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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Statistical%20Office%20of%20Papua%20New%20Guinea | The National Statistical Office of Papua New Guinea is a national institute of Papua New Guinea, which is dedicated to collecting socio-economic data in the country. It collects data on demographics, population, climatology, industry, tourism, education and employment etc.
External links
www.nso.gov.pg - site ceased to function in January 2012 and re-designed and developed again in 2015 by its ICT Branch
Papua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism%20Generator | The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces "close imitations" of postmodernist writing. It was written in 1996 by Andrew C. Bulhak of Monash University using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars. A free version is also hosted online. The essays are produced from a formal grammar defined by a recursive transition network.
Responses
It was mentioned by biologist Richard Dawkins in the conclusion to his article "Postmodernism Disrobed" (1998) for the scientific journal Nature, reprinted in his book A Devil's Chaplain (2004).
After he "produced the first two [lines] using a 'Postmodernism Generator,' and the second two using an 'Analytic Philosophy Generator'", philosophy of information and information ethics researcher Luciano Floridi stated, that
See also
Academese
Parody generator
Paper generator
SCIgen
Sokal affair
Monte Carlo method
References
External links
The Postmodernism Generator web page (generates a random postmodernist article each time loaded)
snarXiv
Chomskybot (a similar program from the 80's based on a small corpus of Analytic philosopher Noam Chomsky's texts )
Chomskybot (the new home of the chomskybot as the previous home expired) )
Analytic Philosophy Generator
Criticism of postmodernism
Postmodernism
Natural language generation
Computer-related introductions in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefronts | Battlefronts is an Australian lifestyle and DIY television series that aired on the Nine Network in 2008. It is hosted by former Olympic swimmer, Giaan Rooney.
Nine Network original programming
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20Me%20a%20Supermodel%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Make Me a Supermodel was an Australian reality television series based on the successful British TV series of the same title. It debuted on the Seven Network on 6 August 2008 and was hosted by the former Miss Universe winner Jennifer Hawkins.
The judges for the program were Martin Walsh, managing director of Chadwick Models, and Jackie Frank, editor of the fashion magazine Marie Claire. Tyson Beckford, the co-host of the American edition, was a guest judge and mentor for the first few episodes whilst Travis Fimmel turned down being a judge for the program.
It was also announced that Tyson Beckford "finished up his MMAS duties after the second episode and may return sometime in the future." He did not return afterward.
The winner of the competition, chosen by the viewers, would receive a fashion pictorial in Marie Claire magazine, a one-year contract with Chadwick Models, and a trip to New York City to meet with New York Model Management.
The winner of the first and only series was Rhys Uhlich, who beat out runner-up Shanina Shaik and second runner-up Courtney Chircop.
The series was not renewed for a second season.
Auditions
Auditions for the program were held from 14 June to 6 July at:
Mercure Hotel Sydney, George Street, Sydney, New South Wales on 14 June
The Sebel, Church Street, Parramatta, New South Wales on 15 June
Mercure Grosvenor Hotel Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, on
Gold Coast International Hotel, Staghorn Avenue, Surfers Paradise, Queensland on 21 June
Mercure Hotel Brisbane, North Quay, Brisbane, Queensland on 22 June
Claremont Showground, Perth, Western Australia on 26 June
Holiday Inn Esplanade Darwin, The Esplanade, Darwin, Northern Territory on 28 June
Mercure Hotel Hobart, Bathurst Street, Hobart, Tasmania on 3 July
Novotel Melbourne on Collins, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria on 5 July
Frankston Arts Centre, Cnr Davey & Young Streets, Frankston, Victoria on 6 July
Background
The show went through an auditioning period where the top 40 contestants were chosen. From there the top 40 were sent to a two-day 'Supermodel Crash-Course,' where they were narrowed down to the top 14. From there the supermodel lifestyle began. The weekly agenda was as follows.
Thursday - The show airs and the Bottom 3 are revealed to Australia, so that votes can be made to save their favorite competitor.
Friday - Morning - "Elimination Day," after votes are tallied bottom 3 are gathered and the eliminated contestant notified. Afternoon - Models take on first challenge of the new week, e.g. Speed dating or dancing lessons
Saturday - Photo shoot is taken
Sunday - Catwalk training
Monday - Catwalk day as well as notification to models of top 3 and bottom 4
Tuesday - "Off the Runway" show aired until second of October 2008
And the cycle went on until 3 models remained.
Seasons
Episodes
A Nationwide Audition episode and a Top 40 episode were aired prior to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, these episo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Greece | Rail transport in Greece has a history which began in 1869, with the completion of the then Athens & Piraeus Railway. From the 1880s to the 1920s, the majority of the network was built, reaching its heyday in 1940. From the 1950s onward, the railway system entered a period of decline, culminating in the service cuts of 2011. Ever since the 1990s, the network has been steadily modernized, but still remains smaller than its peak length. The operation of the Greek railway network is split between the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE), which owns and maintains the rail infrastructure; GAIAOSE, which owns the building infrastructure (including stations) and the former OSE rolling stock, Hellenic Train; and other private companies that run the trains on the network. Greece is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Greece is 73.
History
Ancient Greece
The Diolkos was a paved trackway near Corinth in Ancient Greece which enabled boats to be moved overland across the Isthmus of Corinth. The shortcut allowed ancient vessels to avoid the dangerous circumnavigation of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is regarded by the British historian of science M.J.T. Lewis, author of Early Wooden Railways, as the first railway (as defined as a track to direct vehicles so they may not leave the track) to ever be constructed.
The beginnings (1868–1919)
Greek independence in 1832 coincided with the start of the railway era. By 1835 plans were being put to the Greek state to construct a railway line from Athens to the port of Piraeus. Twenty-two years later, in 1857, a contract for its construction was signed and the work commenced. It took four different companies a further twelve years to lay the of track, the work being completed in 1869.
Greece towards the end of the 19th century was a collection of small agricultural towns acting as marketplaces and economic centres for the villages that surrounded them. Greece had very little industry and few roads, which made the government think about the development of a railway system that would go towards addressing the lack of internal and external communication that existed. In 1881 the Prime Minister, Alexandros Koumoundouros signed four contracts for the laying of lines, with the intention of making Greece a pivotal point on the journey between Europe, India and Asia.
In the following year, 1882, Koumoundouros was replaced by Charilaos Trikoupis as Prime Minister, who cancelled the contracts, replacing them with four of his own. He had a different political vision for the railways, seeing them as a way of stimulating the internal growth of Greece and proposed a narrow-gauge () system encircling the northern Peloponnese, with a separate system in Thessaly; linking the port of Volos with the town of Kalambaka on the other side of the Thessalian plain. There was also a line of to be laid from Athens to Lavrio, on the peninsula of Eastern Attica. Trikoupis preferred narrow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVR%20HD | TVR HD () was a Romanian free-to-air high definition channel, owned by TVR, the Romanian state-owned broadcasting corporation. It broadcast programming of TVR1 and TVR2 in HD. It was launched on the first day of June 2008, during the children's international day. The channel got its license on April 2008.
On 3 November 2019, the channel was closed down and was replaced by TVR1 HD and TVR2 HD.
References
External links
Date tehnice pentru recepţia TVRHD (Romanian)
Defunct television channels in Romania
HD
Publicly funded broadcasters
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells%20and%20whistles | Bells and whistles refers to non-essential features, visual or functional, that are an enhancement to an object.
It may also refer to:
More Bells and Whistles, a 1990 computer animation created by Wayne Lytle
Detana!! TwinBee, a 1991 coin-operated video game produced by Konami (released outside Japan as Bells & Whistles)
"Bells and Whistles", a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad from the 2007 album People That Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World
"The Bells and Whistles", an episode of American TV series Smash |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski%20rental%20problem | In computer science, the ski rental problem is a name given to a class of problems in which there is a choice between continuing to pay a repeating cost or paying a one-time cost which eliminates or reduces the repeating cost.
The problem
Many online problems have a sub-problem called the rent/buy problem. We need to decide whether to stay in the current state and pay a certain amount of cost per time unit, or switch to another state and pay some fixed large cost with no further payment. Ski rental is one example where the rent/buy is the entire problem. Its basic version is:
A person is going skiing for an unknown number of days. Renting skis costs $1 per day and buying skis costs $10. Every day, the person must decide whether to continue renting skis for one more day or buy a pair of skis. If the person knows in advance how many days she will go skiing, she can decide her minimum cost. If she will be skiing for more than 10 days it will be cheaper to buy skis but if she will be skiing for fewer than 10 days it will be cheaper to rent. What should she do when she does not know in advance how many days she will ski?
Formally, the problem can be set up as follows. There is a number of days d (unknown) that the person will ski. The goal is to find an algorithm that minimizes the ratio between what the person would pay when d is not known in advance and what the person would pay optimally if the person knew d in advance. The problem is generally analyzed in the worst case, where the algorithm is fixed and then we look at the worst-case performance of the algorithm over all possible d. In particular, no assumptions are made regarding the distribution of d (and it is easy to see that, with knowledge of the distribution of d, a different analysis as well as different solutions would be preferred).
The break-even algorithm
The break-even algorithm instructs one to rent for 9 days and buy skis on the morning of day 10 if one is still up for skiing. If one has to stop skiing during the first 9 days, it costs the same as what one would pay if one had known the number of days one would go skiing. If one has to stop skiing after day 10, one's cost is $19 which is 90% more than what one would pay if one had known the number of days one would go skiing in advance. This is the worst case for the break-even algorithm.
The break-even algorithm is known to be the best deterministic algorithm for this problem.
The randomized algorithm
A person can flip a coin. If it comes up heads, she buy skis on day eight; otherwise, she buys skis on day 10. This is an instance of a randomized algorithm. The expected cost is at most 80% more than what the person would pay if she had known the number of days she would go skiing, regardless of how many days she skis. In particular, if the person skis for 10 days, her expected cost is 1/2 [7 +10] + 1/2 [9+10] = 18 dollars, only 80% excess instead of 90%.
A randomized algorithm can be understood as a composition of differe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost%20model | Cost model may refer to
Cost model (computer science): A model used in the analysis of algorithms to define what constitutes a single step in the execution of an algorithm.
Whole-life cost, the total cost of ownership over the life of an asset. Also known as Life-cycle cost (LCC). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board%20wargame | A board wargame is a wargame with a set playing surface or board, as opposed to being played on a computer or in a more free-form playing area as in miniatures games. The modern, commercial wargaming hobby (as distinct from military exercises, or war games) developed in 1954 following the publication and commercial success of Tactics. The board wargaming hobby continues to enjoy a sizeable following, with a number of game publishers and gaming conventions dedicated to the hobby both in the English-speaking world and further afield.
In the United States, commercial board wargames (often shortened to "wargames" for brevity) were popularized in the early 1970s. Elsewhere, notably Great Britain where miniatures had evolved its own commercial hobby, a smaller following developed. The genre is still known for a number of common game-play conventions (or game mechanics) that were developed early on.
The early history of board wargaming was dominated by The Avalon Hill Game Company, while other companies such as SPI also gained importance in the history of the genre.
Overview
Wargames exist in a range of game complexities. Some are fundamentally simple (often called "beer-and-pretzel games") whereas others attempt to simulate a high level of historical realism ("consim"—short for 'conflict simulation'). These two trends are also at the heart of long-running debates about "realism vs. playability". Because of the subject matter, games considered 'simple' by wargamers can be considered 'complex' to non-wargamers, especially if they have never run into some of the concepts that most wargames share, and often assume some familiarity with.
Wargames tend to be representational, with many using soldier-shaped pieces on a map-like board; as such, they may colloquially be called "dudes on a map" games.
While there is no direct correlation, the more serious wargames tend towards more complex rules with possibilities for more calculation and computation of odds, more exceptions (generally to reproduce unique historical circumstances), more available courses of action, and more detail or "chrome". The extreme end of this tendency are considered "monster games", which typically consist of a large subject represented on small scale. A good example of this would be Terrible Swift Sword, which tracks individual regiments in the Battle of Gettysburg, instead of the more common scale of brigades. These games typically have a combined playing surface (using several map sheets) larger than most tables, and thousands of counters.
Wargames tend to have a few fundamental problems. Notably, both player knowledge and player action are much less limited than what would be available to the player's real-life counterparts. Some games have rules for command and control and fog of war, using various methods. These mechanisms can be cumbersome and onerous, and often increase player frustration. However, there are some common solutions, such as employed by block wargames, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20Wiedemann%20algorithm | The block Wiedemann algorithm for computing kernel vectors of a matrix over a finite field is a generalization by Don Coppersmith of an algorithm due to Doug Wiedemann.
Wiedemann's algorithm
Let be an square matrix over some finite field F, let be a random vector of length , and let . Consider the sequence of vectors obtained by repeatedly multiplying the vector by the matrix ; let be any other vector of length , and consider the sequence of finite-field elements
We know that the matrix has a minimal polynomial; by the Cayley–Hamilton theorem we know that this polynomial is of degree (which we will call ) no more than . Say . Then ; so the minimal polynomial of the matrix annihilates the sequence and hence .
But the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm allows us to calculate relatively efficiently some sequence with . Our hope is that this sequence, which by construction annihilates , actually annihilates ; so we have . We then take advantage of the initial definition of to say and so is a hopefully non-zero kernel vector of .
The block Wiedemann (or Coppersmith-Wiedemann) algorithm
The natural implementation of sparse matrix arithmetic on a computer makes it easy to compute the sequence S in parallel for a number of vectors equal to the width of a machine word – indeed, it will normally take no longer to compute for that many vectors than for one. If you have several processors, you can compute the sequence S for a different set of random vectors in parallel on all the computers.
It turns out, by a generalization of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm to provide a sequence of small matrices, that you can take the sequence produced for a large number of vectors and generate a kernel vector of the original large matrix. You need to compute for some where need to satisfy and are a series of vectors of length n; but in practice you can take as a sequence of unit vectors and simply write out the first entries in your vectors at each time t.
Invariant Factor Calculation
The block Wiedemann algorithm can be used to calculate the leading invariant factors of the matrix, ie, the largest blocks of the Frobenius normal form. Given and where is a finite field of size , the probability that the leading invariant factors of are preserved in is
.
References
Wiedemann, D., "Solving sparse linear equations over finite fields," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory IT-32, pp. 54-62, 1986.
D. Coppersmith, Solving homogeneous linear equations over GF(2) via block Wiedemann algorithm, Math. Comp. 62 (1994), 333-350.
Villard's 1997 research report 'A study of Coppersmith's block Wiedemann algorithm using matrix polynomials' (the cover material is in French but the content in English) is a reasonable description.
Thomé's paper 'Subquadratic computation of vector generating polynomials and improvement of the block Wiedemann algorithm' uses a more sophisticated FFT-based algorithm for computing the vector generating polynomials, and describes a pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Turzo | Jeff Turzo, as singer/programming and songwriting/production partner in the electro-rock band God Lives Underwater (GLU), spent the better part of the 1990s as a producer and touring artist, first signed by Rick Rubin to American Recordings in 1993.
American went on to release GLU's self-titled EP and debut album Empty, which spawned minor radio hits "No More Love" and "All Wrong", the former as a single from the soundtrack to the hit Keanu Reeves film Johnny Mnemonic.
GLU then made a move to 1500 /A&M, who went on to release their second full-length Life in the So-Called Space Age, which generated the hit, "From Your Mouth". The single enjoyed play on alternative rock stations and MTV alike, and saw the band hitting the road for several years of mostly sold-out shows alongside notable artists including KMFDM, Korn, Stabbing Westward, Life of Agony, Filter, Far, Type O Negative, Genitorturers, Deftones, No Doubt, and Sublime.
In addition to his repertoire as a writer and programmer, Turzo was a multi-instrumentalist and producer with synthesis/sampling knowledge, and with his GLU partner David Reilly stayed busy with other production and remix projects as well, including remixes for Skinny Puppy, Rob Zombie and Messiah, and organizing and contributing to 1998's For the Masses: A Tribute To Depeche Mode, which also featured tracks from Deftones, Smashing Pumpkins, Failure, The Cure and Monster Magnet.
2004 saw the release of GLU's Up Off The Floor, released worldwide in June on Megaforce/Locomotive.
Turzo later founded Overstayer Recording Equipment, Inc. which manufactures analog audio processing gear for recording studios and musicians. The company is based in Los Angeles, California.
