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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt%E2%80%93Szymanski%20algorithm | In computer science, the Hunt–Szymanski algorithm, also known as Hunt–McIlroy algorithm, is a solution to the longest common subsequence problem. It was one of the first non-heuristic algorithms used in diff which compares a pair of files each represented as a sequence of lines. To this day, variations of this algorithm are found in incremental version control systems, wiki engines, and molecular phylogenetics research software.
The worst-case complexity for this algorithm is , but in practice is rather expected.
History
The algorithm was proposed by Harold S. Stone as a generalization of a special case solved by Thomas G. Szymanski. James W. Hunt refined the idea, implemented the first version of the candidate-listing algorithm used by diff and embedded it into an older framework of Douglas McIlroy.
The description of the algorithm appeared as a technical report by Hunt and McIlroy in 1976. The following year, a variant of the algorithm was finally published in a joint paper by Hunt and Szymanski.
Algorithm
The Hunt–Szymanski algorithm is a modification to a basic solution for the longest common subsequence problem which has complexity . The solution is modified so that there are lower time and space requirements for the algorithm when it is working with typical inputs.
Basic longest common subsequence solution
Algorithm
Let be the th element of the first sequence.
Let be the th element of the second sequence.
Let be the length of the longest common subsequence for the first elements of and the first elements .
Example
Consider the sequences and .
contains three elements:
contains three elements:
The steps that the above algorithm would perform to determine the length of the longest common subsequence for both sequences are shown in the diagram. The algorithm correctly reports that the longest common subsequence of the two sequences is two elements long.
Complexity
The above algorithm has worst-case time and space complexities of (see big O notation), where is the number of elements in sequence and is the number of elements in sequence . The Hunt–Szymanski algorithm modifies this algorithm to have a worst-case time complexity of and space complexity of , though it regularly beats the worst case with typical inputs.
Essential matches
-candidates
The Hunt–Szymanski algorithm only considers what the authors call essential matches, or -candidates. -candidates are pairs of indices such that:
The second point implies two properties of -candidates:
There is a common subsequence of length in the first elements of sequence and the first elements of sequence .
There are no common subsequences of length for any fewer than elements of sequence or elements of sequence .
Connecting -candidates
To create the longest common subsequence from a collection of -candidates, a grid with each sequence's contents on each axis is created. The -candidates are marked on the grid. A common subsequence can be created by joining |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGAL | KGAL (1580 AM, "NewsTalk 1580") is a U.S. radio station licensed to serve Lebanon, Oregon. The station, which began broadcasting in 1995, is owned by the Eads Broadcasting Corporation.
Programming
KGAL broadcasts a news/talk/sports radio format featuring a mix of local and syndicated programs including sports talk, conservative talk, local news, and live sporting events.
Talk shows
Local weekday programs include Morning Update with Weldon Greig and Jeff McMahon, Valley Talk hosted by Jeff McMahon and Hasso Hering. Weekday syndicated programming includes Midnight Trucking Radio Network, Bill Bennett in the Morning with William Bennett, America in the Morning with Jim Bohannon, plus talk shows hosted by Dennis Prager, commentator and film critic Michael Medved, conservative author Hugh Hewitt, Radio Hall of Fame member Jim Bohannon, plus the Midnight Radio Network.
Sports
In addition to its regularly scheduled talk programming, KGAL airs Seattle Seahawks NFL Football, Lebanon High School varsity sporting events and University of Oregon Ducks football games.
A Moment in Oregon History
Throughout 2009, KGAL and sister station KSHO aired a series of one-minute historical vignettes as part of Oregon's sesquicentennial celebration. The program, titled A Moment in Oregon History, highlights notable Oregon residents and key historical events. Each of the 240 vignettes was written by author Rick Steber.
History
The Eads Broadcasting Corporation received the original construction permit for this station from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 27, 1994. The new station was assigned the call letters KGAL by the FCC on January 23, 1995. KGAL received its license to cover from the FCC on November 20, 1995.
KGAL was one of two radio stations in 1997 broadcasting the games of the Portland Forest Dragons of the Arena Football League. That team would ultimately leave Portland after the 1999 season.
Awards and honors
Eads Broadcasting owner Charlie Eads was the Broadcaster of the Year in Oregon and was honored as Volunteer of the Year at the 2009 Ovation Awards given out at the annual Northwest Festivals and Events Conference. Eads was cited for his work with the Willamette Valley Concert Band, the Linn County Cultural Coalition, and several other community organizations.
References
External links
KGAL official website
GAL
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1995
Lebanon, Oregon
1995 establishments in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouzin | Pouzin may refer to:
Le Pouzin, a commune in the Ardèche department in France
Louis Pouzin (born 1931), French computer scientist
Yvonne Pouzin (1884–1947), French tuberculosis specialist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahvash%20Waqar | Mahvash Waqar is a Pakistani artist and a backup vocalist for the band Laal. She has also been famous for a stint on the radio network as a RJ.
Early life
Mahvash studied Textile designing from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. She had a keen interest in music from the beginning. So, instead of continuing her studies she decided to join what was then a very new phenomenon of FM radio stations.
Radio jockey
She was a well known jockey of many radio stations from 2000 to 2006. She hosted numerous shows and also worked as a producer for others. The experience she gained in radio jockeying brought her in contact with an enormous variety of music and hence she earned the name, Human Encyclopedia of Music. She stressed in an interview that her main influence in music was the classic rock sound of the 1970s.
Music career
Mahvash began her music career in early 2007 when she decided to be a part of the newly formed Laal Band along with Haider Rehman, Aamir, Asif, Salman and Jamal. The band was formed in response to the 2007 sacking of judges by then President Pervez Musharraf.
Laal
Laal the Band was formed in late 2007, after the sacking of the Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. The band members along with the public protested against the incident and demanded the restoration of judiciary by the president. The members then joined up together to form a Musical continuation of the Progressive Writers Movement of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Habib Jalib and Ahmed Faraz. The band's aim is to popularize the works of these socialist writers by setting their revolutionary poetry to music. The current band members include Mahvash, Shahram, Taimur and Haider Rahman. Mahvash sings backup for the band.
Discography
Mahvash has played backup vocals for Laal band's debut album, Umeed e Sahar.
See also
Urdu poets
References
External links
Laal's official website
Laal Brigade
Mahvash Waqar CMKP
Mahvash Waqar with Al-Rasub
National College of Arts alumni
Pakistani women singers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Singers from Karachi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACRO-10 | MACRO-10 is an assembly language with extensive macro facilities for DEC's PDP-10-based Mainframe computer systems, the DECsystem-10 and the DECSYSTEM-20. MACRO-10 is implemented as a two-pass assembler.
Programming examples
A simple "Hello, world!" program in MACRO-10 assembler, to run under TOPS-10, adapted from a specimen in a large collection of "Hello World" programs in various languages:
TITLE HELLO WORLD
; 'Hello world' in MACRO-10 for TOPS-10
SEARCH UUOSYM ; Make UUO symbol names available
LAB: ASCIZ /Hello, world!
/ ; NUL-terminated ASCII string with CRLF
START: RESET ; Initialise job to clean runtime state
OUTPUT: OUTSTR LAB ; Output string starting at LAB:
MONRT. ; Return to monitor
JRST OUTPUT ; Restart at OUTPUT: if user CONTINUEs job
END START ; End assembly, set program start address
If this program is saved in the file , it can be assembled, linked and run like this (the TOPS-10 system prompt is the . at the start of lines):
.COMPILE HELLO.MAC /DLIST
MACRO: HELLO
EXIT
.LOAD HELLO
LINK: Loading
EXIT
.SAVE
HELLO saved
.RUN
Hello, world!
.
The assembly listing file generated by the /DLIST (Disk LISTing) option to the COMPILE command:
HELLO WORLD MACRO %53B(1247) 17:29 7-Apr-:9 Page 1
HELLO MAC 7-Apr-:9 17:29
TITLE HELLO WORLD
; 'Hello world' in MACRO-10 for TOPS-10
SEARCH UUOSYM ; Make UUO symbol names available
000000' 110 145 154 154 157 LAB: ASCIZ /Hello, world!
000001' 054 040 167 157 162
000002' 154 144 041 015 012 / ; NUL-terminated ASCII string with CRLF
000003' 000 000 000 000 000
000004' 047 00 0 00 000000 START: RESET ; Initialise job to clean runtime state
000005' 051 03 0 00 000000' OUTPUT: OUTSTR LAB ; Output string starting at LAB:
000006' 047 01 0 00 000012 MONRT. ; Return to monitor
000007' 254 00 0 00 000005' JRST OUTPUT ; Restart at OUTPUT: if user CONTINUEs job
000004' END START ; End assembly, set program start address
NO ERRORS DETECTED
PROGRAM BREAK IS 000010
CPU TIME USED 58:25.100
36P CORE USED
HELLO WORLD MACRO %53B(1247) 17:29 7-Apr-:9 Page S-1
HELLO MAC 7-Apr-:9 17:29 SYMBOL TABLE
LAB 000000'
MONRT. 047040 000012
OUTPUT 000005'
OUTSTR 051140 000000
RESET 047000 000000
START 000004'
The date ":9" is a Year 2000 problem.
A more complex MACRO-10 example program, which renders one version of the 99 Bottles of Beer song, may be examined at the "99 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooncast | Tooncast is a Latin American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its International division. It was launched on December 1, 2008; its programming consists of classical animation, both from Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network. The channel is a commercial-free service.
History
The channel was launched on December 1, 2008, after all classic animation programming from Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera and MGM were removed from Boomerang Latin America, to center the network towards the teen audience, and replacing it with live-action programming instead.
Tooncast follows the Boomerang US old channel line-up, which aired classic cartoons. Old Cartoon Network commercials are also broadcast on the channel, such as "Cartoons That Never Made It", Cartoon Network Groovies and Boomerang Shorties. Unlike other channels of Turner Broadcasting System Latin America, few pay-TV providers carry Tooncast. The only exception is Brazil, where the channel is available on most subscription TV providers, such as Oi TV, Claro TV, GVT TV, Vivo TV, Kiwisat and Nossa TV. Since August 1, 2014, Tooncast began to be carried on NET, the biggest cable television company in Brazil.
Even though Tooncast remained with a single pan-regional feed with audio tracks in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and English, in November 2012 the channel started using the Brazilian content rating system.
On September 26, 2018, the channel was picked up by Sky Brasil.
On April 1, 2019, all classic programming from the Turner animation library, including productions from Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera and MGM, were removed from the schedule making focus on Cartoon Network original productions, and also airing anime series like Pokémon and the Brazilian animated series Monica and Friends, following WarnerMedia's business restructure, that also affected programming on sister networks like Cartoon Network and Boomerang. However, it eventually returned from June 1–July 1, 2019 and they have recently been reinstated. The cartoons of Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. and MGM returned to the programming in June, however, that change was made again in July of the same year, and then returned in January 2020, where they were included for the first time in the program channel such as Batman Beyond, Teen Titans and ThunderCats.
On June 1, 2021, the channel's programming underwent a drastic change, being greatly reduced compared to previous months; However, this reduction in programs is also accompanied by some new releases. It is speculated that these changes came as an effect of the launch in Latin America of the streaming service HBO Max.
Programming
Current programming
As of October 2023
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
Duck Dodgers
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Freakazoid!
Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi
The Jetsons
Krypto the Superdog
Legion of Super Heroes
Loonatics Unleashed
Looney Tunes
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Pinky and the Brain
The S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADIU | DADIU (The National Academy of Digital, Interactive Entertainment) founded in 2005 is an academy located in Copenhagen and Aalborg in Denmark that educates students in the creation of computer games. The DADIU program is a collaboration between different universities and art schools in Denmark.
The DADIU Education and Program
The DADIU program is a specialisation and educates future game developers in different fields of computer game development and video game development. The students participating in DADIU come from universities and art schools in Denmark but are taught a joint curriculum. The DADIU programme is a full-time semester which take place each fall from August to December. Every fall semester DADIU accepts about 100 students to the program out of the many students who apply each year. The DADIU program contains both lectures, workshops, and game productions. During the three game productions with are the most important part of the DADIU program the students are divided into six teams which function as six real game studios. The students are accepted into a specific competence as part of the DADIU program. Every fall semester the DADIU accepted six Game designers, six Game directors, six Project managers, six Level designers, six Audio designers, six Art directors, and a number of Game Programmers, CG Artists, QA & UX Managers, Visual designers, and Animators into the program.
The students thus complete their ongoing studies but also receive a diploma certifying to the industry that they have completed the training at the academy.
The DADIU Members
The students participating in DADIU come from the following art schools and universities which are all members of the DADIU program:
Aalborg University (Interactive Digital Media, Computer Science and Medialogy)
Aarhus University (Audio Design and Digital Design)
IT University of Copenhagen
Technical University of Denmark
The National Film School of Denmark
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
TRUEMAX Academy
University of Copenhagen (DIKU - Computer Science and Film and Media Studies)
VIA University College (The Animation Workshop)
The DADIU games from 2015
Game Changer
Space Bears
Uprise
Spoken
Blobbers
Clockwork Dream
The DADIU games from 2014
The following games have been produced in connection with the DADIU program in 2014:
Dragon Journey
Let's Raid
Scouts
Wonder Wool
Greedy Grablins
Cloud
The DADIU games from 2013
The following games have been produced in connection with the DADIU program in 2013:
My Fear and I
Sun Towers
Saviour of Asgard
Punish Panda
A Darker Shade of Red
The Printer Guy
The DADIU games from 2012
The following games have been produced in connection with the DADIU program in 2012:
Horizon
Trail of Regret
Hotah
Cantrip
Ion
Little Barker
The DADIU games from 2011
The following games have been produced in connection with the DADIU program in 201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NurseTV%20%28TV%20network%29 | NurseTV (NTV) is an Internet television network and nationally syndicated television show devoted to nurses and the nursing profession in the United States.
External links
Access Nurses Launches NurseTV.com AAACN Viewpoint, Nov/Dec 2007
Internet properties established in 2008
Internet television channels
American medical websites
Nursing in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20monoid | In mathematics, the Chinese monoid is a monoid generated by a totally ordered alphabet with the relations cba = cab = bca for every a ≤ b ≤ c. An algorithm similar to Schensted's algorithm yields characterisation of the equivalence classes and a cross-section theorem. It was discovered by during their classification of monoids with growth similar to that of the plactic monoid, and studied in detail by Julien Cassaigne, Marc Espie, Daniel Krob, Jean-Christophe Novelli, and Florent Hivert in 2001.
The Chinese monoid has a regular language cross-section
and hence polynomial growth of dimension .
The Chinese monoid equivalence class of a permutation is the preimage of an involution under the map where denotes the product in the Iwahori-Hecke algebra with .
See also
Plactic monoid
References
Combinatorics
Semigroup theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch%20%28computing%29 | In computing, an epoch is a fixed date and time used as a reference from which a computer measures system time. Most computer systems determine time as a number representing the seconds removed from a particular arbitrary date and time. For instance, Unix and POSIX measure time as the number of seconds that have passed since Thursday 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UT, a point in time known as the Unix epoch. Windows NT systems, up to and including Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022, measure time as the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have passed since 1 January 1601 00:00:00 UTC, making that point in time the epoch for those systems.
Computing epochs are nearly always specified as midnight Universal Time on some particular date.
Resolution and representation
Software timekeeping systems vary widely in the resolution of time measurement; some systems may use time units as large as a day, while others may use nanoseconds. For example, for an epoch date of midnight UTC (00:00) on 1 January 1900, and a time unit of a second, the time of the midnight (24:00) between 1 January 1900 and 2 January 1900 is represented by the number 86400, the number of seconds in one day. When times prior to the epoch need to be represented, it is common to use the same system, but with negative numbers.
Such representation of time is mainly for internal use. On systems where date and time are important in the human sense, software will nearly always convert this internal number into a date and time representing a human calendar.
Problems
Computers do not generally store arbitrarily large numbers. Instead, each number stored by a computer is allotted a fixed amount of space. Therefore, when the number of time units that have elapsed since a system's epoch exceeds the largest number that can fit in the space allotted to the time representation, the time representation overflows, and problems can occur. While a system's behavior after overflow occurs is not necessarily predictable, in most systems the number representing the time will reset to zero, and the computer system will think that the current time is the epoch time again.
Most famously, older systems that counted time as the number of years elapsed since the epoch of 1 January 1900 and which only allotted enough space to store the numbers 0 through 99, experienced the Year 2000 problem. These systems (if not corrected beforehand) would interpret the date 1 January 2000 as 1 January 1900, leading to unpredictable errors at the beginning of the year 2000.
Even systems which allocate more storage to the time representation are not immune from this kind of error. Many Unix-like operating systems which keep time as seconds elapsed from the epoch date of 1 January 1970, and allot timekeeping enough storage to store numbers as large as will experience an overflow problem on 19 January 2038 if not fixed beforehand. This is known as the Year 2038 problem. A correction involving doubling the storage allocated to tim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cad%20Bane | Cad Bane is a character in the Star Wars franchise. Created by George Lucas, Dave Filoni and Henry Gilroy, he first appeared in the 2008 computer animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (voiced by Corey Burton). Burton would reprise his role as the voice of Cad Bane in the 2021 animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch and live-action series The Book of Boba Fett (in which stuntman Dorian Kingi physically portrayed the character) on Disney+.
Cad Bane is depicted as a ruthless bounty hunter and mercenary from the planet Duro who is known for wearing his trademark wide-brimmed hat. His fast draw, cunning wits and unscrupulous willingness to take any job for the right price have earned him a reputation as one of the best bounty hunters in the galaxy. Often employed by other villains, Bane comes into conflict with the Jedi of the Galactic Republic numerous times during the Clone Wars. Through the reign of the Galactic Empire to the era of the New Republic, Bane retains his notoriety and continues to provide his services to the highest bidder, causing him to clash with Clone Force 99, Fennec Shand, Cobb Vanth, and even his former apprentice, Boba Fett.
The character has become a fan favorite since his first appearance and is considered one of the most popular bounty hunters in the franchise alongside the likes of Boba Fett and Jango Fett. In addition to the television series, Cad Bane has also been featured in various Star Wars comic books and video games.
Development
Creation
Cad Bane was created to serve as a recurring antagonist in The Clone Wars. Writers Dave Filoni and Henry Gilroy originally planned to adapt the bounty hunter Durge, who was introduced in the 2003 Clone Wars micro-series, as a human character but Star Wars creator George Lucas instead suggested the creation of an entirely new bounty hunter with a Western design. The result was inspired by Western film actors such as Lee Van Cleef's portrayals of Angel Eyes in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and Colonel Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More, while retaining the features of the Duros species in the Star Wars universe. Corey Burton's vocal performance, inspired by the voices of actors Lance Henriksen (who was originally envisioned to voice Bane) and Peter Lorre, was then digitally modified by the series' sound production team. While Filoni researched the character, he happened across unused concept art from the original trilogy of a gun-toting bounty hunter with a wide-brimmed hat that helped determine the character’s final look. Filoni speculated on George Lucas' original idea for the character that became Cad Bane: "Something you notice about George Lucas after a while is that he'll mention a name like 'Mace Windu' in a [1973] version of Star Wars, and then it pops up in 1999. So, this, I guess might have been an idea George had for the character Cad Bane way back when, and now finally he's getting around to bringing him to the screen in The Clone Wars."
Cad Bane made his debu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data.gov | Data.gov is a U.S. Government website launched in late May 2009 by the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States, Vivek Kundra. Data.gov aims to improve public access to high value, machine-readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. The site is a repository for Federal, state, local, and tribal government information made available to the public.
History and background
On March 5, 2009, shortly after his appointment as the first Federal Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra announced the creation of Data.gov. The website is managed and hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration, Technology Transformation Services.
The site introduced the philosophy of digital open data to the U.S. Federal government, an approach which according to the book Democratizing Data will have benefits for states including "rebuilding confidence in government and business".
Data.gov has grown from 47 datasets at launch to over 370,000 datasets. Jeanne Holm, Chief Knowledge Architect for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was the Evangelist and knowledge architect for Data.gov, James Hendler, an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was at the time named the "Internet Web Expert" and tasked with helping Data.gov exploit advanced Web technologies.
Data.gov was one of the first efforts to create an open data ecosystem—using data as the basis for connecting government agencies, researchers, businesses, and civil society. Communities of practice were created around key topics such as climate, providing a way for researchers to ask for data and to coordinate work across government agencies. By the end of 2010, most Federal agencies had published data on Data.gov. In November 2010, the Data.gov team hosted the first International Open Government Data Conference with 10 nations participating to expand the principles of open data. This conference grew to become the International Open Data Conference.
By 2012, open data from Data.gov was regularly used by civil society and business. Community led efforts like hackathons from Code for America and events such as the National Day of Civic Hacking, relied on government data provided by Data.gov. The Gov Lab created the Open Data 500 to showcase businesses built on open data provided by Data.gov. To ensure open data's sustainability, President Obama created an executive order on "Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information" to formalize Data.gov as the permanent repository for open government data.
