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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDRM | KDRM (99.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Moses Lake, Washington, United States. The station is owned by Jeffery Huffman, through licensee Jacobs Radio Programming, LLC. The transmitter for KDRM is located on Marsh Island, next to the transmitter for KBSN, its sister station on AM 1470.
KDRM broadcasts live at local events including the Spring Festival (aka Springfest) and Grant County Fair. Moses Lake High School sports and Seattle Seahawks are broadcast on KBSN.
History
The station had been known as KDRM. On November 1, 1989, the station changed its call sign to KBSN-FM but the next day changed back to the KDRM call sign.
On January 1, 2023, KDRM and sister station KBSN were sold to Jacobs Radio Programming. The sale, at a price of $50,000, was consummated on March 31, 2023.
References
External links
DRM
Adult hits radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1989
Mass media in Grant County, Washington |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCVL | KCVL (1240 AM) is a radio station licensed to Colville, Washington, United States. The station is owned by North Country Broadcasting.
Programming
KCVL carries CBS News Radio and Coast to Coast AM.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KCVL
CVL
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1956
1956 establishments in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnaert%20function | The Minnaert function is a photometric function used to interpret astronomical observations and remote sensing data for the Earth. It was named after the astronomer Marcel Minnaert. This function expresses the radiance factor (RADF) as a function the phase angle (), the photometric latitude () and the photometric longitude ().
where is the Minnaert albedo, is an empirical parameter, is the scattered radiance in the direction , is the incident radiance, and
The phase angle is the angle between the light source and the observer with the object as the center.
The assumptions made are:
the surface is illuminated by a distant point source.
the surface is isotropic and flat.
Minnaert's contribution is the introduction of the parameter , having a value between 0 and 1, originally for a better interpretation of observations of the Moon. In remote sensing the use of this function is referred to as Minnaert topographic correction, a necessity when interpreting images of rough terrain.
References
Observational astronomy
Photometric systems
Equations of astronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcabin | , sometimes written as Micro Cabin, is a Japan-based video game developer and publisher incorporated in 1982, which grew from the Ōyachi Electrics Microcomputer Club.
Known for their Xak series and its spinoff Fray in Magical Adventure, and games such as Illusion City and Mystaria: The Realms of Lore. Other games include Mystery House, Guardian War, and the Koutetsu no Houkou series.
They also developed the Sega Saturn port of Tunnel B1.
History
On 2008-05-09, AQ Interactive, Inc. announced the acquisition of Microcabin Corporation via share purchase, with trade on 2008-05-16.
On 2011-01-14, AQ Interactive, Inc. announced selling its 85% stake (312704 shares) of Microcabin Corporation to Fields Corporation (フィールズ株式会社), and Microcabin Corporation became a consolidated subsidiary of Fields Corporation.
Subsidiary
Former subsidiaries
Neuron Image (（株）ニューロン イメージ): In 2002–01, Microcabin Entertainment (（株）マイクロキャビンエンタテイメント) was renamed to Neuron Image (（株）ニューロン イメージ). In 2008–09, Neuron Image was merged into Microcabin Corp.
References
External links
Microcabin Homepage
Moby Games
GameSpy
Video game companies established in 1982
1982 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20biology%20websites | This is an annotated list of biological websites, including only notable websites dealing with biology generally and those with a more specific focus.
See also
List of biodiversity databases
Lists of websites
Websites
Lists of websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20director | A news director is an individual at a broadcast station or network or a newspaper who is in charge of the news department. In local news, the news director is typically in charge of the entire news staff, including journalists, news presenters, photographers, copy writers, television producers, and other technical staff. The director also keeps track of how the show is going on, as well as talking to the producer to get things going.
Typically, the only individual at a station/network or publication who wields more power than the news director is a general manager or company president.
See also
Director of network programming
Notes
Broadcasting occupations
Management occupations
Journalism occupations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedtest.net | Speedtest.net, also known as Speedtest by Ookla, is a web service that provides free analysis of Internet access performance metrics, such as connection data rate and latency. It is the flagship product of Ookla, a web testing and network diagnostics company founded in 2006, and based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
The service measures the data throughput (speed) and latency (connection delay) of an Internet connection against one of around 11,000 geographically dispersed servers (as of August 2021). Each test measures the data rate for the download direction, i.e. from the server to the user computer, and the upload data rate, i.e. from the user's computer to the server. The tests are performed within the user's web browser or within apps. , over 21 billion speed tests have been completed.
Tests were previously performed using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) at Layer 7 of the OSI model. To further improve accuracy, Speedtest.net now performs tests via direct Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) sockets and uses a custom protocol for communication between servers and clients.
The site also offers detailed statistics based on test results. This data has been used by numerous publications in the analysis of Internet access data rates around the world.
History
The owner and operator of Speedtest.net, Ookla, was established in 2006 by partners Mike Apgar and Doug Suttles. Suttles suggested the name Ookla because he already owned the Ookla.com domain name in honor of his pet cat, who was in turn named for a character on the TV series Thundarr the Barbarian. The domain speedtest.net has been used to host a speed test since 2000, however speedtest.net only became known to the general public after the acquisition by Ookla in 2006.
As of 2011, Ookla claimed 80% market share and was one of the top 1000 most popular websites. At the time, Ookla derived its revenue primarily from fees paid by companies to license custom speed test and proprietary testing software. Clients reportedly included media companies like CNN and Disney, and telecommunications providers like AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink.
Ookla was acquired by Ziff Davis in 2014.
Acquisitions
Technology
Speedtest.net started as a Flash based broadband speed test service. Ookla took years to port the speed test from Flash to HTML5. The new HTML5 based speed test went out of beta on January 9, 2018.
Speedtest.net data
Speedtest market reports
In 2016, Speedtest began releasing market reports for different countries and cities, providing raw statistics regarding download and upload speeds for the past year for ISPs and mobile carriers. It also includes analysis of the current ISP and mobile markets of the respective country and breakdowns by region and city. ISPs and mobile carriers are ranked by their geographic performance.
See also
List of countries by Internet connection speeds
References
Internet technology companies of the United States
Internet properties establishe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Base%20Task%20Group | The Data Base Task Group (DBTG) was a working group founded in 1965 (initially named the List Processing Task Force and later renamed to DBTG in 1967) by the Cobol Committee, formerly Programming Language Committee, of the Conference of Data Systems Language (CODASYL). The DBTG was chaired by William Olle of RCA.
In April 1971, the DBTG published a report containing specifications of a Data Manipulation Language (DML) and a Data Definition Language (DDL) for standardization of network database model. The first DBTG proposals had already been published in 1969. The specification was subsequently modified and developed in various committees and published by other reports in 1973 and 1978. The specification is often referred to as the DBTG database model or the CODASYL database model. As well as the data model, many basic concepts of database terminology were introduced by this group, notably the concepts of schema and subschema.
External links
References
Gunter Schlageter, Wolffried Stucky: Datenbanksysteme: Konzepte und Modelle, B. G. Teubner Stuttgart, 1983,
History of software
COBOL
Data modeling languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarpop | Sugarpop (also stylized as SugarPop) was a child musical group which appeared regularly on GMA Network's concert television show, SOP. All of SugarPop's members are from a child singing competition on QTV named Popstar Kids. The group were given the name SugarPop by Jaya, one of the hosts and singers on the now defunct SOP Rules which was replaced by Party Pilipinas (Party Pilipinas was also replaced by the show Sunday All Stars).
History
The group, consisting of both boys and girls, were formed in 2006 from the former QTV 11 (now GTV) singing contest, Popstar Kids.
Disbandment
The group was disbanded in 2009 due to the reformatting of SOP Rules, which was replaced by Party Pilipinas. The members (excluding Rangadhol) reunited on February 14, 2016.
Post-Sugarpop
Julie Anne San Jose remained with the defunct SOP Rules and continued to be one of the divas of Party Pilipinas. She was also paired up with Elmo Magalona, and they were dubbed JuliElmo, as one of the prominent love teams of GMA 7. She has not only starred in the variety show but had also appeared in a teen drama together with Magalona, entitled Together Forever, with which they also crossed over onto the silver screen in Just One Summer. Now she already had 3 existing albums under GMA Records and 1 EP under VIM Entertainment. Her first album received a Diamond Record, and her second album received Triple Platinum awarded by Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI).
Rita Iringan (who now goes by the name Rita Daniela) rejoined her fellow SugarPop mate in Party Pilipinas, has ventured into acting and made several supporting roles both in television and the big screen before rising to fame with her effective portrayal of Aubrey Palomares in My Special Tatay. Iringan released a self-titled album "Rita Daniela" in 2015 under GMA music, she also auditioned for the staging of Miss Saigon in the Philippines, when she was 16, however, she didn't get the part as she was too young for the role. In 2018, she auditioned and got one of the lead roles in Eto Na! Musikal nAPO!
In late 2011 to early 2013, Vanessa Rangadhol joined MYMP as its lead vocalist after Juliet Bahala left the group.
The Sugarpop girls were recently in a vocal group battle production number on Party Pilipinas with another of the country's trios, La Diva.
Renzo later competes in the rival network's singing competition shows Tawag ng Tanghalan in 2018 and Idol Philippines the following year. He is now a member of a singing trio from ABS-CBN named "iDolls".
Pocholo also competed in The Clash as one of the Top 30 contestants where his co-members Rita and Julie hosted the third season in 2020.
Members
Cholo Bismonte
Enzo Almario
Rita Daniela
Julie Anne San Jose
Former members
Vanessa Rangadhol
Discography
Albums
Sugarpop
Sugarpop (Repackaged)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Titik Pilipino album info
iGMA.tv Forum
Sugarpop on Facebook Page Vanessa Rangadhol On Instagram Cholo Bismont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%2026 | Network 26 is a network of 26 bus routes on Hong Kong Island, which were previously operated by China Motor Bus (CMB) before being annexed to Citybus by the Government of Hong Kong on 1 September 1993.
Background
After CMB's heyday in the 1960s and 70s, its service quality started to deteriorate in the 1980s, with service delays and aging vehicles.
On 30 November 1989, CMB staff went on a strike due to problems on retirement pay. CMB services were completely suspended, and traffic on Hong Kong Island ran into chaos. The most severe situation occurred in Southern District, which had no MTR service, to an extent that even police vehicles were mobilized to provide transport services. Citybus operated temporary routes to deal with the situation. The Government decided to rearrange bus services on the Island.
Citybus had set its sights on services 12A and 17 that CMB has already withdrawn. It considers that residents residing in MacDonald Road, are richer and needed high-quality bus services. Upon obtaining the consent from the government, Citybus has announced in September 1989 that it intends to re-operate. In terms of that, after the strike, Citybus will formally apply to the government.
In 1990, Citybus applied to start three non-franchised routes, namely 37R, 90R and 97R, all serving between Southern District to Admiralty. In March the same year, Citybus applied to operate the route 12A which CMB had previously requested to be cancelled due to low patronage. The application was approved, and services by Citybus commenced in September 1991 with air-conditioned Leyland Olympian double deckers. Other bids such as Argos Bus, Coornet Bus and Hong Kong Buses bid for the tender, together with Kowloon Motor Bus, eventually changing the mind and waive off the bidding.
Later, seeing no improvement in CMB's services, the Government decided to re-tender 26 of CMB's routes to another company. Two companies applied, namely Citybus and Stagecoach. Since Stagecoach had no experience on operating routes in Hong Kong, Citybus won the tender. The routes were operated by Citybus in effective from 1 September 1993.
Routes
The routes included numbers 1, 1M, 5, 5A, 5B, 6, 6A, 10X, 12, 12M, 48, 61, 61M, 70, 70M, 72, 72A, 72B, 75, 76, 90, 92, 96, 97, 97A, 98, 107 and 170.
Aftermath
Further route annexations
Significant service improvements were observed on the annexed routes, while CMB's service quality remained unsatisfactory. On 1 September 1995, the Government annexed a further 14 routes to Citybus, namely routes 7, 11, 37, 40, 40M, 71, 73, 85, 99, 511, 592, 260, 103 and 182.
In 1997, CMB gave up four routes which were taken over by Citybus immediately: 45 and 47 became 40P and 47A on 3 March, 41 became 41A on 21 April 1997, and 3 became 3B on 2 June 1997.
The demise of CMB
Even with the previous route annexations, CMB still declined to improve its services. When the Government decided to implement the Octopus card system in 1997 for public transport, CMB re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20Field%20Histogram | In robotics, Vector Field Histogram (VFH) is a real time motion planning algorithm proposed by Johann Borenstein and Yoram Koren in 1991. The VFH utilizes a statistical representation of the robot's environment through the so-called histogram grid, and therefore places great emphasis on dealing with uncertainty from sensor and modeling errors. Unlike other obstacle avoidance algorithms, VFH takes into account the dynamics and shape of the robot, and returns steering commands specific to the platform. While considered a local path planner, i.e., not designed for global path optimality, the VFH has been shown to produce near optimal paths.
The original VFH algorithm was based on previous work on Virtual Force Field, a local path-planning algorithm. VFH was updated in 1998 by Iwan Ulrich and Johann Borenstein, and renamed VFH+ (unofficially "Enhanced VFH"). The approach was updated again in 2000 by Ulrich and Borenstein, and was renamed VFH*. VFH is currently one of the most popular local planners used in mobile robotics, competing with the later developed dynamic window approach. Many robotic development tools and simulation environments contain built-in support for the VFH, such as in the Player Project.
VFH
The Vector Field Histogram was developed with aims of being computationally efficient, robust, and insensitive to misreadings. In practice, the VFH algorithm has proven to be fast and reliable, especially when traversing densely-populated obstacle courses.
At the center of the VFH algorithm is the use of statistical representation of obstacles, through histogram grids (see also occupancy grid). Such representation is well suited for inaccurate sensor data, and accommodates fusion of multiple sensor readings.
The VFH algorithm contains three major components:
Cartesian histogram grid: a two-dimensional Cartesian histogram grid is constructed with the robot's range sensors, such as a sonar or a laser rangefinder. The grid is continuously updated in real time.
Polar histogram: a one-dimensional polar histogram is constructed by reducing the Cartesian histogram around the momentary location of the robot.
Candidate valley: consecutive sectors with a polar obstacle density below threshold, known as candidate valleys, is selected based on the proximity to the target direction.
Once the center of the selected candidate direction is determined, orientation of the robot is steered to match. The speed of the robot is reduced when approaching obstacles head-on.
VFH+
The VFH+ algorithm improvements include:
Threshold hysteresis: a hysteresis increases the smoothness of the planned trajectory.
Robot body size: robots of different sizes are taken into account, eliminating the need to manually adjust parameters via low-pass filters.
Obstacle look-ahead: sectors that are blocked by obstacles are masked in VFH+, so that the steer angle is not directed into an obstacle.
Cost function: a cost function was added to better characterize the performa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothed%20analysis | In theoretical computer science, smoothed analysis is a way of measuring the complexity of an algorithm. Since its introduction in 2001, smoothed analysis has been used as a basis for considerable research, for problems ranging from mathematical programming, numerical analysis, machine learning, and data mining. It can give a more realistic analysis of the practical performance (e.g., running time, success rate, approximation quality) of the algorithm compared to analysis that uses worst-case or average-case scenarios.
Smoothed analysis is a hybrid of worst-case and average-case analyses that inherits advantages of both. It measures the expected performance of algorithms under slight random perturbations of worst-case inputs. If the smoothed complexity of an algorithm is low, then it is unlikely that the algorithm will take a long time to solve practical instances whose data are subject to slight noises and imprecisions. Smoothed complexity results are strong probabilistic results, roughly stating that, in every large enough neighbourhood of the space of inputs, most inputs are easily solvable. Thus, a low smoothed complexity means that the hardness of inputs is a "brittle" property.
Although worst-case analysis has been widely successful in explaining the practical performance of many algorithms, this style of analysis gives misleading results for a number of problems. Worst-case complexity measures the time it takes to solve any input, although hard-to-solve inputs might never come up in practice. In such cases, the worst-case running time can be much worse than the observed running time in practice. For example, the worst-case complexity of solving a linear program using the simplex algorithm is exponential, although the observed number of steps in practice is roughly linear. The simplex algorithm is in fact much faster than the ellipsoid method in practice, although the latter has polynomial-time worst-case complexity.
Average-case analysis was first introduced to overcome the limitations of worst-case analysis. However, the resulting average-case complexity depends heavily on the probability distribution that is chosen over the input. The actual inputs and distribution of inputs may be different in practice from the assumptions made during the analysis: a random input may be very unlike a typical input. Because of this choice of data model, a theoretical average-case result might say little about practical performance of the algorithm.
Smoothed analysis generalizes both worst-case and average-case analysis and inherits strengths of both. It is intended to be much more general than average-case complexity, while still allowing low complexity bounds to be proven.
History
ACM and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science awarded the 2008 Gödel Prize to Daniel Spielman and Shanghua Teng for developing smoothed analysis. The name Smoothed Analysis was coined by Alan Edelman. In 2010 Spielman received the Nevanlinna Prize fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PatientsLikeMe | PatientsLikeMe is an integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform. The platform currently has over 830,000 members who are dealing with more than 2,900 conditions. Data generated by patients themselves are systemically collected and quantified with the goal of providing an environment for peer support and learning. These data capture the complex temporality and competing influences of different lifestyle choices, socio-demographics, conditions and treatments on a person's health. While striving to empower the community with personal agency, PLM has also established itself as a clinical resource with more than 100 studies in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals.
History
PatientsLikeMe was inspired by the life experiences of Stephen Heywood, diagnosed in 1998 at the age of 29 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. The company was founded in 2004 by his brothers Jamie and Ben Heywood and long-time family friend Jeff Cole.
After being diagnosed with ALS, Stephen's family founded a non-profit, ALS Therapy Development Institute, in an attempt to slow his disease and treat his symptoms. However, the slow pace of research and the trial-and-error approach was time-consuming and repetitive. They realized that Stephen's experience was like that of other patients around the world who often have specific questions about their treatment options, and what to expect.
PatientsLikeMe was created to help patients connect with others who know firsthand what they are going through to share advice and resources. Through a health profile made up of structured and quantitative clinical reporting tools, members are able to monitor their health between doctor or hospital visits, document the severity of their symptoms, identify triggers, note how they are responding to new treatments, and track side effects. They have the opportunity to learn from the aggregated data of others with the same disease and see how they are doing in context with others. Members of the site use social tools such as forums, private messages, and profile comments to give and receive support from others, a support mechanism that has been shown to help improve their management and perceived control.
In 2017, PatientsLikeMe entered into a partnership with iCarbonX to apply next-generation biological measures and machine learning to understand more about the basis of human health and disease. iCarbonX, founded in 2015 by renowned genomicist Jun Wang, took an equity position in PatientsLikeMe and provided multi-omics characterization services to the company.
In 2019, PatientsLikeMe was acquired by UnitedHealth Group. In 2020, PatientsLikeMe began to operate as an independent company backed by Optum Ventures, a UnitedHealth Group affiliate.
Expansion beyond ALS
PatientsLikeMe launched its first online community for ALS patients in 2006. From there, the company began adding other communities for other life-changing conditions, includi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAADRIA | The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) (founded in 1996) provides a platform for CAAD-related academics and professionals to share experiences, best practices, and results in education and research in Asia and beyond.