Labels
American Recordings
Elektra Records
Nitrus
Releases
Mass Hystereo (1997)
Wired All Wrong (2006)
Filmography
Rushing Jason – 2008
References
Living people
Record producers from Pennsylvania
American electronic musicians
God Lives Underwater members
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Souderton, Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Food%20Information%20Resource%20Network | EuroFIR (European Food Information Resource) is a non-profit international association, which supports use of existing food composition data and future resources through cooperation and harmonization of data quality, functionality and global standards.
The purpose of the association is the development, management, publication and exploitation of food composition data, and the promotion of international cooperation and harmonization through improved data quality, food composition database searchability and standards, for example, with the European Committee for Standardization on the standard for food data. Other work includes that on ethnic and traditional foods and critical evaluation of data on nutrients
Membership
Full members
(*) Member organisations, which are also national food composition database compilers.
Associate members
(*) Member organisations, which are also national food composition database compilers.
Ordinary members
Honoured members
List of EuroFIR AISBL key people, members and collaborators on the EuroFIR website.
References
External links
of EuroFIR/European Food Information Resource
INFOODS – International Network of Food Data Systems
Codex Alimentarius – Set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under their Joint Food Standards Programme.
LanguaL – The International Framework for Food Description
EFSA – European Food Safety Authority
CEN – European Committee for Standardization
Food- and drink-related organizations
Food technology organizations
Health education organizations
Malnutrition organizations
Non-profit organisations based in Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Coons | David B. Coons is a computer graphics professional and long-time CGI expert.
Biography
David B. Coons was born in 1960, and grew up in Santa Monica, California. He attended Santa Monica High School while living in a highly unconventional family arrangement as he alternated between his uncle's apartment (where he actually had a bedroom) and his father's apartment (which was his sister's official residence), several blocks away. During his high school years he was a member of the "Olive Starlight Orchestra" (not an orchestra at all, but rather a social circle akin to Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury Group), that included film editor Kate Sanford, doctor David Eadington, graphics developers Eric Enderton and Greg Turk, writer Sandra Tsing Loh, lawyer Susan P. Crawford, and entrepreneur Christophe Pettus (founder of the company Blowfish). He also worked on films including a vampire movie entitled Murder in Vein and a short called The Juggler, which starred Keith Goldfarb.
At the main SIGGRAPH Convention every year, Coons can be identified by the job description on his badge, which invariably reads "Mad Scientist".
Scanning and computer graphics
Active in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Coons works behind the scenes in the film and computer graphics industries. He is also the president and owner of ArtScans Studio in Culver City, California, where he uses a scanner of his own invention to serve a clientele of celebrity artists and fine artists. The ArtScans page describes the scanner as: "ArtScans has been doing accurate colour capture for reproduction since 1992. We own and operate a large (44" x 50") flatbed scanner that is the only one of its kind in the world. Both the scanner and its software were designed by us."
Keith Goldfarb, co-founder of Rhythm and Hues Studios, a computer-graphics studio that works on major motion pictures—Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004),—as well as high-end commercials, has called him "the most knowledgeable person about scanning on this planet."
Digital printing
David Coons was also a pioneer in the art of digital printing reproduction of scanned and computer generated artwork, specifically adapting the large format IRIS printer, a machine designed to work solely with proprietary prepress computer systems, to this task. In the late 1980s Coons developed software to use an IRIS 3024 at The Walt Disney Company to print images from Disney's new Computer Animation Production System. He also wrote software to print works created on desktop computers such as Sally Larsen 1989 Transformer series and a 1990 photography exhibition for Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. The work he did for Nash had to do with re-creating images for prints and negatives had been lost by scanning the remaining contact prints at high resolution, and printing them in extremely large format.
Coons went on to become a business partner with Nash, helping found the Manhattan B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCSO | CCSO may refer to:
Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, the Cape Symphony orchestra
CCSO Nameserver, Computing and Communications Services Office Ph Nameserver, an early form of database search on the Internet
Citrus County Sheriff's Office |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20Chat%20%28TV%20series%29 | Flat Chat is an Australian sitcom that screened on the Nine Network in 2001.
Flat Chat tells the story of two very different women, a socialite and a bogan, whose lives change when their circumstances are reversed. Socialite Claire Jansen is forced to sell her mansion when her husband dies, leaving her flat broke. She moves into the stables when the house is bought by a rich but vulgar man and his new young wife who is unused to the ways of society. The two women form an unlikely alliance as they struggle to adjust to their new circumstances.
Cast
Jean Kittson as Claire Jansen
Alexandra Davies as Julie Coyne
Richard Healy as Barry Coyne
Richard Wilson as Nick Jansen
Marco Pio Venturini as Anthony Coreno
Sarah Chadwick as Sarah
Merridy Eastman as Katie
Sally Strecker as Arnya Duchevnic
Don Hany
Tory Mussett
Viewership
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! colspan="2" |Originally aired
! rowspan="2" width=5% |Network
! rowspan="2" width=5% |Viewers (millions)
! rowspan="2" width=5% | Rating
! rowspan="2" width=5% | Drama Rank
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! width=15% | Season finale
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|align="center"| 13
|align="center"| 19 February 2001
|align="center"| 15 May 2001
|align="center"| Nine Network
|align="center"| 1.166
|align="center"| 8.9
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|}
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
2000s Australian comedy television series
2001 Australian television series debuts
2001 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTown | Cybertown (CT) (formerly Colony City) was a free (changed to pay per year in 2002), family friendly, online community. There were places (chat rooms) available either through a 2D or 3D chat environment. Users were able to have jobs within the community, earning virtual money called CC's (CityCash) that could be used to buy 3D homes and items. Each user was allowed a free 2D home and could locate it within any of a number of colonies subdivided into neighborhoods and blocks. The cost was $5.00 per month or $49.99 a year.
As of September 2011 the site's membership base declined. As of February, 2012, the domain for Cybertown and its parent company, IVN, was offline.
New web site was launched by the fans of cybertown on cybertownrevival.com
The history of this site has been discussed in detail by Nadeshda Kaneva as an illustration of the social dynamics that emerge in online communities
Engine
The Cybertown trademark image are the 3D worlds that it has. The 3D worlds run VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), which is easy to design and modify. It uses The Blaxxun Community Platform coupled with the Blaxxun Contact VRML Viewer control, to interact in 3D worlds to make it more complete and capable of having a society structure by adding social interaction between users. Citizens are allowed and encouraged to create 3D objects for use in Cybertown. All its 3D objects were created by its citizens.
History
Colony City was started in 1996 as a showcase project of Blaxxun interactive of Munich, Germany. Colony City made use of the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), a standard for displaying 3D content, including virtual worlds and avatars, on the Web. These VRML files became shared virtual worlds using Blaxxun's award-winning multi-user server technology, enabling people from all over the world to meet and interact in rich-media environments in real-time on the Web.
Colony City society elements
Jobs
Currency
Home Ownership
Purchasable Items
Security
Rank Hierarchy
Before the merge of ColonyCity and Cybertown, ColonyCity had a massive unemployment problem which neared 90% of users unemployed, making the main purpose people came to ColonyCity was to interact with the other users. Those that were employed were most likely part of the development team or were the first people to arrive.
Midway through 1999, ColonyCity merged with Cybertown which dramatically increased the users to a few thousand. At the time Cybertown was mainly a portal site with categories of links, however ColonyCity was able to use the ideas from the categories to make 3D worlds and expand Cybertown. To allow this influx of citizens to have homes in Cybertown, new "colonies" (places to live) had to be created. This created a huge demand for jobs which in turn created a more dynamic economy and gave new objectives for people.
After the merge Cybertown expanded at a fast rate in terms of new worlds being opened and new users joining on. At this point Cybertown had |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXRF | WXRF (1590 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Guayama, Puerto Rico. The station is part of the Borinquen Radio News Network and is owned and operated by NotiRadio Broadcasting, LLC, and features programming from CNN en Español. It airs a Spanish-language News/Talk format. The station is shared with translator station W280FS 103.9 FM also in Guayama.
Call letters
The station was assigned the WGYA call letters by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 24, 2014. It changed back to its original WXRF call sign on August 2, 2017.
Translator stations
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WXRF
XRF
Radio stations established in 1948
1948 establishments in Puerto Rico
Guayama, Puerto Rico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlyweds%20%28TV%20series%29 | Newlyweds is an Australian television sitcom that originally aired on the Seven Network for two seasons from 20 February 1993 to 16 March 1994. The series was created by Ian McFadyen and produced by David Taft. It was written by McFadyen, Mary-Anne Fahey and Graeme Farmer.
The show centres on young couple Allie Carter (Annie Jones) and Peter Roberts (Christopher Gabardi) as they embark on married life, with constant interruptions from their families and friends.
Cast
Annie Jones as Allie Carter
Christopher Gabardi as Peter Roberts
Sandy Gore as Irene Carter
Cathy Godbold as Jules Carter
Joseph Clements as Simmo
Sandie Lillingston as Marnie Phelps
Valentina Levkowicz as Bev Roberts
Denis Moore as Ross Roberts
Ross Williams as Eric Kaufman
Rod Mullinar as Kirby Hacker
Elisha Hall as Kelly
Jason Torrens as Duncan
Matthew Turner as Matt (series 1)
Brendan McAlpin as Matt (series 2)
Caitlin McDougall
David Argue
Production
A pilot for the series was produced in Melbourne by Crawford Productions in early 1992. Written by Ian McFadyen and Mary-Anne Fahey, it starred Lisa McCune, Katrina Foster, Richard Healey, Cathy Godbold, Rhys Muldoon, Stewart Faichney and Tenley Gilmore. Georgie Parker was originally offered McCune's role, but had to turn it down due to other commitments. In April 1992, Jacqueline Lee Lewis of The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Crawfords would re-shoot the pilot for Seven Network after recasting several roles. After the second pilot was filmed, Lee Lewis reported that Seven liked the show's concept and were waiting on the scripts before giving it "final approval", but a tentative production date of August 1992 had been set.
Reception
Peter Holmes of The Sydney Morning Herald initially observed that "Newlyweds appears nothing more than Romeo and Juliet, badly done for the millionth time." Holmes admitted to openly laughing four times, especially at scenes involving Gore's "ice-bitch" character. The Ages Mark Lawrence thought the show was the most promising out of the recent locally produced sitcoms. He praised Gabardi's performance, saying that he has "good timing and clearly relishes his opportunity", while he found Jones was "a perfect match" for him. Like Holmes, Lawrence enjoyed Gore's performance as Irene, writing "If one must single out a star in this series, it's her. Such is the presence she creates."
Lawrence's fellow critic Geoff Slattery gave the show a more negative review, describing it as "a fatuous, demeaning, anti-intellectual series based on one sentence of concept: Newlyweds deals with problems familiar to all young couples.'" Slattery felt that the show was full of bad stereotypes and had "no redeeming social values, perceptions, or understanding of either newlyweds, or the Australia of the '90s."
See also
List of Australian television series
I've Married A Bachelor
The Comedy Company
References
External links
Seven Network original programming
Australian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20Form%20Factor%20Special%20Interest%20Group | The Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG, pronounced ess-eff-eff-sig) is an international non-profit standards body focused on modular computer hardware technologies used in embedded and small form factor computers and controllers. Members are mainly computer board and component manufacturers. The group was founded in 2007 and had a web site until early 2020.
History
SFF-SIG generally targets low power components and processors from VIA Technologies and Intel including the Nano and Atom processors, although products for RISC processors were discussed in some working groups. VIA, WinSystems, and Octagon Systems were founding members of SFF-SIG.
It was created in 2007.
A logo and web site debuted in April 2008.
SFF-SIG creates, promotes, and maintains embedded computer standards for form factors and computer buses. Examples include the governing documents and trademarks for CoreExpress, Pico-ITX, Express104, and SUMIT. Members use the specifications to build specialized embedded computers used in both commercial and rugged environments where applications insist on reliable control and data acquisition, for example.
Primarily focused on hardware, SFF-SIG defined new single-board computer (SBC) and computer-on-module (COM) form factors. SFF-SIG standardizes expansion connectors to create the building blocks required by system manufacturers. Each specification is a free open standard by ITU-T definition.
Specifications often use pre-existing interface buses and interconnects such as PCI Express, USB 2.0, ExpressCard, Low Pin Count (LPC) Bus, SPI / uWire, and I2C / SMBus, with adaptations for modular and extensible usage. Some standards preserve the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus and legacy peripherals.
See also
ExpressCard
PCI Express
Small Form Factor Committee
References
External links
Express104 spec boosts stackable module design
The Case for Smaller Form Factors in Industrial Systems
Pico-sized platform ushers in new era for I/O
What is SUMIT?
What is Express104
SFF-SIG Adopts CoreExpress Specification
Motherboard form factors
Computer hardware standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20and%20recursive%20queries%20in%20SQL | A hierarchical query is a type of SQL query that handles hierarchical model data. They are special cases of more general recursive fixpoint queries, which compute transitive closures.
In standard SQL:1999 hierarchical queries are implemented by way of recursive common table expressions (CTEs). Unlike Oracle's earlier connect-by clause, recursive CTEs were designed with fixpoint semantics from the beginning. Recursive CTEs from the standard were relatively close to the existing implementation in IBM DB2 version 2. Recursive CTEs are also supported by Microsoft SQL Server (since SQL Server 2008 R2), Firebird 2.1, PostgreSQL 8.4+, SQLite 3.8.3+, IBM Informix version 11.50+, CUBRID, MariaDB 10.2+ and MySQL 8.0.1+. Tableau has documentation describing how CTEs can be used. TIBCO Spotfire does not support CTEs, while Oracle 11g Release 2's implementation lacks fixpoint semantics.
Without common table expressions or connected-by clauses it is possible to achieve hierarchical queries with user-defined recursive functions.
Common table expression
A common table expression, or CTE, (in SQL) is a temporary named result set, derived from a simple query and defined within the execution scope of a SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.
CTEs can be thought of as alternatives to derived tables (subquery), views, and inline user-defined functions.
Common table expressions are supported by Teradata (starting with version 14), IBM Db2, Informix (starting with version 14.1), Firebird (starting with version 2.1), Microsoft SQL Server (starting with version 2005), Oracle (with recursion since 11g release 2), PostgreSQL (since 8.4), MariaDB (since 10.2), MySQL (since 8.0), SQLite (since 3.8.3), HyperSQL, Informix (since 14.10), Google BigQuery, Sybase (starting with version 9), Vertica, H2 (experimental), and many others. Oracle calls CTEs "subquery factoring".
The syntax for a CTE (which may or may not be recursive) is as follows:
WITH [RECURSIVE] with_query [, ...]
SELECT ...
where with_query's syntax is:
query_name [ (column_name [,...]) ] AS (SELECT ...)
Recursive CTEs can be used to traverse relations (as graphs or trees) although the syntax is much more involved because there are no automatic pseudo-columns created (like LEVEL below); if these are desired, they have to be created in the code. See MSDN documentation or IBM documentation for tutorial examples.
The RECURSIVE keyword is not usually needed after WITH in systems other than PostgreSQL.
In SQL:1999 a recursive (CTE) query may appear anywhere a query is allowed. It's possible, for example, to name the result using CREATE [RECURSIVE] VIEW. Using a CTE inside an INSERT INTO, one can populate a table with data generated from a recursive query; random data generation is possible using this technique without using any procedural statements.
Some Databases, like PostgreSQL, support a shorter CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW format which is internally translated into WITH RECURSIVE coding.
An example |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bareiss%20algorithm | In mathematics, the Bareiss algorithm, named after Erwin Bareiss, is an algorithm to calculate the determinant or the echelon form of a matrix with integer entries using only integer arithmetic; any divisions that are performed are guaranteed to be exact (there is no remainder). The method can also be used to compute the determinant of matrices with (approximated) real entries, avoiding the introduction of any round-off errors beyond those already present in the input.
History
The general Bareiss algorithm is distinct from the Bareiss algorithm for Toeplitz matrices.
In some Spanish-speaking countries, this algorithm is also known as Bareiss-Montante, because of René Mario Montante Pardo, a professor of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico, who popularized the method among his students.
Overview
Determinant definition has only multiplication, addition and subtraction operations. Obviously the determinant is integer if all matrix entries are integer. However actual computation of the determinant using the definition or Leibniz formula is impractical, as it requires O(n!) operations.
Gaussian elimination has O(n3) complexity, but introduces division, which results in round-off errors when implemented using floating point numbers.
Round-off errors can be avoided if all the numbers are kept as integer fractions instead of floating point. But then the size of each element grows in size exponentially with the number of rows.