McKinsey & Company published research showing that open data contributed $3 trillion to the U.S. economy. Two of the biggest datasets for economic impact have been global positioning satellite data from the U.S. Space Force and weather data from the National Weather Service. By 2014, all 175 Federal agencies and 77 other organizations had published data on the site, in both human und |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarStruck%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of StarStruck, aka (StarStruck: The Next Level) is a Philippine television reality talent competition show, was broadcast on GMA Network. Hosted by Dingdong Dantes, Jolina Magdangal and Raymond Gutierrez, it premiered on December 4, 2006. The council was composed of Louie Ignacio, Lorna Tolentino and Douglas Quijano. The season ended with 91 episodes on March 25, 2007, having Jewel Mische, Aljur Abrenica, Kris Bernal and Mart Escudero as the Ultimate Survivors.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Overview
The fourth season of StarStruck was formally announced the return of their reality-based talent show on September 3, 2006. GMA Network's variety program, SOP, where the hosts invited the age limit is set from 15 to 21 years old to audition for the upcoming season. Much of the auditions were held at the GMA Network's headquarters and at SM Supermalls throughout the Philippines.
The pilot episode was aired on December 4, 2006. The new improve edition of the popular show. The StarStruck is shown only weekdays having Fridays as elimination night, this season Mondays to Fridays will be tests and Sundays would be the elimination night. The show held its the Final Judgment on March 25, 2007 at the Marikina Sports Center in Marikina.
Selection process
In the fourth year of the reality-talent search, Out of numerous who auditioned nationwide, only Top 100 was chosen for the first cut. From Top 100, it was trimmed down to Top 80, then from Top 80 to Top 40, These Top 40 dreamers (twenty males and twenty females) will undergo their first artista test, until only final twenty finalists will be left. Unlike the previous batches which launched the final fourteen finalists, these batches were trimmed down to twenty, dubbed as the final twenty finalists. The final twenty underwent various workshops and trainings in order to develop their personalities, talents, and charisma.
The Final 20 were reduced to the Circle 16, until they formed the Final 14 finalists. But, the twist is that every week, two hopefuls from the final fourteen may have to say goodbye and this time only six remain. Those who were eliminated were dubbed as StarStruck Avengers.
This time instead of the Final 4, this season made it the Final 6 will vie for the coveted for the new ultimate titles, the Ultimate Loveteam, the Ultimate Hunk and the Ultimate Sweetheart, both of them will received P1,000,000 pesos each plus and an exclusive management contract from GMA Network. Belgian Waffle franchises worth P250,000 pesos each and P50,00 pesos gift certificates to Manny Calayan, and scholarships to Informatics.
The First Prince and First Princess, both of them will received P250,000 pesos each plus and an exclusive management contract from the network. The StarStruck Avengers (the losing contestants) also received an exclusive contract from the network.
It also featured new ultimate titles in StarStruck History, the Ultimate Loveteam, the Ultimate Hunk and the Ultim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Monsters | River Monsters is a British and American wildlife documentary television programming produced for Animal Planet by Icon Films of Bristol, United Kingdom. It is hosted by extreme angler and biologist Jeremy Wade, who travels around the globe in search of the most fearsome freshwater and saltwater killers, looking for clues, eyewitnesses, and stories about people who were dragged underwater by these vicious predators. He tries to catch the biggest specimens and then release them back into the wild. His aim is to help people understand the truth behind the animals' attacks on humans to save these rare creatures from extinction.
River Monsters premiered on ITV in Great Britain, and became one of the most-watched, most successful programmes in Animal Planet's history, and one of the most-viewed series on Discovery Channel in the American market.
Overview
River Monsters follows the worldwide adventures of Suffolk-born British host, biologist, adventurer and extreme angler Jeremy Wade. He explores rivers and lakes to uncover the creatures behind local folklore and harrowing tales of monster fish. The show has taken viewers to
England, Cambodia, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, Scotland, Iceland, Norway, Argentina, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, India, Japan, France, Russia, Suriname, Brazil, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa, the Republic of the Congo, Mongolia, and the U.S. states of Alaska, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont.
In the first season, Wade's weekly quest had him in search of piranha, goonch catfish (during his investigation of the Kali River goonch attacks), alligator gar, wels catfish, arapaima, piraíba, and the bull shark. All of them are potentially deadly creatures poorly understood by humans. The show also focuses on explaining the creatures' feeding habits, behaviour and conservation status. Rebroadcasts of the episodes with captions showing behind the scenes commentary from the host about the particular episode can also be seen on both Animal Planet and Discovery Channel. These episodes are going by the title River Monsters: Unhooked.
The second season of River Monsters began airing on 24 April 2010, although the first episode, titled "Demon Fish" first appeared on Discovery Channel on 28 March 2010. This season consisted of 7 episodes and took viewers to the River Congo and other distant locations. In the episode, "Death Ray", Wade caught a pregnant giant freshwater stingray, the largest fish he ever landed. She later gave birth to two pups while being examined by Wade and a team of biologists. This season featured the white sturgeon, Wade's second largest catch.
The ninth season of River Monsters was announced as the final season.
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
Season 2 (2010)
Season 3 (2011)
Season 4 (2012)
Season 5 (2013)
Season 6 (2014)
Season 7 (2015)
Season 8 (2016)
Promoted as a special season under the title River Monsters: Mysteries of the Ocean, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adik%20Sa%27Yo | (International title: Love Games / ) is a 2009 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Joel Lamangan and Lore Reyes, it stars Jolina Magdangal, Jennica Garcia, Dennis Trillo and Marvin Agustin. It premiered on June 8, 2009 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing All About Eve. The series concluded on September 11, 2009 with a total of 70 episodes. It was replaced by Stairway to Heaven in its timeslot.
The series was released in DVD by GMA Records.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jolina Magdangal as Joanna Maglipot (Lindenberg)
Marvin Agustin as Carlos Manansala
Dennis Trillo as Ruben Domingo
Jennica Garcia as Karen Maglipot
Supporting cast
Elizabeth Oropesa as Stella Maglipot
Joey Marquez as Luigi Maglipot
Eugene Domingo as Fatima Lindenberg
Chanda Romero as Aurora Manansala
Pauleen Luna as Camille Sickat
Chariz Solomon as Emelene Santos
Benjie Paras as Benjo
Iwa Moto as Andrea
German Moreno as Joe
Tony Mabesa as Samuel
Luz Valdez as Caring Domingo
Ces Quesada as Ising Domingo
Vaness del Moral as Racquel Domingo
John Lapus as July
Sandy Talag as Ria Domingo
Jim Pebanco as Roman
Mosang as Mila
Renerich Ocon as Penelope
Guest cast
Wendell Ramos as James
Chynna Ortaleza as Liza
Isabel Granada as Doy
Dang Cruz as Estrelita
Polo Ravales as himself
SexBomb Girls as themselves
Yassi Pressman as Lucinda Bartolome
Mang Enriquez as Katong
Dinky Doo as Dodong
Rosemarie Sarita as Matilda
Raquel Villavicencio as Mercy
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 25.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 34.1% rating.
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romantic comedy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Smiley%20%28author%29 | John Smiley is an American computing author and teacher known for basic programming classes and books.
He is also president of John Smiley & Associates. Smiley has authored books on Visual Basic, C#, C++ and Java. His first book was published in 1998 by Wrox Publishing (ActivePath). He wrote 3 more books for Wrox before Wrox declared bankruptcy in 2001. In 2002, parts of his book series were picked up by Osborne/McGraw Hill Publishing, Apress Publishing, and Muska and Lipmann (now Course Technologies.) In 2004, when the market for Introductory programming books fizzled, he negotiated and obtained the rights to the books and began self-publishing them through Lulu Press in 2006. Since then, he has self-published his new books under the Smiley Publishing imprint. Many of his books have been translated into major foreign languages.
In addition to his 'Learning to Program' type books, he has written a book on the worldwide Stair Climbing phenomenon.
He teaches classes online, first through e-learning ventures such as ElementK or the now defunct Ziff Davis University (ZDU), and currently through his own Moodle Rooms site. Notably, he has taught over 100,000 students via online courses.
He has been a professor at Penn State University, the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, and Holy Family College.
Learn to Program With Visual Basic 6 (, Wrox Publishing, 1998)
Learn to Program With Visual Basic 6 (, Reprinted by Apress Publishing, 2003)
Learn to Program With Visual Basic 6 Examples (, Wrox Publishing, 1999)
Learn to Program With Visual Basic 6 Examples (, Reprinted by Course Technology, 2001)
Learn to Program Databases with Visual Basic 6 Databases (, Wrox Publishing, 1999)
Learn to Program Databases with Visual Basic 6 Databases (, Reprinted by Course Technology, 2001)
Learn to Program With Visual Basic 6 Objects (, Wrox Publishing, 1999)
Learn to Program With Visual Basic 6 Objects (, Reprinted by Course Technology, 2001)
Learn to Program with Java (, Osborne/McGraw Hill Publishing, 2001)
Learn to Program with Java (Reprinted by Smiley Publishing, 2006)
Learn to Program with Java Kindle Edition (, Smiley Publishing, 2010)
Learn to Program with Java Nook Edition (, Smiley Publishing, 2010)
Learn to Program with Java SE6 (, Smiley Publishing, 2006)
Learn to Program with Java SE6 Kindle Edition (, Smiley Publishing, 2010)
Learn to Program with Java SE6 Nook Edition (, Smiley Publishing, 2010)
Learn to Program with VB.Net 2002/2003 (, Osborne.McGraw Hill Publishing, 2002)
Learn to Program with VB.Net 2002/2003 (Reprinted by Smiley Publishing, 2006)
Learn to Program with C# (, Osborne/McGraw Hill Publishing, 2002)
Learn to program with C# (Reprinted by Smiley Publishing, 2006)
Learn to program with C# Kindle Edition (,Smiley Publishing, 2010)
Learn to program with C# Nook Edition (,Smiley Publishing, 2010)
Learn to Program with C++ (, Osborne/McGraw Hill Publishing, 2002)
Learn to Program with C++ (Reprinted by Smi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYSF | KYSF (97.5 FM, "Air1") is a radio station licensed to Bonanza, Oregon, United States. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation.
Programming
KYSF broadcasts a Christian Worship music format to the greater Klamath Falls-Altamont, Oregon area. From 2009 to early 2012, almost all programming except syndicated programming heard on KYSF was from Dial Global's Hits NOW! satellite format. Syndicated programming on KYSF included Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40, Kidd Kraddick in the Morning and Baka Boyz Hip-Hop Mastermix.
History
This station received its original construction permit from the FCC on August 9, 1996. The new station was assigned the call letters KAQX by the FCC on October 25, 1996. KAQX received its license to cover from the FCC on February 5, 1999.
The station was assigned the current call sign by the FCC on June 17, 1999.
On January 5, 2012, KYSF changed its format from contemporary hits to EMF's K-Love contemporary Christian format.
On February 11, 2014, KYSF moved from 102.9 FM to 97.5 FM. The station was licensed to operate at 97.5 FM on January 13, 2015. By 2018, KYSF was broadcasting K-Love's sister station feed, Air 1 which flipped formats to Christian Worship in January 2019.
Previous logo
References
External links
New Northwest Broadcasters station profile
FCC application
Radio stations established in 1999
Klamath County, Oregon
1999 establishments in Oregon
Air1 radio stations
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
YSF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous%20Ethernet | Synchronous Ethernet, also referred as SyncE, is an ITU-T standard for computer networking that facilitates the transference of clock signals over the Ethernet physical layer. This signal can then be made traceable to an external clock.
Overview
The aim of Synchronous Ethernet is to provide a synchronization signal to those network resources that may eventually require such a type of signal. The Synchronous Ethernet signal transmitted over the Ethernet physical layer should be traceable to an external clock, ideally a master and unique clock for the whole network. Applications include cellular networks, access technologies such as Ethernet passive optical network, and applications such as IPTV or VoIP, as well as CERN's White Rabbit Project for sub-nanosecond time synchronization of data acquisition equipment for their high-energy experiments.
Unlike time-division multiplexing networks, the Ethernet family of computer networks do not carry clock synchronization information. Several means are defined to address this issue. IETF’s Network Time Protocol, IEEE's 1588-2008 Precision Time Protocol are some of them.
SyncE was standardized by the ITU-T, in cooperation with IEEE, as three recommendations:
ITU-T Rec. G.8261 that defines aspects about the architecture and the wander performance of SyncE networks
ITU-T Rec. G.8262 that specifies Synchronous Ethernet clocks for SyncE
ITU-T Rec. G.8264 that describes the specification of Ethernet Synchronization Messaging Channel (ESMC)
SyncE architecture minimally requires replacement of the internal clock of the Ethernet card by a phase locked loop in order to feed the Ethernet PHY.
Architecture
Extension of the synchronization network to consider Ethernet as a building block (ITU-T G.8261). This enables Synchronous Ethernet network equipment to be connected to the same synchronization network as Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH). Synchronization for SDH can be transported over Ethernet and vice versa.
Clocks
ITU-T G.8262 defines Synchronous Ethernet clocks compatible with SDH clocks. Synchronous Ethernet clocks, based on ITU-T G.813 clocks, are defined in terms of accuracy, noise transfer, holdover performance, noise tolerance and noise generation. These clocks are referred to as Ethernet Equipment Slave clocks. While the IEEE 802.3 standard specifies Ethernet clocks to be within ±100 ppm, EECs accuracy must be within ±4.6 ppm. In addition, by timing the Ethernet clock, it is possible to achieve Primary Reference Clock (PRC) traceability at the interfaces.
G.8262/Y.1362 is an ITU-T recommendation for Synchronous Ethernet that defines "timing characteristics of synchronous Ethernet equipment slave clock (EEC). " It was first published in August 2007, amended in 2008 and 2010 and a new version published in 2010.
Messaging channel
In SDH, the Synchronization Status Message (SSM) provides traceability of synchronization signals and it is therefore required to extend the SSM functionality to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%20Anderson | Jefferson Anderson (Pasila) is a Finnish animated sitcom. The computer-animated series portrays a satirical view of daily events in Helsinki at a police precinct in the suburb of Pasila. The series is made by members of the same team that made the award-winning series The Autocrats, a political animated satire. In 2007, the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) sent Pasila to compete for the Rose d'Or. The show's first two seasons were later dubbed in English and are available online. A sequel, Pasila 2.5 – The Spin-Off, was broadcast in 2014-2016.
Characters
Lieutenant Kyösti Pöysti (Jefferson Anderson )
Pöysti (voiced by Jani Volanen (Original series), Tero Koponen (Spin-off)) is the main character, aged 30 or 31 years throughout the series. He is single and is always seen sucking on a pacifier, showing his infantility and emotional handicap. However, his jadedness and penetrating cynicism allows him to see through schemes and discern motives. Pöysti's modus operandi can be described as psychological: he finds the sore spots of criminals by going through several options and uses them to crack the perps – or not. Sometimes he goes for overkill, like provoking people to jump off the roof or arresting innocent people without grounds.
Precinct captain Rauno Repomies
Repomies (voiced by Kari Hietalahti) is the Captain of the Pasila precinct, a man with a moustache and heavy medication. He is nearing retirement and often displays antiquated manners. He keeps on getting more confused and more poetic, until someone usually reminds him to take his pills. He is extremely gullible and many episodes involve him ending up as the victim of the main perpetrator. Repomies and Pöysti have a bad relationship because of their incompatibility: Repomies is annoyed by Pöysti's slacking and disrespect for authority, but his authoritarian management practices aren't very successful at dealing with this either.
Officer Tommi Neponen
Neponen (voiced by Juho Milonoff) is Pöysti's classmate from the Police Academy. He's described as the only sane person in the Pasila precinct. He's been married for seven years and has children. Although Pöysti considers him a friend, there is a running joke that Pöysti doesn't remember Neponen's first name.
Desk sergeant Pekka Routalempi
Routalempi (voiced by Juho Milonoff) is the 46-year-old desk sergeant at the precinct. He keeps on pondering common things in everyday life and considers these phenomena "fascinating". As he explains in an episode, this behaviour was adopted after he stopped drinking and therefore saw how wonderful life could be even without alcohol. His stories are so mind-numbingly boring that Repomies thinks using him as an interrogator is a violation of human rights treaties (which is "fascinating" too). He is divorced. He is terrible at chases, because he doesn't want to hurt people and doesn't want to overtake other cars.
Helga
Helga (voiced by Mari Lehtonen) is the token woman police officer, although very manl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Munich | The Munich tramway () is the tramway network for the city of Munich in Germany. Today it is operated by the municipally owned Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (the Munich Transport Company, or MVG) and is known officially and colloquially as the Tram. Previous operators have included Société Anonyme des Tramways de Munich, the Münchner Trambahn-Aktiengesellschaft, the Städtische Straßenbahnen and the Straßenbahn München.
The tram network interconnects with the MVG's bus network, the Munich U-Bahn and the Munich S-Bahn, all of which use a common tariff as part of the Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (Munich Transport and Tariff Association, or MVV) transit area.
As of 2012, the daytime tram network comprises 13 lines and is long with 165 stops. There is also a night tram service with four routes. The network is operated by 106 trams (as of 2012), and transported 98 million people in 2010 and 104 million people in 2012.
History
The tramway started in 1876, with a horsecar service. The first tramways extended from Karlsplatz (Stachus), which remains one of central nodes of Munich's tram network. Two years later, the Société Anonyme des Tramways de Munich was founded. In 1882, the Münchner Trambahn-Aktiengesellschaft (MTAG) was founded.
Electric trams were introduced by Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft in 1895. In 1900, the last horsecar was taken out of service. In 1907, MTAG was taken over by the city, and changed its name to Städtische Straßenbahnen. In 1919, the municipal agency Münchner Straßenbahnen was established. After World War II ended in 1945, only twenty tram lines remained; of 444 trams, only 168 were in operational condition. In 1956, the first new tram line after the war was opened.
The 1972 Munich Olympic Games presaged a major expansion of public transport in the city. In 1965, construction of the Munich U-Bahn, the city's rapid transit system, was started. It opened in 1971, the same year as the transit authority MVV was founded. In 1972 a new S-Bahn network opened that, like the U-Bahn, was carried in new tunnels under the city centre. As these networks grew, they seemed to threaten the tram network, with extensive line closures in favour of the new modes.
Such closures continued into the 1990s, but in 1991 the city council passed a plan to upgrade and modernize the tramway, as the trams were seen to be a better fit to expected passenger flows on many routes. Three years later, Class R2 low-floor trams were introduced, along with a night network. These were followed, in 1999, by the larger Class R3 trams. In 2001, the voltage on which the trams operate was increased from 600 to 750 V. The following year the MVG was formed.
In 2009 the brand new route 23 was opened. This route acts as a feeder route for U-Bahn lines U3 and U6, to which it connects in an elaborate terminus above Münchner Freiheit U-Bahn station. The line has no interchanges with other tram routes, but is linked to the rest of the tram network by a connectin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Anglia%20Route%20Utilisation%20Strategy | The Greater Anglia Route Utilisation Strategy is a Route Utilisation Strategy published by Network Rail in December 2007. It was the sixth RUS to be produced. The area covered includes the whole of Route 5 West Anglia (WA) and Route 7 Great Eastern (GE), which both focus for passenger purposes on London Liverpool Street, and the London Fenchurch Street services from Route 6. As with other RUSs, the Greater Anglia RUS took into account a number of responses, including the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).
The routes and services covered by the RUS are varied in type. The key issues are peak crowding on inner suburban, outer suburban and some long-distance services, and the capacity of the routes to handle growing container freight traffic; however off-peak service gaps on main passenger routes are dealt with, and the routes also include a number of relatively lightly used services, though with some peak 'spikes'.
Like other strategies in this series, recommendations are divided into short-term (Control Period 3, CP3, the remaining 18 months to March 2009), medium-term (CP4, five years to March 2014), and long-term (CP5, thereafter). A summary of recommendations for each of the strategic routes (as described above) is also provided.
As with several other RUSs the chief solution recommended for peak crowding is to add cars to the trains, which in many cases will require platform extensions, or less commonly to provide additional services, which may require other infrastructural enhancements. The RUS also picks up from the Freight RUS the enhancements desired on the Ipswich-Peterborough freight route.
Recommendations
Short term
The short-term improvements are mainly minor enhancements to improve performance, but include the extension of the bay platform at Grays to accommodate 8-car trains.
Medium term (2009–14)
Thameside route: Minor infrastructure works and additional rolling stock to allow all main line peak-service trains to be extended progressively to 12-car formation; the extension of platforms on the Tilbury loop and Ockendon branch to handle 12 cars, to allow all main line peak-service trains to be extended progressively to 8 or 12-car formation.