Objectives
The association has been created with several objectives. It aims to facilitate dissemination of information about CAAD amongst Asian Schools of Architecture, Planning, Engineering, & Building Sciences in Asia, and encourage the exchange of software, courseware, experiences and staff/students amongst schools. It conducts several activities to identify research and development needs specific to CAAD education and initiate collaboration to satisfy them, and promote research and teaching in CAAD which enhances creativity rather than simply production technologies.
Organisation
Membership
Membership to the association is open to individuals (teachers, researchers, students, and architects) and institutions (universities, libraries), either as active member (someone who attends the conference) or as sponsor member. Typically, one becomes an individual member through attending and registering at a CAADRIA conference, or by applying for membership to the secretariat. Institutions in Asia, Australia and New Zealand can apply for institutional membership and gain access to CumInCAD database.
Membership lasts for one year, and gives access to digital proceedings of CAADRIA, email announcements of forthcoming events of interest and one vote at the Annual General Meeting of CAADRIA.
Executive committee
CAADRIA is governed by an administrative council elected by the membership. Responsibility for organisation, administration and guidance of the association is delegated to the executive committee by virtue of the election of the officers. Membership of the council is restricted to members working in countries within the Asia Pacific region; term of office is two years. There is an annual general meeting (normally convened during the annual conference) at which the business of the association is agreed by the membership. This forum is considered the highest level of authority and shall be the only one with the power to amend the charter of CAADRIA.
Secretariat
The Secretariat is composed of volunteer staff, with a limited budget being made available through membership dues and supervised by the executive committee.
List of presidents
Activities
List of conferences
The annual conference is the main event organised under the auspices of the association. It is organised by a member in good standing, who volunteers for the organisation. The organiser is supported by members of the administrative council, in particular the conference liaison. Over the years, the association has developed the policy to circulate the conference location in such a way that southern, eastern, western, and northern parts of Europe are reached regularly – although this principle can only be maintained |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIKE%20FLOOD | is a computer program that simulates inundation for rivers, flood plains and urban drainage systems. It dynamically couples 1D (MIKE 11 and Mouse) and 2D (MIKE 21) modeling techniques into one single tool. MIKE FLOOD is developed by DHI.
MIKE FLOOD is accepted by US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for use in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
MIKE FLOOD can be expanded with a range of modules and methods including a flexible mesh overland flow solver, MIKE URBAN, Rainfall-runoff modeling and dynamic operation of structures.
Applications
MIKE FLOOD can be used for river-flood plain interaction, integrated urban drainage and river modeling, urban flood analysis and detailed dam break studies.
Integrated hydrologic modelling
Hydraulic engineering
Environmental engineering
Physical geography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20traveller%20problem | In computer science and graph theory, the Canadian traveller problem (CTP) is a generalization of the shortest path problem to graphs that are partially observable. In other words, a "traveller" on a given point on the graph cannot see the full graph, rather only adjacent nodes or a certain "realization restriction."
This optimization problem was introduced by Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis in 1989 and a number of variants of the problem have been studied since. The name supposedly originates from conversations of the authors who learned of a difficulty Canadian drivers had: traveling a network of cities with snowfall randomly blocking roads. The stochastic version, where each edge is associated with a probability of independently being in the graph, has been given considerable attention in operations research under the name "the Stochastic Shortest Path Problem with Recourse" (SSPPR).
Problem description
For a given instance, there are a number of possibilities, or realizations, of how the hidden graph may look. Given an instance, a description of how to follow the instance in the best way is called a policy. The CTP task is to compute the expected cost of the optimal policies. To compute an actual description of an optimal policy may be a harder problem.
Given an instance and policy for the instance, every realization produces its own (deterministic) walk in the graph. Note that the walk is not necessarily a path since the best strategy may be to, e.g., visit every vertex of a cycle and return to the start. This differs from the shortest path problem (with strictly positive weights), where repetitions in a walk implies that a better solution exists.
Variants
There are primarily five parameters distinguishing the number of variants of the Canadian Traveller Problem. The first parameter is how to value the walk produced by a policy for a given instance and realization. In the Stochastic Shortest Path Problem with Recourse, the goal is simply to minimize the cost of the walk (defined as the sum over all edges of the cost of the edge times the number of times that edge was taken). For the Canadian Traveller Problem, the task is to minimize the competitive ratio of the walk; i.e., to minimize the number of times longer the produced walk is to the shortest path in the realization.
The second parameter is how to evaluate a policy with respect to different realizations consistent with the instance under consideration. In the Canadian Traveller Problem, one wishes to study the worst case and in SSPPR, the average case. For average case analysis, one must furthermore specify an a priori distribution over the realizations.
The third parameter is restricted to the stochastic versions and is about what assumptions we can make about the distribution of the realizations and how the distribution is represented in the input. In the Stochastic Canadian Traveller Problem and in the Edge-independent Stochastic Shortest Path Problem (i-SSPPR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20songs%20of%202007%20%28U.S.%29 | The highest-selling digital singles in the United States are ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
Despite it never having reached number one on the weekly chart, having peaked at number two, the best-performing digital song of the 2007 chart year was "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie.
Chart history
See also
2007 in music
Digital Songs
References
United States Digital Songs
2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20songs%20of%202006%20%28U.S.%29 | The highest-selling digital singles in the United States are ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
Chart history
See also
2006 in music
Hot Digital Songs
References
United States Digital Songs
2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse%20%28software%29 | MOUSE, short for MOdel for Urban SEwers, is a computer program that models collection system for urban wastewater and stormwater. MOUSE is the first micro-computer based software created by DHI and it was developed in 1983. The MOUSE engine is used in the CS - Pipeflow module of the hydraulic modeling software MIKE URBAN.
Applications
MOUSE can be used for analysing CSOs and SSOs, evaluating RDII, network capacity and bottlenecks, predicting local flooding, estimating sediment build-up and transport, optimization and design of RTC solutions, analysing water quality and sediment problems, and real-time modeling embedded in RTC solutions.
References
External links
DHI Water.Environment.Health
Hydrology models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20songs%20of%202005%20%28U.S.%29 | The highest-selling digital singles in the United States are ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
Chart history
See also
2005 in music
Hot Digital Songs
References
United States Digital Songs
2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIKE%2021 | MIKE 21 is a computer program that simulates flows, waves, sediments and ecology in rivers, lakes, estuaries, bays, coastal areas and seas in two dimensions. It was developed by DHI.
Simulation engines
MIKE 21 comprises three simulation engines:
Single Grid: the -dependent non-linear equations of continuity and conservation of momentum are solved by implicit finite difference techniques with the variables defined on a space-staggered rectangular grid.
Multiple Grids: the Multiple Grids version uses the same simulation engine and numerical approach as the single grid version. However, it provides the possibility of refining areas of special interest within the model area (nesting). All domains within the model area are dynamically linked.
Flexible Mesh: is an unstructured mesh and uses a cell-centred finite volume solution technique. The mesh is based on linear triangular elements.
Applications
MIKE 21 can be used for design data assessment for coastal and offshore structures, optimization of port layout and coastal protection measures, cooling water, desalination and recirculation analysis, environmental impact assessment of marine infrastructures, water forecast for safe marine operations and navigation, coastal flooding and storm surge warnings, inland flooding and overland flow modeling.
Integrated hydrologic modelling
Hydraulic engineering
Environmental engineering
Physical geography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIKE%2021C | MIKE 21C is a computer program that simulates the development in the river bed and channel plan form in two dimensions. MIKE 21C was developed by DHI. MIKE 21C uses curvilinear finite difference grids.
Simulated processes with MIKE 21C include bank erosion, scouring and shoaling brought about by activities such as construction and dredging, seasonal fluctuations in flow, etc.
Applications
MIKE 21C can be used for designing protection schemes against bank erosion, evaluating measures to reduce or manage shoaling, analyzing alignments and dimensions of navigation channels for minimizing capital and maintenance dredging, predicting the impact of bridge, tunnel and pipeline crossings on river channel hydraulics and morphology, optimizing restoration plans for habitat environment in channel floodplain systems, designing monitoring networks based on morphological forecasting.
Due to its accurate descriptions of the physical processes, MIKE 21C can simulate a braided river developing from a plane bed, which was illustrated by Enggrob & Tjerry (1998).
Theory
As most other models made by DHI, MIKE 21C applies an add-on concept in which the overall time-loop can contain processes to be simulated, selected by the user. In its basic form the model is a 2-dimensional hydrodynamic model that can simulate dynamic as well as quasi-steady or steady-state hydrodynamic solutions. The hydrodynamic model solves the Saint-Venant equations in two dimensions with the water depth defined in cell centers and a staggered velocity field (internally the code solves the flux field, i.e. the water depth multiplied by the velocity vector) defined with direction as the local grid base vector.
The model is computationally a parallel code (written in Fortran) with parallelizations in all modules, which allows for simulations of morphological developments on fine grids over long periods of time. The model is typically applied with as much 25,000 computational points over periods of several years or even decades.
The most important secondary flow in rivers is the so-called helical flow, with its name derived from Helios (the Sun in Greek). The name helical is used because the flow arises as the water in the lower portions of the water column flowing towards the local center of curvature, and away from the local center of curvature along the water surface. This has only a minor impact on the hydrodynamics, usually only pronounced on a laboratory scale, but it has profound impacts on the sediment transport and morphology because the helical flow influences the otherwise zero transverse sediment component. MIKE 21C applies standard theory for the helical flow, which can be found in e.g. Rozowsky (1957). Standard helical flow theory provides a secondary flow velocity profile that is fully characterised by friction and the deviation angle between the main flow direction and the direction of the shear stress at the river bed.
MIKE 21C uses the traditional division of sediment trans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Blinking%20Pattern%20Interpretation | The International Blinking Pattern Interpretation (IBPI) is an internal computer hardware standard.
It defines two items:
How SGPIO is interpreted into states for drives or slots on a backplane.
How light emitting diodes (LEDs) on a backplane should represent these states.
IBPI was defined by the SFF-8489 specification of the Small Form Factor Special Interest Group in 2011.
SGPIO has been adopted across the storage industry, and has in large replaced proprietary protocols such as SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) and SAF-TE.
States for drives or slots can be, for example, empty, failed, rebuilding, etc. The state of a drive or slot is determined by the host bus adapter, and is typically transmitted to the backplane through SGPIO-signals on a cable.
Typical system architecture
In a typical system architecture, the host bus adapter (HBA) connects to a backplane through a 4× iPass cable. The SGPIO-signals run inside this cable. The backplane may then optionally connect to the baseboard management controller of a motherboard through an I²C or SMBus.
The SGPIO bus consists of 4 electrical signals. It originates (or is driven by) an initiator, typically a host bus adapter or SAS Expander, and arrives at a target, typically a backplane.
SGPIO is typically used in conjunction with SAS or SATA cables, where each physical port is attached to a single disk drive.
SGPIO bit definitions
The figure below shows the relationship between SClock, SLoad and the two data bits named SDataOut and SDataIn. An SGPIO frame is started after SLoad has been low for at least 5 SClock cycles.
Following the start of a new SGPIO frame, 3 bits per drive are driven from the initiator on to the SDataOut line. Simultaneously, the target drives 3 bits on the SDataIn line.
The initiator and target both use the rising edge clock to transmit changes in the SLoad, SDataOut, and SDataIn.
The figure shows SGPIO for 4 drive slots (12 clocks), which is the minimum allowed. The SGPIO stream can be larger and it is not uncommon for the stream to consist of slot data for 12, 24 or 36 drives/slots in the case of an expander.
Definition of the 3 bits
The 3 bits per drive is illustrated and interpreted as follows:
The first bit (ODn.0) is exclusively used to represent Activity. The second and third bits; Locate (ODn.1) and Fail (ODn.2) are directly used to represent a locate and fail state of the drive.
Shortcomings in SGPIO
The original SGPIO stream was intended for a low-cost implementation, and is limited to the capability of representing activity, locate, and fail LEDs. SGPIO became popular and adopted by HBA backplane and backplane vendors in 2004, and increasingly popular after the support by hardware manufacturers.
With the advent of SAS/SATA hard drives, backplanes typically do not vary much from low to high end systems, except the addition of an extra physical port in the case of SAS. Since it is not economical for systems vendors to design separate backplanes for high an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20synthesis%20filters | In signal processing, network synthesis filters are filters designed by the network synthesis method. The method has produced several important classes of filter including the Butterworth filter, the Chebyshev filter and the Elliptic filter. It was originally intended to be applied to the design of passive linear analogue filters but its results can also be applied to implementations in active filters and digital filters. The essence of the method is to obtain the component values of the filter from a given rational function representing the desired transfer function.
Description of method
The method can be viewed as the inverse problem of network analysis. Network analysis starts with a network and by applying the various electric circuit theorems predicts the response of the network. Network synthesis on the other hand, starts with a desired response and its methods produce a network that outputs, or approximates to, that response.
Network synthesis was originally intended to produce filters of the kind formerly described as wave filters but now usually just called filters. That is, filters whose purpose is to pass waves of certain frequencies while rejecting waves of other frequencies. Network synthesis starts out with a specification for the transfer function of the filter, H(s), as a function of complex frequency, s. This is used to generate an expression for the input impedance of the filter (the driving point impedance) which then, by a process of continued fraction or partial fraction expansions results in the required values of the filter components. In a digital implementation of a filter, H(s) can be implemented directly.
The advantages of the method are best understood by comparing it to the filter design methodology that was used before it, the image method. The image method considers the characteristics of an individual filter section in an infinite chain (ladder topology) of identical sections. The filters produced by this method suffer from inaccuracies due to the theoretical termination impedance, the image impedance, not generally being equal to the actual termination impedance. With network synthesis filters, the terminations are included in the design from the start. The image method also requires a certain amount of experience on the part of the designer. The designer must first decide how many sections and of what type should be used, and then after calculation, will obtain the transfer function of the filter. This may not be what is required and there can be a number of iterations. The network synthesis method, on the other hand, starts out with the required function and generates as output the sections needed to build the corresponding filter.
In general, the sections of a network synthesis filter are of identical topology (usually the simplest ladder type) but different component values are used in each section. By contrast, the structure of an image filter has identical values at each section, as a c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Besa | Benjamin Besa (born June 12, 1989) is a Filipino actor.
Personal life
He was born to a Spanish father and a Filipina mother. He appeared in TV series of GMA Network since 2002 as being grouped with Andrew Schimmer, Jay Aquitania, and Kiel Rodriguez. He chose to finish his studies in 2005 after his contract with GMA Network was finished. When he graduated, he was introduced as part of Star Circle Batch 15 of ABS-CBN. When he played good roles before, he expects to play villain roles hopefully work with his idols John Lloyd Cruz and Aga Muhlach.
References
External links
1989 births
Filipino male television actors
Filipino people of Spanish descent
Living people
Star Magic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20masking | Data masking or data obfuscation is the process of modifying sensitive data in such a way that it is of no or little value to unauthorized intruders while still being usable by software or authorized personnel. Data masking can also be referred as anonymization, or tokenization, depending on different context.
The main reason to mask data is to protect information that is classified as personally identifiable information, or mission critical data. However, the data must remain usable for the purposes of undertaking valid test cycles. It must also look real and appear consistent. It is more common to have masking applied to data that is represented outside of a corporate production system. In other words, where data is needed for the purpose of application development, building program extensions and conducting various test cycles. It is common practice in enterprise computing to take data from the production systems to fill the data component, required for these non-production environments. However, this practice is not always restricted to non-production environments. In some organizations, data that appears on terminal screens to call center operators may have masking dynamically applied based on user security permissions (e.g. preventing call center operators from viewing credit card numbers in billing systems).
The primary concern from a corporate governance perspective is that personnel conducting work in these non-production environments are not always security cleared to operate with the information contained in the production data. This practice represents a security hole where data can be copied by unauthorized personnel, and security measures associated with standard production level controls can be easily bypassed. This represents an access point for a data security breach.
The overall practice of data masking at an organizational level should be tightly coupled with the test management practice and underlying methodology and should incorporate processes for the distribution of masked test data subsets.
Background
Data involved in any data masking or obfuscation must remain meaningful at several levels:
The data must remain meaningful for the application logic. For example, if elements of addresses are to be obfuscated and city and suburbs are replaced with substitute cities or suburbs, then, if within the application there is a feature that validates postcode or post code lookup, that function must still be allowed to operate without error and operate as expected. The same is also true for credit-card algorithm validation checks and Social Security Number validations.
The data must undergo enough changes so that it is not obvious that the masked data is from a source of production data. For example, it may be common knowledge in an organisation that there are 10 senior managers all earning in excess of $300k. If a test environment of the organisation's HR System also includes 10 identities in the same earning-bracket, then othe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden%20Impact%20%28TV%20series%29 | Sudden Impact is an Australian observational documentary series that airs on the Nine Network. It debuted on 9 December 2008 at 8pm. The program was developed in association with the Transport Accident Commission (TAC), and is narrated by Gary Sweet. The program is largely set in Victoria. The series is similar to the New Zealand based show Serious Crash Unit and Seven Network's Crash Investigation Unit.
References
External links
Official website
WTFN Entertainment
Nine Network original programming
2008 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
Australian factual television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas%20J.%20Guibas | Leonidas John Guibas () is the Paul Pigott Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He heads the Geometric Computation group in the Computer Science Department.
Guibas obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976. That same year, he was program chair for the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 1996. In 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Guibas is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and was awarded the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for 2007 "for his pioneering contributions in applying algorithms to a wide range of computer science disciplines." In 2018 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2022 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Research
The research contributions Guibas is known for include finger trees, red–black trees, fractional cascading, the Guibas–Stolfi algorithm for Delaunay triangulation, an optimal data structure for point location, the quad-edge data structure for representing planar subdivisions, Metropolis light transport, and kinetic data structures for keeping track of objects in motion. More recently, he has focused on shape analysis and computer vision using deep neural networks. He has Erdős number 2 due to his collaborations with Boris Aronov, Andrew Odlyzko, János Pach, Richard M. Pollack, Endre Szemerédi, and Frances Yao.
References
External links
Guibas laboratory
Detection of Symmetries and Repeated Patterns in 3D Point Cloud Data, videolecture by Guibas
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Stanford University alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Stanford University Department of Computer Science faculty
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Greek computer scientists
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-independent%20transparency | Order-independent transparency (OIT) is a class of techniques in rasterisational computer graphics for rendering transparency in a 3D scene, which do not require rendering geometry in sorted order for alpha compositing.
Description
Commonly, 3D geometry with transparency is rendered by blending (using alpha compositing) all surfaces into a single buffer (think of this as a canvas). Each surface occludes existing color and adds some of its own color depending on its alpha value, a ratio of light transmittance. The order in which surfaces are blended affects the total occlusion or visibility of each surface. For a correct result, surfaces must be blended from farthest to nearest or nearest to farthest, depending on the alpha compositing operation, over or under.
Ordering may be achieved by rendering the geometry in sorted order, for example sorting triangles by depth, but can take a significant amount of time,
not always produce a solution (in the case of intersecting or circularly overlapping geometry) and the implementation is complex.