Bareiss brings up a question of performing an integer-preserving elimination while keeping the magnitudes of the intermediate coefficients reasonably small. Two algorithms are suggested:
Division-free algorithm — performs matrix reduction to triangular form without any division operation.
Fraction-free algorithm — uses division to keep the intermediate entries smaller, but due to the Sylvester's Identity the transformation is still integer-preserving (the division has zero remainder).
For completeness Bareiss also suggests fraction-producing multiplication-free elimination methods.
The algorithm
The program structure of this algorithm is a simple triple-loop, as in the standard Gaussian elimination. However in this case the matrix is modified so that each entry contains the leading principal minor []. Algorithm correctness is easily shown by induction on .
Input: — an -square matrixassuming its leading principal minors [] are all non-zero.
Let M0,0 1 (Note: M0,0 is a special variable)
For from 1 to −1:
For from +1 to :
For from +1 to :
Set
Output: The matrix is modified in-place,each entry contains the leading minor [],entry contains the determinant of the original .
If the assumption about principal minors turns out to be false, e.g. if −1,−1 = 0 and some ,−1 ≠ 0 ( = ,...,) then we can exchange the −1-th row with the -th row and change the sign of the final answer.
Analysis
During execution of the Bareiss algorithm, every integer that is computed is the determinant of a submatrix of the input |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACHA | Nacha, originally the National Automated Clearinghouse Association, manages the ACH Network, the backbone for the electronic movement of money and data in the United States, and is an association for the payments industry. The ACH Network serves as a network for direct consumer, business, and government payments, and annually facilitates billions of payments such as Direct Deposit and Direct Payment. The ACH Network is governed by the Nacha Operating Rules.
In 2022, the Nacha through its ACH network handled 30.00 billion payments (3.03% year-over-year (YoY) gain), totaling US$76.7 trillion (5.6% YoY gain).. From 2013-22, overall gain in the volume of transactions was 70.95%, or 5.51% annualized. The 2013-22 overall gain of the value of the transactions was 98.25%, or 7.08% annualized.
Nacha is a not-for-profit association under the Internal Revenue Service code 501(c)(6) and was incorporated in 1974. It represents more than 9,000 financial institutions divided into ten regional payments associations and direct membership. Nacha is not directly involved in the ACH transactions, but develops rules and standards and provides education, accreditation, and advisory services.
History and organization
In 1972, the California Automated Clearing House Association (now called WesPay) was formed, becoming the first operational ACH association in the United States.
After two years, other regional ACH associations were formed. The associations came together in 1974 to create Nacha, which was tasked with developing, governing and administering the ACH Network. While Nacha governs the ACH Network, it does not operate the physical ACH Network; the processing of transactions is handled by the Federal Reserve and The Clearing House Payments Company (also known as EPN).
Originally part of the American Bankers Association, Nacha separated in 1985 and hired Bill Moroney as its first Chief Executive Officer. He was succeeded in 1988 by Elliott McEntee. Upon McEntee's retirement in 2008, Janet O. Estep became Nacha's President and CEO. In 2019, Jane Larimer became Nacha's President and CEO.
Leadership
Nacha’s Board of Directors are representatives of depository financial institutions who are tasked with overseeing the governance and administration of Nacha as ACH Network administrator and industry association.
The 2022 Board of Directors:
Joe W. Hussey, Managing Director, North America Payables & Receivables Product Executive, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Chairperson
Laura J. Listwan, AAP, CTP, Senior Vice President, Head of Commercial Payments Products and Service, Fifth Third Bank, Vice Chairperson
John E. Lucas, CCM, Treasury & Payments Solutions Director of Product Management and Development, Synovus Financial Corporation, Secretary/Treasurer
Jane Larimer, President & Chief Executive Officer, Nacha
Jeanine M. Andol-Moeller, CCM, Group Vice President & Banking Services COE Manager, M&T Bank (one-year term)
Marlene Barkheimer, President & Chief Executive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLCC | MLCC is an initialism that may refer to:
Computers and electronics
Micro lead-frame chip carrier, a type of package for integrated circuits
Multi-layer ceramic capacitor, a surface-mount type of ceramic capacitor
Machine Learning Crash Course, see
Other uses
Manitoba Liquor Control Commission, a former Crown agency of the government of Manitoba, Canada
Marx and Lenin Communist Circle, original name of the French political group Democratic Communist Circle
Merrill Lynch Credit Corporation, a division of Merrill Lynch
, the French term for local currency
Miscellaneous
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, the Mayan or Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triblade | Triblade may refer to:
A bayonet or knife with three cutting edges
A helicopter rotor having three blades
A blade server module of the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banred | Banred is a network of automated teller machines (ATMs) in Uruguay with over 330 locations. It used to be two separate networks, RedBanc and Bancomat, which merged in 2005.
Most private banks are members of the Banred network, including BBVA, Itaú, Santander and Scotiabank. its main competitor is RedBROU, owned by state bank BROU.
External links
Official website
Interbank networks
Companies of Uruguay
Banks of Uruguay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Line%20%28Dubai%20Metro%29 | The Red Line is one of the two lines of the Dubai Metro network in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Red Line runs from Centrepoint in the east to Expo 2020 in the west and travels parallel to Sheikh Zayed Road for most of its length.
There are two transfer stations with the Green Line at Union and BurJuman stations. Additionally, Jabal Ali is an interchange between the main Red Line and a branch to UAE Exchange. The Red Line has its main depot at Rashidiya and an auxiliary depot at UAE Exchange.
Additionally, DMCC and Sobha Realty have connections to the Dubai Tram at Jumeirah Lake Towers and Dubai Marina respectively.
History
The first section was inaugurated on 9 September 2009 with ten stations opened. Construction was declared complete on 28 April 2010 with an additional 16 stations opened during 2010.
In 2010, the Red Line carried a total of 38.888 million passengers with a daily average of about 149,000 people, according to the RTA Statistics Office. In 2013, the Red Line handled a total of over 88 million passengers and the daily average was about 243,000 people.
Three additional stations were added between 2011 and 2013, making a total of 29 stations spanning . The line was the world's longest single metro line to use driverless trains, as recognized by Guinness World Records in 2011.
Route 2020
As part of the Expo 2020 development in Dubai, an extension of the Red Line named Route 2020 announced in December 2015 and originally due to be completed mid-2019. The extension project created a new section of the line from Jabal Ali to the Expo 2020 site, near Al Maktoum International Airport.
Construction of the Route 2020 line started in 2016 by the ExpoLink Consortium, comprising Alstom, Acciona, and Gülermak. The track layout east of Jabal Ali station was modified to create a new branch and one additional platform to serve the new route. The line was formally inaugurated by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai's Ruler and UAE Prime Minister, on 8 July 2020. As a result of increasing popularity of the metro, the new stations feature platforms wider than those found in existing stations, to cope with greater ridership. The extension is in length, with above ground and below ground. Of the seven stations, five are elevated and two are underground. Eventually it is planned to extend the line beyond Expo 2020 to Al Maktoum International Airport, south of the Expo site. The route is expected to have 275,000 users each day by 2030.
The extension was partially opened on 1 January 2021, with trains running a shuttle service between Jabal Ali and Al Furjan. The section from Al Furjan to Expo 2020 was opened on 1 June 2021, allowing the extension to be fully operational, as well as the transfer of the main Red Line route from UAE Exchange to Expo 2020. The section from Jabal Ali to UAE Exchange now runs as a shuttle service, with passengers from Centrepoint needing to change at Jabal Ali for stations to UAE Exchange.
The travel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Dubai%20Metro%29 | The Green Line is one of the two lines in the Dubai Metro network in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It runs through Deira and Bur Dubai, generally parallel to Dubai Creek. There are 20 stations on the line, spanning from Etisalat to Creek (numbered 11 to 30 in zones 5 and 6) covering . It was built by a consortium of Mitsubishi, Obayashi, Kajima and Yapı Merkezi.
Statistics
The Green Line has 20 stations, including 12 elevated (by means of a viaduct), and 8 underground stations. The line is , with underground. It is served by 25 driverless trains travelling at a maximum speed of , and stopping 20–30 seconds at each station. Trial running began in October 2010, with the line inaugurated on 9 September 2011 and opened to the public the next day. The last two stations (Al Jadaf and Creek) were opened on March 1, 2014. , 19 trains are running on the Green Line and each of the trains has a capacity of 643 seats.
The Green Line was initially long upon opening, however following the extension from Dubai Healthcare City to Dubai Creek, the length increased to long.
Notable stations
There are two transfer stations, Union and BurJuman, where the Green and Red Lines intersect, allowing passengers to change between lines. The Green Line has its main depot in Al Qusais.
Union station is touted to be one of the biggest metro stations in the world. With an area spanning , it has capacity to handle about 22,000 passengers per hour. Adding to the station’s credentials are two entry points, two levels, a length extending , of width and a depth of .
The biggest elevated station on the Green Line is the Al Qiyadah station along Al Ittihad Road near the Dubai Police General HQ. The station has a capacity to handle 11,000 passengers per hour in each direction.
The two terminal stations are Etisalat and Creek. The Creek station is within walking distance of the Al Jaddaf Marine Station, linked to ferries on Dubai Creek, including an abra boat service to the Dubai Festival City Mall across the Creek.
Extension
According to Gulf News in 2014, the plan to further extend the Green Line to Academic City is fully approved, in order to better serve the interests of residents in the Silicon Oasis and International City area.
Route
References
External links
RTA DUBAI METRO GREEN LINE: Train ride tour from Etisalat to Creek Metro Station POV 4K 2020 on YouTube
Dubai Metro – Green Line – Part 2 (2013) on YouTube
2011 establishments in the United Arab Emirates
Dubai Metro Green Line
Dubai Metro
Roads and Transport Authority (Dubai) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBOG | WBOG (1460 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic-based country music format. It is licensed to Tomah, Wisconsin, United States, and is owned by Magnum Radio. The station features programming from Westwood One.
2011 name change
In May 2011, WBOG's slogan was changed to "Kool Gold 1460", using the branding of the Kool Gold satellite service heard on WBOG. On January 7, 2020, the station flipped formats to classic country.
References
External links
Classic country radio stations in the United States
BOG
1959 establishments in Wisconsin
BOG
Radio stations established in 1959 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadmart | A spreadmart (spreadsheet data mart) is a business data analysis system running on spreadsheets or other desktop databases that is created and maintained by individuals or groups to perform tasks that can be done in a more structured way by a data mart or data warehouse. Typically a spreadmart is created by individuals at different times using different data sources and rules for defining metrics in an organization, creating a decentralized, fractured view of the enterprise.
The concept was coined in 2002 by Wayne Eckerson at TDWI in his article Taming Spreadsheet Jockeys, and intended pejoratively, as an undesirable system, which should be replaced by a data mart. However, critics such as Stephen Samild argue that spreadmarts have advantages over data marts and can be a desirable system.
Problems
Usually, spreadmarts grow where standard Business Intelligence (BI) reporting is too inflexible and too slow. A Business analyst uses the "export to Microsoft Excel" button in his BI software and creates his own report with the exported data table. By this, the number of independently generated spreadsheets dealing with a particular group of analyses grows inside the company, and the data inside each spreadsheet is uncoupled from its source. When this happens, the data reflected in the spreadsheets is no longer verifiable and is not automatically kept up to date.
Usually these spreadsheet files are distributed via email to colleagues resulting in even more copies of the data roaming through the enterprise. With Microsoft Power Pivot for Microsoft SharePoint, Excel spreadsheets can be distributed as dashboards throughout the entire company, giving even more users the tools to create spreadmarts.
The growth of spreadmarts poses tangible risks for companies, since undefined and uncoupled data can be used to draw false conclusions that lead to wrong decisions, which will cost time and money to discover and correct. Although Business Intelligence 2.0 software vendors claim to have overcome this issue, locally installed spreadsheet and graphing software continues to be easier to access and use, giving the business analyst the freedom to create the needed analysis quickly, and choose to live with the risk of data inconsistency that goes with it.
Criticism of concept
Critics like Stephen Samild argue that the definition stems from a biased view that sees a data warehouse as desirable end-result, whereas One might more accurately define data marts and data warehouses as "scaled-up systems which perform some of the tasks normally done by a spreadmart". In the rest of the article Stephen Samild argues that a spreadmart fulfills a number of roles that a data warehouse cannot fulfill as easily or as cheaply due to the lack of integration with unstructured data, the lack of read-write capabilities, the long time span needed for integration of new sources in the data warehouse and the inherent 'free form' of many analytical presentations done in Word, PowerPoin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing%20Pieces%20%28TV%20series%29 | Missing Pieces is an Australian factual television series that screened on the Nine Network in 2009. It was hosted by Peter Overton.
Missing Pieces follows the stories of people who embark on a life-changing journey to find someone special who is missing from their lives. It has a similar premise to the successful Seven Network factual television series Find My Family.
Nine Network original programming
2009 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
Australian factual television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOTE | WOTE (1380 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format with programming from ESPN Radio. Licensed to Clintonville, Wisconsin, United States, the station is currently owned by Results Broadcasting, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio and Jones Radio Network.
History
The station was assigned the call letters WRJQ on June 8, 1981. On December 29, 1982, the station changed its call sign to WFCL and, on September 29, 2008, to the current WOTE.
References
External links
OTE
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1981
1981 establishments in Wisconsin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%202100 | Earth 2100 is a television program that was presented by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network on June 2, 2009, and was aired on the History Channel in January 2010 and was shown through the year. Hosted by ABC journalist Bob Woodruff, the two-hour special explored what "a worst-case" future might look like if humans do not take action on current or impending problems that could threaten civilization. The problems addressed in the program include current climate change, overpopulation, and misuse of energy resources.
The events following the life of a fictitious storyteller, "Lucy" (told through the use of motion comics, or limited animation), as she describes how the events affect her life. The program included predictions of a dystopian Earth in the years 2015, 2030, 2050, 2085, and 2100 by scientists, historians, social anthropologists, and economists, including Jared Diamond, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Peter Gleick, James Howard Kunstler, Heidi Cullen, Alex Steffen and Joseph Tainter. It ended with a quote from writer Alex Steffen, saying "Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?"
According to Executive Producer Michael Bicks, "this program was developed to show the worst-case scenario for human civilization. Again, we are not saying that these events will happen — rather, that if we fail to seriously address the complex problems of climate change, resource depletion and overpopulation, they are much more likely to happen."
Plot
Lucy is born on June 2, 2009 (the date the program aired; changed to January 1, 2009, in subsequent airings), in the suburbs of Miami, and is still alive in the year 2100. In 2015, negotiations on climate change action breaks down between the West and India/China as the former is unwilling to transfer clean technology to the latter, while Lucy's family moves out of the suburbs and into an apartment in Miami after chronic gas shortages. A few months later a powerful hurricane named Linda hits and levels much of Miami, killing thousands of people. She and her parents move to San Diego. She becomes an EMT and meets her husband, Josh, an engineer, during a protest against high water prices of California desalinated seawater in 2030 (Las Vegas had run dry).
In 2050, they and their nineteen-year-old daughter Molly move to New York City by car, passing desperate Texans begging for rides north, which is refused by the trio. One pulls a gun on Molly, but others in the car/truck convoy point automatic weapons on the desperate man, who is forced to back off. While the others in the convoy make it to Canada, New York City is a marvel of clean power, clean transit, and community gardening. Josh sets to work building a flood barrier to hold back the ocean, but the CO2 warming unleashes trapped methane in the Arctic, which causes even faster, non-linear warming.
An attempt to use sulfur dioxide as a last |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFDL%20%28AM%29 | WFDL (1170 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Waupun, Wisconsin, United States, the station is owned by Radio Plus, Inc. and features programming from CBS News Radio and The True Oldies Channel.
History
Originally 1170 was known as WLKE and played top-40 rock from 1966 to 1971. From 1971 to 1983, it broadcast country music and was known as "Lucky 1170". After an ownership change it briefly became WGZS, which featured a Christian format. The station was reassigned the call letters WLKE on January 9, 1984 and simulcast a country music format with WLKE-FM (99.3 FM). In 1985, the station flipped the format to a rock oldies format using the Satellite Music Network Pure Gold music format and was call "The Lake". On February 25, 1987, the station changed its call sign to WLKD, when the owner moved the WLKE calls to an AM station he owned in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, (690 kHz). 1170 WLKD retained "The Lake" branding and oldies format, and was simulcast on 690 WLKE. On July 12, 1990, calls changed to WMRH, "Marsh Area Radio" and played S.M.N.'s Stardust format. And on October 14, 2002, the call letters changed again to the current WFDL which aired ABC/Citadel's Timeless Favorites until that satellite format ended on February 15, 2010. On February 16, 2010, WFDL began airing "Hit Parade Radio" in certain day-parts.