Great Eastern route: All services to include a stop at Stratford, requiring a platform extension, to provide improved connectivity with TfL's system, to even out the peak flows, and release additional paths on the route; three additional trains per hour (tph) in each peak 3-hour period (12-car in the high peaks, 8 in the shoulder peaks), one from Colchester, one from Chelmsford, one from Southend; extending peak hour Southminster branch trains to 12-car; minor infrastructure works and replacement rolling stock in 5-car formation to provide more seats in the peak on the main line to Norwich; construction of a turnback facility at Chadwell Heath, to extend existing and additional morning peak services, and provide a regulating facility during times of disruption; power supply to be enhanced for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glennie | Glennie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alick Glennie (1925—2003), British computer scientist
Alison Glennie, British actress
Angus Glennie, Lord Glennie (born 1950), Scottish judge
Bill Glennie (1924—2005), Canadian ice hockey player
Bobby Glennie (born 1957), Scottish footballer
Brian Glennie (1946–2020), Canadian ice hockey player
Charlotte Glennie (born c.1972), New Zealand journalist
Ernest Glennie (c.1871—1908), New Zealand rugby union player
Evelyn Glennie (born 1965), Scottish musician
George Glennie (1902–1998), American football player
Irvine Glennie (1892—1980), Royal Navy officer
Jim Glennie (born 1963), British musician
John Stuart Stuart-Glennie (1841—1910), British folklorist
Scott Glennie (born 1991), Canadian ice hockey player
William Glennie (1761—1828), British teacher
See also
Glennie, Michigan, unincorporated community in Curtis Township, Michigan
Glennie was the nickname of the first platypus to have her genome sequenced
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMFM%20Maidstone | KMFM Maidstone is an Independent Local Radio serving the town of Maidstone and the surrounding areas in Kent, South East England. It is the Maidstone region of the KMFM radio network (owned by the KM Group), containing local advertisements and sponsorships for the area amongst a countywide schedule of programming.
History
The station began life as a public broadcast of Maidstone Hospital Radio, operated in the early 1990s under a Restricted Service Licence. Timed to coincide with the town's annual river festival, the service was known as Maidstone Festival Radio. Following a disagreement with the NHS Trust that operated the hospital radio station, Maidstone Festival Radio set up their own studio before later changing the station's name to CTR FM (County Town Radio). At the request of the Radio Authority, it was rebranded a second time to 20/20fm (after the A20 and M20 trunk roads that run through the area), following concerns that the station could be confused with the similarly named 106CTFM which had just launched a full-time service in Canterbury.
Six applications were filed for a new Maidstone and Mid-Kent licence by January 2003, with the winning application being declared as Maidstone Radio Ltd (20/20fm) in the spring. The station launched full-time on 18 October 2003, reverting to CTR 105.6 (the Canterbury station having by then rebranded as KMFM Canterbury), under the directorship of former TLR 107.2 programme controller Jon Maxfield and many former KM Radio employees. Mike Russell was the first voice on air in 2003; the first song to be played was "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones. CTR's launch line-up featured many of the members of the original RSLs.
The station was sold to the KM Group in November 2006 and then rebranded as KMFM Maidstone on 12 September 2007. The station moved its studios and presenters, along with those of KMFM West Kent, to the KMFM Medway studios in 2008, following Ofcom approval. The sales team are still based at the KM office in Maidstone.
The licence was extended for another four years in April 2010, taking it to 17 October 2015.
Like the rest of the KMFM network, the station was relaunched in September 2010 with new jingles, schedule changes and more emphasis on music.
The KMFM network switched to a contemporary hit radio format in 2012 following the merging of KMFM Extra with KMFM. The music now focuses mainly on Top 40 hits, and contains a lot more dance and R&B than before.
Programming
All programming across the KMFM network is now shared across all seven stations following OFCOM approval in February 2012. The local breakfast show, by then the only local show on the station, was replaced by a county-wide show on 12 March 2012.
Until 2007 KMFM Maidstone produced its own programmes during daytimes, before it joined up with KMFM West Kent to network all programmes other than breakfast. The stations joined with KMFM Medway to create a West Kent network in April 2009, before all programmes apart from w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMFM%20Canterbury | KMFM Canterbury is an Independent Local Radio serving the City of Canterbury and the surrounding areas in Kent, South East England. It is the Canterbury region of the KMFM radio network (owned by the KM Group), containing local advertisements and sponsorships for the area amongst a countywide schedule of programming.
History
The station began broadcasting in 1997 as 106 CTFM to Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Bay. It originally broadcast from studios on Lower Bridge Street in Canterbury.
The KM Group increased their involvement in the station's day-to-day running in October 2000 with a re-launch and programming re-direction. The station became the fastest growing in the UK in terms of listenership with a 48% increase in listening in Q4 RAJAR 2000 (in part due to highly successful sponsorship deal with the University of Kent Cricket Club) and a 500% increase in peak listening, during the Ian St James breakfast show. The KM Group took full control of the station in 2001, following a "public interest test" due to laws preventing a newspaper group owning a radio station in the same area unless it was found not to be against the public interest. The station was rebranded to KMFM Canterbury the following year, moving the studios to the Kentish Gazette offices.
In 2001 programme sharing initially began on Saturday nights with Brian Jones presenting his show across TLR and CTFM. The KM Group later took control of Neptune Radio, after which programme sharing began across all three neighbouring East Kent stations.
In 2008, following Ofcom approval, the studios and presenters were allowed to move to the KMFM Ashford building, although the sales teams continue to be based in Canterbury. Following the arrival of the county-wide breakfast, all KMFM programming is now broadcast from Medway.
Like the rest of the KMFM network, the station was relaunched in September 2010 with new jingles, schedule changes and more emphasis on music.
The KMFM network switched to a contemporary hit radio format in 2012 following the merging of KMFM Extra with KMFM. The music now focuses mainly on Top 40 hits, and contains a lot more dance and R&B than before.
Programming
All programming across the KMFM network is now shared across all seven stations following OFCOM approval in February 2012. The local breakfast show, by then the only local show on the station, was replaced by a county-wide show on 12 March 2012.
Until 2007 KMFM Canterbury produced its own programmes during daytimes, before it joined up with KMFM Thanet to network all programmes other than breakfast. The stations joined with KMFM Ashford and KMFM Shepway and White Cliffs Country to create an East Kent network in April 2009, before all programmes apart from weekday/Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons were networked across all KMFM stations in September 2009. In July 2010, Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons became networked.
News bulletins come from the KMFM News Centre in the Medway studios on th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMFM%20Ashford | KMFM Ashford is an Independent Local Radio serving the Borough of Ashford and the surrounding areas in Kent, South East England. It is the Ashford region of the KMFM radio network (owned by the KM Group), containing local advertisements and sponsorships for the area amongst a countywide schedule of programming.
History
A radio station for Ashford was considered in 2001 by the Radio Authority as Ashford was the only borough in East Kent not to be granted a licence in the mid-1990s, but the applications for the Ashford licence were not advertised by Ofcom until July 2004, with six companies making the final shortlist. Restricted Service Licences were broadcast by some of these companies, including Ashford FM between 1996 and 2002 on 106.5 FM, and Ashford Local Radio in 2003.
The licence was awarded to an organisation called LARK FM (Local Ashford Radio Kent) in which the KM Group had a majority stake, with the station broadcasting under the KMFM brand already used by five other stations in Kent. KMFM Ashford officially launched on 3 October 2005. This decision caused a High Court Challenge by rival bidder A-Ten FM, with the chairman claiming "Ofcom have failed in their principal duty to encourage competition and diversity of choice for listeners. They have ignored what Parliament intended and more importantly what the people of Ashford wanted. Although I believe some local people supported the trial broadcasts of Lark FM, what KM are now offering bears no resemblance. Even the local news bulletins will be piped in from elsewhere in Kent". This challenge was subsequently lost.
After the station's launch, it achieved a 42% reach in its first RAJAR sweep
It shared offices with sister paper the Kentish Express, before being moved to the Medway studios following the arrival of the county-wide breakfast show.
Like the rest of the KMFM network, the station was relaunched in September 2010 with new jingles, schedule changes and more emphasis on music.
The KMFM network switched to a contemporary hit radio format in 2012 following the merging of KMFM Extra with KMFM. The music now focuses mainly on Top 40 hits, and contains a lot more dance and R&B than before.
Programming
All programming across the KMFM network was shared across all seven stations following OFCOM approval in February 2012. The local breakfast show, by then the only local show on the station, was replaced by a county-wide show on 12 March 2012.
Until 2007 KMFM Ashford produced its own programmes during daytimes, before it joined up with KMFM Shepway and White Cliffs Country to network all programmes other than breakfast. The stations joined together with KMFM Canterbury and KMFM Thanet to create an East Kent network in April 2009, before all programmes apart from weekday/Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons were networked across all KMFM stations in September 2009. In July 2010, Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons became networked.
News bulletins come from the KMFM News Cen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMFM%20Thanet | KMFM Thanet is an Independent Local Radio serving the Isle of Thanet and the surrounding areas in Kent, South East England. It is the Thanet region of the KMFM radio network (owned by the KM Group), containing local advertisements and sponsorships for the area amongst a countywide schedule of programming.
History
KMFM Thanet began life as Thanet Local Radio (TLR 107.2), founded by Alan Mackay, Ken Wills and Pete Willson (now station manager at Academy FM (Thanet)), and launching in January 1998 from studios at Margate harbour. The launch was not without drama – four months prior, the Radio Authority gave the station the green light on the licence after some alleged internal legal wrangles between the company's directors.
Pete Willson was the first voice on-air; the first song to be played was Take That's "Back For Good", with reggae star Pato Banton recording a special version of his duet with UB40, "Baby Come Back", for the station's launch. The station's line-up was largely unchanged for five years.
TLR was originally owned by a consortium of local investors, with local businessman Ken Wills being the majority shareholder. The KM Group took control of TLR in 1999, and subsequently bought out the other investors in March 2003; rebranding the station to KMFM Thanet and relocating it to their own premises in Cliftonville. Following the arrival of the county-wide breakfast, all KMFM programming is now broadcast from Medway.
It was the first station to be fully owned by the KM Group.
The licence was readvertised in September 2008, with the KM Group reawarded it.
Like the rest of the KMFM network, the station was relaunched in September 2010 with new jingles, schedule changes and more emphasis on music.
The KMFM network switched to a contemporary hit radio format in 2012 following the merging of KMFM Extra with KMFM. The music now focuses mainly on Top 40 hits, and contains a lot more dance and R&B than before.
Programming
All programming across the KMFM network is now shared across all seven stations following OFCOM approval in February 2012. The local breakfast show, by then the only local show on the station, was replaced by a county-wide show on 12 March 2012.
Until 2007 KMFM Thanet produced its own programmes during daytimes, before it joined up with KMFM Canterbury to network all programmes other than breakfast. The stations joined with KMFM Ashford and KMFM Shepway and White Cliffs Country to create an East Kent network in April 2009, before all programmes apart from weekday/Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons were networked across all KMFM stations in September 2009. In July 2010, Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons became networked.
News bulletins are provide by KMFM News Centre in the Medway studios, and national news by Sky News Radio at other times.
Notable presenters
Former presenters include Doc Atherton, Tony Blackburn, Nigel Harris, Dominic King. Johnny Lewis, Tom Lowe, Dave Pearce, Myma Seldon, Benedict Smith |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeON | In computer software, FreeON is an experimental, open source (GPL) suite of programs for linear scaling quantum chemistry, formerly known as MondoSCF. It is highly modular, and has been written from scratch for N-scaling SCF theory in Fortran95 and C. Platform independent IO is supported with HDF5. FreeON should compile with most modern Linux distributions. FreeON performs Hartree–Fock, pure density functional, and hybrid HF/DFT calculations (e.g. B3LYP) in a Cartesian-Gaussian LCAO basis. All algorithms are O(N) or O(N lg N) for non-metallic systems. Periodic boundary conditions in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions have been implemented through the Lorentz field (-point), and an internal coordinate geometry optimizer allows full (atom+cell) relaxation using analytic derivatives. Effective core potentials for energies and forces have been implemented, but Effective Core Potential (ECP) lattice forces do not work yet. Advanced features include O(N) static and dynamic response, as well as time reversible Born Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics (MD).
Developers
See also
List of quantum chemistry and solid state physics software
References
Computational chemistry software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMFM%20Medway | KMFM Medway is an Independent Local Radio serving the Medway Towns and the surrounding areas in Kent, South East England. It is the Medway region of the KMFM radio network (owned by the KM Group), containing local advertisements and sponsorships for the area amongst a countywide schedule of programming.
History
KMFM Medway launched on 1 September 1997 as Medway FM, broadcasting on 100.4 and 107.9 FM, following a four-year campaign. The station was fined £5,000 during its first year of operation by the Radio Authority after it intentionally adjusted the power of its transmitter on two separate occasions, which was against the terms set out in the licence.
The station was later purchased by DMG Radio in 2000 and subsequently re-branded to Medway's Mercury FM, as the firm wished to brand all its local stations by the same name. A year later DMG sold their radio assets to GWR who, in 2002, sold the station to the Kent Messenger Group following the problem of the group's "station ownership point" as stipulated by the Radio Authority. The station was re-branded to KMFM Medway in September that year.
In 2004, KMFM Medway was relocated from premises on Rochester High Street to Medway House on Medway City Estate in Strood, where it shares an office with the KM-owned Medway Messenger.
Like the rest of the KMFM network, the station was relaunched in September 2010 with new jingles, schedule changes and more emphasis on music.
The KMFM network switched to a contemporary hit radio format in 2012 following the merging of KMFM Extra with KMFM. The music now focuses mainly on Top 40 hits, and contains a lot more dance and R&B than before.
Programming
All programming across the KMFM network is now shared across all seven stations following OFCOM approval in February 2012. The local breakfast show, by then the only local show on the station, was replaced by a county-wide show on 12 March 2012.
Until 2007 KMFM Medway produced its own programmes during daytimes. It joined up with KMFM West Kent and KMFM Maidstone to create a West Kent network in April 2009, before all programmes apart from weekday/Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons were networked across all KMFM stations in September 2009. In July 2010, Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoons became networked.
News bulletins come from the KMFM News Centre in the Medway studios on the hour from 6am - 6pm on weekdays, and 8am - 1pm on weekends. National news bulletins come from Sky News Radio outside these times. Traffic and travel updates are broadcast just before the hour, and every 20 minutes between 7am - 9am and 4pm - 7pm.
Presenters
Current presenters
Emma Adams
Olivia Jones
Aaron Matthews
Ed Matthews
Ben Pearce
Emma Scott
Andy Walker
Rob Wills
Garry Wilson
Former presenters
A few former presenters
Tony Blackburn
Johnny Lewis
Dave Pearce
Myma Seldon
Benedict Smith
Melanie Sykes
References
External links
KMFM Medway
Medway
Radio stations established in 1997
Radio stations in K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny%20Core%20Linux | Tiny Core Linux (TCL) is a minimal Linux kernel based operating system focusing on providing a base system using BusyBox and FLTK. It was developed by Robert Shingledecker, who was previously the lead developer of Damn Small Linux. The distribution is notable for its small size (11 to 16 MB) and minimalism; additional functions are provided by extensions. Tiny Core Linux is free and open-source software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.
Types
Tiny Core (16 MB) is the recommended option for new users who have a wired network connection. It includes the base Core system and a dynamic FLTK/FLWM graphical user interface.
Core (11 MB) (also known as "Micro Core Linux") is a smaller variant of Tiny Core without a graphical desktop, though additional extensions can be added to create a system with a graphical desktop environment.
dCore (12 MB) is a core made from Debian or Ubuntu compatible files that uses import and the SCE package format, a self-contained package format for the Tiny Core distribution since 5.x series.
CorePure64 is a notable port of "Core" to the x86_64 architecture.
Core Plus (106 MB) is "an installation image and not the distribution". It is composed of Tiny Core with additional functionality, most notably wireless support and non-US keyboard support.
piCore is the Raspberry Pi port of "Core".
System requirements
Minimal configuration:
Tiny Core needs at least 46 MB of RAM in order to run, and (micro) Core requires at least 28 MB of RAM. The minimum CPU is an i486DX.
Recommended configuration:
A Pentium II CPU and 128 MB of RAM are recommended for Tiny Core.
Design philosophy
The developers describe TCL as "a nomadic ultra small graphical desktop operating system capable of booting from cdrom, pendrive, or frugally from a hard drive." As of version 2.8.1, the core is designed to run primarily in RAM but with three distinct modes of operation:
"Cloud" or Internet mode — A "testdrive" mode using a built-in appbrowser GUI to explore extensions from an online application extension repository loaded into RAM only for the current session.
TCE/Install — A mode for Tiny Core Extensions downloaded and run from a storage partition but kept as symbolic links in RAM.
TCE/CopyFS — A mode which installs applications onto a Linux partition like a more typical Linux installation.
Release history
See also
Comparison of Linux live distributions
Lightweight Linux distribution
List of Linux distributions that run from RAM
Telikin
References
External links
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Light-weight Linux distributions
Lightweight Unix-like systems
Linux distributions
Linux distributions without systemd
Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
Independent Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Compilation%20Interface | The Interactive Compilation Interface (ICI) is a plugin system with a high-level compiler-independent and low-level compiler-dependent API to transform current black-box compilers into collaborative modular interactive toolsets. It was developed by Grigori Fursin during MILEPOST project. The ICI framework acts as a "middleware" interface between the compiler and the user-definable plugins. It opens up and reuses the production-quality compiler infrastructure to enable program analysis and instrumentation, fine-grain program optimizations, simple prototyping of new development and research ideas while avoiding building new compilation tools from scratch. For example, it is used in MILEPOST GCC to automate compiler and architecture design and program optimizations based on statistical analysis and machine learning, and predict profitable optimization to improve program execution time, code size and compilation time.
Developments
ICI is now available in mainline GCC since version 4.5
Collaborative development website
Google Summer of Code'2009 extensions: enabling fine-grain program optimizations including polyhedral transformations, function level run-time adaptation and collective optimization]
Development mailing list
Downloads
ICI 2.0 - released for GCC in May, 2009.
ICI 1.0 - released for GCC in 2008.
ICI beta - developed for GCC in 2006–2008.
ICI beta - developed for Open64/PathScale compilers in 2004–2006.
References
Interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%209897 | ISO 9897 is an ISO international standard for electronic interchange relating to freight containers. It is also known as CEDEX as an acronym of Container Equipment Data Exchange, and "is intended for business entities for use in communications relating to freight container transactions, in particular container Maintenance & Repair estimates and approvals and repair status messages".
09897
Intermodal containers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craige%20Schensted | Craige Schensted (), who formally changed his name to Ea Ea, was an American physicist and mathematician who first formulated the insertion algorithm that defines the Robinson–Schensted correspondence. Under a different form, that correspondence had earlier been described by Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson in 1938, but it is due to the Schensted insertion algorithm that the correspondence has become widely known in combinatorics. Schensted also designed several board games including *Star, Star, and Y. In 1995, he changed his name to Ea, the Babylonian name for the Sumerian god Enki, and in 1999 changed it to Ea Ea. He lived on Peaks Island in Portland, Maine.
References
External links
Home page of Ea Ea, formerly Craige Schensted
Biography of Ea Ea
Obituary of Ea Ea
Board game designers
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
People from Portland, Maine
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla%20Asian%20American%20Arts%20Network | Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network was a New York-based Asian American arts collective and support network established in 1990. Founding members Ken Chu, Bing Lee, Margo Machida, and others established Godzilla in order to facilitate inter-generational and interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration for Asian American artists and art professionals. The collective provided visibility in local and national exhibitions, developed press outreach strategies, published newsletters, and sponsored symposia on Asian American art. It was disbanded in 2001.
Godzilla's contemporaries included Godzookie, and the Barnstormers.
History
The original members of Godzilla were Tomie Arai, Ken Chu, Karin Higa, Arlan Huang, Byron Kim, Bing Lee, Colin Lee, Janet Lin, Mei-Lin Liu, Margo Machida, Stephanie Mar, Yong Soon Min, Helen Oji, Eugenie Tsai, Charles Yuen and Garson Yu. Some of Godzilla's members were previously involved in Basement Workshop and Asian American Art Centre. Members decided to name the organization "Godzilla" after Japanese movie monster Godzilla.
The collective organized "slide slams" where hundreds of artists had the opportunity to display their work as well as view other artists' works. Godzilla also published a national newsletter that included member-written opinion pieces, coverage of Asian American art from across the United States, and calls for artwork. Because Godzilla members rejected formally becoming a 501(c)3 organization, rotating volunteer committees coordinated much of its work. The Godzilla logo and newsletters were designed and produced by Charles Yuen.
Other notable artists and arts professionals who later joined Godzilla include artists Paul Pfeiffer, Zhang Hongtu, Nina Kuo, Allan deSouza, Lynne Yamamoto, and art critic Alice Yang.
Whitney Biennial Protest
In the spring of 1991, members of Godzilla published a letter highlighting the historic absence of Asian American artists in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennials. The collective chose to call attention to this absence in part because of the Whitney Biennial's influence in establishing trends in the American art scene. In response to Godzilla's letter, Whitney Museum director David Ross met with Godzilla members Tsai, Machida, Pfeiffer and others to discuss plans to expand minority representation the Whitney's curatorial staff, which was intended to in turn improve the representation of minority artists in the Whitney's future biennials. Tsai was subsequently appointed as a curator at the Whitney in 1994.
Notable exhibitions
Dismantling Invisibility: Asian and Pacific Islander Artists Respond to the AIDS Crisis, 1991, Art in General, New York, New York
The New World Order III: The Curio Shop, 1993, Artists Space, New York, New York
Urban Encounters, New Museum, 1998
Why Asia, 2001
External links
NYU's Fales Library and Special Collections Guide to the Godzilla Asian American Arts Network Archive
References
Asian-American art
American artist grou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20computation | Reverse computation is a software application of the concept of reversible computing.
Because it offers a possible solution to the heat problem faced by chip manufacturers, reversible computing has been extensively studied in the area of computer architecture. The promise of reversible computing is that the amount of heat loss for reversible architectures would be minimal for significantly large numbers of transistors. Rather than creating entropy (and thus heat) through destructive operations, a reversible architecture conserves the energy by performing other operations that preserve the system state.