Instead, order-independent transparency sorts geometry per-pixel, after rasterisation. For exact results this requires storing all fragments before sorting and compositing.
History
The A-buffer is a computer graphics technique introduced in 1984 which stores per-pixel lists of fragment data (including micro-polygon information) in a software rasteriser, REYES, originally designed for anti-aliasing but also supporting transparency.
More recently, depth peeling in 2001 described a hardware accelerated OIT technique. With limitations in graphics hardware the scene's geometry had to be rendered many times. A number of techniques have followed, to improve on the performance of depth peeling, still with the many-pass rendering limitation. For example, Dual Depth Peeling (2008).
In 2009, two significant features were introduced in GPU hardware/drivers/Graphics APIs that allowed capturing and
storing fragment data in a single rendering pass of the scene, something not previously possible.
These are, the ability to write to arbitrary GPU memory from shaders and atomic operations. With these features a new class
of OIT techniques became possible that do not require many rendering passes of the scene's geometry.
The first was storing the fragment data in a 3D array, where fragments are stored along the z dimension for each pixel x/y. In practice, most of the 3D array is unused or overflows, as a scene's depth complexity is typically uneven. To avoid overflow the 3D array requires large amounts of memory, which in many cases is impractical.
Two approaches to reducing this memory overhead exist.
Packing the 3D array with a prefix sum scan, or linearizing, removed the unused memory issue but requires an additional depth complexity computation rendering pass of the geometry. The "Sparsity-aware" S-Buffer, Dynamic Fragment Buffer, "deque" D-Buffer, Linearized Layered Fragment Buffer all pack fragment data with a prefix sum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANIC | Anic or ANIC may refer to:
Organisations
African Network Information Center, the regional Internet registry for Africa
The Anglican Network in Canada, a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America
Australian National Insect Collection, a division of the CSIRO
Azienda Nazionale Idrogenazione Combustibili, a former Italian chemical company (1936–1953)
Other uses
Anić, a surname
"A.N.I.C.", a song on the album Does This Look Infected? by Sum 41 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibercivis | Ibercivis was a volunteer computing platform which allows internet users to participate in scientific research by donating unused computer cycles to run scientific simulations and other tasks. The original project, which became operational in 2008, was a scientific collaboration between the Portuguese and Spanish governments, but it is open to the general public and scientific community, both within and beyond the Iberian Peninsula. The project's name is a portmanteau of Iberia and the Latin word , meaning 'citizen'.
In April 2020, the volunteer computing platform was restarted by the Ibercivis Foundation and the Spanish National Research Council in order to screen existing drugs for antiviral activity against Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic.
History
Ibercivis was developed in Spain with the cooperation of the Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Zaragoza, CIEMAT, CETA-CIEMAT, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and RedIris. The project tasks are issued by different scientific and technological centers in Spain with the aim of creating a functional platform for volunteer-based scientific computing. The project is a European counterpart to the successful United States-based SETI@home and Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) volunteer computing projects.
Ibercivis' predecessor, the University of Zaragoza-based volunteer computing project Zivis, began operation in 2007, and Ibercivis itself started operating in June 2008. The Zivis project was a local volunteer computing application funded by the ayuntamiento (city council) of the city of Zaragoza. The larger-scale Ibercivis infrastructure has been used for a variety of calculating applications, including nuclear fusion research, protein folding and materials simulations. In July 2009, the Ibercivis platform was extended to Portugal following an agreement signed by the governments of both countries during the Luso-Spanish Summit held in Zamora, Spain, in January 2009. Several Portuguese institutions subsequently affiliated themselves with Ibercivis, including the Ministry of Science, the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology at the University of Coimbra, and the LIP experimental high-energy physics laboratory.
In April 2020, a new Ibercivis project was launched to support researchers efforts to fight Coronavirus disease 2019.
Number of participants
At its inception in June 2008, Ibercivis had 3,000 registered users hosting its various projects. By December 2012, this figure had risen to over 19,800, distributed across 124 countries. There were around 55,000 individual hosting devices registered with the project, of which over 3,600 were active on a weekly basis.
As of April 2020, there were 917 active users and 2375 active hosts in the new inception of Ibercivis.
Projects
Ibercivis was intended to run indefinitely, and is designed to run several simultaneo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM25 | AIM25 is a non-profit making collaborative archive project; a single point of networked access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over one hundred higher education institutions, learned societies and specialist archives within the M25 Greater London area of the United Kingdom. It holds over 7500 collection level descriptions on subjects including social sciences, politics, social and economic history, women's history and military history. Each description on AIM25 provides a link to ARCHON which gives contact details of the repository holding that archive.
AIM25 follows ISAD(G) and is interoperable with Encoded Archival Description, Open Archives Initiative and Dublin Core. AIM25 is based at King's College London and is freely available to all. Partner institutions update the records for their holdings and collection level descriptions are indexed at King's College London using personal, corporate, place names and subject thesauri.
AIM25 is freely available and forms part of the UK national network of archives.
The relaunched interface has Web 2.0 features including a tag cloud, RSS feeds and space for the upload of images.
The project was initially funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme
References
External links
Archive Gateways
The AIM25 Project
Archives in the City of Westminster
Online archives of the United Kingdom
King's College London
Year of establishment missing
Library-related organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble%20gas%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary data about the noble gases, which were excluded from the main article to conserve space and preserve focus. Oganesson mostly not included due to the amount of research known about it.
Physical properties
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Phase changes and critical properties
Atomic properties
Abundance
Economic data
Radon is available only in very small quantities, and due to its short half-life, is generally produced by a radium-226 source in secular equilibrium. Oganesson is almost impossible to produce and with a very short half life, it is generally not readily available for purchase.
References and notes
Chemical element data pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebert%20Corporation | Liebert Corporation, a business of Vertiv, is a global manufacturer of power, precision cooling and infrastructure management systems for mainframe computer, server racks, and critical process systems. Liebert is headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, and employs more than 1,800 people across 12 manufacturing plants worldwide.
History
Founded by Ralph C. Liebert (1918-1984) as Capitol Refrigeration Industries in 1946, Liebert Corporation was formed in 1965 as the industry's first designer and manufacturer of computer room air conditioning (CRAC) systems. Targeted to the mainframe computer data-processing market, Liebert CRAC systems were the first totally redundant, self-contained units capable of maintaining air temperature, humidity and air quality within the precision tolerances necessary for media and equipment used in these rooms and taking advantage of the raised floor plenums typically found in such rooms.
In 1977, Liebert launched a partner company named Conditioned Power Corporation to design and manufacture power distribution, conditioning and monitoring systems for the data processing industry. The company remained a wholly owned subsidiary until 1981, when it became a division of Liebert Corporation upon the company's initial public offering. The company strengthened this division in 1983 with the acquisition of Franklin Electric subsidiary Programmed Power Corporation. The acquisition expanded the capabilities of the company's power division to include the design and manufacture of uninterruptible power supplies.
Liebert Corporation was acquired by Emerson Electric Co. of St. Louis, Missouri in 1987. The company remained a wholly owned subsidiary of Emerson until 2000, when the company consolidated its network and computer protection businesses to form its Emerson Network Power platform group. As part of the Emerson Network Power platform, the Liebert and Liebert Services businesses offer power, cooling, monitoring and management solutions for critical data center applications, as well as professional services.
Liebert products
AC Power Systems: Uninterruptible power systems and associated power distribution equipment and enclosures.
Categories: Desktop/Workstation; Rackmount; Network; Large Facility; Power Distribution and Conditioning; Rack-Based PDU
Precision Cooling Equipment:
Categories: High-Density Modular, Small Room, Large Room, Telecom, Industrial, Heat Rejection, Economizer
Server Racks and Integrated Cabinets: Standard and customized integrated cabinets with self-contained air conditioning, UPS and wiring management.
Categories: Indoor Racks and Accessories; Aisle Containment; Bundles; High-Density Cooling Integrated
Infrastructure Management: including monitoring software and services.
Liebert Services Business
Emerson Network Power's Liebert Services business was formed in 1985 as Liebert Global Services, a business unit of Liebert Corporation. Liebert Services specializes in network reliability programs includi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20apple%20production | This is a list of countries by apple production in 2019, 2020 and 2021 based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database The estimated total world production of apples in 2021 was 93,144,358 metric tonnes, up 2.9% from 90,490,295 tonnes in 2020.
List of countries by production quantity
>1,000,000 tonnes
100,000–1,000,000 tonnes
50,000–100,000 tonnes
10,000–50,000 tonnes
1,000–10,000 tonnes
<1,000 tonnes
List of countries by area harvested for apples
This is a list of the top ten countries by area harvested for apples in hectares (ha). The total area harvested in the world for apples was 4,822,226 hectares in 2021, up 0.8% from 4,782,734 hectares in 2020.
Notes
References
External links
Fresh apples, production by country (sourced from the USDA)
Apple production
Apples
Apples |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetin | Cetin may refer to:
Çetin, Turkish name
Cetin Castle, Croatia
CETIN, a Czech telecoms company
CETIN - Kazakh cost estimation in software engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20tomato%20production | This is a list of countries by tomato production in 2016 and 2017, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The estimated total world production for tomatoes in 2017 was 182,301,395 metric tonnes, an increase of 1.6% from 179,508,401 tonnes in 2016. China was by far the largest producer, accounting for nearly 33% of global production. Dependent territories are shown in italics.
Production by country
>1,000,000 tonnes
100,000–1,000,000 tonnes
10,000–100,000 tonnes
1,000–10,000 tonnes
<1,000 tonnes
Notes
References
Tomato production
Tomato
Tomato production
Production by country
Tomatoes
Tomatoes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche%20Sweet%20filmography |
This is the filmography for Blanche Sweet. According to the Internet Movie Database, Sweet appeared in 161 films between 1909 and 1959.
Biograph (1909–1914)
Blanche Sweet started working at Biograph in 1909 under contract to director D. W. Griffith. Sweet remained at Biograph until 1914. Sweet starred in 85 films under Biograph, most of which were one or two reels.
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
Mutual Film Corporation (1914)
Griffith left Biograph in 1914, wanting to continue directing feature films such as Judith of Bethulia. He took his actors with him and joined the Mutual Film Corporation. Most of Sweet's films under Mutual Film are now lost. Of the 14 films, only 3 are known to survive.
1914
Paramount Pictures (1915–1919)
Sweet and Griffith parted ways in 1915 and signed with Famous Players Film Company for a higher pay. The studio would become known as Famous Players-Lasky following a merger in 1916. Films would be distributed by Paramount Pictures. 8 of the 20 films Sweet starred in survive, while 12 are presumed lost.
1915
Pathé Exchange
Sweet exclusively starred in films made by Pathé Exchange from 1919 to 1921. 6 of the 8 films are presumed lost.
Later films (1919–1929)
Of the 17 films, 6 survive and 11 are presumed lost.
Sound Films (1929–1959)
Sweet starred only in five sound films, retiring in 1930. Her final role was uncredited in 1959. All are extant.
References
Actress filmographies
American filmographies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20MM | Columbia MM (Mail Manager) is a computer program for reading email using a command-line interface. It was developed at Columbia University between 1984 and 1990, and is a Unix reimplementation of a 1978 TOPS-20 email program, also known as MM, which in turn was an update of an earlier program by Mike McMahon of SRI International. Columbia MM has also been built on other platforms, including DOS and VMS.
MM was unusual for its time in its support of "message sequences," which allowed the user to select a subset of messages in a mailbox for batch operations. The message sequence feature proved so popular with MM users that TOPS-20 MM author Mark Crispin went on to implement similar filtering capabilities in Pine. Columbia MM also offered context-sensitive help, command completion, and command history, carried over from the TOPS-20 version, before such features were commonplace in Unix software.
After a lull in development in 1990, MM development picked up again in 2002 with an interim release, including changes for Linux portability and POP support.
History
At Columbia University in the late 1970s the DEC-20 based MM was adopted in favor of DEC-20 MAIL and RDMAIL, and was used initially among the programming staff. Its use spread to the students and faculty, to the extent that several courses came to use it heavily. It was likely that, if you did a SYSTAT on any DEC-20 at Columbia between 1978 and 1988, you would see about half the users running EMACS and the other half MM, with only occasional time out for text formatting, program compilation, and file transfer. When Columbia switched to Unix-based platforms during the 1980s the MM program was rewritten for that platform and development continued on the program for the next 20 years.
As of version 0.91 (2003) MM worked on the following platforms: Solaris (2.5.1 and later); SunOS 4.1; Linux (e.g. RH7.1); FreeBSD 4.4; OpenBSD 3.0, NetBSD 1.5.2.
References
Using the MM email client in the Modern World (Feb 2014)
MM History
MM Source Code
Introduction to MM
MM Manual (1996)
See also
Brief Tutorial Showing Basic Commands From 1997
Privnote Notes That Will Self-Destruct After Being Read
Email clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological%20Monitoring%20Centre%2C%20Senegal | The Ecological Monitoring Centre (Centre de Suivi Écologique (French)(CSE) is a Senegalese environmental institution. It is dedicated to genomics and ecological data observation in Senegal. CSE is responsible for managing the adaptation fund in Senegal. The adaptation fund was created by the Kyoto Protocol to help developing nations offset the effects of global warming. CSE receives "proposals, distribute(s) the money and monitor(s) funded projects". Arona Soumare, who is the conservation director with the West African Marine Ecoregion of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), works with CSE as an expert.
CSE is a key source of information for Senegalese policymakers regarding the environment.
References
Environment of Senegal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%E2%80%9356%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1955–56 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1955 to August 1956.
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.
Fall 1955
formerly Welcome Travelers
Winter 1955/1956
formerly The Morning Show
Spring 1956
Summer 1956
Comedy Time featured repeats of I Married Joan, So This Is Hollywood and It's Always Jan.
See also
1955-56 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
1955-56 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 1955 – September 1956 (microfilm)
United States weekday network television schedules
1955 in American television
1956 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIHO-FM | CIHO-FM is a French language community radio station that broadcasts at 96.3 FM in Saint-Hilarion, Quebec, Canada. Its network of five transmitters serves the Charlevoix and Charlevoix-Est RCMs in the Capitale-Nationale region northeast of Quebec City.
Owned by Radio MF Charlevoix, the station was licensed in 1985.
On August 28, 2009, Radio MF Charlevoix received CRTC approval for a new French language Class B community FM radio station in Saint-Hilarion, with repeaters in La Malbaie, Baie-Saint-Paul, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François and Saint-Siméon; this license, which was not consummated and expired in August 2011, would have replaced the previous license for the station held by Radio MF Charlevoix.
The station is a member of the Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec.
Transmitters
References
External links
CIHO FM
Iho
Iho
Iho
Radio stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari%20Schwartz | Ari M. Schwartz is an American cybersecurity and technology policy expert. He is the former Special Assistant to the President and senior director for cybersecurity on the United States National Security Council Staff at the White House, having left the role in October 2015. Previously, Schwartz worked in both the Executive Branch and civil society as on cybersecurity, privacy, civil liberties, and policy. He is an advocate for vulnerability disclosure programs.
Career
Schwartz came to the White House after serving as a Senior Advisor for technology policy to the United States Secretary of Commerce. Previously, he was at the National Institute of Standards and Technology where he served as Internet Policy Advisor, working on the Internet Policy Task Force at the Department of Commerce.
Before his government service, Schwartz was the vice president and chief operating officer of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) in Washington, D.C., in the United States. He was formerly a CDT senior policy analyst and subsequently the center's Vice President and COO.
While at CDT, Schwartz won the RSA conference award for Excellence in Public Policy, and the Online Trust Alliance Award for Excellence in Public Policy.
In October 2015, it was revealed that Schwartz had stepped down from his role as senior director for cybersecurity after a two-year tenure. He remarked that he had always planned to leave the role after this period. Schwartz was praised on his departure for helping to develop the government's cybersecurity framework, a voluntary guideline to help companies bolster their security programs, and as an honest broker with industry and civil society.
Schwartz currently works at the law firm Venable, where he is the Managing Director of Cybersecurity Services.
Personal life
Schwartz is from the Detroit, Michigan area, and holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Brandeis University.
References
External links
CDT.org profile for Schwartz
Video (and audio) conversation with Schwartz about tech issues (specifically Google) on Bloggingheads.tv
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Detroit
Brandeis University alumni
People associated with computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20informatics | Education Informatics is a sub-field of informatics. The primary focus is on computer applications, systems and networks that support research in and delivery of education. Education informatics is based upon information science, computer science and education but particularly addresses the intersection of these broad areas. Note that it is distinct from Informatics Education, a term that relates more to the practice of teaching/learning about informatics, rather than the use of information science and technology in the support of teaching and learning. The term has been in use since at least 1980.
References
Carr, Jo Ann; O'Brien, Nancy P. (2010). "Policy Implications of Education Informatics". Teachers College Record 112 (10): 2703–2710.
Ford, Nigel (2008). Web-based learning through educational informatics: Information science meets educational computing. Hershey, NY: Information Science Publishing.
Levy, Philippa et Nigel Ford, Jonathon Foster, Andrew Madden, David Miller, Miguel Baptista Nunes, Maggie McPherson and Sheila Webber (2003). Educational informatics: an emerging research agenda. Journal of Information Science, 29 (4) 2003, pp. 298–310.
Information science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Directorate%20for%20Internal%20Security | The General Directorate for Internal Security (, DGSI) is a French security agency. It is charged with counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organisations, and social phenomena.
The agency was created in 2008 under the name Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (, DCRI), merging the direction centrale des Renseignements généraux (RG) and the direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST) of the French National Police. It acquired its current name in 2014, with a small structural shift: contrary to the DCRI which was part of the National Police, the DGSI reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior.
The DGSI is headed by General Director Nicolas Lerner. The agency is informally known as the "RG", a nickname formerly used for the Direction centrale des renseignements généraux which merged into it.
The DGSI performs among the others the following tasks:
prevents and halts any action or interference from foreign entities; fights acts of terrorism or acts that threaten the security and sustainability of the state or undermine the integrity of the territory; participates in the surveillance of radicalised individuals and groups who may turn to violence and threaten national security; fights against international criminal organisations that may have an impact on national security. As Aleksander Olech, the DGSI is the only secret service in the French Republic to cooperate directly with judicial institutions (l’institution judiciaire).
History
Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI)
The fusion of the RG and the DST into the Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI) was a wish held by Nicolas Sarkozy when he was France's Minister of the Interior. The change was officially launched by the Council of Ministers on 20 June 2007, shortly after the election of Sarkozy as President. Minister of the Interior Michèle Alliot-Marie, however, was reputedly reluctant regarding this fusion and ordered the General Director of the Police Nationale, Frédéric Péchenard, to undertake a study of the proposal.
The creation of DCRI was announced on 13 September 2007 by Alliot-Marie. The founding texts of the DCRI were adopted 7 April 2008, to become effective 1 July 2008.
A fraction of the former functionaries of the Renseignement général (General Intelligence, RG) were brought in from the Sub-Direction of General Information (SDIG) from the Central Direction of Public Security, represented in the departments of metropolitan France and in its overseas territories by the departmental services of General Information, in the care of the departmental directorates of Public Security.