From 1971 to July 1990, WLKE had an FM sister station at 99.3 FM; that station is now separately-owned WPKR on 99.5.
WFDL is licensed as a daytime-only station. The station added a translator on 103.3 FM in 2013, which is allowed to broadcast 24 hours a day. However the signal does not reach far outside of Waupun; to solve this issue, a second translator on 93.7 FM signed on in late August 2018.
On November 19, 2019, the station rebranded as "The Source", and began carrying The True Oldies Channel in time periods not occupied by local programming.
References
External links
FDL
Oldies radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1966
1966 establishments in Wisconsin
FDL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIGM | WIGM (1490 AM) is a radio station, licensed to Medford, Wisconsin, United States, that broadcasts a sports format. The station is currently owned by WIGM, Incorporated, and features programming from CBS Sports Radio.
In February 2019 WIGM changed their format from sports to country, branded as "Kickin' Country" (simulcast on FM translator W296DL Medford).
Previous logo
(WIGM's logo under previous ESPN Radio affiliation)
References
External links
IGM
Country radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl%20Archive%20Toolkit | Perl Archive Toolkit (PAR) is a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for computer applications and libraries written in the Perl programming language. Its name is inspired by Java's JAR (file format) technology. It was originally developed by Audrey Tang and is now maintained via the PAR development mailing list with help from numerous contributors.
Apart from creating, manipulating, loading, and installing binary PAR archives, the PAR module can be used to create standalone executables from complex applications using its PAR::Packer extension. Like many other Perl modules, PAR is primarily distributed via the CPAN where numerous extensions have been published. These include:
PAR::WebStart, a Perl implementation of Java Web Start that allows users to start application software directly from the Internet using a web browser.
PAR::Repository, a package management system for Perl applications and modules in PAR archives.
MasonX::Resolver::PAR, an extension to the Mason web application framework for loading components from PAR archives.
Apache::PAR, a Perl extension for including PAR files in a mod_perl (1.x or 2.x) environment.
External links
Perl Archiving Toolkit
Perl software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHRY | WHRY (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Hurley, Wisconsin, United States, the station is currently owned by Baroka Broadcasting, Inc., and features programming from ABC Radio.
References
External links
HRY
Oldies radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in Wisconsin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%20%28company%29 | Hutchison 3G Enterprises S.A.R.L., trading as 3 (Three) and Hutchison 3G (H3G), is the owner of several UMTS-based mobile phone networks and broadband Internet providers, which operate in Hong Kong, Macau, Austria, Denmark, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
The brand was officially founded on March 3, 2003 in Hong Kong.
, registered "Three" customers worldwide numbered over 110 million.
All 3-branded network companies are wholly-owned subsidiaries of CK Hutchison Holdings (formerly Hutchison Whampoa) but the ownership structure varies. CK Hutchison Holdings owns direct majority interests of six networks through 3 Group Europe, including Austria, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings operates the networks in Hong Kong and Macau, while Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison operates the network in Indonesia. All 3-branded networks provide 4G (LTE) and 3G (WCDMA) services; some also run 2G networks and 5G services.
CK Hutchison Holdings no longer holds a 3G licence in Israel which was formerly operated under the brand Orange (now Partner Communications Company), and in Norway where an unused licence was previously held by 3 Scandinavia.
Etymologies and logo
During the launch of the brand in 2002, when Hutchison Whampoa sold its 2G business to Orange, the brand name 3 (Three) represented their new 3G services. In 2003, CK Hutchison Holdings stated that the name refers to their three global telecommunication services: 3G, GSM Dualband and CDMA.
The logo, which is a visual representation of the number "3", was originally three-dimensional and orange in colour. Throughout the years of operation, it has had different versions. In 2009, it was unified into a flat black and white logo. The company describes the logo's design philosophy as "cool outside and hot inside".
Global operations
Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong
Hong Kong
3 Hong Kong is operated by Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings.
In May 2004, its affiliated 2G operator, Orange, re-branded its services and changed its name to "3 Dualband", referring to the GSM product, and "3 CDMA", referring to the CDMA product.
On 29 May 2008, Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited announced that it has signed an agreement with Apple Inc. to bring the iPhone to Hong Kong later that year under 3. In 2012, a partnership with Vodafone was launched and 3 Hong Kong is a member of the Conexus Mobile Alliance.
Ownership:
HTIL: 70.9%
NTT DoCoMo: 24.1%
NEC: 5%
Macau
3 Macau (officially Hutchison Telephone (Macau) Company Limited) launched in 2000 providing GSM dual-band services. In 2007, they launched 3G services. In 2008, 3 Macau brought the iPhone to Macau an agreement with Apple. Till now, they are providing both 3G and 4G services.
In the 2G and 3G eras, it was the second largest mobile operator in Macau. In the 2G era, its market share was ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative%20neuroscience | Integrative neuroscience is the study of neuroscience that works to unify functional organization data to better understand complex structures and behaviors. The relationship between structure and function, and how the regions and functions connect to each other. Different parts of the brain carrying out different tasks, interconnecting to come together allowing complex behavior. Integrative neuroscience works to fill gaps in knowledge that can largely be accomplished with data sharing, to create understanding of systems, currently being applied to simulation neuroscience: Computer Modeling of the brain that integrates functional groups together.
Overview
The roots of integrative neuroscience originated from the Rashevsky-Rosen school of relational biology that characterizes functional organization mathematically by abstracting away the structure (i.e., physics and chemistry). It was further expanded by Chauvet who introduced hierarchical and functional integration.
Hierarchical integration is structural involving spatiotemporal dynamic continuity in Euclidean space to bring about functional organization, viz.
Hierarchical organization + Hierarchical integration = Functional organization
However, functional integration is relational and as such this requires a topology not restricted to Euclidean space, but rather occupying vector spaces This means that for any given functional organization the methods of functional analysis enable a relational organization to be mapped by the functional integration, viz.
Functional organization + Functional integration = Relational Organization
Thus hierarchical and functional integration entails a "neurobiology of cognitive semantics" where hierarchical organization is associated with the neurobiology and relational organization is associated with the cognitive semantics. Relational organization throws away the matter; "function dictates structure", hence material aspects are entailed, while in reductionism the causal nexus between structure and dynamics entails function that obviates functional integration because the causal entailment in the brain of hierarchical integration is absent from the structure.
If integrative neuroscience is studied from the viewpoint of functional organization of hierarchical levels then it is defined as causal entailment in the brain of hierarchical integration. If it is studied from the viewpoint of relational organization then it is defined as semantic entailment in the brain of functional integration.
It aims to present studies of functional organization of particular brain systems across scale through hierarchical integration leading to species-typical behaviors under normal and pathological states. As such, integrative neuroscience aims for a unified understanding of brain function across scale.
Spivey's continuity of mind thesis extends integrative neuroscience to the domain of continuity psychology.
Motivation
With data building up, it ends up in its respective s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Barbie%20films | Since 2001, Barbie, a fashion doll manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel, has starred or featured in 42 CGI or computer-animated feature films and streaming television films which since then has become a core component of an eponymous media franchise.
In response to a growing rise of digital and interactive media as well as the gradual decline of the sales in dolls, toys and accessories in the 1980s, Mattel partnered with animation studios to produce films which were broadcast on Nickelodeon in the United States from 2002 and released on home video formats, originally by Family Home Entertainment and successor Lionsgate, then predominantly by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, both until 2017. From 2012 onwards, Mattel expanded the franchise beyond just the films to other audiovisual media such as web series, television shows and streaming television content, with the latter following the growing trend of streaming services and online platforms. In 2020, Mattel revamped the films into streaming television films, branding them as animated "specials" and integrating them into the canon of the inaugural television show in the "Barbie" media franchise, Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures.
A 2023 live-action film featuring the character and toyline was theatrically released by Warner Bros. and Mattel Films, alongside LuckyChap Entertainment and Heyday Films. Its release became part of a suggested double-feature phenomenon named Barbenheimer.
Adaptations and original plots (2001–2009)
Mattel launched its eponymous in-house entertainment division in 2001 and began the Barbie film series by adapting pre-existing stories/tales, with CGI animation provided by Canadian studio Mainframe Entertainment. Elise Allen introduced original storylines to the series through screenwriting the main entries of the Barbie: Fairytopia franchise. In between their co-productions, American studio Curious Pictures pitched in by animating The Barbie Diaries (2006).
In 2007, Mainframe was acquired by local post-production company, Rainmaker Income Fund, rebranding it as Rainmaker Animation initially and then Rainmaker Entertainment the following year. The films during this period were originally distributed on VHS and DVD by Artisan Entertainment and Family Home Entertainment from 2001 until 2004, when both were acquired by and folded into Lionsgate. In 2006, Mattel ceased distribution of the films on VHS and focused solely on DVD; at the same time, Universal (which already held their foreign distribution rights) took over the domestic distribution rights, after negotiations with Lionsgate broke down over the low amount offered by Mattel to continue distributing future Barbie films. Lionsgate was permitted to continue distribution of the titles released by them up to The Barbie Diaries for several years after; these rights eventually reverted to Mattel, who then authorized Universal to begin reissuing these titles.
Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001)
Bas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humdinger | Humdinger can refer to:
Humdinger (computer), an 8 bit color computer from 1983
The Humdinger, a 2008 album by US rap group Nappy Roots
Humdinger, a 2002 album by American soul and R&B singer Aaron Neville
Humdinger, a 2006 album by Irish banjo player Enda Scahill and The Brock McGuire Band
The Humdingers, a musical group that became the American doo-wop and R&B group The Showmen
The Humdingers, an a capella musical group formed by Joe Oliva prior to The Essentials
Humdinger, a 1997 album by The Hoax, a group led by Robin Davey
"Humdinger", a song by J. J. Cale from the album Travel-Log
Humdinger, a brand of beer made by Joseph Holt's Brewery, England
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89%20Three | RTÉ Three was a proposed channel by RTÉ Television.
It was the working title of a proposed general entertainment channel. It was initially proposed that the channel would air a variety of programming not then being shown on RTÉ One and RTÉ Two as well as having access to the RTÉ archives. The announcement of the channel in May 2008 was timed to coincide with the launch of the Broadcasting Bill 2008, which provided for the switching off of Ireland's analogue signal and the launch of two new government backed stations: the Houses of the Oireachtas Channel and the Irish Film Channel.
According to RTÉ CEL's and UPC Ireland's application for the 3 commercial DTT multiplexes, RTÉ Three would broadcast during weekdays, timesharing with RTÉ Sport which would air at weekends. Given that a children's channel is mooted, it is likely that RTÉ Two will be reconfigured along the lines of RTÉ Three plans with RTÉ Two possibly renamed RTÉ Two-Ten.
The station will be designed to restore more programmes and advert breaks shown between Christmas 1961 and March 6th 1985.
References
Three |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomy%20Tutor | The Tomy Tutor, originally sold in Japan as the and in the UK as the Grandstand Tutor, is a home computer produced by the Japanese toymaker Tomy. It is architecturally similar, but not identical, to the TI-99/4A, and uses a similar Texas Instruments TMS9900 16-bit CPU. The computer was launched in Japan in 1982, and in the UK and the United States in the next year.
History
Produced by Matsushita, the computer was released in Japan in 1982 under the name Pyūta.
Tomy described the Tutor, with 16K RAM, as good for games and education. The company stated that its documentation would let an eight-year-old child use the computer without adult supervision.
One of the major flaws pointed out with the Tutor was not its hardware, but its marketing: the Tutor was announced as a children's computer when in fact it was practically a cheap, evolved version of the TI-99/4A, even having a similar 16-bit CPU (the TMS9995, closely related to the TI-99/4's TMS 9900); other competitors in its price range still used 8-bit microprocessors.
The Pyūta Jr. was a console version of the Pyūta, released in April 1983, and similarly was only sold in Japan.
In Japan, Tomy set a sales target of about 90,000 units and ¥5 billion revenue for the first year by selling Pyūta to elementary and junior high school students as a "drawing computer", having nearly 40,000 units shipped in its first 4 months as of August 1982. However, sales fell sharply when Nintendo released Family Computer (later deployed as Nintendo Entertainment System) in 1983 as a cost-effective option. In February 1985, Tomy ceased its production and withdrew from the market. As of May 1984, a total of 120,000 units were shipped for domestic and export use in Japan.
In the other hand, the Tutor did not sell well against the ZX Spectrum in the UK and the Commodore 64 in other countries outside Japan. It ended up being removed quickly from the market and replaced the following year by the Pyūta mk2 with a standard mechanical keyboard instead of the original "Chiclet"-style keyboard. However, the new model seems to have been sold only in Japan, and even then only for a short period of time.
Technical specifications
CPU: Texas Instruments TMS9995
Video: TMS9918 VDP
Resulution: 256 x 192 pixels
16 colors, up to 2 colors out of 8 horizontal dots
Up to 32 monochrome sprites of 8 x 8 pixels, max 4 per horizontal line
No hardware scrolling function
Memory: 20 KB ROM built-in, 16 KB RAM (with 256 bytes CPU RAM built-in)
Keyboard: 56 keys, JIS compliant
Sounds: SN76489AN DCSG "Digital Complex Sound Generator"
Weight:
Media: ROM cartridge, cassette
Expansion: data recorder (optional), game adapter
List of games
Baseball 3D (Japan-exclusive)
Battle Fighter 3D (Japan-exclusive)
Bomb Man (Japan-exclusive)
Car-azy Racer (USA-exclusive, developed by Wordwright)
Cave Crawlers (USA)/Maze Patrol (Japan)
Deep Six (USA)/Marine Adventure (Japan)
Donpan (Japan-exclusive)
Frogger (Japan-exclusive port of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAN%20Interface%20Card | A WAN interface card (WIC) is a type of specialized network interface controller card (NIC) made by Cisco that allows a network device such as a router to connect and transmit data over a wide area network. A WIC has a built-in channel service data unit (CSU/DSU) interface to connect to a digital circuit and provide error correction and line monitoring.
A WIC is inserted into a WIC (or HWIC, or EHWIC) expansion slot in a Cisco device. According to Cisco, "Cisco interface cards are classified according to the technologies they support. For example, WAN interface cards (WICs) support WAN technologies, such as Gigabit Ethernet; and voice interface cards (VICs) support voice technologies. Voice/WAN interface cards (VWICs) can support voice, data, and voice and data applications, depending on the capabilities of the router in which the VWIC is installed." The WIC is supported by many Cisco devices, particularly their branch routers including the 2500 series routers and its successors.
There are several types of Cisco Interface Card. Cisco introduced the High Speed WIC, or "HWIC" with the x800 series of Cisco Integrated Service Router including the 1800, 2800, and 3800 series'. The HWIC interface is limited to 400 mega-bits per second bandwidth bidirectional. With the ISR G2 x900 series Cisco introduced the Enhanced HWIC. The ehwic operates at 800Mbit/s, twice the bandwidth of the HWIC.
See also
Cisco routers
Cisco 2500 series
References
Networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch%20process | Batch process may refer to:
Batch processing (computing)
Batch production (manufacturing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesting | Nesting may refer to:
Science and technology
Building or having a nest
Nesting instinct, an instinct in pregnant animals to prepare a home for offspring
Nesting (computing), a concept of information organized recursively
Nesting (process), a process of efficiently manufacturing parts from flat raw material
Nesting algorithm for optimal packing
Nested sampling algorithm, a method in Bayesian statistics
Nested variation or nested data, described at restricted randomization
Nested case-control study, a case when this occurs
Other uses
Nesting (voting districts), the process of combining or splitting of voting districts
Nesting, Shetland, in Scotland
The Nesting, a 1981 American slasher film directed by Armand Weston
Nesting (film), a 2011 American romantic comedy film
See also
All articles beginning with Nesting
Nest (disambiguation)
Matryoshka doll, a Russian nested doll |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Librarian%20%28franchise%29 | The Librarian is a series of original fantasy-adventure made-for-television films from Turner Network Television (TNT) starring Noah Wyle as the Librarian, who protects a secret collection of artifacts.
Development
Dean Devlin, through his production company Electric Entertainment, brought David Titcher's original pitch to TNT. David Titcher wrote and created the original movie that sequels were based on. The director of the first film was Peter Winther, and writer/creator David Titcher co-produced with Marc Roskin and Kearie Peak. In 2004, they planned to produce three Librarian films with ER star Noah Wyle.
