Computer file formats
Computer data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poptropica | Poptropica is an online role-playing game, developed in 2007 by Pearson Education's Family Education Network, and targeted towards children aged 6 to 15. Poptropica was primarily the creation of Jeff Kinney, the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. As of 2015, he remains at the company as the Creative Director. The game primarily focuses on problem-solving through game quest scenarios, called "islands". Islands all center on a problem that the player must resolve by going through multiple obstacles, collecting and using items, talking to various characters, and completing goals. All islands, upon completion, award "credits," which are non-negotiable currency that may be used to buy costumes and special effects in the Poptropica store.
In 2011, Poptropica was listed on Time magazine's list of "50 Websites that Make the Web Great", where it was described as "an inventive megasite for kids with a wholesome and slightly educational bent". By 2012, the game had grown to have over 75 million registered users, with 35 million in the 15-25 age group. Versions of the game have been released on Nintendo DS and 3DS, iOS, and Android mobile devices. In May 2015, it was announced that Family Education Network was sold by Pearson to the interactive-education venture capitalist Sandbox Networks, and that Poptropica had "over 3.2 million monthly unique users in 200 countries and territories".
In 2015, Poptropica was sold to educational-technology investment group, Sandbox Partners.
In 2020, because of the discontinuation of Adobe Flash, Poptropica began porting their old islands that were built on Adobe Flash over to an HTML5 format. As a result of Poptropica'''s utilization of varying Flash engines, a number of islands were unable to be ported immediately, and were effectively removed from the game. Fan archivists later made 35 islands available once again via the Basilisk browser within the Flashpoint program.
In April 2022, Poptropica announced that some of the old islands would return as part of a bundle on Steam. Though delayed by a day, the game was eventually released on May 26, 2022, and includes seventeen islands and Poptropica Realms.
Gameplay
When it first launched in 2007, Poptropica only had one island, titled Early Poptropica Island. By 2017, it had 58 islands to be explored, all with a different theme: examples include Back Lot Island, where the player helps produce a movie, and Super Power Island, where their goal is to defeat six super villains. Each island had its own quest, for which a player could receive an island medallion as well as 150 credits to spend in the in-game Poptropica Store. Starting July 6, 2011, Poptropica allowed players to replay islands without creating a new account, while still keeping track of all the Medallions the player had earned.
Advertisements
In addition to the available island quests, advertisers contract for temporary mini-games that appear on the site, sometimes targeted to players of a certain age |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol%20%28command%29 | In some operating systems, vol is a command within the command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM and cmd.exe. It is used to display the volume label and volume serial number of a logical drive, such as a hard disk partition or a floppy disk, if they exist.
Implementations
The command is available in various versions of DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS.
On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 2 and later. Paragon Technology Systems PTS-DOS 2000 Pro also includes a implementation.
The Windows dir command also displays the volume label and serial number (if it has one) as part of the directory listing.
The command is also available in the EFI shell.
Syntax
vol [Drive:]
Arguments:
Drive: This command-line argument specifies the drive letter of the disk for which to display the volume label and serial number.
Note:
On Windows, the volume serial number is displayed only for disks formatted with MS-DOS version 4.0 or later.
OS/2 allows the user to specify more than one drive. The vol command displays the volume labels consecutively.
Examples
IBM OS/2
[C:\]vol C:
The volume label in drive C is OS/2.
The Volume Serial Number is 0815:1611.
Microsoft Windows
C:\Users\root>vol C:
Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 080F-100B
In the example above, if drive C: has no volume label, "has no label" is shown instead of "is Windows".
Supported file systems
FAT12
FAT16
FAT32
exFAT
NTFS
See also
Label (command) — Used to create, change and delete the disk volume label.
List of DOS commands
References
Further reading
External links
vol | Microsoft Docs
Internal DOS commands
MSX-DOS commands
OS/2 commands
ReactOS commands
Windows commands
Microcomputer software
Windows administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Gasson | Mark N. Gasson is a British scientist and visiting research fellow at the Cybernetics Research Group, University of Reading, UK. He pioneered developments in direct neural interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, has developed brain–computer interfaces and is active in the research fields of human microchip implants, medical devices and digital identity. He is known for his experiments transmitting a computer virus into a human implant, and is credited with being the first human infected with a computer virus.
Gasson has featured on television documentaries including Through the wormhole with Morgan Freeman, international television and radio news programs, and has delivered public lectures discussing his work including at TEDx. In 2010 Gasson was the General chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2010 (ISTAS'10) and in 2014 he was entered into the Guinness Book of Records for his experimental work on implantable microchips.
He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.
Early life and education
Gasson obtained his first degree in Cybernetics and Control Engineering in 1998 from the Department of Cybernetics at Reading. He obtained his Ph.D. for 2002 work on interfacing the nervous system of a human to a computer system in 2005.
Career
From 2000 until 2005 Gasson headed research to invasively interface the nervous system of a human to a computer. In 2002 a microelectrode array was implanted in the median nerve of a healthy human and connected percutaneously to a bespoke processing unit to allow stimulation of nerve fibers to artificially generate sensation perceivable by the subject and recording of local nerve activity to form control commands for wirelessly connected devices.
During clinical evaluation of the implant, the nervous system of the human subject, Kevin Warwick, was connected onto the internet in Columbia University, New York enabling a robot arm, developed by Peter Kyberd, in the University of Reading UK to use the subject's neural signals to mimic the subject's hand movements while allowing the subject to perceive what the robot touched from sensors in the robot's finger tips. Further studies also demonstrated a form of extra sensory input and that it was possible to communicate directly between the nervous systems of two individuals, the first direct and purely electronic communication between the nervous systems of two humans, with a view to ultimately creating a form of telepathy or empathy using the Internet to communicate 'brain-to-brain'. Because of the potentially wide reaching implications for human enhancement of the research discussed by Gasson and his group, the work was dubbed 'Project Cyborg' by the media.
As of 2005, this was the first study in which this type of implant had been used with a human subject and Gasson was subsequently awarded a PhD for this work.
Invasive brain interfaces (2005)
Gasson and his colleagues, together with neurosurgeon Tipu A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrodata | Gyrodata, Incorporated is a privately owned company headquartered in Houston, Texas.
It is a leading provider of technology and services, including gyroscopic surveying, and wellbore logging, to the upstream oil and gas industry. The company’s surveying, wireline, and support services help customers place wells more precisely and accurately, improve hydrocarbon recovery factors, and reduce project lifecycle costs.
Gyrodata operates in more than 50 countries across multiple energy markets and employs approximately 600 people. The company has principal offices in Aberdeen, Scotland and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
On February 3, 2023, the company was acquired by SLB.