Bernard Squarcini, director of DST, was named head of the DCRI in 2008. He was assisted from the outset by two central adjunct directors, René Bailly, former functionary of the RG, and Patrick Calvar, former functionary of the DST. René Bailly then left the DCRI in the month of June |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCAT | DCAT may refer to:
Data Catalog Vocabulary
Transportation in Texas Drive Clean Across Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million%20Women%20Study | The Million Women Study is a study of women’s health analysing data from more than one million women aged 50 and over, led by Dame Valerie Beral and a team of researchers at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford. It is a collaborative project between Cancer Research UK and the National Health Service (NHS), with additional funding from the Medical Research Council (UK).
One key focus of the study relates to the effects of hormone replacement therapy use on women's health. The study has confirmed the findings in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) that women currently using HRT are more likely to develop breast cancer than those who are not using HRT.
Results from the Million Women Study, together with those of the WHI trial from the USA, have influenced national policy, including recent recommendations on the prescribing and use of hormone replacement therapy from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and from the Commission on Human Medicines.
Study design
The Million Women Study is a multi-centre, population-based prospective cohort study of women aged 50 and over invited to routine breast cancer screening in the UK. Between 1996 and 2001, women were invited to join the Million Women Study when they received their invitation to attend breast screening at one of 66 participating NHS Breast Screening Centres in the UK. At these centres, women received a study questionnaire with their invitation, which they were asked to complete and return at the time of screening. Around 70% of those attending the programme returned questionnaires and agreed to take part in the study, over 1 in 4 women in the UK in the target age group. The Million Women Study is the largest study of its kind in the world.
Aims
The Million Women Study was set up with the aim of recruiting 1,000,000 women in the UK into a cohort study, to provide answers to the following questions:
What effects do combined estrogen and progestogen hormone replacement therapy (HRT) preparations have on breast cancer risk?
Are breast cancers detected at screening in women who have used HRT or oral contraceptives different in terms of size and invasiveness from the cancers detected in women who have never used these hormones?
How does HRT use affect the efficacy of breast cancer screening?
How does HRT use affect mortality from breast cancer and other conditions?
Findings
HRT and breast cancer
Initial analysis of the results from over 1 million women in the Million Women Study appeared to confirm preliminary findings from other studies at the turn of the century finding that women currently using progestin-estrogen HRT were more likely to develop breast cancer than those who are not using HRT. This initial analysis received extensive press coverage. The initial reading of results showed that this effect is substantially greater for combined (estrogen-progestogen) HRT than for estrogen-only HRT; and that the effects were similar for all specific types and dos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20Sports%20Radio | Sky Sports Radio (formerly 2KY) is a commercial radio station based in Sydney, broadcasting throughout New South Wales and Canberra on a network of over 140 narrowcast transmitters as well as the main 1017 AM frequency in Sydney. It broadcasts live commentary of thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing. Over 1,500 races are covered each week, including the pre and post race form and TAB betting information.
History
Sky Sports Radio was founded by Emil Voigt as 2KY under the ownership of the Labor Council of New South Wales with the aim of broadcasting 'musical entertainment, news, weather, market reports, public debates and matters of educational value'. Night broadcasts of trotting began in 1949 with greyhound racing following soon after. In the 1960s the station took over thoroughbred racing commentary from 2GB. By the mid-1970s Saturday afternoon racing broadcasts had started.
In 1992 the station started establishing a statewide network of narrowcast relay transmitters. 2KY was one of the pioneering stations of Digital Audio Broadcasting in Australia. In 2001 2KY was acquired by Sky Racing and in 2009, rebranded as Sky Sports Radio. Its studios moved from Parramatta to Frenchs Forest in 2015.
In 2005, 2KY closed its newsroom, in favour of taking a feed from Broadcast Operations Group. In March 2006 it was taken over by Macquarie Media.
Programming
National Racing Service
The National Racing Service features every TAB meeting throughout Australia, as well as coverage of race meetings in New Zealand and Hong Kong and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom and United States. Although racing is the main-stay on 2KY other sports are featured. The Big Sports Breakfast features a range of national and international sports each weekday morning.
Big Sports Breakfast
The Big Sports Breakfast is presented by Michael Clarke and Laurie Daley. Previous hosts have included Richard Freedman, Terry Kennedy and Michael Slater.
Notable presenters
Current
Michael Clarke
Laurie Daley
Former
Notable former presenters have included
References
External links
Official website
Radio stations in Sydney
Radio stations in Newcastle, New South Wales
Radio stations in Wagga Wagga
Radio stations in New South Wales
Radio stations in Canberra
Radio stations established in 1925
Sports radio stations in Australia
1925 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphilus%20the%20Theologian | Pamphilus the Theologian () was probably a late sixth century Palestinian compiler writing in the aftermath of the Council of Chalcedon and the fall-out this produced in the eastern Christian provinces. His work is in the form of questions and answers illustrating the points at issue at the Council and subsequently, i. e. in the form of chapters dealing with points such as: hypostasis, ousia, physis, and other points at debate between neo-Chalcedonians and Monophysites. The philosophical implication of such terms for Christology is thoroughly developed.
The work includes a number of quotations from standard authors such as the Cappadocians, John Chrysostom and Cyril of Alexandria, and also Pseudo-Dionysius, but also from a number of authors condemned at various councils (e.g. Apollinarius, Eunomius, Eutyches, Nestorius, Paul of Samosata, Valentinian).
Pamphilus is to be distinguished from the earlier Pamphilus of Caesarea, martyr and mentor of the encyclopaedic Christian apologist, Eusebius of Caesarea
Works
Diversorum Postchalcedonensium Auctorum Collectanea I: Pamphili Theologi Opus, ed. José H. Declerck (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 19) Leuven University Press, Brepols, 1989.
Further reading
M. Richard, 'Pamphile de Jerusalem', Le Muséon 90 (1977): 277-280.
J. H. Leclerck, 'Encore une fois Léonce et Pamphile,' in Antoon Schoors and Peter van Deun, eds. Philohistôr: miscellanea in honorem Caroli Laga septuagenarii (Leuven: Peeters, 1994).
References
Christian theologians
6th-century Christians
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori%20%28operating%20system%29 | Midori (which means green in Japanese) was the code name for a managed code operating system (OS) being developed by Microsoft with joint effort of Microsoft Research. It had been reported to be a possible commercial implementation of the OS Singularity, a research project begun in 2003 to build a highly dependable OS in which the kernel, device drivers, and application software are all written in managed code. It was designed for concurrency, and could run a program spread across multiple nodes at once. It also featured a security model that sandboxes applications for increased security. Microsoft had mapped out several possible migration paths from Windows to Midori. Midori was discontinued some time in 2015, though many of its concepts were used in other Microsoft projects.
History
The code name Midori was first discovered through the PowerPoint presentation CHESS: A systematic testing tool for concurrent software.
Another reference to Midori was found in a presentation shown during the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA) October 2012 conference, and a paper from the conference's proceedings.
References
External links
SD Times' David Worthington on the migration away from Windows
SD Times' David Worthington on Midori security
Technologizer report by David Worthington on Windows Mobile's life cycle
Microsoft sees end of Windows era, BBC News
Joe Duffy - Blogging about Midori, 2015
Microsoft operating systems
Microsoft Research
Microkernel-based operating systems
Capability systems
Microkernels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proactive%20cyber%20defence | Proactive cyber defense, means acting in anticipation to oppose an attack through cyber and cognitive domains. Proactive cyber defense can be understood as options between offensive and defensive measures. It includes interdicting, disrupting or deterring an attack or a threat's preparation to attack, either pre-emptively or in self-defence.
Proactive cyber defense differs from active defence, in that the former is pre-emptive (does not waiting for an attack to occur). Furthermore, active cyber defense differs from offensive cyber operations (OCO) in that the latter requires legislative exceptions to undertake. Hence, offensive cyber capabilities may be developed in collaboration with industry and facilitated by private sector; these operations are often led by nation-states.
Methods & Aims
Common methods of proactive cyber defense include cyber deception, attribution, threat hunting and adversarial pursuit. The mission of the pre-emptive and proactive operations is to conduct aggressive interception and disruption activities against an adversary using: psychological operations, managed information dissemination, precision targeting, information warfare operations, computer network exploitation, and other active threat reduction measures.
The proactive defense strategy is meant to improve information collection by stimulating reactions of the threat agents and to provide strike options as well as to enhance operational preparation of the real or virtual battlespace. Proactive cyber defence can be a measure for detecting and obtaining information before a cyber attack, or it can also be impending cyber operation and be determining the origin of an operation that involves launching a pre-emptive, preventive, or cyber counter-operation.
The offensive capacity includes the manipulation and/or disruption of networks and systems with the purpose of limiting or eliminating the adversary's operational capability. This capability can be required to guarantee one's freedom of action in the cyber domain. Cyber-attacks can be launched to repel an attack (active defence) or to support the operational action.
Cyber defense
Strategically, cyber defence refers to operations that are conducted in the cyber domain in support of mission objectives. The main difference between cyber security and cyber defence is that that cyber defence requires a shift from network assurance (security) to mission assurance. Cyber defence focuses on sensing, detecting, orienting, and engaging adversaries in order to assure mission success and to outmanoeuver the adversary. This shift from security to defence requires a strong emphasis on intelligence, and reconnaissance, and the integration of staff activities to include intelligence, operations, communications, and planning.
Defensive cyber operations refer to activities on or through the global information infrastructure to help protect an institutions' electronic information and information infrastructures as a matter of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animaniacs%20Game%20Pack | Animaniacs Game Pack is a 1997 computer game based on the animated television series Animaniacs. It features five arcade games starring the Warner kids, Yakko, Wakko and Dot. It was published and developed by Funnybone Interactive. Voices for all characters in the games are provided by the voice actors who performed the roles for the television series. It was the first Animaniacs media to use digital ink and paint, mostly used in cutscenes. Also, it used 3D pre-rendered backgrounds in some games
Games
Belchinator Too
This game stars Wakko Warner as the protagonist and The Brain as the antagonist. The Brain has created an army of robots at Acme Labs in his latest plot to take over the world, but they have rebelled against him and taken him prisoner, intending to use his vast intellect to destroy the world. Wakko must enter Acme Labs and destroy the robots by belching at them, fueled by the assorted snacks (power-ups) he finds along the way.
This game is the only one of the five that allows players to save their progress and resume play at a later time.
Prop Shop Drop
This game puts Yakko Warner to work collecting movie props for a crabby foreman. Players control Yakko on a bicycle as he rides through the studio, collecting the props and avoiding obstacles. As Yakko proceeds, he can upgrade to a motorcycle or racecar to cover ground more quickly.
Smoocher
In Smoocher, Dot Warner must turn her nightmares into good dreams by blowing "smooches" (hearts) at the enemies to freeze them. Once they are frozen, Dot can run over them to eliminate them. She has only a limited supply of smooches and must collect more throughout the game. If she jumps and hits a stick of TNT, it will freeze every enemy on the screen.
Baloney's Balloon Bop
Baloney's Balloon Bop stars all three Warners as they try to pop balloons by bouncing Yakko upward on to a trampoline held by Wakko and Dot. Baloney the dinosaur runs along the bottom of the screen, under Wakko and Dot, and Yakko will lose a life if he misses the trampoline and is caught by Baloney. Some balloons contain power-ups, while others release anvils that will stun Baloney for a moment if they land on him. On later screens, unbreakable steel blocks appear among the balloons.
Tee Off Mini Golf
The player controls Dot as she plays through a nine-hole miniature golf course loaded with unusual obstacles.
Cast
Rob Paulsen as Yakko Warner, Dr. Scratchansniff, and Pinky
Jess Harnell as Wakko Warner
Tress MacNeille as Dot Warner
Maurice LaMarche as The Brain, Foreman, and Wakko's belches
Jeff Bennett as Baloney the Dinosaur
References
External links
Official website
1997 video games
Miniature golf video games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games based on Animaniacs
Video games developed in the United States
Funnybone Interactive games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%204%20%28Beijing%20Subway%29 | Line 4 of the Beijing Subway () is a subway line in Beijing's mass transit network. It entered into operation on 28 September 2009, and runs from north to south, parallel and to the west of Line 5, through Haidian, Xicheng, and Fengtai Districts in the western half of the city. It runs from Anheqiao North in the north and ends at Gongyixiqiao in the south, but the 4-Daxing connected line runs all the way to Tiangongyuan in Daxing. All stations are underground except Anheqiao North. It is long with 24 stations. Riding on this line starts from a fare of RMB(¥) 3.00 depending on the distance traveled. Line 4's color is teal.
Line 4 and Daxing line operate as a single line although they are classified as separate lines. Two different services are run during the day: A full service covering both Line 4 and Daxing line and a shorter service that ends at Xin'gong station, the first station of Daxing line. Combined, the Line 4/Daxing Corridor carries an average of 1.24 million passengers every day in 2017, growing to about 1.4 million passengers per day by 2019.
Hours of operation
The first south-bound trains departs from Anheqiao North at 5:00 AM. The first northbound train departs from Gongyixiqiao at 5:10 AM. The last northbound train leaves Anheqiao North at 10:45 PM. The last southbound train leaves Gongyixiqiao at 11:10 PM. Each train completes the entire journey in 48 minutes.
Route
In the north, Line 4 begins in Anheqiao, just beyond the Summer Palace, and heads south past the Old Summer Palace, through the university district and Zhongguancun, Beijing's high-tech silicon village, before turning east at the National Library of China and passing the Beijing Zoo en route to Xizhimen. After entering the 2nd Ring Road at Xizhimen, Line 4 resumes southwards at Xinjiekou and traverses the old city through Xisi, Xidan, Xuanwumen, Caishikou, and Taoranting Park. It passes the city's high-speed rail link at the Beijing South railway station before reaching the terminus at Gongyixiqiao. Construction began in 2004 but delays have pushed back the opening date by two years to 28 September 2009.
Service routes
— (through service via Daxing line)
— (through service via Daxing line)
Rush hour (7:00-8:00): — (through service via Daxing line)
List of Stations
Planning and construction
Plans for Line 4 date back to the 1950s when Beijing's first subway line was still under construction. It was planned to run from the Summer Palace, east towards Xizhimen, southeast to Zhongshan Park, terminating at the Beijing Stadium, which near today's Tiantandongmen Station. Ultimately, the section between Summer Palace to Xizhimen was built as planned. However, construction only formally started in 2004.
On 3 December 2004 Hong Kong's MTR Corporation, Beijing Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd., and Beijing Capital Group Co., Ltd. signed the Beijing Metro Line 4, investment, construction, operation principle of cooperation agreement, making Line 4 the Mainland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCNet | CCNet may refer to:
CCNET, a 1980s academic computing network
ccnet.com, an Internet service provider formerly located in Contra Costa County, California
the .NET version of the CruiseControl continuous integration software package
Cambridge Conference Network, formerly a discussion group concerning climate change skepticism and other topics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpedigree | mPedigree refers both to a mobile telephony shortcode platform that interconnects GSM mobile networks in a number of African and Asian countries to a central registry wherein pedigree information of product brands belonging to participant manufacturers are stored, as well as the organisation that was founded in 2007 to manage and promote this registry to organisations and governments in Africa and other parts of the world. The latter is named the mPedigree Network. In December 2015, the mPedigree Network rebranded to 'mPedigree', and begun to trade under that name and a new logo, based on a knight-of-chess motif.
In November 2008, the Nigerian National Agency for Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC) reported to an industry publication that its Technical Committee was evaluating the security credentials of the mPedigree system for a possible roll-out in that country. NAFDAC and the Nigerian pharmaceutical companies formed a consortium in June 2009 to roll the service out for all medicines in Nigeria. By 2014, NAFDAC had renamed this initiative as MAS (Mobile Authentication Service), involving multiple partners, including mPedigree.
In 2011, the Kenyan drug safety regulator announced its support for the mobile telephony anti-counterfeiting system deployed in that country by mPedigree.
In 2017, the Kenyan agricultural regulator, KEPHIS, announced a partnership with mPedigree to enable the verification of seed quality using mobile phone technologies.
Methodology
Manufacturers who sign on to the mPedigree scheme upload pedigree information of each pack of medicine into the central registry using standard mass serialisation methods such as those employed in the RFID-enabled e-pedigree system familiar in the United States and elsewhere.
When consumers buy a product made by a manufacturer participating in the scheme, they are able to query the pedigree information stored in the registry by means of a free SMS message. An automatic response from the registry certifies whether the particular product is truly "from source" or not. The proponents of the scheme believe the system will be effective in the fight against counterfeit medicines in the region.
In May 2010 it was reported that Hewlett Packard (HP), Zain Telecommunications, and undisclosed pharmaceutical and other partners had signed up to the mPedigree program with plans to extend the service to multiple countries across Africa. Some West African companies were also reported as using the technology.
Trials
The platform has been in testing since 28 January 2008. Media reports in Ghana suggest that monitored trials conducted in the two major cities in the country, Accra and Kumasi, were largely successful. In a forum convened together with the US-based Partnership for Safe Medicines and the Ghana Food & Drugs Board, the Deputy Chief Executive of the Food & Drugs Board announced that the Ghanaian Authorities were investigating the introduction of the mPedigree platform as a national standard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olvir%20Hnufa | Olvir Hnufa or Ölvir hnúfa was a Norwegian commander in a clan and poet of the late ninth and early tenth centuries, known from, among other sources, Egil's Saga, Skaldatal and the Prose Edda. Olvir was the son of the viking Berle-Kari and brother-in-law of Kveldulf Bjalfason, who married Olvir's sister Salbjorg Karadottir; he was thus uncle to Skallagrim and Thorolf Kveldulfsson and great uncle to the famous poet Egil Skallagrimsson. Olvir also had a brother named Eyvind Lambi. Olvir was a prominent member of the court of King Harald Fairhair, who united Norway under his rule in the late ninth or early tenth century. Among other famous poets, he served as one of King Harald's court poets. He also served as a warrior in Harald's retinue, and fought at the pivotal Battle of Hafrsfjord on the king's flagship. He is best known for his involvement in the conflict between Harald and Olvir's kinsman Thorolf Kveldulfsson, which ended with the latter's death. Only a few fragments of Olvir's poetry survive.
Name
The name Ölvir has been defined as "priest of the shrine/sanctuary". His nickname "hnufa" is something of a mystery. It is sometimes translated as hump; it is unknown whether this described a physical condition. However, it can also mean "snub", as in snub-nosed. Vigfusson pointed out that under Nordic law, "'hnufa' refers to a bondmaid whose nose has been cut off for theft thrice repeated; as a nickname it must refer to some hurt" suffered by Olvir.
Career
Most of Olvir Hnufa's life is covered in three sagas, Egil's saga, Skaldatal and Prose Edda. Egils saga spans the years 850-1000 and covers the saga of the ancestors of Egill Skallagrímsson, including Olvir Hnufa. Skaldatal are poetries from Prose Edda about court poets. Prose Edda is an saga from the 13th century about the norse mythology, which is used to explain poetry from that era.