"Dean's pitch was a refreshing take on the hero story", TNT's Senior Vice President of Original Programming Michael Wright said. "Instead of a muscle-bound, spandex-clad superman, we get an insecure but brilliant guy who thinks he's taking a safe job as a librarian, but instead gets taken on a ride in a world we'd like to believe exists."
Television films
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
Quest for the Spear introduces Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle), who is hired by the Metropolitan Public Library as The Librarian. What Flynn does not realize is that the library has existed for centuries and protects a range of historical and often magical items in a secret section of the library, including The Ark of the Covenant, Pandora's box, and Excalibur. When part of the Spear of Destiny is stolen from the library, Flynn must recover it with the help of Nicole Noone.
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006)
Return to King Solomon's Mines begins with Flynn's attending a party at his mother's house, where he meets up with his "Uncle" Jerry, a close friend of his late father. Soon Flynn is on a quest to locate King Solomon's Mines, and along the way he teams up with Emily Davenport, an archaeologist who helps Flynn translate the Akon (aklo algolis) language. When they meet up with Jerry in Kenya, all is not what it seems.
The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008)
Curse of the Judas Chalice finds Flynn experiencing a strange dream which leads him to New Orleans, where he finds himself in the way of a Russian conspiracy that involves the notorious vampire Prince Vlad Dracul. Once again, Flynn must overcome his fears and protect one of the world's most powerful and dangerous artifacts, the Judas Chalice, or face the consequences of it falling into the wrong hands.
Television series
The Librarians (2014–2018)
TNT ordered a ten-episode weekly series version of The Librarian, following the original cast that includes Noah Wyle, Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin, as well as four new characters who work for The Library. A teaser trailer aired right after the Falling Skies season finale. The series premiered on December 7, 2014.
The new characters are:
Colonel Eve Baird (Rebecca Romijn), who is a counter-terrorism agent who protects the group.
Jacob Stone (Christian Kane), who has an IQ of 190 and extensive knowledge of art hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%9303%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2002–03 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States in operation during that television season covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2002 to August 2003. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2001–02 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Pax TV, as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns although it also carried some first-run programs.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or other contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
ABC note: Port Charles aired its final episode on October 3, 2003. ABC returned the 12:30 pm timeslot to its affiliates on October 6. Some affiliates did not air the program at its intended timeslot during its last three months on the air.
Saturday
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCPD | dhcpd (an abbreviation for "DHCP daemon") is a DHCP server program that operates as a daemon on a server to provide Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service to a network.
This implementation, also known as ISC DHCP, is one of the first and best known, but there are now a number of other DHCP server software implementations available.
Clients may solicit an IP address from a DHCP server when they need one. The DHCP server then offers the "lease" of an IP address to the client, which the client is free to request or ignore. If the client requests it and the server acknowledges it, then the client is permitted to use that IP address for the "lease time" specified by the server. At some point before the lease expires, the client must re-request the same IP address if it wishes to continue to use it.
Issued IP addresses are tracked by dhcpd through a record in the dhcpd.leases file.
This allows the server to maintain state over restarts of the dhcp service, which could otherwise lead to duplicate IP addresses being issued when server issued the same IP address again while another client still has the right to use it.
This reference implementation of DHCP is developed by the Internet Systems Consortium and is supported on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
Remote access to a running instance of dhcpd is provided by the Object Management Application Programming Interface (OMAPI). This API allows manipulation of the internal state of a running instance of the dhcpd server or client. On the server side, this interface allows editing of registration information for managed nodes. Uses on the client include fetching configuration information, releasing and renewing leases, and changing which interfaces are managed by the DHCP client.
ISC DHCP was declared End-of-Life in October, 2022. ISC is developing a new DHCP software system, which is intended to eventually replace it. This software, Kea, includes a DHCP server only (so, no client or relay yet) and is supported on the same platforms as ISC DHCP. It is distributed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL2.0).
ISC DHCP adopted the Mozilla Public License (MPL2.0) with the release of 4.4.1.
See also
Comparison of DHCP server software
References
External links
Configuring dhcpd on a wireless access point
dhcpd section in the ISC website
Official FTP repository
Open Gitlab repository
Knowledgebase articles on dhcpd
Servers (computing)
Software using the ISC license
Unix network-related software
Free network-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPLL-LP | KPLL-LP (94.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Lewiston, Idaho, United States. The station is an affiliate of the Positive Life Radio network. The station is currently owned by Lewiston Christian Radio Association.
References
External links
PLL-LP
PLL-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KACS | KACS (90.5 FM) is the main station signal of a local listener-supported non-commercial independent radio network broadcasting a Christian format. Licensed to Chehalis, Washington, United States. The network is currently owned by Chehalis Valley Educational Foundation.
Translators
In addition to the main station, KACS is relayed by KACW 91.3 in South Bend, Washington, and by KBSG 90.1 in Raymond, Washington, as well as additional translators to widen its broadcast area.
References
External links
Chehalis, Washington
ACS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAPS | KAPS (660 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format to the Mount Vernon, Washington, United States, area. The station is owned by J & J Broadcasting, INC and features programming from Westwood One. The signal reaches many parts of Skagit County, as far north as Vancouver, BC, and as far south as Lynnwood and Edmonds at times. KAPS was formerly owned by Totem Broadcasters, Inc. with George B. Aller, owner and President, who sold the station in 1979. It also operates a translator station simulcasting its signal on 102.1 FM, K271AH.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KAPS
APS
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1963 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLMY | KLMY (99.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Long Beach, Washington, United States. The station is owned by Ohana Media Group and features programming from Westwood One.
History
The station was assigned the call sign KLBP on January 30, 1986. On November 28, 1986, it changed its call sign to KKEE, on January 11, 2001 to KKEE-FM, on January 18, 2001 to KAQX, on January 30, 2006 to KAST-FM with an adult contemporary format, on January 14, 2009 to KJOX-FM with a sports format from ESPN Radio, and on February 23, 2010 to the current KLMY.
References
External links
LMY
Radio stations established in 1989
1989 establishments in Washington (state)
Hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Whitney | Arthur Whitney may refer to:
Arthur Whitney (computer scientist), American computer scientist, developer of the K programming language
Arthur Whitney (politician) (1871-1942), Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1925 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1960–61 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1960 to August 1961.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
See also
1960-61 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
1960-61 United States network television schedule (late night)
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html
Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
Hyatt, The Encyclopedia Of Daytime Television, Billboard Books, 1997
TV schedules, NEW YORK TIMES, September 1960-September 1961 (microfilm)
United States weekday network television schedules
1960 in American television
1961 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-7 | The AN/UYK-7 was the standard 32-bit computer of the United States Navy for surface ship and submarine platforms, starting in 1970. It was used in the Navy's NTDS & Aegis combat systems and U.S. Coast Guard, and the navies of U.S. allies. It was also used by the U.S. Army.
Technical
Built by UNIVAC, it used integrated circuits, had 18-bit addressing and could support multiple CPUs and I/O controllers. Three CPUs and two I/O controllers were a common configuration. Its multiprocessor architecture was based upon the UNIVAC 1108. An airborne version, the UNIVAC 1832, was also produced.
Replacement
In the mid-1980s, the UYK-7 was replaced by the AN/UYK-43 which shared the same instruction set. Retired systems are being cannibalized for repair parts to support systems still in use by U.S. and non-U.S. forces.
See also
AN/USQ-20 30-bit computer that the AN/UYK-7 replaced
AN/UYK-20 16-bit computer developed for navy projects that did not need the full power of the AN/UYK-7
CMS-2 (programming language)
References
External links
Description
Military computers
Equipment of the United States Navy
Military electronics of the United States
32-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Direct | PC Direct was a UK computer magazine published by Ziff Davis. The magazine was established in 1991, being one of the first magazines published by Ziff Davis outside the United States. VNU acquired PC Direct in 2000. It was shut down in 2001.
References
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1991
Magazines disestablished in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCASTL | The PCASTL (an acronym for by Parent and Childset Accessible Syntax Tree Language) is an interpreted high-level programming language. It was created in 2008 by Philippe Choquette. The PCASTL is designed to ease the writing of self-modifying code. The language has reserved words parent and childset to access the nodes of the syntax tree of the currently written code.
Hello world
The "Hello world program" is quite simple:
<nowiki>
"Hello, world!"
</nowiki>
or
<nowiki>
print("Hello, world!")
</nowiki>
will do the same.
Syntax
The syntax of PCASTL is derived from programming languages C and R. The source of R version 2.5.1 has been studied to write the grammar and the lexer used in the PCASTL interpreter.
Influences
Like in R, statements can, but do not have to, be separated by semicolons. Like in R, a variable can change type in a session. Like in C and R, PCASTL uses balanced brackets ({ and }) to make blocks.
Operators found in PCASTL have the same precedence and associativity as their counterparts in C. for loops are defined like in C. ++ and -- operators are used like in C to increment or decrement a variable before or after it is used in its expression.
An example of PCASTL using the for reserved word and the ++ operator:
for (i = 1; i < 4; i++) print(i)
Functions and comments in PCASTL are defined like in R:
# function definition (comment)
a = function()
{
print("Hello, world!")
}
# function call
a()
parent and childset reserved words
Those reserved words can only be written lowercase and will not be recognized otherwise. The parent reserved word gives a reference to the parent node in the syntax tree of the code where the word is placed. In the following code, the parent node is the operator =.
<nowiki>
a = parent
</nowiki>
The variable "a" will hold a reference to the = node. The following code shows how to get references to the two child nodes of the operator = with the childset reserved word.
<nowiki>
a.childset[0]
a.childset[1]
</nowiki>
To display the value of "a", some ways are given in this example:
<nowiki>
a
a.childset[0].parent
a.childset[1].parent
a.childset[0].parent.childset[0].parent # and so on...
</nowiki>
In the following code: we assign a code segment to the right child of the = node, we execute the = node a second time and we call the newly defined function.
<nowiki>
a.childset[1] = `function() print("hello")'
execute(a)
a()
</nowiki>
See also
Abstract syntax tree
Self-modifying code
References
External links
PCASTL: by Parent and Childset Accessible Syntax Tree Language
Free compilers and interpreters
Procedural programming languages
Articles with example code
Programming languages created in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20and%20freeways%20in%20metropolitan%20Detroit | The Detroit metropolitan area in southeast Michigan is served by a comprehensive network of roads and highways. Three primary Interstate Highways pass through the region, along with three auxiliary Interstates, and multiple state and U.S. Highways. These are supplemented by the Mile Road System, a series of local roads spaced one mile apart on a perpendicular grid.
Many of the grid's east-west roads are known by numbers, such as 8 Mile Road, the system's baseline and Detroit's northern border. Intersecting this grid are five diagonal spokes, major arterial roads which travel from downtown to the suburbs. Most major roads in the city and suburbs follow this grid, though streets in some areas (particularly within Detroit, and near Lake St. Clair and other lakes) deviate.
History
Following a historic fire in 1805, Judge Augustus B. Woodward devised a plan similar to Pierre Charles L'Enfant's design for Washington, D.C. Detroit's monumental avenues and traffic circles fan out in a baroque-styled radial fashion from Grand Circus Park in the heart of the city's theater district, which facilitates traffic patterns along the city's tree-lined boulevards and parks. The Woodward plan proposed a system of hexagonal street blocks, with the Grand Circus at its center. Wide avenues, alternatively and , would emanate from large circular plazas like spokes from the hub of a wheel. As the city grew these would spread in all directions from the banks of the Detroit River. When Woodward presented his proposal, Detroit had fewer than 1,000 residents. Elements of the plan were implemented.
The Mile Road System extended easterly into Detroit, but is interrupted, because much of Detroit's early settlements and farms were based on early French land grants that were aligned northwest-to-southeast with frontage along the Detroit River and on later development along roads running into downtown Detroit in a star pattern, such as Woodward, Jefferson, Grand River, Gratiot, and Michigan Avenues, developed by Augustus Woodward in imitation of Washington, D.C.'s system.
The Mile Road grid came about largely as a result of the Land Ordinance of 1785, which established the basis for the Public Land Survey System in which land throughout the Northwest Territory was surveyed and divided into survey townships by reference to a baseline (east-west line) and meridian (north-south line). In Southeast Michigan, many roads would be developed parallel to the base line and the meridian, and many of the east-west roads would be incorporated into the Mile Road System.
The baseline used in the survey of Michigan lands runs along 8 Mile Road, which is approximately directly north of the junction of Woodward Avenue and Michigan Avenue in downtown Detroit. As a result, the direct east-west portion of Michigan Avenue, and M‑153 (Ford Road) west of Wyoming Avenue, forms the zero mile baseline for this mile road system. While the roads are almost precisely aligned with cardinal directions, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohashing | Geohashing is an outdoor recreational activity inspired by the webcomic xkcd, in which participants have to reach a random location (chosen by a computer algorithm), prove their achievement by taking a picture of a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or another mobile device and then tell the story of their trip online. Proof based on non-electronic navigation is also acceptable.
The geohashing community and culture is extremely tongue-in-cheek, supporting any kind of humorous behavior during the practice of geohashing and resulting in a parody of traditional outdoor activities. Navigating to a random point need not be pointless. Some geohashers document new mapping features they find on the OpenStreetMap project, clean up litter, or create art to commemorate the trip, among other activities.
A variation on geocaching, known as geodashing, features a closely comparable principle, with participants racing between coordinate points.
Invention and spread
On May 21, 2008, the 426th xkcd comic was published. Titled "Geohashing", it described a way for a computer to create an algorithm that could generate random Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates each day based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the current date. The algorithm was quickly seized by the xkcd community, which used it as intended by xkcd creator Randall Munroe.
Originally a stub where people willing to try the algorithm in real life were to issue their reports, the geohashing official wiki expanded in the following weeks and was a working website as early as June 2008. The current expedition protocol was then established during the following years, with the creation of humorous awards, regional meetups and a hall of amazingness for the various geohasher achievements.
Over time, geohashing gained fame across the internet and now counts more than 10,000 expedition reports, almost 15,000. Around 800 users are registered on the geohashing wiki, not all of which are currently active. Geohashing has spread mostly in North America, Europe and Australia, especially around cities.
Geohash
Geohashing divides the earth into a grid made up of graticules which are one degree wide in latitude and longitude. Inside these graticules, a random location is set. Geohashers then have the opportunity to go at the chosen location, either inside their own graticule or in a nearby one. If the location is inaccessible or in a private area, geohashers are advised not to try to reach it, although obviously inaccessible locations have been reached several times. In addition to the repeating location in each graticule, each day there is a single global hashpoint, much more challenging to reach.
See also
Location-based game
Benchmarking (geolocating)
Degree Confluence Project (uses same grid)
Orienteering
Letterboxing
References
External links
Geohashing official wiki
Global Positioning System
hobbies
outdoor locating games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Commission%20Data%20Protection%20Officer | The European Commission Data Protection Officer is a position in the European Commission responsible for independently ensuring the application, within the Commission, of Regulation 45/2001 regarding data protection.
Further, the Officer maintains a register of all operations processing personal data, containing information on the purpose and conditions of operations, being available to the public (the register is available online).
See also
European Data Protection Supervisor
References
External links
Data Protection Officer(DPO), European Commission
Network of DPOs, European Commission
Data Protection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacInTouch | MacInTouch is a daily news and information website that provides independent coverage of Apple's Mac and iOS platforms, along with other topics such as security and privacy, networking, and technological innovation. MacInTouch's moderated forums provide technical analysis, problem-solving and news from the community. MacInTouch also provides product updates and occasional product reviews.
History
"MacInTouch" began as an independent print journal in 1985, originally published by Ford-LePage Inc., to provide news and information about Macintosh computers. The MacInTouch Home Page website, created by Ric Ford in 1994, was serving daily Mac news and information to more than a million people by 1998. It's noted as being one of several blog-style sites that predate the definition of a blog.
MacInTouch Inc. is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Other
In 1993, MacInTouch analysis of a bug in Apple's HFS file system prompted a nomination for a (non-existent) "Pulitzer Prize in computer journalism."
In 1999, MacInTouch was noted in Linux Today for "Most tasteful and cool April foolishness: MacInTouch's transformation to MonkInTouch, complete with piano motif and lots of links to Thelonious Monk stuff."
In 2006, MacInTouch published an independent analysis of Apple Mac notebook reliability based on a survey of over 10,000 notebooks spanning 41 models.