Services
The company operates across four major service areas: Drilling, Surveying, Wireline, and Support.
Drilling Services encompasses a wide range of technologies designed for directional drilling applications, including performance motors, measurement-while-drilling (MWD) tools, rotary steerable systems (RSS), and gyro-while-drilling (GWD) tools, the latter of which was invented by Gyrodata in 2002 to use real-time gyro steering and surveying data while drilling. Surveying Services provides gyroscopic surveys designed to improve wellbore placement using both spinning-mass and solid-state technology, depending on the application. Wireline Services covers not only traditional wireline and cased-hole logging solutions but unique offerings in high-density wellbore tortuosity logging and cement bond logging. Support Services covers drilling optimization and real-time monitoring provided by a remote operations center, with experts on-hand 24/7 to help improve performance and drilling challenges.
History
Gyrodata was founded in Houston, Texas by Robert S McMahan, Steve Klopp, Gary Uttecht and a team of industry veterans who recognized a gap in the market for surveying technologies. Several large, multinational oil and gas companies supported Gyrodata during its formation in an effort to bring new surveying technologies to market. After several years of technology development and numerous field trials with leading oil and gas operators, Gyrodata ran the first commercial gyroscopic survey in 1983. Several months later, Gyrodata opened its office in Aberdeen, Scotland to provide services for the North Sea. In 1987, Gyrodata opened its first office in Malaysia, and began working across the Asia Pacific region. A year later, the company opened its first offices in the Middle East. That same year, Gyrodata introduced the Gyrodata Electronic Magnetic Surveyor (GEMS) steering tool, which provided drilling guidance in directional drilling applications and logging.
In the early 1990s, Gyrodata built its Eastern Hemisphere headquarters in Aberdeen, Scotland while opening new regional offices in Argentina and Venezuela, which represented its first entry into Latin America. Following this, the company introduced the gyroscopic steering tool in 1992, which allowed for real-time gyro toolface on wire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help%20%28command%29 | In computing, help is a command in various command line shells such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, Bash, qshell, 4DOS/4NT, Windows PowerShell, Singularity shell, Python, MATLAB and GNU Octave. It provides online information about available commands and the shell environment.
Implementations
The command is available in operating systems such as Multics, Heath Company HDOS, CP/M Plus, DOS, IBM OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, IBM i, Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, THEOS/OASIS, Zilog Z80-RIO, Microware OS-9, Stratus OpenVOS, HP MPE/iX, Motorola VERSAdos, KolibriOS and also in the DEC RT-11, RSX-11, TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 operating systems. Furthermore it is available in the open source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox and in the EFI shell.
On Unix, the command is part of the Source Code Control System and prints help information for the SCCS commands.
Multics
The Multics help command prints descriptions of system commands/active functions and subroutines. It also prints various information about the system status, system changes, and other general information. This information is selected from segments maintained online, which are in a special format, called information segments. More than 800 information segments are available.
DEC OS/8
The DEC OS/8 CCL help command prints information on specified OS/8 programs.
DOS
MS-DOS
The help command is available in MS-DOS 5.x and later versions of the software.
The help command with a 'command' parameter would give help on a specific command.
If no arguments are provided, the command lists the contents of DOSHELP.HLP.
In MS-DOS 6.x this command exists as FASTHELP.
The MS-DOS 6.xx help command uses QBasic to view a quickhelp HELP.HLP file, which contains more extensive information on the commands, with some hyperlinking etc. The MS-DOS 6.22 help system is included on Windows 9x CD-ROM versions as well.
PC DOS
In PC DOS 5 and 6 help is the same form as MS-DOS 5 help command.
PC DOS 7.xx help uses view.exe to open OS/2 style INF files (cmdref.inf, dosrexx.inf and doserror.inf), opening these to the appropriate pages.
PC-MOS
The Software Link's PC-MOS includes an implementation of help. Like the rest of the operating system, it is licensed under the GPL v3.
DR-DOS
In DR-DOS, help is a batch file that launches DR-DOS' internal help program, dosbook.
ROM-DOS
Datalight ROM-DOS includes an implementation of the command. ROM-DOS was introduced in 1989 as an MS-DOS compatible operating system designed for embedded systems.
FreeDOS
The FreeDOS version was developed by Joe Cosentino.
4DOS/4NT
The 4DOS/4NT help command uses a text user interface to display the online help.
cmd.exe
Used without parameters, help lists and briefly describes every system command.
Windows NT-based versions use MS-DOS 5 style help. Versions before Windows Vista also have a Windows help file (NTCMDS.HLP or NTCMDS.INF) in a similar style to MS-DOS 6.
PowerShell
In PowerShell, help is a short form (implemented as a PowerShell function) for access to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIN%20%28finance%29 | The TRIN, or Arms index, developed by Richard Arms in the 1970s, is a short-term technical analysis stock market trading indicator based on the Advance-Decline Data. The name is short for TRading INdex. The index is calculated as follows:
A value below 1 usually indicates bullish sentiment, and a value above 1 – bearish. A reading reaching 1.5 is very bearish. The index was introduced by Richard Arms, and is continuously displayed during trading hours, among other indices, on the New York Stock Exchange's central wall display for the stocks traded on that exchange.
The denominator of the index is calculated based on number of shares traded, not their dollar value. Therefore, a highly traded stock with a low share price will affect the index more than the same dollar volume traded in a higher-priced stock.
References
External links
How to interpret the TRIN technical indicator at OnlineTradingConcepts.com
Investopedia - Arms Index - TRIN
Article by Mr. Richard W. Arms, Jr.
Market indicators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avvo | Avvo.com is an online marketplace for legal services, that provides lawyer referrals and access to a database of legal information consisting primarily of previously answered questions. Lawyer profiles may include client reviews, disciplinary actions, peer endorsements, and lawyer-submitted legal guides.
History
Avvo was founded in Seattle, Washington in 2006 by Mark Britton, a former legal counsel for Expedia, Inc. and Paul Bloom. Britton said he developed the idea while vacationing in Italy and was still receiving inquires from friends and colleagues seeking legal advice. Rich Barton, the founder of the Expedia, Inc. and real-estate database Zillow.com, was a key advisor during the initial ideation stages and still serves on the board of directors. Avvo was derived from “avvocato”, the Italian word for lawyer.
The company was initially financed with $13 million in venture capital from Benchmark Capital and Ignition Partners. Subsequently, Avvo raised $71.5 million in financing in 2015, which brings the company's total financing to $132 million.
In January 2018, Avvo entered a deal to be acquired by Internet Brands.