Viking career
Olvir and Eyvind joined their nephew Thorolf Kveldulfsson on a number of Viking expeditions after the latter received a longship as a gift from his father Kveldulf. They gained a great deal of profit from such voyages. At a thing in Gaular, Olvir fell in love with Solveig Atladottir, the daughter of a jarl in Fjordane named Atli the Slender. The jarl refused Olvir permission to marry the girl, but he was so smitten that he abandoned his Viking life to be near her. A poet of some talent, he composed a number of love poems for Solveig. For reasons not revealed in Egil's Saga, but probably related to his courtship of Solveig, Olvir was attacked and nearly killed in his home by Solveig's brothers shortly after King Harald of Vestfold's conquest of Møre. Atli did not long survive this encounter; after Harald Fairhair conquered Møre and Fjordane he assigned the governance of the former to Rognvald Eysteinsson and the latter to Hákon Grjótgarðsson. Hákon and Atli soon came into conflict over Sogn and fought a battle at Fjalir in Stafaness Bay, in which Hakon was killed. Atli was severely wounded in th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Boston%20Food%20Bank | The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB), located in Boston, Massachusetts, is a non-profit organization that serves more than 500,000 people each year through a network of nearly 600 member hunger-relief agencies throughout eastern Massachusetts. The Food Bank's current President and CEO is Catherine D'Amato. The Greater Boston Food Bank is a member organization of Feeding America, formerly known as America's Second Harvest.
Services
The Greater Boston Food Bank provides hunger relief to an estimated 500,000 people annually, according to "Hunger in Eastern Massachusetts 2014", a study that was part of a national initiative spearheaded by Feeding America. According to this study, about a third (125,000) of the members of the households served by GBFB had children under the age of 18, and approximately 20% of clients at program sites served by The Greater Food Bank were age 65 and older. 72% of households needed to use a food pantry on a regular basis to have enough to eat.
History
The Boston Food Bank was founded by Kip Tiernan and legally incorporated in 1981. It was originally located at 71 Amory Street in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston and moved to 99 Atkinson Street in the Newmarket section of Boston in 1992. The Boston Food Bank officially changed its name to The Greater Boston Food Bank in 1993.
The Greater Boston Food Bank broke ground in 2007 at the site of a new facility at 70 South Bay Ave (the former home of the South Bay Incinerator), across the street from the organization's previous location. The facility was completed in March 2009. The facility, named the Yawkey Distribution Center of The Greater Boston Food Bank will enable The Greater Boston Food Bank to increase its distribution to eventually accommodate 50 million pounds of food and grocery products.
See also
List of food banks
References
External links
The Greater Boston Food Bank
Fighting Hunger, Feeding Hope: The Campaign For A New Food Bank
Feeding America
Food banks in Massachusetts
Non-profit organizations based in Boston
Organizations established in 1981 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong%20%28network%29 | Kwangmyong () is a North Korean "walled garden" national intranet service opened in the early 2000s. The Kwangmyong intranet system stands in contrast to the global Internet in North Korea, which is available to fewer people in the country.
The network uses domain names under the .kp top level domain that are not usually accessible from the global Internet. As of 2016 the network uses IPv4 addresses reserved for private networks in the 10.0.0.0/8 range, also known as 24-bit block as defined in RFC 1918. North Koreans often find it more convenient to access sites by their IP address rather than by domain name using Latin characters. Like the global Internet, the network hosts content accessible with web browsers, and provides an internal web search engine. It also provides email services and news groups. The intranet is managed by the Korea Computer Center.
History
The first website in North Korea, the Naenara web portal, was made in 1996. Efforts to establish the Kwangmyong network on a national scale began as early as 1997, with some development of intranet services in the Rajin-Sonbong Economic Special Zone as early as 1995. The intranet was originally developed by the Central Scientific and Technological Information Agency. The national Kwangmyong intranet was first in service during the early 2000s. North Korea's first email provider was Sili Bank, established in 2001.
Prior to 2006, North Koreans would use intranet chat rooms to organize meetups to play sports, such as basketball. Following an incident where around 300 North Korean intranet users organized a flash mob at the Pyongyang Gymnasium, all chat rooms were removed from the North Korean intranet. Regional chat rooms reportedly made a return in 2015.
In 2013, Anonymous-affiliated hackers claimed to have broken into North Korea's intranet. However, evidence for the claim was lacking.
A video conferencing system called Rakwon was developed at Kim Il-sung University in 2010. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became much more popular for remote meetings and appeared regularly on news bulletins. Telemedicine and remote education systems have been developed.
Content
As of 2014, the Kwangmyong network was estimated to have between about 1,000 and 5,500 websites. Excélsior and Max Fisher of Vox estimated the number was about 5,000.
The Kwangmyong network is composed of many websites and services. Some sites host political and economic propaganda. Scientific and cultural information and fields of knowledge among other topics can be found elsewhere. Over 30 million mostly scientific or technical documents were reportedly posted to the intranet as of 2007.
Websites of various North Korean government agencies including provincial government, cultural institutions, major universities and libraries, some local schools, and some of the major industrial and commercial organizations are accessible to users. The network also contains (mostly science-related) websites from the open Internet that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripps%20Networks%20Interactive | Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. (SNI) was an American mass media company, which was formed on July 1, 2008, and acquired by and merged into Discovery Communications on March 6, 2018. It was formed in 2008, through the spin-off of the E. W. Scripps Company's cable television networks and online assets. Discovery Communications completed its acquisition of SNI after receiving approval from the United States Department of Justice and European Commission on March 6, 2018. It was the owner of several major factual television cable channels, including Food Network, HGTV and Travel Channel, and operated or held stakes in localized international versions of these brands. SNI also owned Polish broadcaster TVN and half of the British channel group UKTV.
SNI was headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company had additional office locations in New York City; Los Angeles; Chicago; San Francisco; Chevy Chase, Maryland; Atlanta; Detroit; Nashville; Cincinnati; and offices in São Paulo (Brazil), London (UK) and Singapore.
On July 31, 2017, Discovery Communications announced its intent to acquire SNI. After receiving approval from the United States Department of Justice and European Commission, the sale was completed on March 6, 2018, after which the company changed its name to Discovery, Inc.
History
In 1994, Scripps acquired the Knoxville-based Cinetel Productions to serve as a production base for a new home lifestyle-oriented cable network, which would eventually launch in December as HGTV. Scripps later acquired a stake in the Food Network, and launched a spin-off of HGTV known as DIY Network (now Magnolia Network).
On July 1, 2008, Scripps spun out its cable networks and online properties as a new, publicly traded company known as Scripps Networks Interactive. The split was performed to reduce the financial burden of Scripps' broadcast television and print assets on its profitable cable network properties.
The company acquired a majority interest in the Travel Channel from Cox Communications for a reported $975 million in late 2009, and the following year rebranded Fine Living Network as Cooking Channel.
In April 2011, the company announced the sale of Shopzilla to Symphony Technology Group for $165 million. From within its Travel Channel unit, Scripps also invested in Oyster.com, a hotel research and booking site.
In 2011, Virgin Media agreed to sell its 50% stake in UKTV to Scripps Networks Interactive for $495 million (£339 million). Completion of the transaction was contingent on regulatory approvals in Ireland and Jersey, which was received on October 3, 2011.
On March 22, 2012, Scripps Networks Interactive announced that it had agreed to pay £65m (US$102.7m) to acquire Travel Channel International Limited (TCI), the UK-based broadcaster that ran travel-themed television channels under the Travel Channel brand across the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific markets, but had no connection with the American television channel of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totoy%20Bato | Totoy Bato is a 2009 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on the graphic novel created by Carlo J. Caparas. Directed by Mac Alejandre and Don Michael Perez, it stars Robin Padilla in the title role. It premiered on February 23, 2009 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Gagambino. The series concluded on July 3, 2009 with a total of 93 episodes. It was replaced by Rosalinda in its timeslot.
The series was released on DVD by GMA Records.
Premise
Anna Molina dreams to be a popular and successful singer someday. Her friend Arturo "Totoy Bato" Magtanggol, on the other hand, only dreams of being with his father. After his mother died, Totoy's wish comes true when his father comes home after serving his sentence, Podong turns out to be an abusive and cruel dad. Totoy's only comfort is Anna, his best friend and true love, who promised never to leave his side, but breaks her promise when her materialistic mother Matilda decides to live in Manila, she leaves Totoy with a promise that she will come back for him.
Years pass, Anna is now a famous singer in the country, and the quiet life of Totoy will be disturbed when a land grabber appears and kills his loving wife Elena. Madness and revenge engulfs Totoy and he promises to fight the manipulative haciendero no matter what. Totoy decides to start a new life in Manila — where faces more fights, this time in the boxing arena where he will be known as Totoy Bato.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Robin Padilla as Arturo "Totoy Bato" Magtanggol
Supporting cast
Regine Velasquez as Anna Molina
Eddie Garcia as Fredo
Manny Pacquiao as himself
Ehra Madrigal as Trixie Altamirano-Magtanggol
Ara Mina as Elena Magtanggol
Ian Veneracion as Miguel Velarde
Caridad Sanchez as Concha Velarde
Joonee Gamboa as Mauro Magtanggol
Ronnie Lazaro as Podong Magtanggol
Rommel Padilla as Manuel Velarde
Deborah Sun as Matilda Molina
Jolo Revilla as Andong
LJ Reyes as Gilette Molina
Tuesday Vargas as Connie
Mon Confiado as Turko Manzano
Sweet Ramos as Cecilia Magtanggol
Ralph Padilla as Steve Altamirano
Queenie Padilla as Heather Hernandez
Recurring cast
Menggie Cobarrubas as mayor of Barrio Grapas
BJ Forbes as Bogart
Martin Delos Santos as Boyet
Kirby de Jesus as Sakrestan
Val Iglesias Sr. as Temi
Val Iglesias Jr. as Ruben
Joseph Bitangcol as a doctor
Jun Hidalgo as Berong
Jessy Mendiola as Maurice / Light Milton
Bela Padilla as Rain
Carlo Aquino as teen Totoy
Camille Prats as teen Anna
July Hidalgo as Millton / Dark Milton
Ernie Garcia as Cecillia's doctor
Gay Balignasay as a news reporter
John Apacible
Dido dela Paz
Ricardo Cepeda
Michael Flores
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Totoy Bato earned a 36.7% rating. While the final episode scored a 30.4% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro%20Teller | Eric "Astro" Teller (born 29 May 1970) is an American entrepreneur, computer scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology.
Early life and education
Teller was born in Cambridge, England, and raised in Evanston, Illinois, US. He is the son of Paul Teller, who was an instructor in the philosophy of science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Chantal DeSoto, a buyer and clothing designer for Sears who later became a teacher of gifted children. His grandparents include both French economist and mathematician Gérard Debreu and Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist Edward Teller. He received the nickname "Astro" after high school friends compared his flat-top haircut to AstroTurf, and he reportedly had the image of cartoon dog Astro from The Jetsons painted on his car door in college by his first wife, Elizabeth Jennings.
Teller holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Stanford University, Master of Science in symbolic computation (symbolic and heuristic computation), also from Stanford, and a PhD in artificial intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a recipient of a Hertz fellowship.
Career
After working as a teacher at Stanford, he became a business executive.
Since 2010, Teller has been directing Google X (which has become X) laboratories. Projects at Google X include Google Glass, Google Self-Driving Car Project, Google Contact Lens and Project Loon. Google X spun its project called Flux out into a stand-alone business in 2012. Teller gave a TED Talk at TED2016 on the importance of failure in Google X's approach to pioneering new projects. On 18 October 2016, it was announced that Teller would temporarily be in charge of X's Project Wing while the search for its next permanent leader was underway.
Entrepreneur
Teller was the co-founder and chairman of BodyMedia, makers of the BodyMedia FIT, Bodybugg, and Sensewear armbands (wearable devices that measure sleep, perspiration, motion, and calories burned).
He is also co-founder, director, and former CEO of Cerebellum Capital.
Speaker
In May 2001, Teller was featured on NPR's radio program All Things Considered, discussing how the good economy has shaped the attitudes of 30-year-olds towards their jobs. Teller is the co-founder and co-host of the Solve for X annual event and internet community.
He has lectured at the TEDMED Conference (2003 and 2004), South By Southwest (2013), and ideaCity (2004). In 2008, he appeared as a political commentator on the national French television station France 24.
Author
Teller's novel, Exegesis, was published in 1997. It was translated into Dutch, Japanese, Danish, German, Italian, and Greeklish.
A second novel, Among These Savage Thoughts, was published in 2006. An experimental novel, it deals with the protagonist's journey to reinvent himself in the imaginary mountain society of Karabas.
His third book, Sacred Cows, is a non-fiction work examining society's attitudes about mar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned%20Space%20Flight%20Network | The Manned Space Flight Network (abbreviated MSFN, pronounced "misfin") was a set of tracking stations built to support the American Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab space programs.
There were two other NASA space communication networks at the time, the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) for tracking satellites in low Earth orbit, and the Deep Space Network (DSN) for tracking more distant uncrewed missions. After the end of Skylab, the MSFN and STADAN were merged to form the Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network (STDN). STDN was in turn replaced by the satellite-based Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) during the Space Shuttle program, being used .
Orbital versus deep space tracking
Tracking vehicles in low Earth orbits (LEO) is quite different from tracking deep space missions. Deep space missions are visible for long periods of time from a large portion of the Earth's surface, and so require few stations (the DSN uses only three, ). These few stations, however, require the use of huge antennas and ultra-sensitive receivers to cope with the very distant, weak signals. Low Earth orbit missions, on the other hand, are only visible from a small fraction of the Earth's surface at a time, and the satellites move overhead quickly, which requires a large number of tracking stations, spread all over the world. The antennas required for LEO tracking and communication are not required to be as large as those used for deep space, but they must be able to track quickly.
These differing requirements led NASA to build a number of independent tracking networks, each optimized for its own mission. Prior to the mid-1980s, when the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) satellites became operational, NASA used several networks of ground-based antennas to track and communicate with Earth orbiting spacecraft. For the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, these were the primary means of communication, with the Deep Space Network (DSN) being assigned a supporting/backup role.
Mercury MSFN stations
The Mercury Space Flight Network (MSFN) was completed in 1961, and consisted of 18 ground tracking stations and two ships in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to close gaps between ground stations.
1) Mercury Control Center (CNV), Cape Canaveral, Florida
Grand Bahama (downrange antenna for MCC)
Grand Turk (downrange antenna for MCC)
2) Coopers Island, Bermuda (BDA)
3) Atlantic Ship (ATS)
4) Maspalomas Station, Grand Canary Island (CAN)
5) Kano, Nigeria (KAN)
6) Zanzibar (AAB)
7) Indian Ocean ship (IOS)
8) Muchea, Australia (MUC)
9) Woomera Test Range, Australia (WOM)
11) Canton Island, Republic of Kiribati (CTN)
12) Kauai, Hawaii (HAW)
13) Point Arguello, California (CAL)
14) Guaymas, Mexico (GYM)
15) White Sands, New Mexico (WHS)
16) Corpus Christi, Texas (TEX)
17) Eglin, California (EGL)
There was some variation between flights. For example, between MA-6 and MA-7 the Mid-Atlantic Ship was removed and the Indian Oce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee%20Science%20Centre | Dundee Science Centre (formerly known as Sensation) is a science centre located in Dundee, Scotland, and a part of the Scottish Science Centres Network. It is a registered charity under Scottish law. It is funded by the public and donations from local corporate sponsors.
The interactive exhibits focus mainly on the life sciences, and in particular on the senses. There is also a focus on robotics, and a practical exploration of science learning.
Dundee Science Centre is also a corporate venue and a HMIE-inspected resource for science learning and public engagement.
There is an in-house cafe (Cafe Creative) and a gift shop, stocking many science and educational products.
The centre went under a £2.1m renovation during the coronavirus pandemic. The centre reopened in 2021 with the aim to make it more accessible.
History
As one of the Millennium Commission projects, it opened in July 2000 at the cost of around £5 million.
In 2013, the museum changed its name from Sensation to Dundee Science Centre.
In 2020, Dundee Science Centre closed for a large period of the year as well as the first half of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time the centre's ground floor underwent a £2 million renovation to make the area more accessible to assisted needs visitors. The centre reopened in June 2021 with additional COVID guidelines in place such as mask wearing and hand washing.
See also
Our Dynamic Earth - Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland
Glasgow Science Centre - Science Centre in Glasgow, Scotland
Satrosphere Science Centre - Science Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland
List of science centers#Europe
References
External links
Cultural infrastructure completed in 2000
Science Centre
Science museums in Scotland
Science Centre
2000 establishments in Scotland
Science and technology in Dundee
Charities based in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Iranian%20Television | The name National Iranian Television may represent:
National Iranian Radio and Television, Iran's first radio/television network which operated from 1966 to 1979
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, the successor organization to the above after the 1979 Iranian Revolution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIML-FM | CIML-FM is a First Nations community radio station that operates at 99.5 FM in Makkovik, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
This station no longer appears in Industry Canada databases but appears to be operating as recently as March 2020.
References
External links
Iml |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20of%20a%20Kind%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Three of a Kind" is the twentieth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on May 2, 1999 in the United States. The episode was written by Vince Gilligan and John Shiban, and directed by Bryan Spicer. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Three of a Kind" earned a Nielsen household rating of 8.2, being watched by 12.9 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics, with some noting that the episode served as a stop-gap.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, The Lone Gunmen run into the enigmatic Susanne Modeski. After deceiving Scully into joining them, the trio soon find out that Susanne's fiancé is planning to use her new brainwashing drug for political assassinations.
"Three of a Kind" functions as a sequel of sorts to the fifth season episode "Unusual Suspects", concluding the story of The Lone Gunmen and Susanne Modeski, the woman who led to the creation of the trio. While Mulder played a supporting role in "Unusual Suspects", the concept is reversed in "Three of a Kind", with Scully helping out The Lone Gunmen.
Plot
During a high-stakes poker game Lone Gunman John Fitzgerald Byers (Bruce Harwood) is thrown out after being exposed as a fraud at a government convention in Las Vegas. Unbeknownst to Richard Langly (Dean Haglund) and Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood), Byers is still harboring an attraction to Susanne Modeski, a fellow conspirator who mysteriously disappeared almost ten years ago. Byers hopes that he will meet her at the convention.
The Lone Gunmen cleverly trick Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) into coming to Las Vegas using a text to speech program. Their friend Jimmy uses his special technique for gaining access to a secret meeting room where he believes he will learn about new assassination techniques employed by the government. However, Jimmy is discovered and injected with a mystery drug which forces him to kill himself. Meanwhile, Byers discovers that Susanne is alive and well, but has seemingly become a secretive government agent.
Scully is performing Jimmy's autopsy when she is attacked by an agent who injects something into her, causing her to collapse. After being confronted by Byers, Susanne reveals that she is pretending to have switched sides so she, along with her fiancee Grant Ellis, can slow progress on the government's harmful initiatives. She works alongside the Gunmen to set up Grant, whom she discovers has been lying to her.