In 2007, MacInTouch first reported a severe data-loss bug in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's Finder.
On 30 August 2021, Ric Ford (owner of MacInTouch) stated “As a business, MacInTouch is no longer viable, but thanks to supporters and special contributors, I hope to continue providing this website and subscriber/supporter services to the extent practical, which means some streamlining and project delays.”
External links
MacInTouch Home Page
References
Macintosh websites
Publications established in 1985
Online computer magazines
American technology news websites
1985 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSD%20origami | Feature-oriented programming or feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is a general paradigm for program synthesis in software product lines. The feature-oriented programming page is recommended, it explains how an FOSD model of a domain is a tuple of 0-ary functions (called values) and a set of 1-ary (unary) functions called features. This page discusses multidimensional generalizations of FOSD models, which are important for compact specifications of complex programs.
Origami
A fundamental generalization of metamodels is origami. The essential idea is that a program's design need not be represented by a single expression; multiple expressions can be used. This involves the use of multiple orthogonal GenVoca models.
Example: Let T be a tool model, which has features P (parse), H (harvest),D (doclet), and J (translate to Java). P is a value and the rest are unary-functions. A tool T1 that parses a file written in a Java dialect language and translates it to pure Java is modeled by: T1 = J•P. And a javadoc-like tool T2 parses a file in a Java dialect, harvests comments, and translates harvested comments into an HTML page is: T2 = D•H•P. So tools T1 and T2 are among the products of the product line of T.
A language model L describes a family (product line) of Java dialects. It includes the features: B (Java 1.4), G (generics), S (State machines). B is a value, and the rest are unary functions. So a dialect of Java L1 that has generics (i.e., Java 1.5) is: L1 = G•B. And a dialect of Java L2 that has language support for state machines is: L2 = S•B. So dialects L1 and L2 are among the products of the product line of L.
To describe a javadoc like tool (E) for the dialect of Java with state machines requires two expressions: one that defines the tool functionality for E (using the T model) and its Java dialect (using the L model):
E = D•H•P -- tool equation
E = S•B -- language equation
Models L and T are orthogonal GenVoca models: one expresses the feature-based structure of the E tool, and the other the feature-based structure of its input language. Note that models T and L really are abstract in the following sense: the implementation of any feature of T really depends on the tool's dialect (expressed by L), and (symmetrically) the implementation of any feature of L really depends on the tool's functionality (expressed by T). So the only way one could implement E is by knowing both T and L equations.
Let U=[U1,U2,...,Un] be a GenVoca model of n features, and
W=[W1,...Wm] be a GenVoca model of m features. The relationship
between two orthogonal models U and W is a matrix UW, called an
Origami matrix, where each
row corresponds to a feature in U and each column corresponds to
a feature in W. Entry UWij is a function that implements the
combination of features Ui and Wj.
Note: UW is the tensor product of U and W (i.e., UW=U×W).
Example. Recall models T=[P,H,D,J] and L=[B,G,S]. The Origami matrix T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2003–04 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States in operation during that television season covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2003 to August 2004. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2002–03 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with PAX, as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns although it also carried some first-run programs.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or other contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
CBS note: Beginning in March 2004, CBS offered its affiliates two feeds of Guiding Light: one airing at 10:00 am and one airing at 3:00 pm (both Eastern). Before that time, CBS affiliates that aired Guiding Light outside of the network's recommended 3:00 pm Eastern timeslot had to tape-delay the program to the following morning.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
Fillmore!
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Kim Possible
Lizzie McGuire
NBA Inside Stuff
One Life to Live
Power Rangers Ninja Storm
The Proud Family
Recess
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
The View
New series:
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Power Rangers Dino Thunder
That's So Raven
Not returning from 2002–03:
Port Charles
Power Rangers Wild Force
Teamo Supremo
CBS
Returning series:
As the World Turns
Blue's Clues
The Bold and the Beautiful
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood
ChalkZone
Dora the Explorer
The Early Show
Face the Nation
Guiding Light
Hey Arnold!
Little Bill
The Price is Right
The Saturday Early Show
The Wild Thornberrys
The Young and the Restless
New series:
All Grown Up!
The Brothers Garcia
Not returning from 2002–03:
As Told by Ginger
Pels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2004–05 daytime network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States in operation during that television season covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2004 to August 2005. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2003–04 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with PAX, as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns although it also carried some first-run programs.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or other contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC Kids
Even Stevens
Fillmore!
Kim Possible
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Lizzie McGuire
Power Rangers Dino Thunder
The Proud Family
That's So Raven
ABC News
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
Good Morning America
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
All My Children
General Hospital
NBA Inside Stuff
One Life to Live
The View
New series:
ABC Kids
Phil of the Future
Power Rangers S.P.D.
W.I.T.C.H.
Not returning from 2003–04:
ABC Kids
Power Rangers Ninja Storm
Recess
CBS
Returning series:
As the World Turns
CBS News
Face the Nation
The Early Show
The Saturday Early Show
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Bold and the Beautiful
Guiding Light
Nick Jr. on CBS
Blue's Clues
Dora the Explorer
Little Bill
The Price is Right
The Young and the Restless
New series:
Nick Jr. on CBS
The Backyardigans
LazyTown
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
Not returning from 2003–04:
Nickelodeon on CBS (continues on Nickelodeon)
All Grown Up!
The Brothers Garcia
ChalkZone
Hey Arnold!
The Wild Thornberrys
NBC
Returning series:
Days of Our Lives
Discovery Kids on NBC
Croc Files
Endurance
Jeff Corwin Unleashed
Kenny the Shark
Scout's Safari
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High
Tra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2005–06 daytime network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States in operation during that television season covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2005 to August 2006. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2004–05 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are UPN (as the network did not offer any daytime programs this season), and i: Independent Television, as its schedule was composed mainly of syndicated reruns.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or other contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
Notes:
Kids' WB ran temporary stunt blocks of animated series in the 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. ET time slots during December 2005, including:
Xiaolin Showdown (December 12,22,27)
Johnny Test (December 13,21,26)
Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island (December 14,19,29)
The Batman (December 15,20)
Viewtiful Joe (Aired for 90 minutes from 4:00 to 5:30 on December 16 then, for one hour from 4:30 to 5:30 on December 28)
Loonatics Unleashed (December 23,30)
On January 2, 2006, Daytime WB debuted as Kids WB! had been reduced only to Saturdays.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
All My Children
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Kim Possible
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
NBA Inside Stuff
One Life to Live
Phil of the Future
Power Rangers S.P.D.
The Proud Family
That's So Raven
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
The View
New series:
The Buzz on Maggie
The Emperor's New School
NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad
Power Rangers Mystic Force
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
Not returning from 2004–05:
Even Stevens
Fillmore!
Lizzie McGuire
Power Rangers Dino Thunder
W.I.T.C.H.
CBS
Returning series:
As the World Turns
The Backyardigans
Blue's Clues
The Bold and the Beaut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2006–07 daytime network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States in operation during that television season covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2006 to August 2007. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2005–06 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Fox does not offer daytime network programming nor network news on weekdays; as such, schedules are only included for Saturdays and Sundays. Also not included are MyNetworkTV (as the network also does not offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or other contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
NBC note: Passions aired its final episode on NBC on September 7, 2007; it moved to The 101 Network beginning with the September 17 episode. The following Monday, the network returned the 2 pm timeslot to its affiliates. In exchange, NBC took back the 10:00 am timeslot from its affiliates, as Today expanded to four hours that same day.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC Kids
The Emperor's New School
Power Rangers Mystic Force
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
That's So Raven
ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson
All My Children
ESPN on ABC (renamed from ABC Sports)
College Football on ABC
NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad
General Hospital
Good Morning America
One Life to Live
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
The View
New series:
ABC Kids
Hannah Montana
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
The Replacements
Not returning from 2005–06:
ABC Kids
The Buzz on Maggie
Kim Possible
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Phil of the Future
Power Rangers S.P.D.
The Proud Family
NBA Inside Stuff
CBS
Returning series:
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
The Early Show
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov%20Ka-137 | The Kamov Ka-137, previously designated MBVK-137, is an unmanned multipurpose helicopter designed for many roles, including reconnaissance, patrol, police and ecology, emergency, and data transmitting. Three versions of the Ka-137 were made — one ship-based, one automobile-based, and another carried by the Ka-32 helicopter. The aircraft uses a piston engine, driving a coaxial-rotor system and features a tailless, sphere-shaped fuselage with four-leg leaf-spring landing gear. Sensors and other equipment are located in a special equipment compartment.
Specifications
See also
VRT 300
References
Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets
Military Parade "Russia's Arms Catalog", 2002
Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead: PMC
External links
www.aeronautics.ru
testpilot.ru
www.janes.com
Kamov aircraft
1990s Soviet and Russian helicopters
Unmanned aerial vehicles of Russia
1990s Soviet and Russian military reconnaissance aircraft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap2it | Zap2it is an American website and affiliate network that provides local television listings for areas of the United States and Canada. The site is produced by Nexstar Media Group. Zap2it affiliates include Wave Broadband, Cox, Dish Network, Disney, Sinclair Broadcast Group, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.
History
Tribune Media Services first began to offer online listings services as a content provider to the online services Prodigy in the late 1980s and America Online in the early 1990s. TMS launched its first branded online television listings service, TV Quest, in 1993 on the AppleLink online service. TV Quest later migrated to Apple's eWorld services and to the internet in the mid-1990s.
Version 1.0 of Zap2it debuted on the web in May 2000. In its earliest iteration, the site was a combination of TMS-owned listings sites TVQuest and MovieQuest plus the then-recently purchased content site UltimateTV.
UltimateTV offered viewers and industry insiders breaking news, Nielsen ratings, live celebrity chats and more. The site provided video clips, interviews and promos in its Promo Lounge area.
The earliest Zap2it focused on films, television and original web-based content. The site offered original editorials along with listings information for films, television and online. It also listed online content such as short films, interactive games and webisodes offered by Atom Films, Shockwave.com and iFilm.
Zap2it's television listings and film showtimes were generated by TMS data, with web listings by Yack data.
The site's editorial pages, including the front page, were redesigned in 2001. In early 2003, the editorial focus of Zap2it was narrowed down to television and films, and the site was again redesigned. An agreement with Fandango in 2005 allowed for the introduction of online movie ticketing for select theaters. Blogs, including It Happened Last Night, which offered show recaps, were first launched in 2006 and expanded thereafter. In 2007, the site launched "click-to-record" functionality allowing users with TiVo digital video recorders to remotely schedule recordings directly from within the Zap2it television listings.
The site launched TVOvermind, a blog dedicated to episodic recaps hosted as a subdomain on the Zap2it website, in 2008. It was later purchased by BC Media Group in 2012.
On October 3, 2016, the site was rebranded as Screener.
In April 2017, Tribune Media announced the end of editorial content on Screener TV. No new editorial content has been added since. By January 2018, the TV Listings section and TV by the Numbers were the only thing left on the site, as the site reverted to the Zap2it name. TV by the Numbers ended operations at the end of January 2020.
Product development
In early 2007, Zap2it released enhanced television listings on its main site. Upgrades to the product included improved performance, better customization capabilities and the introduction of sharing too |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuedong%20Huang | Xuedong David Huang (born October 20, 1962) is a Chinese American computer scientist and technology executive who has made contributions to spoken language processing and artificial intelligence, including Azure AI Services. He is Zoom's chief technology officer after serving as Microsoft's Technical Fellow and Azure AI Chief Technology Officer for 30 years. Huang is a strong advocate of AI for Accessibility, and AI for Cultural Heritage.
Education
Huang received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 (sponsored by the British ORS and Edinburgh University Scholarship), his MS from Tsinghua University in 1984, and BS from Hunan University in 1982.
Career
After receiving his PhD in 1989, Huang joined Carnegie Mellon University and worked with Raj Reddy and Kai-Fu Lee on speech recognition. At CMU, he directed the Sphinx-II speech system research which achieved the best performance in every category of DARPA's 1992 benchmarking. Microsoft Research recruited him to found and lead Microsoft's spoken language initiatives in 1993. His co-authored book Spoken Language Processing and his Historical speech recognition review succinctly summarize several generations of spoken language research. As Microsoft's Mr. Speech for three decades, Huang has been instrumental in creating Microsoft's Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI), shipping Microsoft Speech Server, and modernizing spoken language and integrative AI services via Azure AI, which not only enables millions of 3rd party customers but also powers up Microsoft's Windows, Office, Teams, and Azure OpenAI Services.
Huang helped Microsoft and Azure Cognitive Services achieve multiple industry's first human parity milestones on the following open research tasks: transcribing conversational speech, machine translation, conversational QnA, and computer vision image captioning.
Huang has made significant contributions to the software and AI industry through his executive leadership and his scientific publications, owning more than 170 US patents and impacting billions through Azure AI enabled products and services. In 2016, Wired magazine named him one of 25 Geniuses. In 2021, Azure AI was named the winner of InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Award.
Huang was awarded the Allen Newell research excellence medal in 1992, and IEEE Speech Processing Best Paper in 1993. He was recognized as an IEEE Fellow by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2000, named ACM Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery in 2017, and a member of Washington State Academy of Sciences. Huang received 2022 Asian American Corporate Leadership Award, and IEEE Amar Bose Industrial Leader Award. In 2023, he was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
References
1962 births
Living people
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Tsinghua University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University facul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TG5 | TG5 (TeleGiornale 5) is a news programme on the Italian TV channel Canale 5, part of the Mediaset network and owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It is broadcast domestically on Canale 5 and Mediaset TGcom24 several times a day. The rating for the programme´s 08:00 PM edition, are among the highest for Italian commercial TV. The programme is broadcast from Rome. The editor-in-chief is Clemente Mimun.
Programme format
The roots of the programme go back to 1980 on Canale 5, with a programme covering Lombardy called Video 5. In 1983 it was replaced by Canale 5 News.
The programme is generally presented by a single newsreader but with additional newsreaders for financial reports. Generally the programme features reports which are preceded and followed by the correspondent reporting live from the scene of the report.
TG5, as it exists today, was created in 1992 with Enrico Mentana as director.
Programmes
TG5 Mattina and TG5 flash: Cristina Bianchino, Paolo di Lorenzo, Francesca Cantini, Veronica Gervaso, Roberta Floris
TG5 Giorno and TG5 flash: Simona Branchetti, Costanza Calabrese , Domitilla Savignoni, Paola Rivetta, Francesca Cenci
TG5 Sera: Cesara Buonamici, Alberto Bila', Elena Guarnieri, Dario Maltese
TG5 Notte: Lorenzo Montersoli, Antonio Sapio, Paolo Trombin
Editor-in-chief
1992-2004 - Enrico Mentana
2004-2007 - Carlo Rossella
2007-present - Clemente Mimun
2020 - Mauro Crippa (ad interim)
R.T.I. - Mediaset
Mass media in Rome
Italian television news shows
1992 Italian television series debuts
Canale 5 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%20Morales%20%28actress%29 | Natalie Morales (born February 15, 1985) is an American actress and director. She starred in the 2008 ABC Family series The Middleman and had a main role in 2009 on the first season of the USA Network series White Collar. In 2010, she appeared in the feature films Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Going the Distance. Morales also had a starring role in the Fox comedy series The Grinder, the NBC sitcom Abby's, and recurring roles in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, HBO's The Newsroom and the Netflix series Dead to Me.
Her directorial debut film, the teen comedy Plan B, was released May 28, 2021, on Hulu. She also directed Language Lessons, a film she co-wrote with Mark Duplass and stars in. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was released in September 2021.
Early life
A native of Miami, Florida, Morales is of Cuban descent. She attended St. Agatha Catholic School and Southwest Miami Senior High School. She participated in the University of Miami's Dow Jones Minority High School Journalism Workshop.
Career
Acting
Morales had a guest appearance on CSI: Miami in 2006, and played a character in Pimp My Ride that year, a video game version of the MTV television series. Her first major role was in The Middleman, a sci-fi dramedy which aired on the ABC Family network for one season. She starred as Wendy Watson; the series was adapted from the comic book, The Middleman. Morales also starred in and executive produced a Web series, titled Quitters. The series was an official selection of the 3rd annual ITVFest (Independent Television Festival) in Los Angeles in August 2008.