Business model
Avvo generates revenue by selling legal services, advertising, and other services primarily to lawyers. Avvo operates as a scraper site to generate its lawyer listing pages causing the District of Columbia Bar Association to specifically object to its business practices. An additional source of revenue for Avvo is through a subscription service called which allows lawyers to remove advertisements from their profile, including advertisements by competing lawyers which may appear on non-advertising lawyer profiles.
Lawyer directory
According to the website, the directory provides comprehensive profiles, client reviews, peer endorsements, and its own proprietary rating for more than 97% of all licensed attorneys in the United States. Avvo lawyer profiles are aggregated from public records provided by state bars and additional attorney licensing entities. Avvo will not delete any lawyer's profile, and has been criticized for including profiles of deceased lawyers.
As of 2010, Avvo's directory includes ratings of lawyers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia Bar Association released its position about Avvo:
The Bar has not entered into any agreement with Avvo; instead, Avvo has obtained Bar member information directly from the Bar’s Web site, in violation of our restrictions on use, and used that information for its own commercial purposes. The Bar has asked Avvo to remove all improperly acquired D.C. Bar member information from its Web site, cease all attempts to acquire such information from the Bar’s Web site, and cease using improperly acquired information for any commercial purpose.
Lawyer ratings
Avvo presents ratings of lawyers that are included in its directory, based upon a proprietary algorithm. Avvo cautions users that a rating "is not an endorsement of any particular law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20University%20Network | The Stanford University Network, also known as SUN, SUNet or SU-Net is the campus computer network for Stanford University.
History
Stanford Research Institute, formerly part of Stanford but on a separate campus, was the site of one of the four original ARPANET nodes. Later ARPANET nodes were located in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Computer Science Department, and the Stanford University Medical Center. In late 1979, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center donated equipment including Xerox Alto computers, a laser printer, and file server connected by Ethernet local area network technology.
A router based on the PDP-11 computer from Digital Equipment Corporation with software from MIT was used to connect the Ethernet to the ARPANET. The PARC Universal Packet protocol was initially used on the local parts of the network, which was the experimental version of Ethernet with a data rate under 3 megabits/second. As the TCP/IP protocols evolved through the 1980s, a TCP/IP network was built on the main campus, extending to other departments, and connecting many other computers. This network was called the Stanford University Network or SUN. Today, the campus network is referred to as SUNet.
Andy Bechtolsheim, a Stanford graduate student at the time, designed a SUN workstation for use on the network in 1980. It was inspired by the Alto, but used a more modular design powered by a Motorola 68000 processor interfaced to other circuit boards using Multibus. The workstations were used by researchers to develop the V-System and other projects. Bechtolsheim licensed the design to become the basis of the products of Sun Microsystems (whose name was a pun based on the SUN acronym).
The CPU board could be configured with Bechtolsheim's experimental Ethernet boards, or commercial 10 megabit/second boards made by 3Com or others to act as a router. These routers were called Blue Boxes for the color of their case. The routers were developed and deployed by a group of students, faculty, and staff, including Len Bosack who was in charge of the computer science department's computers, and Sandy Lerner who was the Director of Computer Facilities for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. All told there were about two dozen Blue Boxes scattered across campus. This original router design formed the base of the first Cisco Systems router hardware products, founded by Bosack and Lerner (who were married at the time).
The original router software was called NOS, Network Operating System, written by William Yeager, a staff research engineer at Stanford's medical school. Distinguishing features of NOS were that it was written in C and that it was multi-tasking capable; this allowed additional network interfaces and additional features to be easily added as new tasks. NOS was the basis of Cisco's IOS operating system. In 1987, Stanford licensed the router software and two computer boards to Cisco, after investigations by Stanford staff membe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASL%20Soccer | NASL Soccer is a 1980 Intellivision two-player game based on the North American Soccer League (1968–1984). Mattel released an Atari 2600 version of the game under its M Network label as International Soccer.
Reception
Video magazine's "1982 Guide to Electronic Games" found the game gameplay and implementation (its three-quarter perspective and scrolling playfield) "fascinating even to those who don't care for the real sport". NASL Soccer won the 1981 Arcade Awards (1980) for Best Sport Game.
References
1980 video games
Association football video games
Intellivision games
North America-exclusive video games
Mattel video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUN%20workstation | The SUN workstation was a modular computer system designed at Stanford University in the early 1980s. It became the seed technology for many commercial products, including the original workstations from Sun Microsystems.
History
In 1979 Xerox donated some Alto computers, developed at their Palo Alto Research Center, to Stanford's Computer Science Department, as well as other universities that were developing the early Internet. The Altos were connected using Ethernet to form several local area networks. The SUN's design was inspired by that of the Alto, but used lower-cost modular components. The project name was derived from the initials of the campus' Stanford University Network.
Professor Forest Baskett suggested the best-known configuration: a relatively low-cost personal workstation for computer-aided logic design work. The design created a 3M computer: a 1 million instructions per second (MIPS) processor, 1 Megabyte of memory and a 1 Megapixel raster scan bit-map graphics display. Sometimes the $10,000 estimated price was called the fourth "M" — a "Megapenny".
Director of Computer Facilities Ralph Gorin suggested other configurations and initially funded the project.
Graduate student Andy Bechtolsheim designed the hardware, with several other students and staff members assisting with software and other aspects of the project. Vaughan Pratt became unofficial faculty leader of the project in 1980.
Three key technologies made the SUN workstation possible: very large-scale integration (VLSI) integrated circuits, Multibus and ECAD.
ECAD (Electronic Computer Assisted Design, now known as Electronic design automation) allowed a single designer to quickly develop systems of greater complexity.
The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) had pioneered personal display terminals, but the 1971 system was showing its age. Bechtolsheim used the Stanford University Drawing System (SUDS) to design the SUN boards on the SAIL system. SUDS had been originally developed for the Foonly computer.
The Structured Computer Aided Logic Design (SCALD) package was then used to verify the design, automate layout and produce wire-wrapped prototypes and then printed circuit boards.
VLSI integrated circuits finally allowed for a high-level of hardware functionality to be included in a single chip. The graphics display controller was the first board designed, published in 1980. A Motorola 68000 CPU, along with memory, a parallel port controller and a serial port controller, were included on the main CPU board designed by Bechtolsheim. The third board was an interface to the 2.94 Mbits/second experimental Ethernet (before the speed was standardized at 10 Mbits/second).
The Multibus computer interface made it possible to use standard enclosures, and to use circuit boards made by different vendors to create other configurations.
For example, the CPU board combined with a multi-port serial controller created a terminal server (called a TIP, for Terminal Inter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runas | In computing, runas (a compound word, from “run as”) is a command in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems that allows a user to run specific tools and programs under a different username to the one that was used to logon to a computer interactively. It is similar to the Unix commands sudo and su, but the Unix commands generally require prior configuration by the system administrator to work for a particular user and/or command.