Timmy, the late Jimmy's friend, asks Langly to attend a Dungeons & Dragons game in Jimmy's honor. The game, however, is a setup to inject Langly with a drug that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20in%20Woonsocket | Lost in Woonsocket is a documentary feature film directed by John Chester. It stars Chester and Andre Miller, co-creators of the A&E Network documentary series Random 1, from which the film draws much of its content. It concerns Mark and Normand, characters featured in episodes 4 and 10 of Random 1's single season, and their attempts to stay sober after being brought out of destitution by Chester, Miller, and the Random 1 organization. Though Random 1 was not renewed after its season finale, Chester and Miller continued filming Mark and Normand in their hometown of Woonsocket, RI, and this new footage makes up the final third of the film.
It premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in 2007.
External links
Time Out review of Lost In Woonsocket
American documentary films
Documentary films about television
2000s English-language films
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20protection | In a telecommunication network, a ring network affords fault tolerance to the network because there are two paths between any two nodes on the network. Ring protection is the system used to assure communication continues in the event of failure of one of the paths. There are two widely used protection architectures: 1+1 protection and 1:1 protection.
1+1 protection
In one plus one (1+1) architecture, a single protection path is used to protect the signal. In this case the bridge at the head of the path is permanent. It is at the tail end where the switching occurs. In this architecture traffic is sent over two parallel routes, and the destination or the receiving end selects the better of these two signals. In case of any failure, the destination switches onto the alternative path/route. This architecture is simple for implementation and results fast restoration. Its major drawback is the wastage of bandwidth, since no traffic travels through the redundant path.
1:1 protection
In 1:1 architecture, the signal is protected by a single protection path where the bridge at the head end is not permanent. When the primary path fails it switches to the alternate path. During normal operation, no traffic or only low priority traffic is sent through the redundant path. When any failure occurs, both the source and destination switch onto the redundant or alternate path. Network utilization is better in this architecture, but it requires signaling overhead and also results in slower restoration.
See also
Optical mesh network
Further reading
Lecture paper “Computer Network” by Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
New optical-channel shared protection-ring architecture by MILORAD CVIJETIC (NEC), SHINYA NAKAMURA (NEC) & BORIS FAER, (Sprint)
Network topology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIKART | SIKART is a biographical dictionary and a database on visual art in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is published online by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIAR). Conceptually and in content, it is an expanded and continually updated online version of the SIAR's 1998 Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Art, which featured 12,000 short entries and some 1,100 detailed biographical articles.
Scope
SIKART states that it is aimed at both specialists and members of the general public with an interest in art. It covers professional artists from Switzerland and Liechtenstein "who work or have worked in the genres of painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture, video, installation, photography, performance and web art", but not artists "who worked or work exclusively in the applied arts (graphic art, design, bell foundry, gold work, ceramics, documentary photography, etc.)"
The content is written in the language the artist is most associated with: French, Italian or German. The artists are rated with one to five stars according to their significance, which determines the depth of coverage. For all artists in SIKART, the database records the name (and any variants), the dates of birth and death, a brief CV, keywords and descriptors, lexica entries, a bibliography and a link to the artist's website (if any). For artists rated with three to five stars, biographical articles of two to four pages in length are also provided, as are digital reproductions of their artworks.
Funding
SIKART is funded by the Swiss Confederation, the Swiss cantons and private donors. The website can be accessed free of charge, but at launch SIAR intended to charge for access at a later date so as to enable SIKART to operate independently of public funding.
See also
List of online encyclopedias
References
Footnotes
External links
SIKART
Swiss Institute for Art Research
Biographical dictionaries of artists
Swiss art
Art websites
Swiss online encyclopedias
Liechtenstein art
Multilingual websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT%20message%20types | SWIFT message types are the format or schema used to send messages to financial institutions on the SWIFT network. The original message types were developed by SWIFT and a subset was retrospectively made into an ISO standard, ISO 15022. In many instances, SWIFT message types between custodians follow the ISO standard. This was later supplemented by a XML based version under ISO 20022.
Composition of MT number
SWIFT messages consist of five blocks of data including three headers, message content, and a trailer. Message types are crucial to identifying content.
All SWIFT messages include the literal "MT" (message type/text). This is followed by a three-digit number that denotes the message category, group and type. Consider the following two examples.
Example 1
MT304
The first digit (3) represents the category. A category denotes messages that relate to particular financial instruments or services such as precious metals (6), treasury (3), or traveller's cheques (8). The category denoted by 3 is treasury markets
The second digit (0) represents a group of related parts in a transaction life cycle. The group indicated by 0 is a financial institution transfer.
The third digit (4) is the type that denotes the specific message. There are several hundred message types across the categories. The type represented by 4 is a notification.
A MT304 message is considered an "Advice/Instruction of a Third Party Deal" and it used to advise of or instruct the settlement of a third party foreign exchange deal. For example, an asset manager who executed a FX transaction with a broker would send a MT304 instruction to the custodian bank of the client.
Example 2
MT103
The first digit (1) represents the category. The category denoted by 1 is customer payments and cheques.
The second digit (0) represents a group of related parts in a transaction life cycle. The group indicated by 0 is a financial institution transfer.
The third digit (3) is the type that denotes the specific message. There are several hundred message types across the categories. The type represented by 3 is a notification.
A MT103 message is considered a "Single Customer Credit Transfer" and is used to instruct a funds transfer.
Overview of SWIFT MT categories
The table below shows the different categories and the message type descriptions.
ISO 15022 MT
Although ISO 15022 message types are different in their structure than the SWIFT MT, the naming convention remains the same.
See also
Delivery versus payment
ISO 9362 (standard format for SWIFT IDs)
MT202 COV
MT940
External links
Message standards supported by the SWIFT network:
Message types defined in ISO15022
References
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identi.ca | identi.ca was a free and open-source social networking and blogging service based on the pump.io software, using the Activity Streams protocol. Identi.ca stopped accepting new registrations in 2013, but continues to operate alongside several other pump.io-based hosts provided by E14N which continue to accept new registrations.
Features
Identi.ca running on pump.io is similar to social networking sites like Facebook and Google+, allowing unlimited length status updates, rich text, and images. The Activity Streams protocol supports many kinds of activities such as games. OpenFarmGame is a prototype application for an Activity Streams-based game. Hashtags, groups, and global search are not supported.
History
StatusNet
The service received more than 8,000 registrations and 19,000 updates within the first 24 hours of publicly launching on July 2, 2008, and reached its 1,000,000th notice on November 4, 2008. In January 2009, identi.ca received investment funds from venture capital group Montreal Start Up.
On March 30, 2009, Control Yourself (since renamed StatusNet Inc) announced that Identi.ca was to become part of a hosted microblogging service called status.net to be launched in May 2009. Status.net offers individual microblogs under a subdomain to be chosen by the customer. Identi.ca will remain a free service. All notices will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license by default, but paying customers will be free to choose a different license.
Formerly based on StatusNet, a micro-blogging software package built on the OStatus specification (and earlier based on the OpenMicroBlogging specification), Identi.ca allowed users to send text updates (known as "notices") up to 140 characters long. While similar to Twitter in both concept and operation, Identi.ca/StatusNet provided many features not currently implemented by Twitter, including XMPP support and personal tag clouds. In addition, Identi.ca/StatusNet allowed free export and exchange of personal and "friend" data based on the FOAF standard; therefore, notices could be fed into a Twitter account or other service, and also ported in to a private system similar to Yammer.
pump.io
Developer Evan Prodromou chose to change the site to the pump.io software platform in development, because pump.io offers more features making it technically more advanced.
Registration on Identi.ca was closed in December 2012 in preparation for the switch to pump.io software (the popularity of Identi.ca and "official" Status.net hosting were considered a hindrance to the creation of a federated social network). The conversion was completed on 12 July 2013.
The 140 character per post limit was removed (in StatusNet, it was a setting, not an inherent limitation); now the blog posts can contain formatting and images. Groups, hashtags, and page listing popular posts are not yet implemented in pump.io.
See also
Comparison of microblogging services
Footnotes
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witton%20Weavers%20Way | Witton Weavers Way is a waymarked long-distance footpath in Lancashire in England.
Length of the route
Witton Weavers Way runs for 51 km (32 mi).
The route
The route comprises a network of four circular trails and traditionally starts at Witton Country Park.
The route is designed to incorporate Weavers' cottages, Tudor period halls and country houses and in part follow Roman roads.
References
External links
The Long Distance Walkers Association info
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council comprehensive info on the walk
Long-distance footpaths in England
Footpaths in Lancashire
Transport in Blackburn with Darwen
Tourist attractions in Blackburn
Geography of Blackburn with Darwen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquafon | Aquafon is a state run telecommunications company in Abkhazia. In 2014 it had 80,000 subscriptions.
History
Aquafon was established March 6, 2003, and its network became operational on July 13 of that year. By April 2007, the number of subscriptions had reached 50,000 and, in 2008, this number had further risen to 80,000.
In summer 2008, Aquafon began to provide GPRS and video call services in test mode and officially launched its 3G network with HSDPA support on September 30.
Ownership
51% of Aquafon's shares are owned by Mondeo Holdings, an offshore company based in the British Virgin Islands. Mondeo Holdings is in turn 100% owned by Bermuda based ComTel Eastern, which also owns 31% of MegaFon and 50% of Sky Link (Russia).
Competition
Until 2006, Aquafon held a monopoly on the mobile telephone market of Abkhazia. In 2006, a second company, A-Mobile, started to provide services.
See also
Ostelecom (South Ossetia)
References
Mobile phone companies of Abkhazia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Brewster | Stephen Brewster FRSE is the Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, UK, where he runs the Multimodal Interaction Group. His main research interest is multimodal human-computer interaction, sound and haptics and gestures. Brewster received a PhD at the Human-Computer Interaction Group at the University of York. He organized the Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) several times and is the organiser for the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems alongside Geraldine Fitzpatrick. He has contributed to several scientific books.
Brewster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2017.
References
External links
Home page
British computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20W.%20Johnson | Christopher W. Johnson, FRSE, FRAeS, FBCS, is a British computer scientist and Pro Vice Chancellor for Engineering and Physical Sciences at Queen's University, Belfast. Previously he was Professor and Head of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Education and early life
Chris Johnson was born on 15 April 1965. He was educated at Verulam School, Trinity College, Cambridge (MA), and the University of York (MSc, DPhil).
Career and research
Johnson's research focuses on the resilience of safety-critical systems.
He supported the United Nations in improving the cyber security of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear facilities (CBRN).
Johnson designed the cyber incident reporting processes under Article 13a of the Framework Directive (2009/140/EC) and Article 4 of the e-Privacy directive (2002/58/EC) on behalf of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
Prior to that he helped develop European guidelines for contingency planning in aviation for EUROCONTROL and accident investigation for the European Railway Agency.
Johnson has held fellowships from NASA (Langley Research Center and Johnson Space Center) and the US Air Force. He has also supported safety and cybersecurity in the US Navy and the US Federal Aviation Administration.
Other Appointments
He was an expert witness for the Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2020–21) where he addressed the communications issues that exacerbated the evacuation of the residents.
Johnson was elected to the UK Computing Research Committee (2016-); where he is responsible for the interface with public policy.
He chairs the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team on ICT (2021-).
He is a member of the Stormont All Party Group on STEM.
He was a member of the Scottish Government's Public Sector Cyber Resilience group and helped lead the Scottish Universities Computing Science Alliance (SICSA) in cybersecurity.
Previously, Johnson chaired the scientific advisory board to the EC SESAR programme for the modernisation of Air Traffic Management.
In 2017, he helped deliver the UK Department for Transport review of Cyber Security across the UK aviation industry and was the only academic invited to present at the UN/ICAO first summit of cyber security in aviation.
Awards and honours
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and of the British Computer Society.
References
1965 births
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Computer systems researchers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20E.%20Detmer | Don E. Detmer is professor emeritus and professor of medical education at the University of Virginia.
Biography and career
Detmer chaired the 1991 study, The Computer-based Patient Record. He was a member of the committee that developed the IOM Reports, To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm. From 1999 to 2003 he was the Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at Cambridge University and is a lifetime member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge. From 2005 to 2015 he was visiting professor, Centre for Health Informatics and Multi-professional Education, University College London.
Considered to be a mover of the US National Health Information Infrastructure, Detmer has also been a consultant to the government of England and the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong. Prior to the years in England, he was vice president for health sciences at the Universities of Virginia and Utah. While at Virginia he led implementation of a physician order entry system and was principal investigator of its IAIMS grant. While at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he developed the nation’s first administrative medicine program, a master's degree program for clinician-executives. As a surgeon, he was instrumental in the adoption and development of ambulatory surgery in the early 1970s and was team physician for the Wisconsin Badgers for ten years while also serving as president of the medical staff. He won a UW–Madison Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
Detmer was appointed as president and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association in 2004 until 2009 when he became senior advisor to AMIA until 2011. He served as medical director for advocacy and health policy of the American College of Surgeons from 2011 to 2013. In 2014, he was director of advanced inter-professional informatics certification of AMIA. Currently, he serves on the boards of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, the University of Virginia Colonnade Club, and the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center.
Detmer's education includes a medical degree from the University of Kansas with subsequent training at the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, the Institute of Medicine, and Harvard Business School. His MA is from the University of Cambridge.
Detmer's research interests include national health information policy, quality improvement, administrative medicine, vascular surgery, sports medicine, and management of academic health centers. He has written and edited a number of research articles, books, book chapters, and monographs on these topics. He enjoys grandchildren, horse riding, fly-fishing, reading biographies, and various crafts.
Advisory activities
Detmer is a former trustee of the Nuffield Trust, a member of the Institute of Medicine as well as a lifetime Associate of the US National Academies, a fellow of AAAS, and the American Colleges of Medical Informatics, Sports Medicine, and Surgeons. He founded th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sixth%20Extinction%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "The Sixth Extinction" is the first episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It was first shown on the Fox network on November 7, 1999, in the United States. The episode was written by Chris Carter and directed by Kim Manners. "The Sixth Extinction" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.6, being watched by 17.82 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In the episode, Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) and Michael Kritschgau (John Finn) work desperately in an attempt to discover what is wrong with Mulder, whose abnormal brain activity has rendered him imprisoned in his own head, but they are unaware of Agent Diana Fowley’s (Mimi Rogers) duplicity. In the meanwhile, Scully is hunting for an ancient artifact in Africa.
"The Sixth Extinction" helped to explore new aspects of the series' overarching mythology and was the second episode in a trilogy of episodes featuring Mulder's severe reaction to the appearance of an alien artifact. The episode was written due to series creator Chris Carter's fascination with the possibility that extraterrestrials were involved in the great extinctions that had happened millions of years ago.
Plot
On the coast of Côte d'Ivoire, Scully sits in her tent studying detailed photographs of the spacecraft half-buried in the beach nearby. A figure, the Primitive African Man, mysteriously appears before suddenly vanishing, after which Scully's tent is swarmed by flying insects. Back in the U.S., Walter Skinner visits a delusional Fox Mulder, who is being kept in a padded cell at a Georgetown hospital. Mulder seemingly attacks Skinner, but actually covertly passes him a torn shred of his hospital gown reading, "HELP ME".
Scully is visited by Dr. Amina Ngebe, Solomon Merkmellen's former colleague, who warns her to not tell any of the locals about the swarm or the Primitive African Man, although word is already out on the "African internet". Soon afterwards, one of the locals working on excavating the ship is apparently scalded by boiling seawater. With the arrival of Dr. Barnes another "plague" occurs: that night the ocean turns blood red.
Skinner revisits a heavily drugged Mulder, who cannot talk but writes "Kritschgau". Skinner visits Michael Kritschgau, now unemployed and living in a low-cost apartment, and convinces him to visit the hospital with him. Once there, Kritschgau believes Mulder has alien-induced mind reading abilities and injects him with phenytoin to slow down his brain activity. Later, Diana Fowley and his doctor arrive, and with his mind-reading abilities, Mulder tells Skinner that he knows about him being indebted to Alex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20exchange | An ad exchange is a technology platform that facilitates the buying and selling of media advertising inventory from multiple ad networks. Prices for the inventory are determined through real-time bidding (RTB). The approach is technology-driven as opposed to the historical approach of negotiating price on media inventory. This represents a field beyond ad networks as defined by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and by advertising trade publications.
Ad exchanges
Notable ad exchanges include:
AppLovin (which recently acquired MoPub)
FreeWheel (owned by Comcast)
Google Ad Manager (also known as Google Authorized Buyers, formerly known as AdX, and now part of Google Ad Manager)
InMobi
Magnite Inc (formed by the combination of Rubicon Project, SpotX, and Telaria)
OpenX (company)
Pubmatic
Smaato
Xandr (formerly AT&T AdWorks which bought AppNexus, now owned by Microsoft)
Yahoo (formerly AOL, Brightroll, OATH and other entities rolled into the Yahoo brand)
See also
Demand-side platform
Online advertising
Supply-side platform
Header bidding
References
Online advertising |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Hungry" is the third episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on November 21, 1999. It was written by Vince Gilligan, directed by Kim Manners, and featured a guest appearance by Chad Donella. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. However, unlike previous Monster-of-the-Week stories, "Hungry" is told from the monster's perspective. "Hungry" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.6, being watched by 16.17 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, a fast-food employee with unusual cravings becomes the focus of an FBI investigation under the direction of Mulder and Scully. The victims appear with no brain and a suction hole in the forehead.
Gilligan wanted to try a "different" approach to The X-Files with "Hungry" by telling the main story through the eyes of the monster. Because both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were filming movies, Return to Me and The House of Mirth respectively, the production company decided to film "Hungry" at the start of the season, taking advantage of the episode's concept to minimize the filming time required of the two leads. Actor Chad Donella, who portrayed the monster, was chosen because he possessed a "subtle, interesting quality," according to casting director Rick Millikan. Manners was pleased with Donella's performance, calling him a "great little actor."
Plot
In Costa Mesa, California, a young man named Donald Pankow approaches the drive-thru of a Lucky Boy fast food restaurant. Despite the restaurant being closed, Pankow angrily demands service. The sheepish fast food attendant tells the man to drive to the next window, where he is attacked and violently pulled out of his car. Pankow's body is later discovered with the brain removed from the skull. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are assigned to assist the local police in their investigation.
The only clue found at the scene is a Lucky Boy employee button. Mulder and Scully check all of the employees and discover that one of the clerks, Derwood Spinks (Mark Pellegrino), is missing his button. Scully suspects Spinks after it is discovered he has a criminal record. Mulder, however, believes that the victim's brain was removed by a proboscis, and suspects another employee, Rob Roberts, of committing the murder. Rob, who is actually a mutant human who wears a disguise to hide his true physical body, subsists on brains in order to survive. When Rob's landlady, Sylvia Jassey, is trailed by a private investigator (Steve Kiziak), Rob kills him and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prep%20%26%20Landing | Prep & Landing is a computer-animated television special, based on an idea by Chris Williams at Walt Disney Animation Studios and developed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton into a half-hour Christmas special. It first aired December 8, 2009 on ABC.
The special was released online the next day, along with an original one-minute short film Tiny's BIG Adventure. A sequel, Operation: Secret Santa, aired on December 7, 2010, reprising the original cast with the addition of Betty White as Mrs. Claus. The second half-hour Christmas TV special, Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice aired on December 5, 2011, on ABC, with another holiday special being planned for the future.