In 2009, Morales joined the cast of the USA Network television series White Collar for the first season. She portrayed Lauren Cruz, a junior FBI agent. In May 2010, after her dismissal from the White Collar cast, Morales began appearing as a regular in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, appearing as Lucy, girlfriend of Aziz Ansari's character Tom Haverford and bartender at The Snakehole Lounge. Morales appeared in Oliver Stone's 2010 film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, a sequel to his 1987 film Wall Street. She was cast as Chelsea Handler's best friend in Are You There, Chelsea? She left the series when the cast was replaced for creative reasons. Morales also appeared on Aaron Sorkin's HBO drama, The Newsroom, guest-starring as Kaylee, the girlfriend of Dev Patel’s character, Neal. In 2013, Morales joined the cast of Trophy Wife as Meg, Kate's best friend. In 2015, she joined the cast of the Fox series The Grinder. In 2017, she appeared in some episodes of the NBC series Powerless. Morales appeared as Detective Anne Garcia in the Netflix horror comedy series Santa Clarita Diet.
Morales was in the television series, a NBC multi-camera sitcom, Abby's, created by Josh Malmuth and executive produced by Parks and Recreation creator Michael Schur. Their third series for the network, it premiered on March 28, 2019. Later that year, Morales was cast as M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping%20of%20Airline%20Traffic%20over%20Internet%20Protocol | Mapping of Airline Traffic over Internet Protocol (MATIP) is a communication protocol defined by RFC 2351. It uses the well-known ports 350 and 351. It has been created for the use by computer applications to carry airline reservation, ticketing, and messaging traffic.
MATIP is preferred over classic Airline Traffic lines because:
it allows to use low-cost tcp/ip global networks instead airline-specific networks
it will decrease the number of communications sessions to manage
current airline booking terminals and programs can be used with MATIP without the need of replacement
External links
New "type-X" proposal and brief history of MATIP
MATIP technical specifications
Overview of MATIP
Internet protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCX%20file%20compression | FCX file compression is a file compression utility and file format. It is supported on a large number of platforms. It is published by Compact Data Works and was originally released in 1988 for VAX/VMS.
References
Archive formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining%20industry%20of%20the%20Comoros | As of 2006, the mineral industry of continued to be limited to the production of such construction materials as clay, sand and gravel, and crushed stone for local consumption. Mineral production data continued to be unavailable as of 2006. The Comoros did not play a significant role in the world's production or consumption of minerals.
The demand for cement, steel, and petroleum products was met through imports. In 2005, imports of petroleum products accounted for 12% of total imports; cement, 8%; and iron and steel, nearly 4%. Imports of cement amounted to 55,867 metric tons (t); petroleum products, 20,487 t; and iron and steel, 3,678 t.
References
Comoros
Economy of the Comoros
Comoros |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNAliens | The DNAliens may refer to:
DNAlien (comics), genetic creations by Project Cadmus appearing in DC Comics
The main antagonists from the Cartoon Network original series Ben 10: Alien Force |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernicke%E2%80%93Geschwind%20model | In the study of language processing, Carl Wernicke created an early neurological model of language, that later was revived by Norman Geschwind. The model is known as the Wernicke–Geschwind model.
For listening to and understanding spoken words, the sounds of the words are sent through the auditory pathways to area 41, which is the primary auditory cortex (Heschl's gyrus). From there, they continue to Wernicke's area, where the meaning of the words is extracted.
In order to speak, the meanings of words are sent from Wernicke's area via the arcuate fasciculus to Broca's area, where morphemes are assembled. The model proposes that Broca's area holds a representation for articulating words. Instructions for speech are sent from Broca's area to the facial area of the motor cortex, and from there instructions are sent to facial motor neurons in the brainstem, which relay movement orders to facial muscles.
In order to read, information concerning the written text is sent from visual areas 17, 18, and 19 to the angular gyrus (area 39) and from there to Wernicke's area, for silent reading or, together with Broca's area, for reading out loud.
This model is now obsolete. Nevertheless, it has been very useful in directing research and organizing research results, because it is based on the idea that language consists of two basic functions: comprehension, which is a sensory/perceptual function, and speaking, which is a motor function. However, the neural organization of language is more complex than the Wernicke–Geschwind model of language suggests. The localization of speech in Broca's area is one of the weakest points of this model.
References
External links
http://www.umich.edu/~psycours/345/lecture11/sld025.htm
Psychoacoustics
Neurolinguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20Battalion | Override is a Data East vertical-scrolling shooter game released for the PC Engine in 1991. Later that year, Sting Entertainment, the creator of the original Data East game, developed and self-published a version for the X68000 released as Last Battalion.
It is the first recorded game developed by Sting Entertainment and the X68000 version is now available as a free "one stage only" demo download on Sting's website. On September 4, 2007, G-Mode published the Override version of the game for the Wii Virtual Console which (like its 1991 release) was reserved exclusively for the Japanese market.
Gameplay
The player can increase the power of their primary weapon by collecting “P” items. The player's ship also has a charge feature, where if the fire button is not touched for a few seconds, the ship will charge up a powerful shot that can destroy many of the enemies on-screen. The player can also acquire secondary weapons by collecting a gem. The gem changes colors, and depending on which color it is when collected, the player will get a different weapon. Players can power up their secondary weapon by collecting another gem of the same color.
Reception
On release, the game was scored a 30 out of 40 by a panel of four reviewers at Famicom Tsūshin.
References
http://www.paleface.net/cgi-bin/gdb/n.pl?c=474
External links
Official website
1991 video games
Data East video games
X68000 games
Single-player video games
Sting Entertainment games
TurboGrafx-16 games
Vertically scrolling shooters
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Klensin | John C. Klensin is a political scientist and computer science professional who is active in Internet-related issues.
Career
His career includes 30 years as a principal research scientist at MIT, including a period as INFOODS Project Coordinator for the United Nations University, distinguished engineering fellow at MCI WorldCom, and Internet architecture vice president at AT&T; he is now an independent consultant.
The Cambridge Project
Klensin was involved in The Cambridge Project, a social science data management cooperation project taking place at MIT, Harvard and other universities from 1969 to 1977. As a part of this program, John Klensin led the development of the Consistent System targeted for use by Social Scientists. The Consistent System ran on top of the Multics operating system.
Internet
His involvement with Internet protocols began in 1969, when he worked on the File Transfer Protocol.
In 1992, Randy Bush and John Klensin created the Network Startup Resource Center, helping dozens of countries to establish connections with FidoNet, UseNet, and when possible Internet.
IETF
Klensin is the author or co-editor of over 40 RFCs, and has served as IETF Applications Area director 1993-1995, Internet Architecture Board member 1996-2002, and its chair 2000-2002. He again served on the Board from 2009 to 2011.
The RFCs written or edited by Klensin include SMTP (including RFC 4409 and RFC 5321), IDNA (including RFC 5890 and RFC 6055), Unicode (including RFC 5137 and RFC 5198), and other fields including CRAM-MD5 (RFC 2195) and IETF policies (RFC 3933). In March 2011 8BITMIME (RFC 6152) was published as Internet standard STD 71, in November 2011 Mail submission (RFC 6409) was published as STD 72.
His i18n work also included an April Fools' Day RFC in collaboration with Harald Alvestrand (RFC 5242) and MIME in collaboration with Ned Freed (RFC 4289 among others). , he is a member of the RFC Independent Submissions Editorial Board. He is working on several Internet drafts.
Awards and honours
2003 - INCITS Merit Award.
2007 - inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
2012 - inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.
See also
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
Internet Society people
Internet pioneers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandrakota | Kandrakota is a village in East Godavari District of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Peddapuram mandal of Peddapuram revenue division.
Demographics
Population data of Kandrakota Village at the 2001 census:
References
Villages in East Godavari district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadalada | Chadalada is a south Indian village in Peddapuram Mandal in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh, India.
References
Pincode Numbers in East Gaodavari Dist
Chadalada VILLAGE Population Data
Villages in East Godavari district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IREDES | IREDES, International Rock Excavation Data Exchange Standard, is an industry standard to unify routines for the data exchange between mining equipment and office computer systems. It defines one "common electronic language" to be talked by the automation systems throughout the mine. In year 2000, IREDES was founded by the major players in the mining industry. Since then, the standard was developed, built and tested.
Background
Modern mining machines today is controlled electronically via network. This kind of equipment provides enormous amount of electronic reports and data. Before IREDES, there was no way of cost effectively exchanging the process information with databases, simulation tools and other enterprise level software. Any data exchange problem had to be solved by individual and expensive software development projects. To solve this problem, IREDES was founded to unify the data exchange format and method such that individual development effort can be minimized.
Innovations
The development of IREDES is to achieve the following:
Easy integration of multi vendor machine installations into data controlled mining process
Reduce cost of individual interface development for machine manufactures, mining companies and system suppliers
Create new markets for off-the-shelf software and systems to be used in automated mining processes
Form a data acquisition basis for integration of the mining process into enterprise level modeling, cost analysis and decision finding systems.
Set up unique, standardized definitions on the content of all parameters used in IREDES to ensure the parameters are meaning the same when they are provided by different systems. Thereby the machines are not only able to "talk" but also to "understand" each other.
Organization
IREDES is a not-for-profit organization located in Ladbergen, Germany. It is jointly financed by the member companies on a cost sharing basis.
The standard documents are open to the public. They are accessible free of charge for members. Non-members can purchase the documents from the IREDES office for a small amount of contribution to the standardization work.
Data Profiles
All the data profiles are based on Extensible Markup Language (XML). This is due to the high extendability and interoperability of the language. The current data profiles created with the contribution of board members are Drilling rig and LHD trucks. More profiles will be added in the future if needed.
References
External links
IREDES initiative
Mining equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959%E2%80%9360%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1959–60 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1959 to August 1960.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
See also
1959-60 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
1959-60 United States network television schedule (late night)
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html
Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (2007). The Complete Directory To Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows (9th Ed.). New York: Ballantine.
Castleman, Harry & Podrazik, Wally (1984). The TV Schedule Book. New York: McGraw-Hill Paperbacks.
Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia Of Daytime Television. New York: Billboard Books.
TV schedules, NEW YORK TIMES, September 1959-September 1960 (microfilm)
United States weekday network television schedules
1959 in American television
1960 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorsbus | Moorsbus is a network of bus services operating to and around the North York Moors National Park and surrounding areas. It was operated from the 1980s by the North York Moors National Park Authority, and linked places such as Malton, Teesside, Thirsk, York and Hull to the National Park.
The Moorsbus connected those in major towns and cities in the region with the picturesque villages and attractions of the National Park on Sundays and Bank Holidays when there were no other public transport services. The network ceased operation at the end of October 2013 following severe budgetary constraints for the North York Moors National Park Authority, its sponsor.
A new but much reduced service ran on summer Sundays and Bank Holidays in 2014 after a campaign by Friends of Moorsbus. East Yorkshire Motor Services ran a service from Hull to Danby via Beverley and Pickering, and the Dales and Bowland Community Interest Company, on behalf of the Moorsbus Community Interest Company, ran the Moors Rambler from Darlington to Pickering via Middlesbrough and Guisborough.
In 2015, East Yorkshire Motor Services started its Sunday/Bank holiday service on 3 April, whilst Moorsbus Community Interest Company ran two buses, covering Darlington, Teesside, Saltburn, Redcar, Guisborough, Northallerton, Thirsk, Kirkbymoorside, Helmsley and Pickering, from 5 July.
In 2016 Moorsbus Community Interest Company is operating three buses. One route runs from Darlington via Stockton, Middlesbrough, Guisborough and Danby to Pickering (as in previous years). The service from Saltburn and Redcar operates via Guisborough, Stokesley, Northallerton and Thirsk with a new route via Coxwold, Byland Abbey and Ampleforth to Helmsley. An additional bus (provided by Ryedale Community Transport) runs from Malton, Pickering and Kirkbymoorside to provide a shuttle between Helmsley and Rievaulx Abbey, with 3 return trips from Helmsley to Sutton Bank Visitor Centre.
Funding for the services comes from fares, but with a substantial contribution from parish and town councils, individual passengers, Ryedale District Council, the North York Moors National Park Authority and the North Yorkshire Moors Association.
Operators that currently hold Moorbus contracts are: Arriva, First York, Reliance and York Pullman.
Gallery
References
External links
www.moorsbus.org Company website
Previous Moorsbus information - Web archive
Bus operators in North Yorkshire
Bus routes in England
North York Moors
Transport in North Yorkshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20sharing | In computer science, false sharing is a performance-degrading usage pattern that can arise in systems with distributed, coherent caches at the size of the smallest resource block managed by the caching mechanism. When a system participant attempts to periodically access data that is not being altered by another party, but that data shares a cache block with data that is being altered, the caching protocol may force the first participant to reload the whole cache block despite a lack of logical necessity. The caching system is unaware of activity within this block and forces the first participant to bear the caching system overhead required by true shared access of a resource.
Multiprocessor CPU caches
By far the most common usage of this term is in modern multiprocessor CPU caches, where memory is cached in lines of some small power of two word size (e.g., 64 aligned, contiguous bytes). If two processors operate on independent data in the same memory address region storable in a single line, the cache coherency mechanisms in the system may force the whole line across the bus or interconnect with every data write, forcing memory stalls in addition to wasting system bandwidth. In some cases, the elimination of false sharing can result in order-of-magnitude performance improvements. False sharing is an inherent artifact of automatically synchronized cache protocols and can also exist in environments such as distributed file systems or databases, but current prevalence is limited to RAM caches.
Example
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>
#include <new>
#include <atomic>
#include <chrono>
#include <latch>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
using namespace chrono;
#if defined(__cpp_lib_hardware_interference_size)
// default cacheline size from runtime
constexpr size_t CL_SIZE = hardware_constructive_interference_size;
#else
// most common cacheline size otherwise
constexpr size_t CL_SIZE = 64;
#endif
int main()
{
vector<jthread> threads;
int hc = thread::hardware_concurrency();
for( int nThreads = 1; nThreads <= hc; ++nThreads )
{
latch latSync( nThreads );
atomic_uint sync( nThreads );
// as much atomics as would fit into a cacheline
struct { atomic_char atomics[CL_SIZE] alignas(CL_SIZE); } cacheLine;
atomic_int64_t nsSum( 0 ); // sum of both thread execution times
for( int t = 0; t != nThreads; ++t )
{
threads.emplace_back(
[&]( atomic_char &a )
{
latSync.arrive_and_wait(); // synch beginning of thread execution on kernel-level
if( sync.fetch_sub( 1, memory_order::relaxed ) != 1 ) // fine-synch on user-level
while( sync.load( memory_order::relaxed ) );
auto start = high_resolution_clock::now();
for( size_t r = 10'000'000; r--; )
a.fetch_add( 1, memory_order::relaxed ); // atomic increment
nsSum += duration_cast<nanoseconds>( high_resolution_clock::now() - start ).count();
},
ref( cacheLine.atomics[t % CL_SIZE] ) );
}
threads.resize( 0 ); / |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WREA-LP | WREA-LP (104.9 FM, "Radio Redentor") is a radio station licensed to serve Holyoke, Massachusetts. The station is owned by Radio Redentor. It airs Spanish-language religious programming.
The station was assigned the WREA-LP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on November 29, 2005.
Another Spanish-language religious station, WLHZ-LP in Springfield, had also been assigned the 104.9 MHz frequency but in March 2008 received a construction permit from the FCC to relocate to 107.9 MHz to avoid interference with WREA-LP.
References
External links
WREA-LP official website
WREA-LP Antenna and Transmitter Site photos
REA-LP
REA-LP
Mass media in Holyoke, Massachusetts
REA-LP
2005 establishments in Massachusetts
Radio stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2007–08 daytime network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2007 to August 2008. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, and any series canceled after the 2006–07 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with MyNetworkTV, as it has never offered a daytime network schedule or aired network news, and Ion Television, as its schedule is composed mainly of paid programming and syndicated reruns.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or a digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Note:
ABC, NBC and CBS offer their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
CBS delayed the start of The Price Is Right 36th season by one month (until October 15, 2007) in order to allow the show to transition into its new host, Drew Carey (Bob Barker, whom Carey replaced, had retired as host of the program in June 2007 at the end of the game show's 35th season).
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
All My Children
America This Morning
The Emperor's New School
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Hannah Montana
NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad
One Life to Live
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
The Replacements
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
That's So Raven
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
The View
World News with Charles Gibson
New series:
Power Rangers Jungle Fury
Not returning from 2006–07:
Power Rangers Mystic Force
CBS
Returning series:
As the World Turns
The Bol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterAct%20Theatre%20Company | InterAct Theatre Company is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A founding member of the National New Play Network.
