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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IXP1200 | The IXP1200 is a network processor fabricated by Intel Corporation. The processor was originally a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) project that had been in development since late 1996. When parts of DEC's Digital Semiconductor business was acquired by Intel in 1998 as part of an out-of-court settlement to end lawsuits each company had launched at each other for patent infringement, the processor was transferred to Intel. The DEC design team was retained and the design was completed by them under Intel. Samples of the processor were available for Intel partners since 1999, with general sample availability in late 1999. The processor was introduced in early 2000 at 166 and 200 MHz. A 232 MHz version was introduced later. The processor was later succeeded by the IXP2000, an XScale-based family developed entirely by Intel.
The processor was intended to replace the general-purpose embedded microprocessors and specialized application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) combinations used in network routers. The IXP1200 was designed for mid-range and high-end routers. For high-end models, the processor could be combined with others to increase the capability and performance of the router.
The IXP1200 integrates a StrongARM SA-1100-derived core and six microengines, which were RISC microprocessors with an instruction set optimized for network packet workloads. The StrongARM core performed non-real-time functions while the microengines manipulated network packets. The processor also integrates static random access memory (SRAM) and synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) controllers, a PCI interface and an IX bus interface.
The IXP1200 contains 6.5 million transistors and measures 126 mm2. It was fabricated in a 0.28 µm, complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) process with three levels of interconnect. It was packaged in a 432-ball enhanced ball grid array (EBGA). The IXP1200 was fabricated at DEC's former Hudson, Massachusetts plant.
Notes
References
Halfhill, Tom R. (13 September 1999). "Intel Network Processor Targets Routers". Microprocessor Report.
Matsumoto, Craig (25 August 2000). "Intel makes IXP its net processor cornerstone". EE Times.
Article has diagram of the Intel IXP1200 Architecture.
DEC hardware
Intel products
ARM processors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIX%20Country | KIX Country is a radio network broadcasting in various towns across Australia. Its target demographic is all people who love country music. Kix Country Radio is part of ARN. It is transmitted primarily via narrowcast stations of varying power. All bar three stations operate on the FM band.
The network is programmed out of Bundaberg, Queensland. Technical and engineering support is provided by affiliated local commercial radio stations in or near the broadcast area.
In April 2015, the Hot Country and Top Country branding was replaced by KIX, already used on stations in Queensland and South Australia.
In November 2021, KIX Country, along with other stations owned by Grant Broadcasters, were acquired by the Australian Radio Network. This deal will allow Grant's stations, including KIX Country, to access ARN's iHeartRadio platform in regional areas. The deal was finalized on January 4, 2022. The KIX Country stations in Canberra, Cooma, Goulburn, Jindabyne, and Perth owned by a 50-50 joint venture by Grant and Capital Radio Network are not part of the sale and will remain with Grant. It is unknown how the merger will impact KIX Country in regards to their branding.
Frequencies
Australian Capital Territory
97.5FM / DAB+ Canberra
New South Wales
88.0FM Batemans Bay
88.0FM Bega
87.6FM Bermagui
1215AM Bowral
97.5FM Canberra1
87.6FM Cooma1
87.6FM Eden
100.7FM Goulburn1
88.0FM Jindabyne1
88.0FM Merimbula
87.6FM Muswellbrook
88.0FM Moruya
97.7FM Narooma
101.1FM Nowra
87.8FM Pambula
87.6FM Tamworth
105.3FM Wollongong
Victoria
89.3FM Geelong
88.0FM Swan Hill
Queensland
87.6FM 1770/Agnes Water
100.7FM Alpha
88.0FM Biloela
97.5FM Blair Athol
88.0FM Bundaberg
97.1FM Bundaberg
90.9FM Dysart
88.0FM Gladstone
92.3FM Hervey Bay
98.1FM Inglewood
101.9FM Injune
88.0FM Lowood
93.9FM Mackay
92.3FM Maryborough
94.1FM Middlemount
88.0FM Moura
92.7FM Rockhampton
92.1FM Saraji coal mine
94.7FM Surat
89.9FM Townsville
88.0FM Winton
96.1FM Yeppoon
89.5FM Yuleba
South Australia
90.5FM Barossa Valley
1557AM Berri
87.6FM Clare
87.6FM Port Lincoln
87.6FM Port Pirie
Western Australia
DAB+ Perth1
DAB+ Mandurah
Tasmania
DAB+ Hobart
95.3FM Queenstown
Northern Territory
92.3FM / DAB+ Darwin
1Owned as part of a 50-50 joint venture with Grant Broadcasters and Capital Radio Network
References
External links
KIX Country
Australian radio networks
Country radio stations in Australia
Radio stations in Canberra
Radio stations in Darwin, Northern Territory
Radio stations in Geelong
Radio stations in New South Wales
Mass media in the Hunter Region
Radio stations in Queensland
Radio stations in South Australia
Radio stations in Perth, Western Australia
Australian Radio Network
Grant Broadcasters
Capital Radio Network
Radio stations established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinara%20%28TV%20series%29 | Marinara is a 2004 Philippine television drama fantasy comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Enrico Quizon and Soxy Topacio, it stars Rufa Mae Quinto in the title role. It premiered on June 21, 2004 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Twin Hearts. The series concluded on October 1, 2004 with a total of 75 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Rufa Mae Quinto as Marie / Dolphina / Aira
Supporting cast
Wendell Ramos as Luis Iñigo
Alfred Vargas as Felipe
Angel Aquino as Oceana
Ronaldo Valdez as Juan Miguel
Daria Ramirez as Lelay
Melanie Marquez as Zadama
Gladys Reyes as Tara
Mel Martinez as Syoque
Sherilyn Reyes as Arwana
Gene Padilla as Pogito
Vangie Labalan as Pinang
Julianne Lee as Ayel
Zack Togezaki as JM
Jess Lapid, Jr. as Alvaro
Guest cast
Eddie Garcia as Karfa
Michael V. as fake Aira / Freddie Gil
Rudy Fernandez as Daboy
Janno Gibbs as young Juan Miguel
K Brosas as Sushi Lou
Tess Bomb as Flordetuna
Patricia Ysmael as Lordilis
Diego Llorico as Dikoy
Rudy Hatfield as Rudy
References
External links
2004 Philippine television series debuts
2004 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Mermaids in television
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20jails | Black jails () are a network of extralegal detention centers established by Chinese security forces and private security companies across the People's Republic of China. They are used mainly to detain, without trial, petitioners (上访者, shangfangzhe), who travel to seek redress for grievances unresolved at the local level. The right to petition was available in ancient China, and was later revived by the communists, with important differences.
Black jails have no official or legal status, differentiating them from detention centers, the criminal arrest process, or formal sentencing to jail or prison. They are in wide use in Beijing, in particular, and serve as holding locations for the many petitioners who travel to the central Office of Letters and Calls to petition.
The jails were introduced to replace the Custody and Repatriation system after it was abolished in 2003 following the notorious Sun Zhigang incident. The existence of such jails is acknowledged by at least part of the CCP officialdom, following a police raid of one of them and criminal trial of the company running it.
According to human rights groups, black jails are a growing industry. The system includes so-called "interceptors" (截访者, literally "inquiry-stopper"), or "black guards", often sent by local or regional authorities, who abduct petitioners and hold them against their will or bundle them onto a bus to send them back to where they came from. Non-government sources have estimated the number of black jails in operation to be between 7 and 50. The facilities may be located in state-owned hotels, hostels, hospitals, psychiatric facilities, residential buildings, or government ministry buildings, among others.
Background
The appearance of black jails was the authorities' response to the use of the "letters and calls" system (also known as "petitioning"), which attempts to resolve disputes at the local level.
As a modern version of the imperial tradition, reinstated by the communists after 1949, the petitioning system permits citizens to report local abuse of power to higher levels of government. Because local courts are beholden to local officials, however, and since pursuing redress through the legal system is too expensive for rural Chinese, petitioning in modern China has become the only channel for seeking redress.
The number of people using the petitioning system has increased since 1993, to the extent that the system has been strained for years. However, despite its enduring nature and political support, the system has never been an effective mechanism for dealing with the complaints brought to it – largely because it is chronically overwhelmed by the number of people seeking redress.
Treatment of detainees
Human Rights Watch published a report exploring the issue. It documents how government officials, security forces, and their agents routinely abduct people, usually petitioners, off the streets of Beijing and other Chinese cities, "strip them of their possession |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascalaph%20Designer | Ascalaph Designer is a computer program for general purpose molecular modelling for molecular design and simulations. It provides a graphical environment for the common programs of quantum and classical molecular modelling ORCA, NWChem, Firefly, CP2K and MDynaMix
. The molecular mechanics calculations cover model building, energy optimizations and molecular dynamics. Firefly (formerly named PC GAMESS) covers a wide range of quantum chemistry methods. Ascalaph Designer is free and open-source software, released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2).
Key features
Uses
See also
List of software for molecular mechanics modeling
Molecular design software
Molecule editor
Abalone
References
External links
SourceForge
Twitter
Computational chemistry software
Free science software
Molecular modelling software
Molecular dynamics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacroModel | MacroModel is a computer program for molecular modelling of organic compounds and biopolymers. It features various chemistry force fields, plus energy minimizing algorithms, to predict geometry and relative conformational energies of molecules. MacroModel is maintained by Schrödinger, LLC.
It performs simulations in the framework of classical mechanics, also termed molecular mechanics, and can perform molecular dynamics simulations to model systems at finite temperatures using stochastic dynamics and mixed Monte Carlo algorithms. MacroModel supports Windows, Linux, macOS, Silicon Graphics (SGI) IRIX, and IBM AIX.
The Macromodel software package was first been described in the scientific literature in 1990, and has been subsequently acquired by Schrödinger, Inc. in 2000.
Key features
Known version history
2013: version 10.0
2012: version 9.9.2
2011: version 9.9.1
2010: version 9.8
2009: version 9.7
2008: version 9.6
2007: version 9.5
2006: version 9.1
2005: version 9.0
2004: version 8.5
2003: version 8.1
See also
References
External links
Molecular modelling software
Molecular dynamics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont%20Iboundji | Mont Iboundji is a peak located in Gabon. Claims that it is the highest point of the country, with an altitude of , are neither supported by SRTM data nor empirically.
Other sources indicate the Mont Bengoué as the most elevated peak in Gabon.
The mountain is also the namesake of the frontrunners in the Modern Jazz movement, Iboundji.
Notes
See also
Geography of Gabon
Iboundji |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleware%20analyst | Middleware analysts are computer software engineers with a specialization in products that connect two different computer systems together. These products can be open-source or proprietary. As the term implies, the software, tools, and technologies used by Middleware analysts sit "in-the-middle", between two or more systems; the purpose being to enable two systems to communicate and share information.
Roles and Responsibilities
Middleware analysts look at the system of systems. They solve technical problems which involve large scale inter-disciplinary objectives with multiple, heterogeneous, distributed systems that are embedded in networks at multiple levels.
Middleware analysts hold and maintain proficiency in middleware technologies. Middleware is computer software that connects software components or applications. A central theme in most middleware analyst roles is being able to articulate why Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is important to the business.
Best practices for implementations
Middleware best practices promote usability and maintainability among the systems served. A few examples of best practices are included here to provide some insight as to how middleware addresses key principles of standards-based computing.
One common problem for middleware is the manner in which user-defined applications are configured so that queue references bypass queue alias definitions referring directly to the queue local or queue remote definition. Such a bypass of queue alias deviates best practices and should be corrected when the administrator and/or programmer can correct it within time and scope parameters. All references from user-defined applications should point to queue aliases. Then the queue aliases should point to the defined queue local or queue remote.
Queue aliases allow flexibility for middleware administrators to resolve or relieve production problems quickly. By using queue aliases, middleware administrators can redirect message flow, in the event of a service problem, without changes to the user-defined application. For example, if a queue local were overflowing, a middleware admin could change the queue alias to point to a temporary queue local, thereby allowing the user-defined application to continue its processing without interruption while the underlying root cause is corrected.
By pointing all user-defined application references to queue aliases, it preserves the flexibility that middleware admins would have to help with production issues that may occur. If the best practice of queue aliases were not followed, the ability of a middleware admin to help with a production outage would be hindered.
Skills
Message queuing (“MQ”) is a middleware technology that greatly simplifies communication between the nodes of a system and between the nodes that connect systems together. Information system consultants use message queuing as their skill base. Upon this base, information system consultants add workflow man |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infobright | Infobright is a commercial provider of column-oriented relational database software with a focus in machine-generated data. The company's head office is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Most of its research and development is based in Warsaw, Poland. Support personnel are located in various offices around the world.
History
Infobright was founded in 2005. It became an open source company in September 2008, when it issued the first free release of its software. At the same time its community site was launched.
The company is funded by venture capital investors Flybridge Capital Partners and Information Venture Partners.
In 2009, Infobright was recognized as MySQL's Partner of the Year, and a Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Management and Integration. It is also certified for use with Sun's Unified Storage product line. It is the assignee of published patent applications on data compression, query optimization, and data organization.
In July 2016, Infobright officially transitioned away from its open source community edition to focus on their OEM and direct customer markets.
Technology
Infobright Enterprise Edition (IEE)
Infobright's database software is integrated with MySQL, but with its own proprietary data storage and query optimization layers.
Infobright uses a columnar approach to database design. When data is loaded into a table, it is broken into the groups of 216 rows, further decomposed into separate data packs for each of the columns. By breaking each column by the same number of rows, it maintains its integrity with other columns for the same entry. For example, row 1, column 1 is the first entry in the first datapack for column 1. Row 1 in column 2 is the first entry in the first datapack for column 2.