Plot
Wayne, a Christmas elf, is part of an elite organization known as "Prep & Landing", whose job is to ready millions of homes around the world for Santa Claus's visit. After working with "Prep & Landing" for 227 years, Wayne looks forward to getting promoted to director of the naughty list. Instead, his former partner and trainee, Peterson, gets the promotion. Wayne is introduced to Lanny, a freshly graduated rookie, whom Wayne has to also train.
Wayne is still bitter about the promotion, and decides to slack off during a mission. He permits Lanny to do all of the work, which is disastrous. Meanwhile, Santa is informed mid-flight of a massive snow storm and that Wayne and Lanny have not fully prepared the house yet. He is told to cancel the landing, which has never happened before; they promise to make it up for Timmy, a boy living at the house. Wayne and Lanny discover that the re-routing was a final decision, but after hearing Timmy thank them in his sleep, Wayne decides to fix it. He calls up Santa, telling him that he must land at Timmy's house. Wayne and Lanny then work together to land Santa safely on Timmy's roof. On Christmas morning, Santa shows Wayne that Timmy had a merry Christmas. Santa offers a promotion to Wayne as the director of the nice list, but he turns it down so he can work with Lanny.
Cast
Dave Foley as Wayne, the main character. He worked in "Prep & Landing" for years and looked forward to being promoted to Director of Naughty List Intelligence, but he was stuck with Lanny to train as his partner. His call sign is "Little Drummer Boy".
Derek Richardson as Lanny, an overly enthusiastic "Prep & Landing" rookie, who was given by Magee to Wayne to train. He looks up to Wayne, being his biggest fan. His call sign is "Tree Skirt" and his catchphrase is "This is soo tinsel!".
Sarah Chalke as Magee, the North Pole Christmas Eve Command Center Coordinator (NPCECCC) for Santa's flight. She was promoted to her current position from Toy Design after not listening to her friend Jerry and taking the job (something she admittedly regrets). Her call sign is "Jingle Belle". She is almost never seen without a mug of eggnog or cocoa in her hand. She is seen to get very stressed under pressure. This is most evident when she faints after Santa's sleigh almost slide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Rush" is the fifth episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files, and the 144th episode overall. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 5, 1999. It was written by David Amann and directed by Robert Lieberman. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Rush" earned a Nielsen household rating of 7.9, being watched by 12.71 million viewers in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly mixed-to-negative reviews from television critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate a high school student who is the prime suspect in the bizarre murder of a police officer. They discover that the boy and a couple of friends have been playing with the ability to accelerate their movements to a frequency the human eye cannot perceive.
The idea for "Rush" had been proposed as far back as the sixth season of The X-Files. However, the original plot of the episode—the effects of having super speed—eventually delved into "deeper" themes, such as drug abuse, boredom, and the teenage experience. Although the episode relied on special effects, many of the scenes were created by manipulating the speed of the camera during filming.
Plot
In Pittsfield, Virginia, Tony Reed and two other teenagers meet in the woods late at night, but they are interrupted by a sheriff's deputy. Moments later the deputy is murdered, killed with his own flashlight. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) later examine the deputy's body: the blow that killed the man was so ferocious that his glasses were pushed through the back of his skull. They question the suspect, teenager Tony Reed, whose fingerprints were found on the flash light, but he denies any part in the murder. Mulder and Scully agree that Tony is innocent, although Mulder's theory of spirit involvement is not shared by Scully. Scully, on the other hand, suggests they question Tony's friends. Mulder and Scully visit Tony's school and speak with the two teenagers who were with Tony in the woods: the sheriff's son, Max Harden, and his girlfriend Chastity. Chastity seems concerned about Tony when Mulder and Scully tell her he may go to jail. However, Tony is later released when the murder weapon mysteriously goes missing from the evidence room. Mulder and Scully review video footage from the evidence room that shows the flashlight simply disappear. However, a blur on the video footage attracts Mulder's attention and later analysis by an expert reveals the blurred object is solid and matches the local high school's colors.
When one of the teachers at the high school who was strongly despised by Max is attacked and murdere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Goldberg%20Variation%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "The Goldberg Variation" is the sixth episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on 12 December 1999. It was written by Jeffrey Bell, directed by Thomas J. Wright, and featured guest appearances by Willie Garson and Shia LaBeouf. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "The Goldberg Variation" earned a Nielsen household rating of 8.8, being watched by 14.49 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed-to-positive reviews.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate a mysterious man named Henry Weems, who appears to be the luckiest man in the world. The title is a dual reference to Rube Goldberg machines and the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Bell's original draft of the episode opened with a man falling thirty-thousand feet from an airplane and walking away unharmed. Due to budgetary reasons, the intro was later changed to a man falling out of a building. Willie Garson—who had appeared in the third season episode "The Walk"—was cast as Henry Weems. The first cut of the episode was four minutes under-time, and so various insert shots and new scenes had to be filmed in order to compensate.
Plot
In Chicago, a man by the name of Henry Weems wins $100,000 playing poker against a mobster named Jimmy Cutrona, though Weems appears ignorant of the basic rules of poker. Suspecting that Weems cheated, Cutrona attempts to kill him by throwing him off the 29th story of the building. After Weems lands in a laundry cart in the basement, he stands up and walks away. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) initially believes the man has the ability to cure himself, but Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) thinks he may just be very lucky.
The agents track down Weems, a handyman at an apartment building. He refuses to testify against Cutrona. Weems has a fascination with Rube Goldberg machines and his apartment is filled with them. As the agents leave, one of Cutrona's enforcers arrives to kill Weems, but dies in an improbable cascade of events. The two agents rush back up stairs and find Weems unscathed. Mulder notes that Weems was the sole survivor of a commuter jet crash that killed 20 people in December 1989.
Weems buys a lottery ticket and wins $100,000, but throws the ticket away when he learns that it would take 12 months to get the money. A man retrieves the ticket and after ignoring Weems' warning that "something bad will happen", is hit by a truck. Later, as Mulder questions Weems again, another one of Cutrona's enforcers tries to kill him, only for his bullet to ricochet off Weems' pocket knife, barely graze Mulder's arm, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orison%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Orison" is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on January 9, 2000. It was written by Chip Johannessen, directed by Rob Bowman, and featured guest appearances by Nick Chinlund and Scott Wilson. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. In addition, "Orison" serves as a sequel, and brings closure, to the second season episode "Irresistible", with Chinlund reprising his role as Donnie Pfaster. "Orison" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.4, being watched by 15.63 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed reviews from critics, with some criticizing the final scene featuring Scully killing Pfaster, calling it a betrayal of characterization.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Reverend Orison releases Donnie Pfaster, Scully's former kidnapper, from jail in the hopes of passing judgment on him. What he discovers instead is that he has released pure evil, and it’s headed for Scully.
"Orison" was written by Johannessen, who had formerly been an executive producer on the television series Millennium. Johannessen's first draft featured an escaped prisoner who could stop time. Executive producers Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, and John Shiban enjoyed the premise and decided to bring back Donnie Pfaster.
Plot
At a prison in Marion, Illinois, an inmate loses his fingers in a workshop accident. Time seems to slow down as another inmate, Donnie Pfaster (Nick Chinlund)a "death fetishist" and serial killer who kidnapped Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) five years earlierwalks out of the room and leaves the prison. Hearing about the escape, Scully and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) investigate. They learn that three men escaped from three prisons, all of whom had contact with a prison chaplain named Reverend Orison (Scott Wilson). Eventually, the US Marshals corner Pfaster and Orison at a diner, but Orison uses his power of persuasion to distract the Marshals, allowing the two to escape. Pfaster takes Orison's car and runs him over. Meanwhile, Scully keeps hearing the Dennis Edwards song "Don't Look Any Further" everywhere she goes, soon believing it is a sign. The agents find and question Orison, who is himself an ex-convict and claims that he is doing the work of God.
After a medical exam, Mulder finds out that Orison has three times the bloodflow capacity of the brain due to a hole he has drilled into his own head, allowing him to perform mental tricks by hypnotizing people. Orison hypnotizes the security guard in his room and easily escapes. Meanwhile, at Orison's apartment, a prostitute escapes when Pfaster attacks her for wearing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Geographic%20%28Australian%20and%20New%20Zealand%20TV%20channel%29 | National Geographic Oceania was a subscription television documentary network in Oceania that featured programmes on subjects such as nature, science, culture and history, plus some reality television and pseudo-scientific entertainment programming. It was the Oceanian version of the National Geographic Channel Asia Pacific. From 2020 to 2023, it was the only Disney-owned network in Oceania (alongside Nat Geo Wild, ESPN and Baby TV) and to broadcast as a linear television channel, with the Disney Channel and Disney Junior having been shut down in favour of the streaming service Disney+.
Overview
Many of the network's documentaries are produced by the National Geographic Society. It features some programming similar to that on the Discovery Channel and History, such as nature and science documentaries. The channel is available through Foxtel, Optus (through Foxtel), and Fetch TV in Australia, and on Sky and Vodafone TV (through Sky) in New Zealand. Its advertising sales are handled by Multi Channel Network.
It had two sister channels: Nat Geo Wild and Nat Geo People.
History
National Geographic Channel HD was launched as a high-definition simulcast of the channel on 22 June 2008. On 14 November 2016, the word "Channel" was dropped from its name and branding, at the same time as other network channels around the world.
National Geographic, alongside Nat Geo Wild, were both removed from Foxtel on 1 March 2023 and permanently ceased broadcasting on 1 April 2023 in Australia and New Zealand, after leaving Fetch TV and Sky.
Programmes
Original Programming
Aussie Firework Kings
Aussie Recipes That Rock
Aussie Icons with H.G. Nelson
Australia: Life on the Edge
Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide
Australia’s Desert War
Australia's Hardest Prison
Tales by Light
Acquired programming
Australia's hardest Prison: Lockdown Oz
World's Hardest Prison: Banged Up Abroad
Air Crash Investigation
Crystal Skull
Be The Creature
Big Bang
Brain Games
Built for the Kill
End Day
Escape Tech
Explorations Powered by Duracell
Explorer
Gospel of Judas
Hollywood Science
Hunter Hunted
I Didn't Know That
Interpol Investigates
Is It Real?
Living Wild
Megacities
Megafactories
MegaStructures
Mysteries of the Deep
Naked Science
No Borders
Perfect Weapon
Planet Football
Planet Mechanics
Predators at War
Rough Trades
Science of the Bible
Seconds From Disaster
StarTalk
Storm Stories
Strange Days on Planet Earth
Taboo
The Dog Whisperer
The Living Edens
Thrill Zone
Thunder Beasts
Totally Wild
Trading Faces
Ultimate Airport Dubai
What Would Happen If...?
World of Wildlife
Notes
References
External links
Australia and New Zealand
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023
Defunct television channels in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
1997 establishments in Australia
2023 disestablishments in Australia
Defunct television channels in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrksat%202A | Türksat 2A, a.k.a. Eurasiasat 1, was a Turkish communications satellite as part of a project to form an instant network with two geosynchronous satellites that is supervised by the companies Türksat A.Ş. in Turkey and Eurasiasat SAM in Monaco.
Türksat 2A was launched by Arianespace atop an Ariane-44P H10-3 launch vehicle on January 10, 2001, at 21:39 UTC from ELA-2 at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The spacecraft was successfully placed into geostationary transfer orbit and then shifted to 42°E position, co-locating with Türksat 1C, which was launched in 1996. Its broadcast traffic entered service on February 1, 2001.
Turksat 2A was designed for covering Europe, Turkey on west spot and Turkey and Central Asia including Middle East and Russia on east spot so as to serve simultaneously within that region, and to provide direct connection between Europe and Central Asia. It is based on the Alcatel Spacebus 3000B3 series having an on-orbit mass of with 9,200 W power. The communications payload consists of 36 Ku band transponders consisting of 22 pieces of 33 MHz fixed beam transponders and 10 transponders of 36 MHz bandwidth with two additional steerable beams.
See also
Türksat (satellite)
References
Communications satellites of Turkey
Spacecraft launched in 2001
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Turksat 2A
Derelict satellites orbiting Earth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAS | IDEAS may stand for:
I-DEAS (Integrated Design and Engineering Analysis Software), a computer-aided design software package
IDEAS For Us, American environmental organization
IDEAS Group, International Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification For Exchange group, developers of the IDEAS ontological foundation
IDEAS UAV, a Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, a Malaysian libertarian think tank
International Defence Exhibition and Seminar, a defence sector event, held biennially, in Pakistan
IDEAS, a database maintained by the Research Papers in Economics project
See also
Idea (disambiguation)
Ideas (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20Maleeni | "The Amazing Maleeni" is the eighth episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on January 16, 2000. It was written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz and directed by Thomas J. Wright. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "The Amazing Maleeni" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.4, being watched by 16.18 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed reviews.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, The Amazing Maleeni, a small-time magician, performs an amazing feat to impress a heckler—he turns his head 360 degrees. So when he is later found without a head at all, Mulder and Scully arrive on the case and discover an angry ex-con, an unimpressed rival, and Maleeni’s twin brother. All seem to have something to do with a plan to rob a major bank.
Although written by Gilligan, Shiban, and Spotnitz, the story for "The Amazing Maleeni" was conceived largely by executive producer Frank Spotnitz, who had wanted to do an episode dealing with "magic and illusion" since the show's second season. Real-life magician Ricky Jay, who also was Spotnitz's favorite, was brought in to play the part of the titular Maleeni.
Plot
At the Santa Monica Pier, a magician, The Amazing Maleeni, twists his head completely around at a carnival, while Billy LaBonge, another magician, heckles Maleeni during the event. As he is leaving, his severed head falls completely off. Billy LaBonge is later questioned by Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson); he tells the agents that he thought Maleeni was a ripoff. During the autopsy, Scully finds that, although Maleeni's head was cleanly cut off, he died of a heart attack. She also finds that he was dead for at least a month and refrigerated, even though the carnival manager spoke to him mere moments leading up to his head falling off.
Meanwhile, LaBonge finds a man named Cissy Alvarez, to whom Maleeni owed money. LaBonge admits that he caused Maleeni's head to fall off, and says that he will give Alvarez the money he is owed if he helps him with his magic. Mulder and Scully learn that Maleeni has an identical twin brother, Albert Pinchbeck. Albert is even wearing a neckbrace, which he says he got in a car accident in Mexico. Mulder tells him he thinks he did the magic act, but the man shows that he has no legs, which he also lost in Mexico in the car accident. Back at work, Alvarez threatens Pinchbeck that he will kill him if he does not get his money. LaBonge then frames Alvarez for a robbery by attacking a security truck disguised as Alvarez. Mulder soon finds out that Pinchbeck is th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20world%20news%20channels | This is a list of international news channels, categorised by continent.
International news Channel networks with channels in several languages
Other news channels aimed specifically at international audience
Georgia: PIK was a Caucasus-focused news channel broadcasting in Russian in 2010-2012.
Japan: NHK World-Japan (English).
South Korea: Arirang (English).
Singapore: CNA is a 24-hour Singaporean multinational English-language news channel owned by the country's national public broadcaster Mediacorp. CNA covers global developments with an Asian perspective.
Taiwan: TaiwanPlus (stylized as Taiwan+) is a state-owned free English-language streaming service and international television channel based in Taiwan.
Philippines: ANC is a 24-hour Philippine-based English-language cable channel owned by ABS-CBN, the largest media conglomerate in the country aimed at businessmen and Filipinos working abroad.
Saudi Arabia: Al Arabiya is a Saudi-owned UAE-based pan-Arab television news channel.
Ukraine: Jewish News One (2011-2014) was a privately owned Ukrainian news channel aimed at international Jewish audience, broadcasting in English and Russian. After the start of the war in Donbas the channel was rebranded as Ukraine Today with exclusively English programming. It ceased operations in 2017. Government-managed UATV started test broadcasts in October 2015; as of 2017 it produced news bulletins in English, Arabic, Russian, Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian. Non-profit Hromadske.TV runs its English programs as Hromadske International.
US: Voice of America offers TV programming in numerous languages available online and aired as blocks by foreign networks. CurrentTime TV is a joint effort by VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to produce a 24/7 TV service in Russian. Alhurra is an Arabic-language state-funded satellite TV news channel. TV Martí is another American governmental TV service, broadcasting for Cuba in Spanish. Bloomberg Television is a privately owned international business news channel. Its Indonesian version Bloomberg TV Indonesia was functioning in 2013-2015.
Pan-African: Africa 24, Presse Africaine, Africable (French), A24 news channel, Arise News, Africa Independent Television, TVC News (English).
Portugal: RTP África is a pay television channel aimed at the Portuguese-speaking African countries, owned by the public broadcasting organisation of Portugal (RTP).
RTVI is a channel oriented at Russian-speaking audiences worldwide, but unavailable in Russia.
NTDTV is an international channel affiliated with Falun Gong new religious movement.
Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by the Essel Group.
News/generalist channels aimed at citizens and relevant language audiences abroad
Most of these are spin-offs of domestic channels, rearranged and refurbished for international broadcasting. All in respective national languages.
By annual budget
See also
List of news television channels
References
International |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlords%20II | Warlords II is computer wargame released in 1993, and the second release in the Warlords video game series.
An expansion pack, Warlords II Scenario Builder, was released in 1994. The updated version of the game, Warlords II Deluxe, was released in 1995. It allowed for custom tile, army and city sets for maps and provided support for 256 colours. Thanks to the publication of the editor, Warlords II Deluxe led to an increase of user-created content. Many new maps, army and terrain sets, and scenarios were distributed on the Internet for the game.
Gameplay
Warlords II included five maps, although the later released mission pack increased the number. Another new feature was 'fog of war': optionally, enemy units or even the map could be concealed from players without units close enough to see them. The interface of the game was improved, as were the graphics (with additional unique city graphics for each different player). Moreover, the game featured multiple army, city, and terrain sets (still in 16 colours), play by e-mail as well as hot seat, and a random map generator and map editor.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in November 1993 stated that other than the lack of a better victory screen, "every other aspect of Warlord II is worthy of respect and admiration", praising the AI as "one of the finest on the market". The magazine in July 1994 stated that Scenario Builder "succeeds even though it lets you look behind the curtain of one of the most engaging game systems on the market". Rating the scenario editor four stars out of five, the magazine in August liked half of the 24 premade scenarios and concluded that it was "a terrific way to dabble in world creation".
Warlords II was a runner-up for Computer Gaming Worlds Wargame of the Year award in June 1994, losing to Clash of Steel. The editors wrote that the game "takes the award-winning game system and enhances it with more and randomly generated maps, and more diversity in unit types. The AI presses SSG's approach to a new high in versatility and competitiveness". However, it was named the best wargame of 1993 by Computer Games Strategy Plus.
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Warlords II the 77th-best computer game ever released.
Reviews
PC Games (Germany) – September 1993
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) – October 1993
PC Player (Germany) – August 1993
Computer Gaming World – November 1993
References
External links
Warlords II at MobyGames
Warlords II at Internet Archive
Warlords II :: Summary — Summary table
1993 video games
Classic Mac OS games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Multiplayer hotseat games
Strategic Studies Group games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in Australia
Video games with expansion packs
Warlords (video game series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlords%20III | Warlords III: Reign of Heroes is a computer wargame released in 1997, and the third release in the Warlords video game series. In 1998 it was followed by the expansion Warlords III: Darklords Rising.