The concept of reverse computation is somewhat simpler than reversible computing in that reverse computation is only required to restore the equivalent state of a software application, rather than support the reversibility of the set of all possible instructions. Reversible computing concepts have been successfully applied as reverse computation in software application areas such as database design, checkpointing and debugging, and code differentiation.
Reverse Computation for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
Based on the successful application of Reverse Computation concepts in other software domains, Chris Carothers, Kalyan Perumalla and Richard Fujimoto suggest the application of reverse computation to reduce state saving overheads
in parallel discrete event simulation (PDES). They define an approach based on reverse event codes (which can be automatically generated), and
demonstrate performance advantages of this approach over traditional state saving for fine-grained applications (those with a small amount of computation per event).
The key property that reverse computation exploits is that a majority of the operations that modify the state variables are “constructive” in nature. That is, the undo operation for such operations requires no history. Only the most current values of the variables are required to undo the operation. For example, operators such as ++, ––, +=, -=, *= and /= belong to this category. Note, that the *= and /= operators require special treatment in the case of multiply or divide
by zero, and overflow / underflow conditions. More complex operations such as circular shift (swap being a special case), and certain classes of random number generation also belong here.
Operations of the form a = b, modulo and bitwise computations that result in the loss of data, are termed to be destructive. Typically these operations can only be restored using conventional state-saving techniques. However, we observe that many of these destructive operations are a consequence of the arrival of data contained within the event being processed. For example, in the work of Yaun, Carothers, et al., with large-scale TCP simulation, the last-sent time records the time stamp of the last packet forwarded on a router logical process. The swap operation makes this operation reversible.
History of Reverse Computation as applied to Parallel Dis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20MP3%20Player | Flash MP3 Player is a web application that allows users to create a music player on their website. It is based on Flash and PHP, but it can be installed without any programming skills. Users are simply required to embed a piece of HTML code into their website and application automatically generates a playlist by scanning a specified folder for MP3 files and using ID3 tags for naming. The looks of the application is customizable via XML file.
Features
Easy installation.
Forms playlist automatically.
Customizable design.
Fully resizable.
Autoplay and autoresume options.
See also
Comparison of media players
External links
Flash MP3 Player main site
Flash MP3 Player demo
Flash MP3 Player download
Web applications
Client/server media players
Adobe Flash
PHP software
Creative Commons-licensed works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20abuse | Internet abuse refers to improper use of the internet and may include:
Cyberbullying, use of the internet to bully and intimidate.
Cybercrime, use of computers in criminal activity
Cybersex trafficking, the live streaming of coerced sexual acts and or rape
Internet homicide, the killing online
Malware, software designed to harm a user's computer, including computer viruses
Spamming, sending unwanted advertising |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20correction%20model | An error correction model (ECM) belongs to a category of multiple time series models most commonly used for data where the underlying variables have a long-run common stochastic trend, also known as cointegration. ECMs are a theoretically-driven approach useful for estimating both short-term and long-term effects of one time series on another. The term error-correction relates to the fact that last-period's deviation from a long-run equilibrium, the error, influences its short-run dynamics. Thus ECMs directly estimate the speed at which a dependent variable returns to equilibrium after a change in other variables.
History
Yule (1926) and Granger and Newbold (1974) were the first to draw attention to the problem of spurious correlation and find solutions on how to address it in time series analysis. Given two completely unrelated but integrated (non-stationary) time series, the regression analysis of one on the other will tend to produce an apparently statistically significant relationship and thus a researcher might falsely believe to have found evidence of a true relationship between these variables. Ordinary least squares will no longer be consistent and commonly used test-statistics will be non-valid. In particular, Monte Carlo simulations show that one will get a very high R squared, very high individual t-statistic and a low Durbin–Watson statistic. Technically speaking, Phillips (1986) proved that parameter estimates will not converge in probability, the intercept will diverge and the slope will have a non-degenerate distribution as the sample size increases. However, there might be a common stochastic trend to both series that a researcher is genuinely interested in because it reflects a long-run relationship between these variables.
Because of the stochastic nature of the trend it is not possible to break up integrated series into a deterministic (predictable) trend and a stationary series containing deviations from trend. Even in deterministically detrended random walks spurious correlations will eventually emerge. Thus detrending does not solve the estimation problem.
In order to still use the Box–Jenkins approach, one could difference the series and then estimate models such as ARIMA, given that many commonly used time series (e.g. in economics) appear to be stationary in first differences. Forecasts from such a model will still reflect cycles and seasonality that are present in the data. However, any information about long-run adjustments that the data in levels may contain is omitted and longer term forecasts will be unreliable.
This led Sargan (1964) to develop the ECM methodology, which retains the level information.
Estimation
Several methods are known in the literature for estimating a refined dynamic model as described above. Among these are the Engle and Granger 2-step approach, estimating their ECM in one step and the vector-based VECM using Johansen's method.
Engle and Granger 2-step approach
The first step of this met |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysophylloideae | Chrysophylloideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the chicle family, Sapotaceae.
Genera
Genera accepted by the Germplasm Resources Information Network as of December 2022:
Achrouteria Eyma
Amorphospermum F.Muell.
Aubregrinia Heine
Beccariella Pierre
Breviea Aubrév. & Pellegr.
Chromolucuma Ducke
Chrysophyllum L.
Cornuella Pierre
Delpydora Pierre
Diploon Cronquist
Donella Pierre ex Baill.
Ecclinusa Mart.
Elaeoluma Baill.
Englerophytum K.Krause
Gambeya Pierre
Leptostylis Benth.
Lucuma Molina
Magodendron Vink
Martiusella Pierre
Micropholis (Griseb.) Pierre
Nemaluma Baill.
Niemeyera F.Muell.
Omphalocarpum P.Beauv.
Pichonia Pierre
Planchonella Pierre
Pleioluma Baill.
Pouteria Aubl.
Pradosia Liais
Pycnandra Benth.
Sahulia Swenson
Sarcaulus Radlk.
Sersalisia R.Br.
Spiniluma (Baill.) Aubrév.
Synsepalum (A.DC.) Daniell
Tridesmostemon Engl.
Van-royena Aubrév.
Xantolis Raf.
References
External links
Asterid subfamilies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20broadcasting%20contracts%20in%20the%20Philippines | These are the sports broadcasting contracts in the Philippines. There are four primary local producers of sport programs in the country: Solar Sports, TAP Sports, GMA Network, and TV5/Cignal TV (One Sports).
Local sports
Basketball
PBA: One Sports (A2Z, One Sports; free TV), PBA Rush (cable)
PBA D-League: One Sports (One Sports; free TV), PBA Rush (cable)
PCCL: TBD (TV & cable), Facebook (free-streaming)
Filoil EcoOil Preseason Cup: Solar Sports (cable), Filoil EcoOil Sports on Facebook (free-streaming)
UAAP: One Sports (One Sports; free TV), One Sports+, UAAP Varsity Channel (cable and satellite)
NCAA: GMA Network (free TV)
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League: One PH (free TV), One Sports+ (cable), Facebook (free-streaming), YouTube (free-streaming), Kumu (free-streaming), Media Pilipinas TV (cable)
Junior MPBL: Media Pilipinas TV (cable), Facebook & YouTube (free-streaming)
Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3: Facebook (free-streaming), FIBA 3x3 on YouTube (free-streaming)
National Basketball League (Philippines), Women's National Basketball League (Philippines), National Basketball League-Youth: ALIW 23 (free TV)
AsiaBasket: Solar Sports (cable), YouTube (free-streaming), Facebook (free-streaming)
VisMin Super Cup: Facebook (free-streaming)
Pilipinas Super League: Solar Sports (cable), Facebook & YouTube (free-streaming)
CESAFI: myTV Cebu (cable), CESAFI on Facebook (free-streaming)
Universities and Colleges Basketball League: Smart Sports on Facebook (free-streaming), YouTube (free-streaming)
Sinag Liga Asya: ALIW 23 (free TV), myTV Cebu, Tirad Pass Network & TAP Sports (cable), Blast TV PH (streaming)
Baseball
UAAP: UAAP Varsity Channel (cable and satellite)
Boxing
Blow by Blow (with MP Promotions): One Sports (free TV), Media Pilipinas TV (cable)
Football (soccer)
Ang Liga: Smart Sports on Facebook (free-streaming)
UAAP: UAAP Varsity Channel (cable and satellite)
Philippines national football team and Philippines women's national football team matches: One Sports
Philippines Football League: Facebook/YouTube (free-streaming), EXPTV (cable)
Copa Paulino Alcantara: Facebook/YouTube (via live streaming)
Horse racing
Santa Ana races: Apollo Technologies Facebook live streaming
San Lazaro races: San Lazaro Broadcasting Network, Gametime TV our Facebook live streaming
MetroTurf races: Sistemas Enterprises, Inc.
Volleyball
Premier Volleyball League: One Sports (free TV), One Sports+ (cable), Smart Gigafest and PVL.ph (streaming), Kumu (free-streaming)
Spikers' Turf: One Sports (free TV), One Sports+ (cable)
V-League: Solar Sports (cable), Facebook & YouTube (free-streaming)
Shakey's Super League: ALIW 23 (free TV), Solar Sports (cable), Plus Network (streaming), Blast TV PH (streaming), Facebook & YouTube (free-streaming)
UAAP: One Sports (free TV), One Sports+, UAAP Varsity Channel (cable and satellite)
NCAA: GMA Network (GTV) (free TV)
Maharlika Pilipinas Volleyball Association: Plus Network (streaming), Facebook & YouTube (fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour%20Sleep%20Proxy | Apple's Bonjour Sleep Proxy service is an open source component of zero-configuration networking, designed to assist in reducing power consumption of networked electronic devices.
A device acting as a sleep proxy server will respond to Multicast DNS queries for another compatible device which has gone into low power mode. The low-power-mode device remains asleep while the sleep proxy server responds to Multicast DNS queries. When the sleep proxy server sees a query which requires the low-power-mode device to wake up, the sleep proxy server sends a special wake-up-packet ("magic packet") to the low-power-mode device. Finally, communication parameters are updated via Multicast DNS, and normal communications proceed.
Apple refers to the service as Bonjour Sleep Proxy in its support documents. The service supports the Wake on Demand feature, first offered in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Details
Address resolution protocol
The sleep proxy service responds to address resolution protocol requests on behalf of the low-power-mode device:
When a sleep proxy sees an IPv4 ARP or IPv6 ND Request for one of the sleeping device's addresses, it answers on behalf of the sleeping device, without waking it up, giving its own MAC address as the current (temporary) owner of that address.
This may appear confusing to network administrators who are not expecting the behaviour of changing MAC addresses.
Wireless magic packet
In case the low-power-mode device is communicating via Wi-Fi, the wake-up-packet is sent via Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WMM). This was not possible in previous implementations of Wake on LAN (WoL). The wireless hardware must be updated enough to include WMM support. Apple provides instructions for checking compatibility with this feature for Macintosh computers.
Supported services and examples
The sleep proxy service is able to advertise any Bonjour-supported services, while the host computer sleeps. Some examples of supported services are:
File sharing: a host supporting the sleep proxy service, which offers file services, may go to sleep as needed. When someone needs to access shared files, the host will wake up automatically.
iTunes library sharing: the computer hosting the iTunes library may go to sleep, and will automatically wake when someone wishes to browse the iTunes library from a different PC.
Printer sharing: a printer may be connected and shared from a computer supporting sleep proxy service. The computer can go to sleep when not in use, but will wake when needed to service a print job being sent from a different computer.
SSH: a computer offering SSH access may go to sleep, and awaken via the sleep proxy service when an SSH login is initiated.
Desktop sharing: similar to above examples.
Implementations
Implementations on a local area network can be seen with Bonjour Browser.
Apple AirPort Express with firmware version 7.4.1 or 7.4.2
Apple AirPort Extreme with firmware version 7.4.1 or 7.4.2
Apple AirPort Time Ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChargePoint | ChargePoint (formerly Coulomb Technologies) is an American electric vehicle infrastructure company based in Campbell, California. ChargePoint operates the largest online network of independently owned EV charging stations operating in 14 countries and makes some of the technology used in it.
History
ChargePoint was founded in 2007 as Coulomb Technologies by Richard Lowenthal, Dave Baxter and Harjinder Bhade.
In June 2017, ChargePoint took over 9,800 electric vehicle charging spots from GE. Prior to that point, ChargePoint managed 34,900 charging stations across Mexico, Australia, Canada, and the United States.
The current CEO and president as of 2018 is Pasquale Romano. On November 28, 2018, ChargePoint raised $240 million. At the time, ChargePoint maintained 57,000 charging spots. In 2019, VW's Electrify America and ChargePoint agreed to provide common access to their US customers.
Company reached 100,000 chargers in September 2019, while adding more than 2,000 charging locations per month
ChargePoint went public through a special-purpose acquisition company ("SPAC") reverse merger in February 2021. In January 2023, ChargePoint, Mercedes-Benz, and MN8 Energy announced plans to add 2,500 fast chargers at 400 charging hubs in the U.S., which will be available to all EVs.
Charging stations
The company "designs, develops and manufactures hardware and software solutions" for electric vehicles at large. Its business model, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, involves selling "its hardware and software to property owners, build a searchable network of charging stations for drivers and maintain individual stations."
Current stations
ChargePoint Home – This is a small home charger that won an Edison Award for new product innovation and human-centered design. It is available in 16A and 32A versions. ChargePoint Home Flex added 50A charging support.
CT4000 Family – The CT4000 is intended for property owners, businesses and municipalities providing for charging stations for their employees, customers, residents and fleets. It was the first to support power sharing along multiple ports.
CP4000 Family – Three phase Mennekes ("type 2") charging for Europe, up to 22 kW. Can share a single three phase 63A circuit or use two separate 32A circuits.
CPE 100 and CPE 200 – ChargePoint Express DC fast chargers offer fast charging for most DC-capable electric vehicles. With an embedded AC-to-DC converter, they directly charge the vehicle battery and can charge some EVs in less than 30 minutes. Express stations are particularly suitable for short dwell time parking, freeway corridor locations and quick turnaround fleet charging. They can also be installed in workplaces to complement CT4000 stations for employees who need a quick charge. Express 100 is 24 kW, Express 200 is 50 kW, and Express 250 is 62.5 kW. Express 100 is available in separate CCS and CHAdeMO models, while Express 200 is larger and has both ports. Express 200 is a charging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POCO%20C%2B%2B%20Libraries | The POrtable COmponents (POCO) C++ Libraries are computer software, a set of class libraries for developing computer network-centric, portable applications in the programming language C++. The libraries cover functions such as threads, thread synchronizing, file system access, streams, shared libraries and class loading, Internet sockets, and network communications protocols (HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc.), and include an HTTP server, and an XML parser with SAX2 and DOM interfaces and SQL database access. The modular and efficient design and implementation makes the libraries well suited for embedded system development.
The libraries are free and open-source software distributed under the Boost Software License 1.0.
Overview
POCO is a set of C++ libraries providing users with library support similar to that found in other development environments, like the Java Class Library, .NET Framework, or Apple's Cocoa. POCO is centered on network-centric application domains and developed with modern ANSI/ISO Standard C++ and C++ Standard Library facilities and techniques with emphasis on powerful functionality, ease of use, and consistency. Governed primarily by code quality, consistent style and unit testing, POCO is highly portable, and already ported to a variety of different platforms.
History
Library hierarchy
, POCO C++ Libraries are split into five core libraries with optional add-on libraries available with each release. The design and hierarchy of POCO C++ is considered well designed. The five core component libraries cover the following areas that can be found in the basic edition:
Foundation
Platform abstraction – Eases porting issues of fundamental types, etc.
Memory management – Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII), auto_ptr, reference counting garbage collection, etc.
String utilities
Error handling – Extended exception classes
streams – Encoding and decoding and filtering support
threads – Concurrent processing support
Date and time – Date and time support including formatting and high precision timers
File system – Abstracted file system support
Logging – Application and system logging, filtering and logging strategies
Processes – Interprocess communication and memory sharing
shared libraries – Dynamic library support
Notifications – Abstracted notification support
Events – Abstracted event support and strategies
Crypt – Random number generation, Digests and encoding/decoding engines
Text – Unicode encoding support
Regular expressions – Based on Perl compatible regular expression
URI – Universal Resource Identifier support
UUID – Universally Unique Identifiers support and generators
Cache support – Abstracted strategy support
Net
sockets – Abstracted low level network support
Reactor pattern – Popular network abstraction pattern support
MIME messages – Encoding support
HTTP – High level HTTP support for client and servers
FTP – High level FTP support
Mail – POP3, SMTP stream based support
HTML – Form sup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bani%20Hasan%2C%20Libya | Bani Hasan is a town in western Libya lying on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Transport
It is proposed to be served by a station on the national railway network, under construction in 2009.
See also
Railway stations in Libya
References
Populated places in Murqub District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex%20links | Flex links is a network switch feature in Cisco equipment which enables redundancy and load balancing at the layer 2 level. The feature serves as an alternative to Spanning Tree Protocol or link aggregation. A pair of layer 2 interfaces, such as switch ports or port channels, has one interface configured as a backup to the other. If the primary link fails, the backup link takes over traffic forwarding.
At any point of time, only one interface will be in linkup state and actively forwarding traffic. If the primary link shuts down, the standby link takes up the duty and starts forwarding traffic and becomes the primary link. When the failing link comes back up active, it goes into standby mode and does not participate in traffic forwarding and becomes the backup link. This behaviour can be changed with pre-emption mode which makes the failed link the primary link when it becomes available again.
Load balancing in Flex links work at VLAN level. Both the ports in the Flex link pair can be made to forward traffic simultaneously. One port in the flex links pair can be configured to forward traffic belonging to VLANs 1-50 and the other can forward traffic for VLANs 51-100. Mutually exclusive VLANs are load sharing the traffic between the Flex link pairs. If one of the ports fails, the other active link forwards all the traffic.
References
Computer networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20stations%20in%20the%20Berlin%20area | This list covers the railway stations in the Berlin area. These include both passenger stations and marshalling yards, but not goods stations. Because the Berlin S-Bahn network has expanded to include stations in the state of Brandenburg, the table shows only those stations lying within the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg's present-day Berlin ABC fare zones (i.e. those up to about 15 kilometres from the Berlin city boundary), and those formerly served by Berlin's suburban services. The latter ran out beyond the capital's boundaries to the next largest towns along the main and branch lines.
The farthest towns on the lines covered here are listed below:
Rüdnitz (Stettin Railway) – Werneuchen (Wriezen Railway) – Strausberg (Prussian Eastern Railway) – Fürstenwalde (Lower Silesian-Märkisch Railway) – Kablow (Königs Wusterhausen–Grunow) – Königs Wusterhausen (Görlitz Railway) – Mittenwalde (Neukölln–Mittenwalde railway) – Wünsdorf (Dresden Railway) – Thyrow (Anhalt Railway) – Beelitz-Stadt (Brandenburg Ring Railway) – Beelitz-Heilstätten (Wetzlar Railway) – Werder (Berlin-Potsdam railway (Stammbahn) – Wustermark (Lehrte Railway) – Nauen (Hamburg Railway) – Vehlefanz (Kremmen Railway) – Sachsenhausen (Nordb) (Prussian Northern Railway) – Wensickendorf and Wandlitzsee (Heidekraut Railway).
Overview
In Berlin there are long-distance stations for rail travellers. The following stop at these stations:
Deutsche Bahn AG trains:
InterCityExpress (ICE)
InterCity (IC)
EuroCity (EC) and
Trains of other railway companies:
InterConneX (X) – (Veolia Verkehr)
Harz-Elbe-Express (HEX) – (Veolia Verkehr)
Berlin Night Express (Georg Verkehrsorganisation) (GVG)
There are also regional stations. The following call at these stations:
Deutsche Bahn AG trains:
RegionalExpresse (RE) and
RegionalBahnen (RB)
Trains of other railway companies:
Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NE),
Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn (OE),
Märkische Regiobahn (MR) und
Prignitzer Eisenbahn (PE).
The following stop at S-Bahn stations:
S-Bahn Berlin GmbH trains
Stadtschnellbahn trains (S-Bahn)
There are also two marshalling yards in the Berlin area.
Passenger stations
The following table gives an overview of the current, former and planned railway stations and halts in the Berlin together with the associated district abbreviation (as used on car number plates) and the types of train that stop there. For readability only one example of the train category is given in the table.
ICE for long-distance express trains, i.e. also TGV, Thalys etc.
IC for special long-distance trains, i.e. Also private ones like InterConnex etc.
RE for local express trains
RB for regional trains, including those of private operators such as ODEG, UBB etc.
S for S-Bahn trains
x means that the train type (or a similar one) calls at the station
x¹ means that the train type (or a similar one) used to call at the station
For reasons of space only the car number plate abbreviation for the town or rural |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShoMMA | ShoMMA: Strikeforce Challengers is a mixed martial arts series that was produced by the mixed martial arts organization Strikeforce and the Showtime cable network. Similar to Showtime's earlier ShoXC, the purpose of the series was to highlight up and coming MMA fighters.
Strikeforce Challengers was discontinued with the 2012 Strikeforce deal.
Events
Notes
All Strikeforce women's fights are five-minute rounds (except in one-night tournaments).