Each data pack is separately compressed to approximately 20:1 on average.
Infobright Enterprise Edition is available in PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Knowledge Grid
A metadata layer (called the Database Knowledge Grid) stores compact information about the contents and relationships between the data packs, replacing the concept of a traditional database index.
Query execution
The optimizer uses theories of rough sets and Granular Computing by categorizing which data packs need to be decompressed and by refining such categorization using partial results obtained from the Knowledge Grid and already decompressed data packs.
References
Software companies of Canada
Free database management systems
MySQL
2005 establishments in Canada
Software companies established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURE%20algorithm | CURE (Clustering Using REpresentatives) is an efficient data clustering algorithm for large databases. Compared with K-means clustering it is more robust to outliers and able to identify clusters having non-spherical shapes and size variances.
Drawbacks of traditional algorithms
The popular K-means clustering algorithm minimizes the sum of squared errors criterion:
Given large differences in sizes or geometries of different clusters, the square error method could split the large clusters to minimize the square error, which is not always correct. Also, with hierarchic clustering algorithms these problems exist as none of the distance measures between clusters () tend to work with different cluster shapes. Also the running time is high when n is large.
The problem with the BIRCH algorithm is that once the clusters are generated after step 3, it uses centroids of the clusters and assigns each data point to the cluster with the closest centroid. Using only the centroid to redistribute the data has problems when clusters lack uniform sizes and shapes.
CURE clustering algorithm
To avoid the problems with non-uniform sized or shaped clusters, CURE employs a hierarchical clustering algorithm that adopts a middle ground between the centroid based and all point extremes. In CURE, a constant number c of well scattered points of a cluster are chosen and they are shrunk towards the centroid of the cluster by a fraction α. The scattered points after shrinking are used as representatives of the cluster. The clusters with the closest pair of representatives are the clusters that are merged at each step of CURE's hierarchical clustering algorithm. This enables CURE to correctly identify the clusters and makes it less sensitive to outliers.
Running time is O(n2 log n), making it rather expensive, and space complexity is O(n).
The algorithm cannot be directly applied to large databases because of the high runtime complexity. Enhancements address this requirement.
Random sampling : random sampling supports large data sets. Generally the random sample fits in main memory. The random sampling involves a trade off between accuracy and efficiency.
Partitioning : The basic idea is to partition the sample space into p partitions. Each partition contains n/p elements. The first pass partially clusters each partition until the final number of clusters reduces to n/pq for some constant q ≥ 1. A second clustering pass on n/q partially clusters partitions. For the second pass only the representative points are stored since the merge procedure only requires representative points of previous clusters before computing the representative points for the merged cluster. Partitioning the input reduces the execution times.
Labeling data on disk : Given only representative points for k clusters, the remaining data points are also assigned to the clusters. For this a fraction of randomly selected representative points for each of the k clusters is chosen and data point |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenbase | Xenbase is a Model Organism Database (MOD), providing informatics resources, as well as genomic and biological data on Xenopus frogs.
Xenbase has been available since 1999, and covers both X. laevis and X. tropicalis Xenopus varieties. As of 2013 all of its services are running on virtual machines in a private cloud environment, making it one of the first MODs to do so. Other than hosting genomics data and tools, Xenbase supports the Xenopus research community though profiles for researchers and laboratories, and job and events postings.
Xenbase's Software and Hardware Platform
Xenbase runs in a cloud environment. Its virtual machines are running in a VMware vSphere environment on two servers, with automatic load balancing and fault tolerance. Xenbase software uses Java, JSP, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, and CSS. It also uses Apache Tomcat and the IBM DB2 database. The same hardware and software platforms support Echinobase.
Supported Species
Xenbase offers two levels of support. Full support includes full genome integration in the database, including gene pages, BLAST, JBrowse, and genome downloads. Partial support provides BLAST, JBrowse, and download options, but no gene page integration.
Full support: Xenbase's primary mission is to provide comprehensive support for the following frogs
Xenopus laevis (Africal clawed frog)
Xenopus tropicalis (Western clawed frog)
Partial support:
Rana catesbeiana (American bullfrog)
Nanorana parkeri (High Himalaya frog)
Ambystoma mexicanum (Axolotl)
Hymenochirus boettgeri (Zaire or Congo dwarf clawed frog)
Xenopus as a Model Organism
The Xenopus model organism is responsible for large amounts of new knowledge on embryonic development and cell biology. Xenopus has a number of unique experimental advantages as a vertebrate model. Paramount among these is the robustness of early embryos and their amenability to microinjection and microsurgery. This makes them a particularly attractive system for testing the ectopic activity of gene products and loss-of-function experiments using antagonizing reagents such as morpholinos, dominant-negatives and neomorphic proteins. Morpholinos are synthetic oligonucleotides that can be used to inhibit nuclear RNA splicing or mRNA translation and are the common gene inhibition reagent in Xenopus as neither siRNA or miRNA have yet been shown to reproducibly function in frog embryos. Xenopus embryos develop very quickly and form a full set of differentiated tissues within days of fertilization, allowing rapid analysis of the effects of manipulating embryonic gene expression. The large size of embryos and amenability to microinjection also makes them extremely well suited to microarray approaches. Furthermore, these same characteristics make Xenopus, one of the few vertebrate model organisms suited for chemical screens. Xenbase provides a large database of images illustrating the full genome, movies detailing embryogenesis, and multiple online tools useful for designing and co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20bus%20interfaces | This is a partial list of expansion bus interfaces, or expansion card slots, for installation of expansion cards.
Bus interfaces
See also
List of interface bit rates
References
Computer buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResearchChannel | ResearchChannel was an American educational cable television network operated by a consortium of universities, foundations, government agencies, corporations, and learned societies. It began broadcasting in 1996 and discontinued operations in 2010.
History
ResearchChannel was established in 1996 under the name Research TV by a group of American universities. Its studios were physically located at the University of Washington's Kane Hall throughout its existence. Participating institutions produced and provided original programming highlighting their research and innovations to air on the station and also provided funding.
During its early existence, a period which predated YouTube, ResearchChannel partnered with Google to make its programs available for free download. It also collaborated with companies such as Microsoft to help advance what were then new video technologies, such as high definition web streaming.
In March 2010 the University of Washington – which had heavily subsidized the network by providing its physical space, satellite uplink, website maintenance, and studio staff – announced it would end its support of ResearchChannel. The network went off-air at the end of August 2010.
Availability
ResearchChannel was carried on channel 9400 of the Dish Network as well as cable television channels in select American markets. It also aired over-the-air on several terrestrial television stations: KAMU-TV (College Station, Texas), KWSU-TV (Pullman, Washington), KYES-TV (Anchorage, Alaska), KUJH-LP (Lawrence, Kansas), and WPSU-TV (State College, Pennsylvania).
Governance
The board of directors of ResearchChannel, as of 2007, consisted of Rita R. Colwell, David L. Evans , Ron Johnson, Ann Moore, James J. O'Donnell, Steve Smith, Ann Stunden, and Marshall Turner.
Member institutions of ResearchChannel included the American Meteorological Society, the National Institutes of Health, Rutgers University, the National University of Singapore, Stanford University, Tulane University, the University of Chicago, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Internet2, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, IBM, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, among others.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2010
English-language television stations in the United States
Educational and instructional television channels
Science education
Television networks in the United States
Defunct television networks in the United States
American educational websites
University of Washington organizations
1996 establishments in Washington (state)
2010 disestablishments in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming%20software | Brainstorming software is computer software that is used for the development of creative ideas—brainstorming. Some formats or structures for this include flow charts, idea maps, word association and generative idea creation programs. Ideation is often associated with brainstorming software. Some of the earliest brainstorming software programs included Paramind and programs using Markov chains called Markov text generators.
See also
Mind mapping software
Outliner
Personal wiki
References
Collaborative software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati%20Reds%20Radio%20Network | The Cincinnati Reds Radio Network is an American radio network composed of 69 radio stations which carry English-language coverage of the Cincinnati Reds, a professional baseball team in Major League Baseball (MLB). Cincinnati station WLW (700 AM) serves as the network's flagship; WLW also simulcasts over a low-power FM translator. The network also includes 68 affiliates in the U.S. states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia: fifty-three AM stations, thirty-nine of which supplement their signals with one or more low-power FM translators, and fifteen full-power FM stations.
From 2007 through 2019, Marty Brennaman and Jeff Brantley served as the network's primary play-by-play announcers. Brennaman announced in January 2019 that he would retire at the end of the 2019 season, his 46th calling Reds games. He broadcast his final Reds game on September 26, 2019. Brennaman was replaced by Tommy Thrall beginning with the 2020 season. Thrall had begun calling some games during the 2018 season, alternating with Brennaman and Brantley.
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 MLB.com Gameday Audio. Cincinnati Bell has naming rights of the network.
Programming
Play-by-play announcers Tommy Thrall, Jeff Brantley call games on-site. All regular season and most spring training games are broadcast.
Station list
Blue background indicates low-power FM translator.
Network map(s)
See also
List of current MLB broadcasters
List of XM Satellite Radio channels
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
References
Cincinnati Reds
Mass media in Cincinnati
Major League Baseball on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States
Cincinnati Bell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomeMADE | homeMADE is an Australian reality television series that aired on the Nine Network. It premiered on 10 May 2009, and episodes aired twice weekly on Tuesdays at 7:30 pm and again at 9:30 pm. The series was presented by David Heimann, who also acted as a mentor to the contestants.
The concept of homeMADE was that two teams of emerging designers renovated two houses in five days, with one eventual winner receiving a prize of $100,000. The winner was announced on 7 July, as Jason from NSW. The designers were judged by Neale Whitaker, Editor-in-Chief of Belle, and interior stylist Sibella Court. Whitaker and Court are joined by guest judges, including Deborah Bibby, Paul Hecker, David Hicks and Greg Natale.
Contestants
Episode ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating during the series
– Lowest rating during the series
References
Nine Network original programming
2000s Australian reality television series
2009 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%20Broadcasting%20Network | The Guangzhou Broadcasting Network (), also known as GZBN, is a municipally-owned television network in Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China. The television department made its first broadcast on 10 January 1988, while radio department made its first broadcast on 1 December 1991. The GZBN is also owns a cable company and a showbiz newspaper, and owns Sky Link TV in the US.
Television
Guangzhou TV General (): launched on 1988 with news, TV series, entertainment, lifestyle and public affairs programming. Available in SD and HD since February 2018.
Guangzhou TV News (): launched on 1992 with local news and documentaries. Available in SD and HD since February 2018.
Guangzhou TV Drama (): launched on 1994 with TV series, currently airs Canto-dubbed series. Available in SD and HD
Guangzhou TV Sport (): launched on 1994 with simulcasts of Star Sports Network, now the partner and home broadcaster of local basketball team Guangzhou Long-Lions. Available in SD and HD
Guangzhou TV Legal (): launched on 1994 with the name Guangzhou TV Economic, currently airs Mandarin TV series and legal programming. Available in SD and HD
Guangzhou TV Ultra HD (): Mandarin-language 4K TV channel launched on 2020 to replace Kids, Lifestyle and Shopping channels. The channel is the first UHD channel owned by a Chinese municipal broadcaster.
Defunct channels
Guangzhou TV Lifestyle (): on air between 1994 and 2020, previously airs English-language programming under the name "I Channel" from 2005 to 2014.
Guangzhou TV Kids (): airs kids' programming mostly in Mandarin, on air between 2005 and 2020.
Guangzhou TV Shopping (): airs teleshopping and infomercials from different companies, on air between 2006 and 2020.
Guangzhou TV Gov (): airs government affairs programming, on air between 2016 and 2017, currently serves as a production unit.
Radio
News Radio (FM 96.2MHz, ): News and talk format
Car Music Radio (FM 102.7MHz, ): music format
Traffic Radio (FM 106.1MHz & AM 1098kHz, ): traffic updates, also served as the emergency broadcasting service "Guangzhou Emergency Radio" ()
Teens Radio (FM 88.0MHz & AM 1170kHz, ): music format under the My FM China branding, also known as "Guangzhou My FM88.0"
Controversies
In a New Year's Eve programming produced by the network in 2015, one performance from a local musical play about Cantonese opera came under fire in the community over its use of Mandarin language.
A video report edited by the network's social media team were claimed "misleading" by medical personnel during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic over steaming medical masks for re-use.
See also
Guangdong Radio and Television - using the name Guangzhou Television from 1959 to 1979
Guangzhou TV Tower
References
External links
Television networks in China
Television stations in China
Mass media in Guangzhou
Television channels and stations established in 1988
1988 disestablishments in China
State media
Government-owned companies of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagtiCom | MagtiCom, Ltd (Georgian: მაგთიკომი) was founded on February 12, 1996 by Dr. George (Gia) Jokhtaberidze. On September 22, 1997 the Company made the first commercial call from its mobile network. The services offered by MagtiCom involve as follows: mobile telephony; mobile internet (embracing different technologies of mobile network development, such as: 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 3.5G, 4G, 4.5G); Cable fixed telephony (VoIP); internet television (IPTV) and fiber-optic internet. Since 2016 MagtiCom started to provide IPTV, VoIP and fiber-optic internet.
Currently, the MagtiCom mobile network unites mobile technologies of different generations: GSM (2G and 2.5G), UMTS (3G and 3.5G HSPA+), LTE (4G, 4.5G LTE-Advanced). These technologies are implemented on 800, 900, 1800 and 2100 MHz frequency bands.