Microsoft Windows
The runas command was introduced with the Windows 2000 operating system. Any application can use this API to create a process with alternate credentials, for example, Windows Explorer in Windows 7 allows an application to be started under a different account if the shift key is held while right clicking its icon. The program has the ability to cache verified credentials so that the user only ever has to enter them once.
Syntax
The command-syntax is:
runas [{/profile | /noprofile}] [/env] [/netonly] [/smartcard] [/showtrustlevels] [/trustlevel:<TrustLevel>] [/savecred] /user:<UserAccountName> program
Parameters
This section is paraphrased from the runas /? command.
/noprofile: Speeds up the loading of the application by skipping the loading of the user's profile. Note that this might not speed up every application.
/profile: Do not skip loading the user's profile. This is the default setting.
/env: Use the actual environment, not the user's.
/netonly: Specifies that the given credentials are to be used for Remote access only.
/savecred: Credentials saved by the previous user. This setting is not available on Windows 7 Home or Windows 7 Starter Edition. This setting is left out from Windows XP Home Edition as well.
/smartcard: Specifies that the credentials will be supplied from a smartcard.
/user: Format is either USER@DOMAIN or DOMAIN\USER.
/showtrustlevels: Shows help (list of usable trust level parameters) for the /trustlevel switch.
/trustlevel: One of the trust levels listed by the /showtrustlevels switch.
program: Command line for the executable file. See examples below.
Note: Only type in the user's password, when the system asks for it.
Note: The /profile switch is not compatible with the /netonly switch.
Note: The /savecred and the /smartcard switches may not be used together.
Examples
runas /noprofile /user:machine\administrator cmd
runas /profile /env /user:domain\admin "mmc %windir%\system32\dsa.msc"
runas /user:user@domain.example.org "notepad C:\filename.txt"
runas /user:administrator /savecred "shutdown /i"
Inferno
The command is also included in the Inferno operating system.
Syntax
runas writes the user to /dev/user and invokes cmd with the given arguments.
runas user cmd [arg...]
Note: The command is only invoked if setting of the username succeeds.
See also
Comparison of privilege authorization features
sudo
doas
Principle of least privilege
User Account Control, which disables the Administrator SID for the desktop, allowing it to re-enabled by exception.
Referenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Ellis%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201977%29 | Kevin Ellis (born 11 May 1977) is an English football defender.
References
Since 1888... The Searchable Premiership and Football League Player Database (subscription required)
Pride of Anglia
1977 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Premier League players
Ipswich Town F.C. players
King's Lynn F.C. players
People from Tiptree
Footballers from Essex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20production%20game | Linear production game (LP Game) is a N-person game in which the value of a coalition can be obtained by solving a linear programming problem. It is widely used in the context of resource allocation and payoff distribution. Mathematically, there are m types of resources and n products can be produced out of them. Product j requires amount of the kth resource. The products can be sold at a given market price while the resources themselves can not. Each of the N players is given a vector of resources. The value of a coalition S is the maximum profit it can achieve with all the resources possessed by its members. It can be obtained by solving a corresponding linear programming problem as follows.
Core
Every LP game v is a totally balanced game. So every subgame of v has a non-empty core. One imputation can be computed by solving the dual problem of . Let be the optimal dual solution of . The payoff to player i is . It can be proved by the duality theorems that is in the core of v.
An important interpretation of the imputation is that under the current market, the value of each resource j is exactly , although it is not valued in themselves. So the payoff one player i should receive is the total value of the resources he possesses.
However, not all the imputations in the core can be obtained from the optimal dual solutions. There are a lot of discussions on this problem. One of the mostly widely used method is to consider the r-fold replication of the original problem. It can be shown that if an imputation u is in the core of the r-fold replicated game for all r, then u can be obtained from the optimal dual solution.
References
Cooperative games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSWLogo | MSWLogo is a programming language which is interpreted, based on the computer language Logo, with a graphical user interface (GUI) front end. It was developed by George Mills at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Its core is the same as UCBLogo by Brian Harvey. It is free and open-source software, with source code available, in Borland C++.
MSWLogo supports multiple turtle graphics, 3D computer graphics, and allows input from ports COM and LPT. It also supports a windows interface, so input/output (I/O) is available through this GUI, and keyboard and mouse events can trigger interrupts. Simple GIF animations may also be produced on MSWLogo version 6.5 with the command gifsave. The program is also used as educational software. Jim Muller wrote The Great Logo Adventure, a complete Logo manual using MSWLogo as the demonstration language.
MSWLogo has evolved into FMSLogo: An Educational Programming Environment, a free, open source implementation of the language Logo for Microsoft Windows. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is mainly developed and maintained by David Costanzo.
Features
MSWLogo, as of version 6.5b, supports many functions, including:
TCP/IP Winsock networking
Win16, Win32, Win32s
Text in all available fonts and sizes.
1024 independent turtles.
Bitmapped turtles
Bitmap cut, paste, stretch
Clipboard text and bitmaps
MIDI devices
Direct I/O to control external hardware
Serial and parallel port communications
Zooming
Tail recursion: optimizes most recursive functions
User error handling
Standard Logo parsing
Save and restore images in .BMP format files
Color bits per pixel: 1, 4, 8, 16, 24
Standard Windows hypertext help
Standard Windows printing
Separate library and work area
Construction of Windows dialog boxes
Event driven programming: mouse, keyboard, timer
Multimedia devices: WAV sound files, CD-ROM control, etc.
Event timers allowing multiprocessing
3D perspective drawing: wire-frame and solid
Animated GIF generation
References
External links
Interpreters (computing)
Educational programming languages
Logo programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McEwen%20Centre%20for%20Regenerative%20Medicine | The McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine was established at University Health Network in Toronto in 2003, with a donation from Rob and Cheryl McEwen, which they matched in 2006 with a second donation.
The McEwen Centre's vision is to be a world-renowned centre for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. To achieve this ambitious goal, the team of McEwen Investigators is working together to accelerate the development of more effective treatments for conditions such as heart disease, diabetes mellitus, respiratory disease and spinal cord injury. The McEwen Centre is based in the heart of Toronto's Discovery District at the MaRS Centre/Toronto Medical Discovery Tower.
The current Director of the McEwen Center for Regenerative Medicine is Prof. Gordon Keller, Canada Research Chair in Embryonic Stem Cell Biology.
External links
References
Medical research institutes in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Music%20Notation | Common Music Notation (CMN) is open-source musical notation software. It is written in Common Lisp and runs on a variety of operating systems and Common Lisp implementations.