References
External links
Strikeforce (mixed martial arts)
Mixed martial arts television shows
2009 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
Showtime (TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson%20algorithm | Robinson algorithm may refer to:
Robinson's Resolution Algorithm
Robinson–Schensted correspondence
Robinson's unification algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson%E2%80%93Schensted%E2%80%93Knuth%20correspondence | In mathematics, the Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence, also referred to as the RSK correspondence or RSK algorithm, is a combinatorial bijection between matrices with non-negative integer entries and pairs of semistandard Young tableaux of equal shape, whose size equals the sum of the entries of . More precisely the weight of is given by the column sums of , and the weight of by its row sums.
It is a generalization of the Robinson–Schensted correspondence, in the sense that taking to be a permutation matrix, the pair will be the pair of standard tableaux associated to the permutation under the Robinson–Schensted correspondence.
The Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence extends many of the remarkable properties of the Robinson–Schensted correspondence, notably its symmetry: transposition of the matrix results in interchange of the tableaux .
The Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence
Introduction
The Robinson–Schensted correspondence is a bijective mapping between permutations and pairs of standard Young tableaux, both having the same shape. This bijection can be constructed using an algorithm called Schensted insertion, starting with an empty tableau and successively inserting the values σ1,…,σn of the permutation σ at the numbers 1,2,…n; these form the second line when σ is given in two-line notation:
.
The first standard tableau is the result of successive insertions; the other standard tableau records the successive shapes of the intermediate tableaux during the construction of .
The Schensted insertion easily generalizes to the case where σ has repeated entries; in that case the correspondence will produce a semistandard tableau rather than a standard tableau, but will still be a standard tableau. The definition of the RSK correspondence reestablishes symmetry between the P and Q tableaux by producing a semistandard tableau for as well.
Two-line arrays
The two-line array (or generalized permutation) corresponding to a matrix is defined as
in which for any pair that indexes an entry of , there are columns equal to , and all columns are in lexicographic order, which means that
, and
if and then .
Example
The two-line array corresponding to
is
Definition of the correspondence
By applying the Schensted insertion algorithm to the bottom line of this two-line array, one obtains a pair consisting of a semistandard tableau and a standard tableau , where the latter can be turned into a semistandard tableau by replacing each entry of by the -th entry of the top line of . One thus obtains a bijection from matrices to ordered pairs, of semistandard Young tableaux of the same shape, in which the set of entries of is that of the second line of , and the set of entries of is that of the first line of . The number of entries in is therefore equal to the sum of the entries in column of , and the number of entries in is equal to the sum of the entries in row of .
Example
In the above example |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are%20U%204%20Real%3F | Are U 4 Real? () is a Swedish young adult book written by Sara Kadefors. It was originally written as a script for a television drama, but after a Swedish television network turned it down, Kadefors got Bonnier Carlsen to publish it as a book in 2001. On 7 April 2009 it was revealed that the book would be released in the United States on 14 May 2009 with a new title, Are U 4 Real? The book is about a girl named Ida who lives in Stockholm and a boy named Sandor who lives in Gothenburg. The two sixteen-year-olds meet for the first time on an Internet chat room, where they eventually fall in love with each other. However, everything goes wrong when Sandor decides to visit Ida in Stockholm.
Plot
Ida is exactly the opposite of the girls Sandor usually talks to in real life. She is an attractive girl from Stockholm who likes to party, while he is a shy boy from Gothenburg who likes to dance ballet. The two first meet in an Internet chat room, where they share their feelings and become close friends. Sandor and Ida eventually fall in love with each other. However, everything goes wrong when Sandor decides to visit Ida in Stockholm.
Publication history
Sandor slash Ida was originally written by Sara Kadefors as a television drama. However, when she pitched the idea to the Swedish television network Sveriges Television, they turned it down. Kadefors therefore tried to get it published as a book, and in 2001 she got it published by Bonnier Carlsen. On 7 April 2009 it was revealed that the book would be published in the United States by Penguin Group on 14 May 2009. Several changes have been made to the English adaptation of the book. Ida's name has been changed to Kyla and Sandor's has been changed to Alex. The book is no longer set in Sweden; Stockholm has been replaced by Los Angeles and Gothenburg by San Francisco. Several parts of the book regarding Ida's sexual experiences have also been removed or censored. Kadefors said she was insulted by the changes, "it's like if the book wasn't good enough, and [Ida's] experiences with sex and alcohol explains why she reacts the ways she does in the book." The book's translator explained that if the book had contained "too much sex" it would have been difficult to sell to stores.
Reception
The episode has received multiple awards. In 2001, it won the prestigious Augustpriset (English: August Award) in the "Best Children-Youth Book" category. It won the Pocketpriset (English: Pocket Award) for being the most sold children's book in 2001. It is one of the most common books for Swedish children between the ages of twelve to fifteen to read during their primary education in Swedish schools. Other common books include Lord of the Flies and Vinterviken.
Film adaptation
A film adaptation of the book was released in Sweden on 4 February 2005. It was written by Kadefors and directed by Henrik Georgsson, Kadefors's husband. The film won an award at the Gothenburg Film Festival, where it premiered. The film also won a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay%20Financial%20Network | The Gay Financial Network was created by Walter Schubert in April 1998. It aims to single out businesses which practice discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. It was the first gay-specific company to be advertised in The Wall Street Journal, on February 18, 2000 and has been seen as an example of the merging of gay activism with gay marketing.
References
External links
Archive home page Gay Financial Network
Organizations established in 1998
LGBT business organizations
Defunct LGBT organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOTD | eOTD is the acronym for the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary. The dictionary is a language-independent database of concepts with associated terms, definitions and images used to unambiguously describe individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules, and regulations. The eOTD is maintained by the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA).
History
The eOTD was developed with the support of the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) an agency of the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). The eOTD is the first dictionary to be compliant with ISO 22745 (open technical dictionaries).
Structure
The eOTD contains terms, definitions and images linked to concept identifiers. eOTD concept identifiers are used to create unambiguous language independent descriptions of individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules and regulations. The process of using concept identifiers from an external open technical dictionary is a form of semantic encoding compliant with the requirements of ISO 8000-110:2008, the international standard for the exchange of quality master data.
The eOTD concept identifiers are in the public domain. Using public domain identifiers as metadata creates portable data that can be legally separated from the software application that was used to create it. The dictionary contains concepts from international, national and industry standards including over 400,000 concepts of class (approved item name), property (attribute), units of measure, currency and common enumerated value (e.g., days of the week). The eOTD does not include a class hierarchy or class-property relationships.
Use
Companies use the eOTD to create data requirement specifications as Identification Guides (IGs) or cataloging templates. These Identification Guides contain the class-property relationships and are used for cataloging, to measure data quality as well as to create requests for data or requests for data validation.
Industrial products and services categorization standards
eCl@ss
ETIM (standard)
UNSPSC
eOTD
RosettaNet
See also
Ontology (information science)
References
Further reading
External links
ECCMA
Dictionaries by subject
Trade and industrial classification systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDDC | EDDC may refer to:
Dresden Airport (by its ICAO code)
East Devon District Council in the United Kingdom
East Dorset District Council in the United Kingdom
Enhanced Display Data Channel (E-DDC) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20Unified%20Communications%20Management | Avaya Unified Communications Management in computer networking is the name of a collection of GUI software programs from Avaya utilizing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that serves as a foundation for unifying configuration and monitoring of Avaya Unified Communications Servers and data systems.
History
Origins
These management tools were originally named and created by Synoptics, carried on by Bay Networks, and later updated with the family name Unified Communications Management by Nortel. The products, in a similar fashion as the Optivity product predecessors are notable for their innovative use of web browser based user interface not only for access to network management data, but also for configuration of the network. This was something that heretofore was only possible with an installed binary application.
Version history
In June 1996, release 7.0 included the Optivity Network Management System, which included version 7.0 which provided SNMP based auto-discovery of the data network switches, analysis, planning tools, policy services, and telephony management. This management tool was rated very high by Info World with an analysis of the tools from Bay Networks, HP, 3Com, and Network General solutions, with HP open view receiving the highest marks.
Capabilities
The products in the Unified Communications Management (UCM) suite integrate into the same SOA based Web Services framework to provide a comprehensive set of management capabilities all available through a web browser single sign on. Web browser sessions of the Unified Communications Management Suite use HTTP Secure sessions to provide access to the UCM Home Page. From the UCM Home page, each user can access any of the UCM applications by clicking on the application link from the navigation bar on the left hand side of the page.
Visualization Performance and Fault Manager
Visualization of the Network Topology VPFM is able to perform autodiscovery of the Wireless, WAN, LAN and VoIP network infrastructure as well as Servers, End Node Devices, and Printers. VPFM has a Path Trace Capability that provides functionality to see the physical network connectivity from the End Node Device to the server it may be trying to access. This provides more functionality than a traceroute in that the graphical path trace functionality is able to show Split Multilink Trunk physical connections and related statistics down the path being diagnosed. Diagnostic tools such as trending can be used to observe errors and traffic levels down each link in the Split Multilink Trunk.
Auto Trending Capacity Planning and Reporting is an important feature of a network management system in order for the operator to respond to network utilization and growth. Upon auto-discovery of the physical slot/port connectivity of the entire network, VPFM is able to understand which connections link the network together. VPFM automatically enables the trending of Key Resource Indicators and Key Performance Indicators to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofm | Sofm can refer to:
Self-organizing map, a type of artificial neural network (ANN)
SofM, a Vietnamese League of Legends player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjoy%20K.%20Mitter | Sanjoy Kumar Mitter (December 9, 1933 – June 26, 2023) was a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT who was a noted control theorist.
Life and career
Mitter was born in 1933 in Calcutta, India. He received a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Calcutta, and a B.Sc. in Engineering at City and Guilds of London Institute. He continued his studies in the United Kingdom and Ph.D. from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. After graduation, he worked at Brown, Boveri & Cie, the Battelle Memorial Institute, and the Central Electricity Generating Board before joining Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in 1965 as an assistant professor. Mitter became an associate professor at CWRU in 1967 and moved to MIT in 1969. He became a professor of electrical engineering at MIT in 1973. At MIT, he was director for both the Center for Intelligent Control and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.
Mitter's research is concerned with Systems, Control and Communication. He has furnished proofs in nonlinear filtering and optimal control theory, as well as carrying out more applied work in image analysis, computation of optimal controls and reliability of electrical power systems.
Mitter lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He died in June 2023.
Honors and awards
Mitter received both the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council (2007) and the IEEE Control Systems Award (in 2000). In 1988 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for outstanding contributions to the theory and applications of automatic control and nonlinear filtering".
References
External links
Home page at MIT ESD
Home page at MIT EECS
1933 births
2023 deaths
Control theorists
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award recipients
Indian electrical engineers
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
21st-century American engineers
Case Western Reserve University faculty
People from Kolkata
Alumni of Imperial College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-4%20satellite | The I-4 satellites are made up of the INMARSAT BGAN, FleetBroadband and SwiftBroadband communications network. They provide Internet and telecom connections everywhere on Earth, except in polar regions.
Data services
Two general types of data services are currently provided:
Streaming
Background
Streaming
Streaming is a service that guarantees the delivery of data. In this service, a terminal requests a specific bandwidth (currently available in 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 kbit/s), and if the current spot beam has sufficient resources, the requested bandwidth is allocated to the terminal. For example, if a terminal requests an 8 kbit/s streaming context, it will be able to send data at 8 kbit/s consistently. Consequently, streaming services are billed based on the duration of usage.
Background
Background service is a best-effort approach to data delivery. Each spot beam provides a certain amount of usable bandwidth, and any bandwidth not used by streaming contexts is allocated for background contexts. This means that the actual bandwidth received with a background context may vary over time. The theoretical maximum bandwidth available is approximately 400 kbit/s. As a result, background contexts are billed based on data volume rather than duration of usage.
See also
Inmarsat-4 F1
Inmarsat-4 F3
Inmarsat-4A F4
Communications satellites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20New%20England%20Patriots%20broadcasters |
Radio
The New England Patriots' flagship radio station is WBZ-FM 98.5 FM, owned by CBS Radio. The larger radio network is called the "New England Patriots Radio Network", whose 35 affiliate stations span seven states. Gil Santos and Gino Cappelletti were the longtime announcing team. In 2011, the network debuted a sideline reporter, with former quarterback Scott Zolak handling sideline duty. On July 20, 2012, Gino Cappelletti announced his retirement, ending a 32-year career as the popular color analyst on the team’s radio broadcasts, and was replaced by Zolak. Santos had also announced that 2012 would be his final season. Former Navy football broadcaster Bob Socci was named to replace Santos beginning in 2013.
By year
Brock replaced Cappelletti for the first eight games of 2001 because of illness to Cappelletti.
Cappelletti returned to the broadcast booth for the opening quarter of New England's Week 17 game vs. Miami.
Television
Any preseason games not on national television are shown on CBS affiliate WBZ-TV, along with other stations in the other New England television markets. These games were broadcast on ABC affiliate WCVB-TV from 1995 until the change to WBZ in 2009.
By year
References
External links
Radio page on Patriots.com
New England Patriots
New England Patriots
broadcasters
CBS Radio Sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Buffalo%20Bills%20broadcasters | The Buffalo Bills have been covered by numerous broadcasters, particularly through the Buffalo Bills Radio Network in radio.
Radio
The Buffalo Bills Radio Network is flagshipped at WGR (AM 550). Chris Brown (who previously called play-by-play for the Buffalo Bulls football and Buffalo Destroyers arena football teams before joining the Bills as a studio host) is the current play-by-play announcer. Eric Wood serves as the color analyst. The Bills radio network has eighteen affiliates in upstate New York, two affiliates in northwestern Pennsylvania, WBRR 100.1 FM in Bradford, Pennsylvania, WQHZ 102.3 FM in Erie, Pennsylvania, one affiliate, CJCL 590AM (The Fan) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one affiliate, KGAB 650AM in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Play-by-play
Van Miller (1960-1971, 1978-2003)
Al Meltzer and Rick Azar (1972-1977)
John Murphy (2004–2022, on extended medical leave)
Chris Brown (2023–present)
Color analysts
Dick Rifenburg and Ralph Hubbell (1960-1972)
Ed Rutkowski (1973-1977)
Stan Barron (1978-1983)
John Murphy (1984-1989, 1994-2003)
Greg Brown (1990-1993)
Alex Van Pelt (2004-2005)
Mark Kelso (2006–2018)
Eric Wood (2019–present)
Steve Tasker (2020-?)
Sideline reporters
Paul Peck (?-2003, 2005-2008)
Jeff Burris (2004-2005)
Rich "Bull" Gaenzler (2009-2011)
Joe Buscaglia (2012-2013)
Sal Capaccio (2014–present)
Studio hosts
Jim Brinson (2004)
Rich "Bull" Gaenzler (2005-2006)
Vic Carucci (2006-2008)
Brent Axe (2009-2011)
Mike Schopp and Chris "Bulldog" Parker (2012–present)
Television
During preseason, most games are televised on MSG Western New York per a rights deal between MSG and the team owners Terry and Kim Pegula and simulcasted on Buffalo's ABC affiliate, WKBW-TV channel 7 along with the stations of Nexstar Media Group elsewhere in upstate New York. WKBW's agreement expires after the 2019 season, at which point WIVB-TV, as a Nexstar affiliate, will take over as the official broadcast home of the Bills. Since 2008, preseason games have been broadcast in high definition.
As an American Football Conference team, the majority of Buffalo Bills regular season games air on CBS, which is carried in Buffalo on WIVB; Thursday night games, any home games in which the opponent is from the National Football Conference, and any games the league arbitrarily chooses to "cross-flex" air on Fox, whose local affiliate is WUTV. Sunday night games, should the Bills ever be selected for one, air on NBC, whose Buffalo affiliate is WGRZ. The rights to Monday night simulcasts from ESPN expired after 2017; as of August, it is unknown what station has purchased those rights.
As of 2021, the broadcast team consists of Andrew Catalon or Rob Stone on play-by-play, Steve Tasker as color commentator, and Cynthia Frelund as sideline reporter.
See also
List of Bills Toronto Series broadcasters
References
Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills
Broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver%20Broncos%20Radio%20Network | This article is a list of the current Denver Broncos broadcasters. As of the start of the 2015 NFL season, the Broncos' flagship radio station is KOA 850 AM, a 50,000-watt station in Denver, Colorado owned by iHeartMedia. Dave Logan is the play-by-play announcer; he starred for the Colorado Buffaloes before beginning his NFL career, spent mostly with the Cleveland Browns. Rick Lewis is the color commentator. Preseason games not selected for airing on national television were briefly on KCNC, channel 4, which is a CBS owned-and-operated station, as well as other CBS affiliates around the Rocky Mountain region, from 2004 through 2010. The games had for years previously been on KUSA, channel 9, an NBC affiliate, and in 2011, the team returned to KUSA, which has higher news ratings.
The first Broncos network was headed by KBTR; in the team's final season with that station, 1963, there were 15 affiliates. KTLN (known as KTLK beginning in 1969) took over for the rest of the decade; 53 stations were on the network in KTLK's final season of 1969. KOA's first season as network flagship was 1970.
Radio affiliates
Broncos Radio Network
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
New Mexico
Nevada
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Texas
Wyoming
References
Denver Broncos
Denver Broncos
National Football League on the radio
Denver Broncos lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determining%20the%20number%20of%20clusters%20in%20a%20data%20set | Determining the number of clusters in a data set, a quantity often labelled k as in the k-means algorithm, is a frequent problem in data clustering, and is a distinct issue from the process of actually solving the clustering problem.
For a certain class of clustering algorithms (in particular k-means, k-medoids and expectation–maximization algorithm), there is a parameter commonly referred to as k that specifies the number of clusters to detect. Other algorithms such as DBSCAN and OPTICS algorithm do not require the specification of this parameter; hierarchical clustering avoids the problem altogether.
The correct choice of k is often ambiguous, with interpretations depending on the shape and scale of the distribution of points in a data set and the desired clustering resolution of the user. In addition, increasing k without penalty will always reduce the amount of error in the resulting clustering, to the extreme case of zero error if each data point is considered its own cluster (i.e., when k equals the number of data points, n). Intuitively then, the optimal choice of k will strike a balance between maximum compression of the data using a single cluster, and maximum accuracy by assigning each data point to its own cluster. If an appropriate value of k is not apparent from prior knowledge of the properties of the data set, it must be chosen somehow. There are several categories of methods for making this decision.
Elbow method
The elbow method looks at the percentage of explained variance as a function of the number of clusters:
One should choose a number of clusters so that adding another cluster doesn't give much better modeling of the data.
More precisely, if one plots the percentage of variance explained by the clusters against the number of clusters, the first clusters will add much information (explain a lot of variance), but at some point the marginal gain will drop, giving an angle in the graph. The number of clusters is chosen at this point, hence the "elbow criterion".
In most datasets, this "elbow" is ambiguous, making this method subjective and unreliable.
Percentage of variance explained is the ratio of the between-group variance to the total variance, also known as an F-test. A slight variation of this method plots the curvature of the within group variance.
The method can be traced to speculation by Robert L. Thorndike in 1953.
While the idea of the elbow method sounds simple and straightforward, other methods (as detailed below) give better results.
X-means clustering
In statistics and data mining, X-means clustering is a variation of k-means clustering that refines cluster assignments by repeatedly attempting subdivision, and keeping the best resulting splits, until a criterion such as the Akaike information criterion (AIC) or Bayesian information criterion (BIC) is reached.
Information criterion approach
Another set of methods for determining the number of clusters are information criteria, such as the Akaike inform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las%20Vegas%20Raiders%20Radio%20Network | The Las Vegas Raiders Radio Network is an American radio network composed of 52 radio stations which carry English-language coverage of the Las Vegas Raiders, a professional football team in the National Football League (NFL). Las Vegas market stations KRLV (920 AM) and KOMP (92.3 FM) serve as the network's two flagships. The network also includes 50 affiliates in the U.S. states of Nevada, California, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Utah: 34 AM stations, sixteen of which supplement their signals with a low-power FM translator and one repeated over an HD Radio FM digital subchannel; and 16 full-power FM stations, four of which supplement their signals with a low-power FM translator. Jason Horowitz is the current play-by-play announcer, while Lincoln Kennedy serves as color commentator; George Atkinson and Jim Plunkett offer pre- and post-game commentary. Compass Media Networks is responsible for producing and distributing the network to these aforementioned terrestrial radio stations.
Complementing this coverage, Las Vegas market station KENO (1460 AM) serves as the flagship of a secondary radio network carrying Spanish-language coverage of the Raiders. This network includes 8 affiliates in the U.S. states of Nevada and California: 5 AM stations and 3 FM stations. Harry Ruiz is the current Spanish-language play-by-play announcer with Ernesto Amador serving as color commentator.
In addition to traditional over-the-air AM and FM broadcasts, network programming airs on SiriusXM satellite radio; and streams online via SiriusXM Internet Radio, TuneIn Premium, and NFL+.
History
From 2004 to 2009, the flagship was KSFO (560 AM) in San Francisco with a network of thirty radio stations in Hawaii, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, and British Columbia. During most of the 1970s, KGO (810 AM) was the flagship station.