The coverage area of "MagtiCom" network is 99% of the populated controlled territory of Georgia (with 9105 base stations). The Company is the leader of mobile market (with the 41.7% of market share; August, 2023). MagtiCom renders various services to up to 3 million customers by means of 50 customer care offices and 88 Outlets in Public Service halls. Unprecedented is the contribution of the Company to the development of Georgian economy: 2.469.605.565 lari; October 2023.
Since 2016 MagtiCom has become an ISP and, as a result, a provider of total range of communications services.
Since November, 2017 Magticom is the market leader ISP operator in Georgia.
Owners
MagtiCom Ltd was founded on February 12, 1996 by Dr. George (Gia) Jokhtaberidze who owns 75% of the Company and exercises the full control thereover. See Chart 1 to learn about the owners and the ownership share thereof.
History
Milestones
September 22, 1997 – the first commercial call was made from the MagtiCom network;
2001 – the first GPRS call was made as a result of constructing the GPRS network;
2005 – Bali – the youth brand of MagtiCom was launched;
2005 – MagtiCom became the owner of the operational license of CDMA 800 MHz standard;
2006 – as a result of deployment the 3G network, the 3G services such as video call, mobile TV and high-speed internet were launched;
2008, April – MagtiCom launched Magti Fix – the CDMA- Magti Fix was a wireless fixed telephone service based on CDMA 450 (operating on 450 MHz frequency band). In 2022 (July 29), the Magti Fix service was canceled.
2009 – MagtiCom, on the commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, launched, within the frame of creating the United Educational Network, the project of internatization of all the resource centers and public schools of Georgia. Having completed the layout of the network ahead of time and activated over 2,150 public schools and resource centers therein, MagtiCom has started and proceeds with rendering service to those schools and centers;
2010 – MagtiCom launched Bani – the third mobile brand;
2012, January – MagtiCom launched service MagtiSat, the first operator of satellite broadcasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once%20Upon%20a%20Tune | Once Upon a Tune is a weekly half-hour American television series that aired on the DuMont Television Network, premiering on March 6, 1951, and running to May 15, 1951.
The series presented original musical productions which were often satirical and tongue-in-cheek adaptations of either classic fairy tales or contemporary Broadway musicals. Bea Arthur made her TV debut on this series.
Episode status
The Paley Center for Media holds kinescope copies of three episodes – one spoofing "Three Little Pigs", one spoofing "Rapunzel", and the third on a 57-minute kinescope film reel. (This latter reel also contains an episode of Mr. Dynamite, a TV series or pilot based on an earlier Hollywood movie of the same name based on a Dashiell Hammett story.)
According to Edie Adams, an actress who worked at DuMont for several years, much of the network's programming archive was destroyed in the 1970s.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
Once Upon a Tune at IMDB
DuMont historical website
American musical comedy television series
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950s American satirical television series
1951 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20provisioning%20environment | Dynamic provisioning environment (DPE) is a simplified way to explain a complex networked server computing environment where server computing instances or virtual machines (VMs) are provisioned (deployed or instantiated) from a centralized administrative console or client application by the server administrator, network administrator, or any other enabled user. The server administrator or network administrator has the ability to parse out control of the provisioning environment to users or accounts in the network environment (end users, organizational units, network accounts, other administrators). The provisioned servers or VMs can be inside the firewall, outside the firewall, or hosted depending on how the supporting pool of networked server computing resources is defined. From the perspective of the end user/client the requested server is deployed automatically.
From an easy-to-use client or desktop application, any administrator or designated end user is able to easily instantiate a server instance or virtual machine (VM) instance. The server instance is provisioned for the eligible administrator or end user without anyone having to physically touch the supporting server infrastructure. While defining the server or VM to instantiate the client application gives the end user or administrator the ability to define the operating system and applications that will run within the server instance to be provisioned automatically.
Desktop dynamic provisioning environment (desktop DPE) or client dynamic provisioning environment (client DPE) is the scenario where a DPE is being used to provision client computing or desktop computing instances.
Origin of DPE (dynamic provisioning environment): First documented in 2007; Cambridge, Massachusetts.
DPE can be a vendor independent environment or an environment defined by a specific vendor. A dynamic provisioning environment (DPE) is flexible and can be defined as supporting a set of heterogeneous applications, defined as supporting a single application, or could be created in an appliance model to deploy a discrete application customized for a specific usage scenario.
From an operating system perspective, a DPE server infrastructure can exist on one server operating system (homogeneous server infrastructure) or exist as on a defined set of servers with different operating systems (heterogeneous server infrastructure). The server instances or VMs provisioned by the DPE could be one specific server operating system or multiple server operating systems. Same idea for client systems instantiated by the DPE. The client instantiated by the DPE could be one or multiple client/desktop operating systems.
Components of a DPE will vary based on the density of the computing environment. Would commonly include, servers or virtual server instances, directory server, network connectivity( TCP/IP), management layer, virtual machine management tools, server provisioning tools, client application, client interface.
Refe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Networks%20Laboratory | The Computer Networks Laboratory was formed in 1995 as a result of the solution of research tasks and pilot projects in cooperation with the industry. It is a joint contractual research and experimental work station KPI FEI TU and elfa s.r.o. Currently it is a top work station involved in the progressive network technologies in the Slovak Republic and highly appreciated also by the international expert community (during its existence this lab was awarded number of international awards). The main research objective of the lab are computer networks and progressive network infrastructures emphasizing the issue of the information transfer of the multimedia nature with the required quality of services parameters (QoS). Special attention is paid to the following areas:
The effective methods of quality service property parameters assessment,
Implementation of the powerful streaming technologies in the IP network environment,
Videoconference solution and voice services of the new generation,
Monitoring, control and visualization of topologies in LAN and WAN,
Virtual communication infrastructures and their use in practical (e-learning technologies and their solutions).
Based on CNL the first Regional Cisco Network Academy (RCNA) came into being in the Slovak Republic in 1999 providing certified education of the network specialists on the basis of industrial standards effective on the whole territory of the Slovak Republic within the NetAcad Program (Networking Academy) implementation.
The lab premises consist of a complex of five rooms with top equipment suitable for provision of teaching in the respective area, but also for extensive specialized and research activities implemented on the lab basis.
The lab offers an integrated educational process in the field of information and communication technologies emphasizing the issue of computer networks, their design, administration and management. In the lab premises specialized teaching of courses and events oriented on network technologies and teaching within NetAcad program (network academy program CISCO) is implemented. LPS has university significance currently offering teaching for more than 200 students of the Technical University annually. The lab is built in cooperation with a whole range of other external sponsors, especially Cisco Systems Company.
In cooperation with T-com (Slovak Telecom, a.s.) and experimental nod of the WAN network with access to WAN ATM ST, a.s. as the first experimental and training segment on the basis of the ATM technology in the Technical University Campus and the first specialized work station in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic for training of network specialists on the basis of the network academy program Cisco-NetAcad was built in the premises of LPS.
The lab has at its disposal the videoconference systems for organization of IP videoconferences.
In LPS successful functional model of involvement of students in the scientific and research activities w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNATS | FreeNATS (the Free Network Automatic Testing System) is an open-source network monitoring software application developed by David Cutting under the banner of PurplePixie Systems.
FreeNATS is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Overview
Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, ICMP (ping)
Limited monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage) on a majority of network operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and Linux through agent-based testing
Plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks depending on needs, by using PHP (or other languages or scripts wrapped in PHP)
Some ability to define network host hierarchy using "master" nodes allowing link failures to suspend monitoring
Event-based system allowing failure notifications to be sent in customised email (suitable for email-to-SMS) or to utilise third-party notification scripts via a plug-in
Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
Automatic data retention cleanups
Full web-interface for management and monitoring
Ability to "publish" views and graphs within third-party web pages
See also
Comparison of network monitoring systems
References
External links
purplepixie.org/freenats, official website
FreeNATS Wiki
Support Forum for FreeNATS
NetworkWorld.com Article on FreeNATS
PC Quest Article on FreeNATS
Internet Protocol based network software
Free network management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR%20Radio | DR Radio was a division of Danish Broadcasting Corporation - DR - concerned with radio programming. The radio stations are now part of several divisions: DR Medier (P1), DR Ung (P3), DR Musik (P2, P6 Beat, P7 Mix, P8 Jazz), DR Danmark (P4 and the regional stations).
The name DR Radio is now mainly used to refer to an app of the same name made by DR to enable online listening via smartphones.
Current radio line-up
Analogue radio
P1 - "Thought-provoking radio": Talk radio with factual programming, reports, discussion and debate on public affairs, society and the community, plus in-depth news. It is broadcast around the clock on DAB and web radio; also (daytimes only) on FM. Since 1 November 2011, P1 has timeshared its FM frequencies with P2.
P2 - "Music and cultural radio": classical music, opera, jazz, radio drama, and coverage of other artistic performances and events. It is broadcast around the clock on DAB and web radio; also (evenings and overnight only) on FM. Since 1 November 2011, P2 has timeshared its FM frequencies with P1.
P3 - Hit radio, with popular entertainment shows and hourly three-minute news bulletins. P3 also covers major sporting events.
P4 - DR's most popular radio channel: a "modern public service station" broadcast in 10 regional versions, mixing popular music with national and local news. P4 also provides a Traffic Message Channel service of travel news.
The regional P4 channels are:
P4 Bornholm
P4 Esbjerg
P4 Fyn
P4 København
P4 Midt & Vest
P4 Nordjylland
P4 Sjælland
P4 Syd
P4 Trekanten
P4 Østjylland
Digital radio
DR P1
DR P2
DR P3
DR P4 - including the 10 regional stations
DR P5 - channel aimed at older listeners
DR P6 Beat - alternative rock music
DR P8 Jazz - jazz music
History
Short and medium wave radio
DR had a mediumwave station (called P5 Mellembølge until late 2009) carrying three daily news bulletins, a gymnastics programme, and weather and other reports for seafarers. The mediumwave transmissions ceased in 2011 and actually the programming is transmitted from Kalundborg, the site of the powerful long-range analogue longwave (formerly P6 Langbølge which officially ceased transmissions in 2007, but has since carried low-power digital DRM test transmissions and briefly resumed analogue transmissions at full power from 16–31 October 2009). The 243 kHz LW (LB for langbølge) is used to cover nearby seas by news and weather broadcasts. The transmissions are only 4 times daily at 05:45, 08:45, 11:45 and 17:45 local time.
In addition, DR has operated Radio Denmark on short waves, which was originally broadcast from Denmark in Danish and English, and later from transmitter sites in Norway in Danish only.
DAB radio
The first trials of DAB were carried out in 1995.
In 2002 DR began broadcasting eight new DAB channels: pop station DR Boogie Skum, parliamentary channel DR Demokrati, jazz station DR Jazz, classical music station DR Klassisk, news station DR Nyheder, cultural station DR Plu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Preakness%20Stakes%20broadcasters | The following is a list of national American television networks and announcers that have broadcast Preakness Stakes.
Television
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
Notes
Jim McKay missed the 1995 Preakness Stakes due to heart surgery.
1980s
1970s
In 1977, ABC was awarded the contract to televise the Preakness. Triple Crown Productions was formed in 1985 after CBS terminated its contract with NYRA. ABC Sports won the rights to broadcast all three races, as well as many prep races. Ratings went up after the package was centralized.
1960s
1950s
1940s
References
Preakness Stakes broadcasters
Preakness Stakes broadcasters
Preakness Stakes broadcasters
Preakness Stakes broadcasters
Preakness Stakes broadcasters
American horse racing announcers
Wide World of Sports (American TV series)
Broadcasters
CBS Sports Spectacular |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific%20entertainment%20language | Domain-specific entertainment languages are a group of domain-specific languages that are used to describe computer games or environments, or potentially used for other entertainment such as video or music.
Game languages
Extensible Graphical Game Generator - language which is used to generate games
Zillions of Games - for grid-based games
ViGL Video Game Language
Py-VGDL Python Video Game Description Language
Ludi Game Description Language
Game Description Language
General Game Description Language for Incomplete Information
World Description Language
Argonaut Strat Language
UnrealScript also Kismet, Blueprints
GameXML
Xconq
The Card Game Language
The Card Game Description Language
The Strategy Games Description Language
Stanford Gamut - command line program for generating games
Interactive fiction
Inform 7
Zork Implementation Language — used by Infocom
TADS — Text Adventure Development System
Ren'Py — A visual novel engine
MUDs
LambdaMOO has a specific programming language that users use to extend the system.
In LPMuds, LPC is used to extend the system. SWLPC is one variant on it.
TinyMUCK and derivatives use the language MUF.
ColdC is another C-derived MUD language, used by ColdMUD.
MUME developed and publishes its language Mudlle.
DG scripts are a content-development scripting language for MUDs.
Music
Movies
"Media Streams", an MIT Media Labs and Interval Research project by Marc Davis
See also
Game integrated development environment
References
External links
Programming languages used for music
Jeroen Dobbe's Master's Thesis
Video game development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Radio%20Satellite%20System | The Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS) is the interconnected satellite-distributed network managed by NPR (National Public Radio), and used by NPR, Public Radio Exchange (PRX), and American Public Media (APM), as well as independent public radio program producers, to distribute programming via satellite to public radio stations across the United States.
The PRSS is maintained by NPR's Distribution division at their Network Operations Center (NOC), located at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. A backup NOC is located at Minnesota Public Radio's facilities in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the event of a catastrophe or other situation that would occur at the main NOC's location in Washington. The NOC oversees and monitors all elements and operations of the PRSS system, from outgoing feeds from NPR, APM and PRX, and incoming feeds from member stations. The Washington NOC is also a primary entry point station in the Emergency Alert System.