CMN provides a package of functions to hierarchically describe a musical score. When evaluated, the musical score is rendered to an image. An example score expression and the image resulting from its evaluation is shown.
(cmn (size 24)
(system brace
(staff treble (meter 6 8)
(c4 e. tenuto) (d4 s) (ef4 e sf)
(c4 e) (d4 s) (en4 s) (fs4 e (fingering 3)))
(staff treble (meter 3 4)
(c5 e. marcato) (d5 s bartok-pizzicato) (ef5 e)
(c5 e staccato tenuto) (d5 s down-bow) (en5 s) (fs5 e)))
(system bracket
(staff bar bass (meter 6 16)
(c4 e. wedge) (d4 s staccato) (ef4 e left-hand-pizzicato)
(c4 e tenuto accent rfz) (d4 s mordent) (en4 s pp) (fs4 e fermata))))
The output file format of CMN is Encapsulated PostScript.
References
External links
CMN page at Stanford
Common Lisp (programming language) software
Scorewriters
Free music software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia%20%28computing%29 | Yersinia is a network security/hacking tool for Unix-like operating systems, designed to take advantage of some weakness in different network protocols. Yersinia is considered a valuable and widely used security tool. As of 2017 Yersinia is still under development with a latest stable version number 0.8.2 available only at GitHub source code repository.
Attacks for the following network protocols are implemented:
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
IEEE 802.1Q
IEEE 802.1X
Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL)
VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
Yersinia was rated #59 at SecTools.Org: Top 125 Network Security Tools
Similar Tools
Mausezahn a traffic generator for OSI layer two and above
Scapy an interactive Python based packet crafting tool
External links
GitHub source code repository
Computer security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulla%20Akselson | Ulla Mariana Akselson (23 November 1924 – 20 February 2007), also known as Ulla Axelsson, was a Swedish actress.
References
External links
SFI - Svensk Filmdatabas - Ulla Akselson
1924 births
2007 deaths
People from Solna Municipality
Swedish actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holidays%20for%20Sale | Holidays for Sale was an Australian holiday and travel television series that debuted on 17 May 2008, on the Nine Network. It was hosted by Australia's Funniest Home Videos host Shelley Craft, and presented by a team of diverse Nine Network personalities. It is now a website dedicated to offering the cheapest Australian holidays and is featured each week in the Nine Network's Getaway program.
External links
Official Website
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
Nine Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBN%20%28Mongolia%29 | Supervision Broadcasting Network (), or SBN, is a television channel in Mongolia. It is a subsidiary of Supervision LLC which is owned by Boldkhet Sereeter.
It was established in 2006.
See also
Media of Mongolia
Communications in Mongolia
References
External links
Channel information at MyTV.mn
Television companies of Mongolia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20environment%20management | User environment management (also abbreviated to UEM) is the management of a computer user's experience within their desktop environment.
The user environment
In a modern workplace, an organisation grants each user access to an operating system and the applications required for their role, applying corporate policy to ensure the user has appropriate access levels. This typically includes items such as the file systems, printers, and applications they should and shouldn't have access to. Within this framework, each user has a preferred way of operating, and they make several changes to enable them to work most efficiently. Common user changes include email signatures, language settings, and the environment's "look and feel."
The combination of corporate policy and user preference is described as the "user personality." Users develop an attachment to their PCs, although “their attachment is not to the device itself, but to the way in which they do their jobs today”.
Managing user personalization is a complex task that involves considering numerous factors and variables. As the desktop computing environment has evolved, the methods for delivering the desktop and applications have also expanded, adding to the complexity of managing the user's personality.
History
The personal computer was originally introduced to the workplace as a standalone device. Over time, these devices were networked, and network-attached storage was introduced to enable the sharing of resources and information. Several advancements and new technologies from software companies have extended and improved this model. Citrix offers the ability to store the desktop environment centrally and publish it to remote users. Microsoft acquired some of this technology to develop their terminal server solution.
Virtualization is a technology that evolved from mainframe computer, initially into the x86 architecture servers, and now enables virtualized desktop environments. This advancement is largely driven by VMware and Citrix. A further technology, application streaming, offers an alternative method for delivering applications to users. Softricity was a leader in this technology before being purchased by Microsoft, who brought the solution to market as Microsoft Application Virtualization.
The current environment
An IT administrator now has a variety of options when delivering a desktop and applications to a user; personal computer, virtual desktops, terminal servers, application virtualization, application streaming. Typically a combination of these is used to address all the requirements and constraints placed on an organization. Market analysts suggest that these technologies are complementary and will exist in tandem, rather than the newest technologies dominating. One growing segment of the market is the increase in provisioned and virtualized desktops, which can be managed centrally and address many of the limitations associated with distributed desktop computing. Several analy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Data%20Protection%20Authority | The Norwegian Data Protection Authority () is an agency of the Norwegian Government responsible for managing the Personal Data Act 2000, concerning privacy concerns. This Act replaced the Data Register Act 1978.
The authority is based in Oslo, and is an independent administrative body under the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform. It is the national data protection authority for Norway.
Helge Seip served as its first director from 1980 to 1989, and Georg Apenes served from 1989 to 2010. Ove Skåra served as acting director from April 2010. From May 2010 to April 2022, Bjørn Erik Thon served as director.
On 28 May 2010, Bjørn Erik Thon was appointed as new director.
On April 22, 2022, Line Coll was appointed director.
References
External links
Data Protection Authority
Government agencies established in 1980
Data protection authorities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Tan | Jan Michael Silverio Tan (born December 31, 1986), is a Filipino actor, dancer, and model. He became famous after winning in the second batch of the reality show StarStruck aired on GMA Network. He is currently an exclusive actor of GMA Network.
Personal life
Tan is of Chinese descent. He was baptized on July 31, 2016, as a Born Again Christian.
Career
He played the role of Rick in the installment of Sine Novela Maging Akin Ka Lamang aired on GMA Network. Also, he had a special appearance on GMA Telebabad shows Babangon Ako't Dudurugin Kita which is the last program on GMA Network that he appeared.
There have been rumors of Mike transferring to ABS-CBN, but he has confirmed in a recent interview that he will remain with GMA. He also had his first religious television movie "Tanikala: Ang Ikalawang Libro" with co-star and former StarStruck Alumni Sheena Halili, and co-produced with CBN Asia, Inc., which was recently shown on GMA 7 during Holy Week 2010.