Bill King—the "Voice of the Raiders"—called the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders from 1966 to 1992. He called approximately 600 games. The Raiders awarded him all three rings. King left after the 1992 season. It's Bill's radio audio heard on most of the NFL Films highlight footage of the Raiders. King's color men in Oakland included former San Francisco 49ers tight end Monty Stickles and Scotty Stirling, a sports writer for the Oakland Tribune. Many of the years, KGO 810 did promos as "Raider Radio 81". King's call of the Holy Roller has been labeled (by Chris Berman, among others) as one of 5 best in NFL history. King died in October 2005 from complications after surgery. Scotty Stirling, an Oakland Tribune sportswriter, served as the "color man" with King. The Raider games were called on radio from 1960 to 1962 by Bud (Wilson Keene) Foster and Mel Venter and from 1963 to 1965 by Bob Blum and Dan Galvin.
Until their dismissal prior to the 2018 season, Greg Papa was the voice of the Raiders with former Raiders quarterback and head coach Tom Flores doing commentary from 1997 until 2017. From 2018 until 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBCC | PBCC may refer to:
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church
Palm Beach Community College
Pakistan Blind Cricket Council
PowerBASIC Console Compiler
Punjab Boards Committee of Chairmen, see Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rawalpindi
Parkersburg Correctional Center, see West Virginia Division of Corrections
Putney Bridge Canoe Club |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Marzullo | Frank Marzullo is an AMS seal meteorologist for WXIX-TV, the Fox network affiliate in Cincinnati, Ohio.
References
External links
Frank Marzullo at Fox 19
2004 Interview with The Jambar
Frank Leaves the Mahoning Valley - The (Youngstown) Vindicator
American television meteorologists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tampa%20Bay%20Buccaneers%20broadcasters |
Radio
The Buccaneers' current flagship radio station is WXTB, 97.9 FM Tampa. Prior to the 2017 season, 620 AM WDAE broadcast the games. A network of Florida radio stations simulcast the games. The play-by-play announcer since 1989 has been Gene Deckerhoff. Former Bucs tight end Dave Moore joined Deckerhoff as analyst for the 2007 season. T. J. Rives works as the sideline reporter.
The current line up of Tampa Bay Buccaneers radio affiliates is:
Tampa - 97.9 FM WXTB
Tampa - 96.1 FM WTMP-FM and 1470 AM WMGG (Spanish-language broadcasts)
Fort Myers - 770 AM and 104.3 FM WBCN
Hernando County - 1450 AM WWJB
Miami - 940 AM WINZ
Orlando - 740 AM and 96.9 FM WYGM
Space Coast/Treasure Coast - 95.9 FM WROK
West Palm Beach - 640 AM WMEN
Past
Broadcast legend and former Green Bay Packers announcer Ray Scott was the play-by-play man for the Bucs' 1976 and 1977 seasons. In 1978, Dick Crippen called the games for the first half of the season while Jim Gallogly did so for the second half. Mark Champion held the position from 1979 to 1988.
Former Buccaneer Hardy Nickerson served as color commentator for one season in 2006, until he signed with the Bears as a linebackers coach on February 23, 2007. Nickerson had replaced Scot Brantley, who was the commentator from 1999 through 2005. Jesse Ventura, the famous professional wrestler, actor, and former governor of Minnesota, was Deckerhoff's partner on the Bucs radio broadcasts for one year and was known for exclaiming "positively Gene", 1990, and former Buc David Logan held that position after Ventura until his death after the 1998 season. Dave Kocourek and Fran Curci were also color commentors for the Buccaneers during their earlier years.
Ronnie Lane previously worked as a sideline reporter.
The Bucs have broadcast on FM radio since signing with Top 40 station 104.7 WRBQ-FM in 1992. The team moved to 99.5 WQYK-FM, in 1994, then to WFUS in 2004.
Television
While regular season and post-season games in the NFL are all broadcast by national television contracts on CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN and NFL Network, the television broadcasts are for the most part handled by the individual teams. Preseason games not picked up for national broadcast are broadcast, beginning in 2011 on WTSP Channel 10, the Tampa CBS affiliate, after having been on WFLA Channel 8, from 2003 through 2010. WFTV Channel 9 simulcasts the broadcast in the Orlando area. Chris Myers is the play-by-play announcer with Ronde Barber as color commentator. Both Myers and Barber work nationally with FOX Sports.
CBS, FOX and NBC games are shown respectively in Tampa Bay on WTSP, WTVT and WFLA, while they are shown respectively in Orlando on WKMG, WOFL and WESH. Monday Night Football games are simulcast locally on WFTS, and NFL Network games can be seen locally on WFLA-TV.
Past
WTOG Channel 44 was the previous home to Buccaneer preseason games for many years, ending in 2002. Former CBS play-by-play and ESPN golf broadcaster Jim Kelly was the play-by-play an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20New%20Orleans%20Saints%20broadcasters | The New Orleans Saints' flagship radio stations are WWL AM 870 and WWL-FM 105.3. WWL 870 is a 50,000 watt clear channel station, the most powerful in New Orleans. The radio network has affiliates in numerous cities around Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas.
Current staff
Mike Hoss (play-by-play), Deuce McAllister (color commentator), and Kristian Garic (sideline reporter) form the broadcast team. Former Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert hosts the post-game call-in show, "The Point After," and also performs pre-game and halftime commentary.
Past Staff
Veteran sportscaster Al Wester served as the Saints' play-by-play announcer during its first four seasons (1967–1970). Longtime announcer Jim Henderson has led the broadcast team almost continuously since the mid-1980s, his tenure covering the franchise's periods of greatest success. Henderson announced his retirement following the 2017 season. One week later, Wester died at age 93.
Over the years, color commentators have included such notable former Saints players as quarterback Archie Manning, wide receiver Danny Abramowicz, and running backs Jim Taylor, Hokie Gajan, and Deuce McAllister.
References
New Orleans Saints
broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Minnesota%20Vikings%20broadcasters | The Minnesota Vikings' flagship radio station is KFXN-FM. The games are also heard on the "Vikings Radio Network" in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota, as well as many other outlets. Paul Allen has been the play-by-play announcer since the 2002 NFL season and Pete Bercich is the analyst, who began his first season in 2007.
WCCO was the flagship station from 1961–1969. Dick Enroth was the original announcer, succeeded by Ray Christensen. KSTP (AM) held the rights from 1970–1975. WCCO again from 1976–1984. KSTP (FM) 1985–1987. WCCO 1988–1990. KFAN 1991–1995. WCCO 1996–2000. KFAN (KFXN-FM) since 2001.
After Jim Morse called the 1970 games, Joe McConnell was the radio play by play announcer 1971–76, 1985–87. Joe Starkey was the radio play by play announcer 1977. Ray Scott was the radio play by play announcer 1978–82. Tim Moreland was the radio play by play announcer 1983–84. Brad Nessler was the radio play by play announcer 1988–89. John Carlson was the play by play announcer 1990. Dan Rowe was the radio play by play announcer 1991–2000. Terry Stembridge, Jr. was the radio play by play announcer 2001.
Telecasts of preseason games not shown on national networks are aired on KMSP-TV (Channel 9) in the Twin Cities with Paul Allen doing play-by-play as well.
References
Minnesota Vikings
Broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugat%20ng%20Kahapon | Sugat ng Kahapon ( is a 2009 Philippine television drama special broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Dennis Trillo and Marian Rivera. It premiered on April 11, 2009 as part of the Lenten presentation of the variety show Eat Bulaga!.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Marian Rivera as Hilda
Dennis Trillo as Sonny
Supporting cast
Gardo Versoza as Aldo
Perla Bautista as Salve
BJ Forbes as young Sonny
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila households, Sugat ng Kahapon earned a 28.7% rating.
References
GMA Network drama series
Television series by APT Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian%20Ludwig%20Railway | The Hessian Ludwig Railway (German: Hessische Ludwigsbahn) or HLB with its network of 697 kilometres of railway was one of the largest privately owned railway companies in Germany.
Early history
The Hessian Ludwig Railway was a product of the failed – or, more accurately, non-existent – railway politics in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Whilst the province of Starkenburg was given a central railway link, the Main-Neckar Railway very early on and the province of Upper Hesse at least had connexions to the railway network through the Main-Weser Railway at its periphery - the Grand Duchy had shares in both lines and they were operated as joint railways (Kondominalbahnen) – the third province, Rhenish Hesse (Rheinhessen), had no such facilities.
Because the state was not active in this area, there was an opportunity for private involvement in the shape of a joint stock company (Aktiengesellschaft). The HQ of the Hessian Ludwig Railway was therefore not based in the capital of Darmstadt, but in the provincial capital for Rhenish Hesse, Mainz. The first impetus for the construction of a line in Rhenish Hesse came not however from local people, but from outside; in particular the Bavarian Palatinate was interested. For military strategic reasons the Prussian state disapproved of a route running west of the Rhine. The Grand Duchy of Baden saw the project competing with the Main-Neckar Railway in which Baden also had shares.
When, in 1844, the Bavarian government issued a licence for railway construction in the Bavarian Palatinate, a northern expansion of the railway into Rhenish Hesse appeared attractive. In addition, the pioneer of the German railways, Friedrich List, personally championed the building of a line from Mainz to Worms. The grand ducal government in Darmstadt however, initially remained opposed, especially as it had passed a law in 1842 for a state railway system. From 1845 onwards, however, there were proponents in the government for a private railway for the province of Rhenish Hesse.
Lines
Mainz – Ludwigshafen – (France) (1853)
At first, the route to be used was totally unclear. The alternative from Mainz via Alzey to Worms was soon discarded in favour of a direct route along the Rhine. On 15 August 1845 a licence was granted to the Mainz-Ludwigshafen Railway Company (Mainz-Ludwigshafener-Eisenbahngesellschaft). The company was later renamed to the Hessian Ludwig Railway Company (Hessische-Ludwigs-Eisenbahngesellschaft) or HLB – in honour of Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, although he initially opposed the building of the line. In the times following the HLB got increasingly into financial deep water, because several share holders withdrew their money. Construction began in spring 1848. However, as the state purse became empty as a result of the revolution of 1848, the state could no longer be relied on to provide any support and the construction of the line threatened to grind to a halt. Not until August 1852 did the Hesse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Owned%20Television%20Stations | ABC Owned Television Stations is a division of Disney Entertainment operated by Disney Networks Group that oversees the owned-and-operated stations of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), a division of The Walt Disney Company. The division also operates the Localish network.
History
ABC Network
The ABC Network's first TV station signed on August 10, 1948, as WJZ-TV (not to be confused with current CBS-owned WJZ-TV Baltimore), the first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, with WENR-TV in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two. KGO-TV in San Francisco and KECA in Los Angeles, signed on during the next 13 months after WJZ.
In February 1953, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres (UPT), the former theater division of Paramount Pictures. UPT subsidiary Balaban and Katz owned WBKB (which shared a CBS affiliation with WGN-TV). The newly merged American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, as the company was known then, could not keep both stations because of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations then enforced that forbade the common ownership of two television stations licensed to the same market. As a result, WBKB's channel 4 license was sold to CBS, which subsequently changed that station's call letters to WBBM-TV; that outlet would move to VHF channel 2 several months later on July 5, 1953. The old WBKB's on-air and behind-the-scenes staff stayed at the new WBBM-TV, while the WBKB call letters and management moved to channel 7 (from 1965 to 1968, a "-TV" suffix was included in the station's calls, modifying it to WBKB-TV).
Capital Cities/ABC
On March 19, 1985, Capital Cities announced that it would purchase ABC for $3.5 billion, which shocked the media industry, as ABC was some four times bigger than Capital Cities was at the time.
The newly merged company, Capital Cities/ABC Inc., was forced to sell off some stations due to FCC ownership rules. Between them, ABC and Capital Cities owned more television stations than FCC rules allowed at the time. Of the former Capital Cities television stations, the merged company opted to keep KTRK-TV in Houston, WTVD-TV in Durham, and KFSN-TV in Fresno. FCC rules could have also forced a sale of Capital Cities' WPVI-TV in Philadelphia as well due to a large signal overlap with WABC-TV, but the merged company successfully received a permanent waiver from the FCC after citing CBS' ownership of television stations in New York City (WCBS-TV) and Philadelphia (at the time WCAU-TV) under grandfathered status. Capital Cities' WFTS-TV in Tampa and ABC's WXYZ-TV in Detroit were divested as a pair to the E. W. Scripps Company's broadcasting division (then known as Scripps-Howard Broadcasting). Capital Cities' WTNH-TV in New Haven and WKBW-TV in Buffalo were sold separately to minority-owned companies (Scripps would eventually buy WKBW in 2014).
In 1994, New World Communications signed an affiliation deal with Fox Broadcasting Company, resulting in most o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBII-CD | WBII-CD (channel 20) is a low-power, Class A religious television station in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, affiliated with the Sonlife Broadcasting Network. Its transmitter is located on Court Street in Ashland, Mississippi.
History
The station signed on March 4, 1994, as an affiliate of Network One. It was also briefly affiliated with UPN at one point. When Network One shut down and ceased operations in 1998, the station then became an affiliate of Pursuit Channel. In the fall of 2011, WBII dropped the Pursuit Channel and picked up Retro TV, after WLMT (channel 30) in Memphis, Tennessee, dropped that affiliation from its second subchannel that same year in favor of MeTV. Additionally, WBII added two subchannels affiliated with Frost Great Outdoors on CD2, and PBJ on CD3. All three of these networks were owned by Luken Communications. In January 2016, WBII made drastic changes to its channel lineup, dropping the Luken networks. The channel now has the Sonlife Broadcasting Network (a religious network owned by Jimmy Swaggart) on its main subchannel and Tuff TV on its second subchannel. (Tuff TV was previously available from 2009 to 2011 on the station's second subchannel before being replaced by Frost Great Outdoors.) GOD TV was added to 20.3, and WBII added a fourth subchannel carrying Heartland.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
BII-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in Mississippi
NewsNet affiliates
Holly Springs, Mississippi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimicro | Vimicro Corporation () is a Chinese fabless chip company which specializes in research and development and production and marketing of multimedia processors for personal computers (PCs) and mobile phones. It is headquartered in Haidian District, Beijing, China. It was founded in 1999 when the Chinese government invited a group of Chinese people who had been educated and had established careers in Silicon Valley to return to China to start a company. It was the first Chinese chip design company with proprietary technology to be listed on NASDAQ.
In 2018, Vimicro applied for an IPO with the China Securities Regulatory Commission, which was transferred in 2020 to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange ChiNext board to be reviewed. The review was then terminated in December 2020, when Vimicro withdrew the application and stated that it was for reasons of the changes to their business development plan in which chip businesses were merging. The reapplication was planned to happen when the time was right.
References
External links
The company's website
Fabless semiconductor companies
Semiconductor companies of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectd | collectd is a Unix daemon that collects, transfers and stores performance data of computers and network equipment. The acquired data is meant to help system administrators maintain an overview over available resources to detect existing or looming bottlenecks.
The first version of the daemon was written in 2005 by Florian Forster and has been further developed as free open-source project. Other developers have written improvements and extensions to the software that have been incorporated into the project. Most files of the source code are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2), the remaining files are licensed under other open source licenses.
Operation
collectd uses a modular design: The daemon itself only implements infrastructure for filtering and relaying data as well as auxiliary functions and requires very few resources, it even runs on OpenWrt-powered embedded devices. Data acquisition and storage is handled by plug-ins in the form of shared objects. This way code specific to one operating system is mostly kept out of the actual daemon. Plug-ins may have their own dependencies, for example a specific operating system or software libraries. Other tasks performed by the plug-ins include processing of “notifications” and log messages.
Data acquisition plug-ins, called "read plug-ins" in collectd's documentation, can be roughly put into three categories:
Operating system plug-ins collect information such as CPU utilization, memory usage, or number of users logged into a system. These plug-ins usually need to be ported to each operating system. Not all such plug-ins are available for all operating systems.
Application plug-ins collect performance data from or about an application running on the same or a remote computer, for example the Apache HTTP Server. These plug-ins often use software libraries but are usually otherwise operating system independent.
Generic plug-ins offer basic functions that the user can employ to perform specific tasks. Examples are querying of network equipment using SNMP or execution of custom programs or scripts.
So called "write plug-ins" offer the possibility to store the collected data on disk using RRD- or CSV-files, or to send data over the network to a remote instance of the daemon.
Networking
Included in the source code distribution of collectd is the so-called "network" plug-in, which can be used to send and receive data to/from other instances of the daemon. In a typical networked setup the daemon would run on each monitored host (called "clients") with the network plug-in configured to send collected data to one or more network addresses. On one or more so called "servers" the same daemon would run but with a different configuration, so that the network plug-in receives data instead of sending it. Often the RRDtool-plug-in is used on servers to store the performance data.
The plug-in uses a binary network protocol over UDP. Both, IPv4 and IPv6 are supported as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDEX | Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) is an international standards-setting organization that was formed in 2006 to develop standards that enable companies to communicate information along the digital supply chain more efficiently by:
Developing standard message and file formats (XML or flat-file)
Developing choreographies for specific business transactions
Developing communication protocols (SFTP or based on web services)
Working with industry bodies to create a more efficient supply chain.
DDEX currently focuses on the music industry and has 3 types of membership: charter, full and associate members, with about 100 members.
Business transactions addressed
DDEX's standards address a series of business transactions, including:
Release deliveries
Sales/usage reporting
Communication with and amongst Music Licensing Companies
Licensing of musical works
Collection of information on sound recordings and musical works in the recording studio
Using DDEX standards
All DDEX standards are available from the DDEX Knowledge Base, with complete documentation. DDEX has also created a series of free introductory videos.
Implementers that want to use any of the DDEX standards are required to take out a software licence. This licence is a royalty-free click wrap licence that grants implementers access to the intellectual property embedded in the DDEX standards.
References
External links
DDEX Homepage
Music industry
Entertainment industry
Standards organizations in the United States
Organizations established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20J.%20Lamb | Brad J. Lamb is a Canadian real estate broker and condominium developer. He had a reality television show named Big City Broker on the HGTV Canada network for several years. The show focused on the workings of his real estate brokerage, "Brad J. Lamb Realty Inc." Lamb received media attention in March 2021. Due to a zoning bylaw violation, tenants living in units above an auto-body repair shop were forced to leave their units permanently by the City of Toronto.
Early life
Lamb was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His father was an Air Canada pilot and his mother a registered nurse. In 1967, the family moved to Montreal, where they settled in the Beaconsfield neighbourhood. Lamb attended Queen's University, where he obtained a degree in engineering. Lamb purchased his first property in London, Ontario in 1984. Early on, Lamb noted how much his real estate agent was earning on his property deals. A few years after his graduation, bored with his engineering sales position, he obtained his real estate license.
Real estate career
Lamb went to work for Harry Stinson's real estate company in 1988 and became a specialist in selling condominiums in central Toronto. He quickly became Stinson's top agent, making $250,000 in his first year.
In 1995, he left Stinson to start his own firm, Brad J. Lamb Realty. In 2001, Lamb founded Lamb Development Corporation. It specializes in high style condominium projects, such as Flatiron Lofts, Worklofts, Glas, Parc, King Charlotte, Gotham Ottawa, The Harlowe, Theatre Park and Brant Park. The company has spread beyond Toronto to build and develop structures in Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton and Hamilton. Despite the boutique-style size, his agency became one of the most prominent sellers of condominiums in Toronto. In 2007, at the height of the property boom, his company's agents sold some 2,000 condos worth over $800 million. When the market slowed in 2008, the firm still moved about $525 million in real estate. According to Lamb's website, his agents have sold over 22,000 condominiums for over $8 billion as of 2016.
Lamb is known for his billboards, particularly a 2007 series of ads that depicted a lamb with Lamb's head and the slogan "This Lamb Sells Condos." He has become "a household name in Toronto" and is often featured in the media as a real estate expert.
In 2017, William Shatner accused Lamb of using Shatner's name and caricature likeness in his brochures to sell real estate.
In March 2022, Lamb announced his plans for his King Street West building. These plans included a demolition of the current property to make way for a new 17 story tower featuring 714 sq. m of retail space on the ground floor, and two to three bedroom units above, However, city staff recommended the property for a heritage designation.
Controversies
Wellington House
In 2017, Lamb applied to obtain approval at the city level to build a 23-story building behind two 19-century heritage homes at 422-424 Wellington |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McQuillan | John McQuillan may refer to:
John McQuillan (footballer), Scottish footballer
John M. McQuillan (born 1949), American computer scientist
Jack McQuillan, Irish politician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERSAdos | VERSAdos is an operating system dating back to the early 1980s for use on the Motorola 68000 development system called the EXORmacs which featured the VERSAbus and an array of option cards. They were typically connected to CDC Phoenix disk drives running one to four 14-inch platters. The EXORmacs was used to emulate a 680xx processor in-circuit, speeding development of 680xx based systems. It also hosted several compilers and assemblers.
VERSAdos and the EXORmacs were produced by Motorola's Microsystems Division.
Overview
VERSAdos was a real-time, multi-user operating system. It was the follow on product to the single user MDOS that ran the 6800 development system called the EXORciser.
Both systems features a harness with a CPU socket compatible connector.
A Modula 2 compiler was ported to VERSAdos.
Commands
The following list of commands and utilities are supported by VERSAdos.