History
The PRSS first made its debut in 1979, using the then-new technology (for broadcasting) of satellite distribution. Prior to the PRSS and starting from NPR's founding in 1971, NPR and its member stations used a network of broadcast-quality leased telephone lines furnished by AT&T, which were configured in a "round-robin" loop interconnecting the major NPR member stations at the time.
Member stations invested in earth station receiving equipment to be a part of the new PRSS in the form of a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cover all costs with the stipulation that the radio station must be on the air for a minimum of 18 hours per day and have at least 3 full-time employees. After a period of years the stipulations would cease and the earth station would become the property of the radio station. The equipment included a receiving dish and an analog audio receiver manufactured by network hardware manufacturer Coastcom under the master contract held by Rockwell. The dish was aimed to Westar 1, the satellite used by PRSS at its debut, and later to Westar IV after the former satellite was retired in 1983. The receiver was able to tune into the several audio channels uplinked by NPR on two transponders on the satellite. The audio channels, transmitted in analog using frequency modulation, were multiplexed on each transponder using SCPC (Single Channel Per Carrier) transmission. The receivers were pre-programmed for 12 channels. There were additional channels that were available and accessible by special Coastcom receivers that were frequency agile or by the upgrade of a microchip to the existing 12 channel demodulators already installed at the radio station. The additional channels were rented out to various programming including commercial content. Later, channels 13 and 14 were for a period leased to the CMSS (the Classical Music Satellite Service), a third party produced service outside of NPR, that was available to public radio stations who paid to air the service. Each tran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20Hastings | Sean Hastings (born 1969) is an entrepreneur, cypherpunk author, and security expert. He is best known for being the founding CEO of HavenCo, the world's first formal data haven.
Work
In 1997, Hastings worked on cryptographic protocols and tools free of U.S. cryptographic export restrictions with Vincent Cate, who started the International Conference on Financial Cryptography in Anguilla that same year.
Hastings founded HavenCo in 2000, originally incorporating in his country of residence, Anguilla, before a second incorporation in the Channel Islands. Hastings was the CEO; other co-founders included Ryan Lackey and Sameer Parekh. Immediately following its public launch, HavenCo was the subject of a great deal of press coverage, including Hastings' appearance, along with several cofounders and the "royal family" of the self-proclaimed, unrecognized micronation of Sealand, on the cover of Wired's July 2000 issue, before the company was entirely nationalised by the government of Sealand in 2002, after commercial failure and mounting tensions.
In 2002, Hastings began work on seasteading with Patri Friedman, a project aimed at building floating communities free from the restrictions of current governments. This collaboration continued through 2009, including a talk by Hastings at the Seasteading Institute's annual conference.
Hastings is the cofounder, with Eric S. Raymond, of Green-Span, an open source infrastructure for trust and reputation management, begun in March 2009.
Hastings is also the author, with Paul Rosenberg, of a book, God Wants You Dead (Vera Verba, 2007; ) which takes a look at the lighter side of atheism and anarchy, and was executive producer and an actor for The Last Generation to Die a short film about near future immortality technology.
References
External links
Video of Hastings spoofed on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Video with Hastings speaking about living on an extra-national sea platform at 2009 Seasteading conference
Online and .pdf download of the book "God Wants You Dead" by Sean Hastings and Paul Rosenberg .
1969 births
American computer businesspeople
American libertarians
American atheists
Crypto-anarchists
Cypherpunks
Free software programmers
Living people
Computer security specialists
Principality of Sealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20usage%20effectiveness | Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is a ratio that describes how efficiently a computer data center uses energy; specifically, how much energy is used by the computing equipment (in contrast to cooling and other overhead that supports the equipment).
PUE is the ratio of the total amount of energy used by a computer data center facility to the energy delivered to computing equipment. PUE is the inverse of data center infrastructure efficiency.
PUE was originally developed by a consortium called The Green Grid.
PUE was published in 2016 as a global standard under ISO/IEC 30134-2:2016
An ideal PUE is 1.0. Anything that isn't considered a computing device in a data center (e.g. lighting, cooling, etc.) falls into the category of facility energy consumption.
Issues and problems with the power usage effectiveness
The PUE metric is the most popular method of calculating energy efficiency. Although it is the most effective in comparison to other metrics, PUE comes with its share of flaws. This is the most frequently used metric for operators, facility technicians, and building architects to determine how energy efficient their data center buildings are. Some professionals even brag about their PUE being lower than others. Naturally, it is not a surprise that in some cases an operator may “accidentally” not count the energy used for lighting, resulting in lower PUE. This problem is more linked to a human mistake, rather than an issue with the PUE metric system itself.
One real problem is PUE does not account for the climate within the cities the data centers are built. In particular, it does not account for different normal temperatures outside the data center. For example, a data center located in Alaska cannot be effectively compared to a data center in Miami. A colder climate results in a lesser need for a massive cooling system. Cooling systems account for roughly 30 percent of consumed energy in a facility, while the data center equipment accounts for nearly 50 percent. Due to this, the Miami data center may have a final PUE of 1.8 and the data center in Alaska may have a ratio of 1.7, but the Miami data center may be running overall more efficiently. In particular, if it happened to be in Alaska, it may get a better result.
Additionally, according to a case study on Science Direct, "an estimated PUE is practically meaningless unless the IT is working at full capacity".
All in all, finding simple, yet recurring issues such as the problems associated with the effect of varying temperatures in cities and learning how to properly calculate all the facility energy consumption is very essential. By doing so, continuing to reduce these problems ensures that further progress and higher standards are always being pushed to improve the success of the PUE for future data center facilities.
To get precise results from an efficiency calculation, all the data associated with the data center must be included. Even a small mistake can cause many differenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20CNN | The Cable News Network (CNN), is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by the CNN Global division of Warner Bros. Discovery. Upon its launch, CNN became the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and was the first all-news television network in the United States.
Founded under Turner Broadcasting System in 1980, the channel's success set the stage for conglomerate Time Warner's acquisition of said parent company in 1996. Time Warner later became WarnerMedia after AT&T Inc.'s buyout in 2018. However, due to creative differences and debts, AT&T split from WarnerMedia as it merged with Discovery, Inc., forming Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022.
Early history (1980–1989)
Launch
Three and a half years before CNN's launch, in December 1976, Ted Turner turned his Atlanta, Georgia independent station WTCG into one of the original satellite-distributed television channels, leasing a transponder on RCA's Satcom 1 geostationary satellite. The Cable News Network was intended to be distributed on RCA's new Satcom 3, which was lost on its launch date of December 7, 1979. Because replacement transmission capacity was not readily available, the Turner Broadcasting System filed suit against RCA seeking use of another communications satellite and $35.5 million in damages. On March 5, Turner announced that a consent order had been worked out with RCA in federal court, allowing CNN to begin operations on June 1 as scheduled, using a transponder on Satcom 1.
The network launched on Sunday, June 1, 1980 at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time with an original staff of 300 employees based at its headquarters in Atlanta, and bureaus in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The station first pictured a shot of the CNN logo on a red background bar with a 750 hertz beep tone followed by silence. Afterwards, the inaugural broadcast on the channel was an introduction by Ted Turner.
Following the introduction and a pre-recorded version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (which was a tradition whenever a new Turner-owned network launched) that was played afterward officially opening based at its headquarters in Atlanta and bureaus in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. the husband and wife team of Dave Walker and Lois Hart as very first news anchored the channel's very first newscast. Among the first segments was an interview with then-President Jimmy Carter by Daniel Schorr. And to let "the undecided voter … hear the issues debated by all three leading candidates" in the second 1980 presidential debate, Schorr read the debate questions to John B. Anderson. CNN then aired Anderson's live responses along with tape delay of Carter and Ronald Reagan's responses, despite technical difficulties. In April 1981, CNN successfully sued the Big Three television networks and the Reagan administration for equal representation in the White House press corps.
On January 1, 198 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Miranda | Alan Miranda is an American computer game designer.
Career
Alan Miranda is a previous BioWare employee, who had worked on Dungeons & Dragons titles like Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal. In 2003, he left BioWare to form his own company, Ossian Studios, with his wife Elizabeth Starr. Miranda approached BioWare joint CEO Greg Zeschuk in 2005 to discuss the possibility of Ossian developing a "premium module" for Neverwinter Nights. Premium modules were adventures created for Neverwinter Nights by BioWare and other companies. BioWare had been given autonomy on the premium module process from the game's publisher, Atari, and Zeschuk approved Miranda's proposal. Miranda's initial draft of the project was a pirate-themed adventure in the Sword Coast, which happened to be the same idea that BioWare itself was creating a premium module for, Neverwinter Nights: Pirates of the Sword Coast. Miranda revised the concept and chose the Western Heartlands as the setting. Ossian estimated that a module on par with other large games like Kingmaker would take four to five months. Pre-production on Darkness over Daggerford began in April 2005 and took a month and a half. Ossian went through five designers in this stage, none of whom worked out. Choosing a designer required much of the time allocated for pre-production, and to compensate Ossian developers immediately began creating the game, fleshing out details as they went. In May 2006, Atari cancelled the premium module program, with no warning to developers of the current projects. Miranda and his team decided to finish the game anyway, and in August 2006 it was released free of charge on IGN's Neverwinter Nights Vault.
References
American video game designers
Dungeons & Dragons video game designers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD%20%28music%20act%29 | LCD were a computer generated dance act, active in the late 1990s. Signed to Virgin Records, their only hit single was a Europop version of the Greek song "Zorba's Dance". The music video to the song, made in computerised animation, featured a band of overweight men playing the song.
The single was a club hit in the UK, charting twice in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, within 18 months of its original release, and was one of the first of its kind which was enabled to be played on a computer for its music video. The song was a big club hit in Australia due to its large Greek community supporting the song. The CD single proclaimed LCD "The world's first digital supergroup". The man behind the act was David K, a London-based record producer.
A second single, "Follow the Leader (Leader)", did not chart in the UK and in 2000, LCD was discontinued. The video for "Follow the Leader (Leader)" shows the act's name LCD stands for "Large Cool Dudes". The video also shows the four leading men were called Zed, Ed, Ned and Ted.
Discography
References
External links
Discogs.com
British dance musicians
Animated musical groups
Fictional musical groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando%3A%20Steel%20Disaster | Commando: Steel Disaster is a run and gun video game for the Nintendo DS developed by Mana Computer Software. The game was released on May 30, 2008.
Plot
The story begins when several sectors of a military group report being attacked by their own war machines. A terrorist organization led by a man named Rattlesnake is assumed to be responsible. A commando and vehicle specialist code-named Storm is assigned to enter each affected area and progressively stop Rattlesnake's ambitions.
Gameplay
Storm is controlled by the player during all phases of warfare. The player's goal is to advance through each level while gathering weapons and ammo in order to survive long enough to face off against the boss at the end of each level. The storyline progresses at the beginning of each stage as Storm's communications officer, Jessica, informs him of where to go next.
Players can hold up to two firearms, which they can switch between, and can also hold a certain amount of hand grenades.
The player has no extended or extra life bonuses. If a player dies, a game over screen appears followed by the player restarting the current mission from the beginning. Players can start and save their own profiles, but it is necessary to beat the first level before progress can be saved. Storm occasionally commands a vehicle, which mostly happens at the beginning of the game, but additionally by the game's climax. The gameplay is similar to that of Metal Slug. The game has five stages of combat in a 2D, hand-drawn style.
Reception
Commando: Steel Disaster received mixed reviews from critics upon release. On Metacritic, the game holds a score of 64/100 based on 6 reviews, indicating “mixed or average reviews”. On GameRankings, the game holds a score of 61.11% based on 9 reviews.
References
Nintendo DS games
Run and gun games
Nintendo DS-only games
2008 video games
Video games developed in China
Single-player video games
XS Games games
Lexicon Entertainment games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Cohen%20%28artist%29 | Harold Cohen (1 May 1928 – 27 April 2016) was a British-born artist who was noted as the creator of AARON, a computer program designed to produce art autonomously. His work in the intersection of computer artificial intelligence and art attracted a great deal of attention, leading to exhibitions at many museums, including the Tate Gallery in London, and acquisitions by many others.
Early life
Cohen was born in London, the son of Polish-Russian Jewish parents, and was educated there at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Career
Cohen represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennial in 1966. Cohen moved to the United States as a visiting lecturer at the University of California, San Diego in 1968. He was later given the rank of professor and stayed at UC San Diego for nearly three decades, part of the time as chairman of the Visual Arts Department. In addition, he served as director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UC San Diego from 1992 to 1998.
Cohen taught at UC San Diego from 1968 to 1994. After his retirement from UCSD, he continued to work on AARON and produce new artwork in his studio in Encinitas, California.
In 2014, Cohen received the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement award.
Early in 2016, Cohen started a new project with AARON called Fingerpainting for the 21st Century. In this project, Cohen used a touch screen to digitally colour and finish artworks. In previous AARON projects, images would be outputted in physical form before Cohen made alterations.
Family life
His partner was the prominent Japanese poet Hiromi Itō.
AARON
Cohen's work on AARON began in 1968 at the University of California, San Diego.
He initially wrote AARON in the C programming language but eventually converted to Lisp, citing that C was "too inflexible, too inexpressive, to deal with something as conceptually complex as color."
References
External links
Harold Cohen at Victoria and Albert Museum
1928 births
2016 deaths
Artificial intelligence art
Artificial intelligence researchers
British digital artists
University of California, San Diego faculty
British contemporary artists
British people of Polish-Jewish descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20London%20Route%20Utilisation%20Strategy | Network Rail's (NR) South London Route Utilisation Strategy (SLRUS), published in March 2008 (SLRUS) was the eighth Route Utilisation Strategy to be produced. By default, RUSs are established by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) unless the latter objects within 60 days. The RUS is included in NR's map as established.