He recently appeared into a remake of Trudis Liit a final special offering of Sine Novela drama anthology where he played one of the series regular. Then he joined the cast of Captain Barbell: Ang Pagbabalik the sequel of 2006 series. Mike starred again into the upcoming TV series Kung Aagawin Mo ang Langit opposite Carla Abellana as the show's leading man. After the show's success, he starred in his first prime time series as part of the main cast, Legacy with Heart Evangelista, Lovi Poe, Alessandra de Rossi, Geoff Eigenmann and Sid Lucero. Right after Legacy, Mike came back in daytime soap via Faithfully as the lead man of Maxene Magalona.
Filmography
Television
Film
Awards
References
External links
Sparkle GMA Artist Center profile
1986 births
Living people
Filipino male child actors
Filipino male film actors
Filipino male television actors
Filipino people of Chinese descent
Participants in Philippine reality television series
Reality show winners
StarStruck (Philippine TV series) participants
StarStruck (Philippine TV series) winners
GMA Network personalities
Filipino male models
Actors from Marikina
Male actors from Rizal
Tagalog people
Converts to evangelical Christianity
Filipino evangelicals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEISA | GEISA - GEISA (Gestion et Etude des Informations Spectroscopiques Atmosphériques: Management and Study of Spectroscopic Information) is a computer-accessible spectroscopic database, designed to facilitate accurate forward radiative transfer calculations using a line-by-line and layer-by-layer approach. It was started in 1974, at Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) in France. GEISA is maintained by the ARA group at LMD (Ecole Polytechnique) for its scientific part and by the ETHER group (CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-France) at IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace) for its technical part. Currently, GEISA is involved in activities related to the assessment of the capabilities of IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer on board of the METOP European satellite) through the GEISA/IASI database derived from GEISA.
See also
List of atmospheric radiative transfer codes
Atmospheric radiative transfer codes
Google scholar papers on GEISA
Absorption spectrum
4A/OP
References
External links
ARA group at LMD
CNES-CNRS ETHER website (archived)
GEISA to HITRAN file converter
Atmospheric radiative transfer codes
Infrared spectroscopy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breusch%E2%80%93Godfrey%20test | In statistics, the Breusch–Godfrey test is used to assess the validity of some of the modelling assumptions inherent in applying regression-like models to observed data series. In particular, it tests for the presence of serial correlation that has not been included in a proposed model structure and which, if present, would mean that incorrect conclusions would be drawn from other tests or that sub-optimal estimates of model parameters would be obtained.
The regression models to which the test can be applied include cases where lagged values of the dependent variables are used as independent variables in the model's representation for later observations. This type of structure is common in econometric models.
The test is named after Trevor S. Breusch and Leslie G. Godfrey.
Background
The Breusch–Godfrey test is a test for autocorrelation in the errors in a regression model. It makes use of the residuals from the model being considered in a regression analysis, and a test statistic is derived from these. The null hypothesis is that there is no serial correlation of any order up to p.
Because the test is based on the idea of Lagrange multiplier testing, it is sometimes referred to as an LM test for serial correlation.
A similar assessment can be also carried out with the Durbin–Watson test and the Ljung–Box test. However, the test is more general than that using the Durbin–Watson statistic (or Durbin's h statistic), which is only valid for nonstochastic regressors and for testing the possibility of a first-order autoregressive model (e.g. AR(1)) for the regression errors. The BG test has none of these restrictions, and is statistically more powerful than Durbin's h statistic.
The BG test is considered to be more general than the Ljung-Box test because the latter requires the assumption of strict exogeneity, but the BG test does not. However, the BG test requires the assumptions of stronger forms of predeterminedness and conditional homoskedastictiy.
Procedure
Consider a linear regression of any form, for example
where the errors might follow an AR(p) autoregressive scheme, as follows:
The simple regression model is first fitted by ordinary least squares to obtain a set of sample residuals .
Breusch and Godfrey proved that, if the following auxiliary regression model is fitted
and if the usual Coefficient of determination ( statistic) is calculated for this model:
,
where stands for the arithmetic mean over the last samples. With number of data-points available for the second regression , where is the total number of observations. Note that the value of n depends on the number of lags of the error term ().
Then the following asymptotic approximation can be used for the distribution of the test statistic
when the null hypothesis holds (that is, there is no serial correlation of any order up to p). Here n is
Software
In R, this test is performed by function bgtest, available in package lmtest.
In Stata, this test is pe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Disclosure | The Network of Disclosure (also called NOD) was a group of comic book dealers and collectors who pledged to disclose any form of restoration or enhancement, known to exist, on a comic book whose ownership is to be transferred to another party through sale, trade or gift. The NOD, founded in early 2006, was the only comic book collecting educational organization in the world. The objective of the organization was to create a safer and more open environment for those buying and selling comic books. By publicly sharing this type of history of each of these books with fellow collectors and customers, the group sought to foster both a greater level of confidence and sense of security within the marketplace.
The organization was composed of members from across the globe. Notable members (founders in bold) included the following: Charter Member Brent Moeshlin, Quality Comix; Charter Member Marnin Rosenberg, Collectors Assemble / Comic Collectors; Senior Overstreet Advisor, Charter Member Mark Zaid, Esquire Comics, Overstreet Advisor; notable restoration expert/Charter Member Susan Cicconi, The Restoration Lab; and NOD Logo Copyright owner Charter Member Brad Hamann, Brad Hamann Illustration & Design. In March 2009 the NOD became a non-profit organization.
On December 12, 2009, the members of the Network of Disclosure voted to change the name and mission statement of the organization and to replace the existing membership guidelines with a new code of ethics. As a result of this ballot, the Network of Disclosure effectively ceased to exist and a new organization with a broader mission and focus was created in its place. This new organization, the Comic Book Collecting Association (CBCA) was announced to the public on February 22, 2010.
Controversy
NOD was the object of controversy in the comic collecting hobby due to the organization's strong stand against non-disclosure practices of some sellers in the hobby. This controversy stems from the conflict between those that feel certain forms of "enhancement" (restoration to some) should be disclosed and those that do not agree that these procedures should be proactively disclosed.
Organization's Principles
Integrity - NOD members believed in an ethical standard that rises to the highest levels. Usage of the NOD logo by sellers denotes a level of trust that can be readily accepted by buyers even when no prior interaction existed between the two individuals. Participation in NOD by all members demonstrates adoption to strict codes of conduct that instills ideals that promotes the betterment of the hobby.
Security - Involvement in the NOD required a degree of openness that exists nowhere else. Disclosure of important information to a prospective buyer creates a greater sense of security and trust to minimize concerns and ensure complete satisfaction with a transaction, both immediately and thereafter.