^
ACCT
ARGUMENTS
ASSIGN
BACKUP
BATCH
BSTOP
BTERM
BUILDS
BYE
CANCEL
CHAIN
CLOSE
CONFIG
CONNECT
CONTINUE
COPY
CREF
DATE
DEFAULTS
DEL
DIR
DMT
DUMP
DUMPANAL
ELIMINATE
EMFGEN
END
FREE
HELP
INIT
LIB
LIST
LOAD
LOGOFF
MBLM
MERGEOS
MIGR
MT
NEWS
NOARGUMENTS
NOVALID
OFF
OPTION
PASS
PASSWORD
PATCH
PROCEED
PRTDUMP
QUERY
R?
RENAME
REPAIR
RETRY
SCRATCH
SECURE
SESSIONS
SNAPSHOT
SPL
SPOOL
SRCCOM
START
STOP
SWORD
SYSANAL
TERMINATE
TIME
TRANSFER
UPLOADS
USE
VALID
See also
CP/M-68K
References
External links
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/motorola/versados/
https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery/small-systems-at-ricm/motorola-exormacs-development-system
Discontinued operating systems
Motorola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front%20Panel%20Data%20Port | The front panel data port (FPDP) is a bus that provides high speed data transfer between two or more VMEbus boards at up to 160 Mbit/s with low latency. The FPDP bus uses a 32-bit parallel synchronous bus wired with an 80-conductor ribbon cable.
The following interface functions are supported:
FPDP/TM (transmitter master) - drives data and timing signals onto the FPDP, and also terminates the bus signals at one end of the ribbon cable
FPDP/RM (receiver master) - receives data from the FPDP synchronously with the timing signals provided by the FPDP/TM, and also terminates the bus at the opposite end of the cable to the FPDP/TM
FPDP/R (receiver) - receives data from the FPDP synchronously with the timing signals provided by the FPDP/TM; it does not terminate the bus. More than one FPDP/R can be connected to the FPDP bus. It can also be an alternate function to that of FPDP/RM via software control.
The connector, denoted by the FPDP specification, is a KEL P/N 8825E-080-175.
Interface signals
D<31:0> : Data bus driven by FPDP/TM
DIR_n : Active low Direction signal driven by FPDP/TM
DVALID_n: Active low data valid indication driven by FPDP/TM
STROBE : A free running clock supplied by FPDP/TM
NRDY_n : Active low not ready signal driven by FPDP/R or FPDP/RM. Asserted before the commencement of transfer of data by the FPDP/R or FPDP/RM asynchronous to STROBE.
PSTROBE : Optional Differential PECL version of the STROBE driven by FPDP/TM
SUSPEND_n : Active low suspend signal asserted by FPDP/R or FPDP/RM asynchronous to STROBE to inform the transmitter that buffer flow condition may occur. The transmitter may delay not more than 16 clocks before it suspends the data transfer.
SYNC_n : Active low synchronization pulse provided by FPDP/TM.
PIO1, PIO2 : Programmable I/O lines for user purposes
Data frames
The following types of data frames are supported:
Unframed Data
single frame Data
Fixed size Repeating Frame Data
Dynamic Size Repeating Frame Data
Cable length
FPDP interfaces work with up to a cable length of 1 meter when used in multi-drop configuration. They work up to 2 meter when using STROBE signal during point-to-point configuration. They work up to 5 meter when used with PSTROBE differential signal during point-to-point configuration.
See also
VMEbus - a computer bus standard widely used for many applications and standardized by the IEC as ANSI/IEEE 1014-1987
Serial FPDP - High-speed serial version of FPDP, that can be sent short distances over copper cables, or longer distances over optical fiber cable.
References
Computer buses
Digital electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Koblin | Aaron Koblin (born January 14, 1982) is an American digital media artist and entrepreneur best known for his innovative use of data visualization and his pioneering work in crowdsourcing, virtual reality, and interactive film. He is co-founder and president of virtual reality company Within (formerly Vrse), founded with Chris Milk. Formerly he created and lead the Data Arts Team at Google in San Francisco, California from 2008 to 2015.
Biography
Koblin received his BA from UC Santa Cruz and is a graduate of UCLA's Design | Media Arts MFA program, and sits on the board of the non-profit Gray Area Foundation For The Arts GAFFTA in San Francisco. He was the Abramowitz Artist in Residence at MIT in 2010 and the Annenberg Innovator in residence at USC in 2013.
Koblin's artworks are part of the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He has presented at TED, and The World Economic Forum, and his work has been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, and the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2006, his Flight Patterns project received the National Science Foundation's first place award for science visualization. In 2009, he was named to Creativity Magazine's Creativity 50, in 2010 he was one of Esquire Magazine's Best and Brightest and Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, and in 2011 was one of Forbes magazine's 30 under 30. Koblin was an Eyebeam exhibiting artist.
In 2014, Koblin was awarded the National Design Award for Interactive Design.
Works
The Johnny Cash Project, a music video for Johnny Cash
This Exquisite Forest, displayed 2012–2013 at Tate Modern
Radiohead's House of Cards music video with James Frost
The Wilderness Downtown, for Arcade Fire's We Used to Wait
Three Dreams of Black, for "Black" on Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi's album Rome
References
External links
- recorded March 2011
Work of Aaron Koblin
Creators Project Video Profile on Aaron Koblin
1982 births
American graphic designers
People from Santa Monica, California
Living people
Information visualization experts
UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API%20key | An application programming interface (API) key is a unique identifier used to authenticate and authorize a user, developer, or calling program to an API. However, they are typically used to authenticate and authorize a project with the API rather than a human user.
Usage
The API key often acts as both a unique identifier and a secret token for authentication and authorization, and will generally have a set of access rights on the API associated with it.
HTTP APIs
API keys for HTTP-based APIs can be sent in multiple ways:
In the query string:POST /something?api_key=abcdef12345 HTTP/1.1As a request header:GET /something HTTP/1.1
X-API-Key: abcdef12345As a cookie:GET /something HTTP/1.1
Cookie: X-API-KEY=abcdef12345
Security
API keys are generally not considered secure; they are typically accessible to clients, making it easy for someone to steal an API key. Once the key is stolen, it has no expiration, so it may be used indefinitely, unless the project owner revokes or regenerates the key. Since API keys must only be accessible to the client and server, authentication using API keys is only considered secure when used in conjunction with other security mechanisms such as HTTPS.
Incidents
In 2017, Fallible, a Delaware-based security firm examined 16,000 android apps and identified over 300 which contained hard-coded API keys for services like Dropbox, Twitter, and Slack.
References
Book sources
External links
Why and When to Use API Keys
Application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographic%20breadth-first%20search | In computer science, lexicographic breadth-first search or Lex-BFS is a linear time algorithm for ordering the vertices of a graph. The algorithm is different from a breadth-first search, but it produces an ordering that is consistent with breadth-first search.
The lexicographic breadth-first search algorithm is based on the idea of partition refinement and was first developed by . A more detailed survey of the topic is presented by .
It has been used as a subroutine in other graph algorithms including the recognition of chordal graphs, and optimal coloring of distance-hereditary graphs.
Background
The breadth-first search algorithm is commonly defined by the following process:
Initialize a queue of graph vertices, with the starting vertex of the graph as the queue's only element.
While the queue is non-empty, remove (dequeue) a vertex from the queue, and add to the queue (enqueue) all the other vertices that can be reached by an edge from that have not already been added in earlier steps.
However, rather than defining the vertex to choose at each step in an imperative way as the one produced by the dequeue operation of a queue, one can define the same sequence of vertices declaratively by the properties of these vertices. That is, a standard breadth-first search is just the result of repeatedly applying this rule:
Repeatedly output a vertex , choosing at each step a vertex that has not already been chosen and that has a predecessor (a vertex that has an edge to ) as early in the output as possible.
In some cases, this ordering of vertices by the output positions of their predecessors may have ties — two different vertices have the same earliest predecessor. In this case, the order in which those two vertices are chosen may be arbitrary. The output of lexicographic breadth-first search differs from a standard breadth-first search in having a consistent rule for breaking such ties. In lexicographic breadth-first search, the output ordering is the order that would be produced by the rule:
Repeatedly output a vertex , choosing at each step a vertex that has not already been chosen and whose entire set of already-output predecessors is as small as possible in lexicographic order.
So, when two vertices and have the same earliest predecessor, earlier than any other unchosen vertices,
the standard breadth-first search algorithm will order them arbitrarily. Instead, in this case, the LexBFS algorithm would choose between and by the output ordering of their second-earliest predecessors.
If only one of them has a second-earliest predecessor that has already been output, that one is chosen.
If both and have the same second-earliest predecessor, then the tie is broken by considering their third-earliest predecessors, and so on.
Applying this rule directly by comparing vertices according to this rule would lead to an inefficient algorithm. Instead, the lexicographic breadth-first search uses a set partitioning data structure in order to produce t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Chef%20Masters | Top Chef Masters is an American reality competition series that aired on the cable television network Bravo, and premiered June 10, 2009. It is a spinoff of Bravo's hit show Top Chef. In the series, chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges. The show is different from Top Chef, which typically features younger professional cooks who are still rising in the food service industry.
Seasons
References
External links
Official website
Bravo (American TV network) original programming
Cooking competitions in the United States
2000s American cooking television series
2010s American cooking television series
2009 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Reality television spin-offs
Television series by Universal Television
Television series by Magical Elves
American television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger%20Television%20Network | The Badger Television Network was an American state network that operated for eight months from January 1958 until it ceased operations on August 8 of that year. The regional television network was made up of three television stations in Wisconsin, WISN-TV (channel 12) in Milwaukee, WFRV-TV (channel 5, now a CBS affiliate) in Neenah/Green Bay and WKOW-TV (channel 27) in Madison. All three stations at the time were affiliates of ABC.
Programs broadcast by the network included Homemaker's Holiday, a quiz show hosted by Charlie Hanson; Good Housekeeping, a lifestyle program hosted by Trudy Beilfuss based on WISN-TV's sister publication via the Hearst Corporation; and Pretzel Party, a variety program originally hosted by Larry Clark. All three programs originated from Milwaukee affiliate WISN-TV. During March 1958, the network also aired Senate Investigating Committee hearings during late-night hours.
Schedule
12:30–1:00 p.m. – Pretzel Party
1:00–1:30 p.m. – Homemaker's Holiday
1:30–2:00 p.m. – Good Housekeeping
11:00 p.m.–12:00 p.m. – Hearings (March only)
References
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1958
1958 establishments in Wisconsin
1958 disestablishments in Wisconsin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Alice | This Is Alice is an American situation comedy starring nine-year-old Patty Ann Gerrity. The program aired in first-run syndication from October 1958 to August 1959, distributed by the NTA Film Network.
Synopsis
Alice Holliday is a precocious nine-year-old girl who lives in the fictional town of River Glen, Georgia (although some sources say the show was set in River Glen, New Jersey). Alice is bright and bubbly and she means well, but no matter how well-intentioned she is, her efforts always seem to backfire, leading to comic adventures and making her the female equivalent and precursor of Dennis the Menace.
Alice's father, Chet Holliday, is a newspaperman. Her mother is Clarissa Mae Holliday, and her grandfather, a former Georgia peanut farmer, is known as "The Colonel." Alice attends River Glen Elementary School, where her best friend is Sally and she also is friends with "Soapy" Weaver — a frequent co-conspirator in her adventures — and Susan Gray.
Cast
Alice Holliday...Patty Ann Gerrity
Clarissa Mae Holliday...Phyllis Coates
Chester ‘Chet’ Holliday...Tommy Farrell
Sally...Kathy Garver
Clarence ‘Soapy’ Weaver...Stephen Wootton
The Colonel...Lucien Littlefield
Susan Gray...Nancy DeCarl
Production
This Is Alice was produced by National Telefilm Associates and filmed at Desilu Productions. Sidney Salkow created, produced, and directed the series. Production of the series halted in mid-1959.
Kathy Garver,played Sally, later appeared on Family Affair.
Broadcast history
Thirty-nine episodes were produced. The series ran in first-run syndication from October 1958 to August 1959. Previously broadcast episodes continued to air as late as July 1961.
Episode status
All 39 episodes are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Episodes
References
External links
This Is Alice opening credits on YouTube
1958 American television series debuts
1959 American television series endings
1950s American sitcoms
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Television series by CBS Studios
Television shows set in Georgia (U.S. state)
Television series by Desilu Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202009 | The 51st Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 3 May 2009 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Gretel Killeen, while the red carpet arrivals was hosted by Jules Lund, Shelley Craft, Lyndsey Rodrigues and Carson Kressley. The red carpet arrivals was watched by 1.7 million viewers, while the ceremony was watched by 1.57 million viewers.
Winners and nominees
In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
Performers
Jessica Mauboy – "Been Waiting"
Natalie Bassingthwaighte – "1000 Stars"
Tom Burlinson – "Unforgettable"
Annie Lennox – "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)"
Hall of Fame
Bill Collins became the 26th inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame.
Multiple nominations and awards
The following shows received multiple nominations.
11 nominations: Packed to the Rafters
9 nominations: Underbelly
7 nominations: Home and Away
5 nominations: Neighbours
3 nominations: McLeod's Daughters and Rove
2 nominations: All Saints
The following shows received multiple awards.
6 awards: Packed to the Rafters
3 awards: Underbelly
2 awards: Rove
References
External links
2009
2009 television awards
2009 in Australian television
2009 awards in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means%2B%2B | In data mining, k-means++ is an algorithm for choosing the initial values (or "seeds") for the k-means clustering algorithm. It was proposed in 2007 by David Arthur and Sergei Vassilvitskii, as an approximation algorithm for the NP-hard k-means problem—a way of avoiding the sometimes poor clusterings found by the standard k-means algorithm. It is similar to the first of three seeding methods proposed, in independent work, in 2006 by Rafail Ostrovsky, Yuval Rabani, Leonard Schulman and Chaitanya Swamy. (The distribution of the first seed is different.)
Background
The k-means problem is to find cluster centers that minimize the intra-class variance, i.e. the sum of squared distances from each data point being clustered to its cluster center (the center that is closest to it).
Although finding an exact solution to the k-means problem for arbitrary input is NP-hard, the standard approach to finding an approximate solution (often called Lloyd's algorithm or the k-means algorithm) is used widely and frequently finds reasonable solutions quickly.
However, the k-means algorithm has at least two major theoretic shortcomings:
First, it has been shown that the worst case running time of the algorithm is super-polynomial in the input size.
Second, the approximation found can be arbitrarily bad with respect to the objective function compared to the optimal clustering.
The k-means++ algorithm addresses the second of these obstacles by specifying a procedure to initialize the cluster centers before proceeding with the standard k-means optimization iterations.
With the k-means++ initialization, the algorithm is guaranteed to find a solution that is O(log k) competitive to the optimal k-means solution.
Example of a suboptimal clustering
To illustrate the potential of the k-means algorithm to perform arbitrarily poorly with respect to the objective function of minimizing the sum of squared distances of cluster points to the centroid of their assigned clusters, consider the example of four points in R2 that form an axis-aligned rectangle whose width is greater than its height.
If k = 2 and the two initial cluster centers lie at the midpoints of the top and bottom line segments of the rectangle formed by the four data points, the k-means algorithm converges immediately, without moving these cluster centers. Consequently, the two bottom data points are clustered together and the two data points forming the top of the rectangle are clustered together—a suboptimal clustering because the width of the rectangle is greater than its height.
Consider now extending the rectangle in a horizontal direction to any desired width. The standard k-means algorithm will continue to cluster the points suboptimally, and by increasing the horizontal distance between the two data points in each cluster, we can make the algorithm perform arbitrarily poorly with respect to the k-means objective function.
Improved initialization algorithm
The intuition behind this approach is t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyQuante | PyQuante is an open-source (BSD) suite of programs for developing quantum chemistry methods using Gaussian type orbital (GTO) basis sets. The program is written in the Python programming language, but has "rate-determining" modules written in C for speed, and also uses and requires the NumPy linear algebra extensions to Python. The resulting code, though not as fast as other quantum chemistry programs, is much easier to understand and modify. The goal of this software is not necessarily to provide a working quantum chemistry program but rather to provide a set of tools so that scientists can construct their own quantum chemistry programs without going through the tedium of having to write every low-level routine. PyQuante 1.6.3 is the latest stable version of the program.
PyQuante features
Hartree–Fock: restricted closed-shell and unrestricted open-shell implementations;
Density functional theory: LDA (SVWN, Xalpha) and GGA (BLYP) functionals;
Optimized-effective potential method for orbital-dependent density functional approximations;
Two electron integrals computed using Huzinaga, Rys, or Head-Gordon/Pople techniques; C and Python interfaces to these programs;
MINDO/3 semiempirical energies and forces;
CI-singles excited states;
DIIS convergence acceleration;
Second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2).
See also
PyQuante SourceForge Site, which contains information and download links.
PyQuante is written and maintained by Rick Muller.
List of quantum chemistry and solid state physics software
Computational chemistry software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehole%20Composites | Firehole Composites (formerly Firehole Technologies, Inc.) was a supplier of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software and consulting services specializing in analysis of composite materials. Founded in 2000, the company's mission is to provide enabling technologies to further the widespread use of composite materials. Their products include Helius:MCT (a multiscale simulation tool for composite progressive failure analysis), Helius:CompositePro (a classical laminate theory and simple structural analysis tool), Helius:MatSim (an online micromechanics lamina simulator), and Prospector:Composites (an online composite material properties database hosted by IDES Inc.).
Firehole’s principal product, Helius:MCT, is a simulation tool built to improve the accuracy of composite structure analysis and is available as an advanced capability add-on to commercial finite element analysis (FEA) packages (such as Abaqus and ANSYS). It is based on Multicontinuum Technology (MCT), an analysis methodology developed specifically for composites which, rather than treating the composite as a homogeneous material, extracts the separate stress and strain fields for the constituents (fiber and matrix) of a composite material. In doing so, distinct failure criteria and material nonlinearity can be applied separately. This permits Helius:MCT to identify failure of individual material constituents and degrade a composite material accordingly, providing a robust progressive failure simulation that captures failure initiation all the way up to and beyond ultimate structural failure.
Firehole was acquired by Autodesk in 2013 for an undisclosed sum.
Company background
Firehole Composites began in the academic research of composite material analysis during the mid-1990s. The core technology was part of an academic research project underway in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Wyoming. In 2000, a number of graduate students and faculty at UW saw the commercial potential of the technology and founded Firehole Composites. Firehole Composites continues a collaborative relationship with the University of Wyoming and sponsors ongoing research into composite analysis technology.
During its first years of existence the company focused on the research and development of composite technologies utilizing the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs. Recent technology demonstration efforts have included participation in the World Wide Failure Exercise and a large structures failure analysis and test program with the US AFRL Space Vehicle’s Directorate.
In January 2009, Firehole launched their first commercial product – Helius:MCT. The name Helius, a general branding for Firehole products, refers to the Greek god of sun and vision and represents the idea of added vision or insight into composite material analysis.
Associations
ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers
NAFEMS – National |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20Trails | Kent Trails is a fifteen-mile rail trail in Kent County, Michigan that runs through the cities of Grand Rapids, Grandville, Walker, Wyoming and Byron Township
and is part of a network of trails in and around Grand Rapids. It runs north and south from John Ball Park in Grand Rapids to 84th Street in Byron Township, with an extension that runs east/west along 76th Street and north/south from 76th Street to Douglas Walker Park on 84th Street.
History
In June 2008, the Frederick Meijer Trail (Then called The M-6 Trail) was built along the M-6 freeway that connects the Paul Henry-Thornapple Rail Trail with Kent Trails.
In 2009, a six-mile stretch of the trail from Grand Rapids to Byron Township was repaved and widened from 8 feet to 10 feet. Three bridges along the trail were also replaced with new, wider bridges.
References
Protected areas of Kent County, Michigan
Rail trails in Michigan
Transportation in Kent County, Michigan
Bike paths in Michigan
Hiking trails in Michigan
West Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCID | NCID may refer to:
Network Caller ID, an open-source client/server network Caller ID package
NCID (book identifier), an identifier for books, used by CiNii, a bibliographic database maintained by the Japanese National Institute of Informatics
National Centre for Infectious Diseases, a quarantine and management centre for contagious diseases in Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%20in%20British%20television | This is a list of British television related events from 1990.
Events
January
1 January
New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include the network television premiere of the 1985 romantic drama Out of Africa, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep as well as the 1982 musical sequel Grease 2.
Debut of the iconic sitcom Mr. Bean on ITV, starring Rowan Atkinson as the titular character.
2 January
Granada's flagship nightly news programme Granada Reports is rebranded as Granada Tonight.
The first episode of the sixth T-Bag series airs in which Georgina Hale debuts as Tabatha Bag, the second T-Bag.
The 30-minute weekday 6am Ceefax slot returns to BBC1, but rather than the special pages used for Ceefax AM, the content is the same as for all other Ceefax broadcasts.
3 January – The US animated series Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles makes its debut on BBC1. The show's original US title, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is changed for the UK because of controversy surrounding ninjas and related weapons such as nunchaku. The intro sequence is heavily edited because of this, replacing the word ninja with hero or fighting, using a digitally faded logo instead of the animated blob and removing any scenes in which the character Michelangelo wields his nunchaku. Scenes of Michelangelo using his nunchaku are likewise edited out of the episodes themselves, leading the American producers to drop the weapons from the series entirely, in order to make the show more appropriate for the international market.