The scope includes the London suburban lines of Strategic Route 1 - Kent, including lines as far as Hayes, Sevenoaks and Rochester (but excluding the Swanley-Rochester line) and those of Route 2 - Brighton Main Line and Sussex, including lines as far as Horsham (via Dorking), Epsom Downs, Purley (plus the branches to Tattenham Corner and Caterham), East Grinstead and Uckfield. Where routes are four-tracked the fast lines are generally excluded. As such the routes are heavily short/medium distance commuter routes into London, but there are some freight services as well. The lines excluded from Routes 1 and 2 are to be covered in the Kent RUS and the Sussex RUS.
As with other RUSs, the SLRUS took into account a number of responses, including the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).
Some issues are closely related to other published RUSs: South West Main Line RUS, Cross London RUS; Freight RUS; East Coast Main Line RUS. The Strategic Rail Authority's (SRA) Brighton Main Line (BML) RUS, published February 2006, as superseded by the Department for Transport's (DfT) consultation and briefing, led to changes in the December 2008 timetable; the most important of these is the change to the Gatwick Express service in the morning peak. The Kent, Sussex and East Midlands RUSs will have some interfaces with the SLRUS.
Timescales and related projects
The RUS needs to be seen against existing contingent and prospective schemes, most notably the Thameslink project and the East London Line (ELL) extension (ELLx). Thameslink will see a step-change in services continuing through central London onto the network north of London, which are currently limited to 15 trains per hour in each direction (tph) at 8-car length; many interventions identified in the SLRUS are interdependent with certain works in this programme. Phase 1 of the ELL extension (ELLx1), already authorised at time of SLRUS publication, will incorporate new services on the lines from West Croydon and Crystal Palace to New Cross Gate; Phase 2 (authorised in February 2009) will incorporate new services on a route from Clapham Junction to Surrey Quays via a currently freight-only line, the South London Line, and a reinstated disused alignment. In addition Crossrail would interact with the RUS area at Abbey Wood from 2017 (at the earliest). Another project that does not directly form part of the RUS area but has a knock-on effect certainly to passenger services and possibly to freight services is High Speed One (HS1).
Largely because of these interdependencies the timescale of the SLRUS, while divided into a short, medium and long term, does not coincide with NR's Control Periods (CP) as is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Garden%20Heritage%20Network | The European Garden Heritage Network is a nonprofit organization established in 2003 within the EU-Programme INTERREG IIIB NWE to foster transnational co-operation in regional development and cultural heritage. It brings together garden experts, government services, foundations, and tourism agencies to preserve, develop, and promote gardens of historic interest within northwestern Europe.
Gardens
References
European Garden Heritage Network
Horticultural organizations
International cultural organizations
Lists of gardens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-8 | TDRS-8, known before launch as TDRS-H, is an American communications satellite, of second generation, which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was constructed by Boeing is based on the BSS-601 satellite bus.
Launch
Its launch was contracted by International Launch Services, using an Atlas IIA launch vehicle. The launch occurred on 30 June 2000, at 12:56:00 UTC from Launch Complex 36A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
It was the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, of second generation, to be launched. Due to a malfunction of the multiple-access phased array antenna the spacecraft did not provide the expected level of performance for eighteen of the communications services that it was to provide. The same problem was found and corrected on the TDRS-9 and TDRS-10 satellites prior to their launches.
Orbit
Following its launch, it raised itself into geostationary orbit by means of its onboard R-4D apogee motor, and was positioned at 150.0° West for on-orbit testing. After testing was complete, it was moved to 171.0° West from where it provides communications services to spacecraft in Earth orbit, including the Space Shuttle and International Space Station.
See also
2000 in spaceflight
List of TDRS satellites
External links
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Satellites using the BSS-601 bus
Spacecraft launched in 2000
TDRS satellites
Spacecraft launched by Atlas rockets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2%20%28Nuremberg%29 | The S2 is a service on the Nuremberg S-Bahn. It is long and runs from Roth via several stops in Nuremberg proper to Altdorf.
Network
References
External links
Nuremberg S-Bahn lines
1992 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3%20%28Nuremberg%29 | The S3 is a service on the Nuremberg S-Bahn.
Future plans
There are plans for an infill station tentatively called "Neumarkt Süd" to better serve certain parts of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
Network
References
External links
Nuremberg S-Bahn lines
1992 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S4%20%28Nuremberg%29 | The S4 is an S-Bahn service in the German city of Nuremberg. It is one of the five services of the Nuremberg S-Bahn network. It was opened in 2010 and has 16 stations. The route is long and runs from Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof to Dombühl. Until 9 December 2017 the western terminus was Ansbach. The extension to Dombühl was opened the day after.
Future extensions
In December 2020 the ministers of transportation for Baden Württemberg and Bayern announced their intention to extend the S4 from its current endpoint at Dombühl across the state line to Crailsheim with a proposed entry into service 2024.
Network
References
External links
Nuremberg S-Bahn lines
2010 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Master%20on%20Software%20Engineering | The European Master on Software Engineering, or European Masters Programme in Software Engineering (new name since 2015) (EMSE) is a two-year joint Master of Science (Msc) program coordinated by four European universities (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Technical University of Madrid, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, University of Oulu), funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
Programme Overview
The discipline software engineering is traditionally designed to bridge industry and research needs. The European Masters Programme in Software Engineering (EMSE) is a part of the Erasmus Mundus Programme from the European Commission which focuses on the area of software engineering. This course enforces a wide spectrum of courses based on the high scientific knowledge of each partner university both in theoretical and applied research. With this program students will be guided into a cognitive path including foundation courses - such as advanced statistics, requirements engineering, verification and validation, software quality and management - and elective courses in which basic knowledge is applied, such as distributed systems, information management, computer networks, cluster technologies, software product lines, system engineering, system security, internet technologies, usability and others.
The courses are project oriented. This means that students have a large offering of internships and projects to develop at the university or in a company. Courses are taught in English. Nevertheless, students can take advantage of the university language centre to learn local languages at zero costs.
With EMSE, students will become familiar with the software engineering discipline both through theoretical and practical experience. This program aims at forming high qualified professionals in software engineering with a strong theoretical base and practical competence that can be spent both in industry and for a further education plan. Namely, motivated students are prepared for a future PhD, taking also advantage of the excellent connections of the EMSE consortium with international research centres and European consortia.
Partner universities
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (coordinating university)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
University of Oulu, Finland
References
External links
Programme's website at Libera Università di Bolzano
2nd Workshop on the European Masters in Software Engineering (WEMSE)
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
Computer science education
Erasmus Mundus Programmes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAB500 | The CAB 500 (Calculatrice Automatique Binaire, or Binary Automatic Calculator) was a transistorized computer using drum memory designed between 1957-1959 by Société d'Electronique et d'Automatisme (SEA) and manufactured in about a hundred units, with the first one delivered in 1961. It was predominantly distributed in Europe, with a few exemples also being sold in China and Japan. In Japan, it had a distinct market presence through the Yaskawa Electrics Corporation, which held a licensing agreement with SEA.
The CAB 500 featured a novel micro-programmed architecture which used transistors and magnetic amplifiers for its logic called symmags, developed by SEA. It also ran an interactive high-level language for real-time calculations, one of the first of its kind, and an incremental compiler for a programming language known as PAF, which bore resemblance to Fortran and BASIC. Alice Recoque played a role in its development.
Specifications
Designed for scientific and statistical computing applications, this computer has a design reminiscent of a regular desk, somewhat similar to the IBM 1620 with which it competed. Its dimensions were 2m x 0.90m x 0.85m. A remarkable aspect of this machine for its time is that it didn't require any special setup such as air conditioning, and could be connected to a standard 220-volt three-phase power supply. This straightforward installation was complemented by its relatively low cost, made possible by its technology built around SYMMAG 200 magnetic logic elements and mass production. Its power consumption was 1,500 watts.
The CAB 500 was intentionally designed to be accessible even to those without specific technical training in computing. One of its distinctive features was its interactive mode, enabling users to work directly from its built-in keyboard, akin to a teletype typewriter. Functions commonly used in this mode were represented by letters, like 'A' for addition or 'M' for multiplication. Additionally, the machine possessed the capability to leverage microprogram for handling more complex operations. In programmed mode, it also incorporated an innovative formula automatic programming language called 'Programmation Automatique des Formules' (PAF), which translated functions into machine code.
The CAB 500 was equipped with a magnetic drum capable of storing over 16K 32-bit words, representing about 16,000 ten-digit numbers, which enabled the execution of complex calculations, detailed statistical analyses, or extensive administrative management tasks. It also supported automatic address modification, sequence breaks, and conditional execution of instructions. Finally, it featured 16 immediate-access registers to enhance operational speed.
One of the more unconventional feature of the CAB 500 was its partial use of magnetic logic using symmags, small magnetic coils akin to those found in core memory, which formed logic gates.
In terms of applications, the CAB 500 could solve linear systems with over 60 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transterpreter | The transterpreter is computer software, an interpreter for the transputer, is a virtual machine for the programming language occam-π (occam-pi), and a portable runtime for the KRoC compiler. It is designed for education and research in concurrency and robotics. The transterpreter was developed at the University of Kent.
The transterpeter has made it possible to easily run occam-π programs on platforms such as the Lego Mindstorms RCX, Arduino, IA-32, SPARC, MIPS, and the Cell BE, on the operating systems Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, and MS-DOS.
See also
KRoC
References
Virtual machines
University of Kent
Programming language implementation
Concurrent programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chardonius | Chardonius is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramurus | Ceramurus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casieroides | Casieroides is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caeus | Caeus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimorpholepis | Dimorpholepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaphyodus | Diaphyodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric perciform genera
Eocene fish
Fossils of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davichthys | Davichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Cretaceous bony fish
Late Cretaceous fish
Elopiformes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatichthys | Dalmatichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Polymixiiformes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuchoulepis | Yuchoulepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Ptycholepiformes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalattorhynchus | Thalattorhynchus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric perciform genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaumaturus | Thaumaturus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Salmoniformes
Eocene fish of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todiltia | Todiltia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachichythyoides | Trachichythyoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Beryciformes
Cretaceous fish of North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichiurichthys | Trichiurichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Gadiformes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichiurides | Trichurides is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntegmodus | Syntegmodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Tselfatiiformes
Cretaceous fish of North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomiahykus | Stomiahykus is an extinct genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponysedrion | Sponysedrion is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinoeugnathus | Sinoeugnathus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Triassic bony fish
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Prehistoric animals of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seefeldia | Seefeldia is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
External links
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scombrosarda | Scombrosarda is an extinct genus of prehistoric perciform fish.
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric perciform genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciaenuropsis | Sciaenuropsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Beryciformes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahelinia | Sahelinia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramphosus | Ramphosus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinocephalus | Rhinocephalus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubiesichthys | Rubiesichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Chanidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaedaphus | Palaedaphus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoatherina | Palaeoatherina is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric bony fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyronchus | Gyronchus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Jurassic bony fish
Pycnodontiformes genera
Jurassic fish of North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwoodella | Greenwoodella is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Crossognathiformes
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Cretaceous bony fish
Early Cretaceous fish |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocentrites | Holocentrites is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Beryciformes
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterolepidotus | Heterolepidotus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Ionoscopiformes
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Late Triassic fish
Triassic bony fish
Jurassic bony fish
Mesozoic fish of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histionotus | Histionotus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
See also
Prehistoric fish
List of prehistoric bony fish
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Fossils of Great Britain
Jurassic fish of Europe
Jurassic bony fish
Late Jurassic fish |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengnania | Hengnania is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.
References
External links
Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
Prehistoric teleostei
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Miss%20Mallard%20Mystery | A Miss Mallard Mystery is a mystery animated series produced by the CINAR Corporation and Shanghai Animation Film Studio for the Teletoon network and OTV (Shanghai Media Group), loosely based on the Robert Quackenbush book series The Miss Mallard Mysteries. Each episode focuses on Miss Mallard and her nephew Willard Widgeon as they visit various places around the world, solving mysteries. All characters in the show are ducks or resemble ducks.
Plot
The famous "ducktective", Miss Mallard, from the children's books, stars in her own TV series solving mysteries all over the world with her nephew, Willard. No matter where Miss Mallard and her nephew travel, they are inevitably caught up in the most intriguing investigations. Creative and... More endlessly resourceful, Miss Mallard's capable wings can transform a hairpin, a parasol, or a handkerchief into the most unconventional crime-fighting tools. Uncovering clues while escaping suspicious accidents and avoiding mysterious disasters can be tough work, but Miss Mallard always catches her duck! Filled with clues and "hidden evidence", each mystery encourages its viewers to follow the clues and solve the mystery with Miss Mallard.
Characters
Miss Marjorie Mallard - World-famous "ducktective".
Willard Widgeon - Miss Mallard's accident-prone nephew and member of the Swiss police.
Chief Inspector Bufflehead - Willard's often credulous superior and chief inspector of the Swiss police.
Episodes
See also
Miss Marple, a preceding mystery-solver with similar name alliteration and choice of hats
References
External links
Big Cartoon Database: A Miss Mallard Mystery
2000s Canadian animated television series
2000 Canadian television series debuts
2001 Canadian television series endings
Canadian children's animated fantasy television series
Canadian children's animated mystery television series
This TV
Teletoon original programming
Television series by Cookie Jar Entertainment
Animated television series about ducks
Canadian television shows based on children's books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21%20Query%20Language | Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) is an SQL-like query language created by Yahoo! as part of their Developer Network. YQL is designed to retrieve and manipulate data from APIs through a single Web interface, thus allowing mashups that enable developers to create their own applications using Yahoo! Pipes online tool.