Education - A smart buyer is an educated buyer. NOD promoted that all buyers, whether collectors, invest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Okapi | Radio Okapi is a radio network that operates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On an annual budget of USD$4.5 million, a staff of 200 provide news and information to the entire urban population of the DRC. Radio Okapi provides programming in French and in the four national languages of Congo: Lingala, Kituba, Swahili and Tshiluba,
History
Radio Okapi was created by the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) and the Swiss NGO Fondation Hirondelle. The agreement between MONUC and the Congolese government foresaw the creation of a radio network to inform the Congolese population of the MONUC's efforts. MONUC and the Fondation Hirondelle submitted a plan in 2001 to the United Nations, and the radio network went live on 25 February 2002. The station takes its name from the endangered Okapi, the elusive mammal native to the rainforest of northern Congo.
In 2011 The Economist said that Radio Okapi was "one of Africa’s most admirably independent radio services".
Mary Myers, in the essay "Well-Informed Journalists Make Well-Informed Citizens: Coverage of Governance Issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo," said that the radio station "raised the bar for other indigenous radio and TV stations in the country." Other area radio stations copied Radio Okapi's news gathering techniques, program concepts, and formats. Myers also said "Although Radio Okapi can be a thorn in the government's side at times, its stance of promoting peace and democracy and the strong role it plays in civic education have led to its recognition, even by the Minister of Information, as a national asset that the Democratic Republic of Congo could ill afford to lose."
Serge Maheshe a journalist for Radio Okapi was shot on 13 June 2007. Maheshe was the editor in chief in Bukavu for the station.
Transmitters
Radio Okapi provides programming in French and in Lingala, Kituba, Swahili and Tshiluba, transmitting all day every day on:
Kinshasa 103.5 MHz
Aru 88.0 MHz
Bandundu 99.0 MHz
Baraka 103.4 MHz
Béni 92.0 MHz
Bukavu 95.3 MHz
Bunia 104.9 MHz
Bunyakiri 103.2 MHz
Butembo 92.9 MHz
Dungu 103.4 MHz
Gbadolite 93.0 MHz
Gemena 95.4 MHz
Goma 105.2 MHz
Isiro 90.1 MHz
Kalemie 105.0 MHz
Kamina 104.3 MHz
Kananga 93.0 MHz
Kanyabayonga 96.0 MHz
Kikwit 103.5 MHz
Kindu 103.0 MHz
Kisangani 94.8 MHz
Lisala 104.3 MHz
Lubumbashi 95.8 MHz
Mahagi 96.0 MHz
Manono 104.5 MHz
Masisi 96.0 MHz
Matadi 102.0 MHz
Mbandaka 103.0 MHz
Mbuji-Mayi 103.5 MHz
Moba 102.4 MHz
Rutshuru 95.3 MHz
Tshomo Uni 106.5 MHz
Uvira 105.3 MHz
Walikale 104.9 MHz
Shortwave
9635 kHz (5 AM to 7 AM)
11690 kHz (5 PM to 6 PM)
Sources
In film
Radio Okapi, radio de la vie, is a documentary produced by Pierre Guyot, 2006. It premiered on TV5 in June 2006. It examines the work of Breuil Munganga, a journalist at Radio Okapi. It has been selected by many festivals in France, Canada, Central African Republic and Burkina Faso.
See also
Radios en République démocratique du Congo
References
External lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirNav%20Systems | AirNav Systems is a Tampa-based global flight tracking and data services company founded in 2001. The company operates a flight tracking website and mobile app called Radarbox which offers worldwide tracking of commercial and general aviation flights. AirNav Systems also owns and operates a ground-based ADS-B tracking network that is supported by over 20,000 active volunteer ADS-B data feeders from over 180 countries. The company's real-time tracking and data services are also used by 25,000 aviation related businesses, government agencies, airlines, media channels and airports in over 60 countries.
The company's R&D Center and European office is located in Lisbon, Portugal.
History
In 1996, while studying computer science at university, CEO, Andre Brandao developed a flight tracking application called AirNav Suite. In 2001 he established AirNav Systems.
In early 2020, AirNav Systems announced a partnership with venture capital firm BrightCap Ventures. The same year, the company was chosen by ARGUS International, Inc to provide global flight and ground aircraft tracking services.
In October 2020, Satellite-based ADS-B data was made available to all Radarbox users for free. AirNav Systems currently partners with multiple satellite providers including Spire Aviation to provide satellite-based tracking on its platform.
RadarBox is frequently cited, and its data is used in globally renowned news outlets such as Bloomberg, CNN, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. For instance, in June 2022, the New York Times cited RadarBox in its report about wealthy Russians fleeing the country before and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Further, in March 2021, the Financial Times obtained and used flight records from RadarBox in an article following the disappearance of Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma. It also acquired the flight records for its report on Fu Xiaotian, a Chinese TV presenter linked to a missing foreign minister who had a surrogate child in the US. Bloomberg also used RadarBox flight data to report how the rapid recovery in air travel highlighted a massive shortage in staffing at European airports and airlines in 2022. Additionally, RadarBox flight records were used in a Bloomberg article about the German Foreign Minister’s Plane being Stranded in UAE en Route to Australia in August, 2023. In March, 2022, RadarBox flight tracking data was also used by the UK news outlet The Guardian to report on the whereabouts of Roman Abramovich’s private jet following UK sanctions on the Russian Oligarch.
Tracking sources
AirNav Systems is the parent company of Radarbox which displays flight data in real-time from all over the world. Radarbox aggregates data from 10 different sources:
ADS-B (Ground-based): The source of this data are terrestrial ADS-B receivers, which receive and collect data from the transponders of aircraft flying within the ADS-B receivers’ range. The data gathered by these terrestrial ADS-B receivers include, aircraft sp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Animal%20Protection%20Network | Chinese Animal Protection Network (CAPN) is a non-profit animal protection organization, and the first network for animal protection in China, founded by Chinese people. CAPN is known for its pioneering role in the animal rights movement in China, leading the growing movement against eating cats and dogs, and providing a free encyclopedia on animal welfare information.
History
The Chinese Animal Protection Network was founded by Dr. Jenia Meng in 2004, with its first project, the Chinese Companion Animal Protection Network. Since then, the organization has initiated projects targeting issues such as lab animal rights, vegetarianism, and opposition to indiscriminate culling as a method of population control of animals. Those projects have led the direction of Chinese non-governmental organizations.
By 2008, the organization had 48 member groups, two branches, and more than 20,000 individual supporters. The organization reported on its website in 2014, that its network has expanded to reach almost every part of China, with more than 200 partner groups around world.