History
InterAct Theatre was begun in 1988 by four graduates of the University of Pennsylvania. Artistic Director Seth Rozin, along with Brad Rosenstein, Erica Schwartz and David Goldstein, founded the theatre after working together on an Irish theatre company's visit to the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. They wanted to promote cultural exchange between Ireland and America with a series of touring productions. After the tour around Ireland, they returned to Philadelphia and established InterAct. The theatre's mission was honed over the next few years, switching the focus to contemporary plays with social resonance.
In 1997, InterAct gained its own premises at 2030 Sansom Street, Center City Philadelphia, where it remained located until 2016. "The Adrienne," the former home of The Wilma Theater, has been the home of many renowned productions. The 2012/2013 season marked InterAct's 25th Anniversary. The company has produced 97 main stage productions, including 45 world premieres, 2 U.S. premieres and over 47 Philadelphia premieres, in all providing employment for more than 800 local artists. They have commissioned new plays from playwrights such as Lee Blessing, Thomas Gibbons, Jason Sherman, Rehana Mirza, Jen Silverman, Peter Gil-Sheridan, Eric Pfeffinger, Kara Lee Corthron and R. Eric Thomas. At the beginning of the 2016 season, InterAct moved into a newly renovated, two-theater facility at The Drake, 1512 Spruce Street, Philadelphia.
References
InterAct Theatre Company
Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theater
Philadelphia Inquirer
Theatre companies in Philadelphia
Theatres in Philadelphia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20global%20sustainability%20statistics | Global sustainability statistics are benchmarks for measuring the status of sustainability parameters. The following agencies provide baseline data for sustainability governance. They are just one form of data used for sustainability accounting and are valuable for assessing trends and measuring progress.
This list provides sources of statistics at the global level of governance only.
General lists
Meadows, D.H., Randers, J. & Meadows, D.L. 2004. Limits to growth: the 30-year update. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, USA.
The CIAs World Fact Book
World Data Center
United Nations Environmental Indicators Also publications on environmental statistics and statistical methods.
Water (water resources, water supply industry, waste water)
Air pollution (SO2 & NOx),
Climate change (greenhouse gas emissions; by sector(absolute & percentage); CO2 emissions; CH4 & N2O emissions)
Waste (municipal waste collection, treatment, hazardous waste)
Land use (total land area by country, forest area by country, agricultural area by country).
European Commission (Eurostat)
Biodiversity
Groombridge, B & Jenkins, M.D. 2002. World Atlas of Biodiversity. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Energy
BP Statistical Review of World Energy
The International Energy Agency. Key World Energy Statistics
UN Energy Statistics Database
Fisheries
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Forests
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Fertilizer
International Fertilizer Industry Association
Food and agriculture
UN Food and Agriculture Organization. FAOSTAT
Population
United Nations Population Division
United Nations Database
Population Reference Bureau
American Association for Advancement of Science
Water
International Water Management Institute
Stockholm International Water Institute
United Nations Environmental Program
Global Runoff Data Centre
See also
Sustainability accounting
Sustainability science
Sustainability governance
Sustainability
Sustainable development
References
Statistics, global
Statistics, global
Statistics-related lists
Sustainability statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Apple%20Inc.%20products | This timeline of Apple products is a list of all computers, phones, tablets, wearables, and other products sold by Apple Inc. This list is ordered by the release date of the products. Macintosh Performa models were often physically identical to other models, in which case they are omitted in favor of the identical twin.
Detailed timeline
1970s
1980-1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
See also
Macintosh
List of Mac models grouped by CPU type
List of iPhone models
List of iPad models
Timeline of the Apple II family
List of Mac models
References
External links
Specifications, Apple Computer, Inc.
Mac Systems: Apple, EveryMac.com
Glen Sanford, Apple History, apple-history.com
Dan Knight, Computer Profiles, LowEndMac, Cobweb Publishing, Inc.
Steven Weyhrich, Apple II History, apple2history.org
Pictorial Timeline
Apple Inc. hardware
Apple products
Apple
products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT/Muenchian%20grouping | Muenchian grouping (or Muenchian method, named after Steve Muench) is an algorithm for grouping of data used in XSL Transformations v1 that identifies keys in the results and then queries all nodes with that key. This improves the traditional alternative for grouping, whereby each node is checked against previous (or following) nodes to determine if the key is unique (if it is, this would indicate a new group).
In both cases the key can take the form of an attribute, element, or computed value.
The unique identifier is referred to as a key because of the use of the 'key' function to identify and track the group variable.
The technique is not necessary in XSLT 2.0+, which introduces the new for-each-group tag.
General aspect of the transform
The method took advantage of XSLT's ability to index documents using a key. The trick involves using the index to efficiently figure out the set of unique grouping keys and then using this set to process all nodes in the group:
<xsl:key name="products-by-category" match="product" use="@category"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="//product[count(. | key('products-by-category', @category)[1]) = 1]">
<xsl:variable name="current-grouping-key"
select="@category"/>
<xsl:variable name="current-group"
select="key('products-by-category',
$current-grouping-key)"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$current-group">
<!-- processing for elements in group -->
<!-- you can use xsl:sort here also, if necessary -->
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
Although the Muenchian method will continue to work in 2.0, for-each-group Is preferred as it is likely to be as efficient and probably more so. The Muenchian method can only be used for value-based grouping.
References
Grouping
XML-based programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio | Reductio is open source software written using the Java Programming Language from an idea that originated in a research paper called QuickCheck: A Lightweight Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs. Reductio and QuickCheck utilise a testing technique called Automated Specification-based Testing.
The primary objective of Reductio is to make testing as rigorous as possible, while alleviating developer effort through automation of many common testing tasks. Reductio includes usage examples that demonstrate how this objective has been met using both traditional Java 1.5 and Java 7 BGGA syntax as well as Scala programming language examples.
Example
The following example uses Java 7 BGGA syntax to execute 100 unit tests on java.util.LinkedList. It asserts that when a list (x) is appended to another list (y), then the size() of the resulting list (xy) is equivalent to the sum of the size() of the two original lists.
Property p = property(arbLinkedList(arbInteger), arbLinkedList(arbInteger), {
LinkedList<Integer> x, LinkedList<Integer> y =>
prop(append(x, y).size() == x.size() + y.size())
});
Citations and footnotes
External links
Reductio website
Reductio User Manual
Reductio RequalsHashCode
A Case for Automated Testing
Tests As Documentation
Software testing tools
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Free software testing tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTAM | XHTAM may refer to:
XHTAM-FM 96.1 Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, a simulcast of XETAM-AM 640
XHTAM-TDT 17 Reynosa-Matamoros, Tamaulipas, an affiliate of Canal de las Estrellas network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook%20Port%C3%A9g%C3%A9 | The Portégé is a range of business-oriented subnotebooks and ultrabooks manufactured by Dynabook Inc. From 1993 to 2016, the Portégé was manufactured by Toshiba's computer subsidiary. The Portégé series was briefly discontinued after Toshiba left the computer market in 2016. In 2019, Sharp Corporation purchased majority interest of Toshiba inactive's computer subsidiary (later buying Toshiba's remaining shares in 2020) and resurrected the Portégé.
Overview
The Portégé series has a long line of several models, the latest being the 13.3 inch R30 series and the similar Z30 series. It is a lightweight series of laptops targeted to business professionals. Portégé laptops occasionally featured first-in-the-world technologies. R500 was one such machine, first of its kind in terms of form factor that provided an integrated DVD drive and was less than a kilogram in weight.
Portégés are designed to be mobile, with a focus on portability, style, and performance. Throughout their history, Portégé machines have been extolled due to their focus on long battery life. Furthermore, several high-end models in the Portégé line feature a Honeycomb Rib Structure which makes the laptop stiffer and more durable. Many also come with the optional feature of a solid-state drive, which is more reliable than a traditional hard disk drive, as well as USB 3.0, which allows for faster data transfer.
Earlier models include the Portégé M780 and R700. Similar to the M750, the M780 features a flip and twist screen, which means it can be used as a notebook or a tablet. The device has a 12.1-inch LED-backlit display with a resolution of 1200 × 800 pixels, and comes with a stylus for scribbling notes, which slots into the side of the chassis when not being used. The M780 also has a 320 GB hard disk, and can be customized or upgraded to Intel Core i7 processor and 8 GB RAM.
Early 2011, Intel Core released their new Sandy Bridge processors. Following that release, Toshiba has released its newest range of Portégé notebooks. Worldwide, there may be more models, however, the Australian range is known as the R830. All have minimum i5-2410M processor, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM and Windows 7 Pro.
Models
References
Bibliography
Toshiba Corporation. Toshiba Portégé 300CT User's Guide. Toshiba Corporation, 1997.
External links
Toshiba Portégé
Products introduced in 1993
Products and services discontinued in 2016
Products introduced in 2019
Consumer electronics brands
Subnotebooks
Portege
Ultrabooks
Business laptops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHMDR-FM | XHMDR-FM is a radio station in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is an owned-and-operated station of Grupo Imagen and carries its Imagen Radio news/talk programming.
History
XHMDR received its concession on October 2, 1990. It was owned by Enrique Regules Uriegas for Multimedios Radio. XHMDR's first format was "Estéreo Recuerdo", which broadcast contemporary music in Spanish and later became "Stereo Hits", a pop format in Spanish. Imagen acquired XHMDR in 2006 and changed to news/talk programming.
References
Radio stations in Tampico
Grupo Imagen
Radio stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1956–57 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1956 to August 1957.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Monday-Friday
Comedy Time featured repeats of I Married Joan (fall/summer), It's a Great Life (winter), Dear Phoebe (spring-summer), and Topper (spring).
Saturday
Sunday
See also
1956-57 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
1956-57 United States network television schedule (late night)
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html
Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
Hyatt, The Encyclopedia Of Daytime Television, Billboard Books, 1997
TV schedules, New York Times, September 1956 – September 1957 (microfilm)
United States weekday network television schedules
1956 in American television
1957 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented%20Hyper%20Graphics | A Segmented Hyper Graphics (SHG) file is a computer image file format that contains a bitmap and optionally a number of hotspots. This file format was developed for use in WinHelp files, and allowed the user to click on different parts of an image to jump to different topics in the help file. SHG files can still be imported by some help authoring tools and thus can be used to create help files in formats other than WinHelp.
The SHG format is rarely used for help file formats other than WinHelp. Most other help formats use a method based on HTML image maps.
SHG-enabled software
Microsoft's shed.exe the original application used to create SHG files
JGsoft's Hotspot Builder , which can create and edit SHG files
EC Software's Help and Manual , which can import SHG files
Ulead Photo Explorer 8.5 , , which can be used to view SHG files
References
Graphics file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Ericsson%20C905 | The Sony Ericsson C905 is a high-end mobile phone in Sony's 'C' (Cyber-shot) range, which, along with the low-end 'S' (Snapshot) range cameras, supplants the earlier 'K' range of camera phones. It is the flagship model in Sony Ericsson's range for 2008 and it was released on 22 October 2008. It's the first 8-megapixel camera phone to be released outside Korea, while adding the Assisted GPS (A-GPS) and Wi-Fi function. It is also the first Sony Ericsson mobile phone to support the DLNA sharing network as well as the first Cyber-shot phone to also be released for AT&T.
Features
Screen
2.4", 240×320 pixels (QVGA), 262,144 (18-bit) color TFT LCD
Camera
8.1 megapixel CMOS (3264×2448, 7.99 effective megapixels)
Autofocus lens
Xenon flash, 3-LED videolight, focus assist lamp, self-portrait mirror
Image stabilizer
Face detection auto focus up to 3 faces
Smile Shutter (newly added, users can update it using the update service option)
Auto Rotate
BestPic
16× digital zoom
Video recording: QVGA (320×240) @30fps
Dedicated camera still/record/review key
Dual Function D-Pad
Mechanical lens cover
PhotoAlbum
PictBridge
Connectivity
Blog link
GPS with A-GPS, with picture geotagging support
WLAN 802.11b/g, DLNA technology
NetFront 4.5 web browser with Autorotate
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
Apple iSync supported via a free plugin from Sony Ericsson
Bluetooth
Audio
Media player 3.0 with MegaBass (simplified version of Walkman 3.0)
M4A/MP3/MIDI ringtones
FM Radio with RDS
Shazam TrackID application to identify music
PlayNow 5.0
Memory
160MB internal
2GB M2 included, up to 8GB max. (Sandisk has tested that the biggest memory card size possible on the C905 is 16GB.)
Design
Four colours: 'Copper Gold', 'Ice Silver', 'Night Black' and 'Tender Rose'
Startup failures, data corruption and hardware issues
For some users, the C905 can suddenly fail to startup, and instead just show a black screen with the backlight turning on and off repeatedly .
This problem happens due to internal data corruption (caused by the phone), and can only be fixed by restoring the phone to its original software/firmware — meaning that all personal data will be erased. On some occasions, this problem can be fixed by using the Update Service software that comes on the CD (or from Sony Ericsson's website). However, personal data will still be erased.
Users are recommended to regularly backup their data using both a Memory Stick — for photos and contacts — and using the software MyPhoneExplorer to back up other data to a PC. A startup failure can be predicted when the text message menu can no longer be opened.
A hardware fault that has been reported frequently is that the earpiece speaker on the slider-screen will quit working due to a fragile connector. This can sometimes be temporarily 'fixed' by depressing and holding the 'c' button on the right side; or by using the speakerphone option. Sony will repair this at no cost (except shipping) if the phone is still in warranty. Vodafone st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Observation%20Network%20for%20Territorial%20Development%20and%20Cohesion | The European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion, ESPON for short, is a European funded programme under the objective of "European Territorial Cooperation" of the Cohesion Policy of the European Union. It is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund - Interreg.
The mission of the programme is to support policy development in relation to the aim of territorial cohesion and a harmonious development of the European territory. Firstly it provides comparable information, evidence, analyses and scenarios on territorial dynamics and secondly it reveals territorial capital and potentials for the development of regions and larger territories thus contributing to European competitiveness, territorial cooperation and a sustainable and balanced development.
The current ESPON 2020 Programme is carried through by 28 European Union Member States as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland and the European Commission.
See also
European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP)
Report ESDP
Territorial Agenda of the EU
Green Book on Territorial Cohesion
EU 2020 Strategy
References
Programme home page
Urban planning by region
Urban economics
Regional science
European Commission projects
Geography of the European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Age%20of%20Innovation | The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks () is a book by University of Michigan Ross School of Business professors C. K. Prahalad and M. S. Krishnan. The book was published in April 2008.
Book summary
In the first chapter, Prahalad and Krishnan outline their central thesis; that there are new managerial demands in business, requiring new sources of value creation. They argue that these demands have created an N=1 and R=G environment, where companies need to customize their product for each customer by gaining access to a new array of suppliers.
The book argues that the old sources of competitive advantage – technology, labor, and capital – are fading and that new sources are emerging. Prahalad and Krishnan suggest an internal capacity to reconfigure resources in real time by focusing on clearly documented, transparent, and resilient business processes (the link between strategy, business models and operations) has become a strong differentiator. They also argue that a focus on co-creation, by developing an R=G supply network and emphasizing analytics which identify trends and unique opportunities can create a strong competitive advantage.
The last four chapters describe how to implement these new strategies. Recognizing that many companies have fragmented and archaic systems, the book describes typical problems that occur when migrating to an N=1 and R=G friendly system. Prahalad and Krishnan emphasize the importance of a social architecture with strong linkages between managers and the technical architecture. They also outline the necessity for companies to recruit new skills from around the world and use globalization to its advantage.
Key concepts
The book argues that "the industrial system as we know it has been morphing for some time. Now it may have reached an inflection point."
N=1
N=1 requires companies to focus on the importance of individual customer experiences and tailor their product accordingly. They also emphasize the importance of strong analytics which allow management to discover trends and unique opportunities and enable the company to engage in product co-creation with their consumer base.
R=G
R=G advises firms take a horizontal approach to supply rather than vertical integration. The focus is on obtaining access, rather than ownership, to resources from an array of suppliers both inside and outside the firm. R=G provides the best opportunity for firms to leverage the necessary resources to co-create a personalized experience for each customer. R=G is often mistaken as a suggestion to outsource, however this is often not the case, as there are many notable instances where it makes sense for companies to leverage local resources to fulfill a personalized demand model.
See also
Open Innovation
References
External links
Center for Global Resource Leverage: India Jointly directed by the authors
Strategic management
Innovation
Business books
2008 non-fiction books |
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