Initially launched in October 2008 with access to Yahoo APIs, February 2009 saw the addition of open data tables from third parties such as Google Reader, the Guardian, and The New York Times. Some of these APIs still require an API key to access them. On April 29 of 2009, Yahoo introduced the capability to execute the tables of data built through YQL using JavaScript run on the company's servers for free. On January 3, 2019, Yahoo retired the YQL API service.
Examples
Filter RSS feeds
select title, link from rss where url = 'https://www.engadget.com/rss.xml'
Convert CSV to JSON or XML
select * from csv where url='http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=YHOO,GOOG,AAPL&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv' and columns='symbol,price,date,time,change,col1,high,low,col2'
Extract HTML via CSS Selectors
SELECT * FROM data.html.cssselect WHERE url='http://www.w3.org/' AND css='ul.theme'
Get AppLinks meta data
SELECT * from applinks WHERE url IN ('movietickets.com', 'pinterest.com')
Parse any XML source
select Status.presence from xml where url = 'http://mystatus.skype.com/pjjdonnelly.xml' and Status.presence.lang = 'en'
Rate limits
Use of the YQL should not exceed reasonable request volume. Access is limited as below:
Per application limit (identified by your Access Key): 100,000 calls per day;
Per IP limits: /v1/public/*: 2,000 calls per hour; /v1/yql/*: 20,000 calls per hour.
See also
SQL
WSO2 Mashup Server
Yahoo! Pipes
References
External links
Official site
query language
Query languages
Web scraping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing%20Executives%20Network%20Group | The Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) is a non-profit professional association established in 1995 for small business, consultant, corporate executive-level marketing managers in leadership roles at companies and non-profit organizations across many diverse industries and areas of marketing expertise.
Organization
Membership
Members are a diverse group from a variety of industries with a focus on marketing. Members are typically:
currently hold, or have held the position of vice president, senior vice president, chief marketing officer, chief operating officer or president
Currently 84% have Fortune 500 experience
70% have graduate or post-graduate degrees
Over 50% of members with graduate and post-graduate degrees received them from top-20 Business Schools
Over 21% of members have attended an Ivy League school
Structure
The organization consists of a governance board of directors and currently has fourteen (14) local chapters in major cities in the continental United States. Local chapters provide a regional and local forum and opportunity for members to meet, engage and network with other executive-level marketing professionals. A web based forum also provides an exchange point for special interest groups to discuss category-specific news and exchange ideas. Newer forms of social media are also utilized including LinkedIn (with over 1200 members) and Twitter
Service
Members contribute to their industries through textbooks and other books they have authored and white papers as well. The group also provides outreach through a distinguished lecturer series program and speakers bureau on a variety of marketing topics. A comprehensive online training program in the form of The MENG Webinar Series is offered. Past and current topics have included: Social Media University, Marketing Masters, Career Maximization, and Innovation.
Leadership
Members elect the National Board of Directors every year, including the National Chairman - Richard Guha (2001-2007), Richard Sellers (2007-2011) and Joey Iazzetto (2011-present). Individual chapters each nominate their own Chapter Chair and local leadership.
Research and Education
The organization is perhaps best known for its research including the annual Marketing Trends Survey which captures marketing leaders' perspectives on the coming year and published in leading marketing trade journals such as Crain Communications' Advertising Age and BtoBonline.com. This survey has been produced and published by MENG, along with Anderson Analytics since 2007. Its findings are often cited as references in digital media and print.
The group also partners with others on topics and factors affecting the marketing profession including employment prospects, job satisfaction and executive compensation. The Economist (print and online). Pace University, and PM Network (the monthly magazine of the Project Management Institute) referenced MENG research and its leadership position in the area of augmentin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZOC%20%28software%29 | ZOC is a popular computer-based terminal emulator and Telnet software client for the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh macOS operating systems that supports telnet, modem, SSH 1 and 2, ISDN, serial, TAPI, Rlogin and other means of communication. Its terminal emulator supports Xterm emulation with full colors, meta-keys and local printing, VT102, VT220 and several types of ANSI as well as Wyse, TVI, TN3270, and Sun's CDE. It supports full keyboard remapping, scripting in REXX and other languages, and support for named pipes.
ZOC is commercial software developed by Markus Schmidt of EmTec Innovative Software in Germany, a firm which produces software for various aspects of communications via telephone, PC, ISDN and the like. Price was about US$80, with a free evaluation period of 30 days; ZOC can be downloaded for evaluation from EmTec or several shareware distribution sites. Emtec produces two other associated but independent telecommunications programmes for use over TCP/IP, modem, ISDN etc.: PyroTrans, an FTP package including client and server, and PyroBatchFTP, a programmable FTP tool.
History
ZOC was first released for OS/2 in October 1993 (v0.95) and for Windows in November 1996 (v3.02). In 1997 it was selected as runner-up in the OS/2 e-Zine! Readers' Choice Awards. ZOC released version 3.11 in January 1999. Support for OS/2 was discontinued with the release of version 5. Mac OS X has been supported from version 6.
Features
Protocols
Secure Shell (SSH V1/V2) based on OpenSSH 8.1 with public/private key authentication, port forwarding (tunneling) and Smart Card support.
Telnet (RFC-Telnet, pure TCP sockets, SSL-Telnet)
modem via serial port and TAPI (Windows modem)
ISDN via CAPI V2.0 (including X.25 and X.31 support)
Rlogin
File transfer protocols: ASCII, X-Modem, Y-Modem, Z-Modem, Kermit, SCP, and SFTP
Terminals emulated
Linux (Xterm) console-like
VT52, VT100, VT102, VT220, VT420, VT520
ANSI-BBS, ANSI-SCO, Avatar
IBM like TN3270 and TN5250
Sun-CDE
QNX V4
Wyse 30, 50, 60
TVI 9xx (TVI 920, TVI 925, TVI 950)
TTY
Xterm
Full support for line graphics when using any font
Automation
Scripting
REXX language for scripting (fully featured programming language with over 75 extensions to control the terminal emulator) — a REXX interpreter is supplied with ZOC, and another interpreter can be specified in configuring ZOC
AppleScript support with access to all internal script commands on macOS
recorded login scripts, macro commands, automatic replies on incoming text
DDE supported in Windows version, allowing ZOC to act as a communication server
User interface
Tabbed interface for multiple concurrent connections and overview display to show thumbnails of open sessions
Keys for macros, remappable keyboard, user button bar
Online chat support
Configurable display.
See also
Comparison of SSH clients
References
External links
Internet Protocol based network software
Terminal emulators
Secure Shell
Rexx
Teln |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halik%20sa%20Apoy | (International title: Fiery Kiss / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Jay Altajeros, it stars Carmina Villarroel, Ynez Veneracion and Bobby Andrews. It premiered on August 10, 1998. The series concluded on February 26, 1999 with a total of 145 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Carmina Villarroel as Alyssa Lambino
Ynez Veneracion as Maricar
Bobby Andrews as Carlo
Supporting cast
Celia Rodriguez as Tuding
Tirso Cruz III as Benjamin Rosales
Kim Delos Santos as Mylene
Dino Guevarra as Jilmer
Jake Roxas as Benj
Jay Manalo as Jonas
Ciara Sotto as Adelle
Marianne dela Riva as Lorreine
Recurring cast
Daria Ramirez as Trining
Rachel Alejandro as Maxine
Mariel Lopez as Alexis
Dexter Doria as Cora
Maria Isabel Lopez as Marta
Katya Santos as Shiela
Timmy Cruz as Toyang
Eula Valdez as Delia
Tanya Gomez as Mameng
Teresa Loyzaga as Beatriz
Polo Ravales as Ricky
Joyce Jimenez as Trixie
References
External links
1998 Philippine television series debuts
1999 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television series by Viva Television
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB%20Netze | DB Netze (English: DB Networks) is a brand of the German national rail holding company Deutsche Bahn (DB). It was formed in December 2007 along with DB Schenker, the logistic department, and DB Bahn, the passenger services arm.
The original intent was that DB Netze would coordinate the delivery of infrastructure and operations in order to provide long-term transport systems. As a subsidiary of DB, it was to develop and operate a comprehensive range of transport, energy, data and service networks. In June 2008, however, in light of the planned partial privatisation of services, the DB's management board decided to break out the service providers from the DB Netze brand and only leave it with the infrastructure elements. The service providers are now brigaded within the DB Dienstleistungen business area under the DB brand.
Today DB Netze comprises the following business areas:
DB Netze Fahrweg
DB Netze Personenbahnhöfe
DB Netze Energie
DB Netze Projektbau
DB Station&Service AG
DB Station&Service runs about 5,400 stations with 2,400 buildings. It delivers services to passengers, hires station real estate, and markets station stops even for other railway companies. DB Energie procures electricity and diesel for engines and stationary users across the entire DB concern. Its customers also include other companies.
References
External links
Deutsche Bahn
Railway infrastructure companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20P.%20Lomax%20Jr. | Walter P. Lomax Jr. (July 31, 1932 – October 10, 2013) was an American physician, health administrator, and philanthropist from Philadelphia. Between the 1960s and 2000s, Lomax established a network of neighborhood clinics and correctional healthcare services and acquired WURD, then the only Black-owned and operated radio station in Pennsylvania.
Life and career
Lomax graduated from La Salle University and Hahnemann University Hospital and launched his medical practice out of his rowhouse in South Philadelphia in 1958. One of his patients was Martin Luther King Jr., whom Lomax treated for an upper respiratory infection in 1968. His practice grew from a private single physician office to six clinics with 22 physicians.
In 1982, Lomax established Lomax Health Systems to manage his clinics, and a year later he founded Correctional Healthcare Solutions, which recruited healthcare workers to supplement the City of Philadelphia's staff in the prison system. The business grew quickly and by the 1990s was managing healthcare workers at seventy prisons in ten states. Lomax expanded into real estate and philanthropy, founding Lomax Companies as an umbrella corporation and launching the Lomax Family Foundation. In 2003, Lomax and his wife purchased radio station WURD, then the only Black-owned and operated radio station in Pennsylvania.
In 1994, Lomax purchased the Jubilee Farm Plantation, where his great-grandmother had been enslaved, in King William County, Virginia. The eighteenth-century property consisted of 800 acres.
In 2004, Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) awarded Lomax an honorary Ph.D. in science for his various contributions to healthcare. Lomax is a former trustee of La Salle University and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
In August 2021, the 1800 block of Wharton Street in Philadelphia was renamed "Walter P. Lomax, Jr., M.D., Way" to commemorate where he started his medical practice, at the South Philadelphia Medical Center on the corner of 18th and Wharton Streets.
Lomax died of a stroke at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 81.
References
1932 births
2013 deaths
20th-century African-American businesspeople
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century African-American physicians
20th-century American physicians
Physicians from Philadelphia
La Salle University alumni
Central High School (Philadelphia) alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmation%20Automatique%20des%20Formules | Programmation Automatique des Formules is a programming language designed in 1957-1959 by Dimitri Starynkevitch at SEA, a small French computer company. PAF was similar to FORTRAN. It ran on a drum computer, the CAB500. The title is French for Automatic Programming of Formulae.
External links
Programmation Automatique des Formules
Information technology companies of France
Programming languages created in 1957 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%20Questions | 100 Questions (originally known as 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne) is an American sitcom television series which ran on NBC from May 27 to July 1, 2010. In May 2009 the network announced that the show would debut midseason in March 2010 on Tuesday nights at 9:30 pm, after NBC's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics was completed. However the show was later pushed back to debut on May 27, 2010, with the episode order reduced from thirteen to six. 100 Questions was produced by Universal Media Studios, with executive producers Christopher Moynihan, Kelly Kulchak, Ron West, and Michelle Nader.
On July 8, 2010, NBC cancelled the series after one season.
Plot
100 Questions is about "a young woman navigating life with friends in New York." Charlotte Payne (played by British actress Sophie Winkleman) begins each episode being asked a question at a dating service, which then "segues into that episode's storyline."
Cast
Sophie Winkleman as Charlotte Payne
David Walton as Wayne Rutherford
Christopher Moynihan as Mike Poole
Collette Wolfe as Jill
Smith Cho as Leslie
Michael Benjamin Washington as Andrew
Production
The initial pilot episode was directed by Emmy Award-winning director James Burrows and produced by Maggie Blanc. It featured Elizabeth Ho as Leslie, Joy Suprano as Jill, and Amir Talai as Andrew. Alex Hardcastle subsequently stepped in as director for the series, reshooting the pilot with recasts Cho, Wolfe, and Washington as Leslie, Jill, and Andrew.
Episodes
Every episode was directed by Alex Hardcastle.
Ratings
Seasonal
Episodic
References
External links
Episode list using the default LineColor
2010s American sitcoms
2010 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
2010s American sex comedy television series
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
2010s American romantic comedy television series
Television series by Universal Television
Television shows set in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlloSphere | The AlloSphere is a research facility in a theatre-like pavilion in a spherical shape, of opaque material, used to project computer-generated imagery and sounds. Included are GIS, scientific, artistic, and other information. Located at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) the AlloSphere grew out of the schools of electrical engineering and computer science, and the Media Arts & Technology program at UCSB.
The AlloSphere is housed at UCSB California NanoSystems Institute building, "CNSI," or Elings Hall, a facility that opened in 2007. The AlloSphere is intended to integrate technology and media.
The AlloSphere includes a three-story cube that has been insulated extensively with sound-absorbing material, making it one of the largest echo-less chambers in the world. Within the chamber are two hemispheres of 5 meter radii, made of perforated aluminum. These are opaque and acoustically transparent.