Philosophy
CAPN has a science-based philosophy of animal rights. They oppose violence in the animal rights movement, and see animal rights as a dynamic concept; they believe the rights of different animals are different because their needs are different. Six keys of the organization's philosophy, developed in 2008, include:
unity: the philosophy of animal rights is a part of a universal law; scientific disciplines such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology have shown through the years that the universe is interrelated.
complexity: everyone has his/her own view of animal rights. Different organizations, academics, and even animal rights activists have different viewpoints; when working with people and organizations, one should always keep in mind this diversity of viewpoints.
evolution: human understanding of animal rights is evolving, as with all other areas of human knowledge. Science and technology is developing to help humans better understand the universe and their place in the universe; it is natural that our understanding of animal rights will continue to evolve.
continuity: continuity exists between everything, from human to nonhuman animals, from more human-related animals to less related animals. The difference is not discrete but gradual. CAPN advocates to analyze specific issues, due to the different needs of individual animals.
originality: the concept of animal rights is not a new concept, as three pillars of traditional Chinese thought, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, all have teachings regarding respect towards animals.
Projects
Chinese Companion Animal Protection Network
The Chinese Companion Animal Protection Network (CCAPN) was launched in 2004 at the founding of CAPN. The campaign against eating cats and dogs was the first concern of CCAPN. "Isolated animal welfare organisations were already working to rescue strays by then, but consumption |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Life%20Radio | Family Life Radio is a network of Christian radio stations in the United States, broadcasting Contemporary Christian music, as well as some Christian talk and teaching programs. The network is based in Tucson, Arizona, with its flagship station as KFLT-FM at 104.1 MHz.
Christian Talk and Teaching shows heard on Family Life Radio include: Intentional Living with Dr. Randy Carlson, Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, Turning Point with David Jeremiah and In Touch with Charles Stanley.
Stations
Family Life Radio is currently heard on 36 radio stations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
References
External links
Family Life Radio's official website
Family Life Radio's webcast
Christian radio stations in the United States
American radio networks
Organizations based in Tucson, Arizona
Non-profit organizations based in Arizona
Family Life Radio stations
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
1966 establishments in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Slater%20%28science%20fiction%29 | Ken Slater (1917–2008) was a British science fiction fan and bookseller. In 1947, while serving in the British Army of the Rhine, he started Operation Fantast, a network of science fiction fans which had 800 members around the world by 1950 though it folded a few years later. Through Operation Fantast, he was the major importer of American science fiction books and magazines into Britain - an activity which he continued, after its collapse, through his company Fantast (Medway) up to the time of his death. He was a founder member of the British Science Fiction Association in 1958.
Awards and honours
He was Guest of Honour at Brumcon, the 1959 Eastercon and at Conspiracy '87, the 1987 Worldcon, jointly with his wife Joyce. He received the Doc Weir Award in 1966 and the Big Heart Award in 1995. At the first Hugo Award ceremony in Philadelphia in 1953, Forrest J Ackerman won the trophy for #1 Fan Personality, but said that the award should have gone to Slater.
References
1917 births
2008 deaths
British expatriates in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon%20School%20District | Avalon School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Avalon, New Jersey, United States. Based on data from the 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending prepared by the New Jersey Department of Education, the Avalon district's total per pupil spending of $43,775 was the highest of any regular school district.
Starting with the 2011-12 school year, in an agreement with the Stone Harbor School District, public school students in grades K-4 from both communities attend school at Stone Harbor Elementary School in Stone Harbor while all students in PreK and in grades 5-8 attend school in Avalon as part of a reciprocal sending/receiving relationship.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 61 students and 13.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 4.4:1. In the 2016–17 school year, Avalon had the smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 43 students.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.
Students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Middle Township High School in Cape May Court House, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Middle Township Public Schools, together with students from Avalon, Dennis Township, Stone Harbor and Woodbine. As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 767 students and 64.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1.
Operations
The Avalon and Stone Harbor school districts operate like a single school district even though they are legally two separate districts; they can move teachers between the two schools. In terms of their student populations both districts having among the lowest numbers in New Jersey.
In 2017 Avalon School District was the New Jersey school district with the smallest student population.
Curriculum
The student sharing agreement means the Avalon and Stone Harbor districts retain foreign language and extracurricular programs they would not otherwise have.
Schools
Avalon Elementary School had an enrollment of 61 students in the 2018–19 school year in PreK and grades 5-8.
The school has a ceramic kiln for its art room and an outdoor track which non-school individuals may use. It shares space with the Avalon Public Library. In 2016 the school had 60 students. About 40% of the combined Avalon and Stone Harbor students were from out of district and paid tuition, with many coming from the Cape May Courthouse area.
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
Stacey Tracy, superintendent
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This satellite network was formed to provide stations with news, information, and cultural programming in Spanish and musical programs showcasing a variety of Latino formats with emphasis on Mexican folk and Afro-Caribbean rhythms. Satélite Radio Bilingüe builds on Radio Bilingüe's decades-old tradition of talk programs, special events coverage and its flagship news service, Noticiero Latino, for stations across the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico.
Radio Bilingüe is the recognized Spanish-language radio service for the public radio system in the United States. It serves over half a million listeners with its pioneering daily Spanish-language national talk show, Línea Abierta, its independently produced news service, Noticiero Latino, and its rainbow of Spanish-language folk music for its national Latino audiences. The entire 24-hour daily operation is totally devoted to public service. Radio Bilingüe has a full-time staff of twenty-five and a budget of two million dollars. Its funders include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The California Endowment, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the California State Health Department - Tobacco Control Section, and many other funding partners interested in informing hard-to-reach, low-income, Latino populations in California and across the U.S.
History
Founded in 1976 by Hugo Morales along with Latino activists, farmworkers, and community members, Radio Bilingüe (RB) became the first full-power FM radio station to provide media access and culturally and socially relevant news and information to the growing Spanish-speaking community of California’s Central Valley. RB is a non-profit, educational, public radio network aimed at serving primarily underserved and underrepresented Latinos, as well as to other minority communities, living in the United States.
Radio Bilingüe became formally incorporated in July 1977 when its articles of incorporation were signed. Two years later, on August 20, 1979, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved Radio Bilingüe's application for its first station, KSJV 91.5 FM in Fresno. The radio station's first broadcast took place on July 4, 1980; but it wasn’t until August 5, 1980, that the FCC legally granted Radio Bilingüe its noncommercial educational FM station license.
Radio Bilingüe’s first home was on the fourth floor of the Mason Building of the Fulton Mall in downtown Fresno. Its 16,000-watt transmitter, located on Eshom Point in the Sierra Nevada, had the capacity to reach the Chicano and Mexican community living in the Central Valley of California between the cities of Merced and Bakersfield. Radio Bilingüe began feat |
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