4 January – Debut of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave on BBC1, starring Richard Wilson.
6 January
The US action drama series Baywatch, starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson, makes its UK debut on ITV. Made by NBC, the series proves popular with British viewers with audience figures regularly reaching 13 million. When NBC cancels the series after its first season, ITV teams up with an international consortium of broadcasters to sponsor the show for further seasons. The series comes to an end in 2001, following an eleven-year run.
Debut of Jekyll & Hyde on ITV, a made-for-television film starring Michael Caine and Cheryl Ladd.
8 January – The popular classic children's song Nellie the Elephant has been spawned into a five-minute animated cartoon series on ITV, featuring the voices of singer Lulu and Tony Robinson. The first episode is called Nellie and the Ghost and was shown every Monday until 9 April with the episode Nellie Rescues Mrs Maple's Moggy. The series will return on 5 September with Nellie Goes Ballooning and will be shifted onto a Wednesday timeslot. The last three episodes will be broadcast in January 1991 with the final one being shown on 21 January.
9 January – The Secret Cabaret, an innovative and shocking magic-based programme hosted by magician Simon Drake, makes its debut on Channel 4.
14 January – The Observer reports that TVS have started searching for a buyer for a 49% stake in US production company MTM Enterprises which it bought in 1988. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20virtualization | In computer science, memory virtualization decouples volatile random access memory (RAM) resources from individual systems in the data centre, and then aggregates those resources into a virtualized memory pool available to any computer in the cluster. The memory pool is accessed by the operating system or applications running on top of the operating system. The distributed memory pool can then be utilized as a high-speed cache, a messaging layer, or a large, shared memory resource for a CPU or a GPU application.
Description
Memory virtualization allows networked, and therefore distributed, servers to share a pool of memory to overcome physical memory limitations, a common bottleneck in software performance. With this capability integrated into the network, applications can take advantage of a very large amount of memory to improve overall performance, system utilization, increase memory usage efficiency, and enable new use cases. Software on the memory pool nodes (servers) allows nodes to connect to the memory pool to contribute memory, and store and retrieve data. Management software and the technologies of memory overcommitment manage shared memory, data insertion, eviction and provisioning policies, data assignment to contributing nodes, and handles requests from client nodes. The memory pool may be accessed at the application level or operating system level. At the application level, the pool is accessed through an API or as a networked file system to create a high-speed shared memory cache. At the operating system level, a page cache can utilize the pool as a very large memory resource that is much faster than local or networked storage.
Memory virtualization implementations are distinguished from shared memory systems. Shared memory systems do not permit abstraction of memory resources, thus requiring implementation with a single operating system instance (i.e. not within a clustered application environment).
Memory virtualization is also different from storage based on flash memory such as solid-state drives (SSDs) - SSDs and other similar technologies replace hard-drives (networked or otherwise), while memory virtualization replaces or complements traditional RAM.
Products
RNA networks Memory Virtualization Platform - A low latency memory pool, implemented as a shared cache and a low latency messaging solution.
ScaleMP - A platform to combine resources from multiple computers for the purpose of creating a single computing instance.
Wombat Data Fabric – A memory based messaging fabric for delivery of market data in financial services.
Oracle Coherence is a Java-based in-memory data-grid product by Oracle
AppFabric Caching Service is a distributed cache platform for in-memory caches spread across multiple systems, developed by Microsoft.
IBM Websphere extremeScale is a Java-based distributed cache much like Oracle Coherence
GigaSpaces XAP is a Java based in-memory computing software platform like Oracle Coherence and VMware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20perfect%20hashing | In computer science, dynamic perfect hashing is a programming technique for resolving collisions in a hash table data structure.
While more memory-intensive than its hash table counterparts, this technique is useful for situations where fast queries, insertions, and deletions must be made on a large set of elements.
Details
Static case
FKS Scheme
The problem of optimal static hashing was first solved in general by Fredman, Komlós and Szemerédi. In their 1984 paper, they detail a two-tiered hash table scheme in which each bucket of the (first-level) hash table corresponds to a separate second-level hash table. Keys are hashed twice—the first hash value maps to a certain bucket in the first-level hash table; the second hash value gives the position of that entry in that bucket's second-level hash table. The second-level table is guaranteed to be collision-free (i.e. perfect hashing) upon construction. Consequently, the look-up cost is guaranteed to be O(1) in the worst-case.
In the static case, we are given a set with a total of entries, each one with a unique key, ahead of time.
Fredman, Komlós and Szemerédi pick a first-level hash table with size buckets.
To construct, entries are separated into buckets by the top-level hashing function, where . Then for each bucket with entries, a second-level table is allocated with slots, and its hash function is selected at random from a universal hash function set so that it is collision-free (i.e. a perfect hash function) and stored alongside the hash table. If the hash function randomly selected creates a table with collisions, a new hash function is randomly selected until a collision-free table can be guaranteed. Finally, with the collision-free hash, the entries are hashed into the second-level table.
The quadratic size of the space ensures that randomly creating a table with collisions is infrequent and independent of the size of , providing linear amortized construction time. Although each second-level table requires quadratic space, if the keys inserted into the first-level hash table are uniformly distributed, the structure as a whole occupies expected space, since bucket sizes are small with high probability.
The first-level hash function is specifically chosen so that, for the specific set of unique key values, the total space used by all the second-level hash tables has expected space, and more specifically .
Fredman, Komlós and Szemerédi showed that given a universal hashing family of hash functions, at least half of those functions have that property.
Dynamic case
Dietzfelbinger et al. present a dynamic dictionary algorithm that, when a set of n items is incrementally added to the dictionary, membership queries always run in constant time and therefore worst-case time, the total storage required is (linear), and expected amortized insertion and deletion time (amortized constant time).
In the dynamic case, when a key is inserted into the hash table, if its entry in its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasso%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics and machine learning, lasso (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator; also Lasso or LASSO) is a regression analysis method that performs both variable selection and regularization in order to enhance the prediction accuracy and interpretability of the resulting statistical model. It was originally introduced in geophysics, and later by Robert Tibshirani, who coined the term.
Lasso was originally formulated for linear regression models. This simple case reveals a substantial amount about the estimator. These include its relationship to ridge regression and best subset selection and the connections between lasso coefficient estimates and so-called soft thresholding. It also reveals that (like standard linear regression) the coefficient estimates do not need to be unique if covariates are collinear.
Though originally defined for linear regression, lasso regularization is easily extended to other statistical models including generalized linear models, generalized estimating equations, proportional hazards models, and M-estimators. Lasso's ability to perform subset selection relies on the form of the constraint and has a variety of interpretations including in terms of geometry, Bayesian statistics and convex analysis.
The LASSO is closely related to basis pursuit denoising.
History
Lasso was introduced in order to improve the prediction accuracy and interpretability of regression models. It selects a reduced set of the known covariates for use in a model.
Lasso was developed independently in geophysics literature in 1986, based on prior work that used the penalty for both fitting and penalization of the coefficients. Statistician Robert Tibshirani independently rediscovered and popularized it in 1996, based on Breiman's nonnegative garrote.
Prior to lasso, the most widely used method for choosing covariates was stepwise selection. That approach only improves prediction accuracy in certain cases, such as when only a few covariates have a strong relationship with the outcome. However, in other cases, it can increase prediction error.
At the time, ridge regression was the most popular technique for improving prediction accuracy. Ridge regression improves prediction error by shrinking the sum of the squares of the regression coefficients to be less than a fixed value in order to reduce overfitting, but it does not perform covariate selection and therefore does not help to make the model more interpretable.
Lasso achieves both of these goals by forcing the sum of the absolute value of the regression coefficients to be less than a fixed value, which forces certain coefficients to zero, excluding them from impacting prediction. This idea is similar to ridge regression, which also shrinks the size of the coefficients; however, ridge regression does not set coefficients to zero (and, thus, does not perform variable selection).
Basic form
Least squares
Consider a sample consisting of N cases, each of which consists of p covar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buntingford%20branch%20line | The Buntingford branch line in Hertfordshire, England, connected Buntingford to the railway network at . It was promoted locally and opened in 1863 after overspending its available capital. The line was completed with the assistance of the neighbouring Great Eastern Railway. Residential travel and goods services became significant at the end of the 19th century. The area served by the line was predominantly agricultural, and after 1948 usage did not keep pace with rising costs. When the Hertford East branch was electrified, Buntingford branch trains were reduced in frequency with through trains to London withdrawn. The line was recommended for closure in the Beeching Report, and the passenger service was withdrawn in 1964; goods services closed in 1965.
The line was informally known as The Bunt by the workers on the line.
Proposals
Buntingford is located on Ermine Street, the road from London to Cambridge and the north, and had a prime position as a trading town before the advent of railways. The town was bypassed by the main line of the Eastern Counties Railway from London to Cambridge via Bishop's Stortford, which opened in stages between 1840 and 1845. The Ware and Hertford branch from Broxbourne was opened by the Northern and Eastern Railway in 1843.
In 1845 during Railway Mania, a grandiose scheme to build a Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties Railway was proposed to run from Southampton to Ipswich via Bishops Stortford and Hadham. Its cost was clearly unrealistic and it did not proceed. In 1847 George Hudson promoted a Parliamentary Bill for an alternative route to Cambridge, leaving the Hertford branch at Ware and running via Buntingford and Royston to Shelford which failed to gain approval.
Authorisation
On 1 August 1856, a meeting of 150 landowners was held at the George and Dragon Hotel in Buntingford, to discuss promoting a branch line to Buntingford. A local promoter, George Mickley, estimated £70,000 to construct ten miles of single track railway and £30,000 for land and stations, making a total of £100,000. Annual receipts were forecast to be £10,083, and a 5% profit was expected. A second meeting was held on 28 August, and it was reported that there was no opposition locally when people were circulated by letter. It was decided to proceed. A Parliamentary Bill was submitted in November 1857. The Bill passed through Parliament and the Royal Assent was granted for the Ware, Hadham and Buntingford Railway on 12 July 1858 with authorised share capital of £50,000.
A tender of £44,000 to build the line was accepted from W. S. Simpson of Ely; the engineer was Henry Palfrey Stephenson and the first sod was cut at a ceremony on 20 July 1859.
While land was being acquired, opposition was encountered from a landowner near Ware, and the decision was taken to alter the route to join the Hertford branch at St Margaret's instead of Ware. Many other difficulties were encountered in acquiring land. A deviation Bill was submitted in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20A.%20Moore | Sean A. Moore (April 20, 1964 – February 23, 1998) was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, and computer programmer. His primary significance as a writer is for his three pastiche novels featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan and for his work on the screenplay of the movie Kull the Conqueror, and novelization of the same film.
Life
Moore was a resident of Boulder, Colorado, where he worked in the field of computer programming in a number of different capacities, including programmer, systems operations specialist, and writer of computer games. He was employed as a programmer by Aspen Systems, Inc. He was also a designer of board games. His hobbies included playing computer games and fencing.
Moore died in a car crash in Boulder. He was survived by his wife. Services were held five days after his death in Denver.
Writing career
Moore was active as both a fan and a professional writer in the community of Colorado fantasy and science fiction enthusiasts. Initially writing part-time, he had become a full-time writer at the time of his death, primarily for Tor Books. His last work was an unfinished science fiction horror novel, provisionally titled Diggers. He was a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
Works
Among Moore's works are three Conan novels and the novelization of the film Kull the Conqueror, all published by Tor Books. He also contributed in an uncredited capacity to the screenplay of the film, and wrote the novelette "10585," published in the anthology It Came from the Drive-In (DAW Books, 1996).
Reception
Moore has been both praised for his "strengths ... in crafting a clever, dense plot with immense, epic scope, and populating it with an imaginative flood of action and monsters," and criticized for "overwrit[ing] to an incredible degree" and "choppy ... start-and-stop structure."
Bibliography
Conan novels
Conan the Hunter (1994)
Conan and the Shaman's Curse (1996)
Conan and the Grim Grey God (1996)
Other novels
Kull the Conqueror (1997)
Diggers (unfinished and unpublished)
Short fiction
"10585" (1996)
See also
Conan the Barbarian
References
External links
Social Security Death Index
SFWA obituary for Moore
Fantastic Fiction entry on Moore
American fantasy writers
1964 births
1998 deaths
Road incident deaths in Colorado
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
Conan the Barbarian novelists
20th-century American male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTA%20Film%20Network | The NTA Film Network was an early American television network founded by Ely Landau in 1956 that operated on a part-time basis, broadcasting films and several first-run television programs from major Hollywood studios. Despite attracting more than 100 affiliate stations and securing the financial support of Twentieth Century-Fox (which purchased a 50% share of NTA in November 1956), the network proved unprofitable and was discontinued by 1961. The NTA Film Network's flagship station WNTA-TV is now WNET, one of the flagship stations of the Public Broadcasting Service.
Origins
Parent company National Telefilm Associates was founded by producers Ely Landau and Oliver A. Unger in 1954 when Landau's film and television production company Ely Landau, Inc. was reorganized in partnership with Unger and screenwriter/producer Harold Goldman. NTA was the successor company to U.M. & M. TV Corporation, which it purchased in 1956.
In October 1956, the NTA Film Network was launched with more than 100 affiliate stations. It was a syndication service that distributed films and television programs to independent television stations and stations affiliated with NBC, CBS or ABC. The network's flagship station was WNTA-TV Channel 13 in New York. Trade papers called the NTA Film Network a new television network.
Unlike the Big Three television networks, the local stations in the NTA Film Network were not connected via coaxial cable or microwave relay. Instead, NTA Film Network programs were mailed to each station, a method used by other television syndicators in the 1950s and 1960s. However, many local stations agreed to broadcast NTA Film Network programs simultaneously. Landau's claim to network status was based on the simultaneous airing of the programs.
In November 1956, Twentieth Century-Fox announced its 50% purchase of the NTA Film Network and its plans to produce original content for the network. The film network grew to 128 stations. In September 1957, the network purchased KMGM-TV (now KMSP-TV) in Minneapolis.
Affiliates
The following is a list of NTA Film Network affiliate stations in November 1956.
Later affiliates included KOOK-TV in Billings, Montana (c. 1958-1959), KONO-TV in San Antonio (c. 1958–1959), WISH-TV in Indianapolis (c. 1958–1959) and KTVU in San Francisco (c. 1959–1960). The network purchased KMGM-TV in Minneapolis in September 1957.
Programs
The NTA Film Network aired both films and television series. Among its 1956–1957 offerings were 52 Twentieth Century-Fox films. Premiere Performance, a prime-time block of Twentieth Century-Fox films, aired from 1957 to 1959. Other film blocks included TV Hour of Stars and The Big Night (both 1958–1959).
The network's television programs included:
How to Marry a Millionaire (1957–1959), based on the popular 1953 film of the same name.
Man Without a Gun (1957–1959), a Western series about a newspaper editor who brings criminals to justice without the use of guns.
This Is Alice (1958–1959) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisotropic%20diffusion | In image processing and computer vision, anisotropic diffusion, also called Perona–Malik diffusion, is a technique aiming at reducing image noise without removing significant parts of the image content, typically edges, lines or other details that are important for the interpretation of the image. Anisotropic diffusion resembles the process that creates a scale space, where an image generates a parameterized family of successively more and more blurred images based on a diffusion process. Each of the resulting images in this family are given as a convolution between the image and a 2D isotropic Gaussian filter, where the width of the filter increases with the parameter. This diffusion process is a linear and space-invariant transformation of the original image. Anisotropic diffusion is a generalization of this diffusion process: it produces a family of parameterized images, but each resulting image is a combination between the original image and a filter that depends on the local content of the original image. As a consequence, anisotropic diffusion is a non-linear and space-variant transformation of the original image.
In its original formulation, presented by Perona and Malik in 1987, the space-variant filter is in fact isotropic but depends on the image content such that it approximates an impulse function close to edges and other structures that should be preserved in the image over the different levels of the resulting scale space. This formulation was referred to as anisotropic diffusion by Perona and Malik even though the locally adapted filter is isotropic, but it has also been referred to as inhomogeneous and nonlinear diffusion or Perona–Malik diffusion by other authors. A more general formulation allows the locally adapted filter to be truly anisotropic close to linear structures such as edges or lines: it has an orientation given by the structure such that it is elongated along the structure and narrow across. Such methods are referred to as shape-adapted smoothing or coherence enhancing diffusion. As a consequence, the resulting images preserve linear structures while at the same time smoothing is made along these structures. Both these cases can be described by a generalization of the usual diffusion equation where the diffusion coefficient, instead of being a constant scalar, is a function of image position and assumes a matrix (or tensor) value (see structure tensor).
Although the resulting family of images can be described as a combination between the original image and space-variant filters, the locally adapted filter and its combination with the image do not have to be realized in practice. Anisotropic diffusion is normally implemented by means of an approximation of the generalized diffusion equation: each new image in the family is computed by applying this equation to the previous image. Consequently, anisotropic diffusion is an iterative process where a relatively simple set of computation are used to compute e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooms | "Tooms" is the twenty-first episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, premiering on the Fox network on April 22, 1994. It was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by David Nutter. The episode featured Mitch Pileggi's first appearance as Assistant Director Walter Skinner and saw Doug Hutchison and William B. Davis reprise their roles as Eugene Victor Tooms and the Cigarette Smoking Man, respectively. "Tooms" earned a Nielsen household rating of 8.6, being watched by 8.1 million households in its initial broadcast; and received positive reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. When mutant serial killer Eugene Tooms, last seen in "Squeeze", is released from prison, Mulder and Scully try to stop him from resuming his killing spree. Tooms, however, sets out to frame Mulder for assault before the agent can apprehend him.
After seeing men working on an open escalator in a mall around Christmas time, Morgan decided to revisit the character of Tooms. "Tooms" introduced the character of Walter Skinner, although this would be his only appearance in the first season. That character was conceived as playing against the stereotypical bureaucratic "paper-pusher", being instead someone more "quietly dynamic".
Plot
After the events of "Squeeze", Eugene Victor Tooms has been placed in a Baltimore sanatorium. He attempts to escape by squeezing his arm through the food slot of his cell door but is forced to abort when he is visited by his psychologist, Dr. Aaron Monte, who tells him that he is ready to be released into society.
Dana Scully is called before FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, who is accompanied by The Smoking Man. Despite the success of the X-Files investigations, Skinner criticizes their unconventionalism and wants both Scully and Fox Mulder to do by-the-book work. Later, the agents attend a release hearing for Tooms, where Monte claims that Tooms' attack on Scully was due to being falsely accused of murder. Mulder tries to point out the evidence of Tooms' crimes and unusual physiology but is ignored by the hearing's panel. Tooms is released into the care of an elderly couple and is ordered to continue his treatment with Dr. Monte.
Scully meets with Frank Briggs, the retired detective who investigated Tooms' 1933 murders. Briggs claims that the body of one of the victims from that spree was never discovered. He and Scully visit a chemical plant where a piece of the victim's liver was found, ultimately discovering a skeleton encased in concrete. A researcher examining the skeleton identifies it as the missing victim from 1933. However, there seems to be no substantial evidence proving that Tooms was the murderer.
Meanwhile, Mulder harasses Tooms at work as he stalks a would-be victim. Later that night, Mulder follows him when he tries to break i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20code%20%28mathematics%29 | In theoretical computer science and coding theory, the long code is an error-correcting code that is locally decodable. Long codes have an extremely poor rate, but play a fundamental role in the theory of hardness of approximation.
Definition
Let for be the list of all functions from .
Then the long code encoding of a message is the string where denotes concatenation of strings.
This string has length .
The Walsh-Hadamard code is a subcode of the long code, and can be obtained by only using functions that are linear functions when interpreted as functions on the finite field with two elements. Since there are only such functions, the block length of the Walsh-Hadamard code is .
An equivalent definition of the long code is as follows:
The Long code encoding of is defined to be the truth table of the Boolean dictatorship function on the th coordinate, i.e., the truth table of with .
Thus, the Long code encodes a -bit string as a -bit string.
Properties
The long code does not contain repetitions, in the sense that the function computing the th bit of the output is different from any function computing the th bit of the output for .
Among all codes that do not contain repetitions, the long code has the longest possible output.
Moreover, it contains all non-repeating codes as a subcode.
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Coding theory
Error detection and correction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim%20Antonov | Vadim Antonov () born May 25, 1965, is a Russian-American software engineer and entrepreneur. He is known for his work on operating systems, Internet backbone networks, network router hardware, computer security, and data warehouses. He is also known for his role in organizing civil resistance to 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt notable for pioneering the use of Internet to effect the political change.
Soviet coup d'etat attempt
During 1991 Soviet hardline Communist coup d'état attempt Vadim Antonov and his colleagues at RELCOM used their network facilities to gather and disseminate independent information about the current situation in the country, thus undermining the censorship in mass media ordered by the coup plotters. As a co-founder of RELCOM, Vadim Antonov was well known to the users of the network, which gave him credibility to act as the moderator for the stream of situation reports during the crisis; he anonymized the reports to protect the sources in case if the coup succeeded. In an interview to PBS Mr. Antonov explained that providing the alternative to the official narrative was necessary to discourage the regional government officials from joining the coup leaders.
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1965 births
Living people
Russian computer programmers |
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