There are 26 video projectors, to create as much of a field of vision as possible.
The loudspeaker real-time sound synthesis cluster (140 individual speaker elements plus sub-woofers) is suspended behind the aluminum screen resulting in 3-D audio. Computation clusters include simulation, sensor-array processing, real-time video processing for motion-capture and visual computing, render-farm/real-time ray-tracing and radiosity cluster, and content and prototyping environments.
The AlloSphere was developed by a team of scientists, led primarily by Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, a professor in the field of Composition, of the Media Arts & Technology Program of UCSB.
Selected publications
The AlloSphere Offers an Interactive Experience of Nano-sized Worlds https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=121535&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
Research at the AlloSphere Facility https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=73444
Equipping the AlloSphere, an Environment for Immersive Data Exploration https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855279
Big Data's People-Changing Machine https://www.forbes.com/sites/quentinhardy/2011/07/11/big-datas-people-changing-machine/
Marriage of Science & Art https://web.archive.org/web/20160302151948/http://www.ucsbalum.com/Coastlines/2011/Summer/feature_allosphere.html
Living Data: The Three-Story-High AlloSphere Creates Unique Visualizations http://www.technologyreview.com/photoessay/420413/living-data/
Sensory Overloader: 3-D Tower Lets Researchers Climb Inside Their Data https://www.wired.com/2010/05/st_allosphere/?pid=2039
A 360-Degree Virtual Reality Chamber Brings Researchers Face to Face with Their Data https://www.wired.com/2010/05/st_allosphere/?pid=2039
Enter the AlloSphere: Inside UCSB's Three-Dimensional Immersive Theater, the 21st Century Face of Our Discipline-Bending University http://www.independent.com/news/2008/nov/06/enter-allosphere/
References
External links
Video: Talks Demo: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin lecture at TED Talks
Na |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorica | Combinatorica is an international journal of mathematics, publishing papers in the fields of combinatorics and computer science. It started in 1981, with László Babai and László Lovász as the editors-in-chief with Paul Erdős as honorary editor-in-chief. The current editors-in-chief are Imre Bárány and József Solymosi. The advisory board consists of Ronald Graham, Gyula O. H. Katona, Miklós Simonovits, Vera Sós, and Endre Szemerédi. It is published by the János Bolyai Mathematical Society and Springer Verlag.
The following members of the Hungarian School of Combinatorics have strongly contributed to the journal as authors, or have served as editors: Miklós Ajtai, László Babai, József Beck, András Frank, Péter Frankl, Zoltán Füredi, András Hajnal, Gyula Katona, László Lovász, László Pyber, Alexander Schrijver, Miklós Simonovits, Vera Sós, Endre Szemerédi, Tamás Szőnyi, Éva Tardos, Gábor Tardos.
Notable publications
A paper by Martin Grötschel, László Lovász, and Alexander Schrijver on the ellipsoid method, awarded the 1982 Fulkerson Prize.
M. Grötschel, L. Lovász, A. Schrujver: The ellipsoid method and its consequences in combinatorial optimization, Combinatorica, 1(1981), 169–197.
József Beck's paper on the discrepancy of hypergraphs, awarded the 1985 Fulkerson Prize.
J. Beck: Roth's estimate of the discrepancy of integer sequences is nearly sharp, Combinatorica, 1(1981), 319–325.
Karmarkar's algorithm solving linear programming problems in polynomial time, awarded the 1988 Fulkerson Prize.
N. Karmarkar: A New Polynomial Time Algorithm for Linear Programming, Combinatorica, 4(1984), 373–395.
Szegedy's solution of Graham problem on common divisors
M. Szegedy: The solution of Graham's greatest common divisor problem, Combinatorica, 6(1986), 67–71.
Éva Tardos's paper, awarded the 1988 Fulkerson Prize.
E. Tardos, A strongly polynomial minimum cost circulation algorithm, Combinatorica, 5(1985), 247–256.
The proof of El-Zahar and Norbert Sauer of the Hedetniemi's conjecture for 4-chromatic graphs.
M. El-Zahar, N. W. Sauer: The chromatic number of the product of two 4-chromatic graphs is 4, Combinatorica, 5(1985), 121–126.
Bollobás's asymptotic value of the chromatic number of random graphs.
B. Bollobás: The chromatic number of random graphs, Combinatorica, 8(1988), 49–55.
Neil Robertson, Paul Seymour, and Robin Thomas, proving Hadwiger's conjecture in the case k=6, awarded the 1994 Fulkerson Prize.
N. Robertson, P. D. Seymour, R. Thomas: Hadwiger's conjecture for K6-free graphs, Combinatorica, 13 (1993), 279–361.
References
External links
Combinatorica's homepage.
Combinatorica on-line at Springer.
Combinatorics journals
Computer science journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Academic journals established in 1981 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Latham%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | William Latham (born 1961) is a British computer artist, most known as the creator of the Organic Art product, as well as for creating album covers and artwork for the dance group The Shamen. Latham is the founder of the company Computer Artworks, which released the Organic Art product through Time Warner Interactive. Latham has authored a book called Evolutionary Art and Computers together with Stephen Todd, published 1992, based on their work at the IBM(UK) Scientific Centre in Winchester, generating 3-d computer models of organic life forms, using genetic algorithm based techniques to mutate base forms into artistic creations. Since 2007, Latham has been Professor of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
References
External links
Article about William Latham by Jim McClellen: http://www.nemeton.com/static/nemeton/axis-mutatis/latham.html
William Latham's home page: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01whl/index.html
Thomas Dreher: History of Computer Art Chap. IV.3.2: Evolutionary Art of William Latham and Karl Sims
Living people
1961 births
Computer art
British digital artists
Fractal artists
Digital artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking%20News%20Network | Breaking News Network is a subscriber service news alerts services with offices based in Midland Park, New Jersey. Created by a group of former firefighters, and communications professionals, the service listens to police and firefighter scanners and send out breaking news alerts in real time. Local and national journalists, rescue workers, and state agencies then receive the alerts via mobile application about automobile crashes, fires, and crimes as they occur. This gives them the opportunity to respond to them, and cover these important stories. The service is open to anyone who subscribes to it. Desk Reporters are employed 24/7 to monitor the radio traffic and pick out newsworthy information.
References
External links
Television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior%20producer | Senior producer, also known as supervising producer, is a title given usually to the second most senior person of a computer game, animation, film or television production. Used mainly in the United Kingdom, a senior producer (who would occasionally replace a series producer for television drama or 'soap') would be the most senior member of production personnel underneath an executive producer.
A senior producer oversees a particular production paying particular detail to budget, staffing and talent including casting, scripting and the legal and logistic affairs of the production(s).
References
Television producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20tree%20model | In computational complexity the decision tree model is the model of computation in which an algorithm is considered to be basically a decision tree, i.e., a sequence of queries or tests that are done adaptively, so the outcome of previous tests can influence the tests performed next.
Typically, these tests have a small number of outcomes (such as a yes–no question) and can be performed quickly (say, with unit computational cost), so the worst-case time complexity of an algorithm in the decision tree model corresponds to the depth of the corresponding decision tree. This notion of computational complexity of a problem or an algorithm in the decision tree model is called its decision tree complexity or query complexity.
Decision trees models are instrumental in establishing lower bounds for complexity theory for certain classes of computational problems and algorithms. Several variants of decision tree models have been introduced, depending on the computational model and type of query algorithms are allowed to perform.
For example, a decision tree argument is used to show that a comparison sort of items must take comparisons. For comparison sorts, a query is a comparison of two items , with two outcomes (assuming no items are equal): either or . Comparison sorts can be expressed as a decision tree in this model, since such sorting algorithms only perform these types of queries.
Comparison trees and lower bounds for sorting
Decision trees are often employed to understand algorithms for sorting and other similar problems; this was first done by Ford and Johnson.
For example, many sorting algorithms are comparison sorts, which means that they only gain information about an input sequence via local comparisons: testing whether , , or . Assuming that the items to be sorted are all distinct and comparable, this can be rephrased as a yes-or-no question: is ?
These algorithms can be modeled as binary decision trees, where the queries are comparisons: an internal node corresponds to a query, and the node's children correspond to the next query when the answer to the question is yes or no. For leaf nodes, the output corresponds to a permutation that describes how the input sequence was scrambled from the fully ordered list of items. (The inverse of this permutation, , re-orders the input sequence.)
One can show that comparison sorts must use comparisons through a simple argument: for an algorithm to be correct, it must be able to output every possible permutation of elements; otherwise, the algorithm would fail for that particular permutation as input. So, its corresponding decision tree must have at least as many leaves as permutations: leaves. Any binary tree with at least leaves has depth at least , so this is a lower bound on the run time of a comparison sorting algorithm. In this case, the existence of numerous comparison-sorting algorithms having this time complexity, such as mergesort and heapsort, demonstrates that the bound is tight |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASC%20Purple | ASC Purple was a supercomputer installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. The computer was a collaboration between IBM Corporation and Lawrence Livermore Lab. Announced November 19, 2002, it was installed in July 2005 and decommissioned on November 10th, 2010. The contract for this computer along with the Blue Gene/L supercomputer was worth US $290 million. As of November 2009, the computer ranked 66th on the TOP500 supercomputer list.
It was a redundant ring of POWER5 SMP servers. 196 of these machines were connected together. The system contained 12,544 POWER5 microprocessors in total with 50 terabytes of total memory and 2 petabytes of total disk storage. The system ran IBM's AIX 5L operating system. The computer consumed 7.5 MW of electricity, including cooling. It has a theoretical processing speed of 100 teraflops.
It was built as stage five of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC) started by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build a simulator to replace live WMD testing following the moratorium on testing started by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993.
External links
IBM ASCI Purple press release
Facts on ASCI Purple
ASC Purple at Livermore
One-of-a-kind computers
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
IBM supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Venus | Microsoft Venus was an aborted venture by Microsoft into the low-end personal computing market in the People's Republic of China. The product, a set-top operating system designed to work with low-end televisions (somewhat similar to MSN TV in the United States), was announced by then-Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on March 10, 1999 in Shenzhen, and was to be made available by January 2000; it never made it out of Microsoft's lab however, slowly dying less than a year after its announcement.
History
Relatively little is known about Microsoft Venus, since the project never made it beyond the prototype stage, and was designed to be exclusive to the People's Republic of China. What is known of the project appears to show that Microsoft designed Venus in response to a largely untapped Chinese computing market; with their low-end set-top box, designed to be a combination of Internet accessibility and the basic features of a personal computer (such as a rudimentary word processor), they hoped to tap into this market, gaining market share and profit in the world's fastest-growing economy in the process.
Despite initial support from the Chinese government — which included, but was not limited to, discounts and assorted subsidies — and lucrative distribution agreements with Acer, Philips, Lenovo, and a few other companies, the planned venture faced many problems, the largest of which was a massive cost overrun. The units were reported to sell for up to 3,000 yuan (or US$360 at the time), which was then a large sum for the general Chinese public.
As 1999 progressed and 2000 began, the Chinese government's relations with Microsoft continued to sour over production costs of the Venus. This tension reached a fever pitch in January 2000, when the Chinese government ordered Windows 2000 uninstalled from all ministerial computers, opting to use the locally produced Red Flag Linux instead.
January 2000 passed without a Venus release, and the product remained "vaporware". After Microsoft's aforementioned brief showdown with the Chinese government that same month, all talk of Venus appears to have ceased in the news media. Venus was never released, and with it went Microsoft's attempt at selling low-cost computing to the Chinese masses.
Aftermath
While Microsoft's first attempt at bringing computing to the Chinese masses was a failure, later events have proved more favorable to the company. Lenovo's purchase of IBM's Windows-based computing division in 2005 gave the consumer electronics corporation, which is partially owned by the Chinese government, a strong presence in the Windows computing market both at home in China and abroad that has persisted since the initial acquisition. However, Lenovo's computers are full-fledged PCs, and do not bear a strong resemblance to the all-in-one television component that Microsoft envisioned becoming a large success in China.
Specifications
According to Reuters' account of the initial unveiling of the Venus prototype, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%201 | Level 1 may refer to:
Technology and standards
Level 1 (National Qualifications Framework)
level 1 cache, a type of CPU cache (Computer Memory)
A Level I trauma center
Level 1, a level of automation in a self-driving car (see Autonomous car#Classification)
Level I Environmental Site Assessment
Biosafety level 1, a laboratory grade
Level 1 market data
Companies
Level 1 Entertainment, an American film production company
Level One (company), a company providing networking products
Other uses
Level 1 coronavirus restrictions, see COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland#Levels System
STANAG 4569 protection level |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYTE | KYTE (102.7 FM, "102.7 KYTE FM") was a radio station licensed to serve Independence, Oregon, United States. The station was owned by Yaquina Bay Communications.
Programming
KYTE previously broadcast a Hot adult contemporary music format.
History
This station began regular broadcasting as KNPT-FM in Newport, Oregon, on October 25, 1976, on a frequency of 102.5 MHz and aired a beautiful music format. In May 1979, Yaquina Radio, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to Charmar Broadcasting, Inc. The FCC approved the deal on July 20, 1979. The station was moved to 102.7 MHz on September 24, 1988.
Facing financial difficulties, an application was made in September 1986 to involuntarily transfer the broadcast license for this station from Charmar Broadcasting, Inc., to Dennis P. McManus, acting as receiver. The FCC approved the transfer on October 16, 1986. McManus arranged a sale of the station to Central Coast Broadcasting Company, Inc. The new owners had the call sign changed to KYQT on November 10, 1986. The station was assigned the current KYTE call sign by the FCC on January 1, 1991.