Warlords III was a critical success but failed commercially, a performance that some commentators attributed to the rise of the real-time strategy genre.
Gameplay
After a four-year hiatus, SSG developed Warlords III: Reign of Heroes.
The game was released for Microsoft Windows and used new system capabilities to dramatically improve graphics:
animated armies' movements
skinnable user interface
several landscape options
more advanced city graphics
The heroes acquired the ability to cast spells to receive the temporary benefit. Each spell has its price expressed in mana points, which became the second (after gold) resource in game.
The campaign system also became more advanced: the heroes from the previous game of the campaign followed the user to the new game, keeping their experience and items.
Another new feature of the Reign of Heroes is the flexible races concept: every player had a number of pre-defined units he was able to produce, and an additional number of units that could join him. This allowed for more consistent storyline in the campaigns and made players' advancement more challenging, as the natural production of the further cities normally wasn't matching the player's race.
Unlike the previous versions Reign of Heroes provided several hero classes. Each class has its own upgrade paths and costs of upgrade options. The upgrade options themselves became user-selectable, giving the player more control over the heroes' development.
The city levels in Reign of Heroes became more important, as in battles it equaled to city bonus. The players received ability to promote cities to next level for a fixed amount of gold.
The units received hit points, making more powerful units the harder targets for the weaker, and bringing more diversity to the army sets. The increased number of army bonuses led to more complicated battle outcome calculation. Furthermore, several army bonuses allowed respected armies to kill the more powerful enemies from the first attack, which made the battle outcome yet less predictable.
The concept of diplomacy was further refined by adding new state of diplomatic relations: Treaty. This state allowed players trespassing each other's cities and winning the Allied victory exterminating all other parties. Another diplomacy-related feature introduced in Reign of Heroes was the ability to bribe enemies, thus influencing their diplomatic decisions. The amount of bribe was fine-tunable; the more substantial bribe was, the greater chances of needed decision were.
In addition to the previously available multiplayer modes (hotseat and play by email) the Reign of Heroes introduced the ability to play over network.
The game CD included the soundtrack in CD-DA format.
Development
Warlords III was announced in August 199 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WesTrac | WesTrac is a Caterpillar dealer. It was owned by Australian Capital Equity, which in turn was owned by Kerry Stokes. In 2010 it and Seven Network Limited merged to form Seven Group Holdings.
Headquarters
WesTrac is based in South Guildford, Western Australia, and is the Caterpillar dealer for Western Australia, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory . Until 1989, the Caterpillar dealership in Western Australia was known as Wigmores, which was also bought by Australian Capital Equity in 1988 and renamed as WesTrac.
A new New South Wales Operational Headquarters in Tomago was opened in 2012.
Business
It supplies Caterpillar mining trucks to BHP, Rio Tinto and other numerous mining companies, as well as Caterpillar engines for power generation and marine transport.
History
Caterpillar began operating in Western Australia in 1925 with a dealership being opened at the South Guildford premises in 1950. Known as Wigmores the dealership was renamed as Morgans in 1989 and then WesTrac in 1990.
The company had over 3,000 employees in 2009 and was the biggest employer of apprentices outside of government.
Since 2000, WesTrac has opened dealerships across China, and is one of the largest suppliers of Caterpillar products in the world.
In 2006, WesTrac closed its agricultural dealerships in Australia, resulting from a decision by Caterpillar to cease production of agricultural equipment. Customers of Westrac were concerned that their warranties would not be honoured.
On 22 February 2010, it was announced that WesTrac would merge with Seven West Media to form Seven Network Limited, which is 70% owned by Kerry Stokes.
On 30 August 2012, WesTrac officially opened its $170m branch at Tomago (NSW), which is known as the Newcastle branch. This branch is the headquarters for WesTrac NSW.
In mid-2018, WesTrac opened a new 24,000sqm branch at the Crossroads Logistics Centre located in Casula, Sydney (NSW). This branch services Sydney customers and replaced their old branch at Holroyd. The Casula branch began operations on 16 July 2018. It has a 1,500sqm warehouse with a cutting-edge automated inventory system and a drive-through bay for easy parts pick-up.
References
External links
Companies based in Perth, Western Australia
Caterpillar Inc.
Seven Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTZN | WTZN (1310 AM) is an oldies radio station in Troy, Pennsylvania, United States.
FM Translator
In addition to the main station on 1310 kHz, WTZN programming is also relayed to an FM translator in order to widen its broadcast area and to provide the listener with choice of FM with high fidelity sound. The translator is owned by Cantroair Communications, Inc.
External links
TZN
Radio stations established in 1959 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsyslog | Rsyslog is an open-source software utility used on UNIX and Unix-like computer systems for forwarding log messages in an IP network. It implements the basic syslog protocol, extends it with content-based filtering, rich filtering capabilities, queued operations to handle offline outputs,
support for different module outputs, flexible configuration options and adds features such as using TCP for transport.
The official RSYSLOG website defines the utility as "the rocket-fast system for log processing".
Protocol
Rsyslog uses the standard BSD syslog protocol, specified in RFC 3164. As the text of RFC 3164 is an informational description and not a standard, various incompatible extensions of it emerged. Rsyslog supports many of these extensions. The format of relayed messages can be customized.
The most important extensions of the original protocol supported by rsyslog are:
ISO 8601 timestamp with millisecond granularity and time zone information
the addition of the name of relays in the host fields to make it possible to track the path a given message has traversed
reliable transport using TCP
support GSS-API and TLS
logging directly into various database engines.
support for RFC 5424, RFC 5425, RFC 5426
support for RELP
support for buffered operation modes where messages are buffered locally if the receiver is not ready
complete input/output support for systemd journal
History
The rsyslog project began in 2004, when Rainer Gerhards, the primary author of rsyslog, decided to write a new strong syslog daemon to compete with syslog-ng, because, according to the author, "A new major player will prevent monocultures and provide a rich freedom of choice."
Rainer Gerhards worked on rsyslog inside his own company, Adiscon GmbH.
Related RFCs and working groups
RFC 3164 - The BSD syslog Protocol (obsoleted by RFC 5424)
RFC 5424 - The Syslog Protocol (obsoletes RFC 3164)
RFC 5425 - Transport Layer Security Mapping for Syslog
RFC 5426 - Transmission of Syslog Messages over UDP
See also
NXLog
fluentd
logstash
journald – incorporates syslog-like functionality
syslog-ng
References
External links
Internet protocols
Internet Standards
System administration
Network management
Free network-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen%20up%20to%20Data | Carmen up to Data is a musical burlesque with a score written by Meyer Lutz. Set in Seville, the piece was a spoof of Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen. The libretto was written by G. R. Sims and Henry Pettitt.
After a tryout in Liverpool in September 1890, the piece premiered at the Gaiety Theatre, London, on 4 October 1890, produced by George Edwardes. It starred Florence St. John in the title role, Letty Lind as Mercedes, Jenny Dawson as Escamillo, Maria Jones as Michaela, Blanche Massey as Morales, Horace Mills as Remendado, E. J. Lonnen as José and Arthur Williams as Captain Zuniga.
The piece was a success and toured throughout the English-speaking world, reaching Australia by 1892.
Background
Bizet's Carmen had first been produced in English in London in 1878 at Her Majesty's Theatre, starring Selina Dolaro and Durward Lely. An earlier burlesque of Carmen, called Carmen: or, Sold for a Song, by Robert Reece, had also been produced at the Folly Theatre in 1879, and several other burlesques followed. Burlesque of opera or classical works was popular in Britain from the 1860s to the 1880s. Other examples at the Gaiety include The Bohemian G-yurl and the Unapproachable Pole (1877), Blue Beard (1882), Ariel (1883, by F. C. Burnand), Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed (1883), Little Jack Sheppard (1885), Monte Cristo Jr. (1886), Miss Esmeralda (1887), Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim (1887), Mazeppa, Faust up to Date (1888), Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué (1888), Cinder Ellen up too Late (1891), and Don Juan (1892, with lyrics by Adrian Ross).
John Hollingshead managed the Gaiety Theatre from 1868 to 1886 as a venue for variety, continental operetta, light comedy, and numerous musical burlesques composed or arranged by the theatre's music director, Wilhelm Meyer Lutz. Hollingshead called himself a "licensed dealer in legs, short skirts, French adaptations, Shakespeare, taste and musical glasses." In 1886, Hollingshead ceded the management of the theatre to George Edwardes, whom he had hired in 1885. Edwardes expanded the burlesque format from one act to full-length pieces with original music by Lutz, instead of scores compiled from popular tunes, and choreography by the theatre's dance-master, John D'Auban. Nellie Farren, as the theatre's "principal boy," and Fred Leslie starred at the Gaiety for over 20 years. Leslie wrote many of its pieces under his pseudonym, "A. C. Torr". In the early 1890s, as Burlesque went out of fashion, Edwardes changed the focus of the theatre from musical burlesque to the new genre of Edwardian musical comedy.
Critical reception
In the December 1890 issue of Punch magazine, the reviewer wrote, "In calling their burlesque Carmen up to Data possibly the two dear clever boys who wrote it intended some crypto-jocosity of which the hidden meaning is known only to the initiated in these sublime mysteries. Why 'Data'? On the other hand, 'Why not?' However attractive or not as a heading in a bill of the play, the Gaiety Carm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20to%20Choose%20Network | Free to Choose Network, sometimes referred to as Free to Choose Media, is a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation headquartered in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Free to Choose Network has three main initiatives:
Free to Choose Media, which produces television programs and videos making classical liberal economic and political ideas accessible to a popular audience
izzit.org, which produces media for K–12 audience, sometimes adapting public television broadcasts for public school use
The Idea Channel – specializing in video recording of conversations between scholars, including numerous Nobel Prize winners
Free to Choose Network was founded by Bob Chitester. At the time of Free to Choose Network's founding, Chitester was the general manager of two public broadcasters in Erie, Pennsylvania: the PBS channel WQLN-TV and the NPR station WQLN-FM.
History
The origins of the foundation lay in PBS's broadcast of The Age of Uncertainty (1975), a 13-part BBC series produced by Canadian-American liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith. The chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was a classical liberal economist, W. Allen Wallis, who had met Chitester in 1975 when he participated in a symposium on "Technology and Society" arranged by Chitester in Erie and learned that Chitester shared his classical liberal economic views. They both believed that PBS should produce a classical liberal response to The Age of Uncertainty. Wallis therefore introduced Chitester to his friend Milton Friedman in early 1977 (shortly after Friedman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences). As a result, Chitester raised the necessary funding and executive produced a 10-part PBS series entitled Free to Choose, which first aired in early 1980. Friedman also co-authored a book with his wife Rose Friedman based on the television series, also called Free to Choose. The book spent 5 weeks at the top of the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers List in 1980.
It was in the context of producing the series that Chitester first organized Amagin, Inc., which ultimately became Free to Choose Network. Under the trademark Free to Choose Media it continues to produce media describing classical liberal economic ideas to a mass audience. Beginning in 1999, the network was licensed by ABC News to distribute John Stossel TV specials under the brand "Stossel in the Classroom". The license was cancelled in 2004.
Current projects
The organization has produced a number of programs for public TV including: a biography of Milton Friedman, entitled The Power of Choice – The Ultimate Resource (named after the 1981 book The Ultimate Resource by Julian Lincoln Simon) – Turmoil and Triumph a biography of George Shultz – The Power of the Poor, hosted by Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto – India Awakes, hosted by Swedish scholar Johan Norberg – The Real Adam Smith, hosted by Johan Norberg, "A More Or Less Perfect Union" hosted by United States district court judge, Douglas H. Ginsburg, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNT | GNT is a Brazilian pay television channel. Originally launched as GNT: Globosat News Television, a news and information network. With the launch of GloboNews, in 1996, the GNT acronym became meaningless, and the channel was focused on documentaries and talk shows. In 2003, the channel was once again repositioned, with increased female-oriented programming, such as successful talk show Saia Justa. However, some original GNT programs remain, such as Manhattan Connection, currently the longest-running original program on Brazilian subscription television, though that program moved to GloboNews in January 2011.
Programming
Original programming
Pirei com Betty Lago
Decora
Diário de uma Vegana
Alternativa: Saúde
Chagadas e Partidas
Base Aliada
Vamos Combinar
Diário do Olivier
Food Truck - A Batalha
GNT Fashion
Duas Histéricas
Descontroladas
Marília Gabriela Entrevista
Que Marravilha!
Perdas e Ganhos
Saia Justa
Mãe & Cia.
Conversa de Salão
Detox do Amor
Superbonita
Pirei
Santa Ajuda
Por Um Fio
Nos Trinques
No Astral
Dilemas de Irene
Acquired programming
Original
Acquired
Sports Events
Soccer
Tennis
Basketball
Slogans
(2003-2006) - "Você vive este canal". (You live this channel.)
(2006-2010) - "Você vê a diferença". (You see the difference.)
(2010-2011) - "É pra você". (It's for you.)
(2011-2015) - "Com você". (With you.)
(2015–present) - "Para todos os gostos, um único GNT." (For every taste, only one GNT.) / "Para todos os estilos, um único GNT." (For every style, only one GNT.) / "Para todas as emoções, um único GNT." (For every mood, only one GNT.) / "Para todos os momentos, um único GNT." (For every moment, only one GNT.)
References
External links
GNT official website
Television networks in Brazil
Television stations in Brazil
Canais Globo
Portuguese-language television networks
Companies based in Rio de Janeiro (state)
Television channels and stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postscript%20%28disambiguation%29 | A postscript is most often a sentence or paragraph added after the signature of a letter.
This may also refer to:
PostScript, a page description and programming language for electronic publishing
PostScript Magazine, a British student magazine
"Postscript", a song by Pet Shop Boys from the 1993 album Very
"Post Script", a song by Finch from their debut album, What It Is to Burn
P.S. (film), 2004 English film
See also
Postscripts, a British magazine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20Said%2C%20She%20Said%20%28TV%20series%29 | He Said, She Said is a Canadian cooking television show featuring popular Canadian personalities Ken Kostick and Mary Jo Eustace. The show debuted on July 2, 2008 on W Network and currently airs Monday to Friday at 3:30AM, 11:30AM and 1:30PM ET on VIVA. It is produced by Up Front Entertainment and filmed in Toronto, Ontario.
Premise
The premise of the show is that each host cooks a different style dish featuring one common ingredient called the "star ingredient". Along with the main dish, a second dish is also prepared called the "High 5", a side dish that contains only five ingredients.
What's For Dinner?
An earlier cooking show called What's for Dinner? - at the time the highest rated show on its network, also featured the quick-witted, bantering Kostick and Eustace. The earlier show aired for several years in the mid to late '90s.
External links
Official website
2008 Canadian television series debuts
2000s Canadian cooking television series
W Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneFS%20distributed%20file%20system | The OneFS File System is a parallel distributed networked file system designed by Isilon Systems and is the basis for the Isilon Scale-out Storage Platform. The OneFS file system is controlled and managed by the OneFS Operating System, a FreeBSD variant.
On-disk Structure
All data structures in the OneFS file system maintain their own protection information. This means in the same filesystem, one file may be protected at +1 (basic parity protection) while another may be protected at +4 (resilient to four failures) while yet another file may be protected at 2x (mirroring); this feature is referred to as FlexProtect. FlexProtect is also responsible for automatically rebuilding the data in the event of a failure. The protection levels available are based on the number of nodes in the cluster and follow the Reed Solomon Algorithm. Blocks for an individual file are spread across the nodes. This allows entire nodes to fail without losing access to any data. File metadata, directories, snapshot structures, quotas structures, and a logical inode mapping structure are all based on mirrored B+ trees. Block addresses are generalized 64-bit pointers that reference (node, drive, blknum) tuples. The native block size is 8192 bytes; inodes are 512 bytes on disk (for disks with 512 byte sectors) or 8KB (for disks with 4KB sectors).
One distinctive characteristic of OneFS is that metadata is spread throughout the nodes in a homogeneous fashion. There are no dedicated metadata servers. The only piece of metadata that is replicated on every node is the address list of root btree blocks of the inode mapping structure. Everything else can be found from that starting point, following the generalized 64-bit pointers.
Clustering
The collection of computer hosts that comprise a OneFS System is referred to as a "cluster".
A computer host that is a member of a OneFS cluster is referred to as a "node" (plural "nodes").
The nodes that comprise a OneFS System must be connected by a high performance, low-latency back-end network for optimal performance. OneFS 1.0-3.0 used Gigabit Ethernet as that back-end network. Starting with OneFS 3.5, Isilon offered InfiniBand models. From about 2007 until mid-2018, all nodes sold utilized an InfiniBand back-end. Starting with OneFS 8.1.0 and Gen6 models, Isilon again offers Ethernet back-end network (10, 25, 40, or 100 Gigabit).
Data, metadata, locking, transaction, group management, allocation, and event traffic are communicated using an RPC mechanism traveling over the back-end network of the OneFS cluster. All data and metadata transfers are zero-copy. All modification operations to on-disk structures are transactional and journaled.
Protocols
OneFS supports accessing stored files using common computer network protocols including NFS, CIFS/SMB, FTP, HTTP, and HDFS. It can utilize non-local authentication such as Active Directory, LDAP, and NIS. It is capable of interfacing with external backup devices and applications tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah%20Jamieson | Leah H. Jamieson (born August 27, 1949, in Trenton, NJ, USA) is an American engineering educator, currently the Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Jamieson was a founder of the Engineering Projects in Community Service program (EPICS), a multi-university engineering design program that operates in a service-learning context. She is a recipient of the Gordon Prize. From 2006-2017, she served as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering at Purdue.
Jamieson was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for innovations in integrating engineering education and community service. She served as the 2007 President and CEO of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Biography
Jamieson was born in 1949 and grew up in New Jersey, USA. She received the B.S. degree in mathematics in 1972 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received M.A. and M.S.E. degrees in 1974 and a Ph.D. in 1977, all three from Princeton University.
Jamieson has worked as Professor of Engineering at Purdue University since 1976. Her research interests include speech analysis and recognition; the design and analysis of parallel processing algorithms; and the application of parallel processing to the areas of digital speech, image, and signal processing. She has authored over 200 journal and conference papers in these areas and has co-edited books on algorithmically specialized parallel computers (Academic Press, 1985) and the characteristics of parallel algorithms (MIT Press, 1987). She served Purdue as Director of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering (1990–94), Director of Graduate Admissions (1994–96), Interim Head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2002), and Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education (2004–06). She is currently the Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and holds a courtesy appointment in Purdue's School of Engineering Education. From 2006-2017, she served as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering at Purdue.
Engineering Projects in Community Service
In Fall 1995 Jamieson and her Purdue colleague Edward J. Coyle founded Engineering Projects in Community Service, an academic engineering design program that operates in a service-learning context.
The program, which was initially offered only at Purdue, is available at present in 18 universities. It offers students from multiple disciplines with the opportunity to be part of engineering project design teams that work with nonprofit community organizations. The teams provide technological solutions to challenges faced by the community organizations and their target audiences. Examples of EPICS projects include the Spanish In Action Project at Butler University, which provides students with a web-based computer game that helps them learn Spanish vocabulary; and the Sensor Network Air Pollut |
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