In October 1995, Central Coast Broadcasting Company, Inc. agreed to sell this station to Yaquina Bay Communications, Inc. The FCC approved the deal on December 8, 1995. Eventually, the station changed formats from Adult Contemporary to Hot AC.
On September 5, 2017, KYTE changed its transmitter location (expanding its signal coverage to Salem and the Mid-Willamette Valley) and changed its city of license from Newport, Oregon, to Independence, Oregon. (info taken from stationintel.com)
The license was cancelled on January 7, 2023. Even though its license was cancelled, it was illegally broadcasting on January 10, 2023.
References
External links
KYTE official website
Yaquina Bay Communications
YTE
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1976
Radio stations disestablished in 2023
Polk County, Oregon
1976 establishments in Oregon
2023 disestablishments in Oregon
ITE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Worrall%20%28composer%29 | David Worrall (born 25 October 1954 in Newcastle NSW) is an Australian composer and sound artist working a range of genres, including data sonification, sound sculpture and immersive polymedia (a term he coined in 1986) as well as traditional instrumental music composition.
Biography
Worrall performs and exhibits internationally. He studied musical composition at The University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards, where he also studied mathematics and Western philosophy, and at The University of Adelaide with Richard Meale and Tristram Cary.
Worrall's creative practice encompasses a number of endeavours: instrumental and electroacoustic composition, sound poetry and sound installations including those that utilise PIPES (Portable Immersive Polymedia Event Spaces). sometimes referred to as Portable Event Theatres (PETs). He is a programmer in several computer languages and has developed software for music composition, text transformation and sonification. His PhD dissertation was on the development of a software framework for the sonification of information in large or high-frequency multivariate data sets, such as those from securities trading engines.
Worrall was appointed to the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne in 1979 to teach musical composition and undertake research in computer music. In addition to composition, orchestration, twentieth-century techniques and free improvisation, in 1981, before the advent of the personal computer, he designed and taught the first undergraduate course in computer music in Australia using a mainframe computer, and MusicC (a development of Dick Moore's CMusic, the most related extant child of Max Mathews' Music V, Csound ) and Gary Lee Nelson's Music Programming Library (written in APL). His music from this period includes the Albert H. Maggs Award commission Images for Two Pianos and the Seymour Group commissioned Glass Games for ensemble and computer–generated tape – the first Australian work in this format. Other notable works from this period include Mixtures and re-collections and ...with fish scales scattered....
In 1986 he was appointed director of the Electronic Music Studios at the Canberra School of Music. He established and became the foundation head of the Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology (ACAT), at the Australian National University in 1989, a position he held for over a decade. During that time, ACAT offered the first Australian postgraduate degrees in multimedia: considered a sub-discipline of the Electronic Arts, along with electroacoustic music and computer animation. Worrall's output from this period is dominated by electroacoustic (e.g. Harmonie du Soir), polymedia (e.g. Cords), computer animation soundtracks (e.g. En Passant Marcel Duchamp) as well as his continued interest in combining acoustic instruments with electroacoustics (e.g. Air).
Worrall has been a regional editor for Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press) since 1996. From 2000-201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datablitz | DataBlitz is a general purpose main memory database management system, developed by Lucent Bell Labs Research from 1993 to 1995. It replaced various home-grown database products used throughout Lucent beginning in 1997.
It was originally named "Dali", and provided recovery and concurrency control features. Later, Dali was renamed as "DataBlitz".
DataBlitz provides a platform for building high-performance shared memory applications that can survive failures or organize large amounts of data with features suited to many applications.
Applications for DataBlitz include:
Switching and call routing in telecommunications
Real-time billing
High-performance Web servers
Financial trading applications
Data caching
Features of DataBlitz
Architecture for high performance
No disk I/O for read operations and limited disk I/O for write operations (for Real Time apps.)
All algorithms optimized for memory rather than disk
Direct shared memory access to data
Native C++ API for faster data access
Support Multithread applications.
Full Transaction Semantics
Atomicity
Consistency
Isolation
Durability
High Availability
Data replication to enhance availability and redundancy
Asynchronous and Synchronous data replication
Multi level Recovery to handle all kinds of failures
Enhanced Fault Tolerance
Code-word and Memory protection to detect and prevent data corruption due to stray application pointers
Fuzzy checkpoints that only minimally interfere with transaction processing
Relational C++ interfaces to optimize CPU cycles
Supports a broad subset of ANSI SQL 99, using Dharma SQL engine
Support SQL, ODBC and JDBC through Dharma SQL engine.
On-line backup and restore facility
Relational
The DataBlitz Relational Manager is a C++ class library interface to a relational system with SQL support limited to definition statements. Schema information is stored in tables, and can be queried using the relational API itself. Indices may be created on arbitrary subsets of the attributes in a table. Referential integrity is supported (foreign key constraints), as are null values, date and time attribute types, and variable length fields. Navigation is supported through
iterators over a single table. A conjunctive query may be specified for the iterator, and automatic index selection is performed. Both fine-grained and multi-granularity locking strategies are used for high concurrency without incurring too much overhead. Also, locks obtained by iterators avoid the "phantom" anomaly...
Collections and Indices
DataBlitz also provides higher-layer interfaces for grouping related data items, and performing scans as well as associative access (via indices) on data items in a group...
Storage Manager
Each database file in DataBlitz consists of segments, which are contiguous page-aligned units of allocation, similar to clusters in a file system. Chunk is a collection of segments. Recovery characteristics of memory (transient, zeroed, or persistent) are specified on a per-chunk b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20%26%20Kristina%27s%20Grocery%20Bag | Anna & Kristina's Grocery Bag was a Canadian television series that aired on the W Network and OWN Network in Canada, as well as 13 other countries around the world. Similar to the series The Shopping Bags, produced and hosted by Anna Wallner and Kristina Matisic, this series focuses on the kitchen, putting cookbooks, kitchen products, and cooking ingredients to the test.
Synopsis
Each episodes focuses on hosts Wallner and Matisic testing one cookbook. They make several recipes, usually consisting a full meal from appetizer to dessert (except for speciality cookbooks such as a dessert cookbook) for a special guest chef (and occasionally, non-chefs) while explicitly following the book's recipes & instructions. The meal is prepared within a strict time limit which ends when the guest chef arrives on set, and is determined by the preparation/cooking time listed in the cookbook. At the end of the program, each host will declare the book a "Buy" or a "Pass" depending on whether they feel the book has delivered in its promise and purpose based both on the cook day experience and their individual pre-testing of the cookbook. If both hosts give the book a "Buy", the cookbook will earn the "A&K Stamp of Approval".
Throughout each episode, Wallner & Matisic also perform product testings of several kitchen gadgets and/or food items to provide a side-by-side comparison between different brands, make or variety, similar to how they tested products on their previous show, The Shopping Bags. These product tests usually pertain to ingredients or tools they are using in that episode. In addition, the episodes are intertwined with interviews with the guest chefs, who share their cooking tips and tricks.
Episodes & testing results
Series overview
List of books with Stamp of Approval
Below is a complete list of cookbooks that have received the Official "A&K Stamp of Approval" by having both Wallner and Matisic give the book a Buy rating at the end of the episode.
"Three Sisters Around the Greek Table" episode
After the airing of the season 3 episode "Three Sisters Around the Greek Table" on November 10, 2010, where the book received a "Split Decision" rating with a "Buy" vote from Matisic and a "Pass" vote from Wallner, the authors of the cookbook, Betty, Eleni, and Samantha Bakopoulos posted a blog entry entitled Don't believe everything you see on T.V. – A&K stamp of what???, voicing their opinions on the results of the show. In the entry, they claim that their cookbook was misrepresented by Wallner & Matisic due to the two's lack of cooking knowledge, expertise, and precision as several mistakes happened during the course of the program. They also questioned the show's handling of the cooking time limit and the actual legitimacy of the "A&K Stamp of Approval". They ultimately called the episode sensationalized for the amusement of television audiences while giving their cookbook a negative image through the omissions and errors in cooking.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via%20Alpina | The Via Alpina is a network of five long-distance hiking trails across the alpine regions of Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Monaco. The longest of trails is the red trail, whose termini are in Trieste and Monaco.
The Via Alpina was created by a group of public and private organisations from the 8 Alpine countries in 2000, receiving EU funding from 2001 until 2008. It was initiated by the Association Grande Traversée des Alpes in Grenoble, which hosted the Via Alpina international secretariat until January 2014, when it was transferred to the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps CIPRA (Liechtenstein). There are national secretariats (hosted by public administrations or hiking associations) in each country. Its aim is to support sustainable development in remote mountain areas and promote the Alpine cultures and cultural exchanges.
Purple trail
A1: From Tržaška koča na Doliču to Aljažev dom v Vratih.
A2: From Aljažev dom v Vratih to Dovje.
A3: From Dovje to Koča na Golici.
A4: From Koča na Golici to Prešernova koča na Stolu.
A5: From Prešernova koča na Stolu to Roblekov Dom.
A6: From Roblekov Dom to Koča na Dobrči.
A7: From Koča na Dobrči to Tržič.
A8: From Tržič to Dom pod Storžičem.
A9: From Dom pod Storžičem to Zgornje Jezersko.
A10: From Zgornje Jezersko to Eisenkappler Hut.
A11: From Eisenkappler Hut to Riepl.
A12: From Riepl to Bleiburg.
A13: From Bleiburg to Lavamünd.
A14: From Lavamünd to Soboth.
A15: From Soboth to Eibiswald.
A16: From Eibiswald to Schwanberger-Brendlhütte.
A17: From Schwanberger-Brendlhütte to Koralpenhaus.
A18: From Koralpenhaus to Pack.
A19: From Pack to Salzstiegelhaus.
A20: From Salzstiegelhaus to Gaberl.
A21: From Gaberl to Knittelfeld.
A22: From Knittelfeld to Ingering II.
A23: From Ingering II to Trieben.
A24: From Trieben to Admont.
A25: From Admont to Spital am Pyhrn.
A26: From Spital am Pyhrn to Zellerhütte.
A27: From Zellerhütte to Hinterstoder.
A28: From Hinterstoder to Prielschutzhaus.
A29: From Prielschutzhaus to Pühringer Hut.
A30: From Pühringer Hütte to Loserhütte.
A31: From Loserhütte to Bad Goisern.
A32: From Bad Goisern to Gosau.
A33: From Gosau to Theodor-Körner Hut.
A34: From Theodor-Körner Hut to Lungötz.
A35: From Lungötz to Werfen.
A36: From Werfen to Arthur Haus.
A37: From Arthur Haus to Erichhütte.
A38: From Erichhütte to Maria Alm.
A39: From Maria Alm to Riemannhaus.
A40: From Riemannhaus to Kärlingerhaus.
A41: From Kärlingerhaus to Königssee.
A42: From Königssee to Engedey.
A43: From Engedey to Neue Traunsteiner Hut.
A44: From Neue Traunsteiner Hütte to Unken.
A45: From Unken to Ruhpolding.
A46: From Ruhpolding to Marquartstein.
A47: From Marquartstein to Kampenwand Bergstation.
A48: From Kampenwand Bergstation to Priener Hut.
A49: From Priener Hut to Spitzsteinhaus.
A50: From Spitzsteinhaus to Oberaudorf.
A51: From Oberaudorf to Brünnsteinhaus.
A52: From Brünnsteinhaus to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunebot | Tunebot is a music search engine developed by the Interactive Audio Lab at Northwestern University. Users can search the database by humming or singing a melody into a microphone, playing the melody on a virtual keyboard, or by typing some of the lyrics. This allows users to finally identify that song that was stuck in their head.
Searching techniques
Tunebot is a query by humming system. It compares a sung query to a database of musical themes by using the intervals between each note. This allows a user to sing in a different key than the target recording and still produce a match. The intervals are also unquantized to allow for other tunings besides the standard A=440Hz, since not many people in the world have perfect pitch.
In addition to note intervals, Tunebot compares a query with potential targets by using rhythmic ratios between notes. Since ratios between note lengths are used, the tempo of the performance does not affect the rhythmic similarity measure.
Queries and targets are then matched by a weighted string alignment algorithm between the note intervals and rhythmic ratios.
Database
The database consists of unaccompanied melodies sung by contributors (a cappella). Contributors log into the website and sing their examples to the system. Each of these recordings is associated with a corresponding song on Amazon. A sung query is compared to these examples. A cappella sung examples are used as search keys because it is much easier to compare one unaccompanied vocal (the sung query) to another (an example search key) than it is to compare an unaccompanied vocal to a full band recording, which may contain guitar, drums, other singers, sound effects, etc.
Distinguishing features
Tunebot learns from user input, and it improve its results as each user submits more queries. Since no human can sing perfectly in tune every time they sing, the search engine must take that into account. By choosing a song from a list of ranked results, users tell Tunebot which song was correct. Tunebot then pairs that song with the user's query, analyzes the differences, and runs a genetic algorithm. This process tweaks the parameters that control how the system compares the user's query to the targets. For instance, if a user has no sense of rhythm, that factor of the comparison is lowered for future queries.
References
B. Pardo. Finding Structure in Audio for Music Information Retrieval. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. vol. 49 (8), pp. 49-52, 2006
D. Little, D. Raffensperger, B. Pardo. A Query by Humming System that Learns from Experience. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Vienna, Austria, September 23-27, 2007.
D. Little, D. Raffensperger and B. Pardo.Online Training of a Music Search Engine. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, NWU-EECS-07-03, 2007
External links
Tunebot @ Northwestern
Music search engines
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